Dupere Family

Santa Party 2011

2011-12-18T22:03:00.004-07:00

We were so excited to attend Dede and Denise's Santa Party again this year. A HUGE thanks to Dede and Niesy for the great party. And a HUGE thanks to Dede for capturing some great moments of Port and Paisley's interactions with Santa!

The excitement of Santa arriving in the firetruck is almost more than the kids can handle!

Poor little Pais was scared of Santa. He came right up to her and reached out to hold her and she buried her head in my shoulder held on for dear life!

Pais and her Dede

Pais with her two favorite girls!

Paisley loved the cake pops

Porter was so nervous about seeing Santa, but he knew it had to be done so he could tell him what he wanted. He described the top two items from his list in great detail then was anxious to get away from him!

LOVE the expressions on both Porter and Santa's faces in these pics!

Pais was still scared when it was her turn to see Santa. He can't be all bad if he gives presents!

When it was our turn for a family picture neither child wanted anything to do with Santa!

Love this one!!!

Playing in the princess tent

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Paisley got a princess tent for Christmas from her great grandma Jean. She and Porter love playing in it together.

Our little family

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Porter and Grammer's snowman

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Christmas at Pops and Grammers

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Chuck E Cheese with Pops and Grammer

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A visit to Pops and Grammers'

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Sleepy dog

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Two P's at the park

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Pais goes down the slide

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Coloring Pictures

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The Plane Ride Home

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The Alaskan Tundra

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Aunt Kathy took us to a place where the kids could have a sleigh ride. Unfortunately, it was only 8 degrees that day!!! Brrrrrr

Day 2

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Paisley's first trip to Bullwinkles Pizza

Alaska Nov 2011 Day 1

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Our first stop after landing in Juneau was Fred Meyer to get some supplies for the kids. I can't even remember how easy it was to travel before P&P were in our lives!

After we got to Grandpap's house, Porter was anxious to get out his stockpile of toys from the basement!

Snow time!

Porter and Paisley both loved playing with the dollhouse that belonged to their Grandma Kathryn.

Traveling to Alaska

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Paisley reads

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Paisley has become a little bookworm. She loves "reading" her books herself or being read to. Interesting how when she reads her books herself they are always upside down...

Paisley Jabber

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Daycare Halloween Party

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Superman and the Pink Poodle

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After much deliberation, Porter decided to be Superman again this year for Halloween. Of course, last year's costume is too small, so this year we chose one with muscles! As one of Paisley's nicknames is poodle, we decided she would make a great pink poodle. When the kids were trick-or-treating, she actually woofed at each house instead of saying trick-or-treat!

Playing at home

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Pais loves playing in the sandbox. She has only eaten one handful of sand that we know about!

Porter picked out matching Sponge Bob PJs for he and Paisley. Here they are playing with Daddy on Mommy and Daddy's bed.

A trip to the pumpkin patch

2011-12-05T22:53:00.004-07:00

We took Porter and Paisley to the pumpkin patch a few days before Halloween. We ended up leaving without a pumpkin, but the kids had a great time.

Paisley loved the animals. She walked around and "woofed" at all of them. She also chased the poor chickens around.

Two P's in a box

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GG sent us a box a few weeks ago and Port and Pais had a great time playing in the box after we emptied it out.

The cheerleader and the football star

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Go Big Red!!!!

Chicken, Star, Rocket

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Here is Porter doing his chicken, star, rocket, swim.

Monkey Walk

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Here's Port doing his monkey walk and jumping in the pool.

Porter's ring dive

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Porter continues to love going to swim lessons every Saturday. Here he is in action diving for a ring.

Pais and her accessory

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We think Paisley will be a girl who likes to accessorize! She loves walking around the house with daddy's belt around her neck like a scarf.

The moment of GG's big surprise

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I was able to capture the first few seconds of GG's surprise on video. Hopefully she's not mad that I posted this!

Happy birthday to gg

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Playing in the sand

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GG's birthday surprise

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With the help of my Aunt Cheri, the kids and I flew to Nebraska to surprise GG for her birthday. When GG showed up at my Grandma's house, the kids and I were there to surprise her. It was so much fun. We then spent the weekend at GG and Grandpa Ted's house and Ben, Chanda and the boys came over to help celebrate.

Chanda made GG a beautiful cake!

GG's 4 little Huskers

GG's birthday serenade

Ballerina Pais

2011-10-28T22:02:00.002-07:00

When Lauren babysat the kids recently, she played dress up with Pais. What a cute little ballerina!!!

Porter's Pump it Up Party

2011-10-28T21:47:00.003-07:00

For Porter's 4th birthday, he had a party at Pump it Up. This was his first party where he invited all of his school friends too. All of the kids had such a great time jumping, eating pizza and cake, and watching P open his gifts. It was so much fun having so many great kids (and parents too) at the party!!!

