Christmas In a Nutshell

We had a fabulous Christmas this year! It was so wonderful to be all together. I took a ridiculous amount of pictures, but I will just share a few...

Kate and Cole in their Christmas outfits
Kate and Cole very excited in their Christmas pajamas.Cole on his new motorcycle.

Kate VERY excited to get her American Girl doll Kit.

All together. YAY!There are so many fun things we did throughout the holidays that made great pictures, so I may add more at a later date if things are slow. (I'm not sure if they ever are...)

I hope you enjoy and I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas!

Major Street

I am so proud, Oliver was promoted to Major this month. His pinning ceremony (velcroing in this case) was on the 4th and this was the first time I could be there for a promotion. It was a quick ceremony, the kiddos and I were there along with some friends and Oliver's co-workers. It was really nice.

Colonel Lukow saying some nice things about Captain Street

Me "pinning on" the new Major rank.

Colonel Lukow telling Oliver he is expected to know something now...

The Cake

Major and Mrs. Oliver Street and family

It was a GREAT day. We had to enjoy it, because it is a L...O...N...G time until he gets promoted again.

Cole's Birthday Party

This post is about a month late, but I need to start somewhere and this was a FUN day!

We had a birthday party for Cole with 8 of his friends. It was a helicopter themed party, and everyone had a great time.

We decorated helicopter shaped cookies...
Played out side and had a helicopter shaped pinata.Had a landing pad cake with cupcakes...

Opened presents...

and everyone left with a light up helicopter party favor...Thank goodness my mom was here to help. We had landing pads on all of the tables and there were cardboard helicopters flying overhead.

A great time was had by all...

Love and miss you all. Hope to hear from you soon...

Rain (finally)

We don't get much rain here in central Texas, so Kate jumped (literally) at the chance to finally wear her froggy rain boots and splash around. She has been waiting so long for it to rain enough to make puddles AND not be lightening. Here are some pictures from the fun.

Kate was running and squeeling with excitement!Trying to get daddy back...

Kate finally got Cole to go out with her. He wasn't too sure at first. (This is my favorite picture)

He's watching, learning, trying to figure this out...He's got it. Fun times...Now we just need it to rain again so we can go out and play some more.

Back Again?

Well, I said I was back and I had all intention of being the good little blogger and sending updates at the VERY least weekly and alas I have failed. Life has once again gotten in the way of sharing our life with all of our friends and loved ones.

So....

Let's try again.

I have so many AWESOME pictures and events from the summer I want to share, but I am going to stat with the present. It's BACK TO SCHOOL time! Woo Hoo!

Kate has started Pre-K and Cole is in a Mother's Day Out program 2 days a week (that translates to 6 hours a week for me). They are both at the same school Kate attended last year.

Kate's first day of school. She was really excited! As we were walking into meet her teacher she looked up to me an said (with a HUGE smile and bright eyes) "I am so excited! It is a red letter day!" What an amazing phrase for a 4 year old to use. I love it!Cole started school the next day. He wasn't quite as excited as Kate to go to school, but he was really excited about the motorcycle on his new shirt!Kate's 2nd day and Cole's 1st day.Outside the school. Cole is looking a bit nervous...Such a big girl...

OK, so now that the kids are back in school I will promise to do my best at updating the blog and adding pictures. And, as I mentioned before, I have so many great moments from the summer that I want to share. Please add comments (or just email me if you don't want to log in)so I know someone out there is looking.

Love and miss you all!

Kate's new bike

We finally upgraded Kate from her tiny tricycle to a "big girl bike". Unfortunately we do not have sidewalks in our neighborhood, so if she is to ride the bike outside of the garage we need to be right there to protect her from herself (and traffic). She LOVES the bike so much!

Here are a few pictures from a trip to the elementary school so she could ride around. Taking a break.I think we will make more trips once the weather cools down, but until then she might have to be content with the ("too small") garage...

I'm back...

Well, we have certainly kept busy since Oliver got home from Iraq. Almost 3 weeks on vacation and TONS of activities. I think we will finally start to settle down. This means I can finally start updating everyone on all that is going on with the Street Fam.

I have so many GREAT pictures from over the summer I would like to share! I am going to start out slow while I am getting everything organized.

Here are just a few from the pool at Grandmama and Grandaddy's house. Both kids became little fish!

Kate doesn't need her water wings anymore!
Cole doesn't care if he has his on or not. He is Jumping into the water either way!I have so much to share! Check back often!!