January Favorites

I've REALLY been a slacker about getting my camera out for events lately, but I did manage to get a few pics of some of my favorite moments last month.

Our New Year's Resolution for our family this year is to hold a planned FHE EVERY single Monday, without exception!

At our first FHE, I came up with some lame activity, so Mike suggested we do a puppet show instead to help the kids get a little more excited. 

Good choice, Mike! Check these guys out:

Remi kept coming up to give the "muffet" kisses.

It's not often anyone gets to hold Remi for more than 2 seconds (she's SO BUSY!) let alone fall asleep with her! But she LOVES her daddy!  I took like thirty pictures of this (and it was literally like the SAME picture thirty times because they're asleep and not moving)! I couldn't help it, her sweet little face and fists kill me! Her dad's alright too! ;)

Did I get an iPad for Christmas??
Because I'm pretty sure Grant and Remi think THEY did! It's actually pretty useful to have it to distract them (that is, until I need it and they won't give it back or when they start deleting my apps!). Either way, when I see them playing together and Grant helping Remi figure out "her" apps, it melts my heart!

And again, another picture of Spaz Face giving me a smile! She's too much!!

We Have a Three-Year-Old!!....?!!

Grant turned three last month and in true Mike fashion, he ensured that Grant got a little boy's dream party!

We did a Ninja Turtle theme, since Grant was pretty into them at the time and we think they're cool! :)

We had pizza...(just like Michaelangelo, Grant says)

Then the boys had to eat the "green ooze" (green Jello) to become Ninja Turtles

Then they went to ninja training where they karate chopped and broke "boards"

Then they had to punch through a "green barrier" to find out which Ninja Turtle they were going to be.

Then they got their "weapons"

Some good-lookin' Ninja Turtles!

Mike made this city scape so they could jump over it and take pictures. It didn't work as well as we hoped, and we had a few accidents, but they still had fun!

Getting ready for their big fight scene!

They had to fight off the "foot soldiers"

Then they had the ultimate challenge-defeating "Shredder" and his Goon.

This is a really pathetic picture of the food, but oh well! It's documented!

I can't believe our little man is 3!!  He's so smart, we've been telling him for several months now that when he's three he couldn't go to sleep with milk anymore and we can't believe how on his birthday, he just quit cold turkey and never even asked for it! He told us several times that he couldn't have it, and wouldn't even let his babysitter give him milk with his PB&J.   We LOVE this boy!!

Then Grant got to sit on his Ninja Turtle chair and open all his gifts

It was a great party! Thanks so much to everyone who took time out of their Saturday to come!  We all had a lot of fun!

I told Biz to smile and here's what she gave me.  She's such a ham! She had fun following all the boys around trying to get involved!