merman dad and kids

kids Looking good in their new sunnies Loving our holidays with hans home

Tylers christmas preschool concert

Tyler did a great job at his concert , he is so full of excitement and giggles. It was really fun to watch .
It was really cute how he stood up when santa came in the room and went up to him and gave him hugs.

Christmas lights at the temple

Carols at the temple was cancelled this year due to rain. We still had fun walking around the temple grounds looking at the lights..well not really walking more like running chasing the kids especially Eliza who was touching all the lights and picking the flowers. Fun night the temple grounds looked beautiful.

FHE AND CHRISTMAS IN OUR HOME THIS YEAR.

Family home evening this week we made snowflakes so we could add something to our tree that reminded us of our family in minnesota and Utah that we love so much. We have told the kids about all the snow you had in Mn and they have been pretty excited to see pics . We had fun making the snowflakes a little trouble getting those snowballs to stick, especially as we were in the heat outside :) but still fun. Then we finished off with rootbeer floats for our treats yum.
Our tree this year has more crafty decorations from the kids and i dont know if you can see but none of the good baubles are on the bottom as Eliza likes to pull them off and bowl them down the hallway.
Alicias tree topper is kinda different to what we are used to seeing her head at the top of the tree but she is proud of her craft and Tyler well he came home with this decoration from pre-school and i hung it as a stocking..but he told me it was a reindeer...oops.
Christmas just gets better and better as the kids get older and have so much excitement.

little clips of under the sea

lecys dance rehearsal excuse screaming eliza at my feet

Watching Lecys DANCE concert

I remembered the camera and batteries....but left the memory card in the computer...uh dur

So pics are just from the phone kind of blurry.

Alicias Dance Recital

So proud of you Alicia you danced your little heart out , looked so beautiful and looked like you were having so much fun swinging those hips of yours :)

We love you

Time for the pool

whats for dinner mum

Macaroni& cheese faces (tylers idea)

Elizas first haircut at the hairdressers

Eliza Eliza

We cant figure out why Eliza keeps having convulsions and going

back to hospital.......maybe its the FOOD .......... she doesnt get breakfast at home like this.

Also Medicine she really likes taking her medicines, the drs call her the perfect patient.

Just something to laugh about instead of stressing about our little Eliza but hopefully we can get some answers soon, if there are any ???????

Halloween Woody, Jessi and Barbie

Woody and Jessi, tyler is not one for single photos

The gang

barbie who kept getting called hannah montana at the party

Eliza was Jessi in Alicias costume from when she was 2. I didnt have as much time as i had back when alicia was 2, so we went for the red wig instead of making it with yarn.

games at the party...jessi kept losing her wig

Tylers olympathon

Tyler and his girlfriend Reagan (and little sis)

Tyler had his olympathon at pre-school it was a fun afternoon and her just loved having his mum and sister come to watch him. Tyler is such a cute giggly kid. Every event he would just giggle all the way to the finish line he was just having so much fun....no competitive anderson in him yet.

Alicias Birthday

Pics arent the best quality my camera ran out of batteries so the phone is all we had.

Makeup

hans keeping up with the heavy heavy hangover birthday tradition.

the next day alciias brithday kept going as she recieved a package from nema and tepa and cousins and loved everybit of it.....

I know its a late post but we didnt want to forget our cute 7 yr old and her make up lovin Birthday. Alicia was spoilt with presents and hugs and kisses and phonecalls. She had a great day .

Super Kid Alicia

Alicia with her teacher.

Alicia got the award for Superkid of the month at school for her class. She was so excited as soon as she walked in the door after school...she said big smile on her face "Im a asuperkid mUM" So i guess that means she has been good all month and had good manners. I went to lecys school aassembly when she got her award and also for her classes item. It was a good day "Good Job lecy we love you"Alicias class after their item.

Alicia and Elizas room

There was not too much to change about this room except for alicias desk had to go ...it is now in the Man cave (garage) which i guess makes it not a man cave anymore without you boyd...hans haas been invaded by a pink desk and lecy. So after the desk was out i emptied the bookshelf out from nearthe kitchen amd moved it into the girls room. I also put stickers on the wall ...only to find out the next day we will be moving...oh well hopefully they will work at our next place. It has been good having the girls together not as much fighting as when tyler and lecy shared. Also it is kept alot cleaner . Not saying tyler was the messy one....it just needed some order and de- cluttering, it still needs more on the walls or something but that will haev to wait for now. Alicia and Eliza are happy so thats good.

There is even enough floor space now for a game of Uno with dad....he is such a good dad.

yes eliza is wearing the apron you made aunt roxy, if mum is in thekitchen cooking with her apron ....eliza thinks she has to too and then doesnt want to take it off all afternoon.

Tylers boy room...at last no more pink for him

So it has been so long since i posted a blog i know, and now i have all my photos off the camera i am just overwhelmed how much i need to blog about. So be patient and little by little i wll post our years events ...so about christmas next year i should be up to date.

Anyways after boyd and stephanie sadly had to go back home after visiting us , tyler got his own room which we had to transform from Elizas pink and girly room to a boys room. This is what we came up with , he couldnt decide what theme he wanted either star wars or superheroes or toy story. So this is what we did. Nothing is on the wall because we are moving soon. The most important thing is tyler loves his room. It has pics of all his family he loves except his cousins in Minnesota so if anyone wants to email me a pic of all the cousins together that would be great .