Christmas Day worlds away, but we all still had a great time.

Patrick having a good time flying on Christmas. He has to wear the glasses when he flies, he doesn't wear glasses otherwise.

Aurelia the ballerina. Not sure about smiling but loving her outfit.

Isabel the ballerina showing off her new outfit. Many thanks to Melissa for making the beautiful tutu's!

Link shaking his Car's cup and checking out the carnage.

Christmas Preparations. We made all sorts of good stuff and the girls helped tons.


Lincoln was absolutely amazed by Grammy's cooking skills.

Isa and Rae with the ginger bread house that they made.

Isa and Rae making the ginger bread house!

Twas the night before Christmas...


and we had on our Christmas jammies.

Lincoln and Grandad relaxed and watched Polar Express.

Buddy, Aurelia and Isabel enjoying our Christmas eve movie as well.

Isabel had a Christmas concert at the beginning of December. It was wonderful. Isabel had a solo and she sang like an angel.


Isabel after the big show. Grammy curled her hair and made her beautiful for the concert.

If you look closely Isabel is in this picture. She's in the sitting row in the middleish.

Finally, new pictures on our blog. These are old now, but new to you!

Lincoln testing out the lights making sure that they all work.

Max supervising the whole operation.


Lincoln pretending to be a toy soldier in the nutcracker.

Me hanging one of our family ornaments.

Isabel and Aurelia oh so excited to decorate the tree.

Finding just the right place to put everything.

"I accidentally cross dressed today"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINCOLN!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lincoln celebrated his first birthday on the 3rd, he had a great time, yummy cake and wonderful presents.

Lincoln on his rocket ship.

All of the party guests enjoying Lincolns gifts.

Linco ever so excited that he finally has his own cell phone.

A caterpillar birthday cake.

Link seems to love caterpillar guts, yummy!

Happy Halloween!!!!!!

Me all bundled up and ready to get that candy.

Lincoln the Lion trying to eat the farmers pig.

Isabel the farmer proudly displaying her prize winning frog. If you look carefully you can see a lion sneaking up on it's prey.

Trick or Treat buddies, Isabel and Taylor. Taylor is a cheer leading skeleton.

Aurelia didn't get to go Trick or Treating, she was sick. So she dressed up the next day and was the most beautiful butterfly ever. Also so got tons of candy because Lincoln and Isabel Trick or Treated for her.

Here are some fun pictures of the fam.

Beautiful Aurelia.

Isabel trying on part of her halloween costume.

Super Lincoln, off to save the damsel in distress.

Linco loving his first cookie.

The kids on a boat.

The quickest way to make a baby happy is to make him naked.

Rae and Link watching tv with Grammy.

Lincoln helping Grammy do dishes.

Happy Birthday Aurelia! Now she's 5 and fabulous!


Aurelia opening all of her presents, she loved each and every one.

Happy Aurelia, loving all of the gifts and attention.

Patrick finally has Internet in his room and sent me some pictures.

A bunch of C troop in a bus thingy, don't they look so happy.

Evan and Patrick trying oh so hard to be cool.
Patrick with Lt. Ford, I forget his first name.

Patrick landing his Kiowa, and dusting out everyone else.

Patrick, Cris (his roommate), Eric Martin and I think I don't know the other guy....oops!

The indestructible Lincoln Young


He's 11 months now and all sorts of trouble. He's always in stuff and on stuff and doing other normal boy stuff.

Lincoln standing in my window waiting for everyone to come home. I put him up there.

Lincoln trying to escape from the house. He disappeared one day and we found him out on the front porch, now we latch the screen door.

Lincoln with his new rocking chair. We showed him the right way to use it and he showed us the fun way to use it.

The top bunk is so mysterious. Lincoln really wants to get up there but he's never made it past the first rung of the ladder.

Pictures from a beautiful day in the burg.

Isabel kicking a ball to Link.

Aurelia looking for grasshoppers.
Lincoln trying to play with rocks, they didn't play back.

Aurelia wrestling shamu.