February 2011

Here are my random February shots...in no particular order. This first one is one of my favorite pictures of Sonora (can you believe she smiled for the camera - miracle) but of course I can't make it right side up. So enjoy it by tilting your head to one side. :)


This picture is on Valentine's Day. What love is captured by this picture...or is that just Sonora's model pose? I guess she's been watching too much ANTM.

Levi caught doing his favorite thing...cleaning out the cupboards.

Sonora with her favorite toy IN THE WORLD.

Mommy with her 3 kids. Wait...I don't have 3 kids. This is my friend Greta's beautiful daughter Grace. I'm not sure Levi looks like he wants ANOTHER sister.

The cutest kid

Our official Valentine's date. Steve surprised me with tickets to "In the Mood", a swing musical in town. It was so much fun. He also bought me an outfit & SHOES for the evening. Did I pick a winner or what?!

Sonora & I enjoying a fun "picnic" on Valentine's.

Model! She's just too beautiful for words.

And my precious handsome Levi. How did I get so lucky?!

So life's been crazy lately in the Farris household. 2011 is going to be hard, long, and so totally worth it (got to hope!). Here's to enjoying it day by day!

Jan 2011

I realized at the end of January that I wasn't taking very many pictures...so here are basically almost ALL of the pictures we took minus the really bad ones. :)

We went to the park whenever we felt we could brave the cold or if Momma was going crazy in the house with 2 loud kids.

Or if Momma was too tired to go anywhere, we took to the backyard for swing time. Steve's mom bought Levi the blue swing because she thought he didn't look right in the pink one. Well...Nora has always loved blue and always requests the blue swing when we go outside, which leaves the pink swing to Levi (the one who can't voice his own opinion yet).


Levi loves to push the chairs around the house. Not sure why but apparently he wants a wheelchair.



So this is what happens at the end of the day that no one gets to see...our lovely perfect children (ha) go gorilla crazy! :)

Sonora's first attempt at takng pictures. Not bad...my little budding photographer.

Adios to January....

Disney on Ice

Steve & I took Sonora to her first "big girl" activity...Disney on Ice. She had a great time and enjoyed being with Mommy & Daddy by herself. :) These pictures are backwards because for the life of me, I can't figure this whole blogging thing out. But you get the idea...Sonora had fun seeing the Disney characters...we had fun seeing Sonora have fun...and we were all very excited to go! She did want to go home before it was over...but whose counting that?

Levi's 1st birthday

As always, I am WAY behind on posting some pictures. So after some forceful prodding (Thanks Melissa!), I am posting at least one post until one of the kids wakes up!

These are from Levi's recent 1st birthday...February 24th. I can't believe he's already 1. Wow! We celebrated on Sunday, Feb. 20th so my brother's family could come for the day on the 3 day weekend. As luck would have it, Jordan got the flu on Levi's party day and so he & Wendy were stuck at home all day. Thankfully there was sun at his party after biting our nails that our "outside" party would have to relocate. We had a lovely party and Sonora thoroughly enjoyed our time at the park.

If you can see closely on Levi's face, he has some scratches on the right side of his face as well as over his lip. What a wonderful birthday present...not from a dog or even himself falling, but a little girl at church nursery that very morning. Apparently she wanted to squeeze (aka claw) his cheeks because he was so cute. Seriously we have no idea what happened but all we could tell him was that girls are trouble and in this case, perfectly ok to hit back. :) Needless to say, we haven't taken his 1 year old pictures yet!

We love you Levi...scratches, bruises & all!!! Happy 1st birthday!

Sonora's 2nd Birthday

Last Saturday, October 23rd was Sonora's 2nd Birthday. We decided to go to the zoo for her birthday since that's one of her favorite places in the world. We were able to celebrate with my parents and Steve's whole family at the zoo. Sonora ran around the zoo and said "hi" to every animal she met. Then we went to the park and had cupcakes and opened up her presents. I'm sure Sonora had a great day and we did too. We can't believe she is already two - time flies! What a blessing Sonora is to our lives - we love you baby doll!

Random pics

Just some random pics of the kids...I had to include a few favorites of Sonora actually smiling for the camera (a rarity!) and a cute one of Levi! Enjoy!

Pumpkin Patch

A couple of weeks ago we went to a Pumpkin Patch in Kingsburg called the Lucky H Ranch and we had a great time running through the pumpkins, riding on a wagon around the ranch, petting some animals, and posing for pictures. It was a gorgeous day and lots of fun!

Summer 2010

Well here are some pictures from this summer...I seem to not be able to get them in order or post any that are vertical without having to turn my head sideways so I deleted those. So this is the best that I can do! Hope you enjoy.

Sonora posing for a rare smile.

An even more rare occurence is both of our kids posing for one photo AND both looking at the camera. Hooray!!

Cousin Jordan came for a week this summer and Sonora had the time of her life! He is such a good big cousin.

Levi learned to crawl!! He is still crawling on his belly and using his toes and his elbows to crawl but boy can he get anywhere he wants to and FAST! He finds himself trapped in corners because he can't turn around yet. So cute.

Levi also loves to eat - and eat a lot! He is currently only about 5 or less pounds away from his BIG sister.

Levi and Suesse are checking each other out. Suesse is still quicker than Levi but not for long!

Another cute picture of the two kids...at the moment happy, but I'm sure in Sonora's eyes you can see her determination not to let Levi play with her toys. She'd rather eat them.

Sonora had fun playing with her bibs one night and Daddy & Sonora tried them all on!

This was Levi's first time sitting up by himself! What a big boy - he looks quite shocked at his feat!

We've had a fun hot summer with plenty of swimming days, stay at home days with Barney & Caillou, and weekend trips to the mountains and the coast. I'll try to keep up my blog a little better but I can't guarantee! I can barely get dinner together!