Santa came early!

We had to ask Santa to come early this year since we were traveling to Hawaii for Christmas - he delivered!  Thanks Santa!  ;)

First things first - building our new airplane Lego set that Santa brought

Opening presents!

Paper is the best present!

 Owen loves Isaac's old "So Big" book

Legos, Legos and more Legos - yay!

Driving monster trucks around the living room

Riensche Christmas

We hosted Riensche Christmas again this year - also known as "fake Christmas"

It is hard to be patient ("is it my turn yet?....")

Owen loves Grandpa Bob

The grandkids helping Grandpa Bob open his present

Tutu got Isaac a remote control monster truck!

The adult feast

The kids/cousin table

9 months

Owen is 9 months! 

Coming to get you (well, sort of - still not mastered the art of crawling yet)

No time for pictures Mom, that cord looks interesting ...

Latest stats:
20lbs 1oz, 28.5 inches

Compared to Isaac  @ 9 months: 23lbs 4oz, 29 inches

Owen talks to animals

Chatting with the crabs

Chatting it up with his buddy Mr Penguin

It's Christmas Time

Getting excited for Christmas!  Isaac helped Nate with the lights

 Looks good!  Modest by some standards...

Our new (fake) Christmas tree - it is SO bright!

Isaac loved it.  He routinely requested that we get dressed in front of the tree each morning.

He also loved hanging and re-hanging ornaments.

8 months

Owen (aka Owie, Owie-ba-do-e) is 8 months!

Enjoying the view after some hard work

I got a little help cutting back our huge butterfly bush

Afterwards, Isaac and I were rewarded with some amazing views at Richmond Beach

Happy 4th Birthday Isaac!

Skills Test

We have a little mountain biker in the making.




 Cute Owen - first time in a grocery cart.

Running partners

My little running buddies.  I pushed Owen and Isaac rode his bike - we went 3.7 miles!  My plan was to see how far we would get - thinking we would make it only a couple of miles at the most.  Isaac was having so much fun he wanted to keep going!

 (I swear they had fun ...)

Happy Halloween

Our little skeleton and Batman

Trick or Treating in our neighborhood

Owen the party animal

The neighborhood went all out - it was awesome!

Counting his candy the next day (we hid more than half of it - probably won't be able to do that next year!)

Halloween drawings

Isaac and I drew some Halloween pictures: a pumpkin, a witch and a ghost.

7 months!

Remlinger Farms

Isaac's first ride choice a Remlinger Farms?  The roller coaster!  We ran straight there and did 3 rides, back-to-back.  That's my boy!

The pumpkin ride!

Owen was just trying to stay warm (and also not napping ...)

Riding the roller coaster with his school buddy, Carter

Look at that cute boy!

Owen has NO IDEA what to think of all this ...