Monday, March 21, 2011

Well...2010 came and went...

Well, it has been a LONG time since I updated this blog, and, well, since I am laying here trying not to to have barf-o-ramma, I thought I would throw up a few pictures. BTW-day time television sucks!

Well, we have not moved, the kids are both at the same school and well, Ian and I are both at the same jobs...really, are we the most boring people you know?

Avery turned 3 in May 2010 (and is seriously almost 4). The jumpie is the best investment ever! Ian has done the math numerous times...to buy a jumpie or not to buy a jumpie, that is the question? Well, really the quesion is where to store the darn thing. As it is we are exploding out of our house.
Family pictures are a must! We got them done in June 2010...Owen was so not into it and well, Avery was into it enough for the two of them.
We love camping with our friends the Raczka's during the summer. San Elijo and South Carlsbad are the two main destinations. In 2010 we went camping for the 4th of July...doesn't Owen look like he is having a great time!?During the summer, the pre-school has all sorts of different activities. One of the days is Crazy Hair Day...Owen had more pony tails in his hair than most of the girls! This is what happened when I took them out.Owen's birthday was August and well...he has turned into such a little man. Does this remind you of anyone???

We went to visit Auntie Jen, Uncle Matt, Cousin Roman, and Cousin Sofia in Washington D.C. (Arlington, VA) October 2010. The kids were great travelers and LOVED seeing their cousins. Ian and Matt seemed to really enjoy their Bourbon tastings (or was it whiskey...don't remember, either way it was pretty much disgusting). Jen and I got some much needed girl time. Bubbie's house is great and it was so fun for all of us to hang together. The weather was cold by so welcome. It made those really warm Halloween costumes from Old Navy worth it (so cheap and easy...yes, I admit it, I took the easy route). Owen was the best dragon (flaming dragon) ever and Avery was an adorable mariposa.

We went to the pumpkin patch when we were there...holy crap, the west coast patches basically suck! There were like 5 slides, and when I say slides, I mean, like 15 foot long ones. They were super fast and the kids LOVED them!! There were chickens and roosters there too. One of them was a bit aggressive. Apparently it wanted to go on the teeter-totter. Owen wasn't done and started yelling at it. Note to self, yelling at a rooster does not necessarily make the rooster want to run away.

Here is a family picture on the old fire truck that they had at the pumpkin patch.
Owen, Avery and Cousin Sofia were all discussing why the butterfly that was up until then, sitting so peacefully on a flower, won't fly away (the butterfly's wings were totally shredded so it could NOT fly away if it wanted to), and let's face it, it wanted to. Owen kept getting super close to it and yelling, "Mari-po-saaaa". It is so cute. Obviously, Avery was getting into the nitty-gritty of the situation...Sofia was following, I think?!


Finally, we went to Ramona in the eastern (well kind of north kind of east) part of San Diego County to actually cut down a Christmas Tree this year. We met our friends, the Buscho's, and proceeded to get lost in the hundreds of trees. Can I just tell you that I was so NOT impressed by this whole experience. Note, I did not say that we would not do it again, just said I was not impressed. It took us no time to agree on a tree, however, we felt compelled to keep looking just in case. Eventually we went back to find the perfect tree and neither of us could remember where it was. We picked this other one instead. It took Ian about 2 seconds to cut the darn thing down with a hand saw...really? That was it?

Avery kept asking if a squirel was going to jump out of it. Yes folks, my kids LOVE Christmas Vacation...what can we say? I DVR-ed it for Ian and I and they ended up watching it and LOVING IT! Really though, do you blame them? Anyway, it made the holiday season fun.
Hanukkah, Christmas and New Years all had a new twist this year; the kids were totally participating and really getting into it. Avery actually got into a fight with a girl in her class about who's Hanukkah it was. We had a great time. Some friends came over and helped us eat. We decided that the sweet potato latkes were really the best!

Christmas was equally as much fun. We always host Christmas dinner. The kids got so much crap that I couldn't help but start purging...oh, do I love to get rid of stuff!!

New Years was fun, we had some good friends over and played the Wii...some dance game that made us all look like idiots. It was lots of fun. It was a great way to ring in the New Year.

Happy 2011...a little belated! :-) I will try to get a few more posts up before Avery's birthday.
By the way...something of note, Owen likes to tell you he needs a new diaper by handing you the one he was wearing. That was super cool last weekend. I was trying to get Avery some juice and Owen walked into the kitchen and handed my a poop diaper. Seriously???? That meant that he had to pull it down his legs. What does that mean boys and girls? That means that Owen had crap all down his legs. So that was a good time, Ian came walking in the front door to me yelling at Owen not to move, with the tub running and Avery trying not to spill juice all over the floor...BTW, he has no interest in potty training. WTF???

3 comments:

Melissa said...

Nice year-in-review in one post! Loved it. Welcome back! :)

Caroline said...

Love the comments! Great review of the year :)

The Quiel's said...

Agree! Welcome back to blogging! Chritmas Vacation is a favorite in our house too. At least Ian brough a saw to cut down the tree and I assume there was no road rage on the way there. ;)