Easter 2010

Here are a couple photos from Easter morning. Miss E's favorite part of Easter is the egg hunt - she was tearing around the house searching for the Easter bunny's treasure. Thankfully the bunny thought about how cold and wet the morning was going to be and he hid the eggs in the house this year. Mr. Q was even able to find an egg; after he found his egg, he studied it and played with it... he only needed one! After the kids hunted the Easter bunny's eggs at our house we headed down to Granny's for breakfast and another egg hunt, hosted by Granny. Ellie was in heaven, two hunts in one day!! Uncle S, Aunt K and Cousin L celebrated Easter morning with us at Granny's too!

Easter Egg Coloring

We tried a new spinning egg coloring kit this year. E found it at the store and it looked like fun... it wasn't! The thing didn't work right, and the dye that did end up on the egg, came right back off while drying. So, we pulled out the tried and true Dudley's egg tablets and then we waited and waited. It's really not that long of a wait, but for our little Miss E, it's an eternity!!

This one was sick the week before and after Easter; some kind of respiratory infection and an ear infection in each ear... poor little man!

Mr. Q at One Year!

I took this picture in the morning on Q's actual birthday:
We also tried getting some photos for our Easter card on Mr. Q's birthday. Getting pictures of Miss E and Q together was a challenge, to say the least! We did get a pretty good one of them with their cousin L. Oh well, hopefully our Christmas photo attempts will go better... yeah right!

Fun on the Slide

Q & Miss E love playing on the slide. E will climb up the wrong way, slide down upside down, you name it, she does it... And, her little bro has been watching! His favorite thing to do on the slide is climb up the slide and walk down the ladder! Oh, they'll be the death of me!! It was Daddy's turn to make sure they didn't harm themselves (or each other), and a perfect opportunity for some Pest face time!

Lukey No Likey

Cousin Lukey and his mom & dad came over on Super Bowl Sunday to watch the game and eat yummy food with us, Granny and Miss Kristie & Mr. Gene. Q loves to try to hug, kiss and pet his hair, but as you can see, Cousin Lukey doesn't like it one bit!! Oh well, he recovers quickly!!

I've Been A Bad, Bad Blogger!

So sorry to have been absent from our little blog! I'm hoping to keep this thing updated a bit more frequently - hoping... Any who, here are a couple of photos just for fun. First up is our new (Christmas gift) bird feeder. This thing is so cool, the birds that eat from it - little yellow bellied birdies - eat out of it upside down! Pest's Auntie and Uncle told us about 'em, so we added the feeder and thistle to our X-mas wish list. It is really fun to watch the birds flock to our sad little tree - somehow they know when it's been filled, like within minutes! As it empties, and there are only two perches left to feed from, the little critters actually fight with each other. Fauna gone wild!

These other photos were just too cute not to post - doesn't Granny look like she's having fun?

Christmas 2009

We had a nice Christmas Eve day up on Palomar visiting with the Idahoans and Beppe & PopPop! The kids had a blast running around and even went on a hike with their dad's and PopPop. After their hike they had to hunt around the yard for their gifts from Beppe! Miss E was extra excited during our visit because her cousins brought their dog Izzy with them - happy, happy, joy, joy!! We got home in the evening, got everyone bathed and jammied and then put out the fixin's for Santa. Miss E decided that he needed a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a yummy cookie and a mug of cran-apple juice. We also had to include 9 slices of apples for his trusty reindeer, including Rudolph! It seems Santa & his reindeer enjoyed their treats, only a sip of juice and a bit of sandwich remained!

Christmas morning was spent with Granny, Uncle Cotty, Auntie Kass and cousin Lukey. The hit this year with Miss E was her Monty the Dinosaur - her most wished for gift and what she asked Santa for when we visited him at the mall. It was a flurry of activity in the morning and then some quiet time in the afternoon, well, as much quiet time as you can get with the many noise making toys all going at the same time!!! Our Christmas was a good one, hopefully yours was too!

