My birthday boy!!!

How does time fly so fast? I feel like it was just yesterday when I was holding my sweet baby boy and now he's 6. Kaden has always been the busiest most adventurous little guy ever! He is also so tender, loving, and affectionate. Just the other day he told me that he hoped we had a girl baby because it would give him one more girl to protect and be a good brother to. OK how cute is that! (I had to laugh silently though because there's also a whole lot of brother teasing his sisters older and younger that goes on around here.)

Anyways, Kaden wanted a Star Wars birthday this year so most of his gifts and cake were centered around this theme. Nathan had been out of town but flew in on his birhtday and suprised the kids. The following day Kaden chose Chuckie Cheese for his birthday dinner (honestly what a place! and I mean that in the craziest way) and then later we had the family over for cake and icecream.

Happy Birhtday Kaden! We Love You!

Danc'in Queen!

Ellie had her first dance recital on January 13th. I could hardly keep her out of her leotards the weeks leading up to it. She was so excited to dance on stage and be the center of our little families attention. I think dancing or at least something of this sorts is going to be the thing for her. She did a great job, and how much cuter does it get than little 3 year olds on a huge stage just doing their thing. (And yes many of them are doing their own thing!) Hopefully daddy will be in town for the next one. Way adorable!

Skiing with the kids and Ellies first time

Before we all went back to school and work we did manage to take the kids skiing. Nathan started Abbi and Kaden skiing last year and they absolutely love it! This year we decided to start Ellie and I decided to get a pass and go a few times. (Being the big skiier that I am!) Abbi and Kaden did great and picked it back up real quick. Kaden is quite the little dare devil and likes to try jumps and little obsticle courses. He even copied Nathan and skiied down the hill backwards.
Ellie did great! Her first run down she was a little nervous and stayed between Nathans legs but after that she was all on her own. Way to go Ellie! The kids will be skiing circles around me in no time I'm sure!

Painting Painting Painting!!!

Well we've painted our last two homes so why not do it again! During our Christmas break we decided to paint the house. Nathan was off work so instead of relaxing and enjoying our vacation we painted. We took down the Christmas decorations Dec 26th and started painting that same night. We (or I should maybe say) Nathan continued to paint through to Dec 30th. We started in the family room, continued through the kitchen, then into the dining room and living room, and then came the dreaded entry way up the stairs and into the main hallway upstairs. I cannot even tell you how hard Nathan worked and the late nights he spent painting! I usually lasted until about 1 or 2 a.m. but I think most nights he painted until 3 and 4 a.m. (When you have kids the night hours are usually the hours to do these kind of projects!) Nathan you are wonderful and you did such a great job! I feel like our house went from feeling like a house to feeling like a home with just a couple coats of paint! Thanks honey for all the work!!!!

Time flies when moms a little crazy!

So I don't know if it's pure laziness or just a loss of desire for doing much of anything in the last couple of months, but it's time for Amy to snap out of it. I would do an end of the year catch up on all of our events with the holidays and all but this will pretty much sum it all up. Moved into our new home, pregnancy, unboxing, hormones adapting, more unboxing, more hormones, attempts to organize and unbox more, even more hormones, still unboxing etc. etc. etc. So that basically sums it up in a nutshell!

Well now that that's out, I really should say, we really are loving being in our new home and we did enjoy the holidays even though they seemed to fly by. And just because I can't help it here are probably too many pictures of November and December.


Closing Day! Starting to move, and sleep out on the family room floor! WHAT FUN!!!




Moving Day! What a MESS!!! The kids worked so hard they were quite exhausted by the end of the day.





Our Fun Tile Floor problem for 3 1/2 weeks!!!




How can I forget the midnight showing of Twilight!!!




Fun in the Snow!



Zoolights with Spencers!





Christmas fun!





And of course New Year's with the Spencer's and Sean and Jolie!