Happy Birthday Hailey

Hailey turned 9 years old yesterday!  I can't believe my kids are all growing up so fast!  She had a fun day, she said it was the best birthday EVER!  My mom, Grandma Cottam, painted her that very cute kitty painting!  I love gifts like this they mean so much!  Hailey got to open her presents after breakfast, she went with grandma Jensen to pick out a present, she picked Casa Bonita for her birthday lunch, then we went swimming, came home and had cake and ice cream, then had tons of fun playing with some of her cousins, and she finished the night off having a sleepover in her sisters room!  

 Look at that awesome cake my sister in-law, Amber, made!  It is so nice not having to worry about doing a cake!  She is good!

New American Girl Doll!

Having fun with cousins, look at their crazy hair!

Hailey is such a sweet girl, and we are so lucky to have her sweet spirit in our family!  We love you Hailey!

Happy Birthday Ashley

Ashley's birthday was yesterday, the big 10!

I can't believe she is that old it makes me feel old! She had a pretty good day! She got to stay home from school and hang out with Corbin and I! We went shopping, Arbys for lunch, Krispy Kreme, water balloon fight with her brothers and sister and cousins(that why her hair is wet in all her pictures), Hobby Lobby with Grandma and cake and ice cream with her family! She loves pandas! My mom painted her this great picture and her aunt Amber made her that awesome panda cake!

She got to pick out a new bedset and rug from us, and she got some arts and crafts stuff from me, and she got to pick out some room decor from Grandma Jensen!

Ashley definitely takes the role as the oldest and we are so blessed to have her in our family! We love you Ashley!

Happy Birthday Corbin

Today was Corbin's 3rd birthday! How did he get so old already?! Corbin is such a fun kid! He has such a funny personality and is always making us laugh. He says the funniest things! He is very curious and gets into a lot of things because of it. He is also friendly and outgoing, which is kind of odd for our family. All the other kids at his age were too shy to talk to people. Corbin talks to people where ever we go and he'll ask people questions. Today we were walking behind 2 boys at the school and they said something about being at the park and Corbin say "hey boys this is not the park this is the school!" He is just such a cute kid!


So I asked the lady to do a small boy cake with boy colors, his cake looks more like a cake for a baby shower not a birthday. Oh well Corbin liked it!

He is such a goof ball, he kept making all these funny faces! His hair is all crazy, he "spiked" it himself this morning!
We didn't do a party for him we kept it pretty low key with just our little family. We have been pretty busy and Corbin was just fine with it!

Yum, yum!

We are so thankful, lucky and happy that Corbin is apart of our family! We all love him so much!

New Room

Daniel's uncle turned our garage into a master bedroom for us! It looks so good and we absolutely LOVE it! It is so nice having more space, our house is small and we were all using one tiny bathroom before.
Before picture!

After pictures!
We love it! It is so roomy! We still need to hang the cabinet above the desk and move the computer in!

Bathroom!

Closet!

Christmas

We had a nice Christmas this year but I haven't been very good about taking good pictures! We started a new tradition this year and had our kids draw names with each other. Then they did jobs for us and earned money to buy the person they drew a gift. So the night before Christmas Eve we let them exchange their gifts! They loved it and I think it went very well.
Ryan had Ashley and he got her some glitter gel pens and this metallic neon marker set.

Corbin had Hailey and he picked out a tea set for her dolls and those awesome socks for her.

Ashley had Ryan and she got him a lego set.

Hailey had Corbin and got him a Doctors set.

Christmas Eve we went over to Daniel's parents and ate lots of good food did the family gift exchange and the kids did the nativity program for us! Ashley did the reading, Hailey was an Angel, and Ryan and Corbin were shepherds!

Had to take a picture Christmas Morning of the tree and presents before the kids came out!
Looking through their stockings!

Ashley and some of her gifts!
Hailey and her bitty twins, and some of her gifts.
Ryan with his stuff!
Corbin loved his tool bench so much we could hardly get him to open his other stuff!

Big Boy Now

So Corbin is all completely potty trained now! I am so proud of him! I started last Tuesday and he had one accident that day, then one the next day and he hasn't had any since. He is even trained at night time too! I started all my kids right when they turned 2, and in March when Corbin turned 2 he wouldn't do it, he threw a fit every time. So I waited a few months and finally I decided to get it over with! I can't believe I will never have to deal with diapers again! He is just growing up too fast! Here he is playing with his new toy dad bought him for doing so good!

Here is a little clip of him saying his ABC's. You can tell at the beginning he was mad at me. I was trying to get him to say them and he wouldn't so I started putting my camera away and he got mad and decided to do it.

Ryan's dancing

Hahaha he cracks me up! Look at those robot moves! He gets more into it and dances more but gets kinda shy when the camera is on him!