It snowed on christmas day!

The first time chio got to use her sleds

Ryan wasn't that impressed.

Christmas morning

Coming out first thing

 Ryan's soccer ball

Chio

The remote control car

seeing the trampoline the first time

Santa, look how good we are

My helper

When I clean the bathroom this is where Ryan stays. He pulls out the dirty clothes hamper and crawls in the laundry cupboard. This time he brought a book.

What color are my eyes?

Daddy's Questions

I'm compiling a list of questions I want to record my kids answering, we were going to ask the first set this winter break and then again each year around their birthdays.  I got the idea from watching a documentary with Alex called the "up series" where every seven years you see what has happened to a group children through their lives starting when they are seven.  While searching I found this questionnaire parents asked their kids about themselves and I thought it would be a funny thing too.  AND it will get them in the answering mood, hope fully.

1. What is something Daddy always says to you?
Alex: go to bed
Chio: Stinker

2. What makes Daddy happy?
Alex: playing baseball with me
Chio: his baseball computer game

3. What makes Daddy sad?
Alex: me kicking his leg
Chio: when I don't give him hugs

4. How does Daddy make you laugh?Alex: tickling me
Chio: tickling me

5. What was Daddy like as a child?
Alex: mean to his brother
Chio: no.

6. How old is Daddy ?
Alex: 32
Chio: 28

7. How tall is Daddy ?
Alex: 5900 inches
Chio: 28 inches

8. What is Daddy's favorite thing to do?

Alex: toot on my head
Chio: toot

9. What does Daddy do when you're not around?
Alex: hits and tickles chio
Chio: toot

10. If Daddy becomes famous, what will it be for?
Alex: tooting
Chio: playing the guitar

11. What is Daddy really good at?
Alex: tooting
Chio: tooting

12. What is Daddy not very good at?
Alex:
Chio: burping, he can't even burp as good as alex

13. What does Daddy do for his job?
Alex: save people
Chio: Play a game

14. What is Daddy's favorite food?
Alex: french fries, tater totos, bacon, beef jerkey, panckaes and pizza
Chio: pizza

15. What makes you proud of Daddy ?
Alex: when he toots on chio after shes been mean to me
Chio: when he plays with me

16. If Daddy were a cartoon character, who would he be?
Alex: tom the baby cat
Chio: warrio

17. What do you and Daddy do together?
Alex: play beseball
Chio: watch shows

18. How are you and Daddy the same?
Alex: we have brown hair and eyes
Chio: I don't know

19. How are you and Daddy different?
Alex:I'm smaller and he's bigger and he toots more
Chio: dad is WAY stinker then me

20. How do you know Daddy loves you?
Alex: he calls me stinker
Chio: he hugs me before he goes to work

21. Where is Daddy's favorite place to go?Alex: rangers game
Chio: movies

Mommy's Questions

1. What is something Mommy always says to you?
Alex: go to bed
Chio: I love you

2. What makes Mommy happy?
Alex: brush her teeth
Chio: when I clean up my room

3. What makes Mommy sad?
Alex: when I don't listen
Chio: I can't think of anything

4. How does Mommy make you laugh?
Alex: tickling me
Chio: ticking me

5. What was Mommy like as a child?
Alex: happy
Chio: I don't know, what?

6. How old is Mommy?
Alex: 32
Chio: I heard it a lot of times, but I forgot

7. How tall is Mommy?
Alex: 50 inches
Chio: shorter then dad

8. What is Mommy's favorite thing to do?
Alex: tickle me
Chio: take a nap

9. What does Mommy do when you're not around?
Alex: hit chio (??!)
Chio: I don't know

10. If Mommy becomes famous, what will it be for?
Alex: for you giving us money
Chio: singing

11. What is Mommy really good at?
Alex: making food
Chio: singing

12. What is Mommy not very good at?
Alex: playing sports (this is not good, I don't know why I coach all his teams then)
Chio: running

13. What does Mommy do for her job?
Alex: nothing
Chio: Music for church

14. What is Mommy's favorite food?
Alex: turkey
Chio: pie

15. What makes you proud of Mommy?
Alex: cleaning my room and letting my play wii
Chio: when she cleans my room for nighttime

16. If Mommy were a cartoon character, who would she be?
Alex: tom (the cat from tom and jerry)
Chio: power rangers

17. What do you and Mommy do together?
Alex: play just dance 3
Chio: reading

18. How are you and Mommy the same?
Alex: we have brown hair
Chio: we're scared of the dark, we're scared of the dentist

19. How are you and Mommy different?
Alex: we have different colored eyes
Chio: I don't get to stay up at night

20. How do you know Mommy loves you?
Alex: she takes care of me
Chio: because she told me that

21. Where is Mommy's favorite place to go?
Alex: cici's
Chio: restaurant

Watering the plants

King Ryan

Kid pictures

The kids were all in a good mood so I thought I'd take some pictures of them...these are the best of the bunch.  Not a good picture taking day.

Big sister

 She is the BEST big sister ever!

New hair she wanted a picture of (usually the pony-holders will all match but she had one side "dark" and one "light")

raking leaves in the backyard

Sherman Parade

 After this there are no smiles caught on film...

Everyone but alex said they liked it though.

Chio dancing and thanksgiving

 Chio decorated and set the table for thanksgiving, It was so beautiful, but the only picture I got was of the center piece:( We had a wonderful thanksgiving with grandma Diana. 

This is Chio dancing for us.

Ryan Videos

Hanging out waiting for grandma Diana to come

 Ryan during pizza movie night

 Ryan at the parade

 Eating an apple

 Hiding

 Playing the piano

Climbing on the table in the back yard

eating dirt

Chio said, "he really likes it though"

Ryan's Birthday

Attic fan

We have an attic fan in our hallway.  When it's cool outside we will blow up some balloons and the kids will throw them up so they get sucked to the vent and then we'll turn off the fan and they will all drop to the floor.

 "Mom. I think that they've gone crazy"

"Oh, I'm so worried about them"

This is where I'm going on a mission

Trios

Ryan loves to climb into containers and then pile toys around himself.  I thought this one was funny because he barley fits:)

Basket with baby food.

Ryan turns one