Madison turns 9!!!

Well, today my baby girl turns 9 years old. It seems like just yesterday she was still our baby. She has grown up so much, even in just the last year. Just thought I would share a few photos of her as a baby and then a couple taken today as we celebrated her birthday.



This photo was taken at 4 weeks old. Love the hat!!!!!!


This picture is about somewhere between 6 and 9 months.


Taken January 16, 2009

After blowing out the candles!

A WHITE CHRISTMAS

WOW!! can we say that's alot of snow? We got our white Christmas here in BC and broke all kinds of weather records. The kids loved all the snow, they were out a couple of times during the day playing and rolling around in the snow. We have about 2 feet of snow in our yard, the trees look beautiful covered in the snow and as I sit here typing this it is snowing outside again. It's funny though as I was taking these pictures I was out in a t-shirt, where else in Canada in the middle of winter with this much snow can you be outside in a t-shirt? no where I suspect. I guess now we are just waiting for the rain that is coming next week to wash this all away. The first picture here is actually our spare car completely covered in snow with only the side view mirror poking out. I hope you were all able to get out and enjoy the snow!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Here is a brief look into Christmas at our house. The kids were up by 7am and were very excited to see all of the gifts Santa had left for them. They were very patient in waiting to open them though. We had to feed Riley first, then wake up the in-laws and all the time Madison and Wyatt patiently waited. It was funny, after Wyatt opened his first gift he gathered up the wrapping paper and was headed straight to the garbage can to straighten up right away.



Here's Riley with her first Christmas gift. It is IgglePiggle from a new kids tv show called In the Night Garden. She seemed to really enjoy it and was trying to hold it and put it in her mouth.

Madison recieved a Hannah Montana tour bus from gramma for Christmas, which she was very excited to get. She played with it most of the day, with her various dolls from Hannah Montana, High School Musical and Camp Rock (all disney tv movies). She is also decked out in Hannah Montana pj's. It was a Hannah Montana christmas for Maddi, from the pj's to the socks, watch, clothes, nintendo and play station game, but she loved it all.

Riley and Joe taking in all the action of the kids opening their gifts.

Have you ever seen such a sight? Our in-laws dog Murphy, sniffed out her gift and then proceeded to unwrap it her self. It was quite funny!

Wyatt is playing Santa handing out gifts to everybody. He was happy with all the gifts he recieved. There was Optimus Prime the transformer, magnetix, nintendo games and a hot wheels track.

This first picture is from the beginning of Novemeber. Riley is almost 2 months old.

It's bathtime for baby, she loves having a bath no complaints whatsoever.

Joe has Riley propped up between the pillow while she listens intently to him playing the guitar.

This last picture was taken Nov 29/08 only 11 days away from 3 months old. She has grown so much over the last 3 months. Riley has grown 3" and is now 24" long, she weighs in at 15lbs and just last night she slept from about 9:30 pm to 6:00am Woohoo!!! She is a great baby with lots of smiles and coos. It seems like she is trying to pull her self into a seated position when she is in her swing or car seat.

Halloween

I know I am a bit behind but here it is anyways...
We have Miss Hannah Montana, Mr Ironman and our newest little kitten. Aren't they cute??? Madison and Wyatt each dressed up for school parties and then we took all 3 kids out trick-or-treating at night after dinner. I must say Riley did very good for her 1st Hallowe'en, she slept through everything, I'm sure she will do better next year! The kids got lots of candy, in fact we are still eating it almost 2 weeks later!

Here we are the night before Hallowe'en picking our pumpkins out at the Apple Barn. What a great place to go for pumpkins, there is lots for the kids to do there. They are still open on the weekends until Dec 20, we may have to go in December to see if they decorate for Christmas.

BACKYARD FUN!!!

We have a huge maple tree in the backyard that leaves lots of leaves on the ground, so of course it wouldn't be fall unless the kids made the leaf pile and played around in it.

Wyatt like any little boy can't resist digging in the dirt, and what better way to do it with these great trucks...a birthday gift from grampa.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WYATT ...

Wyatt turns 5!!! I can't believe he is 5 already. We celebrated with a Transformer cake and his favorite gift...his skateboard!!! It's almost as big as he is.