Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Little Miss Syd

Since Sydnie is the oldest and the only girl, she is extremely special to her mom! I could not raise four kids and be sane without her because she helps me so much (especially during tax season when Aaron is MIA). She is extremely creative and REALLY good at coming up with games or activities for all those brothers of hers to play (see pics below).

I LOVE the fact that she has such a good attitude about life and I love that she is SO easily excitable! I told her we were going to the store to get her some new socks and she was so excited to go and pick them out! And that is just a little thing. Imagine how she acts when I tell her we are doing something that is REALLY fun! She makes chains, and charts and counts down the days until the event, reminding EVERYONE in the process of how much longer we have etc. Her genuine cheerfulness and happiness over simple pleasures make me so happy and keeps me young at heart!

I also love the fact that she is already making great choices. If she feels uncomfortable in a situation, she will avoid it (or she will tell me about it, hopefully this will be the case for years to come. One can only hope). My only daughter is getting so old and mature. She turns eight March 2, and will be getting baptized April 9th! My goodness, we love her so much!!


This was a game she thought of, whoever can put the money all the way up to the the armpit without laughing, wins!

She keeps Landon entertained for hours. This was one of those times.

She loves to organize. She organized the rubber bands from Wes's rubber band gun and labeled "how well they shoot." If you can't quite read it: Pink=hardest Blue=fastest, Yellow=Stretchiest, Green=fun/easy, Orange=highest

She helps me so much with Colton. He loves her a ton!!

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Triple Threat

My 3 boys...all around 7 months old. You can tell, by the 3rd child, the overalls are a bit stained!


Friday, January 28, 2011

Photo Shoot FAIL

I tried to take pics of my 2 youngest the other day, since Colton has never had his pics taken processionally (YES, bad mom moment) and Landon's is outdated. I DID get a few of Colton being adorable, but check out Landon! YIKES!





Thursday, January 6, 2011

Allow me to Sum Up...

A lot has happened in the past few months in my blogging absence. I will now do a "sum up" with some pictures as well...

*Had a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving in Seattle (just for the record, it might have been the most delicious Turkey Day I have ever had). Spent the week/weekend with Aaron's rad family. We did TONS of talking and tons of eating and mega shopping. Aaron had his first Black Friday experience with Tyler (bro in law, who is a BF DIE HARD) where they were out from 10:00 pm Thanksgiving night until the next morning at 9:00! I was at home sleeping, thank goodness, but I think he had a great time (and got all of our Christmas shopping done).
Colton with his adorable cousin Lila (5 weeks apart)
*Wes and I get strep throat
*Lots of snow


*Driving to Boise for Christmas!!!! We went to Boise to stay with my sister Kristen and her family! They were nice enough to have us for one WHOLE week AND even spend Christmas day with them! It was a mad house (15 people in total), and my parents even came to join the festivities! My goodness, it was fun and SUPER relaxing!
Kris and me cooking and baking!
Lando and his BFF cuzzy Spencer

Colton getting so spoiled being held by Trevor (and EVERYONE!)

Santa Baby...

The Christmas Morning Line

*On Christmas Day, we ate the best dinner in history at Uncle Roger's house. It was beef tenderloin. Talk about MELT IN THE MOUTH! Along with twice baked potatoes, jello salad, and a plethera of pies! I think there was at LEAST 15 pies, AND who could forget the homemade ice cream? For the pie feed, I think there were about 80 people there to enjoy the delicious goodness! SO FUN!

*Colton turns 6 months

* My cousin came home from his mission, and there was a crowd of 80 (I think) to greet him at the airport!
*My parents took 25 of us out to Chilis! Good food, GREAT company!
*Park (2x)
*Getting to see my OTHER siblings because their in laws live in Boise too!!!! :)
*Cabellas
*Shopping
*Boys going to the movie Inception
*Poor Brenna getting so sick! :(
*TONS of games
*Watching a Western!
*A SCRUMPTIOUS breakfast at Uncle Larry's (consisting again of about 80 people)
*A snow packed drive home
*New appliances (dishwasher and fridge-MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ME)
*Lando gets ear infection
The list could keep going, NO better way to spend the holidays than with family! BIG OL' SHOUT out to our WONDERFUL family...extended and immediate! YOU ARE ALL AWESOME and we LOVE YOU! Thanks for the partying and memories!

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Check Out the Cuties

Got a new lens for the camera...checkin it out on the little man (who is almost 5 months old!)

Mouth full of popcorn chicken, yet still soo cute!




He walked around with this on his head for 20 min!

The weather has been SO crazy this month. Super rainy, cold, cloudy, AND snowy. Makes for great sunsets though.

We/Aaron is doing a mini home revovation project. Can you guess what this is? All will be revealed in a few weeks (or whenever Aaron gets it done)