AZ Wing Commemorative Air Force Museum

What better way to spend Christmas Eve for a little boy obsessed with planes!! We took the kids out to Mesa to check out the AZ wing commemorative Air Force museum (say that 10 times fast)  The admission was pretty dang cheap and Kaleb definitely had a great time!  They had small model planes everywhere, and then we got to just walk around the big hangars and check out all the life size planes :)  I think his favorite part was the little yellow plane wagon that he got to sit in!

We also got to go in the plane that was outside...I really don't remember what it was called (jared would be ashamed)  It's an old bomber of some sort and it was pretty neat.  Everything was really cramped, I cannot even imagine flying in the air in that thing!

a cabin trip like any other...NOT!

We decided to take another one of our spontaneous, "hey lets go to the cabin" kind of trips.  Plus we really want to go play in the snow!  Well this trip turned into quite the adventure, we got snowed in, couldn't go anywhere til we begged a neighbor with a plow to come clear our driveway and then dig out our van (the silver bullet did great on it's 1st cabin trip, haha)

Luckily there are some random snow clothes up at the cabin because we didn't have crap for snow clothes for the kids!  Took them sledding a few times, they loved it!  As you can see Tenley literally just layed in the sled and didn't move at all the whole time, it was pretty funny to see her just lay there and look around!

Kaleb getting comfy while watching a movie :)

 So continuing with our adventure....not only did we get completely snowed in and have to stay an extra day but the power went off.  It's happened a couple times going up to the cabin but only for a short time, this time it was ALL night!  We had to cook dinner on the fire and use candles and flashlights to go to bed.  It was kind of fun and annoying all at the same time :) Definitely a trip for the books, love that place!!!

my little brother is married?!

 This has to be one of the strangest moments of my life....but in a really good way!  He'll always be MY little brother, no one else's; so when he got hitched...yah, a little weird seeing him all grown up and Man-ish.  I do have to say he kicked butt at choosing a wife, we love Erin!! She is awesome, adorable, tons of fun, and fits right in with my nut ball familia! I don't have pics of the reception, but it looked amazing!  Yes, I am bragging, because me and my sisters, and my mom  planned and did most everything! it was a DIY awesomeness! Congrats Marbles, and good luck! We love you!

My kiddos were dancing crazies! and kaleb was obsessed with stealing silverware off of the tables :) he pretty much had a handful of forks/spoons in his hands the whole night!

Like I said, nutters!

FHE time

a little pre-Christmas fun! SO easy, and entertained my buggers for a LONG time! Do you think they enjoyed it?

Goodbye Old Friend

Out with the old and in with the new.........Our poor Colorado was just about toast, I mean we're talking almost 200,000 miles! We loved our little red truck, we've had it since we've been married but it was time to say goodbye :(  We went back and forth with wanting a crossover SUV but realized eventually we'll have a team of kiddos to drive around so we switched gears to mini vans.  Best decision ever! I love our Silver Bullet, it is amazingly easy loading the kids in there!! and yes, someday Jared will get to buy a truck again :)

Colored Rad

So back before November I saw that a 'Color Me Rad' race was coming up and immediately I signed up as much of my rockin family that would go!!  Poor Waylon signed up and everything, but he had a job interview or something and couldn't make itt :(  We had tons of fun and I can't wait to do another one!!

Tenley's 1st Birthday

Would you just look at her! AHH! can't believe my beautiful baby is this grown up! It was a tough year in some spots for sure, but she brings so much fun and joy to our little family!!

I had so much fun planning/preparing for her party!  Don't you just LOVE all the pink? you know her daddy did :)  Seriously it looks like a lot of work but I spread it out over a whole lot of time and thanks to Pinterest for making me look creative!

She loved all her presents and even though she was a little lady and shy about her cake, she loved it!

We also rented this killer bounce house/slide combo.  We had lots of kids coming and I needed a way to entertain them without any effort from my part, bingo!  and the stinking LOVED it!  My kids even played in it once everyone was gone and up until it was dark...money well spent!

We had so much fun celebrating her big day! We love you miss Tenley!!!