The Zen Life

Elijah LOVES to get into the laundry baskets when we are doing laundry. Often we will give him "rides" with the clothes as we are taking them upstairs.











On this particular night, Elijah thought the basket looked like a great place to catch a nap!













Meredith took some notes from her brother!











In the playroom, we have a basket of "her" toys. I think she was trying to tip it over to get to the toys and just decided it would be less work for her to get in!

Oh boy.

So, Elijah--ever the little industrious boy--decided Meredith was hungry. She was napping at the time . . .





I had thought Elijah had gone upstairs to get his blanket, until he came down with this (empty) in his hand announcing "He has had ENOUGH!" (Elijah is not so sure about pronouns--so everybody is a "he"--especially Meredith).













I said: "Elijah, did you give those to Meredith?"
Elijah: "Yeah, he was Hungry!"










Me: "I think she was tired; she was napping."













Elijah: "Nope, she was hungry; but she's had ENOUGH!"













Meredith is actually pretty tickled about the breakfast in bed.











Elijah decided to join her!











Ah, well. No harm, no foul!

We decided to turn our back family room into a game room. The kids got XBox 360 and RockBand2 for Chanukah--so we got them a new HDTV to hook it up to (the front family room's TV is hooked up to the Wii). We brought in our full size Air Hockey table from the garage, and brought up this game table from the basement (it has interchangable tops for Knock Hockey, Billiards, Ping Pong, and foosball). Elijah fell in LOVE with Pool!
It is a bit small for the older boys--although they still love to play it --but they are trying to convince us to get a full size Pool table! (We did find a full size pool table/ping pong table for a really great price--so stay tuned!!).

We rang in the New Year--and Garrett's birthday--with an Awesome sleepover party complete with Mimosa's (non-alcoholic for the kiddos), chips, candy and Hot Fudge Pound Cake Sundaes (Garrett's own creation)--YUM!!




Happy Happy Birthday!
















Garrett is our X-Games, Skateboarding Dude--he was thrilled at this gift Jonah picked out for him: a skateboarding computer game that uses a mini-skateboard as the mouse (WAY COOL!)












Party Time!
















HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!--Ryan celebrating 2009--check out the streamers in mid fall! We all had a blast with the poppers!

















iTunes to go with Garrett's new iPod Nano (which he, by the way, had eloquently engraved with "School Sucks!" on the back!)!!











Mike with the *real* Mimosa! Happy New Year!!



















Jonah continuing the Celebration into the wee hours of the night (we didn't go to be until about 3:30 am!)!

















Our champagne flute from our wedding--used often and well (Did I mention how much we LOVE Mimosas?)!