Day 42

Birthday baking for my love

Day 23

My Birthday Boy!

He's really into Star Wars right now

It's starting to sleet and might possibly SNOW!!

Picture of the DAY!!

Ok ok, I know it's January 22, but I have tried REALLY REALLY hard to sit down and start up #project356 again! I missed doing it last year. So here's to a late start of my third "Picture of the Day"!

1 - Starting the new year off with sickness in our home

2 - The kids love to get ahold of my phone and take beautiful portraits of themselves 

3 - The trains are taking over our home!

4 - Little beauty

5 - Getting some fresh air

6 - "I'm Bord!!!" and "HELLO =-D" Love these little notes

7 - Last minute drive with a friend to take pictures of the sunset

8- First day back to homeschool

9 - Train Ride

10 - Last day of being 5!

11 - Our little guy is growing up!! Happy 6th Birthday bud!!

12 - Encouragement for the day

13 - I spy a cold dog and a minion

14 - I guess Bobby smells good

15 - Taaa--daaa!

16 - I just love sunsets

17 - More self portraits :)

18 - The best picture of this day was our awesome burnt bacon

19 - Perfect moments

20 - These guys are so funny!

21 - Exploring Landa Park

22 - This boy loves his celery!  It's his last day of being 7!

Birthday Girl

I'm going to have an 11 year old tomorrow.  WHAT?!?  I am not ready for that.  So many changes, so many hormones, so much attitude.. Oh but she is such a delight.  Trin is my planner.  She will NOT forget ANYTHING, which comes in handy for me because I forget everything..  She's a book worm.  Very crafty and creative.  Plays the piano.  Loves mysteries.  She's a problem solver.  She loves finding new recipes to try.  Can recognize a song and what movie it is from. A board game lover.  She's a talker. And she's very inclusive to everyone.  I'm blessed to have her as my daughter!

Here's a video of her friends singing Happy Birthday to her (this is just the beginning of b-day celebrations!)

St. Patricks Day Birthday

Kenz recently celebrated her 9th birthday!  We had a busy day starting off with a sleepover with two friends Saturday evening, church, family photos, and then family birthday time.  We love our goof ball!

Thanks Gigi for gift from Justice!!  She was SUPER excited!!!

Thank you, Nana!

For Christmas last year, Nana spoiled our oldest daughter with an American Girl doll. Well our second daughter wasn't very happy about that. Three months later second daughter is now owner of her very own American Girl doll. Thank you, Nana!!

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Happy Birthday to my little beauty and her good friend. :)

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Recentely we celebrated T's 10th birthday in Colorado! I know I'm waaayyy behind on pictures but I will fill them in soon!

old birthday videos

I was moving pictures around on the computer and found videos of the boys birthdays two years ago. They were so cute, I just had to post them!

Notice the wrong boy blowing out the candles in each one..

J's second birthday


D's fourth birthday

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3.17.2012 - Happy Birthday to my precious K :)

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1.11.2012 - My little boy turned 4 today. Wow! Time is flying by too fast...

I made gluten and dairy free cupcakes and fondant. I've never made or used fondant before so it was definitely a learning experience (and a very imperfect one)! I used ingredients I had on hand so the color was not true white since I didn't have clear vanilla extract or clear corn syrup, but it was SUPER yummy!! :) 

More pictures will follow soon... right now I'm exhausted and my computer is going slow.  I've spent the last 4 1/2 hours in the kitchen baking, cooking, cleaning.. etc. etc. And I babysat an infant for 4 1/2 hours in the morning.    Oh, the things we do to show our little ones we love them.

Picture of the day 1-13

I've seen the picture of the day theme or something similar for awhile now and I've hesitated to try it. I thought since it was the new year I would try though. I know it's almost mid month so instead of 13 individual posts I will place them all in one.

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1.1.2011Baby it's cold outside

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1.2.2011

Growing up

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1.3.2011

Smile!

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1.4.2011

Baking with Mom

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1.5.2011

"Can I come? PLEEEESSSSSE!"

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1.6.2011

Crazy eyes.

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1.7.2011

New Family Member!

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1.8.2011Our first visitor of the New Year!

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1.9.2011"Two doggies"

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1.10.2011Last day of two 2yr. olds!

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1.11.2011
Birthday fun!

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1.12.2011One year ago Haiti was shaken by a tragic earthquake.
We were praying for this little girl to come to our home!


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1.13.2011"Noodle wars" with the college group and youth group.