Our baby turns 1

Tara turned one year old on Jan 28, we can hardly believe a whole year has gone by already and our little baby is a baby no more. She is walking all over, can climb up and down the stairs faster than you can blink your eye. She only crawls if she needs to get somewhere really fast, like snag a toy from one of her sisters. She is finally sleeping through the night so we are really starting to feel like we are leaving the baby stage behind.
We had a little party on Sunday, her Uncle John came from Austin for the weekend to celebrate with her. I think her sisters were way more excited about her Birthday than Tara was and went to store to get balloons and Elmo paper plates and napkins for her party and they bought her some little presents which they told her she had to share, but it was all good fun. Tara did burn her finger on the candle, while we all stood around and watched her do it so I hope we have not instilled a fear of birthday cakes in her for the rest of her life.
On her actual birthday we had planned on going out to a restaurant. Ron and I felt we deserved to celebrate surviving our first year of 3 kids with our sanity still intact, or so we like to believe, but Ciara had some sort of a stomach bug and was not really up to it, so maybe we will try to get out next weekend.

Some Late Christmas Pics

I now have the pics that Dan and my mom took at Christmas. I figured I would post them now since we didn't really take any. I know it's late but enjoy anyway.

Ron

Sunday Late Post (Pics and a Video)

Had great weather today in Emeryville. Fiona is still nursing a bad cough and we are all kinda taking it easy. My buddy Phil Tiffin and his son Jack dropped by for a play date with Ciara. After some Bouncer fun we headed down to the park. Below are some pics and video. I think I have the video turnaround down pretty quick and now I'm inspired again to start taking some shots. Anyway enjoy the pics and Video.
Ron

Some Pics from Our Train Trip to San Jose

Here are a few pics from our ride on Amtrak down to San Jose. It was really a cool way to go. The train was nice. We all had table seats so we passed the time visiting. Sure beats driving. Also some recent pics of Tara.
Enjoy
Ron

Video of Tara's First Steps

Okay so I am attempting to put up a video of Tara taking a couple of Steps. She is just begining to get the hang of it and should be an expert in no time. Hopefully this will work.
Enjoy
r

Lazy Sunday

I added a few things to the great Blog that Marie set up. First there are links to favorite websites and other family blogs. Also there is a slide show window showing some of our recent pics. I set up a Picasa web album that we will be updating photos to so you should go there to check out new pics. Also check out Jason and Angela Gerstenberger's blog site. It is really cool and the goal for me....I want to get videos up next.


Today we are just sitting around and watching TV. Rain is not bad (actually there has been none) but it's cold and gray and a good day to relax and do nothing but sit around and play on the computer. The back yard is a mess from the wind and rains that blew thru here the last couple of days....I am putting off getting out there and cleaning it up. Anyway enjoy this new way we hope to communicate with everyone. Go ahead and leave some comments. We'll get an e-mail letting us know you posted something. We are looking forward to this.


Ron


P.S. Here is a pic I took today of the Aloe flowers outside.

Stormy Saturday

Just as the weather man predicted the storms hit us this weekend. Yesterday and today we have had heavy rain and strong winds. There has been no damage around us but lots of trees are down and there is flooding all over the bay area, lucky for us no power outages yet. Ciara thinks something is wrong with us as she has been allowed to watch TV all day and the movie has still to come. We moved our Friday movie night to Sat this week as we were waiting for our movie to be delivered from Netflix.
Fiona and Tara have been busy playing, our living room floor is covered in toys and books and in the middle of all that mess Tara has actually taken a few steps by herself.

Welcome to the Henry Family Blog

After viewing other family blogs and seeing how great and easy it was for us to check in every now and then and see what they were up to we decided we should do something like that too...

Well today we finally got it started, no guarantees on how often we will update. We hope that this will help our family and friends from Maui to Arizona to Ireland and everywhere in between to stay up to date with our life here in Emeryville.