Loyet Family Odyssey: January 2010

This & That

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Our little hockey "princess" LOL

Tarini and Luna have the best time together.

Tarini received the Principal's Award for excellent behavior.

We have beautiful walking/biking trails surrounding us and right before the first snow I got pictures of the kids. We haven't seen the ground and grass since...

waiting for the bus early one morning

Tarini loves to lay in front of the fire - which almost always ends with sleep.

Ben prefers the couch :)

Benjamin's Wisconsin school picture

Benjamin and Tarini's Kentucky school pictures

Tarini is finally in ballet and loving every minute of it...except for the fact that it is not enough for her. She informs me after every class that it is too short and she wishes she could stay and dance with the big girls. I forsee a lot of dance classes in our future :)

Tarini's class has started practicing the routine for their recital in June.

I think it's a good thing they started this early...LOL

Tarini (with Avy) in her leotard from Aunt Andrea, Uncle Mike, Emily and Nicole. She insisted that we take it to KY so she could show everyone.

The girls thought it would be fun to switch...I guess it starts early :)

Happy New Year!!!

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We had a low-key, family fun New Years at my sister's house with family and friends. We had great food, played games, and the kids did a lot of dancing :)

enjoying their ginger ale

all of the kiddos

more ginger ale...

ginger ale kicking in...

Daddy's girl

burning off the ginger ale LOL

well after midnight and very tired

Tarini at 2 in the morning

Benjamin at 2 in the morning...he was awake until 4 am!

Christmas in Kentucky

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Christmas morning at Grandma and Grandpa's

Avy and Benjamin - the two of them typically fight like cats and dogs so this was a rare sweet moment between them.

He finally got his robot!

Tarini has wanted this doll since she laid eyes on it.

Grandma made this massive giraffe print floor pillow. She had made a pink one for Tarini's room and Benjamin just had to have his own.

Avy's Roost

Christmas morning at Aunt Heathers

Benjamin and Anakin

trying out Avy's new makeup

Benjamin and Grandpa

Anakin and Benjamin wrote letters to everyone that they love...Benjamin is getting a little help here.

Christmas in Wisconsin

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eager to open their gifts from Aunt Andrea, Uncle Mike, Emily and Nicole

Tarini was beyond thrilled when she saw the leotard and wore it the rest of the day

Benjamin has played with these building blocks every day we have been home. He is so creative and these blocks were the perfect next step because they are more advanced than traditional stacking blocks. He has created some amazing structures...must get pictures before he tears them down :)

Tarini also got Christmas earrings...she wore a pair everyday until well after Christmas. The red jingle bells were her favorite.

Thank you Aunt Andrea, Uncle Mike, Emily and Nicole!!!

inspecting the tree

The kids just loved the ornaments that Meme and Papaw sent to them.

The kids created quite the gingerbread house this year.

Benjamin and Tarini's present to Daddy...he loves to make popcorn and his popper was broken during the move. It was very sweet that they wanted to get it for him.