About to go play in the snow!

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Whoa-O! Living on A Prayer

Turn down your speakers, this one's pretty loud! LOL

Bob & Josh; Chris, Steve & Tamins

(SEE UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF THIS POST)

We've been spending a whole lot of time lately with some of Jake's new friends. Bob & Josh appeared one day after Christmas. They are three-year-old brothers, whom Jake met at a restaurant. They sometimes bring their friend Peanuts to play at our house. Those kids could play Guitar Hero all day long it seems! This morning, I met three more of Jake's new friends, Chris, Steve and Tamins. I was kept busy this morning keeping up with all of the breakfast requests for Chris, Steve & Tamins. All three of them wanted some strawberries, then Tamins wanted cereal (she ate two bowls!) and they all nibbled on Jake's waffles. Jake ended up eating most of my cereal too. What a wild time we had!

I'm including a picture of the whole bunch of us at breakfast this morning. Boy, that Tamins (in the chair closest to the bottom of the picture) is a character, isn't she? LOL.


Wait, you can't see them? Did I forget to mention they are Jake's new imaginary friends? Details, details....


UPDATED: In honor of Kristin's noticing that this is the first time I've shown pictures of our kitchen on the blog (I've taken plenty of pictures IN the kitchen before, just not shown much OF the kitchen), I thought I'd show you all this image. Our kitchen before we moved in (it looked just like this from, say, 1970 until 2007), and our kitchen today. Enjoy! I should post a LOT more to update the other poor neglected blog, you know, once I clean up a bit around here....

My Little Guitar Hero

Yes, I owe you all a Christmas post. The one gift Jake was most excited about was one that wasn't even his! He squealed with delight when Ralph opened the new Guitar Hero. It was a higher octave than I have ever heard Jake produce. Luckily, Mema Mary captured it on video for posterity.

Here is a picture of our little Guitar Hero tonight while daddy was playing the drums. Cell phone pic, so the quality is bad, but hey, it's a new picture isn't it?

Happy New Year

Mommy finally got a camera-phone! :)

Happy New Year to All! From Kelly & Ralph, and our little pasta-eating/necklace-wearing/binkie-hoarding boy!

Gingerbread Jake

My toddler's range of emotions within about two minutes tonight ;)

(Okay, I might have asked him to make a few of his famous faces...)

Post-Thanksgiving Cousins GTG

We got together with my first cousins and their kids the day after Thanksgiving at my cousin Jennifer's house. It was great fun seeing Jake play with his second cousins, as they are all so close in age. It is particularly cool seeing how he and Ethan and Kyler relate to each other, seeing as they all were born within two months of each other.

Enjoy the pics, and no more complaint emails (not naming any names, but making an accusatory glance in Peepa's direction) about not posting enough. A girl is busy filling Christmas photo and greeting card orders y'all!


Top row: Olivia, Brett, Jake. Middle row: Brian, baby Mia (trying to snooze through all the noise!), baby Brady. Bottom row: Madison, Kyler, Ethan.


One more of baby Brady (being held by Jennifer), because it's just too cute not to post! :)