New Family Photos

Thanks to our great friend and wonderful Photographer, Sarah Rader, we got some great photos. Sorry about another collage, but it is just so much easier then adding all these pictures one at a time! (To see the collage bigger just click on the actual picture and it will pull it up.)

 

Here Comes Santa Claus!

Oh Christmas Tree....

Koby once again wanted the biggest tree on the lot, Matt wanted the smallest, I wanted one that wouldn't shed pine needles. Kai was asleep in the car so he missed out on it all.


Matt and Cam being tough! I think Cam won.:)

I love people food!

So Karsten hates anything that has to do with baby food, but loves people food! Anything you can mash up, he eats. It is my fourth and I have thrown out every rule in the book with this one. If it makes him happy and gets him to stop screaming because he wants what we are eating, he gets it! :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

We took a trip down to Sun River Oregon for Thanksgiving with our good friends the Gentry's. We had a lot of fun. It was a great day. There was snow on the ground and the sun was shining. (The kids loved the snow.) Our dinner turned out great and our walk was even better! We think that this picture of Kai and Baylee will be a great photo at their wedding. (We can hope right!)

We have so much to be Thankful for! Around our table people were thankful for food, spouses, children, the world and everything in it except for the bad stuff (Koby) and for the Church. I always say the same thing every year because I am so grateful for my husband and my kids and all the worldly possessions we have, but this year I am most grateful that my dad's life was spared in the accident he just had. Life is so very fragile and you never know when it will be taken from you! I am also grateful for my mom and how she has taken care of my dad. Also for all of my brothers and how they have helped my dad and mom. It is hard to be the only one who lives away from my family, but I know they are all there for each other.

Kai is Three

Our sweet two year old has now hit the terrible three's. He still has a smile that will melt your heart, but he has to do everything himself! He gives great grumpy faces and loves to wrestle his brother Koby. He loves loves loves anything to do with trains - Mostly Thomas and loves his baby brother. He keeps us laughing with his funny language. He is talking better and is potty trained so life is good.
We love you Kai Kai!

Wanted to try!

I have wanted to try this! It worked. Thanks so much Cassi. :)

Halloween

We decided to use patterns this year with our pumpkins and they turned out much better!
Mikaela loved all the goop!
Koby tried to like it, but didn't last very long.
Kai wanted nothing to do with it.


The finished Products.
My Superman's aka...Superman, Superboy, Supertoddler, and Superbaby. (Koby came up with these names!)
Cute Kids. You can't see real well, but Mikaela was a spider girl. She had a cool spider web shirt on that she and mom made, spider earrings, cool spider web hair with spiders in it and a few spiders on her face. (She came up with idea her self!) Kai really loved Halloween this year. He loved being superman and flying all over the house. He also loved getting candy in his pumpkin. I have to also mention that he has been potty trained for a week now and doing so well. I am proud of my big boy!
My cute superbaby holding his pumpkin.

Happy Birthday Mikaela!

Our little girl is in double digit's. Where has the time gone? She still is our sweet angel who always amazes me. She was getting dropped of by one of her soccer friends and told them the whole story of Joseph Smith and what we believe. Including the word of wisdom. (Makes me so proud.) We also had the missionaries over the other night while teaching a family and she shared her experience of her baptism and she got all teary eyed, which made me all teary eyed. We couldn't ask for a better daughter!

Random pictures

While in Utah we got to go and visit Grandpa Mark. He just had his knee replaced. The kids thought his ice pump was really cool!

Bath Time

Karsten in his Walker.
So Kai thinks that my blue laundry hamper is his boat. He gets in it and plays with Karsten. It is pretty cute! Karsten is very entertained by it!

When someone you love becomes a memory...The memory becomes a treasure!

My sweet Grandpa passed away on October 9th. We knew it was going to happen soon, but it is always hard to hear the words! We got to take a quick trip to Utah for the funeral. The kids were so excited to ride on the airplane and to see their cousins. (Thanks for the quote and picture Natalie!)

Pumpkin Time

We went to the famous Roloff farm Pumpkin Patch. (Little People Big World.)
We had a lot of fun and Mikaela thinks she got on TV. :)

We love Grandma!!

So it was Matt and my 13th anniversary on the 3rd of October. (I wish I had a picture of us!) He gave me the best gift - my mom. He totally surprised me. She got to stay for almost a week. We had such a fun time. My mom is the best and I don't know what I would do without her. I miss her so much! My kids adore her. What a great surprise! Matt gets brownie points for a long time!! :)