We just had an amazing photographer take some pictures of our little family and the ones I've seen are amazing (thank-you Allison)! If you want to check them out as they are posted they are on Allison's website. www.allismithphotography.blogspot.com

Children's Museum

Time seems to have flown by this past month so these pictures are a little old. Our good friends invited us to the museum on a saturday and Linden was so excited to go with his little buddy Thais. They really had a blast (and it was a free day)!

They were holding hands on the way in but I missed it by seconds. I need to be faster with the camera.
This is Thais and her dad having fun dressing up.

Mya was out patroling on her hog to make sure everyone was being good.

Tris was playing in the fire truck with a random kid.

Eventually Linden made his way over.

Mya was loving the freedom of being able to crawl around and play.

Of course Linden loved the train section and threw a fit when we needed to move to a new section. He would have spent the whole time in this one area if we let him.

This was one of the kids favorite sections because it had little babies to take care of and a grocery store to shop in. Tris and Jordan (Thais's dad) liked this section because it had a dance, dance revolution section. I think they had as much fun as the kids.

This is Mya walking right through the middle of the train. It really was a fun day and can't wait for there to be another free day.

Christmas Morning

Well I've been a little slow at getting the Christmas pictures posted. I just seems like things haven't slowed down since Christmas. We had a great Christmas at Tris's parents with cousins from Virginia.

As you can see they got spoiled.
Mya was checkin out all the presents before the big event.
Mya finally has her own big fuzzy chair. Linden got one over a year ago from Grandma and Grandpa Jackson so Mya got one from them this year. Now no more fighting over the one chair, right? I'm sure they'll find something else to fight over.

Linden got a T-Ball set and he loves it.

This is Mya opening her first baby doll. She thought it was pretty neat.

Mya got a cute little dress-up set from cousins; thank-you cousins!

Linden already took over one of Mya's toys. That didn't take long.

Aunt Tia was helping Mya push her new doll in her new baby stroller.

Linden got a train track for his trains for Christmas but we couldn't haul it to Grandma and Grandpa's so he got it when we got home after the holidays. He was so excited! Mya liked it too.

Linden had to get dressed in his Thomas costume to play. Later he insisted on wearing it to the grocery store. When you're a mom you definitely have to pick your battles so we got some funny looks at the store. OH WELL! We hope you all had as great of a Christmas as we did!

Shoes, Shoes, Shoes (Continued)

I previously posted the kids with all their crazy shoes on. Well they were at it again. They find mine or Tris's shoes around the house and put them on. Sometimes they don't put them back where they found them. The other day Tris and I were in a hurry to get out the door and we were each missing one of our shoes. After a few minutes of frantic searching and tearing the house apart we found them in the laundry hamper. I'll check there first next time I can't find a shoe.

We thought this one was extra funny because he had no pants on. NICE LEGS!
Not a bad look!

Mya can already walk in heels!

She can motor in these, it's pretty impressive.

Lookin' good!

Zoo Lights

Some of our friends invited us to go see the Christmas Lights at the zoo and it was a lot of fun. The kids loved it!!

All bundled up, don't want them to get cold (because it's so cold here in AZ).
Not a great picture but it shows a bit of the lights.

I think Tris and I had as much fun as the kids.

Santa was even there. Linden wasn't too sure about him so he wouldn't sit on his lap.

Our fearless little Mya didn't care either way.

We tried to take a family pictures by the Elephants at the end and this is as good as we got. Linden wasn't in the mood and Mya wouldn't look at the camera. It was a really fun night!

Sneaky, Sneaky!!!

We recently did a craft and made cut out snowflakes and colored them. I always have interesting pictures after crafts. Check out Mya!

She knows when I'm not looking and eats the tips off the markers. Unfortunately she decided to eat the black one.
Didn't seem to bother her.

Yuck!!!!

Good thing they're Non-Toxic (I say that about 5 times a day with Mya). Except a couple days ago she ate my deodorant and I had to call the Poison Control center because of the warning on the deodorant. I got a lecure on the phone about keeping EVERYTHING out of her reach! WHATEVER!!

Linden wanted to show me his mouth too. All Clean!

Linden loves crafts!

Kiss, Kiss!

Linden is just starting to use scissors. Hasn't quite got the hang of them yet. I'm sure it will come. Like our snowflakes?

Family Pictures

Tris's dad was nice enough to take family pictures for us with his awesome camera. We were so thankful because it saved us about $50. I love our little family and the kids were so good when we were taking the pictures. Here are a few cute ones.

This was one of the best ones, I thought.
My beautiful Miss Moos (her nickname)
Like Father, Like Son!!! (check out Linden in the picture below). I didn't know that Tris was doing that until the pictures were downloaded and I started looking at them.

Linden is such a funny kid.