There are not many foods Phoenix likes...spaghetti is one she definitely does!

Welcome to Jurassic Park! Last May we went with Grandma and Grandpa and had a great time.

Drum roll please...tada! Here's a new post. Took long enough eh!? It was such a beautiful day I had to take some pictures of the kids in our backyard under and in the apple trees.

Alvarez kids get munked

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EVA


Reina


ENOCH


LAURYN

October Adventures

Hey, aren't you impressed. It's only been six weeks since my last post.

October was a fun month. It started out with the city doing some road work in front of our house. Enoch totally enjoyed watching all the trucks...

but I didn't really enjoy the view out my front door.

Halloween excitement began and the debate about what to dress-up as was loud. Enoch was thinking of being Spiderman....

but went as Dash for his preschool party....



and then 20 minutes before he was to go trick-or-treating, he decided he wanted to be a cowboy, so we threw a costume together.


The girls choices were a little more permanent as was Paul's. He made this costume last year for a work party and we neglected to take pictures so he wore it again.

Vampire

Mulan

Cinderella

Optimus Prime

Reina and I also attended Enoch's preschool Halloween party. I think all the kids had a blast.

Auntie Angie came over early on the 31st and brought her Xbox. The kids (and adults) had a great time playing RockStar to the songs of the Beatles. The adults were so into it we neglected to take any pics of ourselves.

Rosa and Aaron came up for Halloween and the cousins had a fun time trick-or-treating together.

Can you guess what the kids pumpkins are supposed to be? Grandpa and Grandma can't guess because they already know.

Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!!

I know, I know. Here's 2009.

Since Joanne has posted twice since my last post I felt the need to get my act together so here is the last eight months in brief:

January the kids enjoyed their new sleds from Christmas and the snow that stayed and stayed and stayed.

In February, before we cut Paul's hair, we spent an hour straightening it to see what it would look like. Different look for him.

In March Paul took Enoch and Lauryn to the Edmonton zoo.

They were fortuante enough to be there when Lucy, the Edmonton elephant was out for her daily walk.

In April we celebrated Easter and had fun coloring eggs and body parts. Reina spilt the blue coloring and then stepped in it.

Enoch discovered that using his hands to take the eggs out of the dye gave him "Hulk hands." He was quite pleased with the results.

May found us outside more as the weather turned nicer. The kids enjoyed the picnics and the dirt. Love the pose.

Enoch loved the dirt a little too much.

May was also Reina's 2nd birthday. She has pretty good aim for a two year old.

June is another birthday month for us as we celebrated Paul's and Enoch's birthdays.

Transformers are the new big thing at our house.

July we went to the Lund reunion with Grandpa and Grandma. Jo at least you took a picture. I don't have any.

Before we left Calgary we went to the Calgary zoo and saw the koalas.

July also brought a visit from Rosa and Aaron and the cousins. We had a blast with 10 kids in the house.

In August we visited Rosa and Aaron, and got a chance to try the new Raymond pool. We were too busy having fun to take any pictures, but here is a cute one of Reina enjoying ice cream.

September arrived with everyone going back to school. Enoch started preschool and loves every minute of it. He wishes he could go everyday to play "pirates" with his friend Marco.

After having everyone home for two months, then just Reina and me at home, we find it quiet and she misses her siblings, especially Enoch but she knows how to liven things up when everyone is home again.

We also have harvested the apples from our two trees in our backyard. We have more apples that we know what to do with. Apple crisp, apple pie, applesauce, apple juice.... We haven't even picked the crab apples yet!

Happy Valentine's Day

We thought you would enjoy this little gift of love. Eva thought it was great and wanted to share it with everyone.

Have a Happy Valentine's Day everyone!!!!