Liam and Keegan's playdate!

Liam and I met with Farrell and Keegan for lunch today...such a beautiful day! Keegan's parents have been such wonderful friends for several years now. The boys were born within 3 weeks of each other and we have many photos of the early get-togethers! They are finally old enough to play and interact. We had so much fun catching up and visiting and watching our adorable kiddos interact. We are all so blessed! Looking forward to many more play dates, we definitely need to do this more often :) ...by the way, this is as we were leaving, Keegan gave Liam a huge hug goodbye!

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Liam and Keegan

Liam and Keegan!

Weeeeee!!!!

us again

Me and William

Me and William :)

William and Liam

Logan

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My super cool, Logan!

hahahahaha....Ronnie made him get on top of the ladder truck, but Logan played it off well! Well done my first born, you look very cool and relaxed :) ..... (so handsome, my first born!)

William and Liam...I love this!

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Logan again, he looks like he would fit right in :)

My Logan...I am so blessed :)

Once again...Alden Family of Four! ...and a bigger truck than mine!

We are so proud of William's big ol'e truck!

Us again!

One of our family photos...in front of William's new truck :)

I drive our F150, but this is William's new truck!

Yes, he always has to one-up me ;) Driver retired...super, amazing awesome guy, but William is now driving this big truck instead of the pumper. I guess he is such a great cook at the firestation, they want him to make as few runs as possible so dinner is ready. So proud of him, 15 years in and it's finally time for him to slow a bit; oh, and drive the big truck! Great 15 years William...me and the kiddos are very proud of you!

My Logan again if he decides to be a firefighter when he grows up....my first baby :)

My Logan...so handsome :)

Liam

Liam with another "cheese face!"

Liam's best "cheese-face" ever!

Liam, my stinky bug...I love this new addition to our family as well!

Logan...so handsome!

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An amazing friend, Ronnie Bennett we have known for a couple of decades (ouch) is a pro-photographer now. We went to highschool with him and he does this for a living. Very talented and he came to William's firestation to take our family pictures.

Happy new Years!!!!

Visited the Ronnings...awesome party as always, but Liam was super tired so we got him to bed and Logan babysat while we ventured down the street to visit with great neighbors/friends! Hope everyone has a great new year!!!

And again with my buddy Rhonda (sammy's mom who I am great friends with) and Jason in front. Beautiful day and evening, loved every second!

Logan's buddy Sammy showed up and wow, these 13 year olds must be standing on chairs because my sis-in-law Sally looks a little shorter than them!

and again...the kiddos loved it, as did we!!!

My brother sings and plays guitar...

Super cool, all the cousins helped my brother sing while he played guitar! I think everyone teared up a bit, such an amazing momment!

Me, my Dad, and my brother! :)

Panda! (Amanda but Liam calls her Panda)

Charlie and Kate!

Lisa, Judy and John...and a zebra!

Liam and Landon were so cute!!!

I love having a huge family!

This is Mom, John, me, William, Logan, Liam, my brother Rudy, my sister-in-law Sally, neice and nephew Jessica and Alex, step bro Charlie, step-sis Kate, step-sis Heather, and step-bro-in-law David along with my nephew Landon! I love these people :)

Christmas Day!!!

So, we had my Mom, my Step-Dad, John, all of my extended sibblings, and super-cute Landon (my nephew) over for Christmas except for Patrick who is going to college in Colorado right now. My brother and sister-in-law were here as well with my neice and nephew Jessica and Alex...as well as their cousin, Jason. My Aunt Judy, Uncle Mike, cousins Lisa, and Amanda (Liam calls her Panda) My Dad was over, William's parents, and my great neighbors Mike & Vickie and one of their daughters, Julia. Awesome! Here is my Mom, Step-Dad and his kiddos (minus Patrick...but just visited with him last week) and Landon, the grandson. Beautiful photo!!! Beautiful day :)

HFD party-party!

It's my Birthday....Yipppeeeeee!

Kelli and me!

Horner and Peseck...awesome guys!

Yikes! Party, party!

HFD party w/ "Little-Joe!"

The shots were non-stop!

ummmm...so William told everyone it was also my Birthday!...grrr the shots!

hahahaha! Still HFD party but it looks like we are in our livingroom!

D-shift wives again!

The ladies!!!

Station 16 D-shift again!

Station 16!!!!

HFD party!

HFD party again!

HFD party again! We had the party room! Amazing time, I love them!

Station 16 Christmas party!

