Twenty-five weeks and Counting Down!

Week 25 and we FINALLY got to see our 20week pictures of Baby Paulsen.  At 5 weeks later, it had definitely lost its excitement for Tim and I.  We looked at the pictures and said, "well, there aren't really any good ones..." and I think maybe if we got pictures while we were there, we would have asked for some pictures, say, with a little personality, like, when Baby was sticking it's little tongue out.

"Who does it look like?"  ...Yeah, like we know 

Kensi Got Jealous of Cole's Blog Post

Yesterday, Kensi got jealous of Cole's solo blog post, so she went and did this to herself:

REALLY???

REALLY???

A Productive-Type Weekend

Having nothing planned, and just having had like 10 days off from work (for Tim at least), this long weekend we decided to be productive!!!

On Friday, I cleaned up Christmas and it's decorations (still fitting it all into one rubbermaid tub.  Win.) and Tim started looking through our photos to decide which ones to put in frames in the living room (so we could get the frames out of the study so he could do drywall the next day)!  After taking out the Christmas tree, our living room looked so bare, so I changed it to a winter theme!

Showcasing photos of our little family!

After looking at pictures all day, we decided to go to Home Depot (because we go there every weekend, DUH!) to pick out some maple to make shelves for the living room.  And then we came home, and he made them (part of them) that night!  They're unfinished because we are going to use some of the leftover Murchison Gym floor from Westmont College (that we used for our still unfinished coffee table) to go around the edge of the shelves to add a little bit of character.

Adventures with Cole*

*Normally it would be adventures with Cole and Kensi, but right now, Cole has been making the most stories.

We don't consider their scratches they inflict upon each other worth reporting,
they are definitely not vet-worthy.

Happy New Years!

Its interesting reflecting back on my past New Year's Eve's and New Year's Day's and thinking about where I am now.
Our New Years Eve started with Orcutt Burger (or is it Orc Booger, Bippy and Daddy???) because I had had a cold and we ran out of time to cook before Kevin and Shayna were coming over!

But before they got here, we realized Cole had eaten the foam insides of his favorite toy, so we were in the middle of trying to make him throw up.  To read about the whole story, see my Adventures with Cole blog entry.

Babies asleep on their bed while we played Settlers of Catan (Shayna won)

And then we played some Rock Band (ever heard Kevin sing "Beautiful" by Snoop Dogg or "Just Dance" by Lady Gaga)?

And Cole found a new best friend.  

And surprisingly we all stayed awake until the New Year!!!  (Cole & Kensi didn't like the poppers!)

New Year's morning saw us waking up and packing up the kayak to head up to Cayucos for some friends, food, kayaking, and the Polar Bear Dip.

The waves were really big, but the doggies had fun playing in the water.

Okay, maybe most of the kayak sesh looked like this:  

Or like this:

Cole and Kensi love to play on the beach

But there were some good rides in there (before the last big crash that left Tim and Drew swimming for half an hour).

And we finished off the day with a beautiful sunset :) 

Merry Christmas (& Happy New Year) from the Paulsens

Shelby & Tim with Kensi & Cole

Merry Christmas from the Paulsens!!!

Christmas with all the Paulsens

On Christmas Day, we woke up and had peppermint hot chocolate...a la Christmas Day in New Zealand a few years ago when I was with my family.  

After we opened our presents to each other, we headed up to Los Osos to be with all of the Paulsen's together!  When Andrew and Charlotte and the kids got there, we all opened presents before all the Whitakers got there.