Holidays

As we do every year, we spent the holidays with family in cold Massachusetts. Below are just a few of the many pictures we took during our Christmas vacation. Enjoy!

An afternoon in the city!
The boys with uncle Terrence. Otherwise known as "TMunny"...don't ask.
The boys with his Vedrine cousins. Isaiah, Kendal, Ricardo, Elijah, Adrien
Some play in the snow. The background is area around my parents condo building. There's a brook behind them, Beaver Brook. I love Dracut!

My men with Grandma Sonia.
Every year I have to find a picture that shows how alike they look. This is the one!

Ricky's Bday and more

Ricky had his Birthday party this week. My baby turned 7 on Tuesday the 7th. We had his party at our place for the first time ever!! And I think we had the best weather ever...go figure.

This first picture is from the House of Blues Gospel Brunch on Sunday morning. I went with the youth group, then rushed home to meet my family so we could head to a friend's birthday party. Busy weekend:

The kids coming down the stairs, for more cookies???
Ricky wearing his present from Oliver: a Lego Flashlight for his head, pretty cool.
The boys watching tv
Cake time:

Last but not least, I took this picture on Sunday. This personifies my 7 year old! Happy Birthday baby.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Below are a few more pictures of my sick boys. This was our Friday Night! The boys (including Daddy) had a stomach bug. So they were all tired, and sicky...

We had the first day of our Advent Market this Sunday at church and I caught some good friends chatting on the patio!
Christmas is coming and we put our tree up on Wednesday night!
And our wall is all decorated as well!

sick children and new apartment

Ok I'm putting two in one, only because I don't have enough pics for daily. It's not working so well, it's so easy to forget. What it has done is given me a reason to take more pictures of random things, that's good right? And to document my daily life a little better. So here are some pictures.

So if you're reading this, it's probably because you know me personally and you know I've moved. Below are a few pictures of our new apartment. I wouldn't normally take pics of the whole apartment, but some friends wanted to see what it looked like and Ricky's school had some project:

Kitchen. Sorry for the mess. Who left the milk on the counter??

Living room and Dining room as seen from the front door. Check out all the new stuff!!
Downstairs powder room...
Upstairs bathroom, it's huge!! It's got a shower and a tub
And double sinks, we still need some more storage in the bathroom but we're loving it.
This is the 3rd bedroom/guest room/office/library. Not complete yet, but new desk!
our front door.
our bedroon. it's big!! So exciting.
The boys room...their new bunkbed.

Now below are pictures of this morning 12/3/10. The boys are sick, Adrien was throwing up the night before last and is still not feeling up to par to go to school...Ricky was throwing up last night and they both fell asleep on the couch this morning. They slept until 10 am...just now.

Thanksgiving weekend!

Ok, so in the last 4 days we took enough pictures for the whole missed week. We'll start with Thanksgiving:

Our Los Angeles family at the dinner table on Thanksgiving: 11/25/10
On Friday 11/26/10, we went to a friends house and had another thanksgiving dinner so here are the boys.
On Saturday, 11/27/10 we went to Solvang. It was cold and it started raining, so our trip was cut short but we found a present for Vovo
The boys on Friday, watching Tv
Here are all the boys watching tv, again
Some cows on our way to Solvang, we took the scenic route
Jean-Marc posing in Solvang
Family photo taken this morning 11/28/10 at church, there are a few of them and in most of them one or the other of the boys is making a funny face. we took these because we needed a family photo for a project for Ricky's school
Ricky had to make a shadow box about his favorite holiday, after he said summer, I reminded him that summer is not a holiday so he had to pick another one...and he said.....Christmas!
So we did two projects tonight, the shadow box is due friday, and this poster is due monday. Ricky is Embassador of the week and has to show his family.
This was on Wednesday night 11/24/10, Adrien's mouth is all dirty from eating frosting from the cookies, keep looking below
Ricky eating a cookie on wednesday night
And here are the cookies! Nick Jr. had a demonstration about how to make thanksgiving turkey cookies and Ricky had the instructions memorized and wanted to make them. so we made them.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Days 10 and 11 a total bust!

Ok maybe not a total bust. We took these pictures yesterday, 11/20/10. Technically the 10th day of pictures. So the bust was really on today. We had a busy day at church and it really slipped my mind. So to make up for today's failure, I'll post 3 pictures of yesterday and show you a little of the fun the boys had at the auto show:

My boy is all grown up and they're driving together!!
My baby was really enjoying driving the police car. he's fascinated with cars and police officers so this was magic for him!
Tow 'em guys!!

Picture a day, days 6-?

Ok so I have more pictures than days, that's good right??? I'll tell you about the three at the top first and then speak to the daily photos. The first one is of our 3rd bedroom or the office or the guest room or soon to be the library! it's my fun room, I'm really excited about having the extra room and it's a big one too!!

This is Adrien and his funny faces.
And this third photo is from my birthday party, yes my birthday was 19 days ago, but my family just got around to celebrating it!This was Day 6. 11/16/10. The caption is "I'm too tired to take a picture" the truth is I forgot and I was in bed when I remembered so I told my husband to take a pic of me sleeping.
This is Ricky getting dressed in the morning of 11/17/10
The next day, the fire alarm at work went off (false alarm, not a drill) and we had to evacuate. That's me and my coworker on 11/18/10
And last but not least for today, this was last night 11/19/10, where my family decided it was a good day for cake...umm to celebrate my belated birthday. I got a nice bag out of it at least! And even if it was late, I'm glad my family remembered to wish me a happy birthday.