Indoor Pool Party

To help keep the kids from going crazy with cabin fever, we decided to have an indoor pool party. It's also a nice way for me to get them to try on all their crap we'll need at the beach without making them cry. Enjoy the little movie!

North Avenue Brewing Company

As many of you know, Jason started brewing his own beer. I'm not a big fan of beer, but the latest one, the Howling Hound Red Ale, is pretty yummy. I have a couple links for you -

First is the North Avenue Brewing Company fan page... it's in Facebook so if you don't have FB ask someone who does to show you his page.

NABC Fan Page

Second is a link to my zazzle.com store where I've created several different NABC items. Several feature the ever-popular slogan "Beer makes life better." Jason and I should be receiving our shirts today, so I'll update this post with those pics later on. NABC gets a royalty for every item sold, so support your favorite local brewery!

To find the "store," scroll ALL the way down through all the posts to the bottom of this blog. Right above the girls' birthday tickers is a rotating display of all the NABC crap you can buy. All the items are customizable so choose your favorite colors. Email or call me if you want to order something and have a question.

Thanks everyone!

Catching up with recent pics

Happy New Year 2010!

Thanks for the leftover party hats, the girls had a few fun days with them.

The hat was a little big on Holly and she really didn't want a "Happy New Year" kiss from Ella.

They're starting a girl band I think.

They turned the box from the kitchen into a slide. I didn't have room for it to go out with the garbage that week anyway.

Ella frequently likes to make "dinner" for us. And Holly enjoys her first green olive.

Ella finally is starting to like more foods. How can you not like sloppy joes? They're so fantastically messy and fun!

Ella was so good with baby Ethan... until she tossed him aside to see how the pictures turned out. Ethan's fine, by the way.

You've seen pictures of the new wagon we got for the girls, but here's their "house" we made from the box. Jay calls it the "mobile home." Who cares, they have so much fun with it.

Ella shows off the many windows, some with awnings!

With the tongue hanging out, I know it's my kid. Not sure why they're obsessed with princesses though.

More fun with the Boxhouse.

We went to a friend's daughter's birthday party last Saturday. It was a Princess and the Frog theme, so the girls got to dress up as princesses and the boys all wore some green. Ella had a couple options and chose Belle. We didn't have anything much for Holly, except for this dress Jason bought for Ella in Hong Kong a few years ago. We said she was dressed as Mulan. :o)

Ella started off wearing the crown, but lost it for not acting like a princess. I put it on Holly's head and didn't think she'd keep it on, but 20 minutes later when I tried to give it back to Ella... OOoooh, big tantrum from Holly.

Bad Mommy Corinne... at least wait until he's gotta get up for school!

We tried to gather all the kids together for a picture... well... you know how it goes.

We got all of them in the picture on the right... the kids range in age from 6 months to almost 5 years old. It's amazing we got them all on the couch.

Ella and Holly like to dance when Papa plays guitar.

Getting ready for Florida, Holly tests out her floating suit and beach ball. We need to get some air in the suit so she floats. And I've been having them practice wearing hats so they don't burn their faces off. After all, they are my kids... we don't do sun well. Maybe Holly has a chance of tanning, but Ella is me. Sorry kiddo!

Gotta play catch up....

I know I need play catch up, I have movies from December I haven't touched yet. So, for being patient with me, here's a couple of pics of the new wagon.

If I knew what I know now, I would have picked this one first. But now, we have 2!