Christmas and stuff...

Reindeer Run

Every year the boys' school has a race called the reindeer run. Both Aidan and Nolan ran in their grade race. Nolan is starting to get really into running, he always wants to be the fastest in his class. This year he came in 11th in his grade.

Getting ready to race

Nolan running.... run Nolan run!

Here is Nolan after the race
And here is Aidan after his race was over. Unfortunately I forgot the camera, so Jim had to bring it to me and I missed taking pics of Aidan running.

Aidan with his beads, after the race

I won't even say it....

Let's just say that I changed the background from Christmas to Easter and leave it at that. Everyone knows what month it is now.

I'll try to do a few quick updates and hopefully get up to speed.

Starting where I left off... Here are some pics of a recent trip we took to Fort Myers beach for FHE. What could be better than FHE at the beach?

Here is everyone at the restaurant where we had dinner.

Saganaki...Yum! I don't know if the kids actually liked the food or just that it was on fire but either way at least they ate it and it was fun.

Here is Aidan as a dog

Zoie as a pirate

and Nolan as a pirate

Nolan and Jim with a ugly pirate. Definitely no Johnny Depp.

Behind again...(sigh)

It has happened yet again. Shocker! I have fallen extremely behind in my blogging. My goal for the new year will be to post things a few days after they happen instead of a few months. So... with Christmas upon us I will now post the pictures from Halloween. I am going to skip the other stuff that happened before Halloween for now.
Here is our family at the church Halloween party. Can anyone guess who Jim and I were?

We had a TON of kids there, it was a little crazy!Here I am with my friends Jen , Emily and Jennifer

In case you couldn't guess who we dressed up as, we were David and Victoria Beckham. Jim was more obvious than I was.

Since Halloween falls on Bill's birthday, this year Wes and Jenny flew from California to spend Halloween here, so it was really fun. The kids always love to see them.

Here is Jenny and Zoie. We were trying to convince Zoie to put the rest of her costume on.

Zoie, all dressed up. The cutest ladybug ever!Aidan and Nolan as Mario and Luigi. Nice flip flops, right?

Keri and Berk also drove down from Orlando. Here they are with Jenny.
Ours friends the Angels and the Perkins came over to go trick or treating with us. Somehow most of my friends are able to convince their kids to dress up according to a theme. I tried that one year... it didn't work out so well, so I gave up after that.

Here we have a batman theme.And the Perkins went with a cowboy theme. Fun!
It happens every year, not surprisingly since she falls asleep everywhere.

Zoie passed out before we had finished.

Guess what?!? Zoie fell asleep again!

We went to the beach the weekend after school started, and it is sort of a tradition of ours to go to 7-11 after and get slurpees. So I was surprised when I turned around and saw Zoie asleep with the straw from her slurpee still in her mouth...ha ha. She is going to hate me when she gets older for having all these pictures.

The boys stayed awake though.

First day of School....YAY!

School's in again...whoo hoo! The boys were super excited (especially Aidan) for their first day of school. Aidan was really excited that this year he gets to go to Nolan's school. I was a little worried that there could be some drama on the first day, since Aidan was not crazy about his preschool but happily (or sadly, depending on how you look at it) he just walked into his class and started playing with the toys and exploring. He didn't even care when I left him... sniff... I guess I was the only one who would shed any tears that day. My little Aidan is a big kindergartener now.

Here are the boys getting ready to leave for school.

Here is Aidan in his class, happy and ready to go...

Nolan always does well on the first day. Here he is in his class.

More visitors!!

The week after my Mom left we had more visitors (well not in our house but at Bill and Elaine's). Jim's cousin Emily and her family, Spencer, Megan and Gracie all came back to Florida for a few days to visit. They used to live here but recently moved back to Utah, so we were all super glad to see them again. We met up with them at Will's pool.

Here are Spencer, Emily, and their girlsGracie, Zoie and Megan making a face.

Megan is really good at floating.

Here are the girls playing with Will. All the kiddos love Will, he is just so fun!