Sorry I haven't blogged for ages! It seems hard for me to find time to blog. I have a goal to add a blog with my artwork on it so that I can have an updated portfolio online. I am super excited! We'll see how it goes.

I can't believe how fast our kids are growing up! Here is an updated picture from a few months ago. Jonathan is loving Kindergarten and Samantha loves preschool. She wants to be just like her brother. She tries very hard to do everything he can do - he, he. Little Julia tries real hard to be just like her sister. So cute! They take good care of eachother.

Birthday Surprise

When I had finished the elk drawing for Josh,

we had talked about having a couple more to make a set of drawings that looked cool in his office. I was able

to do these without him noticing, and he was excited when I gave them to him on his birthday! YAY! I love it when I can surprise him!

Jonathan's Transformer Birthday

Jonathan got a new bike for his birthday & an alien maker. He was pretty excited! The bike did not have training wheels at first - but after trying for a whole day we tracked some down for him. Now he can do it by himself. I can't believe he is already 5! It will be even crazier when he starts Kindergarten.

Jonathan wanted a transformer party and cake. This is what I came up with. It is not as dramatic as I had hoped because they were all out of black frosting at the store and it took a lot more food coloring than I had thought to make the frosting darker. Jonathan loved it though and that's all that mattered! It was devoured in a matter of minutes - is all that work worth it??? I think so.

For the party, we had a bunch of friends and played transformer bingo and transformer hide and seek. It got a little crazy at times - but the kids had a blast! I am looking forward to having our basement finished so we have more room for large groups such as this . . . hopefully soon!

A Very Rigby Christmas

We got to spend Christmas

at Becca's house in Rigby, Idaho!

The drive to and from got a bit snowy, but it was worth the effort. My mom and sister Katie

were able to come, and we had

a big party!

It was really fun to see Aliya and Julia together,

They are a lot of like! One noticable difference is that Julia is a couple pounds heavier. She did like to crawl on top of Aliya too - which she did not like very much.

We found a present from Santa under

the tree on Christmas Eve, and Jonathan got sooooo concerned. We figured out that Santa had come early, but realized his mistake and left quickly. He didn't leave all of the presents and was coming again that night!!! Oooops.

On the note that we left for Santa and his reindeer, Jonathan made sure to note Santa's mistake for him. It was pretty cute!

Funny Faces

I tried a photo shoot with the kids to get some cute pictures for holiday gifts, and this was one of Jonathan's funny faces.

Here if Samantha's attempt at making a funny face like Jonathans!

Leaves and cousins

Jonathan and Samantha had a fun time playing in the leaves and Grandma's house with their cousins Nathan, Ryan and Annabel. They were covering eachother with leaves and laughing their heads off! Then they tried to bury each other.