5 more sleeps...

We went to Disney on Ice at the beginning of Dec. Lilah and Farrah had a blast!

Decorating gingerbread houses at Auntie Julie's!

Lilah holding her newest cousin Sophie. She LOVES her!

The best part about Christmas... cookie dough:)

Yummy.

Watching the train go round and round at Art Knapps is Surrey. Declan was thrilled with it!

THOMAS! The kids had a blast on the train ride. But Declan didn't really like the trains face:O

Posing in the Christmas trees.

Lilah's preschool "concert"! They were so cute and sang a bunch of songs as well as recited some poetry:)

She makes me so proud!

A New Neice!!!

Sophie Marie Lehner was born on Mon. Nov.30th (only 10 days late;)! She weighs 8lbs 6.5oz. So exciting to finally get to meet her! I took Cali and Lilah to see her in the hospital when she was just 2 hours old. Lilah can't get enough or stop talking about Sophie and when she can hold her next. Now for an excuse to pop by... chicken chow mein! This was a request from Julie and I'm happy to oblidge:) Congratulations Julie, Greg and Cali!

Pumpkin Carving and a Craft!

We got Holly October craft in the mail the other day! Lilah and Declan wasted no time and got right to work.

This is Lilah's finished project!

Declan's busy working away:) He loved being able to put the stickers wherever he wanted. He did a really good job with hardly any help!

This is his finished project!

He's very proud.

Aaron and Nana (and Lilah) grew this gigantic pumpkin in our garden this year! Lilah couldn't wait to carve it for Halloween so they got right to it.

This year Lilah didn't mind the slime at all! She helped pick all the seeds out so that they could plant them again next year.

Everyone admiring the finished project. It had to be a scary face according to Lilah.

OOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Miss Olivia Teresa!

Olivia Teresa Vaino was born on Mon. Oct.4th at 11:02am! Nana and I arrived at 12:30pm just an hour and a half later! What a surprise:) It was so amazing and I was so glad it was over for Katie. We have been enjoying her ever since! All 9lbs. 2oz!

Big brother Aaron meeting his sister for the first time:)

Olivia has quite the set of lungs on her! She knows what she wants and is not very patient;)

Trying out the soother for the first time. She is a very sucky baby, just like all the rest of her cousins:)

Nana and Olivia.

Puppy giving little sis a kiss. Lots of snuggles with daddy!

She was just a couple hours old here. She's not even wearing any clothes yet:) And she's as bright eyed as ever.

A few more pics.

First day of preschool! Lilah LOVED it and can't wait to go back on friday.

Our special craft project that Auntie Holly sent in the mail!

Waiting for the glue to dry.

The finished project! Thanks again Auntie Holly.

Photography by Auntie Holly!

I was so glad to get these done! It had been a long time since we had family pictures done. I just love Holly's pictures and am always happy how they turn out! Its not easy to get both kids to look at the camera at the same time and smile:) Thanks again Holly! (I have a little something to give you next time I see you!)

August is nearly over:(

Declan's very first close up look at a fire truck! He's been obsessed ever since.

We went to our friend Beckhem's 4Th birthday party at the Ft. Langley fire hall. Poor Lilah was the only girl there but she was right in there with the rest of them!

Everyone got to take turns spraying the fire hose. She loved it!

Decs' is really good with the little chicks. He loves holding them and chasing them around.

Farrah and Lilah holding the 2 day old chicks! Always a highlight around the farm.

This poor chick is hanging on for dear life!

This past weekend Aaron and I and some friends went to Vancouver for a couple of nights away from the kiddies! We ended up zip lining on Grouse Mountain! It was really fun and what made it even more fun was the group we were with... a bunch of yahoos;) (the men anyway)

Here we are doing "the starfish" position to try and slow ourselves down. It doesn't really work all that well and when you hit the spring at the bottom you hit hard. You have to brace your body for the impact. It was fun to race each other though.

Aaron's coming in nice and slow:) Actually on this run you hit the spring and go backwards over the water.

We went for dinner at Joey Tomatoes! Such good food. Travis and Colleen, our travel buddies:)

Aaron and I.

Sweet Declan, always ready with a smile and a tongue hanging out of his mouth. He did say "cheese" for this picture.