Family Pictures

We took Twitchell Family pictures today. Of course, I could pass up an opportunity to get pictures of my own family taken, so here they are. It was a little chili outside but the kids were great. Here are some of my favorites of our family.

Christmas 2010

Wow, Christmas came and went so quickly this year!! I think this was the latest we ever got up for Christmas, which was at about 6:30a.m. In fact, we ended up waking the kids up because everyone else was so anxious to get started. Santa came! Elaina was so excited and opened her presents and everyone else's super fast. Sadly I couldn't find my camera so wasn't able to take any pictures but here are some of later in the day.
Elaina got a tinkerbell blanket from Grandma, which she loves!!!
Everyone was playing Rock Band. Elaina was the vocalist. Elaina got really into it.
Austin had his own microphone.
My cute little rock stars.

Christmas Eve

Tonight was Christmas Eve and so to keep with tradition we got pajamas. Elaina was super excited that her's had Santa on them. And then right before bed, Elaina sprinkled raindeer food (glitter and oats) on the lawn so that Santa's sleigh would make it to our house. Aaron and his family came up for the evening. It's fun to be around family during the holidays. This is Austin's first Christmas and Elaina's old enough to get excited for Christmas so tomorrow should be a fun day. Elaina's been pretty good this year so I think that Santa will come tonight.

Snow Day!

It snowed a ton last night so today was a snow day. It was a lot of fun to get out in the snow. Adam's mom helped Elaina build a snowman and she took the kids sledding. Elaina loved it outside. Austin loved the sled ride so much that he fell asleep while being pulled. Today was our last day in Utah before moving to California for a couple of months so it was fun to play in the snow before leaving it.

Christmas Party at the Glenn's

We had a Christmas party at Grandma and Grandpa Glenn's house tonight. It was a lot of fun!

Elaina loves having a real baby around.

My Two Army Boys

My Little Sitter Upper

Austin started sitting up today for long periods of time on his own. He's growing up too fast. He's really good to sit there until he gets excited and then he flings himself back. So, we are keeping him on the bed or surrounded with pillows. This picture doesn't do him credit because he's leaning forward but all my other pictures turned out way to blurry to post. This has been happening to most of my pictures lately. Time for a new camera.

Christmas Party

We had a Christmas Party at Brooke's Saturday night and Austin and Elaina got to see Santa! Elaina loves Santa! I don't think she understands who he is exactly but she knows that you are suppose to get excited when you see him. She was pretty cute with Santa, just wanted to hang around him. Austin didn't really show any emotion one way or the other when sitting on Santa's lap. But, Austin definitely knew what to do with the presents. He got really excited about the presents and was trying to grab at the paper. He's so cute! It was a fun party. It's always fun to be with family.
All the kids. Elaina was not excited about taking a picture.





Elaina's first response after seeing cinderella, "Oh gosh! So pretty!"

Festival of Trees

Friday night we went as a family to the festival of trees. It was a lot of fun and the trees were totally amazing. Elaina loved the trees!! Some of her favorites were the Toy Story tree, Elmo tree and a tree with a bunch of cars.

Looking at these pictures makes me realize how old Elaina's getting. I feel like I am looking in the future 14 years. Such a sweetheart.

Halloween!!!

Halloween was on October 30th this year and it's too bad because it was a really rainy day. We started the day with the Roe Family Halloween Party which was a lot of fun. Elaina loved having all the kids here. Then we went to the ward trunk or treat (which was outside) and got soaked to the bone. After that we decided it was just too rainy to go trick or treating. It's okay, though. Elaina and Austin are still young enough that the trunk or treat was sufficent. I was kind of disappointed, though. I like showing the kids off and Halloween is the only time that I can truely justify having a bunch of candy in our home. Adam and I have set the candy tithe at 90% this year and sadly I have about finished my share already.

Elaina chose her costume this year. We took her to the Halloween store and the only one she wanted was Tinkerbell. She looked just like Tinkerbell, she was so cute! And she loved wearing the "green pretty". Austin had two costumes. He was a skeleton during the day and then a giraffe for trick or treating. He was the cutest little giraffe/skeleton I'de ever seen.

Here's Austin as a skeleton with his skeleton Grandma and Grandpa.
Elaina and Rocky.
Ready for the trunk or treat.
Elaina was pretty excited about all the candy she got, especially this sucker!

3 Months!

Austin turned 3 months today. He's such a special little guy. So glad that he is a part of our family.

The other day I got Austin out of the bathtub and went back in to dump the water and saw Elaina there. It was pretty funny.

HeeHaw Farms

We went to HeeHaw Farms today with Rocky and Anthony. It was a lot of fun and had a lot of stuff for Elaina to do. We could have been there all day!
Here's Austin.

Elaina got to ride on the animal train.
The petting farm was really cool too, with pigs, goats, donkey, cow, bunnies, chickens and more.