January 2011

Here are a few photos from January! Sorry it's been so long since I've posted anything here! It's been a busy beginning of 2011. Enjoy:

Making bear cookies:

Grandpa's visit to California:

Visit to Santa

Brayden has been asking to go "say hi to Santa". He wants to tell Santa that he wants a Mr. Potato Head for Christmas! We took him to the Christmas Wonderland at Bass Pro Shops today. He was able to see a train, drive remote control race cars and monster trucks, shoot at targets with a toy BB gun and also a nerf bow and arrow!

Brayden and McKenna also got to sit on Santa's lap for a picture! The kids weren't so sure about this Santa (he was a bit grumpy). Neither of them cried and so we considered it successful!

3 months old

McKenna will be 3 months old this week on December 14th!

She weighs in at 13 lbs 5 oz.

She can sit in her Bumbo chair now and enjoys playing on the floor.

She is starting to smile lots more!

Brayden loves playing with her!

Christmas Light Parade

Brayden is fascinated with Christmas lights so we decided that he would enjoy a light parade.

We went over to downtown Pleasanton for the annual parade. It was a beautiful evening, no need for coats! Brayden did so well waiting for the parade to begin. His favorite parts were the bands and all the decorated cars and trucks! McKenna slept through most of the parade...the life of a baby!

Happy Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving at home this year! We had a wonderful day! Brian deep fried a turkey and made homemade apple pie! The kids played, we took a nice walk with the dog, we hung up Christmas lights, and ate a delicious meal together! On Friday, Cindy went shopping while Brian and the kids played at home!!

Blizzard

Brayden

McKenna

Busy making pie

injecting the turkey with marinade, yummy!!!

The frymaster

How did we ever learn to carve turkey's without the internet??

Happy Thanksgiving!!
"Brayden's" Christmas Tree...that's what he calls it!

5th Anniversary

Brian and I celebrated our 5th Wedding Anniversary on November 20th!

Hard to believe it has been 5 years already!

In 5 years, we have lived in 2 states, Brian has been deployed to Iraq once, and we have 2 beautiful children! God is good and we look forward to many more years and blessings to come!

The beauty about having an anniversary in November (and a husband who's thinking)...you can use the flowers he gives you for your anniversary to decorate for Thanksgiving also!

Love you Brian!

New Rain Boots!!

The rainy season has sort of begun here in California, at least we have had few rainy days!
We decided that we should go get Brayden a pair of rain boots, so he could play outside when it was wet without getting his tennis shoes all wet! He picked out the tractor rain boots! He wants to wear them everywhere!

We also know that they will get plenty of use in Washington!

Visit with the Cousins!!

Uncle Adam, Aunt Katie, Judah, and Levi were flying to Colorado from Michigan for a visit and we didn't want to miss out on Brayden and McKenna having the chance to see all their cousins at once...so, Cindy, Brayden, & McKenna flew out too! It was so much fun to see all 6 kids together playing. It was chaos, but so much JOY! The only thing missing was Brian.
Six cousins, all 2 and under.....

Waiting for our Michigan cousins to arrive!

Eating Breakfast with YaYa

Sure 4 boys can fit in 1 bathtub

Aunt Katie and McKenna

The babies of the family

Trying to take a photo with 4 two year olds and 2 infants!!

Family photo (minus Brian) :(

Levi and Judah Dorband

Brayden and McKenna Rasmussen

Xander and Axl Dorband

The Big Boys

Xander, Brayden, Levi, Judah, McKenna, & Axl

YaYa and ALL her grandkids!

A Balloon war with Xander, Brayden, and YaYa

This snow is neat...we don't have any of this in California!