Happy New Year!

RJ and Julia "helped" decorate for our New Years Eve dinner with friends.

Julia so happy to be outside

She helped me decorate the sidewalk for New Years.

Mom and Julia selfie

New Years Eve lunch picnic

Julia all dressed up for the party. She chose her own shoes.

Nicholas, Dien, Sara & Julia

Kimberly, Nicholas, Dien, Sara & Julia

Julia and RJ

Sara in a few years

RJ and Nicholas drawing

Nicholas and RJ showing off their magnatile creation

Can't believe we finished off this whole bottle!

Burning Questions

RJ talking to Grandpa Farmer Bob asking him his latest burning question..."How do you drive a combine?" As you can see, he was quite pleased with Grandpa's answer.

More Cleveland/Christmas Fun

Anni and Julia loved playing together.

They were quite amused with each other.

Ari was left to babysit Luke.

Julia in her Christmas dress.

RJ in his Christmas church clothes and not thrilled about it.

Doug, Julia and Ari ready for Mass

Super trendy Grace wearing Luke's hat and vest

RJ and Anni tracking Santa...better go to bed so he shows up!

RJ showing Grandma Diane the ball he sewed for her

Julia putting her new toy to good use while Doug, RJ and Anni play with legos.

Grace, Matthew, Jimmy, Grandpa and Ari testing out their new selfie stick

Sara & RJ playing legos

RJ and Julia playing with Squigz

RJ reading the manual to something

Christmas wouldn't be complete without drones.

Julia and Sara

Julia eating when she was supposed to be taking a bath

Julia is 18 months old!

It's hard to believe it has only been 18 months. It seems like Julia has been here forever!

This girl is wild and crazy. She loves to torture her brother by stealing his toys, running away from him and trying to get him to chase her. She gets what she wants by screaming, pointing and throwing a fit. We have decided to crack down on her and within a couple days, her behavior has improved and she is using more words.

RJ really wanted to hold his baby sister.

Being silly

Hiding in pillow piles

Cleveland Science Center

Grandpa and I took the kids to the science center.

Grandpa explaining to RJ how to build a track and RJ disagreeing.

Julia was very focused on building and could have stayed right here all day.

RJ building a light sculpture.

Making rockets...very similar to stomp rockets

We all worked together to make an arch. Luckily, we had the wall to help support it.

RJ was quite amused by Grandpa's lesson on how to make a pinball machine.

After lunch, we found the children's section of the museum.