our winter pics mostly look like spring ...

Some winter pics from the last few months and our trip to Seattle in February. http://s43.photobucket.com/user/AloraDanen/library/2015/winter%202015


And Dino Peter...

MasterChef Junior Eva

Eva is obsessed with the new MasterChef Junior show, so we are trying to give her some opportunities to help us in the kitchen. When she's in the mood, she doesn't want any help. She wants to do it all herself. These are videos when we made shrimp egg rolls and she did most the work, including dicing all the shrimp, which was her favorite part.

early Christmas 2014

Here's pics from our early Christmas. We made do with a lampstand Christmas tree this year, but I think it actually looked good, and the kids liked it. The favorite gift of all was Peter's Blaze the Dragon from GG. Man, he is obsessed with that thing! He even took it to the gym this morning.

This weekend was busy, with a trip to Leavenworth on Saturday for very crowded Christmas festivities and then our "early" Christmas morning on Sunday.



Here are a few videos. The first is a bit of Eva's school concert. The kindergarten class sang 4 songs, but Peter was being relatively disruptive so it was hard to videotape it. Here is the ABCs in sign language and then the Christmas ABCs song.

This next video was Peter inspired to sing in the car on the way home from Eva's concert. Of course, he was singing much longer version while we were walking to the car. This was all he would sing once we got there.

Here is Peter telling us about Blaze the Dragon on Christmas morning.

Fall and soccer pics

Pics from fall and the end of Eva's soccer season.

Belated Christmas pictures

http://s43.photobucket.com/user/AloraDanen/library/2013/Christmas%202013

Happy winter, all!

pre-Christmas singing extravaganza

Eva's holiday concert part 1. She is in the top left next to the kid in the orange shirt. You can't see her too well, but at least interested grandparents can see what the concert was like... :-)


Part 2:

Since Blogger seems to be uploading videos well today, here is the kids singing Jingle Bells. They never get to the verses, and they love it ... and it never ends! Yikes...

Videos and Peter's Birthday

Peter reading his Cars book. He's obsessed with the page about Mater and Lightning McQueen going tractor tipping.

The kids playing ball outside. It has been a beautiful October here.

Playing with Peter's new dinosaurs: he knows a handful of dinosaur names now, and obviously Eva knows a few more, but he's catching up quick -- the only show they watch these days is Dinosaur Train.

Pictures from Peter's birthday and a few other late fall pictures can be found here...

http://s43.photobucket.com/user/AloraDanen/library/2013/Peter%20Birthday