Finally...2008 picture movie

Maggie saves the day

Brady wrote his first story last weekend. The title is Maggie Saves the Day.
The story:

Maggy safse the day.

Mggy liks the wotr. wots she so a vulaanod. the vulkano x. Maggy sase the day.

Translation:

Maggie likes the water. Once, she saw a volcano. The volcano exploded. Maggie saves the day.

Goodbye

April showers

We played hooky yesterday. It was rainy and chilly and the perfect day to stay home, watch movies, and bake cookies. We did venture out for an afternoon stroll in the rain.

More Easter Pics

Lots more pictures of the boys from Easter. You can tell the sugar had kicked in for most of these :)

Brady, acting goofy, and Rudy, striking a pose:

Kisses from Maggie:

Crazy dog

I'm not sure why this is so amusing to us, but it's provided a fair amount of entertainment to us the past few days. We figured out that the ring on our new home phone is what is making Maggie howl.

I've even watched this video several times and it still cracks me up. Maybe it's the fact that she's really not all that talented of a howler??

Merry Christmas morning!

The four of us slept downstairs by the Christmas tree last night to see if we could catch Santa. He came, but he was too sneaky for us!

Nana and Popsie and the Donaldsons all spent the night so we could open presents together this morning. Brady woke up at 4:30 and acknowledged that Santa had come, but promptly fell back asleep. We all started stirring about 6:30 this morning.

Rudy and Cooper with Cooper's new camera:

Videos of our "kids" (Brady, Rudy, and Maggie) opening their presents...

After 7 years, Maggie is a pro at present-opening...

The primary item on Brady's letter to Santa was the Star Wars Transformer...



Since our vacation last summer, Rudy has been wanting a Blue Angel jet. He was sure to share this with Santa (twice) and anyone else who asked!

Happy Halloween!

We started our day with the flu mist vaccine for the kids, but it got better after that! Brady doesn't usually go to school on Fridays, but we made a special exception for the Halloween party today. While he was there, Rudy got to show off his costume while we ran errands this morning.

Before leaving the house...Rudy insisted on wearing his Halloween underwear from his Aunt Rebecca. I insisted that he wasn't going to wear his costume pants with underwear. I was right - he had an accident within 2 hours!

The boys came home, both exhausted from the week so far. They passed out for really long naps and were woken up by these two goofs (my parents!):

We had "bats, worms, eyeball, and cobweb pasta" (bowtie and macaroni pasta with sliced olives and mozzarella cheese in a tasty pumpkin sauce) and "witches fingers" (hot dogs with crescent rolls and sliced almond fingernails) for dinner and then got into our costumes.

The boys in their superhero poses:

Smiling face poses:

And, here's our superhero family before trick-or-treating:

After collecting the candy, we came back for the inspection and to watch Charlie Brown's Halloween special....