I'm 1!

Happy Birthday "Bubba"
I can't believe he is 1. He is so much fun! So happy that he is here with us. We had a quiet evening celebrating his birthday.

I think it's safe to say he enjoyed his cake. I think about half of it ended up on the floor.

Yeah random, sorry earlier that day I took these pics. These are the bunnies living under our porch. They are so stinking cute. Gosh our girls and their friends keep pestering the poor things.

Field day at Taylor's school. I had a blast watching the kids play all the games and races. Here's Austin just hanging with mom.

Lauren, Taylor and Brooklyn (Tay's best friend). Love how they all have braids.

I give up on trying to stay on top of my blog. I just have too much going on lately. These are not the most recent photos, but I will post more later. So what's new with us...? Hmm..not a whole lot. Joe has been working graveyard shifts these last 2 weeks straight. I am going out of my mind. I hate when he works nights. Tonight is his last night, yahoo! Tay's is almost done with school. So excited about that, summer is coming. And oh were under contract to buy a house, finally! Were way excited and praying all goes threw.
Here we are out and about at the local lake doing some fishing.
We had fun, just a little windy!
And just behind you, a great view of the plant! It's huge

Love my girls, so cute. Taylor loves to pose for pic's. Lauren
not so much, she'd rather pick flowers.

It was a little windy!!!! Guess they were trying to keep warm?

Here they are not luck fishing!!

Here's Tay's and her cousin Olivia. We had such a wonderful time visiting my family in Missoula. My brother Scott and his wife Laura were up visiting from Vegas. This was our first time meeting Olivia. She is such a doll. So sweet, amazing baby. We had a great trip. Can't wait to see them again in July.

Maybe a little bit too much excitement for Austin. It's hard traveling and keeping your kids on schedule. While we were there Austin took his first steps. So fun to have my family see the whole thing take place. He is such a fun little man. I love the stage he is in now. His personality is really coming out. He's a total goof, loves to play and mess around with the girls. Now he is walking around like crazy.

Two weeks ago he said his first word, "uh oh". He drops everything just so he can say "uh oh". And last week he started saying "momma". So fun, how do you stop them from growing?

Why?

Can't you just see the excitement on Joel's face? So I ask myself why we do this to ourselves! So last weekend we took the kids to Chuck E Cheese. Uhh..What a zoo that place is. Joe and I joked about how they need to set one of these up in Gitmo, total torture! Kid's everywhere, the games don't even work, the music was annoying. Call me a bad mom, but jike's! Instant headache. The kid's really did have a good time. Scored some fun little prizes. So I think we were ranking pretty high on their lists. Oh the things we do for our children.

So since it was so gorgeous outside, we decided to stop at this park and let the kids get more of their energy out. They had a great time. Felt great to relax and let the Excedrin kick in, you need it after a Chuck E Cheese experience!!

Jack and the Beanstalk

I have been horrible keeping up with this darn blog! Sorry! So
a like a month ago Missoula Children's Theater came and
Taylor was in the skit Jack and the Beanstalk. Reason why it took me so long to post a few pick is because I kept on trying to add a video of their little "mexican jumping bean" dance.
Way cute! In this pic Taylor is smack dab in the middle.
She did a great job and had so much fun with it. They rehearsed every night for a week straight. I promise I will get better at posting pics. Now that we no longer have tennis going
on it frees up a few night a week for us.


As you can tell Taylor had a great time doing the play.
Such a cute little bean!

Here is the whole cast!

December to remeber

Christmas morning! Love that pic of little man. We had a
wonderful Christmas. Taylor and Lauren were totally spoiled by
Santa! Tay's favorite gift was her Eazy Bake Oven. Lauren's was all her
Littlest Pet Shop and horsey stuff. And Joe spoiled me with a amazing
new camera for my b-day. And a fantastic sewing machine and purse for Christmas. What a good man! We had fun spending time with
the family. This has a been a great year and we feel very blessed!

Thankfully the girls helped mommy blow out her candles
not sure I could have done it without them!

Another year old. Ugghh...

Ready and on our way to Missoula for Christmas!

Daddy and Austin opening a Christmas gift. We opened a few
with Joe's fam before they had to leave.

Gotta luv the Christmas dresses. Joe's mom and 2 sisters were
up visiting. We had a great time with them.

Santa even came to the kiddos Christmas program. Lookin cute Tays

Taylor's Christmas program. Super cute! Taylor is in the back row of course under the "D"

I'm 4!

Happy Birthday Lauren, and Uncle Scott! I felt so bad that Lauren didn't get the cake with all the fun stuff on top, but she can't have all that nummy stuff. So here's just the cake with no frosting, it's so moist and delicious I always eat it without the frosting. Happy B-day baby girl!


I can't believe Lauren is already 4! Seems just like yesterday she was turning 1. She was so excited and couldn't wait to open presents. Her fav present was this stuffed unicorn.

Catch up

Lately I have been horrible about updating the blog. So I'll just give you a quick run down of all that has happened in the last 2 months. Joe got his cow elk and was super excited about that. I am excited to have some meat. We went over to Missoula for Thanksgiving. Had a good time with the family. Had a lot of fun shopping. Me and a friend discovered our new favorite place to salvage some crafty stuff! So much fun. Finished another craft fair. That went great! Here's a pic of one of my fav things I did!