picture overload!

I decided to just add a bunch of pictures of my kiddos in one post  since pictures are more fun anyway. I’m pretty sure my sister doesn’t even read what I write she just takes a look :)

these are back on Valentines day. We made Sugar cookies for daddy while he as at school. When he got home Nick said this is what his idea was for Valentines day but he didn’t have time. Kinda cute and he better know we love him cause doing this with three kids, not a task for those with little patience. We really don’t do much s for any of the hallmark type holidays. It use to bother me a bit on valentine when Nick and I were first dating but I’ve come to realize it really doesn’t matter. As long as it at least get’s acknowledge I’m good. Our anniversary is also a few weeks before and that actually does mean something to me so we celebrate that.

William and Allie have been doing gymnastics class for a few months now. William is in a charter school so they pay for his class. The funds are up so our last class is actually tomorrow. I am very happy about that. I love Allie’s class and I think it’s been really great for her. She has a fabulous teacher who genuinely likes her and laughs at all the silly stuff she ends up doing. We’ll miss her. However, I have never been excited about Wills class and if it was our money I would have pulled him out a long time ago. It’s good exercise but they really haven’t taught him anything that he didn’t already know how to do from playing with his dad. Annoying. They don’t have just a normal boys gymnastics at that gym right now because there isn’t enough interest. Wills is naturally agile so balance comes very easily and so do most athletic things.

here are some pictures of us at home.

Miss Keira ate lunch and just couldn’t make it to nap time :) so cute!

Keira loves to look at pictures so Wills was lifting her up to see everybody! so cute.

Wills and Allie wanted to take pictures with Sampson, the lion (yes Nick has a sense of humor) and Keira was being a stinky about it. She didn’t want to be with them on it.

all by herself sure. With them no. Stinker

This girl isn't a napper but she looks so sweet sound asleep on a Sunday afternoon. cute little one!

This is the pack and play Jill sleeps in so it stays set up in my room for her nap time. I found Keira and her baby playing in there. Yes she climbs in and out all herself. She’s been able to climb into her big crib for a long time but she finally climbed out this week (I’m surprised it took this long). I put her down for a rest and a few moments later heard her door open and see her troop out the couch for a consult like nothing was amiss. Oh boy. She also tried to climb out when I put her to bed and fell and got her arm stuck. She was fine the little stinker. she’s been doing much better laying down and going to sleep since we've been having some talks about staying in there and the consequences for getting out…

she’s very particular about her pillows for play or real nap.

oh she’s adorable! sweet little baby. I’m rather smitten when she’s not yelling at me… she get’s lots of kisses from everyone.

Miss K is also very particular about how she says goodnight. She goes around to everyone and gives hugs and waves nigh night. If daddy doesn’t give her a kiss and wave she get’s upset if I leave. If I don’t stop by to say goodnight to everyone she’ll say Aie or Wills it’s pretty cute. She talks a whole bunch! She’s always telling me about something Allie did that was naughty. She says with pulled together eye brows “Allie naughty” and keeps explaining what happened. She tells us all kinds of stuff. She also loves the Pajama book by Sandra Boynton. We read it multiple times a day. I tried to read a different story one day and ended up having to read both three times that evening. I find her on Nicks lap getting the story, with a little rewrite often, when he gets home (as a side note I can’t find the book the last few days so we shall she what happens). I love her interest in books and hope it never goes away!

Our kiddos love the trampoline and spend a decent amount of time jumping. They were enjoying a little weather break this particular after noon and there was some crazy static electricity making baby’s hair crazy.

my little helpers were making Pizza with me.(umm you might want to avoid the bbq section since that was keira’s and I can’t say that spoon didn’t go back on the pizza for more dipping:)

these are from a long time ago at Wills school. (yup they are the only kindergarten pics I’ve taken.) Each week their was a student chosen as star of the week who got to bring in pictures to put up on the board, then on Thursday they got to bring in a special snack to share with the class and their favorite book for story time, and share with the class about all their favorite things. Wills was thrilled to make his chocolate chip cookies, that he stayed up late to help mommy make, for the class. It was really late so I put them to bed but then I went and got Wills up to help me and it was a great decision. We had a great time making his cookies.

Keira sitting at the tables waiting for mommy to finish taking pictures.

one of his teachers.

we’ll that’s it for today. I still have baby Daniel, his shower, and Becca birthday parties. I’ll be back.

cabin

My dad celebrated a monumental year this year by starting to collect part of his retirement so my parents decided to invest in a cabin. It’s about an hour from there house but far enough away you feel like you are really “out” of town and close enough to make it an enjoyable drive. They haven’t owned it very long so they are still working out all the new home stuff out but we went up a few weekends ago to join the fun. Chrisy had just had little baby Daniel (a whole other post will be dedicated to that later :) so we had the girls with us as well which was loads of fun for our kids. Here are few pictures I snapped. When we got up Sunday morning it was snowing. It really is beautiful!

It’s bigger than the house we grew up in :)

the kids love the stairs!

I was telling my mom that something very lovely about it is there are windows all around the whole place. I could follow the kids from inside and see exactly where they were.

Nick decided to dig part of the driveway all the way out. He spent a few hours and only had about a 20x20 area to show. Not because he didn’t work hard just because it’s hard work! He had shaky arms and blisters to show.

here’s the river behind the house

we brought up the quad to ride around. There had been a big snow fall that week so it wasn’t perfect conditions but it was fun. Charity and I went for a ride and may or may not have gotten stuck… Let’s just say I’m glad Nick could still see us and the three of us had a cozy ride back with Charity sitting snug between us :)

I’m back

I’m sorry for my absence. I say that every time but I guess I mean it because I keep coming back and saying sorry and catching up. That’s good right?!? I also have a good excuse. Just saying.

