SUPER KIDS!!!

My Super Kids!!!

Iron Girl AKA Danica

Wolverine AKA Myles

Spidergirl AKA Lynnaea

Flash AKA Anders

Supergirl AKA Kiersten

Batgirl AKA Devaney

The food at our halloween party - cat and bat homemade chips, pumpkin jiggler adn mummy on a stick.

Spider dip!

Lynnaea at Build a bear for her 8th birthday

One of my favorite outfits - look at her cute smile!

So cute!

Her shirt says batty for daddy - so cute!

Lynnaea at Tepankayi for her 8th birthday.

Sweet Babies

Devaney is so cute!!! She is smiling at me and cooing and her eyes light up when you talk to her. When I was nursing her yesterday, I was talking to her and she would stop eating and smile at me and milk would run down her chin. It was so sweet! She has been so happy too. She has to be the most kissed baby there is - all her siblings kiss her and love her and I have to kiss her 100 times a day she is just so adorable, and snuggly and lovable.

Anders was so sweet yesterday too. I dropped him off for preschool and he jumped out of the car and I said "bye, I love you" and he said "love you mom!" and then he was running to the door - he got about half way there and stopped and came back and said he needed to give me a hug and so I gave him a hug and he started running again and then he stopped and looked sad and walked back and said he wanted me to go to preschool with him. I said I couldn't but I would be back in just 2 hours to get him and so he gave me a kiss and slowly walked toward the door and then he stopped about almost there and waved to me - it was so sweet- that yes I was crying - love that boy!!!

The Primary program was last Sunday, grandma barney and grandpa and grandma rasmussen came to watch. Danica, Myles, Lynnaea and Kiersten played a primary song for the prelude adn they did a great job - I was so impressed they all got up there up in front of the whole church adn played their songs. Danica was the narrator and she did a super job (other than she needed to smile more), and Myles, Lynnaea, Kiersten and Anders all had their parts memorized and did a super job. They sang so well too- Kiersten knew all the words and sang so loud. I was very proud of all of them. Grandma and grandpa rasmussen came for dinner and then stayed to play horseopoly with us. It was a very nice day.

Chubby Cheeks!

Anders loves to play dressup. Today he is dad.

Devaney is smiling all the time now!! SO cute!

Sunset.

Blowing Bubbles

Grandpa babysitting Jack and Devaney.

Cutest Chubby Cheeks Ever!

Thank You, Kiersten!

Devaney is not a good sleeper. She catnaps- a little here and a little there but no really good long naps so I can get stuff done. My kitchen has needed to be cleaned for months now - really cleaned (like wash the fronts of the cupboards, wash the walls, etc) and I thought I would do it while I was on maternity leave - but not with Devaney around. Except for Kiersten. She is the best babysitter. She is willing to sit and hold her and to keep putting the soother in her mouth to keep her happy. That is how I got my kitchen cleaned yesterday. (Except for mopping which I did at 12:30am when I finally got Devaney to sleep for the night - and then I took a bath at 1:00am because the baby was FINALLY sleeping!) And I excerised for 30 minutes today while Kiersten was home to hold her and got the laundry going (it was flowing out of the laundry room and down the hall). But sadly, Kiersten goes to afternoon kindergarten so here I am typing this with one hand and jiggling the baby with the other when I really need to be digging up my potatoes and pulling up the garden. And YES, I know you are suppose to enjoy your babies - and I am - but eventually the house has to be cleaned and my potatoes dug up before they are ruined. She does have the cutest chubbiest cheeks though. Sweet baby.

San Fransico and other California Pictures

San Fransico and the Golden Gate Bridge.

You think I would have learned from last time but I did not and so the pictures are in reverse order again. Sorry.

Here is Kiersten when we got home in her dress from China Town.

Danica and Lynnaea on the top of the train at the Dennis the Menace playground. One of the coolest playgrounds I have ever seen. Kids had a blast. (It is actually in Monterey not SanFran).

Leaving Alcatraz - on the ferry back to SanFran - Danica took this pic.

Alcatraz. It is very run down. They sure don't reinvest the money they make from the tours back into Alcatraz. Or maybe they think it is cooler looking falling apart.

In one of the cells. We were all listening to the audio tour - which was very good- and they talked about bank ROBBERS being locked up. Anders caught that part and he has been dressing up and playing that he is a "ROBIN" ever since!!!

View of the Golden Gate bridge from Alcatraz.

View of SanFran from Alcatraz. It was so hot - the ranger said "welcome to Alcatraz and the hottest day of all of 2010". Yeah - it was scorching.

Inside Alcatraz.

View of the Bay Bridge from the ferry over to Alcatraz. We drove across that bridge on the way home. IT is LONG - the picture only shows half of it.

On the ferry to Alcatraz.

Playing on the beach.

Playing on the beach.

Beautiful scencery on the coast - this is in Caramel on our way to Big Sur.

This is also in Caramel.

Jared and the kids playing in a tide pool. They found crabs, seastars, and other treasures.

Climbing down to the tide pools - this picture does not accurately show how steep it was - I stayed at the top with the baby because it was so steep.

On our whale watching tour that was a disaster. This is the last 1/2 hour when it was finally calm and you could sit outside. Funny story - when we got on the boat Myles wanted to know about putting on lifejackets (the lady bought the tickets from said all kids had to be in lifejackets - but then when we got on the boat they didn't say anything about putting them on) - he wanted to wear one in case we sunk like the Titanic. Jared told him not to worry about it and- "all those swimming lessons I have been paying for will finally pay off" HAHAA - I laughed so hard.

Krill we caught on the whale watching tour. We found lots of krill but no whales eating the krill.

This is where we spent the first 2.5 hours of the whale watching tour. The ocean was extremely rough and you couldn't sit outside without getting drenched from the waves - and it was windy and cold and wet and people were getting seasick and throwing up. Danica felt a little sick and so did Lynnaea - but she fell asleep and so did Kiersten and Anders. All that and NO WHALES!!!

Standing at the top of the steepest hill in SanFran. It may be the steepest but there were ALOT of steep hills. It looked like the cars parked on the hill could roll right down like dominoes!

The curviest road in SanFran. It was crazy to drive down.

Turtle bread loaf at Boudin's in SanFran.

Jared's favorite place in SanFran - the boudin bakery. We got lots of yummy bread and cookies and brownies.

China Town where we were the tourist attraction with our six kids. Seriously - MULTIPLE Asian woman asked me if these were all my kids and kept counting them.

China Town.

Part way across the Golden Gate Bridge. Myles looks so happy because he was worried about there being an earthquake while we were on the bridge.

View walking along the bridge.

On the Golden Gate Bridge. You can see Alcatraz in the background.