Awesome place, Sawyer Park. Amazing people. William is now driving the ladder truck (larger than his pumper he's been driving!) and such an amazing crew and group! His new Captain has really done an awesome job of pulling everyone together and making us all feel like family again! Well done!

Liam's list...

Logan helped write the list but it was exactly how Liam dictated it! hahahahaha!

Liam explaining to Logan why he thinks he is on the nice list!

Logan helping Liam write a last minute note to Santa!

Santa's coming!!!

For 14 years, Santa has driven through our neighborhood on the PGVFD fire truck! We did this with Logan and now we get to do it all over again! He throws candy from the firetruck. So much fun, and we always wait and listen for the sirens!

Sleigh ride!!!

The horse-drawn sleigh ride!

Logan and his friends and me and some of my friends!

Liam on the sleigh-ride!

The Pants!

Our next door neighbors were at the party as well. Such great peolple, I love them so much!

Christmas Country Club Party!

William was working at the HFD, but I took the kiddos to a really cool party. We ran into so many friends and ended up eating with them. Logan ran into many friends as well and we ended up taking a horse-drawn sleigh ride through the neighborhood looking at Christmas lights...so much fun!

Loved it!

Snowman!!!

Logan and buddies made a snowman ...and 2 bitty ones!

So cool, people kept driving by and stopping to take pictures of the kiddos with their snowman (and bitties!) People were also driving by and honking and cheering out the windows!!! Amazing day in Pecan Grove!!!

Snow rocks!!!

Logan and friends having a trampoline snow-ball fight!

Logan and friends jumping on the snow covered trampoline!

Bitty snowman hood ornament!

I knew we would make a bigger snowman when Logan and his buddies got here, but I made a bitty one before we left to pick him up. I placed it on the hood and he lasted about 3 blocks!

Forecast....SNOW!!!!!

Me and Liam in the SNOW!!!! Super amazing, we loved it so much!

Snow, snow, snow!!!

Snowing on our house!!! Yippeeeee!!!!

Our truck covered in snow!!!!

We picked Logan up from school early so he could play in the snow! Last time we had snow was 5 years ago on Christmas Eve! It could be a decade before we see this white stuff out here again, so we wanted to make sure he was able to enjoy an official "snow day!" This is what the truck looked like before we went to pick him up!

Liam looking at the snow :)

SNOW!!! We were all like kids this day, we absolutely LOVED it!!!!

Liam in the snow...it really snowed!

Me and my bro being silly!

Me and my brother!

Logan and his hippy hair!

My Aunt Judy and my Mom...and a thumb!

Looks so innocent! ...don't let him fool ya!

My super-amazing bracelette!

My mother gave me this and it was made from Roses at my Grandfather's funeral earlier this year. They selected Pink & White to represent my Nana and Grandpa who both passed away this year. The beads are made from the roses, and it has silver and crystal. I love it but hate to wear it too much because I am so worried about anything happening to it. Such an incredible gift, Thanks Mom and know that Nana and Grandpa are watching over all of us during the holidays! I think about them all the time :)

My brother, sis-in-law, and neice!

Me and William (and the back of Liam's head) at Thanksgiving.

Liam!

Thanksgiving day :)

Thanksgiving game time!

Jess gave Logan a pony tail! lol, he was not too thrilled!

My brother, sis-in-law, and neice with Nana!

Me and my mother-in-law on Thanksgiving.

Liam "driving" William to a fire!

Still wearing the blue glove!

hahahaha...Liam loved wearing the blue glove!

They just pulled the ladder back in...very cool stuff!

Liam watching the ladder truck in action!

William on "his" ladder truck!

The ladder truck driver retired and William is driving it now. He was driving the pumper but this is a much larger truck. When Liam and I arrived, the guys had the ladder truck out for training. We sat on the tailgate and watched...it was cool!

Last weekend I brought Liam to the fire station.

We were pirates....argggggghhhh!

Halloween 2009

I know this is late but I wanted to post a picture of the boys from Halloween. They both re-used costumes. Logan wanted to wear his old Scream costume and we decided to just use Liam's costume from last year. Logan went trick-or-treating with friends and we took Liam to a few houses before going to a costume party with some of William's co-workers.

Liam really wanting that bag of dorittos!

Great party, and great kiddos! Such an amazing group of tween/teens! :)

Cake time!!! Look at all those candles :)

Pizza, cake, ice cream...and smelly kiddos after the games!!!

Winners being announced...again with the serious looks, lol!

