Last day of school

Elizabeth has LOVED pre-school but now it has come to a close. Here is our beautiful girl with her teacher Miss Becky, receiving her "diploma", and sitting with her class as they sang to the parents. I think I will miss her going to preschool just as much as she will!

Updates of the kids

Calvin is the stud-liest little man I have ever seen! He is always so happy- he rocks!

Always a princess! She is never wearing JUST pants and a shirt because as she informed me last night "that is just not beautiful!"

AWWWWE...Doesn't she just melt your little heart?!? She is growing way too fast and trying to scoot on the floor already. She is THE BEST baby. Never fussy just very chill, smiling, and laughing all the time.

This is the best that we could get of the family, but hey at least we're all in it... right?!?

I am completely computer retarded. I can't figure out how to rotate these without downloading them to our computer...that and its a Mac and I don't know how to work it cause' it's not a PC...HELP!!!

Happy Birthday Calvin!!!

HOLY COW!!! I can't believe it's birthday time already again! We now have two crazy three year olds at our house...at least for a few more weeks! Here are a few shots of the birthday boy...and I think the party was a success.

PRESENTS!!

Calvin got a tent from G-ma Missy and the kids love it! They have slept in it every night so far.

Auntie and Baby

Cool Superhero!!

Here are some of the kids making edible spiders. I found THE BIGGEST marshmallows in the whole world and had the kids stick pretzel sticks in them for legs.

All of our Spidey friends.

The cake. This cake was actually pretty easy and fast...I was very surprised and pleased!

Baby gets food

Baby Belle went to her 4 month checkup and weighed in at 15 pounds and 3 oz. She officially weighs half as much as Elizabeth and Calvin! What a chub! Now she gets REAL food. She likes it alright, but is a MESSY eater!

Two CRAZY kids!

While shopping at Home Depot for tub supplies we happened to be there for their free day project for kids. Here they are making rain gauges. They got aprons, all the supplies, and a pin showing what they made for their project to put on their apron. Calvin LOVED it!!! Lulu is kinda sick and now has a fever so she was a little less than enthusiastic.

While mom and dad were painting the bathroom Calvin decided to EAT some paint. Thank goodness his is only nontoxic watercolor!

Surprise Project

So Oren and I decided to take on a little project this week. Redo Annas bathroom. This is the before picture of the tub.

These pictures are where Oren is saying "Just what the heck did I let my wife convince me to do?!?"

Before pictures of the walls

After pictures OHH LA LA! The curtain is not metallic but it kinda looks like it in the picture but it really matches the tan/gold color of the paint on the upper half of the walls.

Nice white bathtub with no mold! And what will the family think when they arrive home tonight? I have NO idea but hopefully all goes well and they enjoy. I know I need a nap after this one.

Mary going to the MTC. Yahoo Mary!
The kids swimming with Oren at the hotel on the way back from Illinois.

Oren and Belle watching a movie in 3-D for new years eve.

Two stylin kids

Crashing at the hotel after the first day of travel to Illinois. The journey was two full 12 hour days of driving but the kids were fantastic!

CHRISTMAS 2009
Draw! Oren is using his new clamps like six-shooters and sporting his new MT Griz gear from Ma Missy

What?!? A picture of mom? Here we are opening a pair of socks for Belle.

Okay so the doll house got finished being built, but not finished decorating. She LOVES it anyway and spends hours at a time playing with it.

Train track WOOHOO!!

Happy girl.

Does Lulu love dollies? (barbies NOT babies...YUCK)

Diego car it now goes everywhere with us

The unfinished doll house

Temple Suare lights. Yeah we saw Erik and fam. for about 2 minutes then got sepparated by the mass of people. guess that's what we get for going on the last Mon. (family home evening night) before Christmas. But we still had an awesome time.

Erik's beautiful family going to Temple Square to see the lights.

Waiting at the "train" (trax) station for the train. Yes there's a baby under that red hat.

Making gingerbread/graham cracker houses. We had Erik and the boys over to help. They made dinner then we got our hands dirty. It was hilarious watching the kids devour the candy. Here's Ryker

Captain underpants. We can't get him dressed EVER!

Brakken was the best to watch. After eating candy Oren gave him two glasses of egg nog. Then from the sugar high Brakken decided running around was a good idea. A few minutes later he changed his mind and decided this was NOT a good idea. He went to the bathroom and threw up. He came out crying " Too much Sugar!!"

lulu was a little under the weather but still participated

Erik and the boys building their fort. NOT a house

The kids crash under the pressure of the new move.

Chubby McChubberston.

Decorating the tree at mama Lene and Papa Lade's. Yes the babys face is red from some sort of wierdo rash, sorry baby.

Wit Woo. Hey there honey!

Calvin riding the goats at grandpa Bryans. He woke up at 6:00 to inform us that he was ready to ride the goats. He is still kinda scared once he's on but also loves it...love hate relationship I guess.

Alex really does love babies! okay well I had something really important to do and he was asleep so I plopped the baby on him and then I came back minutes later to find them both asleep so of course I snapped a picture. For Cute!!
Feeding the babe.

We love this picture of Lulu! These kids love laying on the floor by the baby so the next few pictures are them laying on the floor havin' a good time.

bath time!

Lulu kept playing with the rings to the bottles it was so funny so here she is. Crazy girl.

Calvin kissin his sis