Four

We went from this ....

to this..in the blink of an eye

Taygen turned four years old a few weeks ago. Taygen has come very far in four years and especially far in the past year. I always say Taygen is my hard child, mostly because this poor kid has been unlucky enough to have to deal with some unexpected bumps in the road. From finding out when he was just a few months old that he had a milk allergy to being a toddler with lots of painful ear infections, then to having them cause a delay in his speech. Even with all this he still has such a sweet spirit that brings so much joy to our families life. Taygen is our cautious one being afraid of most things. Just tonight he thought a filter in the pool at his swim lessons was a snake. He is a ball of energy! and like most four year olds has his stubborn and impatient moments. But no matter what this little boy does he still is one of the greatest blessings any parent could ask for. Happy Birthday Taygen We LOVE you!

Busy Busy

This holiday season was very busy for us we did a lot of traveling and a lot of different fun activities with the kids.

Taygen and Corbin enjoying the little train ride down at the outdoor mall in Roseville.

Popcorn and a movie!

Building Ginger-Train houses. It's not hard to guess we are all about trains. The boys really enjoyed eating all the candy before Nana and I could stick it to the Trains.

Keeping with our train addiction. We headed down to sacramento for California State Train Museum. It was actually really cool and I would definitely recommend it.

We also got to go visit the Fire Station. Taygen was pretty apprehensive when we first got there Corbin on the other hand immediately wanted to climb in and up everything.

It was a busy month there but we had a blast!

Merry Christmas on December 4th

We are traveling a lot this year and seeing how we are still a young family we tend to still do a lot of the holidays with our families. I really wanted our little family CJ, Taygen Corbin and I to start making some of our own holiday traditions too. I always hate how you buy holiday specific jammies and then wait till the holiday to give it to them. Then they end up wearing christmas jammies in april because you waited till the end of december to give them to them. So my new traditions will be to do the jammy giving the first week of december! This year with all thats going on I even went a step futher and we did our whole christmas celebration the first week of december. I wanted the kids to have time to play with the cool toys we had gotten them and I wanted to do it before the stress of everything else started so Dec. 4th it was! We had a great time and did all the regular christmas day stuff and we loved it! My only problem was convincing Taygen of what was going on. So I told him santa was stopping by our house on his was to everyone else's and he had to come early:) It worked like a charm.

Our Christmas Eve night they boys have really gotten into hugging each other no complaints here huggin instead of constant fighting is always good!

This was the big present of the year a train table dedicated to trains. We had it all set up before they came downstairs they played with this for a while before we even made it to any of the other presents.

Our mini tree. I didn't want to put up our big tree this year so I did a mini one. It had all our eclectic ornaments on it it was fun and very easy to put up.

Merry Christmas to All!

Soccer!

This year Taygen got to have his first try at a team sport! He was a little apprehensive about the whole thing but at the end he started to really like it. I don't know that he kicked the ball but a handful of times during the games but my goal for him was to let him burn a little energy and be involved with a team. Also to just have fun!

This was the first practice, it took us a while to even get him to go out onto the field

The games were so funny to watch, little kids having no real idea what the were doing and parents on the sidelines trying to give them direction.

We had a good time and I will definitely sign him up again next year. Not because I think he is actually learning the game but just for him to have fun and RUN!

BOO!

We had a fun Halloween season this year. I finally decorated the house a little this year to get us all in the spirit and we did all the regular traditions. Pumpkin carving went well Corbin loved it wanted to dig around in there to help clean it out. Taygen on the other hand didn't want to get dirty I suppose so he was very careful about it.

Of course it did make a nice echo if you yelled inside it:)

Traditional costume picture. Scary Pirate Taygen and the Hungry Shark Corbin

We also had matching glow in the dark skeleton jammies Taygen thought these were awesome and Corbin liked it when they glowed.

Just the Boys

Just some fun pictures of the boys

California Fun

We always like to make frequent trips down to Huntington Beach to get out of the heat. The kids love playing down there and we always have a good relaxing time.

It's always so nice that you need a sweater down there for the chilly mornings and evenings.

Taygen is obsessed with wearing this Thomas hat

There are a lot of airplanes flying around down there, they have the planes with the flags behind them with ads all day long. Corbin has an obsession with airplanes every time he hears or spots one he starts yelling and pointing " oss, oss! ( this is his word for airplane )

This is always a favorite down at the beach house. Riding all the cars trucks and trains along the porch wall. Taygen spends hours doing it and Corbin has starting to join in too.