Cutie Pie!

Can't resist the smile of this little one....

Bye Bye Sicknesses

After over a week of yuckiness at our house... starting with Kelsey, adding Jayda, followed by Cole... they have officially been diagnosed with 2 counts of Strep, 1 count of pneumonia and a double dose of ear infections. We are grateful for antibiotics and are looking forward to them kicking in so that we can get back to happy, noncrying kids and uninterrupted nighttime sleep.

Turning 5!!

Sadie is 5!! It's hard to believe! I can remember perfectly the day that she was born! It happened so quickly... Bart almost missed her birth. :) She is already counting down to Kindergarten in the fall! We love you, Sadie!!
Sadie with her loot!

Sadie super excited for her "lipstick phone" (pretend cell phone that opens up and has lip gloss in it)

Blowing out her candles (she chose chocolate cake with real strawberry frosting... delicious)

Death by Heart Attack!

I got home late tonight... decided to roll the huge garbage cans down to the road tonight so that I didn't have to try and beat the garbage trucks early tomorrow morning. I took out a sack to put in the trash can... opened the lid and a huge raccoon jumped out at me!! Holy crap! I screamed (trying to do it quietly so I didn't wake up the kids) and jumped clear back. That darn thing just looked at me and didn't even move. I ran into the house and made Bart go out to finish with the trash. Good grief! I think 10 years just came off my life....

Look Who's 9 Months!!

Sweet Baby Kelsey turns 9 months old today! Can hardly believe it! She is such a joy to us. Continually happy, especially since she finally cut her two front teeth (she's showing them off in the last picture!)

Daddy-Daughter Date!

Bart bought tickets to take the older girls to Disney's Princesses on Ice. Jayda and Sadie LOVED it! Bart really liked it as well. He said the skating was awesome... they even had fire coming out of the dragon's mouth that Prince Phillip was trying to kill and fireworks coming out of Cinderella's carriage. Jayda and Sadie really enjoyed seeing all the princesses and their princes. Fun for all!
The girls waiting for the show to begin.

Cinderella in her carriage

The sailors on Prince Eric's ship

The silverware dancing for Belle

Belle and Lumiere

Snow White and Prince Charming

Happy V Day!

The kids loved doing the sugar cookies this year!

Bart came through, as always, with some awesome surprises for Luv Day. He sent me to get a pedicure with a girlfriend on Saturday. Loved it! Then, in the mail, came a box of the most divine chocolates from the best place ever! Florence's Exquisite Candies in Rexburg, ID. If you haven't had 'em, you gotta get 'em! Love you, Sweetie!

Silly Kelsey

In between trying to break through 4 teeth at the same time, we can occasionally get Kelsey to still smile. Poor baby.
This is a picture of Kelsey eating Mixed Vegetables, which she loves. She took a huge bite, then proceeded to sneeze several times in a row. Nice. :)

Our sweet neighbor sent us some chocolate covered strawberries from Shari's Berries (divine). I was trying to hand them out to the older kids and Kelsey promptly took one from the box and stuffed it in her mouth! She's no dummy... she already is craving chocolate!

Monster Jam

It seems like going to Monster Jam has become a yearly Father/Son activity for Bart and Cole. Cole is still totally into monster trucks and absolutely loves going with his Dad to see them in action. This time they went with a bunch of dads and sons from our ward. They had fabulous seats... it was a good time to be had by all!
Bart and Cole

A new favorite, Crushtation

GraveDigger, The Legend