HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 2009

Logan my little pool shark


Logan not listening to Auntie Amanda as she tries to tell him how to play pool.

They are having way too much fun with that HARD apple cider

My dads good friend Ben. I like the fake hair attached to the hat.

Alyssa has become my little buddy

Leah having a conversation with Aaron Bassett

Wendy where is your drink?

Mommy and Logan and look my mommy is in the background

Still playing. Logan is quite the little party man he made it until midnight and then crashed @ 12:20

Uncle Kevin and Emily

Me and my man. I love you sweetheart!

The old Gang! Nichol, me, Sherra, Leah and Amanda

Say Frosty Lemon Meringue Martini's girls!

Amanda dancing with Logan using the dance cam Aunt Leah and Uncle Aaron got him. Let me tell you it is hours of fun :)

Logan the one man bee bop band

We enjoyed another New Years at my parents house in the bar room. The evening went fast. Smaller crowd than usual due to the weather. More snow URG!!! I made a new drink this year. I got the recipe from food network. It was Frosty Lemon Meringue martini. It was really yummy.

It was pretty sweet though so one was the limit. We really had a good time as did the kids. We can't wait till next year.

Friends for a long time!!

Wendy(me) Amanda,Nichol,Leah
we have all been friends since middle school. Amanda came up from Santa Rosa with her husband Mike.


Alyssa -Nichols little girl

Miss Emily my favorite niece

Alex my favorite nephew

Brothers

Auntie Amanda and Logan

We had our annual friend Christmas get together on December 26th, We all managed to get there in spite of the snow. We have a gift exchange where each person brings a present and everyone leaves with a present. We had a great time. It was really nice to get together.

Christmas Day!!!

Logan playing with all of his Thomas the train loot. He got Toby's windmill from my parents, The mine tunnel from us and the Sodor suspension bridge from Uncle Jase. Spoiled? He did play with it all day.


My dad

Kevin putting Logan's track together.

My brother in-laws Aaron (Leah's husband) Jason (Kevin's brother)

Logan playing trains

Alex playing his video game.

Leah and Emily

Kevin helping Logan open presents

The craziness

Christmas was really great. It was really low key this year because of the snow. My moms sister and her family couldn't make it because of the weather. Kevin and I spent the night in fear that we wouldn't make it back. My sister and Aaron picked up Jase and we all just hung out all day playing with the kids toys. Kevin and I spent another night there because we didn't want to shovel snow in the dark.

Christmas Eve 2008

It has been a tradition in our family for my dad to read Twas the night before Christmas. He read it to Leah and I until we got married and then started up again on Alex's first Christmas. Here he is reading to the grand kids.


Alex 6 3/4 Emily 5 Logan 2

Eating gingerbread cookies. I think Logan had about a dozen this day.

Judy and Kevin. Kevin was such a trooper. He was sick on Christmas Eve,but he still managed to go pick up his mom and grandma in the blizzard.

Logan asked Santa for two things: Duck-the train, and the Sodor suspension bridge. Well Uncle Jase bought him the bridge so Santa only had to bring Duck. Thanks uncle Jase

Uncle Jase, He hosted Christmas eve because we couldn't get everyone out to our house.

Logan playing with the Sodor suspension bridge.

Kevin's mom Judy

Great Grandma Grace aka three G, talking to Logan

Logan decorating gingerbread cookies. He calls them ginger bran cookies.

Over a foot of snow on Christmas eve.

Logan has been asking to use the potty. This was Christmas eve morning. He is in no way potty trained yet but it's a start.

Snow !!! Snow!!! and more...Snow!!!!

A doe outside our window. This is why we live in the sticks. It is such a beautiful site.

Cheese

Logan would only walk in the snow if he was holding our hands.

Logan on our homade sled. We drilled two holes in a Rubbermaid container lid and tied a rope to it. He loved it.

I really enjoyed the snow in the begining,but I am a little sick of it now. We have dug out our driveway and street more times than I can count. Our pipes froze. We woke up to no water one morning. Kevin and I looked up solutions to this problem on the internet. We got our answer. So at 4 am Kevin was under the house in 8 degree weather armed with my hairdryer and a walkie talkie. He found the un covered section of pipe and used the hairdryer to thaw it out. I used the walkie talkie to tell him when the water was running. High fives for us we worked as a team!!

Logan doesn't last long in the snow. He takes his mittens off when they get snow on them and within minutes he is saying "Want to go in Logan's house" .

All bundeled up

Logan sitting on the rock while we shovel the driveway.

Kevin clearing the driveway for the 100th time. This time it was dry snow so he thought that he would try the leaf blower. Yeah it didn't work so well.

Halloween

Logan loved Halloween this year. This was the year of Star Wars. Logan was Chewbacca, Alex was Anikan,and Emily was Anikans pad wan Ahsoka. Leah and Aaron also dressed up. Leah was Queen Amidala and Aaron was Darth Vader. We had a great time. We went trick or treating down town. Logan started out nice and polite saying trick or treat and remembering to say thank you,by the end he was trying to grab hand fulls of candy and would run to the next store. He had more candy yesterday than he has had in his whole life. Before yesterday the only candy he new existed was M&Ms now he knows there is much more out there. We then went to Leah and Aarons to have dinner. After dinner we went trick or treating in Leahs neighborhood. Logan didn't last long nor did we think he would. Alex and Emily went on and we took Logan to Uncle Jasons house and then to both grandparents house. It was a long day for Logan. He fell asleep on the way home. He had a great time though.