Halloween 2012

Here are some pictures from Halloween.  Van picked his costume, but was not terribly excited about it the day of.  Riley had been planning this costume for 12 solid months.  She talked about it nonstop.  She talked about it over dinner, in the bathtub, brushing her teeth, watching TV, playing on the computer...oh, and in the middle of the night when she was worried that we may have forgotten.

Riley's 5th Birthday

 Birthday girl opening gifts

 Cheesy grin time

 More presents!

 Riley and her best friend, Aubree

Aubree supervising the gift opening

Riley is 5 year old!  This is harder to believe than Van being two!  She had a party at a place called Fun Run.  I learned that it's not much easier to have the party somewhere other than your house.  She had a great time.  Which was a relief since it was a huge topic of conversation every day for the last year.  She will start kindergarten this fall.  She's excited and scared, which matches how I feel.

We finally have a new computer!!

As most of you know, I don't ever post on this blog anymore because it was such a dreadful process.  It would take all night to upload and most of the time it would never work.  So....I gave up.  Yep.  I'm a quitter.  Alas, we finally upgraded to a Mac and now life is good again.  I am hoping to occasionally update this again.  I am back in school, so they chances of it being often are not good, but at least once a month or so.  I think that's a healthy way to ease back into this thing.

Anyway, the last update I put was some pictures we took of the kids last year.  Let's see if I can find something more recent.

 Van's birthday bed from Grammy

 Eating his 2 year old bday cake

 Mommy and Daddy got him a NEW CAR!

 Cool shades

My little 2 year old man.

Here are a few pics from Van's 2nd birthday.  He had a Yo Gabba party and loved every minute.  I can't believe he is over 2 now.  He is growing so fast and is such a sweet little boy!