WALL FAMILY

Jordan turned 16 this April!!  She has grown up so beautiful!  One of the hardest things for us as a family is not being able to see her as much as we would like.  Luckily there are things like telephones, texts and Facebook!  We get to see her life through our chats and pictures at least!  I borrowed some pictures from her Facebook page.  This one is of her on her 16th Birthday and one of the gifts we had made for her.  Even if we don't get to see her as much as we want to we hope she knows how much we love her, miss her and how proud we are of her and who she is.  Happy Birthday sweet Jordan!  We hope it was a wonderful day! Some more pictures I "borrowed"  from her Facebook page.  She is so silly, always making a goofy face and looking like she is enjoying herself!  Jordan playing Lacrosse...I think she really likes it. Looks like fun to me!

Rylee's class had a Christmas party on the last day before their break. They did crafts, ate lots of treats, listened to stories and sang a song for the parents. Jingle Bells... Making Crafts... Christmas Eve. It's that time of year again. The kids excitedly wait for Santa to come by with the Roving Christmas Tree. Rylee saw it coming and he got so excited! Santa handed out gifts.... An ornament drawing that Dylan did... Our Christmas Morning. This first one is our attempt at getting a picture of all of us together, including the dog. He made it nearly impossible because he would rather look at us then pose for the camera.... The kids tearing into their gifts... The boys posing in front of the tree and enjoying the new giant bean bag... Rylee wrapped up one of his toys for Dylan for a Christmas gift...Great wrapping job Rylee!!... Here is to another lovely Chirstmas day together!!

November update.... (Except the first couple pictures from October that I had to share!) At the end of October we went to a pumpkin patch and Fall Harvest celebration.... November... We had quite a bit of snow for November...we usually don't start getting this much until December. It has also been getting EXTRA cold!! This is what my kids and some of their friends were doing when it was 11 degrees outside (Rylee doesn't need dirt to play with his tractors, he has lots of white stuff!) ... This is one cold morning when I was taking the kids to the school bus. Bright sparkly snow and thick fog on the mountain... Dylan's Birthday and Thanksgiving... Dylans birthday fell on the day before Thanksgiving so we had a family day together, presents and a requested turkey dinner! He spent the following weekend having a sleepover with 4 of his friends and he had a blast!! On Thanksgiving day we went to Gary, Teri and Shane's house for dinner. Then Teri made Dylan a footbal...

Rylee's 4th Birthday was on July 18th, 2010. We had a party for him with his friends, family and an Elmo Pinata! I tried to make a dinosaur cake for Rylee in this cool pan I bought but when I tried to take it out, it fell apart. So I put it back in and patched it up with frosting and had Kirk draw a dinosaur on top. Maybe it will work next time. We got a pinata for the kids. It was the kind that you have to pull the strings til the pinata breaks. After it broke the kids decided to use it like a real pinata and filled it up with candy again and beat it up with a bat. There was also a balloon fight and balloon popping....holy cow what a mess!! But it was lots of fun. Rylee got a new bike for his birthday and he LOVES it! He wants to ride it ALL the time. Happy Birthday Rylee!! We all love you so much. We are so blessed to have you around and hope that as you continue to grow and get older that you will be happy. Happy Birthday to our 4 year old!!

Our Christmas was very nice and Very Exciting for the kids!! They both really enjoyed Christmas this year. Dylan got a few things that he has really been wanting....heelies, guitar hero, a gravity car and few other things! Rylee was in present heaven :) He loves opening presents and even helped me open mine. Kirk and I were all smiles watching them open their gifts. Jordan was really excited when she found out that she got one of the things she really wanted and we got to listen to her excitement over the phone. Hopefully we'll get some pictures of her Christmas soon! I'm really glad that I have such a great family to share all these wonderful moments with! Rylee loved this mug I had made just for him! It is full of pictures of construction vehicles and tractors. He also loved the tractors and trains that he got and played with them ALL day. YES! This is Kirk smiling while a camera is pointed towards him, and he even knew it! Don't ask me why, but I caught Rusty licking...