Wallo Family Pictures

When we were in California over Christmas break, we took advantage of the whole family being together and Kim and Dan were so kind to have family pictures taken. The talented Melissa White was our photographer and Sean's sister, Tani, was our stylist, make-up and hair artist (which was so fun!). We only spent around an hour taking a pictures and with 6 grand babies all under 3, I thought it went really well! See for yourself...

The whole family with Kim & Dan in the middle

All the grand babies!

Our cute little family!

The "older" grand kids tried to climb the fence to see the horse

At Least McKay was Happy!

After having a wonderful snow-less winter (something that never happens here) it finally snowed last night. Only an inch or so, but McKay was thrilled. He danced in front of the window all morning until I took him out for around 10 minutes - it was soooo cold! I'm glad he got to finally wear his snow pants and boots that we got last fall. I was afraid he would outgrow them by the time it snowed here!

P.S. I just learned that my favorite photo editing site, Picnik, will be closing in April. I'm so bummed, but I'm determined to use it as much as possible until then so you'll be seeing lots of collages like this one!

Has Goodnight Moon run its course?

It appears the McKay has a new favorite book. I think the pictures will speak for themselves.

Sean is 31

Today is Sean's birthday. Poor guy had to work while I had the day off to enjoy with McKay. We did stop by and bring him some nutritious lunch from Jack in the Box. This year I started thinking about what to get Sean some time ago and finally found this great shop on Etsy that has the coolest stuff. Have you checked out Etsy? It's one of my favorite sites.

Anyways I talked with the owner of the shop and she made this new Darth Vader design especially for Sean. He was really excited. I mean, seriously, how cool is this?!?

You've gotta check out Amanda's site by clicking on the picture below.

Happy Birthday Sean! We love you so much and hope you had a nice day.

Spoiled Rotten

McKay has a ton of toys. If you saw all his toys you'd probably think he's spoiled. He probably is since he's currently an only child. The thing is, he really loves his toys so it just makes you want to buy him more toys. Anyways here's McKay playing with some of his current favorites.

P.S. I know it seems like my kid never wears pants. He does. Sometimes.

The Three Little Pigs. We were acting it out tonight.

Then he acts like the wolf and destroys the room.

He also loves this new car slide.

Every night he puts the cars to bed. He's saying goodnight to each car. "Night Blue!"

Cell Phone Spit Up

Are you familiar with the phrase 'cell phone vomit?' It's where people post the pictures that they've just uploaded from their cell phone. Why the vomit part? I have no idea. I mean, they're usually pretty random, but how is that related to throwing up? I've been trying to think of another less-gross-but-cleaver name for this, but as you can tell by my title I didn't really come up with anything. So here's my random collection of pictures that I just took off my phone. It's actually a pretty good recap of the last 6 months.

My parents came to visit while we were in California and we went to Hearst Castle.

McKay got hungry on the drive home to Idaho :o)

Check out these tasty cool treats Betsy made while we were in KC.

At the MS Walk with my friend Whitney and her cute family

McKay acting like Sean and Papa in Ohio pretending to read the paper

Kay and Kai - future best buddies

Okay so these last few pictures were taken while we were in CA for Christmas. This first one was taken at our favorite Italian restaurant that we go to for our anniversary (it was our 8th!). I know it's not the best picture, but it's kinda a nice place and I felt a little funny taking a picture in there. I love all the lights going up to the trees.

Grandpa Dan built the coolest tree house for the kids. They LOVED it! It also feels super safe so I love it too!

They guys enjoying some games. They were really into Settlers.

Sweet boy on the ride back. It takes a lot of energy to entertain him on long drives, but he really does a good job.

A quick stop by my grandparents house was a much needed break from the car for McKay.

The Big Day

We had a really nice day on Christmas. We went to church in the morning before opening presents. We were all really glad that our kids are young enough that they don't know that you're supposed to open presents as soon as you wake up. It was pretty crazy opening gifts. It was right around nap time and the kids were pretty overwhelmed by all their new stuff, so they were all whinny and stealing each others presents by the end. Oh well, I guess all we can do is try to enjoy this age and try not to lose our patience, right?

This Christmas also made me miss all our other family that we're not seeing this year. I've decided if there's a way to make Ohio, California, Texas, and Missouri in one place we'd have the absolute perfect Christmas. Until then, I hope our family in those places had a wonderful holiday season!

Kim and Milla waiting to open gifts

McKay opening some new jammies

The kids playing outside with Big Guy

McKay and Milla have been having a lot of fun together. These two really crack each other up. They both love their bath time!