who's having more fun?

Just a month ago our family welcomed its newest members: Addie & Ari, twins born to three proud big brothers and two beaming parents. These girls are already so dearly loved-and how could you not? I love this sweet picture of them.

Mimi and Poppo made their way out from Chicago to meet the girls and Poppo stopped by for a little roughhousing. 

Judging by these pictures I couldn't help but wonder, who's having more fun?

adventures in arizona: mt. lemmon hike

Gosh, it's been way too long since I took some photos of the kids. Our laptop died right before Thanksgiving, and along with it lots of my photos. I know, I know, I need to organize and back them up somewhere-actually I think I do have them backed up somewhere...I just don't know where that is, does that count? 

So anyway, when it came to putting together our Christmas card, the only recent family picture I had was from our Thanksgiving trip to Denver. Thanksgiving is during November, as you all know, and this year Dave decided to do Movember. I told him it was his choice, though I refused to kiss him most days during the month and counted down till December 1st. I see the point..I just hate kissing a porcupine. 

I won't repost that photo here...I had to use it as my Christmas card photo people. But, I did find these snapshots from a hike we took together on Mt. Lemmon  in January..or was it February this winter.

a visit with poppo and mimi

dave's parents (poppo and mimi) were able to make it out to tucson for a good long visit over the thanksgiving holiday. we all got to hang out together, take a trip to the zoo, go for a hike, and of course, eat! here are some highlights.

 i love corbin's face here! i mean, who doesn't love giraffes?

the funny thing about this picture was there was no animal in the habitat to look at, but we must have stayed there for almost 5 minutes!

b, taking after his uncle paul and watching the turtles swim around.

 feeding the fish..who sadly were not that interested.

beniah fit perfectly in the cousin's red car. he loved driving around!

eric twirling beniah around in the swing. they both had so much fun with this.

reading time with poppo.

pre bedtime with mimi brings books and giggling!

our black friday hike in sabino canyon. we found a gorgeous spot to have a picnic.

a little help from dada.

exploring around our lunch site.

uncle dave/dada teaching the boys how to skip rocks.

photo journal: fall

its finally starting to cool down here, which i love. a couple pictures to get you through our fall season.

beniah loved going to dave's games and cheering on the lady lynx. i'm just amazed at how much hes grown since last season! by the end of the season he was walking around the bleachers and sitting with the students (mostly girls) and giving them high fives. he decided he was too cool to sit with his mom, so he's chilling on the stairs and watching intently. when everyone burst into applause beniah followed suite. dave said he saw him from the bench and it took all he had to not laugh!

on to the pumpkin patch. every year we go down to agua linda farm with the arizona cousins for some pumpkin patch fun. this year, dave's cousin lucy, was able to join in the fun. i think beniah's favorite part was the hay maze. he kept running around and around and getting stuck-then he was inspired by other kids jumping over the walls...that helped him get to the middle to ring the bell faster!

 here is corbin joining in our family picture! too cute.

and how can you talk about the fall without bringing up halloween? while i am not a fan of halloween it was a TON of fun to watch beniah follow all the other kiddos around and get sooo excited about his candy. luckily he's still young enough that he forgot about it the next morning. :) check out our ryu from street fighter.

beniah goes to college

all photos courtesy of kristina henry