Merry Christmas!!!!

Sorry we couldn't think of a more original title...we're a bit tired from running around this year. We started our adventure at 4:40 am Christmas Eve morning, driving seven hours to Grammie Jan and Papa Daryl's house. Lots of fun, presents, and a giant tee-pee contraption later, we settled down to a wonderful Christmas dinner. Before we headed off to Grandpa Pat's, we went sledding in freeze-your-boogers temperatures. We thought it was not-so-much fun, but mom and dad had a blast...so then we drove the four hours down the hill to Lorrie and Grandpa Pat's house in Paso Robles. We played some Guitar Hero, checked out the thousands of snowmen who were just dying to be played with (much to the dismay of everyone except us), and had some super yummy quiche. We had some delish pizza in Cambria, checked out the Christmas lights in beautiful historic downtown Paso, and visited with "Uncle" Mark. It was faaabulous. Can't wait to celebrate Jesus' birthday next year...when we actually have some concept of what that means...

Doesn't it look like it snowed?! We were soooo hoping...but we received a generous amount of hail which almost looked like a light dusting...

This stuff is amazing!! We can't figure out why we haven't been able to play with this before!!!


















Notice our snazzy Christmas outfits!! Dressed to the nines!!









































Yo Yo!! Check out my way cool Christmas pj's!! Thanks Aunt Sarah!!























You may recall seeing dad pushing me on this bike when we were only 4 months old! Almost a year later we can pretty much drive it around ourselves!!

























Oooohhhh...presents.........


















Don't we all just look wonderful?! Except maybe both of us, who noticed something more interesting on either side of the gathering...


















Images captured by mum on our way up the mountain to go sledding. It was sooo beautiful!!!!!

Daddy and me, dressed in a hodgepodge of eclectic finds; the purple mittens were found in desperation hours before we went sledding...the only saving grace was our adorable beanies we received for Christmas from our wonderful Auntie Naomi...
























I was not amused.......


















Forcing a smile so we can leave!!!























One big happy (and COLD) family!!


















Unkie Brett and daddy zipped us up into their jackets...hehe they're weird..

Then we cruised over to Auntie Kym and Uncle Guy's house for some extra-exciting fun...the special trip around the block in Brooke's Barbie car was by far our fave part...

This pic includes about half the attendants...mom was really random in her picture taking, I think by the last get-together she was sick of taking pics!!!















Aunt Kym's sexy undies...ohh la la!! Hehe given by her secret Santa..she asked for a Victoria Secret gift card so not only did she receive that, she scored some super cute VS granny panties as well...YOU'RE WELCOME!!!!




















LOOK! She liked them so much she decided to sport them the rest of the evening. If you look closely you will notice this gem of a find is from the VS "HIGH RISE COLLECTION"...oh, if only we had received such an amazing present...




















The highlight of our trip...our awesome cousin Brooke took us for a drive. We soooo want this car!!!

So that was that! Thanks, family for inviting us to our FOUR Christmases!! We had so much fun!!!

Ahhh....inquisitiveness........

Mommy's Marathon Tuesday!!

So...Mom had this bright idea to take us to the Reuben H Fleet
science museum at Balboa Park. They have free Tuesdays the
first Tuesday of each month. We were there before it opened
and enjoying ourselves with about five other kids, but by
the time we left there were hundreds of people crammed in
there! All in all we had a great time...playing with the grocery
carts and the conveyor belt, the xylophone, a phone booth, in a
climbing house...the place was great! Mommy got only ucky
pictures though, because the lighting was so bad, so you can
view our experience in the collage at the bottom. My favorite
pic is this one, which was one of the few that turned out well
that morning:



















Then mom decided to take us along for the trip to the Del
Mar Post Office, which happens to be within walking
distance to the beach and our favorite cliff-top
ocean-overlooking park! We had a looooooooong day but it
was a blast and mom got some great pics! Enjoy!

Winnie The Pooh and Halloween, too!!!!

We LOVED Halloween, especially the part about meeting up with Grandpa and Peg and hookin' mom and dad up with some free candy! Mom agonized over what to dress us up as, and finally decided on Pooh's Hunny Pot (scored with Auntie Suzanne at the swap meet), and then of course Pooh ('cause you can't have the Hunny pot without the Pooh Bear!!). Drew's costume was a bit large, but very, very cute..it showed off his plump phisique. I was nice and warm in my costume, though I might have been more comfortable if it wasn't 80 degrees outside!
But I digress...So mom and dad were contemplating their trick-or-treat destination when a new listing came up for a house they really liked. (We're NOT posting a picture because that seems to jinx everything...). So when their wonderful realtor suggested we go see it on Halloween, we thought it would be perfect to go celebrate the holiday in a very old neighborhood with lots of spooky (though nicely kept) old houses! So, like I said, we met up with Pop and Peg and ate pizza at Filippes, re-parked a few blocks away, and walked down historic Juniper street in Escondido. We showed off our duds to some nice neighbors, and ended at our prospective house. Mom and dad were able to see what it would be like in that area at night (no streetlights! but very safe feeling) and were very pleased. They're so adventageous! Way to multi-task mom and dad! So without further ado, here are your gushing opportunities...


Our first experience with pumpkin goo...























































































































































Hopefully you could follow the cuteness, 'cause mom couldn't change the format to write between the pictures (something fishy is going on)...So yes we're stinking cute, and no, we're not planning on wearing those costumes again any time soon. Hopefully mom will pick something less bulky next year...Love, Jake

More of our cuteness...

We're ONE!!! Wahoo!!!

Mom and Dad survived a whole year!! Just kidding, we are the best babies ever! Our latest updates: we love chasing the vacuum, Andrew has almost 10 teeth! (3 of which are molars!), we can both walk like champs, and we can say: mama, dad, hi, all done, and other ramblings. We had soo much fun at our party and we thank everyone for coming and for our awesome presents! An extra thanks for coming to our dedication, it was very special and important to us!

Here are some pics thanks to Uncle Stevie (who shares Drew's birthday!!..no Steve, he does not share your name as well...)

Mom played with some black and white effects for this one...

We LOVE our Grammie Emma! Sh'e our only great Grandma!

Hey daddy! We love you!!

Mommy spend countless hours on this cake...She grumbled something about not doing this again until we turn ten...Hope not!

Our first cake!! Yum!