First Food!

We've only done Pears so far, but she thinks it's wonderful!

Who are those masked men!?! Kohen and best friend Warner LOVE to dress up as super heros!

Easter eggs!

We had a fun time coloring eggs and then turning them into little monsters! Kohen and Evelyn were very impressed with the whole thing. We don't eat a lot of hard boiled eggs in this family, so I think they are a little excited to eat them in the morning.

Winter 2012

Will it ever end?! We are so so SO excited for summer and GREEN! The snow was fun, especially our neighborhood snow park (see photos) but seriously, enough already. Ahh, who am I kidding. i say the same thing every year about this time when I realize that the tulips are blooming south of us and we are gearing up for another frozen easter egg hunt.

Winter 2012

Here's a slide show of our winter! Enjoy! I will add captions as I have time...so maybe never :-)

Is bedtime really this much fun??

I still don't know what the joke was, but it must have been a doozy!

Abigail was part of the fun too!

The aftermath...

I think the post trick-or-treating candy sort is one of the finest Halloween traditions. Kohen followed in the footsteps of his Daddy by not gorging himself and carefully sorting all the different types of treats. He'd pick his favorites, eat a few, admire a few. He was most happy about this long stick of licorice and most disapointed that no one gave him juice this year. (Last year he got a bottle of sunny-D). Evelyn promptly fell asleep and nearly missed the whole ritual. She woke up when we tried to peal off her costume and then amazed us with her ability to stuff as much candy down her pie hole as she could while unwrapping even more candy faster than we could take it away. I don't think she had a particular favorite...I'm not sure she took the time to taste anything, but she did seem to like the box of dots. Oh and the sweet tarts in the shapes of bones and skulls, Go figure. I was disspointed in the haul simply because there seemed to be a butterfinger famine going on.

Halloween night!

I have to say, getting ready for trick-or-treating (trunk-or-treating in this case) is quite an ordeal. I was sweating and out of breath by the end of pulling on all the snow gear and then wrestling the costumes on OVER all that. Kohen was very smart to choose his frog costume to wear trick-or-treating. I could fit all sorts of warm clothes underneath and of course Evelyn didn't mind what she wore as long as it was a princess dress on the outside. They both got a load of candy at the trunk-or-treat and I had a suprisingly good time handing out candy. Abigail slept through the whole thing in her car seat...but for the record, she was in costume too! She had a glow in the dark skeleton onesy, pink of course! I gave away every last morsel of candy but I still think we brought home more than we showed up with. Oh well. Happy Halloween!

Everyone wanted to try on Moms costume

Evelyn and Kohen were thrilled with the new addition to my halloween costume. I got the feathery witch hat last year and added the shades this year. Evelyn was so cute in the whole get-up that I considered just letting her wear my costume, of course I wouldn't be as cute a princess as her...or be able to fit even one leg into her dress.

Abigail went to church today for the first time! It was her big debut! It was also the primary program and Kohen was singing so i really wanted to be there. He did amazing! He marched right up with all the other sunbeams and sang his songs, smiled a bunch and looked completely comfortable in front of everyone. Incredible really, for those who know Kohen. I took Abigail home after sacrament meeting but then got a call from Braden to return for the kids because Evelyn had pooped her pants in nursery (I had of course taken all the diapers with me) and Kohen flatly refused to attend primary. I mention all this because the high drama and adventure that is Kohen and Evelyn is in such contrast to quiet little Abigail who loves to lazily dream away in the swing...regardless of what hubub is occuring around her. I do keep reminding myself that at three weeks of age, this might be a passing phase as well. She will probably join the fray in a month or two. But I am definitly enjoying her mellow content little personality for now.

Snow!

We have officially started our winter season. Kohen and Evelyn are super excited for the snow. I think Evelyn doesn't really remember last winter and Kohen is just thrilled to wear all his new snow gear. Our first sledding adventure out in the neighborhood was a success. Kohen tried out all the hills near our house and Evelyn tried to eat as much snow as possible before I could pin her down and stop the feast. I'm afraid she wasn't distinguishing between good clean fresh snow, and snow in the road, snow on rocks...yellow snow (oh please not that!)

I never really did send out an official "welcome baby" announcement, so I guess this is it. Three weeks post fact. Abigail Ruth Galloway was born October 9th at 11:19 am and weighed in at 7lbs 4 oz. She is a sweet little thing and much loved already by her big brother and sister.

Update on US

WOw, I haven't blogged in forever! I can't believe what I've missed writing about and the pictures I haven't posted. I will try and get around to putting the cute ones online. My computer contracted a deadly virus and had to be put down (especially after it sent my parents bogus emails with porn links), so I have been without a real computer to use for awhile. I have posted some picture of our latest summer camping adventure to Halibut Cove as well as some birthday pictures of Kohen turning three. I will have to back track a bit to get Evelyn's one year pictures on. I was looking at the pictures I have posted of her and she is so much bigger now than any of you have seen yet! She is walking (as of yesterday), talking (okay maybe like 7 words), and chomping food with gusto (using all 8 of her teeth with great enjoyment). So I resolve to not let a little computer malfunctioning get in the way of my blog! I will try and post more regularly! I will post my summer photos so you can see them! I am also trying to not eat sugary things but Kohen's chocolate cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting was just too much to abstain from. I ate it :-) and it was delicious.
Happy August everyone!

Halibut Cove and Kohen's Birthday!

Summer 2010

Spring Slideshow

Easter

Easter was a bit wild for us this year. Actually all of 2010 has been going at a whirlwind pace. I had big plans for Easter activities this year but at the last minute Braden ended up going in for hernia surgery. We did get some egg painting in though. Kohen loved it! Although he refuses to eat hard boiled eggs. I can't be too surprised, it is high on my list of 'most disgusting foods ever'. I've tried really hard to never go on about my egg aversion and I thought I was doing pretty good because he loves scrambled eggs. But a hard boiled egg is just too much over the top egg-ness. We enjoyed listening to Church Conference on BYU TV and just laying around the house. Braden has been recovering really well, considering all the activities he has undertaken since the surgery (Alaska Outdoorsman Show to sell Autohome rooftop tents). Crazy, crazy, crazy. I'd post pictures of that if I'd had the energy to take any. I didn't.