Murder Mystery dinner

So much fun! I played a 1930's film starlet and Matt played a lawyer. He even shaved his goatee down to this pencil mustache for the occasion (of course he shaved it all off the next morning!!) Oh yeah, neither one of us was the murderer.

The tree

Home from the nursery with our beautiful Christmas tree tied to the top of our truck!

Just like the movies!

Whoa that is one big tree!
Take my picture too mommy! See my toy?
Caught trying to pull the decorations back off!

Cabin fever!

Sitting up all by himself!
Yes I am really standing in knee-deep snow! Those pickets you see behind me are the tops of our 4-ft tall fence!
He looks like a mini-Matt in this picture!
Silly daddy falling down a pile made in our front yard by a snow plow.
Yes under that mountain of snow is Matt's poor little Toyota.

We have been stuck in this house since Saturday evening! There is so much snow and ice we cannot safely leave the house. Schools are closed, Church was cancelled, even Max's 6 month check up today was cancelled because the Dr's office is without power! With the wind chill it is about 5 below zero out there right now. There is a mound of snow on the street corner that is about 8 to 10 feet tall (piled there by the snow plows trying to clear the road). It is not even good snowman snow- too dry and crumbly. So we have barely changed out of pajamas in 3 days. Needless to say we are getting a little stir-crazy! If you can believe it- we are expecting another snow storm tomorrow!

Thanksgiving

Teresa and Daniel with baby Max
Building spaceships to fly withUncle Daniel
The boys clean up after dinner
Getting a "baby fix"?

We had to adjust our thanksgiving routine this year. We are accustomed to going to Matt's parent's place every year but this year they went to visit the Iowa and Chicago Buonadonnas- so we stayed here and hosted Thanksgiving for us and Matt's younger brother Daniel and his girlfriend Teresa. We had a wonderful time! It was our first time meeting Teresa and she is a doll! (We would love for her to become a permanent fixture in the family! *wink*wink*;o)

Procrastinating again...

I have been procrastinating on posting again- but for a good reason this time. Matt and I went to a really fun Murder Mystery dinner party and we were all dressed up- we had pictures taken, but they are on someone else's camera. We have been waiting patiently for them to email them so we can post them. Then we had Max baptized on November 5th and once again all the pics are on someone else's camera. I will post them once we get them. In the meantime, I'll share the pics we do have.

The Monkey and the Villian

We found this rare species of monkey in the wild!
Hi there!
Oh no! It's Mini Darth Vader!
Oh wait, it's just Isaac!

Carvin' pumpkins

"Cool pumpkin Dad!"

we've taught him well!

Ew, pumpkin guts!

Baby Max pumpkin (complete with a curl on the top of his head!) and Isaac's pumpkin (used to be a crazy face that daddy carved from a pattern that Isaac chose until Isaac "over-handled" it, leaving it unrecognizable)
From the top: Matt's crazy fangs, my Halloween night sky (see the bats flying around it?), and Zoee's pumpkin!

Just some pictures of my boys

The little guy is gettin' so big!
Isaac really does adore his baby brother!
Isaac stops trekking in the tractor to play with his little brother for a few minutes.
Caught sittin' on daddy!
Max was fascinated with this balloon left over from Isaac's party

The Baby Shower

On October 20th I hosted a rather unusual baby shower for my friend Denise. She has a thing for theme parties so I couldn't bring myself to have a regular old baby shower for her! So we had a chocolate fountain and lots of sparkling cider... and a henna tattoo artist! That was a big hit! We were walking around with henna on our ankles, lower backs, necks, hands, shoulders and perhaps most importantly big pregnant bellies! (For those of you who don't know- henna is non-permanent and painless.)

Mama Denise and Allison (these are 2 of my closest friends here in Lynden)

I got this henna butterfly on my shoulder!
Tossin' back a whole bottle...of sparkling cider!

Bathtime for Max

"Hey! Why is daddy taking my picture?"
"Mommy you're so funny!"
All clean!

Isaac's 4th Birthday Party

Kids everywhere! All the daddies took the kids out in the yard to start the party off.

Awesome new car from Jackson

All partied out...

Cool! A new coat! Thanks Mamo and Grandpa Victor!

"Happy Birthday Dear Isaac, Happy Birthday to you!"
Chowing down on cupcakes! It was a really fun party!!