Back from Holiday Break

We hope everyone had a great time over their holiday break! We had a great time in Utah. We definitely had a White Christmas with all the snow there. The skiing was awesome! Aidan could not stop saying "snow" wherever we went. He got to play in it a little and he thought that was pretty cool.

We now have a little 2 year old as of the 29th! We had a birthday party for Aidan with our family and his favorite train, Thomas! He loved opening his birthday presents and eating his Thomas cake! He got double the toys with his birthday and Christmas. He learned and said all of our family's names while we were there and he still says them. He has started saying complete sentences and talks a lot!
Liam is also doing well! Aidan is starting to interact with his little brother more and more. Liam loves to play with anything near him and he is always smiling. We love our little boys!

We also included some pictures of the lights at Temple Square in Salt Lake City. We braved the single digit temperatures to go downtown and show Aidan and Liam the lights there, Aidan thought it was pretty cool as he would tell us what color the lights were. It was fun for all of us to see all the family and Aidan actually knew about Christmas this time around so it was more fun for him.

Aidan's little tree

Last Christmas . . . 2006

Our Thanksgiving Pow-Wow

Dressed up for church!

Read my bib!

Dinner for two

Straight out of a Martha Stewart magazine!

j.k. - give all the credit to Stephani for the turkey!

Le Exhibition a la Aidan

Thanksgiving is over, the sales are done and here comes December!

We had a wonderful feast with our friends this year, Jonnie, Amanda and Madilyn (also with their new little one coming very soon!). We ate too much and watched football all while being entertained all night by Aidan and Madilyn as they showed off! It was stressful but Stephani and Amanda worked their magic in the kitchen and cooked a fine feast. We have so much to be thankful for!

We decided not to add to the madness of after-Thanksgiving shopping and just relaxed after the stress of Thanksgiving. We needed the rest as we are in for another long stretch of no breaks before Christmas. We hope all of you had a Happy Thanksgiving!

Enjoy the pics and listen to some Christmas music!

We know! It's been awhile. . .

Liam and Aidan in Utah!!

Liam's blessing day!

Hello again everyone!

We realize that we last updated this blog over a month ago but we never promised anything in the first place! Just kidding, we're tyring our best to keep this up to date.

We are done unpacking! We moved in on Oct. 20th and it's taken this long to get this place setup how we wanted. Actually, we have not finished unpacking our bathroom upstairs but it will soon be done. We love our new place! It's perfect for our family with lots of storage space (more than we have ever had!), the area is nice and quiet and we are very happy here in Claremont. Stephani has decorated the place so nice (down with the Halloween stuff and up with the Thanksgiving decor!), she always has a way to make our house truly a home!

The birds are adjusting to their new surroundings, we thought that would be the first thing on everyone's mind.

The boys are doing great! Aidan is still growing so tall! We just bought a height chart to keep track of his growth! He's about about 36 inches right now! We put Liam up to it and he measured up to about the 23 inch mark! Two perfect, growing boys, what more could we ask for? Aidan said "fire" today and he still loves to make his Ninja noises (Ai-ya!!) even after Halloween is over. The pictures of our Halloween party are posted below, everyone had a great time eating and trick-or-treating! Aidan loved being a Ninja and as far as we can tell, Liam didn't mind too much being a tootsie roll and no the other kids didn't make off with him as another piece of candy! Aidan ran door-to-door with the other little boy dressed as superman. He knocked on the doors but couldn't say trick-or-treat yet. Liam is our chubby little sir! He's such a talkative baby and loves to make all sorts of noises when we interact with him. He lifts up his head and rolls over and as seen on the video below, he sits up with, a little help! Another thing about Aidan, he loves to chase Dad and Mom around the house and he loves the swings and the slide at the park. We went on Saturday and played for awhile but when we had to leave, he cried for a long time!

So as usual, two boys keep us on our toes constantly! They learn and grow so much everyday, it's amazing to see. Though Thanksgiving is around the corner, we are looking forward to going home for Christmas and seeing our families!

Brett has 8 more weeks in the semester and before we know it, he will be taking the Medical Board Exams in June and he will start rotations in July! Fall semester goes by so quick! It's been a difficult semester with the material that has been covered but extremely interesting subjects. We have been so blessed getting this far in school and we will need all the blessings we can get for the last part of this year. Stephani deserves a lot of credit for all that she has done and continues to do for our family during this crazy time in our lives! Especially for putting up with our birds! :0)

We know that it will work out and be worth it when we look back on these times later!

Let the holiday season begin!! Also, one request, could we get some snow down here? (not all of it!)

Let's see, anything else to cover on here? What's that? Not enough, you say? Well until next time, here's some pictures!

Aidan and cousin Madison playing!


The Halloween party gang!

What do you get when you combine a ninja and a tootsie roll?