Lake Tahoe!

In March, Kevin's whole family met in

LAKE TAHOE!

It was fabulous weather.  

It was only for the weekend, but we had so much fun.

The kids did surprisingly well for the big road trip.

 We took about a mile walk down to the lake.

The boys loved it, and ran more than walked!

 This is Kade and Tate.

They get along so well, 

and where one was, the other was.

 Kade loved the pine cones, and wanted to take them all home.

 Thinking it all over.

 The lake was so nice.

Not very often we get all of us in the picture!

 Jace, waving hi.

 Everything is a competition with Kevin and his brothers.

Here they are, throwing pine cones.

Last one back, wins.

Who knew!

 Jace decided to take Sundance on a walk.

Thank goodness he is old, and nice to little ones.

 Kade could dig in the sand for hours.

 And this was one rare moment.

Jace sitting still.

 We tried to do a quick family photo session.

All the grandkids.

 Our little family and one of our favorite people, 

Grandma Marge.

We love her so much.  She is 96 and going strong!

 The whole family.

Some of us a little blurry.  

It's always fun to set it up and run!

We had such a great time, 

and are so blessed to have such a wonderful family.

Valentines 2013

For Valentines Day, we made chocolate dipped, 

heart, rice krispy treats!

They were so yummy.  And a little messy, but that was the fun part!

 Kade made the best Valentine ever, 

It's a picture of our family.

He said he loved that his birthmom gave him a family.

I love that he knows that.

 Yes, they were as good as they look!

 Here is his other Valentine he made at school.

We are so lucky to have two handsome boys for Valentine's Day!

Kade is 4!

I can't believe that our beautiful baby boy is four!

Earlier this month we celebrated his birthday.

He has grown up too fast!

Nan & Gramps sent a box of presents, and he loved them all!

He opened presents from them and us, 

and has had a lot of fun playing with them.

We went to the Living Planet Aquarium for his birthday.

He loved all the fishes and other water animals.

He liked sitting on this frog too! 

 Jace had fun also, he had the best fishy face by the time we left.

 I love Kade's eyes, I think he actually thought it was going to close on them.

Kade decided, after A LOT of changes, that he wanted a dolphin cake.

It was fun this year, because he got to help make his cake.

 He was pretty proud of it.

 It did turn out pretty cute!

 He was so excited with the balloons!

 Grandma & Grandpa brought him a present.

 I thought this was a pretty cute hug.

 Grandpa got a hug too!

 And then the favorite part of the night, 

the birthday song.

Even Jace tried to sing!

I hope all his wishes come true!

When he came into our lives four years ago, ours did!

 Kade is sweet, kind, loving, & smart.

We love having this big four year old in our family!

Christmas 2012

We had a great Christmas in our little family.

The only bummer was I tried a new place for Christmas cards

and we got them December 23.

A little late to send out, don't you think!

Yea, I won't be using them again.

This is the picture we used for the card.

They are so cute, I had to share.

So here is a few things we did this year for Christmas.

We wrote letters to Santa.

 We made hand print ornaments for our birthmoms.

And cute fingerprint candy cane cards.

 Our elf Buddy was found in the funniest places.

 We made gingerbread houses

(and ate most of the candy!)

 Of course we opened Christmas Eve PJ's.

 After about fifteen tries we got a family picture with everyone looking!

 Christmas morning the boys waited in our room

and mom checked to see if Santa came.

 Kade came excitedly down the hall.

 And Jace was right behind.

 Jaces favorite gift this year was his wagon.

 Kade loved everything.

 He was so much fun this year.

 And for only being one, Jace figured it out quick.

 Loving his reindeer.

 Kade finally noticed the BIG present in the room.

 That's all he asked Santa for this year,

"A red big boy bike."

 Jace got a snuggly horse.

 And he was so excited about his car.

 The boys played like this for hours.

I don't know what has gone around our kitchen more, 

the wagon or the bike.

We had such a great Christmas.

We love our little family!