Meet my kids...

So my friend Mary was telling me about something she happened to see when she was walking her daughter to school last week. She was walking behind Lily and Connor as they were heading to their classrooms and this is what she overheard:

Lily: I am absolutely freezing this morning!

Connor: (big sigh) No you're not. If were freezing, first you'd get frostbite. Then you'd get hypothermia. Then the hypothermia would make you really tired and you'd fall asleep. Then you'd freeze to death.

Lily: (big eye roll) Fine. Then I'm really really cold. Okay Connor?


The reason I share this random story. Because it almost perfectly describes my children's personalities. I just laughed and laughed when she told me. It is so them!

Catching up with Lily

I realize I haven't posted since the end of December. I swear I'm going to keep this blog up to date this year if it kills me!! We've been super busy with school, work, church, and now (cue sinister music here) it's baseball season! So life as we know it is over. I'm guessing I'll have lots of baseball posts forthcoming, so I thought I'd give you little rundown of Lily's activities over the past two months. Enjoy.

President's Day. Isn't she just the most darling little Patriot you've ever seen?

The 100th day of school. This is Lily and her poster of 100 things (stickers in her case).

Valentine's Day...some times I just can't believe that something that cute came from me!

Lily eating her noodles for Chinese New Year...and by eating I mean holding the bowl and playing with her chopsticks.

She actually put a noodle in her mouth...big mistake.

Lily and her friend Ben on Snow Day at kindergarten. Since we live in So. California we obviously don't get much snow. So once a year the kindergarten teachers hire a company to come and make a snow hill on their playground and they sled and play and have so much fun. This was definetely the highlight of Lily's year thus far.

Gorgeous gingerbread house. I was helping in the classroom that day and it got so frustrating because the kids just wanted to eat all of the toppings rather than decorate their houses. If I had give a ballpark figure, I'd say at least half of the decorations ended up in stomaches rather than on houses. But hey, it's kindergarten!

Lily-last Disneyland trip of the year

Our passes expire in March...frown. We've had so much fun this year, we've gone to Disneyland at least once a month since last March. It's been a good run and we wanted to get one last visit in. Unfortunately, it didn't look like Darrin would be able to join us and I hate going to Disneyland on Saturday. Since Lily won't go on rollercoasters (not even the kid Go-Go Gadget coaster...she's a whimp), and Connor only likes to go on rollercoasters, we opted to do separate "last visits". Here's a couple snapshots of Lily's last trip to Disneyland.

The Pied Piper of Dogtown

People, I am NOT joking when I tell you Lily is obsessed with dogs....

Lily's Polar Express Day

Kindergarten Polar Express Day...super cute. They all wore their pajamas to school, they sang "Must Be Santa" in front of the entire school, then they marched throughout the campus wearing their own homemade train cars. Adorable.

Look how much Jane loved it (said with much sarcasm...)!

Lily and her great friend Emilly before the parade.

Lily in her "Winter Wonderland" train car. They could decorate their trains however they wanted, this was our creation.

Singin' away!

Slacker II-post Halloween through present

Two trips to Disneyland...one at Halloween-time, the other at Christmas-time. Right now, there's basically nothing more adorable than Disneyland with baby Jane. She's awesome. Hopefully Devyn has put up or will put up soon all of the Jane D-land pics. Here's some super cute ones of everyone...

After the Christmas fireworks, it snows! It was so fun and cute. I grabbed this adorable picture of Devyn and the kids. Don't they look so festive?

Lily on Santa's sleigh. He had already gone home by that time, but she still wanted to sit on his sleigh and look adorable.

Oh, this is actually Lily with Santa at our ward Christmas party. Check out her tights...in true Lily fashion she does not refer to them as her polka-dot tights, she of course calls them her "dalmation tights". Did everybody hear what she asked for for Christmas? This is great..."Paul Blart: Mall Cop". I kid you not.

Cute kids...look how windy and cold it was on this dreary October 25th!

Jane being mesmerized by Mickey. This is seconds before she reached up and honked his nose! It was AWESOME!

Slacker---Halloween

I know I slack, but I thought I'd get some of the gazillion pictures I have sitting in my camera onto the blog before Christmas....all the way back to Halloween.

Our adorable Baby Jane on pumpkin-carving night. Could she be any cuter?

Lily, Sydney and Vivie (the "spooky" bat) goin' trick-or treating. This is an annual tradition for Lily now, she loves going out with Syd on Halloween.

Bat-Girl! She's still the awesomest 5-year old around. Even more awesome than her being Bat-Girl for Halloween is her delight in sporting this costume all the time...at the store, picking Connor up at school, going to YW with me. She loves it and I think it rules that she has no shame in the Bat.

Zombie. I told Connor last year that it was his last year with a store-bought costume. He could still dress-up and trick-or-treat but it had to be something we could make easily at home. He went with zombie. I was surprisingly surprised with my make-up job, seeing as how I don't even know how to put make-up on myself. Maybe if I could dress-up like a zombie for church?

Our pumpkins. Can you guess which one is Devyn and Michael's? In their efforts to feed into Jane's Mickey obsession, Devyn downloaded a Mickey Mouse pumpkin pattern. The funniest thing about that...they were leaving town before Halloween and didn't even take their pumpkin home with them, they left it at our house. All that effort for a 20-minute look at a Mickey pumpkin. Their loves knows no bounds.