Frosty the Snowman

Yesterday while Kai was down for his nap, I went outside with Gabe and Avery and played for a little while. We built this cute little snowman with prune eyes, a pretzel nose, a peapod mouth and serving spoons for arms. Ya we got a little creative but we had so much fun. After the snowman we had a snowball fight. I love playing with my kids. They are such good boys and I know they are growing up way too fast. I am trying to cherish each little moment with them because I'm sure soon enough they will be way too cool for their MOM. For now, I am proud to be the only girl in their life. I sure love my boys!

Hill Aerospace Museum

I don't know why but since moving back west I feel like we stay at home a lot more. We hardly go anywhere anymore. My poor kids are just sooooo very thankful every time we get out of the house and do something. Gabe has been begging to go to this Airplane museum lately and I finally decided we should check it out. It was so much fun for the kids. They loved seeing all of the big fighter jets and there was even a wright brothers display with some really old airplanes which reminded us of Ohio for a minute. After the museum we went to the gift shop and Gabe and Avery got to get their own personalized dog tags. They thought that was pretty cool. Maybe we should get out more often.

Our new hobbie

My parents live at the foothills of some beautiful mountains and they recently purchased some cross country skis. We have had so much fun with them this winter. It is so gorgeous being out in the middle of fields full of beautiful white snow and the clear blue sky. I feel like I'm in heaven when I'm out there. Thanks mom and dad for the fun skis. Winters here are so much fun!

The Most Amazing Shirt!

Kai 15 Months.............
Avery 4 Years.................
Ada 8 Years....................
Emma 10 Years...................

Callin 29 Years.......................... They weren't kidding when they said, "One size fits all"!

New Haircuts

BEFORE..........
After!

BEFORE........
After! After some much needed grooming, my boys are very happy with the results.

Annual Family Ski Trip

Every year some of my brothers and sisters get together for a day and go skiing. We take no kids and unfortunately no spouses (only because we can't get them to come with us). It is so fun and we spend most of the day laughing our heads off at each other. This year was a perfect day because the weather was clear and sunny but there was also fresh new powder from the day before. We were all in heaven. I can't wait until next year's family trip already. Thanks fam!

Me and Nat enjoying our squished P.B. and J. for lunch.

Em thinking she is so hot in her new ski outfit.

Nat, David, and Em just before we took one of the last runs for the day. It got freezing cold.

Avery's little spill

We were in the middle of taking family pictures up at a park. We had just arrived on our new location and we were trying to get everyone out of the car. Avery was the first one out, and with his hands in his pockets, pretends that the ice on the road is a treadmill and starts to run in place. He found out very quickly that that wasn't a great idea. We immediately loaded back in the car and headed down the road to the E.R. instead of finishing taking family pictures obviously. He is doing great now and we did manage to get some pretty cute pictures before the tragic incident.

We did call him Jay Leno for a few days.

Christmas 2008

Kai was a happy little cowboy on his mechanical zebra. He played on that thing all day long.

Gabe and Avery have been begging for a Wii for two years. Looks like Santa finally pulled through for them this year!

Our family has a tradition of gettin up at 6:00 in the morning. We like to be done opening presents just as the sun starts to come up. It seems that one of us wasn't quite ready for that early morning.

Here is the whole crew of us on Christmas morning. As you can tell some of us aren't quite down with the six a.m. thing (Cordie).

All of those fun parties with cousins sure wore everyone out.

Gabe's in Jr. Jazz

Gabe had so much fun playing basketball this fall. He origionally had five kids on the team but the two girls ended up quitting. The rest of the games were played with only three kids on Gabes whole team. They won every game by quite a bit even though the other team always had five players. He had a lot of fun and can't wait until next year already. Good job Gabe!

Family Pictures

My sister in-law, Cordie, took our family pictures. We were lucky to get the good ones when we did, because soon after we got started Avery fell on the ice and cut his chin open. We ended up taking him to the ER where he got stitches. We love the pictures we got, thanks Cordie!