Monday, March 9, 2009

February 2009

February was a busy month. Grandma and Grandpa Denault visited while Matt and I got away for a few days to Colorado. Also, Pop Ed and Mama Sallie came to visit for a few days. We celebrated Kyle's 14th Birthday while Zoe turned 8! And, Sander celebrated Go Texan Day :)


Sander and Kirby hanging out


Grandpa and Sander waiting for Grandma shopping!

Sander dressed up for Go Texan Day. He LOVED the boots :) Our little Cowpoke!

Sander's best buddy, Kyle

Having fun, playing scrabble

More scrabble fun on a rainy Saturday

The Tormollen boys


Happy 14th Birtday Kyle!


Skiing in Vail, Colorado

Breckenridge, Colorado skiing

Matt resting with his board

Just hanging out in Breckenridge

In Vail, Colorado for a day

A snowy day in Breckenridge

Saturday, January 31, 2009

January 2009

Happy 2009! We had a great start to the New Year. Some highlights of the month were Matt and I running the Half Marathon and my birthday weekend! Otherwise we took the month to catch up and reorganize for the new year.

Our friends the Farrell's came for a surprise visit on my birthday. Sean made an amazing birthday cake that we all indulged in!

Matt and another husband planned a super fun night out to celebrate my birthday and my girlfriend's birthday as they are just a few days apart. We had an amazing dinner and then we went to a surprise party at a local wine bar. Another friend has a birthday at the same time and she came to the party as well. Here we are celebrating!

Here are the husband's of the birthday girl trio

Jennifer and I before we blew out the candles on our cake

Matt and I having fun at the wine bar festivities

Eating dinner before the surprise party at the wine bar.

After the Half Marathon we went to a local pub for a beer to celebrate. Very family-orientated place as there were several other parents celebrating with their young children :)

Here we are with our finisher medals - woohoo!

Sander and Ashling are catching butterflies

Our neighbor gave us the box from his new grill for Sander to play in. He's still enjoying it after 3 weeks! Luckily it hasn't rained yet :)

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Merry Christmas 2008

Christmas morning was fun at the Tormollen's this year. Zoe and Sander enjoyed tracking Santa online the night before Christmas and were very excited to see everything he left under the tree although Evan and Kyle were the first to wake up!
Merry Christmas!
Opening some really cool construction workers from Pop Ed and Mama Sallie

Playing with the crane from Pop Ed and Mama Sallie

What a cool Fire Station from Santa!

Zoe and her tree house from Santa filled with her favorite calico critters!

I got a new necklace for Christmas :)

Evan was impressed with the quality of the stocking's this year ;)

Zoe got some "Mango Monkey " calico critters from Santa that she played with in her new tree house!

Another Hess Truck from Grandma and Grandpa - yay!!!

Matt and Kyle hanging out at Christmas

I got "Jack the train mommy!" said Sander as he opened his stocking :)

We had finished opening stockings and Sander just went into the room with the Christmas tree and sat in this chair and waited for us to begin with the "big" presents!

The night before Christmas at 1:00am!

This was taken at about 1:00am after Matt had finished putting toys together for about 3 hours...he's just a little tired ;)


Christmas Vacation

Here are just some random pictures from the week with the kids before Christmas. It was a rainy week so we had to be creative with our time :)

The kids at the Insect Exhibit at the Museum of Natural Science

Looking at butterflies at the Butterfly Exhibit


Making Christmas cookies!

Kyle and Sander discussing their next move in the kids wrestling match.


Attacking Kyle!

Sunday, November 30, 2008



Sander had a lot of fun playing with his cousin Izzi at Thanksgiving. Here is just one of the many games they played. Per Matt, its called "The Bucking Bronco".


Thanksgiving 2008

Matt, Sander and I went to New Jersey to visit with my family for Thanksgiving this year. We crashed at my sister Michelle's house while my sister Cheryl and her family as well as my parents visited too. We all had a good time...till next year!!

The Denault, Hammond, Peruffo and Tormollen Families


The Denault Tribe

Sydney, Sander and Izzi hangin' out

Jake and Sydney showing us their moves

Sander didn't quite enjoy the family picture time

The happy Denault grandchildren - Corey, Heather, Sydney, Alexa, Jake, Izzi and Sander

Just taking a juice break!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Oh how the years change us!

I don't think Izzi liked sharing her sister