Happy Valentine's Day!

I wish we could mail everyone a personal valentine, but consider this your valentine with lots of love from Sheldon, Elaine, Tucker, and Halle!

P.S. Don't you love Halle's face? Whenever anyone says cheese to take a picture she squints her eyes. Now it is really hard to get a good picture of her smiling since Tucker loves to say cheese for pictures.

Here are some outtakes for your viewing pleasure

January 2012

It's hard to believe January has come and gone and my little girl is now one! An awesome birthday post for her will come later. Last month we finally gave Hal her first haircut! I was sad to see her cute little curly-cues cut off, but her hair looks a lot thicker now that it is trimmed up and she looks older. She watched a little video while I cut, and man it was difficult, she is so much more wiggly than Tucker.

The finished haircut!

Tucker's cousin turned 3 and had a fun dog party. All the kids got to wear dog ears, but Tucker wouldn't wear his. Halle definitely made a cute puppy.

 One of the coolest things we did in January was go to a Model Train show at Thanksgiving Point. The coolest train by far was this amazing lego train. Confession: I think legos are pretty cool and we got out our old legos at my parents house at Christmas time and played with them! Kind of nerdy, I know! Anyway, I wish I had tons of legos and could just build an awesome model train.

One of my favorite parts of the lego scene, the dinosaur breaking out of museum.

This picture doesn't do justice to how big the lego train was, but it was pretty huge.

Halle of course is happiest just walking around. She is pretty close to walking on her own. She will take a few steps, but it's still faster for her to crawl.

Best Christmas Present

I know you are thinking, "Where were those pictures taken, because Elaine does not have piano." Surprise! As a Christmas present to our family, Sheldon surprised us by buying a piano. He was very sneaky about it and didn't say anything about it until we were at a Christmas party with friends and he asked some of the guys if they could help him get a piano into our house. It was a little difficult to get it into our little basement apartment. We actually had to take off part of the door frame to our living room. But we got it in, and we love it! Tucker loves playing the low keys and says he is, 'playing scary.' He will also sometimes sing along if we play some primary songs he knows. We just had it tuned this week and it sounds pretty amazing after a good tuning. It was so out of tune it took the tuner guy about 2 hours to tune it. Yay for having a piano in our home!

Olsen Family Pictures

These pictures are all from my brother's nice camera. I was glad he took the time on Christmas to take a few pictures of the kids opening presents.

For family pictures we went to a cool park in Palos Verdes. For just using a tripod to get pictures of all of us, I am impressed with how they turned out. Daniel also has some awesome photoshop skills. In the family picture he was able to get the best face from Halle and put it in the best picture of the rest of us. I really need to learn how to use photoshop, you can do so many things with it.

I just love these photos of Tucker and Halle, they seem to represent their relationship so well. He is always so good at making her laugh.

I love this picture of Tucker and Terrell taking a break between pictures to eat M&M's. Snacks are must to keep Tucker happy while we take pictures.

Tucker looks like a little glowing angel popping up behind my parents in this one, too funny.

 Tucker busting out some dance moves.

Rachel has much more experience in jumping pictures, it took me a few times before we were jumping together.

And a few fun pictures from our trip to the park. We are so missing the warm weather. We tried to go to the park this week, but all the slides and swings were wet.