Catching Up

Little Toothless (Cole lost his 2nd top tooth last night)

Macie's preschool field trip to Thanksgiving Point Farm

I picked Macie up from preschool and all the kids walked out wearing their "Ant" hats, it was sooo cute!!

Macie gets to play soccer this season! She told me she kicked the ball "a million times" in the last game. It's been a cold, soggy season so far. Hopefully we'll get some better soccer weather!

Easter and Elizabeth's Blessing

Cole lost a tooth the day before Easter, so we had the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy at our house on the same night!

Cole turned 7!!

We invited Cole's friends over for a fun party that was WILD!!

Macie turned 4!! She got to have fun party this year too! We had fun friends and cousins over to celebrate.

This is how Macie felt on her birthday.......she was a total puke-literally!

Cole played basketball again and it was a blast! Below is a picture of Cole and his buds Tommy and Kaden. Above is Cole dunking the ball (not with any help of course!)

This is a small attempt at catching up from blog laziness! I just go through phases and I have evidently been in a non-blogging phase. I pay for it though because now I have a million and a half things to post and it's totally overwhelming!! Oh well, it's my own fault. PS...the pictures at the top are the most recent. It's way too much work to move them around so you are getting kind of a look back from yesterday to basketball in February.

Wonderful Wedding Weekend!

Ok, so the alliteration may be a little lame (or "wame" as Macie would say), too bad - I'm leaving it!

Anyway, my sister Rachel married her true love, Clint, on Saturday. They were nice enough to invite us (of course they didn't have a choice, we totally would have crashed it if needed!) to a very fun dinner at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building on Friday. It was delicious and fun. One of the best parts was that it brought back so many fun memories for me! Justin and I did that very same thing 10 glorious years ago, in that very same room so naturally I LOVE it.

Then on Saturday morning they were married in the Bountiful Temple. It was a lovely, sunny, beautiful day, thus the "wonderful wedding weekend."

We're excited to have Clint in the family and relieved we didn't scare him off before everything was legal!!

Here are just a few shots of the millions that were taken. I wish we had a good one of the whole group. Oh well.

Who needs a Barbie when your favorite cat Twizzler loves to play dollhouse with you?!?!?

Happy Valentine's Day!

Some people really know how to be romantic!!

Disclaimer: This is not Justin!

Welcome!!

We are excited to have two new cousins in our family! Braxton Kirk and Elizabeth June are our newest arrivals. Braxton was born on January 30th and Elizabeth on February 7th. Yipeeee!

A Quick Update......

I know, it's been a VERY long time since I posted. Things are a bit busy and it just hasn't been my top priority :) Justin keeps using no-so-subtle hints that it's time so here it is.......

Christmas was very fun! Cole and Macie are at such fun ages and that makes everything exciting and fantastic. We don't have as many pictures this year, I think it's because Santa brought us a Wii and it was in use almost immediately. No time to take pictures!

We went to St. George for the New Year. That was a lovely break from the 17 trillion feet of snow that was burying us. January was pretty blah. We are glad to be done, but we did have one exciting event. We have a new member of our family......Braxton arrived last week in Monticello!! He is super cute and if I can figure out how, I will add a picture (don't hold your breath!). Cole and Macie are excited to meet their new cousin. We have a new baby to look forward to in February too. Lesa should be having a baby any minute (and if it were up to her she would have had that baby yesterday!).

In fact, February is shaping up to be a much better month. We have new babies all around and a wedding (Rachel is getting married Feb 21st) and some sunnier, less snowy weather - so far!

P.S. I can't get this picture to rotate!! Oh well, just tilt your head to the left :)

Oh, the Weather Outside is Frightful.....

Cole and Macie are delighted with the giant piles of snow around here. Justin and I are not feeling so happy about it, however. But what can you do? I guess tie the sled onto the 4 wheeler and pull the neighborhood around and of course have snowball fights while you wait for your turn!