Reading to mom....

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Fav necklace

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Sitting in terrible traffic this made my day a little brighter....

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Passover Food Time

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Magic Laquered Firebird Ring for Russian-speaking Superpowers (picture taken with appropriate Russian-esque lighting) Hope it works!!

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Good sports wearing Colie's masks.

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Homemade masks

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Nicole's computer helper

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Happy International Women's Day

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Family Picture

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Star Wars Family

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Hitting the top of Stone Mountain

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Individuality

I'm just going to not get involved in this battle.

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Christmas2010

Oh where has the time gone? Well with mom getting a new job, time is going way too fast!!! We snapped a few photos of the kids in their nice gear in front of the tree as well as them with their more casual "Rudolph" and "Grinch" shirt. We went all the way out to Nebraska for Christmas. The kids were excited to see their Nebraska family. It was great to have everyone home and visit with them. LV asked for a Nerf Gun from Santa. And Santa not only delivered one for Louis but delivered one for Dad. It was so cute to see him high five his dad and say "Now we can be buddies!" WE've been having a good time with that in the house. Dad has too. Nicole wasn't afraid of Santa this year, so that made it even more fun.

Nebraska Trip (124 photos), by emily papera

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Christmas 2009

We spent our Christmas Holiday with dad's family up in New Jersey. Again, it was a holiday where time really flew by. We arrived in time for Grandpa P's work Christmas party. They have a traditional "beef steak" party where they serve bread and beef steaks that were really good. Very simple but the kid's loved it.

For Christmas Eve,we then had the traditional feast of the Seven Fishes at Aunt Belle's house where Santa also made a visit. We saw a good number of dad's family as well as a cousin close in age to Nicole. Even though Santa visited there, Nicole was not keen on Santa wherea LV was attempting to get his ear at every turn. In fact he mentioned to Santa that "mommy planted a garden" - you know just in case Santa needed to know that!!

On Christmas morning, after the gifts were opened,we saw Nicole's Godfather (mom & Dad's best man) as well up there. we went over to Aunt Belle's again and had dinner with a smaller group of family. Louis enjoyed all that Santa brought him as did Nicole. She really was into playing with each toy individually as she came across it and the cell phone and watch were a hit. Sadly the rain drove our activities of going out into NYC out the window, so we were bummed about that. (Again mom hoped for a nice family portrait to maybe send in a New Year's card!!) But perhaps we'll try a little later!!

Christmas Time in GA!

Sigh...another year another time where I hope to have a cute picture and card ready to go for people but it just doesn't happen!!! One of these years....We took the kids to see Santa and hopefully snap a nice picture of them. LV is quite excited about the man in red and was eagerly telling Santa what he wanted for Christmas. As you can see in the pictures of Santa, Nicole is not pictured. She is very polite to Santa but she has no strong interest on getting close to him. We took a few pictures of them in their Christmas gear in the beautifully decorated city hall. We were just missing some colder weather though!!!

Yellow Belt

LV had the chance to advance from a white belt in Tae Kwon Do to a yellow belt. One of the things he had to accomplish was break a board with his foot at his test earlier in December. He did all the drills as expected AND broke a board. He was really surprised he could do it and the look on his face was priceless. We were all very proud of his advancement up to yellow belt. The instructors at his Tae Kwon Do school are amazingly patient and good with children!

Fun Projects

We were told by a good friend about some wood working projects at Home Depot and Lowe's. LV and Nicole have been going with mom there to make a few things. We did a car back in November and in December, the kids made their own gingerbread house. This was a really amazing activity for them to be doing. We all had a blast. Nicole is very eager to work things out as quickly as brother is but she is techincally under-age, so mom has to help. That said, Nicole is quite impatient waiting on mom to help finish brother which just irritates her. All in all they love doing it and they get a badge when they complete the project!!