My minions

The minions on Despicable Me are pretty cute but I would argue that these minions are even cuter!

Christmas Eve

We decorated cookies for Santa...

and ate a few.

Caleb was there too.

Next we got the reindeer food ready.... just a few extra sprinkles.

Sam tested the reindeer food on Rudolf.

Perfect!

Taking the reindeer food outside to spread on the driveway.

Spreading the reindeer food.

Reading a Christmas story next and giving Christmas jammies. I didn't take pictures of that. I should have. Note for next year.

After stockings were hung by the chimney with care and the kids were nestled all snug in their beds....

Santa came.

More pictures to come.

Thanksgiving 2010

Sam's preschool Thanksgiving performance.

Caleb wanted to perform too!

Thanksgiving in CT. We had so much fun and good food with our friends, from dental school, the Shamos and the Lees.
The food!

Everyone enjoying their food.

Caleb was definitely enjoying his food.

All the babies shared their food with each other. Here Caleb is sharing with Bethany and Issac. Don't worry Caleb stole his fair share of food. So cute.

Avery soda factory. There's a place in CT that lets you watch them make and bottle soda.

They had sooo many flavors. They were all so good. Thanks Shamos for introducing us to it.

Jared inspecting a bottle.

We were able to meet up with the Thomases as well. We went to the trolley museum and went on a trolley tour.

The old trolleys were all decorated for Christmas.

Sam and Wyatt played so well together the whole time. We hardly saw them other then meal times. I wish I had gotten a picture of them playing. I wish I had taken more pictures period. We had a blast and makes me want to see all our good friends more often. Thanks Shamos, Lees, and Thomases for a great time.

Caleb's walking!!!

I have a lot of catching up to do but I wanted to get this on there. I've never put a video clip on here before so hopefully it works.

Caleb took his first steps over Thanksgiving thanks to some peer pressure. He still wasn't that interested in walking until about last week. He prefers crawling for long distances but he will walk now. Yay! I'm glad he's been taking his time. I think it makes me feel like he's been a baby longer.

Random cuteness

We've been spending a lot of time indoors lately. It has been unusually cold in VA so the only time we spend outdoors is from the house to car and from the car to the stores (holiday shopping). Both kids are a little stir crazy and have been trying to find things to fill their time. Caleb plays in the cupboards and sneaks food.

Caleb is the only kid his age I know who will actually wear a hat. He loves them.

Sam has been trying to find as many uses for his rope as he possibly can. He found that it makes a good tow rope.

I don't know where he got the peace sign thing from. I thought it was pretty funny though.

family pictures

We had some family pictures taken a couple of weeks ago when the leaves were really changing colors. Here are a few....(I should also note that I am in the pictures that the blond is me, yes I am blond now)

apple orchard and grandparents

My parents were in DC for the past few months, for my dad's work and so we got pretty spoiled being able to see them just about every weekend for the last 2 1/2 months. They left for home today so I took some pictures with them and the kids before they left. We will miss them!

Last weekend we went down to Charlottesville with the grandparents to the apple orchard. Sam was on a mission to fill his bag with apples and boy did he. Now I need some good apple recipes to use up all the apples we now have sitting on our kitchen counter. Any suggestions???
Here we all are getting ready to pick apples.

Caleb wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do but he sure looked cute sitting in the grass.

He may not know how to get the apple off the tree but he knows what to do with it and is happy to share.

We met up with our friends, Matt, Debbie, Kylee and Parker.

Sam and Kylee are such good friends. Sam was helping Kylee pick apples.

So this was the best shot I could get with everyone in the picture. I'm not sure what Sam is doing but it's pretty funny.

There's my cute Sam!

Caleb just loves his grandpa and especially loves his hat. He loves wearing Grandpa's hat and gets a huge grin every time it is put on his head.

This picture I just threw in because I think it's really cute. This guy is really loving preschool and learning and will sit for more than 3 seconds at a time now. Yay for preschool and great teachers! I'm so proud of him. He's such a smart kid and growing up way too fast.