A day at the Minnesota Zoo

2011-10-03T06:36:00.003-07:00

Sleeping beauty

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Mall of America

2011-10-02T09:50:00.003-07:00

We spent our first full day in Minnesota at the Mall of America. Porter and Alli rode on all of the rides several times. Both kids liked the Lego play area too.

Alli and Kat take us to the park

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Airport playland

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The Minneapolis airport has a super cool play area that the kids checked out before we headed to baggage claim.

Happy travelers

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On Porter's birthday we took off for Minnesota for a quick visit with Rick's sister Linda and her family.

One last playtime with GG

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Before we took GG to the airport Paisley had to get in one last playtime!

Paisley's 1st Party: guests and presents

2011-09-22T21:11:00.004-07:00

We were so happy to have such wonderful friends and family at Paisley's first birthday party. I did not do a great job getting pictures of everyone, but thanks to GG and Katie, we at least got pictures of all the kids!

Porter, Hudson, Noah and Jack

Amber and baby Charlie

The Lyons got Paisley baby Minnie

Paisley is soooo excited that Katie and Chris are having a girl! We all can't wait to meet baby Hadley in December!

Chris, Katie and Hudsie

Pais and Charlie love playing together. Little Charlie turned 1 just a couple of days after Pais

Silly boys!

Grace was so sweet with Paisley at the party.

We were so happy to have Ayva at the party too!

Paisley's 1st Party: the baby and the cake

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Paisley's cakes turned out really cute! The best part of a first birthday party is giving the baby her own cake!

From the minute Lauren showed up at the Party, Pais was with her! We are so blessed to have the Rossi's in our lives!!!!

Yummy!!!

Paisley's 1st Party: the pre-party

2011-09-11T22:11:00.004-07:00

We had a party at our house for Paisley's first birthday. We were so excited for everyone to arrive after two days of preparing for the big party! And of course, the birthday girl looked just like a princess, although she hated the headband that her mommy put on her.

LOVE this picture of my two babies. They are both getting so big!

Rick put out quite a spread of food for the party

The pickled veggies that Rick and Porter made were the hit of the party.

Proud GG with her two little P's

Porter decided to give Pais her gift from him before the party started....I think he was looking forward to playing with it because it was a camper - he loves anything with wheels.

Our little family!

Pais and her cards

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Paisley loved opening and looking at all of her birthday cards this year. I'm sure it will be several years before that happens again so I tried to capture it on camera.

GG goes to swim lessons

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GG was so excited to go to Porter's swim lessons and see him in action.

Two Chefs in the kitchen

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Porter's rescue vehicles

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GG took Porter shopping at Toys R Us for his birthday gift while she was here. He picked out a super cool set of rescue vehicles and he and daddy have had so much fun playing with them!

Playing games with GG

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One of Porter's favorite things to do when GG visits is to play board games. They played candy land and gingerbread people this trip.

Paisley's first handbag

2011-09-11T21:32:00.002-07:00

With my love of purses, I was so excited when I happened upon this cute little first purse on Amazon. I had to get it for my baby girl. It came complete with a phone, wallet, credit card, bright red lipstick and mirror. So cute!!!

In these pictures Pais is wearing one of her new custom onesies that Lauren made for her. This one says "Hug me it's my birthday".

Pais meets Hello Kitty

2011-09-11T21:28:00.001-07:00

GG came to town on Paisley's 1st birthday. She brought a special gift with her that she and Grandpa made for Pais at Build a Bear. Pais loved her Hello Kitty!!!

Porter and Rick make pickles

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P's playing in PJ's

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Sleepy boy!

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Playing at Canyon Villas

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Porter in the pack and play

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During our second stay at Canyon Villas this summer Porter asked if he could go in Paisley's pack and play and then he pretended he was asleep.

Pais eats potatoes

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Two P's snuggling on the couch

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Pais goes for a ride

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Port eats cookies

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Pais eats cookies

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Directing in the planes

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Making Pais giggle

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Dancing to the truck

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Porter the swimmer

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Porter's big cut

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After nearly 8 months of refusing to cut his hair, Porter asked us if he could get his hair cut last weekend! Although it was much needed, it was sad to see those sweet curls go!

Before Picture

Rick actually scooped up the curls off the floor :)

Bye bye cute curls

Handsome boy!!!

Big Blue Eyes

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Best Buddies

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Cuties in the Car

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Lil Paisy

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At the park

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Despite the extreme heat, we have snuck in a few short visits to the park, at Porter's request of course.

Little Cutie

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Pais vs. the slide, round 2

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We headed to the park again a couple of weeks ago and Pais once again attempted to climb up the curvy slide. I took GG's advice and let her try it with nothing covering her knees, but poor little girl still didn't make it to the top. It wasn't for a lack of trying though!

Porter the jungle gym

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Porter is such a good sport when his little sister decides to climb all over him.

2 Cute P's

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Shoe Shopping

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With Paisley starting to walk, it was time to go shoe shopping! It just happened that Porter needed new shoes too.

Baby Girl

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In honor of our baby girl turning 1 this month, I just had to change the blog background to a baby girl theme!

The King in his chair

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Little Climber

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Climbing up the slide

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The other night at the park, little Pais spent a good 5 minutes trying to climb up the slide. She got so frustrated and had to take little breaks but she was determined to get up. Despite her hard work and perseverance, she never made it to the top :(

Porter showed her how it was done!

Then Port tried to help her up!

My Boys

2011-08-03T06:26:00.000-07:00

New Jammies

2011-07-16T20:48:00.002-07:00

Not sure why, but I feel like there is something extra cute about wearing new jammies. Porter and Paisley both got a few new pairs of jammies recently and Porter was so excited to wear his new Lightning McQueen jammies. Paisley's new jammies came with a tutu, which I took off at bedtime, but was super cute to wear around the house!

Happy 4th Birthday Noah!

2011-07-16T20:28:00.005-07:00

We had a great time at Noah's 4th birthday party last weekend at Bounce U. Porter now thinks he wants to have his birthday party at "a jumpy place".

Paisley and Charlotte planned their outfits to match their toys that day!

Ryan and Pais

Katie and Pais

Charlotte and Hudson

Pais wanted to do everything the bigger kids could do!

Porter and the birthday boy

Poor Noah wasn't feeling so good when it came time for pizza and cake. He was quite a little trooper despite feeling yucky!

Porter kept a close watch on the presents

I love this picture because Porter and Noah are both so serious while eating their cake and have the same expressions!

Happy Birthday Rick!

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Little Risk Taker

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Little Paiser is into everything and completely fearless. She is much more of a risk taker than her brother was at this age.

P & P playing at home

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Crazy 4th of July party at the Duperes

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We were wild and crazy on the 4th of July with our sparklers and snap pops! The kids had a great day and night.

Yes, Pais and I had matching Hello Kitty 4th of July shirts. :)

Happy Kids!

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Even Grumpy George smiles once in awhile!

Swimming with Lauren

2011-07-07T21:19:00.002-07:00

I took Rick out for an early birthday dinner Sunday night and Lauren (and Dede & Sam) took the kids swimming. Both kids had a great time and apparently had lots of laughs. We are so lucky to have such great friends who love our kids so much!!!!!!!!!!!

Swim Lessons

2011-07-07T21:12:00.002-07:00

Both kids (and I) started swim lessons again at Aqua Tots on Saturday. This was Paisley's first lesson and she was a natural. She was kicking her little feet like a pro! And Porter jumped right back in where he left off from his last lessons. This time, however, he was with 3 cute little girls!

Staycation day 2

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Why do babies love remotes so much??

Staycation 2011

2011-07-07T19:35:00.004-07:00

We made a very last minute decision a couple weekends ago to have a Sat-Mon staycation at our favorite spot the Canyon Villas. Once again, Lizard Lagoon was our favorite spot as both kids could play in the shallow water. We hope to go back again this summer, hopefully with the Lyon family!

I LOVE this picture. Porter is such a loving big brother. Here he kisses little paisey's hand. So sweet!

Our little Pais

2011-07-07T19:25:00.002-07:00

Pais had her 9 month appointment towards the end of June, thanks to our trip to Nebraska and Dr. Cannon's vacation. We were thinking the extra couple of weeks might help her climb out of the low percentiles for height and weight :). Our sweet little girl weighed in at a whopping 16.1 lbs, which dropped her down to the 10th percentile! She stayed in the 25th percentile for height and her giant melon was still in the 75th percentile for head size!

Baby P eats frozen peas

2011-07-05T20:51:00.002-07:00

Porter's favorite snack when he was teething was frozen peas (still frozen). We have tried this snack with Pais a few times and she is still not sure what she thinks. She usually chews on them for a while and then spits them out.

Two playing P's

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Paisley plays dollies

2011-07-05T20:22:00.002-07:00

After months of watching my baby girl play cars with her daddy and big brother, it is so fun to see her play with baby dolls! She still loves to play cars too...

Super Silly P's

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Lauren Babysits

2011-07-05T20:10:00.002-07:00

Lauren babysat a few weeks ago so we could go on a date with her parents and our friends Matt and Nikki. Lauren and Porter baked cookies, under Paisley's close supervision, of course!

Pais and her Lauren

Daddy and his baby girl

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Water Babies

2011-07-04T17:21:00.004-07:00

Pops and Grammer took us to the pool while we were in Lincoln and the kids had a great time. They played in the baby pool and Porter and I hit the big pool too.