Baby Owen

Matt's brother Justin and his cute wife Ashlee finally had their baby on Sunday! We have been waiting and waiting to see if it would be a boy or a girl and both Matt and I were wrong. It's a sweet little boy. Congratulations Justin and Ashlee!!! Love you guys!

Spring time

Sidewalk chalkin while Matt and I work on the yard

They had a dress up area at the museum and they didn't really wanted to do it, I sort of made them so I could get pictures

Emerie and Boston. He calls the girls "my girls"

Boston, Chase, Addy, Emerie and Sienna

These girls could have played in that kitchen all day!

The aquarium

Maddy really wanted to climb in this fishtank!

We have had a busy couple of weeks, with all the sunshine, we have had park play dates, the aquarium, the Discovery museum and a few barbeque's. It's nice to come out of winter hibernation and the girls are loving all the adventures we have been on and everyday ask to play with "our friends."

We are trying to finish up the yard and are almost there. This is our first summer here with a yard and grass and a fence and we are loving it! The girls love being outside in the dirt and that is usually the first place they head! The only downside is I am constantly cleaning dirty hand prints off everything! We come in to wash up and it seems that they touch everything they possibly can before they actually make it to the sink!

Easter at the cabin!

Miss Maddy and her first egg hunt

the Easter haul

Everyone got in on the decorating

Decorating eggs!

Lip gloss from Aunt Kimmy

chocolate mustache's from Aunt Robby

Helping papa fix the dishwasher! They sure love their papa!!!

This year we had Easter at the cabin! It was the perfect weekend filled with Conference, movies, egg decorating, candy, cousins, laughs and even some tears! My sweet mom, who always makes things so fun for the kids, brought up so many eggs and stickers and sparkles to decorate

with. There was probably 3 feet of snow outside and looked more like Christmas than Easter, but it was fun to get one more trip of playing in the snow and snowmobiling in before the summer!!! What a blessing this cabin has been to us! We have made so many fun memories up there with both Matt's and my family and even some of our friends!

Crazy days!!!

The girls love to watch me do my makeup and I guess this is their version!!!

It's great to be 8!!!

Maddy loved the frosting

This is one of my very favorite pictures!!!

Holy toledo have we been busy lately!!! We have had numerous birthdays, a baptism, dinner dates, play dates, school and work! Little Miss Savvy turned 8 and we got to go to her friend birthday and learn some kick-boxing, and then got to celebrate with the family, then little Miss Maddy turned 1 and we got to celebrate with her and watch her eat lots of frosting:) Then Savvy got baptized, which was a little emotional watching my sweet little niece make this decision in her life. We sure love our Savvy! We've had a couple of friends birthdays too, cute little Aspen and Boston, our little buddy down the street! We get to celebrate 2 birthdays this week, with our little friend Cole and then my giant of a nephew turning 14. That kid is what I hope any boys we have to be like!!! Then we have sweet little Everett, who will be turning 1, unfortunately we won't be able to celebrate with him, but sure wish we could! We sure miss our nieces and nephews in Oregon and Washington!!! Then we have my dad's birthday, (oh dear I guess I need to start thinking of what to get the man who has everything:) And then my wonderful sister in law Robyn! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, birthdays!!! It's a day to celebrate whoever's day it is being born!!! Happy Birthday to all of you February and March birthdays!

The girls are getting smarter and if it's at all possible, sassier everyday! They are hilarious and make Matt and I laugh all the time! They love to fight with each other, but they love to play babies too! The other day they were playing and Emerie had just tucked baby Addy in bed, when Addy started crying, so Emerie tries to comfort her saying "it's OK baby" and when Addy continues to cry Emerie says "shush Adds" (which is her little nickname for Addy) I was laughing and neither of them could understand what was so funny! These little girls have brought so much happiness into our lives and serve as a reminder what a miracle they are!

Catch up!

This is Cassie getting ready to come down the hill on the huge tube that weighed, I swear 5 tons:)

The lovely ladies!!!

Matt in an action pose and Jason, shootin some skeet's

Brooke and Jeremy trying to block off the tree so none of us slammed into it on our way down the sledding hill

Jason and Chris playing pool

Emerie and Grandpa playin

Cute pregnant Ashlee and Justin

The girls and Grandpa

The girls playin with Uncle Justin

She looks thrilled! (Emerie)

Addy at least forced a smile

best cousins

So, I have a ton of pictures to catch up on! January has been almost as busy as December for us! For New Years we spent it with my sister and her family and my parents! It's ALWAYS fun hangin with my family no matter what we are doing! We had good food, fun games and some tired kiddos, who didn't make it to midnight, but maybe 9:00!

Then Matt's Dad came for a visit and we were able to go to dinner and then have everyone to our house for Sunday dinner the next night! The girls had an absolute ball with Grandpa and continue to ask for him!

This last weekend we were able to take some friends from our neighborhood up to my parents cabin, where we ate way too much good food, stayed up way too late, laughed a ton and just relaxed with no kids for a whole 3 days! It was a great weekend that we didn't want to end(except I really missed my babies) And Matt and I have been blessed with some great neighbors and friends!!!
Hope everyone is having a wonderful new year so far!!!