Jazz Game picture slideshow

Trip to the Jazz Game

Nils and I had the chance to go down to the Jazz game this last week. Nils has a friend from work that had season tickets and was unable to use them Wednesday night so he gave them to Nils. We went down with Piper and her husband Cameron. The Jazz played the Toronto Raptors and won!! It was a fun game and we had a great time. I will post a slide show here in a few with the pictures I took. As you will tell, I like Deron Williams. He is my favorite player along with Kyle Korver. I have a few pictures of Deron. :) Thanks Piper and Cameron for going with us; it was a great!

Halloween '09

Halloween was fun with the kids again this year. Nils and I don't really get into the whole Halloween thing, but it's so fun dressing the kids up and going out with them. With Brooklyn being older this year it was fun to see her get candy and think she was big. Ryder this year was Wolverine and Brooklyn was Minnie Mouse. It was a great night!

It's only been a year!

Wow! How busy and crazy life can be. I have not updated the blog for about a year now and finally found some time to sit down and update it. I will then post some different posts throughout today of things lately. Not a whole lot has changed in our life except for the kids growing like weeds. I now hope to have slowed down just a bit and will keep the blog updated. Crossing my fingers. :)

Early Christmas w/ Aunt Val and Uncle Nadim

We celebrated Christmas last week early with my sister Val and her husband Nadim. We had a lot of fun with them and the kids were sad when they left. Ryder loves his Aunt Val and even became attached to Uncle Nadim as well. Thanks Aunt Val and Uncle Nadim for all the fun gifts!

Meeting Santa

Last week we had Nils's work Christmas party. We all met up at the local resturant and ate. We ended up only taking Ryder with us because Brooklyn didn't feel too well. We heard when we got there that Santa would be coming so we told Ryder. He was all sorts of excited and eating his dinner and asking when he'd come. The minute Santa came in and said, "Ho, Ho, Ho." Ryder jumped out of skin and ducked down in his seat. He was terrified! I finally got him to somewhat take a picture with him, but as you can see he was not thrilled.

Ryder sat in his seat and tried to eat his dinner, but was till terrified of Santa coming. Santa walked around the resturant and each time Ryder heard his bells comes near us, he dropped his fork, closed his eyes, and sunk down in his seat. After the party I asked him if he still wanted Santa to come to his home and bring him toys and he said, "Yes, when I go to sleep."

Happy Halloween!

We had a really fun time for Halloween this year with the kids. They both were happy and I think they had fun as well. Ryder is still a Spiderman freak and my mom happened to find his costume for $11 one day. He was SO excited!! I had to sneak it away from him and hide it until Halloween because he didn't want to part with it. We decided to make Brooklyn into a little Fairy Princess. My sister in law Whitney was amazing and awesome; she made her little skirt for us and it turned out way cute on her. Nils is the paint master so he did the paint on Ryder's face. Ryder was a bit hesitant at first, but then went for it and loved it after. They both turned out cute I think and we had fun! We did the common Trunk-Or-Treating and games at our church and Ryder had fun with that. He thought it was neat he was getting so much candy. Brooklyn dug the smarties! In the picture below Ryder was trying to be all serious and big like Spiderman and I was trying hard not to laugh of course. Here Ryder is shooting his Spiderman webs. It is cute when he does it! I wil have to try to get it on video one day. His fingers go just like Spiderman's and he makes a sound to go with it. Brooklyn then tried to hit him with her wand so I had to hold her back. She didn't quite know what to think of the skirt at first, but sure liked her wand as a weapon on Ryder. As cute as she is, she still has a mean streak for sure. LOL!
This has to be my favorite of Brooklyn with her face expression! CUTE! Not sure what she was doing, but it sure made for a cute picture.
We had a good night of trick or treating to grandparents houses and everything, but after a bit they both were fighting to get their costumes off. Ryder has already asked though everyday if we will paint his face, color his hair, and put on his costume so he can go trick or treating. I told him when he turns four we can go again. I really am not a Halloween kind of person, but the kids make it all worth it! We had a blast!