Easter weekend!

We had a great weekend with family here for Kelton's baptism. It was wonderful. We made cookies, played with balls on the trampolein, ate yummy food and the kids had a great time coloring easter eggs and hunting over and over again. It was heaven. Except that we were sick, so we didn't go to church (only Kelton cause he had a talk and was welcomed in sacrament meeting) and nothing got set out for Easter Sunday (mostly cause Mom was sick) until about 9:30 am. They still loved their baskets. And we loved including Talea (sorry beau and bryce) in our traditions. They all did great finding eggs, and I'm pretty sure I didn't hear, Easter Bunny the whole weekend...which is totally ok with me. :)

Coloring Eggs! Each of the kids got 4, Chase burned thru his and started swiping Evan's, but we didn't notice. So then we had to show them how to do multi colors, and mixing colors to just keep their little hands entertained. :) They loved love loved it!!!!

easter sunday :) handsome boy!

Happy Birthday Daddy!!! April 1, 2012

Happy Birthday Daddy!!! We love you!!!! and chocolate cupcakes :)

Spring Break in Utah

Aunt Lindsay is expecting her third baby in Oct, and snapped her achilies tendon. So, for our spring break, I loaded the kids in the car and we headed to Roosevelt Utah! We got to hang out with grandma/pa and the family too! :) It was a fun week. Then off to head back home for Conference and Daddy's birthday!

My Big 8 YeAr OLd BoY!

Kelton turned 8!

As a child, I always remember waking up and not feeling "different" on my birthday. I didn't feel older, I didn't feel like it was any other day, because most people celebrate their birthdays later in the day...so I had this idea that I wanted Kelton to wake up and feel like the day was different. Special. I decorated his bed and he is always so sweet to comment on the special little things we do for him. He said, "I was like wooh, there's a lot of decorations around this bed!"

Jacob worked swings this week, so we kept Kelton home from school for an hour and had a family breakfast (cupcakes!) and juice. He opened his gifts from us, and then we headed about our morning "get ready" routine. After school we had a basketball party at Leo's Place and the kids had a blast! We left straight from Leo's Place and Kelton got to attend his first scout meeting! What a big special day he had!

On Sunday we had a family dinner and Oma and Opa gave him their presents. He was very happy to have more cupcakes, icecream and enjoy the attention. He always (since he was 2) would direct his happy birthday song. I'm not sure he even remembers that he does it every year, but without fail we have a cute video of the birthday morning song and he was conducting away :)

Tae Bug

MY SILLY SILLY GIRL - I.LOVE.HER! We did several shots, and she kept choosing different faces, she makes my world dainty, sparkly and a little dramatic.

February Randomness

Catch up time!! Ahh! I can't believe its been 4 months since I've last posted! So, here's going to be the marathon of postings! :) Sit on the edge of your seats, or sit back, or you might just have to do both since your butt will get numb after reading all of these updates.

Evan is becoming such a character lately! He follows his clone (daddy) around all the time and loves to watch and mimic him. In the mornings and after naps he takes FOREVER to wake up, and then is soo happy it makes him the best snuggler in the world! he usually comes to our bed and just hangs out till we want to get out of bed (seriously AMAZING). He's been sleeping through the night for a long while now, and I'm not sure if i'll ever be able to go back to what I vaguely remember as nights of constant interuption. We still have sick weeks where we give breathing treatments all night long, but that isn't all the time, so I'm soaking all this up until we get pregnant again...which according to Taelin should be soon and twins. One boy, one girl. She's got it all planned out. Evan has been teething so we do lots and lots of smoothies, since he doesn't eat anything. He downed a green smoothie from Jamba Juice one night instead of icecream...so I guess as long as its all 'whole foods', but this kid is kinda picky...we have to force feed him one spoon and then he'll eat it all! Oh, and he got a haircut....he looks so old! What a big boy!

Chase before his little concert, he was such a ham! got all silly singing those songs and made a few mothers giggle behind me. I was so surprised at his candid humor!

Kelton and his friends after a classroom concert about farmer themed songs :)

Happy Bday Taelin!

It was Taelin's 4th bday on the 8th of January, and we celebrated on the 7th. She was so excited to put together this music party. I made her announcements on photoshop and she delivered it to 8 friends. Some were boys (but didn't end up showing up) so we did the music theme instead of the princess party she wanted...but I'm so glad we did! It was so fun! We set up a little stage downstairs and the girls all watched/danced to taelin's favorite "moove and groove" dvd. They sang, danced, played and ate cake and were so sweet, kind and mellow! It was amazing. I didn't feel tired at all! The boys were gone at bball games with Jacob, so it was nice and chill. Definitely love all these sweet little girls! Taelin is so blessed to be surrounded by so many great girls!

Christmas 2011

These are all mixed up, but they start backwards for the most part.

Ice Skating for the New Year! The kids were SO excited to go, 3rd time (trying) is a charm!

Tubing at Grand Targhee Resort ~ Evan was awake the whole way up the moutain (2 hours) and then screamed till he slept in the lodge and then watched movies again all the way down the mountain to home. It was a fun day for the kids, and Evan and I enjoyed the lodge. It was pretty cold, but at least we found some snow since we didn't have a white Christmas this year. We hit a snow enbankment on the way down which was pretty scary, and then the Excursion started smoking 2 miles from our house.. :( we think its the 4WD...darn it!

Pedicures!!!

Spare!

Bowling at Bowlero! The kids did SO well! Chase even beat Daddy! Kelton and Chase both got 2 spares and little Evan loved to push the balls. The kids were so nice to let him help. Taelin would flip her hair everytime her ball got past the 1/2 way mark. :) So dang funny!!!!

Japanease Steakhouse as a family. Kimber had a friend here this week. The kids thought he was fun. We ate some yummy food. It wasn't the best grilled food, but it was fun and tasty.

Kimber and Taelin at Vickers! Sweet!

Christmas Day, Angry Birds toys from Nathan, we didn't have my new compact camera until Christmas Day, so Christmas morning and Eve aren't photographed. We have lots of fun memories watching the kids play with their toys. Kelton woke up at 11:30pm and couldn't go back to sleep till 1:30, he was sooo excited to play with all his toys. Chase got woken up early by Kelton and Taelin actually slept in till 8:30 when Kelton couldn't let her sleep anymore! Evan was already up (sure kelton's work too) and they all played. Kelton and Chase had 2 huge sets of Legos (but later returned and got a 3D dsi after we all realized that Santa would be okay with the switch). Taelin got a computer game keyboard/mouse set and Evan got a tugboat full of airballs. He's been diving off the couch and into the pit, and all the kids have been busy this week and now ready to get back into school tomorrow!