happy hanukkah!

we had a fabulous hanukkah celebration this year!!

mom and i fried 80 latkes!!!!!  i gotta say, i gave up before the end but my momma is a latke machine!

the beautiful yano, shazamm and vivi.  

i love my family.

beautiful sisters.

a feast!

kid table

the ladies!

love for rito

waiting patiently for presents :)

mega camping extravaganza

6 families + camping + buescher state park = great times!!!!

thanksgiving days

we have had a fun thanksgiving break around here.  we have been talking about all of the things we are thankful for and spending fun times with the fam.  here is some footage of these days:

sunny, wills and i spent the day before thanksgiving in a baking frenzy... two different kinds of cookies!  here is an excerpt from our our food network pilot.


gan gan, daddy and uncle ross took the kids on a walk and came upon the train tracks at the perfect time!


nothing's better than a round of catch with gan gan.


and no blog post is ever complete without a dance video!


we are all thankful for all of you!

happy halloween!!!!!!!

construction dudes ready to hit the streets

wills really perfected his pose.

moew!!

which one is which?

best buds

best buds part II

this should be on a warning poster:  halloween, it makes 'em CRAZY!!

these days

i love this. 

our happy new year rosh hashanah dinner.  we talked about the past year, and made goals for the next one (sunny:  learn to play violin, wills:  learn to write the alphabet).

lucky wills got some special mammaw time when sunny went back to school a couple of days before he did.

first day of kindergarten.

we'll go out of this post on a musical note (please disregard poor momma's attempt at a singing voice!):

the hoppers

it's the simple things.

dancing machines

enjoy the musicality of these two movement gurus.





after a costume change...

Happy Birthday!

there was a huge storm that passed through town an hour before party time, but that didn't stop us from rockin' in numero cinco!  it was a great time sunny bunny!

five.

august 16, 2012, the day sunny rose turned FIVE!  i love this girl.

just when you thought it was over...

ok, i feel like i am dragging this on, but i gotta say, the trip didn't end at the beach!!!  we went from one amazing, beautiful texas spot to another amazing beautiful texas spot, wimberley.  texas rivers RULE!

moving on from the trip on the next post, i promise!

"he came out of the earth"

thanks galveston!

galveston, what a town!  not only is there a beach with the beautiful (yes, i said beautiful) gulf of mexico to behold, there's more awesomeness to enjoy!!  so i say thanks.  thanks for the country club with a pool.  a place where our kids started to SWIM, AND they serve you delicious drinks in styrofoam cups poolside!  thanks for moody gardens, where there is a water park, aquarium, rain forest thing and one of my favorite quotes of all time.  and thanks for the cool beach house, where our mega family had a blast.  who knew that couch jumping would be the hit of the trip???