Sianara '09!

2009 certainly had it's ups and downs! And by ups I mean throw up and downs I mean toddler throw downs! Just another exciting year for the Striley's!

Everett is finishing the year at a whoppin 25 lbs and Corbin is not far behind at 17.5lbs

Baby's first Christmas

Coco the sneak... trying to get into his presents before Christmas!
If only he could read, he'd know that present is for Everett

Two year old birthday cake face (the boy is 2, not the cake)

First time playing in the snow
(last time mommy goes in the woods to cut a tree down with 2 little babies!)

Our house after Santa came

Christmas party at Grammi and Papa's house, he looks like the next Tony Soprano... he can really wield a bat!

This is the only half way decent picture of the boys on Christmas Eve...

Ev was not in the picture mood

TWO!

Happy Birthday sweet Evy!! Thanks for beginning our family! We are blessed every day to have you in our lives! We are so excited to see you grow and learn.

Love you!
Mommy and Dada

...And for My Next Trick

Happy Halloween!

We went with the Monkey and Banana theme this year. Ev really got into the trick or treating (although he couldn't get out the phrase "trick or treat", just held out his bucket for candy). When we finished with that he got into his skeleton jammies and helped mom and dad pass out candy! After a while he would yell "BYE!" and shut the door right in people's faces, it was great :)

Wiggin Out!

Pumpkin Patch Extravaganza

We took the kiddo's to enjoy a beautiful sunny day picking pumpkins and enjoying the activities at the Pheasant Farms Pumpkin Patch. We fed the goats, sheep, bunnies, and chickens; went on hay rides and pony rides, and ate caramel apples with spiders on our faces.

Bright Lights of Tinseltown!

We took Everett to go see "Where the Wild Things Are"! His first movie on the big screen. We had no expectation about how he would do but he was awesome... his eyes lit up when his little bum sat in that big ole seat with popcorn and licorice in hand (we knew that success would likely depend on how much junk food we ate). I wish I would have taken some pictures of him in the theater but here's one of him before we left.