Alyssah's Dance Outfit

She looks so pretty! I love her new dance outfit for the year!

Halloween 2011

Halloween is always so much fun here! I am glad they love it, and I do too!

Jake is a ninja!

Josh is the Reaper!

Princess Molly!

Alyssah, her first hair style, the flower bow, wouldn't stay in.

The tiara works much better!

They were so excited!

Having so much fun!

She has "this much" candy!!

Minneapolis Day Three

This day was our relaxing day! We slept in, ate, took a nap, and then ate supper :)

We were lucky enough to be by the airport, (sometimes it was too loud for me :/) but it was cool to look at the planes taking off.
We ate at IHOP for lunch :)
It was yummy!


In the evening, they switched to landing here, it was really neat to see them coming in!

And us driving into the city to eat supper at The Old Spaghetti Factory. That was really yummy, and of course I forgot to take a picture of what we had. But it was good!

We had so much fun on our little mini vacation. I am so thankful my parents were happy to take my kids for us! THANK YOU!! :)

Minneapolis Day Two

This day we went to the Mall of America! I was so excited to go! I LOVE shopping, so this day was for me!! We ate breakfast downstairs, then got ready to go.

Here is me, waiting for Mark...
Who had to finish something important.

Our first stop was The American Girl Store!! I was more excited than all the girls in there! It was so fun, and I CAN'T wait to bring Alyssah there someday!

After that, we went to the lego store, and this HUGE transformer was there, made completely of Legos! It was 3-4 stories tall!!

Other cool lego things

The front side of the transformer

Nickelodeon Universe, after we ate, we went to a movie there, Johnny English Reborn. It was nice to take a break, and the movie was pretty good too.

I got a pumpkin spiced latte!! It was yummy!!

Mark was trying to find some photography magazines to buy

We went to Tony Roma's for supper. It was SO YUMMY!!

Us waiting for the shuttle bus :) We had a lot of fun!

All our finding! I am excited at what we got!! (please don't tell the kids about some of the places we went, they are for christmas, and we want it to be a surprise!! ;))

Minneapolis day one

We first went to Albertville to shop!! I was so excited to go there! I love that place! ;)

It was busy there, but we got a lot of nice things! Mark got a new suit and some new shirts. I got some new dishes too!! And a cute Christmas decoration too. Then I went to Gymboree, Crazy 8 and Maurices. I found something at all places :)


Lots of stuff :) ooooppsss ;)





Our view of the Mall of America from our hotel room.





We ate at Twin City Grille for supper and it was amazing!!! We also saw a Jazz Band play, they were good, but loud. This was a great night!!

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Mini vacation

We get to have a mini vacation this weekend :) I'm so glad and excited!! We are going to the cities! Thank you Mom and Dad for watching the kiddos for us!

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I am so proud!!

My boys participated in a Taekwando competition today. They worked hard, pushed through and they tried so hard!! They both got 2nd place in sparring!! (fighting) I'm so proud of them!!

Josh before the competition :) He was nervous.


Jake wasn't nervous at all. He's always so confident!


Jake afterwards. He was really proud!


Josh was proud too!

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I love her drawings :)

They are so sweet!! She said this is me, and the orange heart/circle in the middle is my heart :) I love her so much!!

Made by Alyssah, age 5, kindergarten

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He is 12!!!

Josh turned 12 yesterday!! I can't believe how fast these years go by! I am so proud of him, I LOVE being a mom, and I feel so privlaged to be Josh's mom!

Joshua Harold Torno~2 days old

Joshua~1year old


Joshua~2 years old

Joshua~3 years old

Josh~4 years old

First year preschool

Josh~5 years

2nd year preschool

Josh~6 years old

Kindergarten

Josh~7 years old

1st grade

Josh~8 years old

2nd grade

Josh~9 years old

3rd grade

Josh~10 years old

4th grade

Josh~11 years old

5th grade

Josh~12 years old

6th grade


I still can't believe how fast these years are going!! SO FAST!! I hope I can apprieciate how blessed I am, I don't want to miss a thing with them growing up! I am the LUCKIEST mom in the world! :)