Multimedia Family Update

So what have we been up to since "Last date posted September 22, 2010?" Well, I will tell you. Obviously this post will be long but I tried to keep my "talking" to a minimum so you can just enjoy these pictures of our family. And I would like to post more often-so I can hope for that.

Tom:

He's in like 1 or two of these pictures. Where was he? Work I suppose. If he wasn't at work he was at church. We love him but he's a busy guy...moving on

Me:

I've been really sick. Because I'm pregnant. See...so there's a reason for my bad, bad, bad posting. I am 22 weeks along. And I'm having a....(more on that later)

I've been really busy with YW (this isn't me). But one of the things we did for class activities was to make scripture totes. I used cloth place mats and then we embellished them. The girls have been using them so that's good

And then we did lots of things but I was sick for all of them. So I was probably too ugly or just laying on the couch for pictures. So this is New Years Eve. My family came to visit-yay!

Ringing in the New Years with Tom

Samantha:

She has the most pictures because she's a busy girl. Like with homework:

We went to CA in early Oct. My mom took care of the kids while I laid on the couch. This is at her town's heritage day. I've always wanted to do the trampoline thing so I lived vicariously through my kids-I was impressed she could do the flips. Not everyone could.

She was Wendy Darling for Halloween (it's sad that's the only picture of her but I was too busy running the cake walk booth)

We went to New Mexico for Thanksgiving. Everyone descended on Tom's sister Maria. Samantha absolutely loved every minute with her cousins as usual.

For our city party in early Dec we did a lot of rides-like the train ride.

Seeing Santa at our ward party.

Christmas Eve in Mesa at Tom's extended e-x-t-e-n-d-e-d family. I don't think we'll ever go again or see those people.

Samantha learned to ride without training wheels. Maybe I took a long time as a kid but she learned SO fast I thought. If you want to actually see her riding a bike then this video is useless. But if you want to hear Tom's angry voice and see Tommy being a stinker then it's a funny 37 seconds. She really is good-too bad we don't have proof.

We used Christmas money from Grandparents to buy year passes to the Children's Museum in Phoenix. We've been three times already in just a month so I think we'll make it worth it.

Samantha started basketball. Don't watch this whole video, I don't even want to watch it. But if you watch for about 5 second from 1:15 then you can see the way Samantha leaps and prances across the court instead of running. I wouldn't say she's *good* at basketball by any stretch of the imagination, but she enjoys it.

Finally: she got to ride a horse -by herself!!!!- for a friend's birthday party. I wasn't there so I don't have pictures. There are two of her at this link (but not riding a horse)

Tommy:

Tommy on the trampoline in CA. He had more fun then his face would indicate. He was nervous at first but got used to it.

He was Peter Pan for Halloween

Thanksgiving: He actually got along with Matthew. But I think he drove my brother-in-law Jon crazy. He's a terror, what can I say?!?

Elephant ride!

Christmas Eve in Mesa. He took off to the backyard and stayed there-I think he was the smart one.

Tommy at the Children's Museum.

Eliza:

She used to be sweet but now she's awful. But I still love her despite the combined 2 hours worth of tantrums every day.

She didn't go on the trampoline in CA. She sat on the ground and ate (I'm not exaggerating) an entire HUGE carnival sized bag of carmel corn. That's my girl. So this was the other things we did-my Mom's children's museum-pretend city.

Eliza was Tinkerbell for Halloween (sense a theme?)

Thanksgiving in Albuquerque-This is Tom's cousin Brookie. Eliza had a lot of fun with cousins. She got to see Tangled and loved it!! (So did the other kids, but that was to be expected).

Eliza got to ride a camel at our city Christmas party

Seeing Santa-no screaming-which is great

Christmas Eve-PJ's!

Eliza at the Children's museum.

Andrew (probably):

Is a boy! (Obviously or we would come up with something other than Andrew). I don't know how to use the scanner so there are no pictures of him. But he has all his parts and he's ruining my life. I can't wait to meet him.