Addi turns 3!

Here is our little princess waiting for the party guests to arrive!!
She was so excited to pick out what cake and decorations she got....these days it's pretty much everything and anything that has butterflies on it! Thanks again to my two sidekicks (Tina and Tracy) for helping me with the cake!

Addi will you look at mom and smile?

I'll take that as a no.....

It's hard to see what is happening in this picture but this was Peyton's present to her, he put a bunch of stuff in his favorite bakugan (sp?) case and and wrapped it up and gave it to her...he did it all on his own it was so cute that he wanted to give her something.

She got a sleeping bag....that she has wanted forever so that her and Peyton could have camp outs together.

These are dress up dresses from Grandma and Grandpa Kelly. She has loved these dresses so much, she wears the pink one at least four times a week.....has even worn it to Wal-Mart with her dress up Cinderella shoes:) I

I can't believe that she turned 3!! It seems like yesterday I up in Alaska having her. She is such a sweet little girl. She loves to help me with Max, she gets me diapers-and helps put them on. Max loves playing with her too. I will go check on them to see what they are doing and she will be dancing or jumping around just to make him laugh....it is so stinking cute. She loves to make people laugh. Her favorite color this year is BLUE (except for the dress, she has to have the pink one- whoever is over playing gets the blue one). She loves playing with her cousins and talks about them all of the time.

She has had a hard time with her dad being in training. I think out of all of us she has been the most out of sorts. She is such a daddy's girl and talks about him all of the time. And yes Tim is wrapped around her little finger. I feel so bad when I will let her talk to him and all that she will say is "I love you daddy, I want you to be home, I just don't want you to be in training anymore" then she gives a little sniff sniff. It is just heartbreaking for Tim to talk to her. So I have to limit those conversations for the sanity of all of us!

Happy Birthday Addison we love you!

Peyton Turns 6!!

I promised Peyton a Birthday party with friends when he turned 6. He chose a dinosaur theme. Here is the cake....thanks for your sweet decorating skills aunt Tracy!

Preparing for the first game....the dinosaur egg stomp!

Let the games begin!!!

Peyton lucked out and was the last one with his dinosaur egg....good job Peyton!

Here are the lovely ladies of the party, Madaline and Mandy....there were just too many crazy boys for them so they stayed up here for the egg stomp.

Here is an erupting volcano Peyton got for one of his Birthday gifts, we got to put it together and paint it so it we could let it erupt at his party....it was a big hit!!

Here are all of the kids ready to open presents....

From left to right: Addi, Mandy, Blake, Jacob, Toby, Marcus, Kade, Austin, Peyton, Gilbert, Madaline, and sneaking off down the hall is Zander:)

Last but not least was the pinata.....

Wow just looking at those pictures makes me tired....that bunch had A LOT of energy. But they all had so much fun. Hope you had a great day Peyton! We love you:)

Christmas 2009

Here is Peyton lining Santa out about what he wants for Christmas....Addi is no where to be seen because she was having nothing to do with him!
Here are a few pictures of our little smiley guy :D

Dad and Peyton love to match their jammies....so I made them pose in front of the tree!
Nice bed head dad ;-)

Where's Peyton? Here is Peyton's Christmas program...can you find him?

Twas the night before Christmas.....

Looks like Santa found the cookies!

YESSSSS!

Addison look at all of this stuff!!

Santa brought Addi a kitchen!

And Peyton finally got the wolverine claw he has been asking for since last Christmas!

Frosty the tennis player?? We didn't have another stick so he got a tennis racket.....we got the idea from our neighbors snowman who was also playing tennis, it was pretty funny they looked like they were playing a match...

So this was our Christmas this year. There wasn't many pictures, and I have to thank Uncle Kevin for the ones we do have. He drove out and spent Christmas with us and I am feeling terrible I have no pictures with Uncle Kevin!! But it was a rough Christmas for me..... Christmas morning was underway and the kids were in heaven. I started feeling a little light headed and shaky, well by the time all of the presents were opened I was on my death bed. Ok I probably wasn't dying but it was the first time I have been so sick that I literally could NOT get out of bed!

I felt so bad for my family....Tim was just going "you must be really sick to be in bed on Christmas....or you better be":) The thing that was a huge bummer was that I was supposed to have Christmas dinner at my house! Anyways to make a really long story short, I didn't have hardly any pictures of Christmas, missed the kids playing with toys all day, and missed Christmas dinner. Although my sister Tracy did still bring the ham over for Tim, Kevin and the kids.....thanks aunt Tracy! Good thing I already had some of the sides ready!

The day after Christmas I was actually feeling a lot better so we decided to take Uncle Kevin up to see the elk refuge. I am not sure if he got exactly what I had or it was my husbands driving going up the canyon....lol! But by the time we got up to see the elk we headed straight to the restrooms and Uncle Kev lost his lunch! Needless to say we didn't end up going on the sleigh ride to see the elk. We headed home (this time with Kevin driving) so he could go sleep for a while. Quite the crew huh, Tim was so annoyed that we were both so sick!

Looking back I can sit here and laugh at the whole situation, Kevin we are so glad you came out to spend Christmas with us!!!

Here is Addison and Dad taking on the big hill.....it was her first and only time this year!

Well Ma K you said you really wanted to see something recent of Max.....this was just a few weeks ago. I will get more soon:)