T's first steps

You missed it by 2 days! She's a walker now! Can you believe it? She takes miniature steps since she has miniature legs. She walked like this a few times. We'll see if she gets the hang of it on her own. Way to go Katie!

Happy Birthday Uncle Jessie!

Hope you have a great Birthday! We can't wait to see you this weekend.

We love you!

Ole!

Paco just wanted to wish you all a Feliz Navidad since he wasn't going to be able to see you! He'll be back in his home country with his amigos. See you all soon! Love, J2

Mikey's Hospital Trip

Mikey did a great job in the ER. He (and Derek) made it through a 2 hour wait for the doctor. He still has the bandaid on his facial laceration, so I don't know what it looks like now. He also still has the hospital wrist band on. He thinks he can go to the waterpark with it on, so he's going to keep it on until the waterpark opens.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Three turkeys posing for the picture!

It's kind of weird not having turkey today, but it will taste so much better on Sunday when we finally celebrate with Mudita and her family. After I clean up the lunch dishes, I'm gonna start on the pumpkin pie and cauliflower salad, then do the potatoes and finally cook the brown rice. Wish me luck :) Happy Thanksgiving everyone!


Fruit Gobbler in a solo shot -- so yummy!

Birthday pics

Hey Seesters,

Thanks for all the birthday wishes. My new froggy cookie jar is full of cookies and I wore my new dragon sweatshirt today :) (I "did" Katie's hair for the special occasion.) Miss you guys and see you in a month!

Love, Joni

The Pacinator

Here are a few new pictures of Paco. He enjoys his new bed I bought for him at Costco! ;-)

Recognize these???

Okay, so it's not as cute as Mikey in a Ducky costume, or as exciting as a Halloween Party in Santa Monica...but, I wanted to share my newly made-over mesa y sillas. (That's table and chairs in Spanish!) I picked out the fabric at this big fabric wharehouse in a nearby town and my "furniture guy" was referred to me by a friend. I think the set looks great!

Halloween

Hey Everyone... I know we're on to the next holiday, but here are some pictures of the kids from Halloween.

Here we are at our friend Sonia's Halloween Party. She's such a great friend and had all her friends with kids over for a halloween party. Mikey still asks to go to Sonia's house to play. He had a great time. Hudson, Audrey, and Marshall are sitting next to us as - Black wig rocker, Pink Superhero, and dragon.


Here we are - pumpkin Katie and duck Mikey. Next year it'll be duck Katie :)


Mikey eating his first (and last) piece of Halloween candy.

Us... pre-trick-or-treating.

Katie in her cute Halloween headband and Halloween shirt.

Katie at 9 months

Hey Seesters!

Can you believe Katie's 9 months old??? We had her dr visit today and she's a whopping 15 lbs 12 oz! The same as a good sized Thanksgiving Turkey! She's still growing on that 10th percentile curve. She's petite in every way :) Some day she'll be like her mama... small head, big hair.

I finally cleared out all the videos off our flip and put them on the computer. I had videos on there from the Fourth of July. I'm going to try to be better about keeping up with them. Here's a video I took today of the little one on the run. Enjoy!

Halloween

A Yankee, a big-mouthed Tiger, and a Space Guy

In line to get some treats!

Boogie-ing to the music! These boys are just so shy...

What Happens in Vegas...

Ian and Lucas pool-side at the Orleans.

Dinner with the McCaffrey parents -- kids are at Playtime! Yay -- 2 hands free!

Dinner -- and drinks -- after the Dennis Miller show.
Sake+beer=lots of giggling. And high fives.

Checking out the lane -- looks good!

Bowling with the McCaffreys -- can we say Christmas Picture?

The candy machines at the hotel! Yay!

At the Corn Maze

Katie's Baptism

The picture order is a little backwards...

Dinner after mass.

At St. Anthony's

Mikey wanted to try on ALL of Katie's barrettes. Silly guy.

Look at Katie stand! As you can see Mikey's hands are on Katie. This picture was taken right before he knocked her off the toy. I caught her head before it hit the ground.

Mandy's daughter, Audrey. She was rockin' out to some music. Can you see the headphones in all those curls?

Marshall's either jealous that Katie's crawling or trying to flatten her head some more...

Katie and Marshall. He's 8 months, and she's a week shy of 8 months in this picture. Very cute. We'll dig this out in 17 years when they're seniors in high school.

These Kids...

If only they'd get out of their "ugly stage"!!!!