Yuliya turns 4 rainbow party!

Yuliya turned 4 on march 21st, to celebrate we threw a rainbow party,

 rainbow food

 1000 origami peace cranes rainbow colored

 rainbow rice for each kid to make their own homemade Find it!

Homemade rainbow cake :)

Sleep over

Sometimes its nice to share a room

first haircuts!

Cash and Yuliya get their first haircuts! 4 yrs old and 20 months. No more hippie hair for my baby boy

Pretending to sleep at dinner

Poor Cash, this is when I decided he needed a hair cut, when he looks so pretty with a ponytail. haha

Friends in January

Playing with Houston at the Children's museum, Who thinks Cash needs a hair clip?

Yuliya and Sierra playing dress up

Yuliya and Sierra Lemonade stand

Yuliya and Art

 sticker face 12/2009

Now my first child is much like her mother in that she loves art. The only thing is, she seems to enjoy her body/face as a canvas more than most people. I guess I should just be thankful she stays away from walls. Previously she didn't have a brother to spread this art to, this is the second time that I have captured when he has fallen victim to her creativity on film. This is what she did today 1/12/2011 but I've also posted some of her past acts of body art.

sticker art the consequences of sitting next to your sister for a 15 minute car ride.

 Diaper cream art june of 2009

 Sharpie art april of 2009

Finger painting june of 2008

Order

This is what posing for a picture looks like with two toddlers

Dont you hate...

When nobody helps you put your jewelry on??

Winter

Winter months, you never stay long, but we appreciate you,  with our snuggly hats with ear flaps and long fluffy scarves. Visit again soon. And Happy Holidays :)

Merry Christmas!

 

stocking dumping fury!!!

 

cash super excited about his new drum

 

christmas morning at kays, going on 18? yrs now

 

 

mid morning break, too many presents to open, this diva needs her rest

 

this does NOT look like a sharing face to me...what do you think?

 

Dorenda came to visit me! and hold my child like a sack of potatoes! We miss you Jiff, visit us more often :):)

 

Construction workers make pirate faces....I read it somewhere.

As usual, Christmas was a blast! Thank you for everyone involved, whether you cooked, cleaned, wrapped, bought, pushed shutter on a camera, laughed, or opened a gift we loved your company. We are thankful for you in our lives.  We didn't get to see all of our family but hope to before the year ends. Yuliya and Cash love their gifts! Especially the hats :)  I got an awesome robe! Chris a new texans camp out chair. We narrowly escaped a few meltdowns, just feed them more of Chris' quad chocolate chip cookies...that'll fix it right?