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youngest the other day, since Colton has never had his pics taken processionally (YES, bad mom moment) and Landon's is outdated.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!

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!

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)

Happy Haunting!

Syd's, Wes's, Lando's (in that order)

Our Brood...

Little Bee Man Colton

Southern Belle Syd

DARTH Wesley

Elmo/Lando (he went as grunge Elmo)

The Belle and the Bee...

We surely had a Happy Halloween. Uncle Danner/Aaron's brother came over for the weekend to play with us, what a treat (as opposed to a trick). I think that was more exciting for the kids than Halloween, they LOVE their uncle! With Danner we went for a hike at a local park (in the rain) ate food, talked, watched movies, went to church (complete with primary program). The kids did great in the PP. They said their parts clearly and with out help, and were so dang cute! For Halloween we went to a church carnival and trick-or-treating on Friday, and then did regular trick-or-treating around our neighborhood on Halloween night. They got very little candy, which makes mom happy!! A great time was had by all!

Cross That Country!

All City Meet

Sydnie had the opportunity of running Cross Country in school this year. We always knew she was fast, but little did we know HOW fast! There were only 3 meets in the 2 month period, my kind of sports..."low stress". The first 2 meets were qualifiers. Syd came in 4th after running the mile (out of 8 schools' 2nd grade girls). She qualified for the all city meet which consisted of 33 schools, ALL over Spokane. There were 880 students running that day for the all city meet! HOLY COW, that was one crazy event. Syd came in 29th place (against 120 2nd grade girls). We are so proud of our SUPER FAST gal! Even if she wasn't fast, we would still be proud. I am just so glad she decided to compete. She normally hates competition and despises people "watching" her!

On a different subject; at school, Sydnie was asked to write 5 words to describe her (for an art project) and this is what she said: Excited, Sweet, Cool, Fast, Kind. That describes her perfectly! We love our one and only girl!

Qualifiers Meet


Syd and her running BFF Megan

I had to throw one in of our growing boy Colton...He will be 4 months on the 30th.