February fun!

February is almost over. Here's what we've been up to this month:

On February 1st I turned 29! Just ask my kids, "that's really really old"! I had fun celebrating with family and friends!

My family at Mandarin Garden for a birthday dinner for Valerie and I

Daisey, me, my mom and Val

Val and Dad

Cousins! Ethan and Isaac

how hot is my husband in his work uniform? :)

Maggie Mo
We took the kids to see "Bolt" at the movie theater. Cute flick! I think we'll have to buy that one when it comes out!
We made these masks after searching for a "fun craft" at Walmart. Frankly, they kind of freak me out! Especially when I'm talking on the phone at night in a dark room and seeing one of those masks "floating" toward me at about 3 feet high! haha

Maggie has been really sick. If having the croupe wasn't bad enough, she got a raging urinary tract infection that kept her pretty miserable for a few days! Poor baby!
We had a very happy Valentine's Day involving cookies and chocolates and flowers!

cookies and cuppycakes!

Pretty flowers! Pretty Maggie!

Eww! Gross mom!

The Toothless Wonder!

Very loose tooth....

And it's out!

Isn't she cute?!

And weird? hehe

Snow much fun!

Playing in the snow, snowflakes on my nose, mittens, hot chocolate, flannel pajamas, snowmen, snow angels, sledding, snow on Christmas......those are the things I love about winter!

What are the things I absolutely cannot stand about winter? Well, I'm glad you asked! Driving in the snow, drivers that don't know how to drive in the snow and simply shouldn't be driving in the snow, the cold, scraping my windshield, the cold, 3 little runny noses, my own runny nose, the cold, shoveling the driveway, the damn snow plow that plows by right after the driveway is shoveled, the cold, slipping on the ice, falling on my bum, the winter germs that rotate through my house throughout the season and did I mention the cold?

But, we have had some fun times! The kids would live outside until their toes turned blue and fell off and they'd still be happy! How cute do they look in their snowsuits? I love those sweet rosy cheeks!

Ok, so the last one is a little scary! Wasn't Isaac nice to loan me his ski mask?

Robert bought himself his own Christmas present this year. It's a snow blower that I like to call to call Bruce, the Snow King. He's just a little guy but he's a trooper and gets the job done!

Three Candles on her Cake!

Or three candles on her waffle in this case!

We celebrated from the moment Miss Maggie woke up to the moment she fell asleep!

Thrilled to be three!

Happy Birthday presents!

How cute is that little pink couch and

the "Cherry Blossom Market"?

How cute is that little princess smile?

Hooray for birthday cupcakes!
Make a wish Mags!
Birthday cake compliments of

Daisey and her Easy Bake Oven!
What a happy Birthday Girl!
What a happy day!

Happy Birthday Maggie (better late than never!)

Happy Birthday Maggie Mo! I can't believe you're 3! Well, 3 going on 13! You insist that you are just as old as Daisey and Isaac and that you can do everything that they can do!
You love your brother and sister and want to be just like them! And they sure love you! It warms my heart to see you laughing and playing together!
I don't know what we ever did without you! You fill our lives with sunshine every day with your hugs and your silliness! You have so much love in that little heart of your's! May you always hold on to that love and kindness. We love you little one!
Love, Mom

Baby Maggie

3 Year old Maggie

A Merry Little Christmas!

Christmas truly is the most wonderful time of the year! There is nothing better than experiencing the magic of the holidays through the eyes of a child! We are truly blessed to be able to enjoy the joy of our three little ones! They really got into it this year, buying gifts, and making treats, decorating the house, wrapping presents and singing songs.

our Christmas gingerbread house

Santa's little helper trimming the tree

We enjoyed a Christmas Eve dinner at our house with Britt's family. There was good food, fun presents, holiday music and fun all around! Later in the evening we headed over to Grandma Diane's to celebrate with Robert's family where we enjoyed more food and fun!

Christmas cousins!

holiday hugs!

Isaac loves Grandpa George!

The kids were anxious to get home and go to bed (yeah....it happens once a year!) so Santa would make his way down the chimney. After opening Christmas pajamas, hanging our new ornaments and laying out our "Christmas circles" the kids opened the doors to the fireplace to welcome Santa in to our living room and they made sure they left out milk and cookies for the big guy too!

Pajamas, ornaments, happy kids

hurry Santa!

"Christmas circles"

Christmas morning came early and the kids were thrilled with their gifts! Santa was good to us this year! Our house was filled with Barbies and dollies and cars and trucks and super heroes and wrapping paper and ribbons! After the mixture of chaos and joy that we call Christmas we left our disaster of a living room and made the rounds to the grandparent's houses where the gift giving extravaganza continued! As much as we enjoyed the Christmas snow it bordered on ridiculous by mid afternoon but we braved the snow and made it back home where we enjoyed a wonderful Christmas nap! As much as I love Christmas I always breathe a sigh of relief Christmas evening and pat myself on the back for making it through another year! All in all we had a very happy holiday!

Christmas morning

sleepy excitement!

Hulk hands!

Easy Bake Oven=one very happy Daisey!

Go fish!

Daisey Elaine meets Kit Kitridge

Snuggly Wuggly!
We are indeed grateful for the season's greatest gifts: the warmth of family and friends, the blessings of health and happiness, and the love of Christ that lives within our hearts throughout the year.

Wishing you all happy holidays! May your home be warm with Christmas cheer and peace abide throughout the year.

Much love, us

One little boy, 2 little parties!

As you know, Isaac's birthday was last Saturday and since it's only 3 days after his Grandma's birthday we decided to do a combined birthday/dinner party There was cake, there were presents, there was family and fun!

Birthday Buddies!

Cousins!

Hungry,Hungry Hippo fun!

The Cake!

We tried our best to convince Isaac to have a little boy party with friends. But, he wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese with the Sydney and Alexis like Daisey did! And so we found ourselves once again surrounded by pizza and singing and children on a quest for tokens and tickets! It was also Jess's birthday but as much as we tried to talk him in to dancing with Chuck E. he wasn't too keen on the idea! We had a lot of fun!

Happy Birthday from Chuck E.!

The Birthday Boys!

Look Mom! I won!

Sydney and Daisey

Maggie and LexiMaggie: a little girl who enjoys her ice cream!