Dylan's 4th Birthday

It's hard to believe it, but Dylan is now four years old! We celebrated at home this year and his friend Sterling and his family joined us. Dylan loved all his new toys this year and had a great time.


Nana Van Horn gave him this awesome addition to his GeoTrax train set. This train "moves all by itself," just like Dylan wanted.



Sterling and family gave Dylan this really cool jeep race track set.



Austin loved playing with all the wrapping paper.







Gator golf was a big hit as well.



Aunt Belinda sent these cool balloons and Dylan especially loved the gigantic Spider-man one. Unfortunately, it could not withstand all the bouncing and jumping on it! It was deflated after only two days.







Dylan chose this colorful Thomas the train cake. He still has a fascination with trains and Thomas is his favorite.

Christmas Party

We had a great time at this year's Church/Neighborhood Christmas party. Of course, Dylan loves our neighbors, Jacob, Maddie and Zach. He always wants to sit in Jacob's lap and where Dylan goes, Austin follows!














I have no idea why Dylan wanted to pose this way, but this is what he did when I told him to say cheese for the camera.



The kids are trying their best to remain patient while a Christmas story is read, but they were quite restless and anxious for Santa to arrive.











There was a long and seemingly never-ending line to see Santa.



Mike has a hard time keeping both kids happy. They always both want to be held and climb and wrestle around Daddy!



Almost there!







Dylan told Santa that he really wanted "a train that moves by itself." Austin was too scared to go near Santa this year. He was busily rolling around on the floor nearby. It was close to 9pm and way past their bedtime! Dylan actually asked to go home right after seeing Santa.

Thanksgiving Trip to Kennewick

Mike's Mom hosted a fantastic Thanksgiving this year! Dylan and Austin loved playing with their cousins and finally meeting Uncle Tim! Terri cooked an amazing 26 pound turkey along with all the great fixins and many desserts and treats.



Dylan was sooo excited to sit next to his older cousins, Christian and Hayden.























Pat enjoys this gigantic bag of popcorn Shannon received for her birthday the day before Thanksgiving.











Dylan and Austin spent a lot of time hanging out with their cousin MaKinna. It was nice that she was willing to entertain them!



Uncle Pat and Uncle Tim also helped out in the entertainment department!

Halloween Night

Better late than never! I know I am just now getting around to posting about Halloween in December! Things have been busy lately.

Halloween was so much fun this year! The weather was fairly mild, not extremely cold and the boys loved trick-or-treating. However, the day before Halloween, Dylan fell and suffered from a HUGE fat lip. He ended up dressed as Superman with a bloody looking fat lip. Not exactly fitting for Superman, but oh well!


Austin's dinosaurus costume was a little small, but so adorable it didn't matter. I thought he would protest it, but he actually seemed to like it.















Look how swollen his lip is!



Carving pumpkins was a lot of fun this year. Dylan was able to help out quite a bit too, mostly punching out the carved pieces. He also scooped some seeds and guts out of the little pumpkins, but he was sure not to get his hand inside. The slimy feeling was too gross for him!







The boys are so excited at their first house!




They loved riding in the wagon and it made things a lot easier for us. However, Austin did want to walk for a long time and we ended up straggling behind Mike and Dylan.







By the time we were ending the evening, Superman needed a coat!












You can really see how far his lip was sticking out with this profile shot.



Both kids loved digging into their candy when we returned home. Dylan also loved giving out candy to the remaining kids out trick-or-treating.