Adventures With Eve!

"The swing rocks! I've totally sogged everything within this picture... twice."

"The Power Rangers couldn't handle this bad guy, but I managed to finish him off with the feared toe jam hold."

"A few toots along with all of this heavy clothing keeps me nice and warm."

"This hair style was soooo 2009, but I could put up with it as long as I could suck the tasty juices out of my wash cloth. Mmmmmm."

"For a few brief seconds, I was actually picking up radio signals from China with this hair style. Mmmmmm, tasty wash cloth."

"Try one more crazy hair style on me and some one is going to get hurt!"

Santa Came!

The family spent Christmas Eve by our fireplace in the basement enjoying Christmas songs and the new pajamas the kids got from Heidi's mom!


Christmas morning was a hit! Kjersti loved her Butterfly Treehouse.

Go ahead and guess who's face could be behind these two Power Ranger DVDs?

Oh yes! The bedlam of Christmas morning. Eli paused for approximately .034 seconds to inspect this card before quickly moving on to the present.

Eve was overcome with shock and happiness upon receiving a stocking full of chew toys. For most of the day, all she was heard saying was, "nom, nom, yom, nom, nom, yom."

After practicing on her chew toys for awhile, Eve became enboldened to move on to bigger things. This did not go over so well with Eli who utimately had to open a soggy gift.

Kjersti loved the custom tea set Grandma Cheryl gave her. It did wonders in helping her serve a fresh Hershey Kiss.

The Blizzard of 2009

Throughout the evening of 18 DEC and through the next day, 24 inches of snow fell in our backyard in Dumfries, VA. We're use to snowfall like that in New York, but certainly not here. Of course the kids were quick to make the most of it.


A few days later, Cody took the kids sledding at the local hill. Kjersti and Eli soon became bored with racing each other down the hill so they decided to mix it up a bit with a giant snowball named Toonces (NOTE: This snowball is in no way related to a cat that could drive a car).

On the first attempt, Toonces jumped off the sled two feet into the run. On the next attempt, seen here, it (I'm not sure if it's a he or a she) did much better.

Eli is not known for his sportsmanship with giant rolling snowballs. In this video, he doesn't hold back on Toonces!

Halloween at Hershey Park

Here we have Superwoman (Heidi), the baby gnome (Eve), Cody (the pumpkin head), Snow White (Kjersti) and a Power Ranger (Eli). Cody really went to the extreme for Halloween this year. He gained 10 inches in his chest, lost all flesh and bone in his thighs and managed to get that plastic pumpkin mask on his head. Amazing!

Trick or Treating at Hershey Park was pretty nice. The chocolate is great, its in-doors and you don't have to go far from "candy-give-away-point" to "candy-give-away-point". As you can see however, while Kjersti and Heidi had a wonderful time with it, Eli wasn't sure what to think about the Hershey Park employees doling out the candy. We're just happy he didn't use any of his Power Ranger moves on them.

This ride was one of many Heidi and Cody enjoyed from the outside looking in. As you can see, the kids really enjoyed flirting with danger.

When the Baby Gnome gets ahold of the reigns, watch out! She's going to run that horse into the ground.

Snow White was on her faithful horse "Po-Po" and our Power Ranger used his super powers to make "The Black Stallion" ride to victory. In a brief "out of character" appearance, Cody ensured the beautiful princess and mighty super hero maintained proper focus so as to avoid any embarrassing mishaps.

Girl Talk

Kjersti: Welcome to Girl Talk. Where we talk about the stuff girls really want to talk about.
Eve: Are you serious?

Kjersti: Sure! Just smile and I'll help you through it.
Eve: What did you just say? I got distracted watching Eli roundhouse kick your Barbi collection.

Kjersti: That's ok. Ewe, something's smelling pretty ripe. That's not you is it?
Eve: I don't know what you're talking about.

Kjersti: Oh great Eve, it got all over my pants!
Eve: You have no idea how much better I feel now.

Kjersti: Oh well. I'm glad Mom is doing the laundry. She'll take care of that for us.

Eve: That's what I'm talking about... really, I'm serious.

Kjersti: We'll see you next time on Girl Talk!

Two Month Re-Cap

There's been a two month gap since our last post. Let me bring you up to speed. At the end of August, we moved out of our home in Watertown, NY. We're going to miss that place and all of the wonderful friends we made there!

We went on a vacation to southern Vermont and visited Jamaica State Park where we hiked to Hamilton Falls. Unfortunately, we set out on this six mile hike at about 5:30 p.m. so by the time we got back to our car, it was completely dark. It was so dark, Heidi and Kjersti thought they saw a ferocious beaver on the trail, but as we got closer, it turned out to be only a puddle. Good times.

We bought a crazy looking, but very functional hat for Eve in Straton, VT.

We were joined on our trip to Vermont by Cody's parents (Gary and Cheryl), Cody's brother, Chris and Heidi's mom, Elaine (behind the camera). We stayed at this awesome cabin. We had a great time!

We moved back into our townhouse in Dumfries, VA and blessed Eve our first week back to our old ward. What a long, strange trip it's been.

Conversations with Eve

13 SEP 09 - Eve: "The bouncer is one of the greatest things ever invented. I especially like "vibration" mode! Soooooo soothing."

16 SEP 09 - Eve: "The doctor gave me my shots today. I wasn't expecting that kind of pain and agony so early in my life. To make matters worse, he gave me blue band-aids instead of pink ones."

16 SEP 09 - Eve: "This is my brave face."

27 SEP 09 - Eve: "I just couldn't stand the binki anymore when I figured out I've got something much more tasty attached to my arm. My mom says I've nearly, 'mastered the left thumb, but still need some work on my right thumb'. I'm not quite sure what that means.

27 SEP 09 - Eve: "Sometimes I try to sneak my thumb in by masking the act with my right arm. My mom just thought I was being cute putting my hands up by my mouth, but there was a lot more going on she didn't know about... and I'm not talking about what was happening in my diaper."

27 SEP 09 - Eve: "Ok, my mom totally busted me in the act here. Dang it!"