Thursday, January 08, 2009

Christmas Lights & Karla's Candy

Brooklyn showing me her drink is all gone.
Todd making a ridiculous face.
This is just one example of the snow that came to Idaho...wow!
The whole crew at the museum with a noise ordinance.
Dylan enjoying his booster seat during the spinning of doughnuts.
Watch out!  It's a man-eating Brookalope.
Dylanalopes are taking over the town!
We were in a museum filled with Christmas displays and Brooklyn managed to find the one Mickey mouse in the whole building.
She looks all grown up (minus riding the fake wooden horse)
This will only have meaning to Karla and the snow that almost ate her alive.
This is one of the only times Todd held Brooklyn without her throwing up all over him.  We somehow tend to get sick when we travel but this bug hit Idaho, Kentucky, California, and new York.  It must have been just a really nasty flu that shots couldn't hold off.  
A couple of sweet Logan pictures.  He is the happiest baby in the world.

Dad showing Dylan that his toy car can rive up walls!
Brooklyn as a princess.  She officially told me her favorite color is pink.
Uncle Brett gave Dylan a sweet gift.  It was a triceratops that transforms!
Todd, if he were an Austrian girl at age five.
Aunt Eileen making a delicious Christmas breakfast.
Brooklyn showing her flippers.  This is right after Todd finished helping getting our car unstuck in uncle David's driveway.  He thought he could barrel through a snow bank taller than our car.
This is what Logan looks like when it's so cold outside.
Christmas bugs!
I feel so futuristic with all the robot toys!
It's tough to be a six month old.
Licking the fudge batter...YUM!
Brooklyn thought it would be hilarious to put Dora stickers on Grandma Smith's glasses.
Blue ray baby!
Going for a stroll at Grandma's house.
This is a really cool robot that shoots disks out of his mouth.  At first we all thought he just sort of spit them out and the disk would just fall at his feet.  Then, light bulb, we read the directions and he shot the disks twenty feet at high speed.
American girl twins came by way of Grandma I mean Santa Stork.

It's fun to see Todd with his family because I think I get a little peek into what he must have been like as a kid.  He teases his sister, he likes to watch sports with his brother, he spins doughnuts in cars, he steals the candy his mom makes for his sister, he stays up late every night, and he likes to play with toy cars (well, that one he does at home too.)  What a great trip and what fun seeing so much snow.  Karla made us delicious candy treats and spoiled us with some very entertaining and very bright Christmas presents.  That's not a flashlight...THIS is a flashlight!  Thank you for making Christmas so special and fun.  We definitely didn't have to dream of it being white.

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