Happy New Year!!

We all survived New Year's this year! Fortunately, our neighbors and great friends, hosted their annual party so we didn't have to go far! Reece stayed with Grandma Rajean at our house and Alauna stayed the night at Papa and Barbie Grandma's (her first time ever!) Both kids did great and thankfully slept in until after 9am the next morning.
We ended the year with lots of great memories. At the beginning of December, we went on a weekend trip to Shelter Cove with 3 other families. We rented a huge beach house and had really nice weather. Then a few weekends later, we took a day-trip up to the snow with our buddies and the kids played in the snow. Alauna loved sledding, but Reece pretty much preferred the car! The kids were also a lot of fun on Christmas. Both were very excited and happily opened their presents!

Alauna Update:
Alauna is still very into Barbies and we gave her a Barbie doll house for Christmas. We had to put the thing together the night before and were both in shock when we opened up the box and saw a ton of wooden pieces. It finally came together almost an hour later... Alauna's birthday is coming up next month and surprise...Barbie theme!
Alauna is doing great in school. Her teachers are very happy with her progress and she is very happy there. She was actually bummed she was being picked up last week. Alauna has also been practicing on a big girl bike over the past weeks. It still has training wheels, but she looks like such a big girl on a real 2 wheeled bike. She's growing up so fast and actually went up a full-shoe size in only a few short months!

Reece Update:
Reece has become quite a little talker over the past few months. He responds with "yeah" or "nah" when asked a question. He also recognizes cows and says"moooo-mooo". His favorite thing is the kitchen we bought for Alauna a few Christmas's ago. He plays with it all the time and brings us food. With our wet weather, we've been inside a ton, but when there are breaks, he heads outside. Reece loves the dirt! We bought him a really cool self-powered push truck for Christmas and he pushes it all over the house. Reece is a very silly little guy and climbs on everything!

Cody and Amber Update:
Our latest addiction is Wii Guitar Hero which comes complete with realistic guitars and microphone. Both of us are hooked and love playing! We pretty much have a band now and we'll keep you posted if we are playing anywhere close by...kidding, of course.

We enjoyed all of the wonderful Christmas cards this year! May you all have a great 2009 and we'll continue to keep in touch!
Love,
The Thompson Family