Halloween 2009

It was a whirlwind, but we made it through! Miss E was just a bundle of energy all day (and the eve of)! We carved pumpkins in the morning and then went to Granny's neighborhood for trick or treating and photos. Cousin Lukey, Uncle Cotty and Auntie Kass celebrated with us too! Miss E was a pretty purple kitty and Mr. Q & Lukey were festive in their skeleton pjs! Miss E wanted to start trick or treating right after pictures, but it just wasn't dark yet. Torture!!! We were able to hold her off until just after 6pm and then headed out. She had fun snooping into the neighbor's house and trying to take their dogs as treats! She had a full bag, and some very good candy, pretty quickly, so we headed back to Granny's so she could hand out candy. Miss E took her job seriously, never leaving the front door, and often meeting the trick or treaters in the front yard!!! She had a blast and Mr. Q loved being out and about while we were trick or treating (he even scored a few candies... yeah for mom and dad!!).

Pumpkin Patch 2009

We made it to the pumpkin patch this past Sunday. Granny came along and we met up with Lukey, Uncle Cotty and Auntie Kass. Miss E had a blast - the pony rides and petting zoo held top honors with her. It was so fun to watch her ride the ponies, not once, but twice! My fav was seeing my kids standing next to the growth chart. We've got 3 years of photos of Miss E and now 1 of Mr. Q; it is so fun to see how much she's changed (frightening too!!). We watched the pigs race again this year... they were a little hung over from whatever Saturday night partying they did and weren't too feisty, but entertaining just the same! Unlike past years we skipped purchasing our pumpkins at the patch - they were just too pricey... thankfully the grocery stores have 'em for some pretty good deals! Halloween is just around the corner, I've got to get me hiney in gear and get Miss E's costume concocted! Keep your fingers crossed!!! Hopefully you can click on each photo grid to see it larger - but, who knows with blogger!

Some Randomness For Ya

My computer is attempting to take a dump, so I will be brief about these and just get 'em on here. The kids were cooperative the other morning so I got a couple of photos of them being cute. The other pics are of the kids in their little punkin hats I knitted for them (cousin L got one too, hope to get one of the three of them together).

A Trip To Ballet

A couple of weeks ago we decided to take both baby Q and baby L to Miss E's ballet classes. Mom really wanted to come see E dance, so, Mr. L came along too! We thought the boys would like the music and all the movement... we thought! It was pretty comical to see the kids all lined up in the backseat, so I had to snap a few photos. Miss E did really well at her class, Mr. L did not. Granny was asked to take him out to the hall during part of the class - the kids were on stage, and the teacher didn't want them distracted - fair enough!

Mr. Big Stuff at 5 Months

Here's some Mr. Q face time for ya! A little bit for Pestley too!

A Girl and HER Dog AND A Lesson Learned

***Edited: Sorry to say that Tank had to leave our home and (hopefully) find a new one. A home that can handle his barking all night long and chewing everything in site. A home where if he forgets who his people are and barks in a very strange way at them ,they (his people) won't be afraid he is going to attack them or their small children. Good Luck to Tank and here's hoping any future dog acquisitions for this little family go better!!

We finally broke down and got Miss E a dog. We found him at a pet adoption thing at Petco this past Saturday. I dropped Pest and E off at Petco while Q and I went to Joann's to shop. E and Pest tracked me down at Joann's, both with excited looks on their faces, to let me know about Tank. He's a Blue Tic Cattle Dog and is about 1 year old. We adopted him on Saturday, but weren't allowed to take him home with us - they had to come 'check' our yard and required that he be neutered. So, we couldn't pick him up until Monday, from the vet. Needless to say those couple of days were torture - Miss E wanted HER dog and we heard about it all weekend. I don't blame her, it sucks that she had to wait and sucks even more that we got our dog at 5pm on Monday all groggy from anesthesia! Thankfully Tank (Tanker as E says) wasn't too out of it so E was able to play with him a little. She was on a dog high for a couple of days - actually she was possessed by some little demon!! We've been seeing more and more of our little girl as the new dog high wears off - she's been running and playing with him pretty much non-stop - she gets up at about 6:30 am and she's out the back door yelling and squealing with Tank... the neighbors have got to love us right now!!