Christmas 2009

It was a busy and wonderful Christmas this year. We've settled into our new home and couldn't be happier to be here. Here are some photos from Christmas. I wish I could have slowed down time b/c I sure enjoyed having a house full of friends and family!
Happy New Year!

Hannah Jane eating her christmas presents

who says christmas is overwhelming for small children, Hannah loved every minute of it

Christmas Eve - preparing Santa and Rudolf's snack plate

Oh the child-like wonder in Mimi and Papa's eyes when they saw that Santa had even left them some things in their stockings!

Santa brought Jonah his very own kitchen w/ a washer....he's so domestic

hannah loved the wrappings more than anything, can you blame her?

two very tuckered out trueman boys

Back by popular demand...

ok, by 'demand,' I mean the grandparents of my darling children. ;-)

Lots has gone on since the last blog entry.....

doug and I successfully made the largest, most life-like mickey mouse cake ever for Jonah's 2nd birthday!

we raked leaves and played in them

jonah started napping in the fridge

we had a great time in the outer banks

hannah loved swimming in the pool!

jonah loved wearing "boogles"

we sold our first house

and moved into a new one in powell, nice driving doug!

hannah was a lobster and jonah a lobster pot for halloween

my children continue to bring joy to our lives every day

jonah started his part time job as a painter for the depot

Stay tuned for more regular updates....xoxo

Revision

I had to revise mickey's hairline after some constructive criticism from the peanut gallery in morristown! Thanks for making me laugh!

Dress Rehearsal

After I put my babies to bed this evening I got cracking on trying to create a mickey mouse birthday cake for my Mickey Mouse Clubhouse fan's 2nd birthday. I was very methodical in my approach, notice I even made a sketch

Exhibit A: This is what Mickey looks like these days

Exhibit B: This is my rendering to keep me on track as I rolled out the fondant pieces

Exhibit C: This is my Mickey Masterpiece!

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa! thank goodness I didn't wait until the night before :)

When Daddy's away, the children will play

Hannah, Jonah, Bella and I went to Mimi and Papa's while Doug was in DC. I think all parties had more fun there than we would have had at home that week, especially Jonah. He loves to ride in "mimi's truck," go swimming with papa, and just be outside from morning to night. Thank you Mimi and Papa for entertaining us and loving us!

hannah loves to move, move, move

and she just loves her mimi and jonah

snuggle time

mimi and papa's tomato jungle (unfortunately they got some sort of fungus lost ALL of them, there goes our canning project ;-)

jonah and the neighborhood speedboat

the sweetest calf at the amish petting zoo - i wanted to take him home with us

a horsie just jonah's size - he was a little timid to do the feeding

"mommy, peepee" a little suprise for doug's birthday...shhhh

watching papa mow

YEAH! Finally! Riding on the tractor with Papa.

The cutest part was after about 10 minutes he fell asleep on Papa's lap

The Franklin County Fair

doug and I signed jonah up for clown school after watching Nojoe's clown circus on Saturday. with the economy and the job market the way it is, we're pretty confident there's always going to be a need for good clowns.

hannah was more into chewing her blanket that watching the any juggling

they had llamas, deer, a kangaroo, a pot belly pig, a calf, a skunk, a snake and some other unidentified animals for jonah to be spooked by...

bambi was cute and hungry, I feed him most of our carrots

I hope he never out grows over-alls

lunch break for dougie poo

doug met us at the park for lunch and got to dip his tootsies in the water with jonah before heading back to work...I'd take a lunch date like that over the cafeteria any day.

breakfast with ooo ahh ahhs

jonah feed his monkey while hannah ate hers...

a good rainy day activity

After Jonah and Hadley's last day at Curiosity Camp, Amanda suggested we head to the Franklin Park Conservatory to avoid being indoors all afternoon since the rain wasn't letting up. Everyone enjoyed our visit and Jonah got to bring home his first catepillar. We're watching him turn into a butterfly. It's nearly impossible to explain why we're watching a worm in a container to a two year old. I keep saying, "he's a catepillar now, but very soon he'll turn into a beautiful butterfly...it's magic"... I clearly need to brush up on my explanations b/c one of these days he's going to call me on the "it's magic" line.

(hadley wearing her inflattable potty chair and cracking all of us up...don't worry, it was clean ;)

(hadley, olivia and jonah trueman...poor hannah, one of these days she'll bust of of that car seat and get in all of the pictures)

(another photo op)

(amanda was praying to the rain gods...ok, she was probably reaching for the butterflies)

Jonah's new love...Chautauqua

We headed to Grandma and Papa T's house in Chautauqua a few weekends ago and boy did Jonah have a ball! He got to drive Papa's boat, learn how to fish, watch the prop planes take off and land, go out to a fancy anniversary dinner, play in the kayaks, play on the beach in the institute, miss naps and more! Hannah went on two boat rides which lulled her right to sleep...maybe that's why she didn't sleep at night ;-) We're looking forward to going back next weekend to see Missy, Scott, Ana and Ella!