Great week all around!!!!

My little aspiring cake maker. She made a"gingerbread" house at school on Wednesday with graham crackers. Isn't she talented???? She is a gift from God, I love her more every single day.

Today we celebrated Justis by going to Disneyland. We stayed for the fireworks and snow, got home at midnight. TOTALLY worth every minute. The kids had a great time and even though I'm sure the park was at capacity we felt the season everywhere. What an awesome job Disney did this year. I am truly blessed to have the family that I do...all of you. (Blood related or not)

Merry Christmas

Let's catch up....

Paige and Ethan. December 11th 2009

Paige got an award at school today!!!! She was recognized for outstanding citizenship, being a kind friend, outstanding effort in all subjects and beautiful handwriting. She didn't know it was coming so she was beyond excited when her name was called. We are so proud of the fantastic little girl that she is becoming. We all love her very much!!! Congratulations Paige!
Paige and I spent an afternoon alone together. We shopped for Daddy's christmas present, she picked out a great gift for him, can't tell you yet what it is but she is REALLY thoughtful and very observant. We had lunch and then she came to work with me. It was a great afternoon.

Ethan was in his first school production! His class (and a few others) sang 5 songs on stage while the Christmas story was read from the bible and an entire chapel of parents crammed in to see them. This is the best shot we got, on a camera. You can watch the video if you come see us! He was great. Knew every word and his teacher said he sang the loudest in the whole class. I love to see how much he loves Jesus.
This is us at Ethan's Thanksgiving feast at school. He made me my necklace...I wear it a lot. We even pulled Paige out of school to join us.

Halloween Week

We spent a great day at Disneyland!!!! Not too hot, kids had a blast. Did you know Tom Sawyers Island is open again????? We had a storm trooper and a fairy ballerina in our house for Halloween. It was the end of the night though before I got pictures so they are a little disheveled. How do you get rid of this all this candy? Anyone not get enough????

Paige's school had a Halloween carnival and Billy came home early to go with us!!!!! Lots of fun!

Christmas Cards Maybe?????

We were walking through Target and when I turned around, this is what I saw. So totally cute!!! Maybe I will make Christmas cards out of them. Good to see so much JOY on my kids faces!!!!!

Mission Viejo Walk Against Drugs

We did the Mission Viejo Walk Against Drugs last weekend and it was really HOT!!! I pushed the kids in the stroller, they took turns walking and riding. After a few minutes of walking Ethan turned to me and said "why are we walking for drugs?" He's so cute...I said "we are not walking FOR drugs, we are walking AGAINST drugs" he replied..."whatever...it's hot!!!" Didn't care about the drug part at all...just wanted to not be hot. We went to a fair after and they got to play in some bounce houses and eat snow cones. Good morning all around.

We LOVE us our Wahoo's!!!

Happy Birthday Faith!!!!

We got to take a Saturday off from work and spend the day with Faith for her birthday!!!!

First Day of School

This is Ethan's first day of Preschool!!! He loves his teacher and has such a great time learning about letters and God. He's is really sharp and can do lots of his letter sounds and can tell you all about the creation of the world and Adam and Eve. The Lord watches over him every day and really has His hand on this little boy. We are so proud of him!

This is Paige on the FIRST day of FIRST GRADE!!!! Wasn't see only born 6 years ago? What is she doing sitting at a desk???? She is doing really well in school, reading like a librarian, and having a great time making friends. She is such a helper to the teacher and other students. She has already taken 4 kids to the nurses office to be fixed up after they have taken a fall. Maybe she will be a nurse???? WE LOVE HER!!!!

BBQ at church

Are they cute or what!?!?!?! He wanted the facepainter...me...to put his name across his face. Everyone that walked by us after that said hi to him by name and he was shocked that he knew so many people!!! I love him!

Let's catch up...

I had some family come into town from Oregon so we all got together for some fellowship and took a picture. (Linda, Ginny, Steve, Kevin, Dad, Jean, Mikey, Mark and Me)

Sister and brother...August 15, 2009

Faith, Paige and Elijah at Ethan's birthday party. We have a family circus cartoon stuck to the front of our fridge that says it all..."Cousins are like brothers and sisters that live someplace else." We can't wait to see them again!!!!

The boy turned 4!!! Ethan turned 4 today and he had a blast. Lots of family came to see him, he had the best time.

Paige's best friend moved to Texas...we were all very sad to see the Huard family move away. We pray for them every night!!!

Ballerina Butterfly

This is my ballerina getting ready for class on Monday. She just looked like such a grown up with her legs streched out waiting for class to start that I had to take a picture.

