Adam, Alden and Adalee

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Valentines Day Celebrations!

For Valentine's Day we just had a quiet celebration at home. The kiddos had school, so I decorated the night before. Then we got up the next morning and had a yummy Valentines Breakfast. I sent the kiddos off to school, and got things ready for dinner. We had a yummy Beef Brisket, twice baked potatoes, asparagus, chocolate covered strawberries, cookies and cream brulee! What a fun Valentines Day!

Time for Valentines Day!

Ready for Valentines Day morning

Valentines Day Breakfast

Adam opening his Valentines Day cards from his Grammy

Table set for dinner

I made each place setting a personal cookie.

Alden and Adalee eating the "Entree" before dinner. They had boiled shrimp and sparkling apple juice.

The chocolate covered strawberries I made for dessert.

Adam enjoying his cookie for dessert.

Adalee loved her strawberry

Alden's cookie!

Sunday, February 13, 2011

I'm Back!

After a little break to have some much needed family time, I am finally taking time to update the blog. I think I am finally caught up on all of our happenings. To see all the pictures, make sure you click "Older Posts" at the bottom of the page. I hope you enjoy! It may be a bit before I update again, since Abrahm and I are getting away for a few days by ourselves (thanks to Grammy Gay and PopPop) and then we are heading to the French Riviera for our Winter Holiday!

Happy 6th Birthday Alden!

Alden's birthday was January 17 (see a post about it below). We celebrated it with just family because Alden wanted to wait until his Daddy came home to have his real party. I was thankful for this since that meant I would have some help! :)

So yesterday we had 17 kiddos here to celebrate a dinosaur adventure! For that many kiddos, things went really well. We did some crafts, became dinosaurs that hunted for dinosaur eggs, had a pinata, ate some pasta for lunch, had some cake and opened presents! A fun filled day.

Ready for a party

The big kids' table

The dinosaur cake I made

A close up of the table

Alden working on his stickers.

Adalee and Gaia had their own table.

All the kiddos at the table working on their projects

The "big" kids table

All of my dinosaurs ready to hunt some eggs!

Running to find eggs

More searching

Alden hitting the pinata

Candy, Candy everywhere!

Ready to blow out the candles

We sang Happy Birthday in French and English!

Blowing out his candles

Opening Presents! It was pure chaos!

More present opening!

Music Concert

On Saturday the school the children go to had an Open House. The kiddos took turns showing off the special programs that the school offers. Our boys had to sing with their classes. It is fun seeing them sing all the French songs.

Alden getting ready to sing

Alden singing with his class

Daddy and Adalee during a break

Adam ready to sing

Adam singing with his class

Random Happenings

Our first trip to the market after Abrahm returned, we bought fresh peas to shell. The kids had a great time shelling them and then eating them for dinner!

Daddy giving Alden a lesson on how to shell peas

Adam and Adalee at work

Alden had a blast!

Adalee was a really good little pea sheller

Adam was a hard worker! Good job guys!

Our first move night after Abrahm returned. The kids were so excited to show him "Despicable Me"

All 4 snuggled together!

The day after we celebrated Christmas I let the kiddos eat the Gingerbread house. They had a great time devouring the house and trees they made.

Digging In!

More Yummy Candy!

The aftermath!

Christmas Day - Take 2

Since Abrahm missed Christmas while he was in Afghanistan, we decided to do our family celebration when he got back home. On the Saturday after he returned, we got up early and put on our Christmas jammies and had a fun filled Christmas day (in February!).

We started off with our traditional Sticky Bun breakfast. Then we opened our presents and stockings. Daddy had the most presents to open since he missed Christmas the first time around. We all had fun helping Daddy. Santa even came back and left a few treats in all of our stockings too!

We spent the afternoon playing with our toys and hanging out as a family. We had a huge, traditional Christmas dinner and ended the day playing games. Even though we were a month and a half late, it was a pretty special "Christmas" Day!