Peddles here I come...

So, for Christmas my cousin Leo gave me his old bike with peddles!! I've been giving it a spin I think I'm getting the hang of it!! I still prefer when my dad keeps his hand on my seat though.. baby steps (although my dad's back might think different!!) Since I'm on a big girl bike, Caits gets to try out my old Skuut bike... I think she's going to like it (once her feet catch touch the ground:)

Oh yeah, and check out our awesome matching (silly face) helmets!!

Trampolines ROCK!

So, Granny got us a trampoline for Christmas and Caitlyn and I LOVE it!!! Every day we think of new "tricks" to show mom, dad and anyone else who will watch us:) Check out one of Caitlyn's "tricks". The next day she took this trick to the next level and kicked her feet up and over her head (and proceeded to land on her head/back on the floor in front of the tramp!!) She hasn't tried that one since!! Thankfully!)

Sunny, snowy Colorado :)

So we all headed to Colorado this year to do Christmas with lots of my cousins, aunts, uncles, and my yiayia, papou, and granny. It was super fun... we got to play in the snow just about every day because a TON of snow dumped the first day we were there. I really loved playing in the snow!! I'm still warming up to sledding and skiing but my cousins seem to have a ton of fun doing both!!

Santa even knew were there and brought all of our gifts to my yiayia and papou's house!! You should have seen all the gifts he got down the chimney!! I really don't know how he does it!! He must have been hungry though because he ate all of the cookies we left him (they were pretty good so I think he ate more then usual :).

We all just loved getting to have Christmas together - every night we put on a "talent" show. Megan was usually the star act but TJ and Leo had a pretty good stand up routine as well. It usually went like this - Megan sang "Double take" with Cam and I as back up dancers/music while dad played the drums (on his cool iPad app) - then TJ and Leo would put on a comedy show. Oh and final act was an all-in version of Jingle Bells. I think everyone really loved our shows (although it did take me a while actually get on "stage" - I have to warm up to these things!!)

My mom, dad and Aunt Terri headed up to the big mountains one day for her birthday and got to have fun skiing/snow boarding with the "big kids" (and TJ :). They seemed to really have fun!!
Oh yeah, AND I got to hang with my best bud Sammy who moved to Colorado last year... bonus!

Here's some photos from our trip... (did I mention we got to FLY there!! - I loved flying!! Caitlyn was a bit of a handful though!!)

Family Photo 2011

It's not very often we can get the whole family into a picture - so we try at least once a year get a shot with everyone.... and here it is!

(Bruno obviously found something more interesting to look at than the camera - oh and you may recognize it in our holiday card:)

Caits = miserable

Caits had a bit of a rough week last week... turns out she had a bad case of Croup (and Stridor) and couldn't really breath really well :(. Mom and Dad had to take her to the emergency room to get her all taken care of.... They helped her feel better but she was still having some issues so she had to spend the night at the hospital. Poor girl, she was pretty miserable...

She wasn't very happy so I came to visit her lots and tried to cheer her up. After 30 hours at the hospital I think she was ready to go home though (she found her hat and coat and headed to the door)!!
She's all better now and back to her feisty Self :)

It's that time of year again!

So this year - we're planning on heading to Colorado for Christmas! Since we're going to be away M & D decided that we weren't going to get a Christmas tree - but Caits and I decided that was a bad idea and convinced them get one anyway :) So we headed off to the Christmas tree farm with some of our friends and picked out our perfect not so big Christmas tree. After taking a nice little tour of all the trees on a tractor ride (fun bonus!!) we wondered around and found the perfect one. Daddy sawed it down in about 2 seconds flat. Check it out!!



I think we did pretty good:)

LO tree lighting!

So Yiayia and Papou suggested we all head over to LO for the annual tree lighting... there was music, and dancing and Santa was there too!! There was a big count down before they lit the trees 3...2...1... then something funny happened... no one could find the tree that lit up!!! It was all the way at the end of the square - once all the people cleared out we found it and it was super pretty!

Thanksgiving 2011

This year for Thanksgiving we had a house full!! Let's see, Yiayia and Papou were there, Uncle John, Aunt Jennifer and her parents, AND my friend Bailey and her family all came over! My dad got up at 5:00am in the morning to start smoking the turkey (which was super yummy) and everyone else brought something to share. Bailey and I even got to sit at our own table this year (it was the big kids table :).

Keep on Rockin' in the Free World

So, I have a new favorite song - it's goes like this: "Keep on rockin' on the free world!!!!" (yes, Neil Young)... I heard it in the car and told mom to turn it up. We all rocked it out a bit and I was hooked. I make my parents play it at home all the time. I tried to get Caits to sing it with me but she would go for it... see for yourself...


Soph: "Caitlyn, Can you say Rockin' in the Free World?"
Caits: "No"
Soph: "She said no."

Halloween!!

So, this year I decided I wanted to be a pig princess with wings :). So Yiayia got busy making a beautiful princess dress (pink of course :) and mom got busy trying to figure out how I would also be a pig. (She found me a pig hat that rounded out my outfit AND kept my head warm :). . And as for Caits, she was a SUPER CUTE scarecrow. We had a super fun time tricker-treating on our street and even more fun eating all the candy!!