Autumn & Kalina

The first big tradeshow of 2012 is Imaging USA.  It was in New Orleans this year, so we all packed up and headed south.  (Well, almost all-Daddy went east to see Auntie Devon, and a little south to golf in Oklahoma)  Mom, Autumn, Jeff, Cait, Ryland, Grandma, Alicia, Matt, and I flew to NOLA.  This was the train ride at the airport.

While Mom and them worked, us kids got to see the more interesting parts.  We went to a park, the Zoo, Children’s museum, and on a boat trip across the Mississippi.  At night we explored the French Quarter and walked on Bourbon St.  Let me tell you, the French quarter was a weird place!  One night there were people EVERYWHERE acting veeeerrrry funny.  (must’ve been becasue the Saints lost to the Niners)  We walked in the middle of the street and saw people wearing all kinds of beads, hats, and masks.  It seems like we ate at restaurants all the time and Mom tried all kinds of new foods.

PoBoy-

Beignets

Autumn “eating” hers really meant she made tracks int he powdered sugar as she licked her fingers.

Avocado, crab and brie omlet

Cafe Du Monde for cafe au lait and another beignet

Mom also had a “special” at an italian restaurant where the pasta sauce was spicy and had crawfish, crawfish etoufee, and red beans and rice.

Here’s a picture of a bridge going over the Mississippi river.  (we drove on it to get to the Best Buy)

The last day we went back to the French Quarter during the day.  We saw a mime, musicians playing on the sidewalk and beautiful decorations.

Next trip-California and then onto Las Vegas for WPPI.  This year, I won’t pee on the balcony!

For Christmas eve we went to Ry Guy’s house.  Auntie Cait made her yummy chicken curry.  This year we were big enough to do special projects.  We made reindeers and beaded snowflakes.  Auntie Cait had to drink all the rootbeer because Jeffrey said it made him burp!

You had to use the special hot glue to make these!

Then we made the snowflakes.  You had to put the small beads on the pipe cleaners.

Mom says busy hands means quite mouths.  Wonder why she’d want that?

Kalina wanted hers to be a rainbow.

Ry and Autumn played with his advent calendar while I finished my snowflake.

Then we read a book together.

Christmas eve picture!

We got to open a couple little gifts.

We got search and find books!

We got bubber too.  It’s a weird thing kinda like play-doh, but it never dries out.

We went home and got our treats ready for Santa.

Milk and cookies for Santa, carrots for the reindeer.

Mom and I have decided that this year we’ll make a better effort to post things. It’s to bad that Facebook has made it so easy for Mom to put up pictures otherwise she might do this more often with me.

To start off 2012 we went to California.  Last year we stayed in Colorado and Mom didn’t really like only video chatting while everyone else was together, so this year she made sure we were there.  Here’s our church clothes!

After church we went to Diane’s house for another Christmas.  Since Diane and Pony didn’t come to Denver this year, we had a few presents to open when we came to California.  We are anxiously awaiting the time to open our presents.  They are under the “Christmas TV”!

Reading a book with Grandma and Grandpa.

Checking out her new bag of nail polishes.

One day we went to San Francisco.  We saw the foggy Golden Gate bridge and visited the California Academy of Sciences.

I was looking for the sea lion in the water.  You should have seen all the bird poop on my sweater-yucky!

From Sea Lions to sting rays!

to fishes

and the white alligator

From above the water to below!

Reindeer in California?  The academy had a couple for use to see!

Break time!

After we came home we went to the Western Stock Show.  We both got our faces painted, I pet the animals in the petting zoo, we rode ponies, played games, and saw lots of horses and cows.  I went first on the ponies.  Autumn decided she wanted to try it after she saw me.

Autumn was very brave.  She went all by herself on her first pony ride.

One night we tried to use our chopsticks for our dinner.