March 2009

Well, I'm a little late with March pictures so I decided to combine some April fun with them. The highlight for March was a visit to Grandmom Ruth's house in Roswell. Everyone had a great time! For April, Zoe came to visit and we had a busy week. We took Sander and Zoe to the Houston Art Festival, the Houston Zoo-bilee and we celebrated an early Easter by dying eggs. Sander and Zoe had a blast together! Also, we finally landscaped our front yard - woohoo!

Having fun at a nature park near Grandmom Ruth's house

The Roswell Airport

Sander in the Dallas Airport waiting for our plane to Grandmom Ruth's house

Dying Easter Eggs

More Easter egg fun!

Sander LOVED Zoe reading to him!

The Houston Zoo hosted it's annual Zoobilee when Zoe was here. We were able to visit the Zoo after hours and the kids each received a "passport" that they had stamped along our tour of the Zoo.

We took Sander and Zoe to the Houston Art Festival. It was great experience and the kids were able to make their own art projects.

Sander chose not to decorate his car though

Just some fun sculptures at the Festival

We discovered Zoe has an incredible arm for softball on this last visit as she hit every ball out of our yard and across multiple yards!

YEAH! We had our front yard landscaped!

More front yard fun

Of course Sander had to add his own garden ornament - a loader :)

Sander is still showing a huge interest in music although this may not be his shining moment!

Much better!

Well, a bit out of order but more Easter egg dying fun

A rainy day but we still went out to play!

Sander has a ton of fun putting paint on his cars and making tire tracks on paper. A budding artist :)

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

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 :)

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 ;)