Turner Family Xmas 2010

We celebrated Christmas with the Turner side of the family last weekend. Brian, Val, and Tyson are heading to Wisconsin, so we celebrated early with everyone. It was a good time and the boys had lots of fun playing with their cousins. All of their new toys are currently spread out over the living room floor. The cats do not like the R/C T-Rex that Noah got. Which I had to torture them with today for fun. LOL! :D

More holiday fun is just around the corner for us!

Happy Holidays From Our Crazy Clan To Yours!

With Love,

Shawn, Faith, Noah, Brandon,

Tank, Ginger, & Jasmine

Cookie Decorating & Snowmobiling!

We've had some fun during all of the snowstorms that we've gotten this month. Shawn took Noah out on the snowmobile around the neighborhood the day after his birthday party. It was a bit too cold for B so I kept him inside, but man was the lil B itching to go! Noah had a lot of fun and Shawn can't show him he's going now without a fit ensuing from said 3 year old. B even throws one, especially if you take him off said snowmobile after he cimbs on it. SIGH... I don't think I'll ever get to move to warmer state now. :(

The day before Blizzard 2010 as it shall be called in our house, I decided to pick up some cookie making supplies to try making xmas cookies with the boys. B had more fun eating the cookies then decorating them. Noah as you can see was decorating, but then got annoyed at Momma for taking too many pictures. Two words for that "Tough Cookies". Momma takes pictures, deal with it. LOL!

Captain Noah's 3rd Birthday!

How did our little baby boy turn 3 already? I know I say this every year, but I really don't understand where the time has gone. Is it always gonna go this fast? Thank goodness I take lots of pictures!

His birthday party was a pirate theme this year. I must say it was a hit. There was sword fighting abound that day! Thank you Mom & Dad for bringing the foam swords & eye patches. The kids (and adults) loved them!

E - AH!!!!!!!!

A Recap in Pictures

Collages of our adventures from the summer through the fall.

Brandon's birthday

Como Zoo

4th of July Weekend

MN Zoo and September Fun

October Disney Trip

Halloween Weekend

November

Musings of a 3 Year Old Boy....

I SWEAR I have nothing to do with any of these fun new things Noah likes to say. NOTHING at ALL....

"Mommy you get back jack"

"Daddy, I need to talk to you"

"Brandon, get back here! I need to talk to you!"

Noah: "I want something!" Mommy: "what do you want Noah?" Noah: "Something!"

When asked to eat his tortilla: "I can't Daddy, it's too big" OR "I can't Mommy, it's too small"

"Mommy, you stay here." As he puts me in the kitchen and closes the gate we use to keep Tank out while we eat.

"Mommy!!! Brandon spilled on the ground!" When Brandon threw up.

"E-AH!!!" While sword fighting

"No... That's silly..."

And the list will go on....

Happy Friday!

Cough cough....

Man is this thing dusty!! Yes, I know I'm a slacker with this blog... Yes, I know I s*ck. But life has been so busy we are lucky to know which way is up! I think things are finally calming down a bit here which is wonderful. I could not tell you where the summer or fall has gone. It has literally blown by! I'm finally catching up on pictures of our family now that I've gotten all my client ones done. Which reminds me I need to update my photography blog too. Jeez...

So here's a quick synopsis of life since our last post...

Noah keeps on amazing us with his vocabulary and his fascination with "reading" letters, numbers, drawing, dancing, etc... He started a gymnastics class last week and seemed to really like it! So we'll see what happens with that. We've got his 3rd birthday party this weekend and I'm sitting here thinking to myself "How is my baby 3 already?"


Brandon FINALLY started walking! And now there is no stopping that boy! We found out he is far-sighted and he got glasses at the end of September. He looks like a little scholar in them it's so cute! He also thinks he's a comedian and will not stop if you laugh along with him. His latest thing that he started last night is to "jump". Which means he bends his knees and pops up, but never leaves the ground. Then he giggles and claps his hands. It's pretty darn cute!

As for Shawn & I, we are doing fine. Work has been so busy this year, that we took a kid free vacation to our favorite place in October. It was some R & R that was greatly needed. We hung out with some friends and also just us! It was heaven! We missed the boys terribly though. Since we've been home it's been crazy! Between work, photography, and the boys we seem to not have enough time in the day. But now at work we're heading into the year end freeze for technology so our jobs are lightening up for the rest of the year. Which is really really really nice.

I'm working on getting the rest of the summer & fall pictures up on the web album. But I've gotten some of October and most of November done already so make sure to check them out!

Till next time! (which will NOT be 4 months from now... LOL!)

Updates #2 - June!

June

June was filled with a trip to TX, Lil B's birthday, graduation parties, B's birthday party, Noah's first movie theater experience, and a trip to the zoo. Quite a lot! So let's get started!

Texas!!!

Mom and I headed down for what hopes to be a yearly girls weekend trip with Jaime. :) We had a ton of fun just being together. There was a lot of drinking involved, plus some evil torture of making me workout in the extreme heat & humidity by Jaime, the beach in Galveston for the sandcastle competition, lots of outdoor music, Sex and the City 2 party & movie, and more drinking.... MMMMM white sangria in a juice box! :D Did I mention we did a lot of drinking??? LOL!

Pics are in the June album!

One of my favorites from the weekend... The three of us drenched at the Friendswood Music in the Park on Friday night!


I also took some updated photos of Jaime, Charlie, and the girls. They haven't gotten a chance to get a picture of the 4 of them together. Just the 3 of them when they got Kirby so we needed to get one with Sammers in it too. Here's my favorite of the day. It was kind of dreary, but we got it to work!



Can't wait to do that again! It was such a fun weekend!! :)

More to come on the rest of June. But this lady is tiiiirrrreeeeddddd.