10 years in the blink of an eye

Shannon and I took a trip to Florida to celebrate our 10 year anniversary. It would was our first vacation without the kiddos. It was brilliant, relaxing, and very fun. Some pix:

-airport on the way!

-best salsa ever

-shan's feet got burned...thus, the sync socks!

-10 year anniversary dinner!

-we saw a manatee (several)

-sat on the beach for 6 days...and loved every second.

-brought Irene some shells, which she loved!

St. Louis Shenanigans

videos from my iPhone:





and some pix:

For Anyone Who Doesn't Have Facebook (mostly Rachel)

This video was posted on my Facebook wall...I think we need to start working on Isaac's left foot.

Stl xmas '11

Long overdue, but some pix and video from our Christmas adventure in St. Louis:

just a funny picture

the birthday boys! (and Xavs)

the "look"

This movie is a little long, but kinda fun. It is a compilation of video that I took with the iPhone...

Phoenix Thanksgiving

"Team Sorensen" took a family trip to Phoenix, AZ for Thanksgiving...mostly to see Natalie/Steve & new baby LUKE!  His arrival was quite traumatic and quite miraculous.We praise God that he is a seemingly fine healthy, growing baby (and we will try to post a pic soon). 

nice plane ride down

the cousins thanksgiving outfits (made my Shannon)

the "girls" listening to Disney music in their "hideout"

snack break back at "base camp" after hiking

and this video speaks for itself:

Halloween

Thought we should share some fun pix from the end of October. Most are from Halloween with a few randoms:

 -Irene decided that she wanted to paint the pumpkins instead of carving them...or as Isaac liked to call them, "Bunkins"...

 -Irene wore the Cinderella dress from her summer Disney trip...and Shan whipped up a last second ear thing because we live in MN and MN is cold.

 -This was arguably Jeremy's best costume ever (closely followed by the Ewok)...Shannon was instrumental in pulling it off. She dyed the entire thing, made the tie, made the hat, and made the boots...and Isaac was a brilliant "George".

  -She also whipped up a "fairy godmother costume" as well...(CJ is the sultan from Aladdin-Annika was Jasmine, Eric was Aladdin, and Bee was the tiger, Rajah)

 -Irene wrote her own bday card for Shannon...she spelled her name and Isaac's with no assistance from me. Super cute...

 -Apparently Shannon used to do this as a little girl too.

A New Goal...

Kids grow up fast...we love sharing our kids with people.

So, I have a new goal to blog at least once per week. Obviously, loads of stuff has happened since July...instead of pretending to catch up in some type of order, we will post randomly fun stuff in no particular order from the past few months.

Tonight's effort will be a link to our youtube channel...uploading iphone videos straight to youtube is fun and easy. Check back periodically for new videos. Here are couple of recent fun ones below:


(Thanksgiving '11 swimming in Arizona)


(Irene likes to dance, Nov. '11)


(Isaac likes to drive, Oct. '11)

Isaac = "Laughter"

Here are 2 videos that we have been meaning to post. We have prayed that Isaac would come to embody his name...we think he is off to a good start!



(Dancing is from May 2011)



(The Cage is from June 2011)

Irene is 3

Well, apparently blogging drops on the level of importance when moving across the country with 2 small kids. What better excuse to get pulled out of the blogging doldrums than a birthday!? We spent a week in St. Louis with the Iwasz family (minus Rachel = sad)...We had a great time swimming and hanging out. Will get an album up soon, but want to share some pix...for any sisters who might live in Seattle and weren't able to attend.

  

 

technology is fun

soundcloud is a pretty amazing application that allows one to record things on one's phone, then upload and share via the internet...good times (and I'm glad these things were not around during my high school and college days).

anyway, here are some fun things that we have recorded:

   Irene singing "wheels on the bus" (march 2011) by iwasjar

   Irene singing "itsy bitsy spider" on Saturday afternoon by iwasjar

   Irene reading in car by iwasjar

   Irene reading by iwasjar