Sibling love!

Ethan and Chloe have discovered that they can snuggle on the couch together and watch tv. This has become their morning ritual while mom gets things going!

Awesome gifts!

Well my dad surprised us with a wonderful Christmas gift! We still can't believe he hand carried it all the way from South Africa, but we really appreciate it as it is absolutely beautiful! Of course there were lots of other great goodies inside papa's suitecase!
You got it, a beautiful Persian rug to complete my entrance hall!
Ethans spiderman robe was a huge hit and he even got to wear it to pyjama day at school!

Visitors!

2008 came oh so quietly, but brought with it lots of visitors. My dad visited from South Africa for 2 weeks and the kids loved hanging out with their papa. Chloe with her ever increased drive to walk marched papa around the house until they both got tired. As a result she is now a non-assisted walker and roams the house getting into whatever she comes across!
We took Papa out for his"46th" birthday to Cheddars, one of his favorite restaurants here in Waco.


The day after my dad left Peter's parents arrived and have spent the last few days with us. Today we are all heading down to Canyon Lake which is an hour north east I think of Austin. We will be there for about a week so I will have plenty of pictures to post when we get home!

My Precious Sunbeam!

Well it was strange for us to celebrate Chloe's first birthday, but it was even stranger for me to see Ethan in primary on Sunday. That's right, he graduated from Nursery and is finally a little sunbeam. I didn't know how he would react with me in the room, but of course I worried all for nothing! He often will blow me a kiss or wink(using his finger to close one eye!) but that's all the attention I get from my little sunbeam!

Primary "get to know you teacher breakfast"

This was an exciting activity for me as it was Ethan's first primary activity where he was actually included and not along for the ride with me! My little back then "future sunbeam" had a blast as he got to spend the morning with all his favorite gals and Miss Laura and Sister Askeroth better known as Cali's mom. He talked about it for days! The cherry on top was the surprise visit from Santa!

Birthday continued...

I know I know....I am a complete slacker...but I am here to redeem myself for the past few weeks that I have failed to post! So lets see what have the greenmonsters been upto...well, Chloe had her first birthday in December



As you can see she takes after her mother and loves cake!!

Every little girl needs a pony right!!!