After a few weeks of watching larva eat, and caterpillars make crisalys' and butterflies hatch in our kitchen it was time to let them go. We took our butterflies to Paige's class last Wednesday and released them in her play yard. They took a while to fly off, but the second one out of the net landed right in front of Paige and was the last to fly away after about 20 minutes. I finally had to take a picture of this beautiful girl and her butterfly. She has such a sweet heart. She wanted to share this whole thing with her class.

Happy St. Patricks Day!!!!

We went a little overboard at Kids' Small Group today. It sure was fun!!!!!

Jog-a-Thon

Paige participated in her first jog-a-thon at school. She had 30 minutes to run as many little laps as she could. She found out that after the first lap her friend was only allowed to walk due to her asthma so Paige finished the run walking with her. They completed 14 laps!!! Congratulations Paige!

Disneyland with the Huards!!!

This is Paige's BFF, Carlee. (They insist that because neither one of them have a sister they are each others.) We went to Disneyland with them last week and had a blast. Ethan and I even rode Space Mountain. He is such a little daredevil. He will go on anything!!!

Sunset for Justis

So a couple days ago this is the sunset that was out our backyard. It's not a very good picture but that doesn't matter. Paige likes to draw the sunset and talk about how much God loves her because He makes sunsets like this for her every night. Anyway, this night she didn't want to draw it, she wantd to take a picture and have me send it to Brye and Salem. She wantd to know if Justis got to see the same sunset from heaven. Have you ever heard of a more perfect question in all your life?!?!? I told her of course. Just wanted to let you know that your son is talked about a lot in my house and Paige is really concerned about him not missing anything, like a great sunset.We love you!Mar

Big Boy Bed

Well, it had to happen sometime. Ethan has officially become a big kid. He moved into a big boy bed toady and has taken to it with such excitement!!! He napped in it without a fuss and is sleeping right now. What a great guy!!!!

Grandma Moved!!!!

We are excited to announce that my mom...GRRRandma, has moved closer to us!!!! We helped move her in over the holiday weekend and then...Paige had her very first slumber party!!!! She stayed Sunday night with Grandma on the floor, her bed was delivered the next day. They had a great time and Paige can't wait untill she gets to do it again!!!!

Paige's 6th Birthday

Sorry it's taken me a while to get this up!!!!

Paige has turned 6!!!! We had a party in the partial rain, tons of people in the house, lots of mud, lots of fun!!!!

Brye, Salem and the kids made it for the festivities!!!!!!!

And what kind of party would it be unless you had to change your clothes...3 times!!!!!

I promise...thanks-you's will be in the mail soon!!!!!!!

Date Night!!!

Billy and I had date night last night so Paige and Ethan decided to model the clothes they thought I should wear. I got out of the shower and they had gone through my closet and dressed up in my clothes!!!! Sometimes they are so cute!!!!

They also had a sitter last night...and made cupcakes!!!! Maybe they can staff my bakery, I ate one for breakfast and they were really good!!!!

Part Reminder

Hi all...I wanted everyone to remember that we are having Paiges birthday party on Saturday February 7th from 1:30-4pm. Please come over for snacks and cake!!! She has decided the have a "heart" party so if you have any heart/valentine shirts please wear them...she would love it!!!!

Hair Cut!!!

Ethan got his Hair cut today!!!! When we picked Paige up from school most of the other moms didn't even recognize him!!! They thought he was a new kid in class...he's as tall as most of the kids in her class...yup...she's almost 6 and he's only 3. He's sooooooo cute!!!!!!!!

Disneyland Day!!!

It was a Disneyland day! Paige had the day off of school so we headed to Disneyland to get good use out of our passes. We met the Jaegers there, stayed for 41/2 hours and got on 11 rides!!! The kids had a great time. Ethan got to ride Thunder Mountain for the first time...he screamed and laughed and begged me to take him on again.

Fire Station

Today we went and visited my cousin Mikey. He's a fire department captain. What a great time we had! He took us for a ride in a fire truck and let the kids do pullups on the high bar...well they tried and he lifted them up!!! The kids had a blast and haven't stopped talking about it all night.

First Time Blogging

This is my first post to our new blog. I will add pictures as I figure out how!!!!

As of today Billy is working hard to provide for our family. He started his own Farmers Insurance business and is really loving it and doing very well.

Paige is about half way through her first year of school...kindergarten is amazing. She is starting to read and can sound out almost any word you put in front of her. She is planning her 6th birthday and looks adorable missing her 2 front teeth!

Ethan is busy being Ethan. He says some profound things and asks a lot of questions. He is curious, fast, talkative and ever a source of joy. God has blessed us with two amazing kids and we are so thankful for them every day!

I am still working at our church and I started a cake decorating business (http://www.dreamuponacake.com/). I am loving being a mom and a wife.

My idea behind doing this blog is so that other people can check in on us and keep up. In the fast pace of the world today I've decided to use the advanced technology we have to my advantage. Please check back whenever you want...we are always here!!!

God Bless today!