What have we been up to...

Jax and I had a fun day at Lollipop park with my Mom, Rachel, Kaden, and Gavin!

They jumped in the bounce house, rode the train, the merry go round, and we rode the mini ferris wheel :)

Jax loved it!  So fun to have these little boys grow up together.

Modeling their snowboarding googles they got for Christmas!

Sidney and I snuck out for a date night, which included buying her first bra ;)

Love this girl and can't believe she is this old.

We went skiing and iceskating with friends.  

We love the mountains!

Took the kids to the movie and LOVED the recliners!

Dr. Suess day at school.  Dressed up with cute friends and crazy hair.  Love all these girls!

I had a gift card for a pedicure for a long time, but our evenings and weekends have been so busy that I hadn't used it yet.  So I decided to take Jax with me and go while the kids were in school :)

He was a great pedicure buddy!  He relaxed in the massage chair and played on his iPod.  I really don't know what I am going to do when I don't have this little side kick with me every day.

Rylee worked hard on her Family Tree project for school!

Civil war and St. Patricks day :)

Sidney's sixth grade participated in a civil war reenactment.  They practiced for weeks, it was the real deal.  They had legit costumes and powder rifles.

Sidney and Lily in line.

Jax enjoyed running around in between battles :)

Cutest little soldier I know!

Happy St. Patricks Day!

We had a fun St. Patricks Day dinner.  

Porter is FOURTEEN!!

FOURTEEN!! What!?! 

We partied hard with this boy of ours. 

We took some of his buddies and went rock climbing.  We all had fun!

Sidney at the top.

Rylee at the top.

Jax keeping me company in the spectator area :)

Jax taking a picture of me taking a picture of him :)

Porter at the top.

Grateful for good friends!

The delicious birthday cookie.

Porter, I feel like you should still be wanting to sit on my lap, love hot wheels and playing golf/hockey with your plastic golf set, and mowing the lawn with Dad.

Now you are fourteen, luckily you still like to sit next to me and love real cars/hot wheels.  You are very talented in all sports you try and I love to cheer you on from the sidelines.  And you have taken over the job of mowing the lawn for Dad.

Like it or not, you will always be my little buddy....even if you pass me up and are taller than me soon!

Happy Birthday Porter, we love you!!!

Allen is 41!

Happy Birthday to this guy!

We had a great time celebrating our favorite 41 year old :)

Homemade ice cream cookie sandwiches for dessert.

We sure love this guy. He is the solid foundation of our family.

He knows how to work hard and play hard. Somehow he always has enough time and energy for each of us.

He is fun, motivated, kind, and he will always go along with my crazy ideas :)

He is the ice cream to our cookie-sandwich and we love him like crazy.

We are so grateful to have him!

Happy Birthday Allen!!

Valentines Day!

Our traditional "heart hair" for Valentines Day!

Valentines Day was on Saturday this year so we decided to make it a fun family day.

We had a super yummy Valentines dinner!

And some delicious fondue dessert!

Happy Valentines Day to the loves of my life.

And especially to my #1, Allen XOXO

Family ski trip!

We had so much fun in the mountains!

This was the first time that we all went together as a family and skied for the day.  I wasn't sure how long Jax would last....but he went all day and wanted to go long after we were all done.

We shut down A-basin :)

Jax in his ski gear!

Jax and I hung out on the magic carpet and the bunny hill while everyone else skied.  We must have ridden that bunny hill chair lift 97 times, he loved it!

Then we decided it was time to try a real run. It was beautiful and really emotional for me to be the first time we were all skiing together as a family :)

Porter is awesome at snow boarding, it is fun to watch him!

Sidney is a great skier and had fun trying snowboarding this time.

Rylee did so good skiing and it was really fun to watch how confident she is.

We all love it and I am pretty sure Jax is hooked, so we look forward to many more family ski trips!!

A little catch up :)

A little of what we have been up to lately....

This girl had a mild case of pneumonia.  She really never stops smiling :) She is such a sweetheart and we are happy that she is feeling better.

Jax had his three year old check up :)

26 pounds and happy as can be!

We went on a fun trip to the mountains with some friends.  We had fun skiing and hanging around Keystone!

Rylee dressed up for her pioneer day in 2nd grade, cutest little pioneer!

Sidney and Rylee dressed up for career day.

Sidney is a scientist and Rylee is a teacher.

Cutest girls :)