bonnie & jason

Alissa’s preschool performance

Alissa’s preschool “graduation” this year had only one true graduate, but the school did some little performances to mark the occasion. Here’s what I captured from the event.

Happy 5th Year Anniversary to Us

Today is our fifth anniversary. I figure if we can get through the rigors of being newlyweds, moving in together, getting one kid out of the terrible-twos (although still not out of the terrible-threes), and getting twins to nearly 18 months without killing each other (us, not them… although now that I think about it, them too) in the first five years of marriage, the next 50 years should be a piece of cake. (I reserve the right to revise this sentiment in the teenage years.)

To mark the occasion, here’s an annotated three-picture collage that Bonnie put together:

Sorry for the lapse superfans…

We’ve been a bit MIA lately. With the normal craziness of the kiddies plus the added craziness of new job stuff, I’ve been a bit negligent the last few weeks. However, the lack of actual posts just means this will be one mega post. So, without further ado…

I got the iphone 4 since I had to give back my work blackberry and my new job doesn’t provide a phone, but does give a stipend. Woot! Timing was perfect and I was able to get one the second day they were available by just hitting up the Apple store in the mall first thing in the morning. Just had to wait about 20 minutes. Here’s the first photo I took with the front facing camera:

Not too much all that groundbreaking otherwise, although I did recently get to try out the facetime feature with Christian as he just got one himself. Kids seemed to enjoy it:

For those of you who may have forgotten over the long lapse, I still have lots of kids:

It’s been a while since we did some family photos so we tried to do some this past weekend. I noticed some new landscaping along the Great Highway that I thought might make a decent backdrop that was easy to access. Amanda, however, weren’t very cooperative.

Ashley, however, seemed to enjoy swinging her legs while sitting on the bench.

Alissa also Ashley actually took a few cute ones together:

Amanda eventually warmed up enough to at least walk around and pick up some sticks anyway:

Anyway, after that mostly failed attempt, we ended up just going home and doing naps/feeding. They were in a better mood later in the day so we did a couple quick ones in the backyard with the tripod. As you can see, I was not planning on being in any pictures myself.

While we were back there, I took some random pics while the kiddies played in the sand.

We also went to dinner this weekend to celebrate Bonnie’s mom’s birthday. After dinner, we came back to our place for some dessert. Hard to get everyone looking, but this one isn’t bad.

Finally, a few pictures from today.
Apparently, Ashley watched TV like this for about half an hour. No idea why.

Amanda felt it was interesting enough to blog about however: