Dellma came to visit the last week of January

Mikayla had a killer birthday party...

Complete with 17 screaming kids, 1 monkey pinata and cake, 2 stressed-out parents, 5 or 6 games, and a few moms who were kind enough to stick around and help out.

Here's another whopper NC "snowstorm"

The Smooch

Only the women in the family could get the kids to pull this on off.

More pictures from Tacoma for Christmas

As you can imagine, Grandpa & Grandma took a lot more pictures in Tacoma than we did. Here are their pictures.

Vance K. Birdno, Aug. 11, 2006

Merrill's family in Mexico

Curty's graduation from ASU!

Family Pictures in Tacoma

Look who likes the exersaucer

Mikayla reading The Book of Mormon

Blackmail material on Grandma Birdno

Christmas in Tacoma, WA

Christmas Eve in Durham

Watchin' and Pickin'

Nativity - Kids' Style

Nano 's first taste of cereal, Dec. 19th

Nano & Carson Alder

Sonlicious' Birthday!

Amy came to visit for Thanksgiving

Nano Photo Shoot

Jose and Sonlicious reading to Nano

Nano, November 6th

Camping on Halloween

The weather was beautiful on Halloween, so we decided to go camping. The Alders decided to come along even though there weren't any cool people coming. Their baby Carson is 3 days older than Nano.

Halloween 2006

We've got pictures of:

-Josh trying to lift the pumpkins
-Jack-o-Lantern carving
-Our Wizard of Oz costumes
-Mikayla & Josh downing a huge pixy stick after the party

Nano, 2 months old

Mikayla & McKenzie Performing

Nano's baby blessing

We blessed Mariano Judd while Grandpa Hansen was here.

Family pictures, October 15th

The Blue Ridge Parkway

While Merrill was home for the weekend, we split to the Blue Ridge Parkway to see the fall colors.

New Carpet...thanks to Grandpa Hansen

And of course some bigtime help from SonLicious

Grandpa & Grandma Hansen

Cami's parents came into town while Merrill was at conferences in Chicago and Atlanta. It was great to have them here to help with the kids. Mikayla and Joshua loved having them around.

Nano, first week of October

At the fire station

Mikayla took another trip to the Fire Station. Unfortunately, the pictures with Mikayla did not focus too well.

September photos of Nano

Nice Shiner

SonLicious gave himself a nice shiner when he was playing with his hotwheels style airplane. This is a couple of days later.

Da Boyz

What they do best

Here are a few more pictures from September of Mikayla and Joshua doing what they do best (coloring and eating, respectively). Oh, and Mikayla also likes her flying giraffe swing.

Nano Dudd

Josh loves to get his picture taken...

So does Mikayla

Grandpa & Grandma Birdno

All three kids...

Pictures of Vance

Grandpa & Grandma gave us some pictures they took of Vance while they were with Curty & Crystal.

Mikayla & Josh Slideshow

More Pictures of Mariano Judd

Mariano Judd Birdno has arrived

He is here and we could not be more happy.

Mikayla & Josh Being Silly

Fun in the yard

Cami's anniversary card to herself

Since I brought only a plant and no card to Cami for our anniversary (which the deer ate by the way), she picked this one up for herself the next day. If you want her side of the story, you'll have to ask her.