YFC 2009

This past Saturday we drove to Newburgh, NY for the annual Young Family Christmas Party. We were about an hour late (hey, it's not easy getting 6 people out the door@!) but just in time for the picture, and the egg nog! Colby loves the egg nog, although he doesn't drink the 'real' eggnog, which is a bit altered, to say the least. ha ha.
Samantha was very excited to see Jessica and Beth! She spent most of the time with them.
Uncle Brian set up a tree for Will to hang his origami ornaments on and sell them. He made almost $300 from the party! WOW! thank you to everyone!!!
The food was delicious, of course. Especially the bowl of m&ms for me, and the goldfishies for Owen!! He kept walking into the kitchen area and helping himself to some. It was very cute!
This year there were 3 new little boys... Owen, because we missed last year, Cole who is 10 months old,and Nate who is just 2 months old. Cole and Nate sat still while Owen was all over the place. Next year will certainly be fun with 3 little toddler boys running around!
Santa came through and brought the kids awesome gifts. They were very happy.
It was a late night but well worth it. We loved seeing the family, especially Grandma Lorna.
Merry Christmas!

finally, an update!!!!!

It's not my fault, really! Blogger has been giving me a lot of trouble when I try to uplaod pictures. But I've realized they load quickly in my bedroom, so I will do it there from now on!!

let's see... lots of updates since I haven't updated since the snake!

Thanksgiving was great. We went to Grammy and Djia djia's house. Mike, Renee and Leah were there too. Leah was absolutely adorable- laughing and smiling! owen loved her, a little too much in fact. I don't think she's used to being attacked by toddlers. :) The boys ate raviolis and then 'didn't have room' for turkey. silly boys!

trying to remember what picture i posted....

Sam is growing quickly lately. She's been going to sleepovers and movies with her friends, and having friends over just to hang out. It's nice to get to know her friends and watch them interact.
Basketball has started and she's on the CYO team and also the school modified team. the CYO team won their first game, 37 to 15!
She also made principal's list again this first quarter, yippee for her!! AND- she was student of the month for November!

Will also did great on his report card. He is a solid B, which makes us happy!
LieLie shed her skin, i know i posted a picture of that. It was cool to watch.
Will found a book he LOVES-- Diary of a Wimpy Kid. he bought it on a friday and had it finished in a couple of days! It is so awesome to see him reading a book, and not being able to keep his nose out of it! He says he can't wait for the next one.

Colby is doing well also. he has had quite the personality lately! He wore his pajamas inside out and backwards- two pairs- to try to get a snowday. It worked! We got lots of snow last week. all of the kids loved it.
We saw santa, he and i and owen... he asked for a snowboard. he got a nerf gun too, which he loves!

Owen loves the snow also, even though when he falls he can't get back up! The other day when the boys went out to do wood, Owen went and got his boots and gave them to Colby, because he wanted to go outside too! it was so cute, we just had to bring him outside.
owen already has spilled water on my laptop, which makes the P not work right. Also a few more keys, including the shift key, which is why some of my letters are not capitalized when they are supposed to be. I hate that but it's so time consuming to go back and keep switching them!
Owen also saw santa, and loved him! It was very cute.
He's been talking a lot lately, even though he only says "da, dee, di" and other forms of the letter D. He babbles right along though. He also points and it sounds this "dis" (this?) so I am constantly telling him what everything is.
He loves the picture of himself in the hallway. He kisses it!

Art has finally rented his house- happy day!
And we are almost ready for christmas. We have a house full of very excited children, and adults! I love Christmas!!! We put our tree up, and then it fell down, and then we put it upagain. :)

Hope you enjoy this update!

Almost Thanksgiving!

There are so many things I am thankful for. Of course, I'm mostly thankful for my husband Art and for our children. They have blessed my life and made me who I am today. I am happy because of them! I am thankful to be a SAHM and have the ability to be room mom in Colby's classroom, as I did today... they had a Thanksgiving Feast. Wore Owen on my back and he 'slept like a baby' the whole time. I'm thankful for babywearing! I am very thankful for this gorgeous weather. Barb and I went for a walk again today. It's almost Thanksgiving and we're outside with spring coats on! I am thankful for Hershey Kisses (as I pop one in my mough) and thankful for baby kisses too, even the wet and slobbery ones.

Picture update!!!!

Here are our pictures from Halloween. Sorry to be doing this so late, but I've been having a problem uploading pictures. So...here they are!
We had a great Halloween. We went to a party the night before at the school. That was a lot of fun!! And then on Halloween night we went to the Ayer's for a GROSS dinner (worms and blood and guts) and then out trick or treating. Will went with his friend Elijah, and Samantha went around our own neighborhood, but with a bunch of her friends. Art and I brought Colby and Owen around, with our neighbor Jason. As usual, Colby got tired very quickly. And Owen was sleeping in the babyhawk. So we just went home.
It rained a lot, so Sam and her friends came home early and hung out in the basement. That was fun for them! And Art went to a neighbors and played poker.

The next day, we brought Colin to the corn maze. Will wasn't feeling well so we couldn't stay too long. But it was a beautiful day and we did a lot there.

Happy November!