Lucky Number 7!

Aidan with his new LEGO Star Wars The Clone Wars Gunship

Aidan with his presents

Aidan and Elly on Aidan's 7th Birthday

Aidan blowing out his candles

Aidan and his Speed Racer birthday cake.

January 12th marked Aidan's 7th birthday. I honestly can hardly believe that it has been 7 years since he was born. You really realize how quickly time passes once you have a child. In some ways I can't remember what my life was like before he and Elly were born and in other ways it seems impossible that I can be old enough to have a SEVEN year old. Before I know it he's going to be driving a car, hanging out with his friends and leaving for college!

Aidan decided that instead of a party this year, he really just wanted to go to a waterpark. He LOVES swimming and the water, so it was the perfect idea for him. His actual birthday was very low-key since it was a Monday. He went to school and got lots of attention there, then I showed up to pick him up with a bunch of balloons (which he loved--he secretly loves the attention) and we headed home to quick do homework, etc. Then we headed over to the birthday dinner of his choice, Red Robin and back home to open presents.

I will post about the waterpark in my next blog post. My daughter seems to think it's time for her to get some attention. :)

Elly 7 month pictures Part Deux

Elly's 7 month pictures!

I'm sorry I am so late in uploading these. Elly is already 8 months old and I'm just getting to this but better late than never! :)

Disclaimer: I wasn't that pleased with how these pictures came out. We went to Target like we did for her 3 month pictures, however it was 2 weeks before Christmas and they overbooked their appointments BIG TIME. Our appointment was an hour late. Plus, we did our Christmas pictures first, so by this time, Elly was just over having her picture taken.

There are a few good ones, so it's good enough but overall, I wasn't very happy with them.

This first set are my favorite ones.

We Wish You a Merry Christmas!

Aidan and Elly on Christmas morning

Aidan and Elly at Grandma's house

Aidan, Elly and Auntie Ekua on Christmas Day.

Elly with her presents from Santa--Christmas morning. Notice she has a bow in her hand. :)

Aidan with one of his gifts from Santa--Christmas morning

Well, the holidays have come and gone. It was a whirlwind as usual. It always amazes me how we spend months of preparation just for it to be over in about 15 minutes. :)

This was Elly's first Christmas. Christmas Eve was spent at home. I made a large dinner and we watched movies.

Christmas morning we awoke to Santa's arrival. I was expecting Aidan to burst into the bedroom at 5am, but thankfully he slept in. He made sure the minute he was up that we were aware there were presents waiting though! So we gathered around the tree and opened gifts in our pajamas. Elly really had no interest in the presents other than the bows. She was obsessed with the bows.

It's funny because if there is a sales flyer, newspaper or magazine within her reach, she will rip it to shreds, but the minute we wanted her to rip open a present she wanted nothing to do with it. Isn't that how it always goes?!

In the afternoon we headed down to Grandma Gwen's house. She prepared a delicious meal and had a huge, gorgeous tree. We opened lots of presents! Needless to say, neither Aidan or Elly were hurting for gifts by the time we were done!

As always, we are reminded of how fortunate we are to have wonderful families and our health and happiness.