Alison's first camping trip

Patrick turns 3

Christmas 2011

Ho Ho Ho! Patrick cleaned up this year—his favorite gifts were his grill and his take-apart crane complete with real working drill (and 3 bits). Alison mostly enjoyed watching her big brother and looking at the lights.

Alison has arrived...

...quite some time ago, in fact (October 9, 2011). Here are some pictures from just after she was born. So now you'll get to see twice the cuteness (if only we had twice the time to post them ;).

Trucks

End of summer

This gets us caught up to just before Alison was born. It's already hard to remember what life was like with just Patrick.

Camping

We had 2 great camping trips in August. The first was to a lush green forest, and the second was to a dust bowl (think Pigpen from Peanuts). Luckily the dust bowl was on a lake, and Patrick got to ride in a kayak for the first time and loved it (and so did Mom and Dad)!

Caught in the act

"Is there a Lorax in this stump?"

"Wow, that waterfall is awesome!"

A morning stroll with hot cocoa

Yes, we got dirty, very dirty

Cap'n Patrick

The four musketeers