Sasha's 3rd birthday

On the 18th of December, Sasha turned 3. I can't believe that she is already three. Where did the time go? A lot of our family came. It was so nice of you all to come, thank you!

Sasha blew out her candles all in one blow.

I love the look on Sasha's face. She was so sweet and thankful for her gifts.

She also liked the princess attire.


Happy Birthday little Sasha!

I have to tell you a funny story, to me anyway. The boys were wearing their "play" clothes, so I asked them to change into nicer clothes. After they changed, the came up wearing nice white dress shirts. I figured I did ask them to dress up in nicer shirts. Funny boys!

Lily at 6 months old

It looks like we had some little fingers touch the lens of our camera, so some of these pictures are blury. They are fun pictures of Lily though. Here is Lily at 6 months old, even though that was a month ago.

California

We celebrated Thanksgiving in California with Brian's family. It was so much fun! Julie, Jeff and their children were visiting from Utah. Diane was also there. We spent the Thanksgiving holiday with Melissa, Zac and Teagan, who were very gracious hosts. Me, Brian and the kids stayed in a hotel close by. It was so much fun and the kids LOVED playing with their cousins.
















Diane brought up the wonder blocks, which are always a lot of fun!

We even got to spend some time at the beach. It was a lot of fun! The boys loved playing in the water. It was a little cool, but they still had a blast!

Even Lily seemed to enjoy it. Actually, she had a hard time. She didn't sleep very well, which made everything not much fun for her. She does have a cute smile though . . .

I love this picture of our beautiful children . . .

Ethan wanted to be buried in the sand. Wish granted . . . Brian and Diane made him into a merman.

While we were down in California, we went to Disneyland. We spent a bit of time at the Lego store. Here are the kids with Lego Woody.

There was a beautiful Christmas tree just after the entrance to Disneyland.

We first rode the Dumbo ride. We could control if we went up or down. The kids loved that part.

The boys could get me to feeling a little sick. I may have had a turn or two.

It's a small world . . .

Diane and some of her grandchildren.

Sasha was able to see some of the Disney princesses. She's loved anything princess ever since.

Sweet Lilly . . .

I haven't posted much about Lilly. She is now five months old and is so sweet. She has kind of amazed us. All of our children have been very easy babies, but Lilly is by far the easiest. Many times after naps or in the morning, I have to go get her. She won't let me know that she is awake. And when I go in, she has a huge smile on her face. She smiles so easily also. I love this little girl so much!!!




































It is kind of funny . . . it looks like we have given up one thumb sucker for another one. Grant, it seems, has given it up (though he may still suck his thumb a little bit at night), while Lilly seems to go for her thumb quite a bit. Anytime she is tired, she loves her thumb.















Our sweet Lilly . . .

Basement

I haven't posted about our basement at all. We are in the middle of finishing it. I thought I would include some pictures. We are done with the paint, except for touch ups. We also finally have some lights up. We have been using a flood light to get to this point, so the lights up in the ceiling are sooooooooo nice to have. Now, Brian is just working on putting the built ins in. As you can see, he has just put up part of the kids play area. I will do another post when we're finished. We can't wait!!!!

Happy Halloween!!!

For Halloween this year, the boys were punk rockers. As you can tell, they thought it was pretty fun. I really should have gotten orange hair paint, the blue just doesn't show up as well . . . oh well.

At school, there was a parade of all the kids in their costumes. Here is Grant. Since he is in the morning kindergarden class, his parade was separate from the rest of the school. I didn't get Ethan in his parade because it was CRAZY! There were kids everywhere, parents and teachers everywhere, not to mention the siblings that aren't in school yet. Anyway, I guess that's my excuse.

Our neighborhood is AWESOME for trick or treating. It is so much fun! You can see that Sasha was a ladybug.

And this is what she looked like from the front.

And sweet Lilly was a bunny. She was awesome while we were trick or treating. She enjoyed just looking around until she fell asleep.

The kids were sooooooo tired afterwards. Ethan even got a little sick. We thought it was from too much candy, then Lilly and I got sick. Thank goodness we're better now.

Day Camping

A couple of weeks ago, we went day camping up in Bone, ID. Ethan found tons of animal bones, and had so much fun searching for them. He also wanted to bring them home . . . so we decided to take pictures instead.














I love their smiles!

The kids got to go on a trip with Uncle Jake. They loved it!

Here we are playing monopoly. The boys love to play monopoly, even though we all know who is usually ahead. I don't think we have ever played until the game is over, which may be why the boys love it. We have a lot of fun!