Brian came home from SxSW today. We were all so happy to see him.

Our cousin Carla just sent this to us. Funny we got this in the mail the day I put up a 3yo pic of myself :). Carla also said that if I stopped dying Liv's hair blonde she would look JUST like me. Cute.

I was about 3 or 4 in this picture. Love the huge gardenia from our yard in my hair and the strange hair thing going on :).

This was is one of my favorite pics. It was taken right before Guavaween in the early 90's.

Check out Jack's 4yo preschool picture.

Here is a school pic from his last year of preschool.

This was Tor's first year of summer camp. He did really well. He learned how to swim and put his head under water. He gained a lot of self confidence.

Jack's two front teeth were loose and about to fall out.

This was before his two front teeth fell out. Here are more baseball photos.

Doesn't he look like a real soccer player with that curly hair? I just love this pic of Jack. It is the first pic I scanned with my new scanner Brian got me for Christmas :).

On Thursday Jack had a half day at school due to Parent Teacher Conferences. We decided that would be a perfect day to go to the New York Botanical Gardens to see their Holiday Train Show. We were right, hardly anyone was there. We had a great time at the trains, especially Livi. She LOVED it.

That day was one of the coldest we have had this winter so far. The high was in the upper 20's. It was freezing. The train show is in the conservatory and it is a balmy 70 degrees and humid. It is always nice going into the show but quite a shock walking across the gardens to the Children's Adventure Garden in the freezing cold after.

Here the kids are playing in the garden.

I love, love, love Livi's new boots. Aren't they the cutest?

We went to the mall to meet Santa today. Livi was terrified, poor thing. She is terrified of Disney Characters (big costumes) but not of princesses (pretty girls). I assumed she wouldn't be afraid of Santa this year because he just a big man. I assumed wrong.

The boys loved meeting Santa and telling him what they wanted though.

Here are pics from 2008 we took and some they took. Here are the ones from 2007 and the ones from 2006.