New Year's Resolutions

I, Kaleb, do hereby resolve...

to play nice with my sissy...

to help dad with the yard work...

and to teach dad and grandpa about fixing cars.

Or I could just put stickers on my face.

I hate yard work.

I, Lilly, do hereby resolve to sleep through the night from now on.

Ha Ha, keep dreaming mom!
Happy New Year.

Kaleb's 2nd Birthday

So we celebrated Kaleb's 2nd birthday on January 2nd, 2011.

Wow, I cannot believe it. My baby is 2 now.

And boy does he act like it.

Here is Lilly on the birthday boy's chair. She is in her party dress.

Kaleb got a new bed from Grandma and Grandpa V.
It is in his room, but he still sleeps in the crib.

Kaleb got a turtle from Uncle James.
The two girls are the daughters of my good friend, Susan.
Solange is 4 and Johanna is 2. They loved helping Kaleb
open his presents.
I made a Monster Truck cake for Kaleb. The wheels are brownies.

I am thinking he enjoyed it.

I started out this new year by trying to put both Kaleb and I through Potty Training Boot camp. By the end of the second day, i realized I had been all but ignoring Lilly the whole time. I was just trying to keep up with Kaleb and all his accidents. So I decided that perhaps he doesn't need to be potty trained in 3 weeks. I will take things a bit slower.

Fun at home and elsewhere....

Here is Lilly having fun at the Safari Park with Tio James and Abuela.

For Kaleb's birthday, my parents, Michael and Aunt Gwen

got together to get Kaleb this comfy chair.

He loves it.

Lilly has learned to sit up all by herself now. She can crawl too...sort of.
Her legs get a bit twisted up as she goes, but she is getting it.
That's Kaleb with a bucket on his head next to Lilly.
This is Kaleb's favorite thing to do at the Safari Park. Push strollers in the grass.

Christmas 2010

Kaleb was so excited to open his stocking on Christmas morning.

Lilly liked her stocking as well.

Merry Christmas!

Then the Vasqez family came over and we

opened presents with our cousins.

Kaleb got a tractor from Uncle Lee and Aunt Kaari.

Here is cousin David.
Kaleb got a Remote Control Monster Truck from Uncle James.

Lilly was pretty calm through all the mayhem.

Random Photos

Here is Lilly's first pony tail.

This is Lilly falling asleep while Grandpa Vasquez sang to her.

Kaleb loves to walk around in our shoes. Here he is in his daddy's chanklas. (Sandals)

Lilly's Dedication

We had Lilly dedicated on Dec 18th at our home. Pastor Jim Roy performed the dedication.

We were surrounded by our family and friends. It was very special.

Kaleb decided to try and fit into Lilly's bath chair. He is kind of too big for it.

Visiting Uncle Jonathan and Aunt Christine

This was the best attempt at getting all the cousins to sit before we opened presents. We have Judi, she is 5; Haven is 3; Kaleb is 23 months; Levi is 21 months; and Lilly is 5 months. Oh, and baby Hannah, not pictured, has about 2 months to go until she makes her appearance.

Judi is my sister's daughter. Haven, Levi and Baby Hannah are my brother's kids.

I just wanted to be clear that I am not the one having Baby Hannah. I think Allan and I are good with two kids....for now.

The boys love to play outside, just not together. Here is Grandpa pulling the both of them.
My son likes to lay in the grass and sing to himself.

Here are the two princesses of the house.

The girls are decorating sugar cookies.

I had to keep reminding them to not lick the knife.

But it looks like Lilly licked the knife.
Levi and his daddy like to wrestle alot. Levi has the high ground here.
Kaleb LOVES stickers.

He put these on his head and is watching a Christmas special.

I think he is doing his impression of an ornament.

Wow, a moment of peace between the boys.

Most of the time we had to keep them apart.

Grandpa pulling the kids again. I think he is getting tired.

He is pulling 57 pounds after all.

I brought the bouncy house so the kids could have fun and tire themselves out.

It worked great. And we had no head injuries the whole week.

Ah yes, here is Grandpa trying to keep Kaleb from steamrolling Lillian.

Lilly is discovering the tree.

She loved to be on the floor in the midst of all the kids,

but she had to keep her eyes out in case any of them might run her over.

Ahhh, Uncle Jonathan and Lilly are taking a nap.