Zoinks, is it really ... yes, I think it is ...

... it's The Mystery Inc Gang!!!

They gave us some great tips on mystery solving!!!

A Hooping Around Kind Of Day ...

... hula-hooping that is!!! Below are some pics of all the fun ... and yes, it really is as much fun as it looks!!!

Avery showing off her magical "levitation" skills!

And here is the start of the "Avery Hula-Hoop show" ...

... and away we go ...

... with such beautiful form ...

... where timing is critical ...

... and it's all mind over matter ...

... to make it fly anywhere, anyhow!

And now for Emery's turn ...

... ok, get ready, get set ...

...go! 
Well, that's as good as it gets for now ... 
but with more practice, there will soon be a 
great double header show!!!

All Aboard The Polar Express!!!

This is no joke ... last weekend we went to the North Pole to visit Santa Claus!!! Yes, you heard me right. We traveled millions of miles to go see the one and only on this little train called The Polar Express!!!

Getting into trouble in our pjs waiting to go see Santa Claus 

with our "double trouble" friends, twins Gianna and Alexa

 Loading up onto The Polar Express train

(yes, it was as cold as it looks)

 After a very very long train ride, 

we finally met Santa Claus at the North Pole!!!

 We also had tons of fun just playing around in all that snow ...

 ... it was even Emery's first time seeing snow, 

so we did tons of stuff like ...

 ... making snow angles all over the place ...

 ... and having tons of snowball fights ... 

but not with any of our girlfriends ... 

we instead all ganged up on someone 

who wasn't even expecting it ...

... yep, you guessed it ... watch in the video 

below as we all gang up on Daddy!!!

My My My, look at how our Mighty Emery has changed ...

Emery showing off her powerful gymnastic-like lower body ... 
you can actually see the muscle tone ... amazing!!!

Sometimes small packages can be quite surprising. Remember back in those good old days (really just a year ago) when things were a bit more constraining? What a difference a year can really make!!!

Emery's shackles from a long time ago are a distant memory

The Case of the Mysterious Missing Chocolate Bar ...

Um, from the looks of it Emery already closed the case ... 
before it was even started!!!

Gobble Gobble Gobble Day ...

Happy Thanksgiving!!! Here are some pictures of our great and thankful foodie day ...

 Day started off with Avery stuck peeling potatoes ...

 ... while I got to entertain Auntie Em 

(I think I got the better deal)

 Ta-DA ... our bacon-wrapped turkey!!!

 Emery helping Mommy un-stuff the turkey

 Gobble gobble gobble time ... yum yum yum!!!

 Emery and Avery "helping" to 

find leftover containers

Carcass Soup to send out to Grandma Wendy 

(since she was too sick to join us today)

The Fixers ...

 Emery and Daddy fixing things that need a-fixing

What a weekend! Everything seemed to go wrong, with this little thing breaking here and then that other thing breaking there, you just couldn't turn around without something going wrong!!! Good thing my Daddy has me to help out in times like these ... maybe the next thing I should fix is getting Daddy to put on a shirt once and awhile!!! 

Emery with the tool that's going to fix that broken thing

Guess what makes me laugh really really hard ....

  ... underwear on the head!!!!

What makes this even funnier is that I'm still wearing 

diapers and had to borrow a pair of Avery's!!!

To Bee, Or Not To Bee, That Is The Question ...

... or rather, wouldn't it be super fun to be a little Bee!??!!?

Here are two takes at it ... in each video guess which member of the Amazing Sis team is the Bee!!!

Take 1:

Take 2:

Build-up to All Hallows Eve ...

Happy Halloween!!!

We had weeks of scary fun leading all the way up to Halloween night this year! Here are some snapshots of all the super cool creepy fun ...

Superhero dress-up fun at Mathew's 5th birthday party

Spooky bedtime stories in the dark with flashlights

Avery's super fun school Halloween dress-up party

Watching scary movies like "Spooky Buddies"

Getting slimy pulling out pumpkin guts ....

... and then having a race to see who can design 

the scarier Halloween pumpkin ...

Which one is the scariest?!!?!!!?!

Dressing up in a unique one-of-a-kind 

Halloween costume ... I'm a Zom-Bee!!!

Stella did not like the Zom-Bee outfit ... 

she ran straight into the shower!

Finally, trick-or-treating with Glenda The Good Witch 

and The Wicked Witch of the West!!!

You scream, I scream, we all scream for ...

Emery will do a ton of tricks for a very special tasty treat, 

just watch the video below and see ...

Stellaluna, Our Beautiful New Addition ...

Surprisingly (even for me) life does move very fast and all that is known is that it constantly drifts forward. So who has the time to live in any exact specific moment? It's hard to remember what you were doing just the previous day, hour, minute, upon each morning sunrise.

 Emery sporting her usual everyday morning cuteness

 Emery and Avery playing around as they usually do, each and every morning

So either the time was just right or the stars were aligned just so or that slim grasp of a moment toward unique intervention occurred where our family fell into a common orbit of a dog named Monroe. Yes, I said Monroe ... did I mention yet that she was a 9 month old female dog???

 Monroe meeting our family for the first time ... 

it was love at first sight!!!

So what do you do exactly with a girl dog named Monroe??? Well, you change that silly name immediately of course, with no questions asked. Note that supposedly she was named after Marilyn Monroe, but that all still seems sort of odd when you look at her for awhile or even really get to know her ...

So we all tossed around countless names to help make her more of a permanent family fixture, but none of them really seemed to hit the nail on the head ... then we just happen to start joking around about how shockingly enormous those ears were ... about how they seemed more like the ears of a humongously odd bat ... and then just like that, naturally all thoughts drifted towards a favorite ...

 The perfect name (and story) for our lovely new puppy!

 Stellaluna (or Stella for short)

making herself comfy on Scout-No's bed

 Avery, Scout-No, and Stella relaxing nicely all together,

 as a real close family should