Christmas Day

We had a great Christmas! Ella left her binkies for Santa so he brought her a pretty cool play kitchen. Emma received an ipod from Santa and Ethan got his Lego's Star wars Wii game he wanted from Santa.

Grandma and Grandpa Howell got Ella a baby along with a baby car seat.


You can't have a play kitchen with out food!


Ella loves games! I am sure we will be playing this one quite a bit.



Grandma and Grandpa Howell got Emma her own Paint Set with an Easel.


Docking Station for her new ipod.


My mom and I made the girls new aprons, I think they turned out super cute. Ella had her's on in a picture at the bottom of the page.


Grandma and Grandpa Howell got Ethan a digital camera. He loves it!


We got Ethan a Leapster with some educational games. He seems to like it so far!

Ella loves to help me in the kitchen. She will be putting her new apron to some good use.

Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve, Ella and Ethan made Snicker doodles for Santa. We also let them open one present before bed (which is always a new pair of pajamas). Emma of course figured this out years ago so she isn't super excited to open their one present like the younger kids.

This is right before we got all the binkies in a bag and left them for Santa. It was a hard couple days and nights for Ella not having her Binky but I think she is over the hard part.

Oh Snow!

I love when we get snow on a weekend so I can stay home with the kids and watch them play! I was prepared with boots, gloves and snowsuits for all the kids. I usually buy everything and it doesn't snow.

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Dr. Ella

Looks like both my girls want to be doctors. Ella put on Emma's scrubs (which were a little big) and made sure Ethan had a heart beat.

Ella's first haircut

Ella is almost 3 and is just now getting her first haircut. She didn't get much cut off but now it isn't looking so much like a mullet.

What awesome, smart, talented kids we have!

I will start out with Ella. We are so excited she is now potty trained. She finally decided she wanted to be a big girl so she gave up the diapers and only wears panties now, even over night. She went from diapers one day to panties the next, no turning back. We did reward her with a new baby doll, a baby doll stroller and baby food. She got to go to the store and pick everything out herself.



We had parent teacher conferences today so we were pretty anxious to talk to Ethan's kindergarten teacher. We are excited to say that he is right where he needs to be for his age. His teacher said he is very good at Math and is a very respectful child. We are so happy that Ethan is doing so well, we really owe a big part of it to Miss Jana his preschool teacher from last year. She did an awesome job preparing Ethan for Kindergarten.

We let the kids pick out a toy at the store for the super work they did at school this quarter. His toy he picked out is a new Nerf Ball Gun. Super fun toy.


And Emma, what can we say about her that we haven't said before. Emma is very bright and does very well in school. She is in 4th grade this year. She has straight A's and we will be looking into getting her into Challenge classes at school. Emma goes above and beyond what she is asked to do in school. She is a very humble girl and loves to help the other kids in her class when they are behind. She also volunteers to help younger children with their reading. After testing at the beginning of the year we found that she is at a 7th grade Math and Reading Level. She just received the 1st quarter academic award for her class. We are so proud of Emma and her accomplishments.

Emma picked out a Tag Team Nerf game for her award. She said she plans on sharing it with Ethan.

Halloween 2009

Halloween morning we had some of our good friends over to decorate sugar cookies. It was pretty fun to watch all the kids decorate. We had all sorts of candy and sprinkles. Some of the cookies you couldn't even see the frosting on them when they were done. We also made caramel corn and had hot apple cider.

These pictures are right before Trick or Treating.

Ella the turtle

Ethan was Darth Vader

Emma was . . . . ????