The holidays came and went, everything from Halloween through New Years, and we took about a zillion pictures during that time. Also Brian has been experimenting with different camera settings, color techniques, and sneaky tricks while fixing these pictures, so apologies ahead of time if some of these look crazy and pitifully experimental.
If this isn't a ball, then what the heck am I supposed to do with it?
Ick... I got pumpkin mud on my spotlessly clean baby hands.
Ender went with his class to visit a farm where he learned how to milk a real cow.
Ender drinking chocolate milk and watching movies while Chloe dusts the house... typical.
She's happy to help out around the house, and she's willing to be paid in tickles.
For Halloween we were the Skywalker family!
Little Ender Skywalker, on an interstellar quest for treats!
Princess Chloe Organa.
I'm not wearing lady-pants as part of my costume...
The Space Princess and Queen
Trick-or-Treating in a galaxy far, far away.
Trick or Treat!
The treats are strong with this one.
Even Jedi enjoy a little candy from time to time.
These are not the treats you're looking for...
Waiting for the Hoboken Halloween parade to pass by!
He forgot his Skywalker suit, so we had to use the fallback costume.
Happy Birthday daddy!
The kids loved playing in the autumn weather and leaves.
She loves the swings, but they make her little hands very cold.
Master sidewalk chalk artist.
A nice warm bath after a cool autumn afternoon at the park.
She's happy, and she knows it.
It would be waste of toilet paper if it wasn't so cute.
Ready for Thanksgiving dinner to start!
Chloe feasting on ice cubes while she waits.
Ender was Grand Marshal of the Thanksgiving Day Chess Piece Parade!
She didn't like the turkey, but she loved the apples.
Happy Thanksgiving!
What has Ender so fascinated during bathtime?
Fire, of course!
Chloe loves fire!
Christmas shopping with Mommy!
She's a good little shopper.
Santy antlers!
They love playing on the playground at Ender's school after class!
I don't want to go home yet!
Chloe loves laying on the ground... anytime, anyplace.
Christmas Mardi Gras beads.
Olde timey picture of Chloe in her Christmas dress and Mardi Gras beads.
Shhh... the nursery sheep are about to take the stage at the Christmas Pageant.
The Nursery Sheep and the Primary Wisemen, mixing-it-up at the Manger.
Chloe wasn't such a fan of Santa Claus.
Ender was happy to sit on Santy's lap!
Merry Stinking Christmas, Mr. Sourpuss!
Chloe in yet another of her hundreds of Christmas dresses.
It looks like Chloe has had just a little too much Leche de Navidad...
and wants some more.
We went to visit our parents for Christmas, and the kids loved going someplace that actually had some snow to play with.
I love this stuff!
This is the first time Chloe's been able to walk around in the snow.
Ender learned a new trick to do with snow!
She loves it when Grandpa comes home for lunch!
Since we were going to be in St George for Christmas Eve, we had a Pre-Christmas-Eve party at Great Grandpa's house!
Uncle Rod and Aunt Tanya paying them all kinds of attention at Pre-Christmas-Eve.
Chloe couldn't get enough of being held by her Aunty!
It's Ender Claus!
Have you been naughty or nice?
The kids decorated a Christmas tree!
Ender Claus's magic sleigh bells.
Abuela and Grandpa Frank visited us for Christmas!
It just wouldn't be Christmas without some robots for the kids.
The kids loved their singing robot dog!
Chloe enjoying the spoils of her stocking.
Epic lightsaber battle before stockings.
Which is the more real Santa, Ender or the robot?
Chloe and her Abuela on Christmas morning.
Ender enthusiastically opening presents on Christmas morning.
Chloe was more content to play with the tree.
Though she did enjoy playing with some of the packaging, of course.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
An angel on Christmas day.
Going for a Boxing Day swim in the hot pool-party.
Aunt Carletta and her family also came to visit us at Christmas!
Ender thinks it's funny that they put mayo on Daddy's burger and he had to take it back and get a new one.
Ender had a post-Christmas tea party!
And Chloe helped.
Setting the table for the tea party.
We had dance party after dance party after dance party!
We had another Christmas a few days after real Christmas.
Look at that mug holding a mug!
Ender got his first ever ID Electric shirt!
Mommy got a doll for Christmas.
Chloe taking the opportunity to be held on fake Christmas.
Stop right there... this is a stick-up!
Super Ender to the Rescue!
Super Chloe to the rescue, too!
Fear not citizen, I have captured the robber!
(you give a kid a cape, and suddenly he thinks he's a hero)
Crime fighters have the greatest toys!
The white elephant gifts we ended up with this year...
Hanging out with Aunt Tanya at Jungle Jim's
What, this is all it does?
That's more like it!
Super Chloe on her trusty steed!
Riding the centrifuge!
Let's ride it again!
Super Chloe (still) on her trusty steed!
The snow may have all melted away, but that wasn't going to stop the boys from playing outside anyway.
Hey, nice fruit punch 'stache, bro!
We went to Great Grandma's house to decorate cookies!
Aunt Danielle and her boys were there too!
Ender and Brenden sharing cookie decorating tips.
Baby Chloe and Cookie Chloe.
Enough with the cookies, I want to sit with Grandpa!
I kid you not, Ender did this all by himself. We're not sure whether to be proud, or terrified.
Amy and Cookie Amy. One of them is sweet, the other is a cookie.
Brian making first contact with an alien cookie.
Obligatory family photo, since we're all in the same place for a change.
And as long as we're all dressed up and already taking pictures, we may as well do some for just our little branch of the family.
Grandma Cheryl and Grandpa Sterling with our kidses.
I know what this looks like, but he wouldn't let us brush his teeth unless he had the handcuffs on... honest. And anyway, he'd been eating a lot of candy and treats, and his teeth were cleaner afterward.
I'm ready to go skiing, just like Daddy!
The kids went sledding instead of skiing.
Chloe wasn't such a huge fan of the sledding.
We visited the zoo at night, and Ender took his trusty headlamp to help him see the animals.
Lovey doves at the zoo.
Chloe was pretty excited to see all the animals.
Daddy smuggling a pair of little monkeys out of the night zoo.
She loved touching the pretty pretty lights.
All aboard the light train!
Matchy-matchy cousin jammies.
Tickle fight!
On New Years Eve we met up with some friends who had moved away from New Jersey and with their kids.
Chloe once again on her trusty steed... where else would she be?
Ender likes the horses too.
Indiana Ender and Nantucket Nina on the Jungle Ride.
Chloe hanging out in NYC the morning after the red-eye flight home. She especially loved playing puppy and pressing her face into the glass.
"Daddy, it's his wee-wee!"
-Ender
Ender, our budding photographer, playing with his new camera after a long Christmas vacation.
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