Belated Easter..

So I realized that I'm waaay late in posting easter pictures, sorry. Avery obviously enjoys making faces at the camera. This goofball did however manage to test into Kindergarten with flying colors (early cutoff date in our state). He starts taking gymnastics this coming Monday, and he's very very excited. It's been over a year since he last took gymnastics, but he has really happy memories of it. Our city pool opens soon too, so we'll see how he takes to that :)





Here's Curran munching on jelly beans. They were one of his favorite candies at Eastertime (takes after his mother he does *grin*).

He's beginning to speak in 3-syllable words; well he tries his best to say them... And apparently some words like "more" he always says english/spanish/sign together just to be sure he's understood. Like "more-mas" jelly beans!!!

Catching up...

This is a much-belated picture from the very happy day in January that I became a deacon. ------>

Below is just a cute picture of Curran playing with great-grandma's pitcher collection...as apparently every visiting child does :)

A trip with wild animals (not just the kids)

We recently went to a wild animal sanctuary with the kids and some dear friends of ours. Here you can see Curran's favorite part of the park. He kept running back to the entry point so that he could see the animal that he could touch, and the dog loved it too :)









They had tigers, ocelots, lions, bears, wolves, and cougars to name most of them. Nearly all were rescue animals. Here are a couple of the many many beautiful tigers they had. There was lots and lots of roaming space for the animals, and even a pool area that they got to rotate in and out of.








Here's Avery trying hard to look just like them! He enjoyed watching the tigers play with giant exercise balls and play in the pool.











Here is Curran all dressed up for Mardi Gras a couple weeks back. He went around with his brother begging beaded necklaces off of everyone. (They were just laying on all the tables during our potluck.) He thinks he's pretty hot stuff in sunglasses, let me tell you!

Happy Holidays!

<---- Curran had a wonderful time going down this big 'ol slide! Below is a picture of myself with my sister on my 30th birthday. We went to a murder mystery dinner theatre in Denver and had a blast!
















To the right you can see Aric on a giant cow statue that we found in downtown Denver. This was taken while we were wandering around waiting for the dinner theatre to start.










Avery was very happy to leave Santa milk and cookies.

He also likes relaxing with Tia Erika (below).













----> Our 2008 Christmas tree. We went with peacock colors: dark blue, green and purple.

My little creeps...

<<<--- Here is Avery in his Musketeer outfit. He decided to be D'Artagnon after seeing the Disney movie. I didn't make the hat, but I made the tabard and the cape. Neither is perfect to a sewer's eyes, but it turned out great as far as I'm concerned! I had to do my first applique around a fleur-de-lis shape, but I actually managed not to pull out all my hair. The black and maroon fabric are polyester pseudo-suede, so I had to sew carefully because any holes made stayed forever. The cape lining was lame (as in la-may, I don't have the accented E) so very slippery to work with, but it didn't kill me either. *grin*












The upper pumpkin is Avery's bug-eyed pumpkin and mine is the ghostie in front. We put them on the front steps to our house along with various skeletons and big spiders. You can also see the boys enjoying the spoils of about six houses that actually were home to answer their doors. Avery wanted to go home after visiting one friend and going around the block. Measly by my standards, but Avery had a great time - and was great at sharing with Curran too! Happy Halloween!