New Year's Eve Party...

We had a few close friends and neighbors for new year's this year. We had yummy food and good fun...

B and Megs as superheroes...

apples to apples...


~December 31, 2008- Jan 1, 2009

Christmas Afternoon at the Inlaw's

Large family table.

The afternoon began with playing in the snow...B ploughed the slide for Sam. As you can see Sam could barely stand up!

Auntie Betty having fun with the kids!




Ry eventually exchanged the doll for his motorcycle.;)


Abby and her baby!
~December 2008 (onto this year-whohoo!)

Christmas Morning at Our House

A white Christmas!!! The first one in at least 10 years (man, Mad Dogs is losing a lot of money!). Here is our annual pic of the boys in their new jammies by the tree.

B and Ry opening up drum sticks that you can hit anywhere and it sounds like drums.

B got Batman Lego for the X-Box-so excited!
Ry got Darth Vader's "light saver"--it's red.
Chillin' with Dad.

~December 2008

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve, we woke up to this which is unheard of in the lower Mainland! We were supposed to go to my mom's which is a half an hour away to go to church then open presents. Well...it took us an HOUR and a half and we stayed for the afternoon. Church was cancelled. I love the expressions we caught!

~December 24, 2008

Sledding...the getting "AIR" kind...

There is a small hill that the neighborhood kids love to go sledding on at the park across the street. They make runs and jumps and see if they can "snowboard" down on their sleds.

B going over a jump...
and Ry watching. He still is getting up the courage to go. He didn't go out much in all the snow as it was really hard for him to walk when it was up to his armpits!
Ry finally goes with Mom. Later he does go by himself, but the camera needed to warm up in the house. He started going down the hill and fell backward about half way!

~December 2008

B's Real Birthday in December

We try to celebrate B's actual birthday on the actual day with our family. He celebrates his half birthday in the sun with his friends. This year, a snow storm put a kink in the works so it was good to have the grandparents come over for cake! Here are some of the presents he got...

along with the weather...

He thought it was the best present ever to be able to play and sled in the snow!!

~December 21, 2008