New Year’s Eve

Eve is all dressed up for New Year’s Eve. She picked out this outfit.

Playing Wii. The kids are playing Dance Dance Revolution as a group.

Playing Dutch Shuffleboard. Eve is looking on from the stairs. Nate and Joshua tied for first place.

Somewhere around 10:30 the super silliness began. The kids decided to slide down the stairs and then pull each other down the stairs and then ride on top of each other while being pulled down the stairs.

 

Happy New Year!!

They all made it to midnight. Ellie almost gave up at 11:40 and Eve was very ready to go to bed. Nate, on the other hand, was ready to stay up all night.

Children’s Museum of Phoenix

Playing in the market. This is their favorite place in the whole museum.

Playing in the kitchen.

Ellie is playing the wrench xylophone.

Painting the castle. Nate is trying to make it green (the paint was blue but if you painted on the yellow parts it made green).

 

Riding tricycles.

Hanging out in the fort room.

This is the fort Nate built.

 

 

The front of the museum. It was cold and windy outside but Ellie insisted on doing the squeegee activity outside.

Going up the climber. They eventually drug me (Mandy) up to the top. Ellie was brave this time and actually made it to the top.

Picture at the top.

We went back to the market. Nate was helping clean up all the split peas that ended up on the floor. The museum employee was very grateful that Nate was sweeping it up for her.

Hanging out by the flowers.

Family Christmas Pictures

    

Christmas Eve and Christmas

We all had the flu after we got back from California except Nate. We were having fever contests. Opa won with 103.3. We warned our family that they would want to stay away unless they wanted to get sick. We stayed home from Christmas Eve service. We still opened presents but we all looked pretty pathetic.

  

We had to cancel going over to Grammy and Grampy’s house on Christmas Day. Grandma and Aunt Robin decided to take a chance and brought over their gifts. This is the only picture I have from Christmas day.

See the cool shadow?