About Me

Kellin and I have been together since 2000, married in 2006. I am teaching 5th grade and he is an accounts manager for Swanson Bookkeeping. We stay busy, and can't believe that our first born and beautiful son, Aiden will soon be THREE in December!

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Bowling Bash
















Family Fun Night of Bowling and Yummy Cake....





P.S.-Aiden loves to bowl!





December 20th 2010


Aiden's Birthday - We have a toddler now, no more saying he is 20 months or 18 months..he is just a 2 year old for the next year. We went to Dr. Lagoc today where Aiden proceeded to test her greatly and then show off immensly and his stats were...


35 3/4" TALL- Kellin is really bummed cause this "means" he will only be 5'11


28 lbs. and 7 oz- 50% percentile


50.7 cm Head- huge head- surprise!


She says he is great and we know he is...he just loves to test us right now so sometimes we forget. Happy Birthday Buggy!


Adorable Cookie Helper
















For Aiden's birthday we do go bowling as a family...pics to follow... but on the actual day December 20th I wanted him to get to do something special so he had a few friends over to decorate Christmas cookies with and then let them take them home! It was really fun at the party..pics to come...but my favorite part was the morning before when we made them all together. I think even Kellin, who is not a BAKER, enjoyed the messy, fun of cookie cutting and baking. Aiden thought it was so much fun and loved feeding Jackson pieces of sugar cookie dough...what a little stinker he is!





Sunday, December 12, 2010

My little Handy Manny















So we went to Turtle Bay's Members Event last night, we made ornaments, decorated a cupcake, saw SAnta (did not sit with him though) and Aiden made a bird house. It was so cute to watch him and Kellin put it together with the Shasta Woodworkers- he was really proud and keeps saying "I make it" - I of course correct with " Yes Aiden, you MADE it"- the teacher in me loves it so dearly:)

ELF just keeps on hiding!


The ELF just keeps on showing up at our house...and of course he follows Aiden now to daycare too! He is being watched very carefully- (and Aiden loves finding him every morning!)

Sunday, December 5, 2010

VIP Christmas Parade




We were very lucky to watch the Redding Xmas Parade under the cover of the DiMatteos new car in the lovely police department parking lot, that sits on the parade route. Kids loved, we were dry and it wasn't cold!

ELF on the SHELF

ELF ON THE SHELF ANYONE?







So Auntie Emily introduced us to the coolest new Christmas Tradition, it is this book called Elf on the Shelf and every night "Santa" gets a visit from our elf (Who Aiden named RED and we registered at the North Pole)- when Red returns he finds a new place to watch how you do all day and reports back to Santa daily. So every morning we go on an ELF HUNT. So far Red has been hanging out in the living room as we read the book more often and get to know him, but Aiden is loving it! So thanks Em- can't wait to keep the tradition alive.