Christmas 2011

I took mostly video this year... but here are a few pics!

Underwear!!!?????!?!?

Bed Head!

Busted!

Christmas Morning at Auntie Heather's House!

Christmas Eve 2011

Traditions...traditions... The Christmas Eve tradition is party at the Valliere's house, bring home sleeping kids, put cookies out, and wake up!  Well, we forgot to make cookies, so Erianna took some from the party!  We also sprinkled our lawn and the lawn next door with reindeer food...and it was off to bed!

Ice Skating in Florida

What do Floridians do on a typical Thursday night?!?  Eat Chinese food, and go ice skating downtown!  It was a lot of fun!  Ice Skating on Los Olas

I can be creative if I want to! Handmade frog costume!He lo

It was Character Literacy Day at school.  The kids had to dress like their favorite book character, and come to school with the book in hand ready to share.. Austin wanted to be a frog from his animal encyclopedia...so I had to get creative... so to the internet I went...and made my little man a costume... :)  I sprayed his hair, and unfortunately mid January it is still green!

He loved his costume!  :)

Fancy Nancy and the kids!

Christmas Play

The school had a Holiday Play..and Erianna's class sang two songs for it.  It was so cute.. She really enjoyed it!  

Snow in Florida

It snows every weekend during the holiday months in West Palm Beach..unfortunately the snow tastes like soap and isn't cold.. My kids had a fun time, but they definitely enjoyed playing with the water fountain even more!

It's an Advent Calendar!!!

Austin decided to eat his whole advent calendar on December 9th.... I could have killed him!!!  He ate 15 pieces of chocolate in less than 5 minutes!  I still can eat more than him though!!!

On the 9th Day of December....Austin brought to me....

Austin and Erianna Win Awards at School

Erianna and Austin have award ceremonies at school to recognize their grades.  Austin got an award for Reading, and Erianna got one for Reading, Math and Respect.  Erianna's class performed, and Austin's class will perform at the next one!  Congrats kiddos!

Training Wheels are for girls....

Erianna was on week four of no training wheels, and I finally convinced her to buy herself a new bike...as her old one was too small.  Austin had wanted to take his training wheels off, but after five minutes, asked Eric to put them back on... Then one day Austin was in the garage trying to take them back off...and we refused to take them off again... and then... Austin snagged her old bike and was off.   He did so well without training wheels.. There is no way I was as young as them without training wheels!   Crazy kids!

Rocking the new bike!

If you won't take mine off again.. I am going to take her old bike!

Sleepover at the museum

Three awesome Moms, two little girls, three little boys, and lots of sugar... That sums it up.   We slept at the museum...and it was great...except for the constant announcements between 11pm and 6 am!!!!  ATTENTION OVERNIGHT GUESTS.......ATTENTION OVERNIGHT GUESTS......   

SHUT UP!

Waiting to watch Happy Feet Two in 3d...way past their bed time!

Best buddies!

Double trouble

making roller coasters

Arts and Crafts

Making Lava lamps...

Erianna and Austin at School

The fire department came to school for a field trip for Erianna's class. She had an awesome time exploring the truck and learning about fire safety.  The skies were beautiful so I took a couple other pictures around school, and put them on the school website.  The middle picture is Austin with his friends.  One of his friends is Tyler!  The first photo shoot I ever did on November 8, 2008, exactly three years ago to this day!  Ironic isn't it?!  Tyler had a fire station birthday party three years ago!  Wow!  Time flies!!!

My First blog post and photo shoot-Tyler's Birthday November 8, 2008

Eric's work picnic

Eric's union had a picnic at Markham park.  It was huge!  The kids had an awesome time.  They bounced, climbed rock walls, danced, ate snow cones and cotton candy... what else does a kid need?!  Erianna also played a fun game called find the butt crack.  The bottom picture was the best one... Come on lady... you can't feel the breeze on your booty?