I didn’t realize how behind I was in my pictures. I had a few missing pictures that I found so I guess I’ll start there. I never know if I should start where we are and catch up that way or start with the oldest and work that way. I think I start old and work up to the new :)

Ok so this is really old. Nick surprised me in Dec by taking me to SF for the day and just when I thought that was my present, because I was rather blown away by his planning just to make that happen, he surprised me further by taking me to the nutcracker. I had never seen it and we have talked about going several times. It was a LOVELY day! We walked along the coast, got Boudin’s bread, ate at the stinking Rose ( a very yummy restaurant known for their garlic), walked all over, went to Ghirardelli, and ended with the Nutcracker.

My sister was home on Christmas break and she had been babysitting her other nieces throughout the week and I joked with her that she could come over and watch my kids the next day and she laughed but in reality Nick had already arranged with her to watch our kids the whole day which I didn’t know. She’s the best! It was a lovely present from both she and Nick. In reality most of my gift from him come that way :)

Nick climbed to the top of that. I got about half way and said uhhh I really don’t want to do this and let him go with out me.

maybe I’ll combine us in these pics but I haven’t had a chance yet.

I thought this was totally gross. Showed were the water level usually was though.

Back in February we celebrated our anniversary. We went away for the weekend to Napa without our kiddos. This was the first time we have ever gone away just the two of us since having kids. We’ve always had at least a baby. We had a great time but we both commented several times how it’s really weird not having our kids around. We also talked a lot about how weird it would be to not having kids. What do people do with all their extra time? You can get things do much more quickly. Thankful to say that we enjoyed our time away but love the completeness of being home with out kiddos.

We really didn’t take many pictures. Here were a few from hike we took at the ocean.

I’ll be back soon with much more to share…

were sick

The kids and I have been pretty much sick all week. Nasty nasty cold. Wills has been coughing all night long for a few nights in a row, Keira’s been sleeping with us and not sleeping well, and Allie has been waking up crying multiples times a night. Last night was the first night I actually slept a few consecutive hours in a row because they did. Funny I actually don’t feel well at all today. Wills had the week off school and unfortunately we pretty much stayed home all week and watched TV. They are feeling better and starting to be active again which is nice to see. You can imagine what my house looks like though… So here are some pictures from awhile ago that I already processed and that’s all you get for today…

I am planning to be back into our book soon but I just don’t have the energy!!! Plus the energy I do have needs to be concentrated elsewhere…

Riding his dirt bike. he loves loves loves to ride dirt bikes. We go up to my parents house just so he can ride his dirt bike.

Nick tried to be all done with her ride several times but she was quite content rolling with her daddy.

 

that’s how he rolls. Momma can’t always watch. the kid has some serious talent though.

try and keep up there dad.

doing some finger painting. My kids love paint.

the girls ridding bikes in the house. Keira bear is a goof ball!

playing in the rain

well winter has been a bit of a disappointment to my kids and husband. We have really hardly gotten any rainy days. It’s has felt a whole lot like spring not winter. Should make for an interesting summer. My husband loves the rain and so therefore my children do as well. Rain makes them all want to go outside and play. One rainy day we headed out to observe the weather during our recess from school. here are some pictures

oh I’m sorry I’ve been a slacker. I haven’t been feeling 100% and a few weekends ago Nick and I went away and I also forgot my “Give them grace” book at my moms. failure, I know :) But you know how it goes.

here are our pictures

she makes me smile :)

Merry Christmas

Well I hope you all had a lovely Christmas. Now that is official Feb… I will be posting the rest of our Christmas pictures. I left one of our camera’s at my parents Christmas eve assuming since we had the other at home we were fine but the memory card was missing and even though we have about 10 I couldn’t find one. I’m still a little confused by how that all worked but the point is that we didn’t get any pictures of our personal little family Christmas. On Christmas Eve (well early Christmas morning) miss Allie got the stomach flu. It had been floating around the extended family so I knew it was a possibility but still never fun. it really wasn’t bad though and when she woke up that morning she was fine. We decided to skip church and keep the germs at home let the kids sleep in after a really late night the night before and meet up at my parents for the family Christmas. Allie was fine all day. She was running around ate and everything and that was it and thankfully no one else got it. Keira got a bug last week but a different one and she was the only to get that so far so that was nice.

So I didn’t take many pictures but here are a few.

Allie in her pretty Chistmas Dress from her great grandpa. My mom said “oh she looks so cute! did you get a picture because it will probably never be that color again!”

Keira was in desperate need of a nap. She hadn’t gotten enough sleep and you could tell. she didn’t want to open the presents and then she liked it and got mad they were all gone. She’s a little turkey that girl.

sorry I didn’t take more pictures. I guess I was caught up in the all the festivities and eating. We have a delicious Christmas brunch and it’s one of my very favorite parts of Christmas!!!! Oh yeah we have Christmas dinner to but I love breakfast food.

and here was our tree this year. I got to pick it out instead of Nick and Wills so it’s a nice “doesn’t rearrange all the furniture in my house completely size” the boys were somewhat unimpressed. I found it much more reasonable sized.

 

here are some pictures of Allie doing the dishes from around the same time I thought they were funny.  She can’t really reach anything but she did them and she was determined to.

that’s it for today but now I’m done with the holidays and can move on to our other activities.