We did it!

I have always wanted to make a gingerbread house from scratch. I found an awesome recipe online so I decided to give it a shot this year. Isaac helped me make the gingerbread on Saturday. Tony made the templates and cut out the house and we all helped decorate it! I think it turned out great! Maybe this will become a yearly tradition here..

Happy December

Toothless Taylor

Taylor lost his first tooth today! It has been loose for about 6 months. He did have a cavity in it, so they decided to go ahead and pull it rather than wait for it to fall out on its own. It has been a very exciting day for him. The bummer part about his day happened when he came home & discovered his tooth he took to school for show and tell was missing. We figured it might happen, but he was so excited to show his class so we decided to let him take it. He has since written an I'm sorry note to the tooth fairy. We will see if she shows up! :)

First Girl Party

Love it.

A little late (video now added)

We recently went on two short weekend trips. One to Colorado & the other to Boise. We had a wonderful time both weekends! While we were in Colorado we received an early Christmas present from Tony's dad. A Flip Video camera. This thing is awesome! I wanted to post a few videos from it. I have been trying to add them, however, we need to do a bit of tweeking first! Stay tuned...

****Video is added now. PLEASE forgive me when watching the videos. I am still getting use to the camera & my hands seem to be a bit shaky! The first three videos are of Mike's house. They give some of you who have asked an idea of how many Halloween Decorations he really has. The last one is of a house the boys went trick or treating to in Boise. They tried to tell the owner of the house that their Grandpa Dude loves Halloween & has a crawling guy too :)

Thank You

The boys received a few packages this week from Grandpa Doug. The first package contained this..

The second package contained this..

The boys wanted to say thank you their own way. They colored a Thank You picture for Grandpa. They also asked to have video taken of them, so here you go. Thanks again Grandpa

Doug!

One year later...

Tony in October of 2008

October 2009

We started Spark People in October of 2008. I decided to pull up some pictures from a year ago for fun. I found the top picture of Tony and was shocked at how different he looks now. I can not believe how far he has come. He looks amazing now & I just want him to know that. If it weren't for him, I would not have ANY motivation to be healthier. Thanks baby & great job on keeping your weight off!