Christmas Session pictures

Here are some individual pictures from our Christmas session.. Family pictures/ pictures of all the kids together are going out to family and friends, so I'm not putting those on here- want them to be a surprise! But I sure have some good-looking kids!

Bea's Birthday Party!

Death Star pinata, pool noodle light sabers, waterslide, and R2D2 cake: Guess what the theme was?

Happy Birthday Bea!

SIX years old. Wow.

Piano Recital

recital video

Warning: the first 30 seconds or so are pretty shaky as I was trying to figure out where she was on the stage- they had her in the back so I kept trying to get the right shot. If you sit through this, you must really love us! It's a very cute dance...and she did awesome at the actual recital ..

(this was rehearsal):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-R5YlK4q24

Strike a pose

Jake wanted to get in the picture but then was too distracted by how shiny she was:
at the auditorium:

Easter Sunday best

Easter egg hunt

I DID make sure the kids ate a hearty breakfast before letting them tear into the candy at 8 in the morning:

Softball opening game

Her team is called "Attitudes". How fitting. Someone is vewy sad because Daddy went off with the team for the opening ceremony:
Not so sad:
And vewy sad:
Bea's up to bat! Click on this one to enlarge:
With help from Coach Luke:

Bea's first school play

A very cute Hyena:
A very scary hyena:
Saying her lines:
Doing her dance!

Bowling and skating

Mama trying to remember how to skate and Bea hanging on for dear life:
Jake giving me the "thumbs up" after he bowled:
They did love bowling!

Rattlesnake roundup

The kids loved it. Very fascinating. and smelly.

And I just had to add this: this guy picked up these snakes by the rattlers and..wait for it.. PUT THEM IN HIS MOUTH. Enjoy.

Yes it's been a while...

since I've posted although it only feels like a few weeks. Time is just going by so fast and we are sooo busy I haven't had time to think. Mostly I go the lazy route and just put pictures on Facebook, but I had a bunch in my camera I finally decided to download. So here goes!

Bea got ahold of the camera and here are some of her artistic endeavors:

Nice shot of Eddie:

One of Jake's famous faces:artistic shot:

goofy shot:Camera self-portrait:Okay that's enough, give me the camera!