Domestic Diva

Hemming my third pair of pants for Noah... Home Ec from 7th grade is paying off!

boy vs. girl

boy sees rat.

girl sees... dolphin.

This is how Faith carried it around, saying "dolphin! dolphin!"

At least until the rat's cheek popped and the water shot out.

Pics with Santa :)

Thanks to my beautiful sister Pam, I have these great pictures taken when Santa came to my mom and dad's house! He visits every year before the presents are opened and it's a tradition I hope doesn't end for a loooong time :) Thank you Pam!!!

Angel...

Christmas with the Rogers

Christmas day was a day of travel! We started off the day opening gifts with the kiddos, but by 1:00 we were headed to the airport on our way to Vancouver to spend the week with Darren's family :) The kids did GREAT with the flight and the 3 hour drive. The week involved a train ride, trips to a nearby indoor play place, rides in the packard, and it SNOWED! The kids were so excited with the snow. They ran right out to make snow angels.

Noah was super excited that the pilot let him hang out in the cockpit for awhile - he even had him welcome everyone aboard and announce the flight!

We were able to stay in the apartment beneath the main house, which was GREAT for us. Noah especially loved sleeping on his bed in the hall right outside our bedroom door :)

Presents!

My super duper cute nephew, Lucas :) He's going to have a little sister soon!

Noah loves riding in Papa's Packard

Darren and I had the opportunity to go up to Grouse Mountain on a date while we were there. The best thing was, it was on December 28th, the 8 year anniversary of the night Darren proposed :) We sat almost at the same table at the amazing restaurant up there and the view was breathtaking. It was a great night!

The last night there we had a big crabfeed with huge lobster - yummmm

I'm realizing with these last couple of posts that I am terrible at taken pictures of PEOPLE! I will have to work on that...

Christmas with the Jensons

We had a great time spending the entire day of Christmas Eve with my family - everyone was there and it was awesome! For whatever reason I don't really have pics of the kids opening their gifts, and Noah's experience with Santa giving him his much desired transformer was captured on video... but I'll post what I got. The food was great, there were lots of laughs, the kids ran around and played nonstop, and it was an overall very relaxed and fun atmosphere :)

All of the cousins :) They are SO great with my little ones!

And a pic for grandma and grandpa's wall

Faithy dancing in her second outfit of the day

This is me wearing the "fur" coat my mom got at Christmas when she was my age

Faith's first outfit, she refused to wear the skirt for a long time and the top was dirty within 30 minutes of course :)

I'm going to have to look for more pics!!!

How do I say goodbye??

Every time I try to get rid of this biker jacket from my college days, I just can't go through with it... Here I am, again, wanting to put it in the donate bag and I find myself wanting to keep it! For what? I don't know. Just because, I guess. A costume? Posterity? Riding a motorcycle? I'll just set it aside and think about it... for the next few years.