Another birthday for March

Just a simple nine years and this little girl was a little wee thing. Her birthday was mostly clothes. You know clothes cause she isn't a little kid anymore. After though all the presents were opened  she was was totally bummbed most has been clothes. She is really looking forward to some toys for Easter hahah! She is in third grade with mrs. Alexich's class. She has struggled this year but really has the social stuff in the bag. She has an emotional maturity that is far beyond her years. She helps her classmates so much. 

There are so many creative ideas she has . And we are so proud of her. Happy birthday maegan!! We love you so much! 

The Fish's birthday

I just am so shocked that it was seven years ago this little love of a boy came into our family.

This is what we did on the actual birthday of Brady's seventh year of life. 

We are so proud of this little man.

Chancho the Manly Dog

This little guy is worming his way into everyone's heart. We picked him up about 8 days ago and he has been a total gentleman. He looks like a little girl. But we have named him manly chancho. 

He loves to snuggle and is the master of the sneak pooh. We are trying to break him of it but yeah it's gonna take a long while. His poop is super tiny so I really can't complain. 

He loves sleeping in a crate and loves bugging moobie and getting her active. The kids are in love with this little face and his eye brows that are just too much! 

This past couple weeks we have dropped some major dough on some  fun things and Braden's birthday has been one of them. But yeah we figure if we just get a puppy every six or so years we will never be with out a dog. This one sleeps through the night and is not winey or anything g like moobs was. I am so glad we didn't go with the boxer/pit mix we had looked at. They were only five weeks old! What the heck?! I am pretty sure my discusted face was showing. Pat wanted a little girl dog so bad. We left totally thinking we wouldn't get any of the puppies. But we decided at the last min to grab one little golden boy from the family that had the 9 week old cocker spaniel King Charles cavilier mix. He is sooo sweet and has the best little personality. There were so many to choose from and we had a hard time. But chancho sold us as he was the calmest and sweetest little guy. He was very scared of moobie at first and has finally come around and they love to wrestle. We ate really good Mexican food to decide and pat was pretty set on the boxer pup. I wasn't really thrilled about taking in one more too tiny pup home.

Valentine's Day Festivities

 The Fish

 Thing1

Thing 2

SO I know we have done these for the past 2 years but here is YEAR number three!! I love these shots and love having them for the collection of pictures too!! The Fish has every year since Preschool.

I am so stoked this year he still wanted me to kiss his cheeks with red Lipstick lol and take shots of him. I just love that kiddo. 

For my birthday we got a board game that they all love playing. LIFE is the best. Thing 1 Keep sweeping the game with his fantastic way of getting money!!

And everyone takes the family road to load as many babies as they can get in their car. The fish had a car full of girls besides him self!! I could hear them saying, "I really am soooo Poor!!" hahahha sounds like it. 

Tom's wedding announcement

This is gonna be a great time in the snow!  Gotta love family in the great white north. 

Just chilling on Christmas

Most fun things on Christmas is getting to spend time with these three amazing kiddos! 

This years Jammies include feet pjs for maegan and I just love these guys! 

We had a blast opening presents at 7am instead of 5am:) 

They all have too much garb this year and we didn't really blow as much as last year which is nice :) 

Thing 1 and Chloe

Once I guess one trip after school in the sand at the park was all it took for Chloe and thjng1 to be best buddies. Thing 2 loves to dig even more he loves to direct diggin and when Chloe was up to the challenge there were some amazing exch ages like. 

"Wow this girl is awesome" 

She can really dig and she is just six!

So thing 1 gave her a gift of the toy he found on the way back to the car! Apologized for calling her annoying earlier that same week. And she in return created this amazing book for him! Showing their two adventures! Sooo adorable! 

Seriously adorable! 

The fish give his first talk in primary!!

JustOHe's six years old, he's in live with legos, he loves watching scary movies and this week he couldn't sleep in bed as he was brushing his teeth. I asked him to say a prayer and ask Heavenly Father to mcalm him so he could sleep. He did and fell asleep really quite quickly after. 

Now today the primary asked him give a talk and he stood at the pulpit of like a good solid minute of silence.  Just love this kid and totally doing this during my next talk! 

Restaurant Madhouse

Yesterday was amazing the sunset we caught was beautiful.the little light was the moon coming out.  Pat got his new bike that is super fast. Its an older marin. which doesnt mean much to me but he knows he can hall. He had us all ride at night with little lights and it was really fun. The kiddos need so much a bike ride in the am before we go to school. It relaxes them so much. Breakfast picnics would be so fun! 

I actually got an oreck vacuum for a whopping 50 on Craig's list. It looks like its been used but not abused. We will be abusing it! I used it yesterday and was shocked at how clean it got the carpets. 

Even with the other "good vacuums" they haven't done the job this one has. It's ridiculously light so going up stairs and down isn't gonna be a problem at all. 

I posted this video on fb and need to repost it on YouTube so I can have it there. It was the active version of the picture of us down there. We had cleaned the church and then We jumped over to I hop. The kids waiting for the food went a little berserk. They are soooo funny. The fish did the hula. Thing 2  sticking her mouth through a hole she made in her menu started singing. I was laughing so hard. The band not so much. Thing 1  literally was the one who was just watching and just laughing. He has mellowed out so much and become a great little young man. Can't wait to see who he gets as teachers. And I would love to home school him. Just to hang out with him more. I will for sure be in the 

June....

This marks three years of no preventative action taken to have one more little one. Hmmmm I might be making that appointment for that tube test.... 

Summer Day 1

Having so much fun playing on our first day Of summer. We are trying games before screens this week;) marbles with painters tape has really worked out. 

Then there is always a new lego creation of thing 1 he's amazing with the structures lately. 

Editing and Me

I remember the laundry. Doing it is another thing. 

So many different ways to dres up photos and I love them all. 

S'mores on enhanced performance mode.

Cookies

Reese's peanut butter cups and you you have some seriously sugared up kids! We had a blast! 

Great sandwhich. Barfs later that night:(

We were off to ironman 3 and stopped by here for dinner. Kids hated the sandwich but the price was right. The band and I loved it. But I'm queezy and the fish threw up popcorn all night long. Don't think he'll be eating any of that anytime soon:( 

Little birthday girl turns 8

Seriously I am not sure how I got here but I'm for sure here.