After the 2nd game, they were all sweaty and smelled like little teenagers...so gross! I am glad they had a blast though, it was worth it!

2nd game over and awaiting the scores! (Looks intense!)

Birthday boy!!!! I just love this kid :)

Yes, William played with them...and they ganged up on him! Such a sport!

The kiddos (excuse me, I mean teens!) were excited to see their scores after the game!

Logan's 13th Birthday!!!

He wanted to go to this Laser Quest place. He had 20 friends show up and they had a blast! (Do I even have 20 friends? lol)

So awesome...Logan was great!!!

Logan playing Trombone for the big rivalry HIGH SCHOOL football game!

Foster/Lamar is the huge game of the year (Foster won!) Logan's Junior High band was invited to play at it during the 1st half! Such an honor! This was their 1st time playing at a game (and it was a packed house!) They did amazing...and if I didn't know better, I would have thought they were the High School band! Great job Logan and Briscoe's band!!!

Daddy and Liam at the Fire Fest.

Liam playing on one of the old trucks....looking like he is getting tired!

Woo-hoo, more fire!!!

Yes, we love fire. I think it is a requirement for all fire fighter families! :)

Oh, this sucker was really cool!

This sucker lives at Hobby Airport. The guys will not even have to exit this vehicle to put out a fire at the airport! I really enjoyed this demonstration...and did I mention there was more fire!!!

Hello up there!

Demonstration time!!!! So much fire!!!!

Logan and friends in the super cool truck!

Logan and friends (and little bro) at the Fire Fest!

Shuttle ride started to make Liam a little sleepy!

Liam loved the shuttle ride!

The Teens!

Logan brought 2 friends this year and they were so much fun to watch! On the shuttle to the event, the cell phones were attached to their heads the entire time! Oh my gosh, here is when the fun stuff begins! We are now parents of a teenager...and a 3 year old!

Fire Fest!!!

Cool demos, we got to see the trucks in action and so much fire!!!! Logan brought 2 friends this year. We try to go every year. Great weather and awesome time!

Opening day at the Fair coming to an end!

We brought Sammy with us, but his Mom (Rhonda) was there with his youngest brother. We met up with them later as Logan and Sammy had an extra credit project for school in the Ag. tent. The boys completed their GT extra credit work and I got to visit with my buddy Rhonda! We stole Sammy and held him capture at our home for the evening and the boys dined on pizza and Dr Pepper and made it an early night. I love the way the Fair knocks everyone out before 10:00pm!!!! Looking forward to next year's Ft. Bend County fair!!!

Liam, Sammy & Logan! (at the fair!)

Logan and Sammy with their winnings at the fair!

The Boys are looking tired from the fair...and one skanky goldfish!

Daddy & Liam at the Fair!

Funky Fair Fish!

The day after the fair, Logan bought 3 more goldfish to keep his skanky "Fair Fish" company. His "Fair Fish" is still alive and kicking...2 out 3 of the "purchased fished" are no longer with us! Rock on skanky Fair Fish!

Fort Bend County Fair!!!

This is why I love living in Fort Bend! The whole city shuts down on a Friday, kids get in free on opening day, and it is an entire day of family traditions, fun, rides, games, food, running into neighbors, co-workers, buddies, etc! This is the end of the day with sleepy children...and one goldfish that Logan won (dangit!)

The artist at work!

ummmm...Liam's new smile!

Liam and bitty pumpkin

Liam wanted this when we went shopping. He decided he wanted to decorate it with (crayons?)

Narnia!

oops...we're in Narnia!

When we got there, I thought it was odd that everything was related to this movie. These suckers towered over us and we had to walk under 4. I kinda started thinking we took a wrong move shortly after this exhibit!

Logan & Liam...in a fake tree!!!

I took the boys to the 2ND day opening of the new Sugar Land Museum of Science...only 10 minutes away!!! We had so much fun. It is still small and I imagine they will continue to add exhibits but we saw so many cool things! Live frog/toad exhibit was super-cool, they had a toad that was bigger then my face! Apparently some individuals in foreign countries eat them, but they did not make me hungry one bit! We even accidentally walked through the special "Narnia" exhibit backwards...oops! We went upstairs and found another gift shop and while walking through we continued into the exit of the exhibit! We were just looking for the rest of the museum (it is still a really small venue until they add and expand into the gigantic building!) Narnia was way cool and after walking through it backwards, I probably would have paid extra to see it! Such an awkward moment!