This summer we have been keeping busy in our yard.  It's been really fun to grow a garden!!  Matt and I both enjoy gardening and the kids love eating the veggies!

some fun spring pictures :) 

Kate's team took 1st place in their tournament, I'll have to get pictures off Matt's phone, but here's her awesome batting stance!

Happy Thanksgiving SISTERS!! (and whoever else still checks my blog!)

After my sisters have begged and begged for me to post pictures here they are... I like to think I will keep it up so our families can see what we are up to - I make NO promises! Life is busy and computer time is limited with little boys a foot:) The next month hold the busiest time I can imagine. Our move to our new house will probably be in 2-3 weeks. I've got to finish Christmas shopping like this weekend, pack, then paint and fix up the house and then up pack, set up Christmas and CELEBRATE!!!

Here are our most recent picts... I know a month old! We'll take some today and put them up. But now you can see our Halloween :)


He has Isaac's whistle in his mouth, he couldn't quiet blow through it so he would just make noises while holding it in his mouth.



Kate as Astrid from How to Train your dragon. I felt really sick on trunk'r treat day and Matt was deer hunting... so with Grandma's help we pulled it off :)


Isaac as Hiccup!!



Our Halloween weather was beautiful this year! The most fun was our 'dance party' Kate planned for Halloween evening! As the dancing wound down Grandma came up with playing 'I had a little doggy and he didn't bit you...' They LOVED it! Especially Ethan! He wanted to run every turn !!

I will hopefully get some pictures of our house up here soon!! I am so excited that we will be closing next week, we were hoping for this week so we could work on it over this weekend- oh well. We are counting our blessings:)

Okay, Okay I'll add some new pictures!

Sorry blogging just ends up at the end of my priorities list over and over again. But since I have a minute and I really mean just a minute I thought I would add some pictures. The kids are growing up SO FAST! We are busy having fun and always learning how to be a happy family.

Here is our New Year's Day sledding activity. It was a BEAUTIFUL- Sunny winter day. We made a long sled run in the yard that we all had fun going down. And the kids got to give their NEW SNOWSHOES a try!!! What fun. I have to add Friday I snowshoed up to a peak behind our neighbor hood. It was quite the accomplishment and so much fun. If I keep up on my exercise I don't hate winter so much! Amazing.



Kate's awesome drawing of Tinkerbell! She is a great little artist with SO much creativity.


Isaac is a SUNBEAM now. That means he goes with the big kids into primary every Sunday at Church. His only complaint in leaving the nursery behind is having to sit in a chair the WHOLE time!!


Ethan loves his BOOTS! He is a silly kid who is really figuring life out. He goes for his boots right after breakfast and wants to go out to play in the snow. I think he's the first kid in our family who really likes winter.

Dresser Make-over

Joanna's been asking to see these pictures so here is our latest project. This is my parents old dresser (like they've had it for 20 years!) and they bought it at a garage sale! BUT it is amazingly well built. You can't find top of the line expensive dressers that are this well built any more (and we've looked) So we (Matt and I) decided it was worth trying to make it look nice. (I always openly detested this dresser- to gaudy)



And here is a side table that I didn't take a before picture of. We painted them a light blue- almost white color with a darker blue trim.


I guess this isn't the greatest picture, kind of dark... BUT we now love it!

Swing, swing, swing

Ethan LOVES it...


Isaac LOVES it...


Kate LOVES it...



EVERYONE LOVES IT!!!

Isaac even got to help build it :) His favorite!!


Thanks to our Builders!!! (It took pretty much their whole Saturday)