SUMMER

I just wanted to post a few pictures of one of the things we got to do this summer:) We went up to Wyoming for a week to visit some friends. While we were there they were having a state fair!! The kids had so much fun!!! They all crashed within 30 secs of leaving the parking lot.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

Back from the CARIBBEAN!!!

It has been like 10 months since I updated this blog. However I have something to talk about and my friend made a collage so it made it easy for me to post pics as well! Dave and I just got back from spending an amazing week with 2 of my most favorite people, and their husbands, on a Caribbean cruise. The Caribbean water is so beautiful you can't even describe it. The sites were breathtaking, the food delicious, the company topped it all and I still have a tan in November!!! Everyone deserves to go on a cruise and have as much fun as we did:) We zip-lined through the jungle of Jamaica. Jet skied in Cayman and lounged on the beach of Cozumel. It was perfect! I felt like such a grown up taking a real vacation with just couples!! We have already planned our next one:)

Thank you Crystal for the pictures! You were one of the best parts of my trip!

WE ARE FAAM-I-L-Y!!!

I GOT ALL MY SISTAS AND ME!!!!

So all 7 of us girls got together this week and had a FABULOUS time! It has been 3 1/2 years since ALL of us have been together. A couple of times there would be 6 out of the 7 there, but not this week!

We ATE, we SHOPPED, we LAUGHED, we SANG, we Laughed some more and Shopped some more and Ate some more! All in all, it was a great time! I love my sisters and don't know what I would do without them!

We had family pictures taken as well (that is where the top one is from) and this last one sums up the weekend pretty well.....

I swear some pictures are seriously so priceless:)

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A Few More

Our Photographer posted a couple more photos from our shoot. Go HERE to see the rest of our session Leave a comment so we can win a free print!!!

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Boys and Girls

So one of the perks of having a little girl is getting to do silly cute girly things!! Lexi decided one night that we got to do eachothers hair using every bow she has! She is so cute!

Our BLUE STEEL pose

The proof that we used EVERY bow

I dressed Conner exactly like Dave last Sunday and I thought they looked so cute! So I took a picture:)

That's all. I just love our cute Mini Me's!!!

Christmas Past

We had a great Christmas. The only downside was that Dave was pretty sick on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day:( So he missed out on some family fun. But we have been so blessed this year and are so thankful for how the Lord watches over us. Here are a few highlights from the past week.

The Saturday before Christmas we got family photos taken. These are a few

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The Kids with their new rides! Conner calls his a "Baby Motorcycle" It's a good thing Santa got one for each or their could have been little extra fighting:) (p.s. I didn't color coordinate their Jammie's with their bikes)

After Conner saw his hot wheels ramp he had no interest in opening presents. It was pretty funny

He played with EVERY little thing he got. It was so cute he went through his stocking and got out each little item.

We also got to take part in our family White Elephant gift exchange

As you can see there were some real winners!

We were also blessed with a WHITE Christmas so we took advantage of the one day of snow!

The kids really got into it!

We had a great time as a family and reflecting on how blessed we are to have each other. Hope everyone had a Christmas Season as Merry as ours! We are excited to see what this year brings!

Happy New Year!

Girlfriends

So another one of my closest friends moved away last week :( I made her a going away book and included some pictures of some of our crazy Ladies Nights Out! It was so fun to look through the pictures and remember all of the fun times we have had! So I thought I would share some of them on here.

Our beloved Stentzel's (minus 2 children)

Huge fans of the Karaoke! We have even been asked to be back up or rather up front dancers for a cowboy or Two :)

Birthdays! This was mine and I will never get over Emily's face

When we said goodbye to Crystal. Now both of them are gone

The whole Party Posse!

We are so fun people asked us if we were a group of college girls celebrating!

Our annual cookie exchange

Just having fun!

The Love of Edward
Twilight movie

New Moon

Oh how I love my girls and our nights out.

PPP forever! You know who you are!

Check It Out!

Are you surprised to see that my blog is actually looking cute?! It's a little thing I'd like to call a CHRISTMAS MIRACLE:) But really that is why I have a super talented, creative and amazing friend to do things I don't want to. She is so talented and super fun! If you would like a darling blog like this go to creativitybycrystal.blogspot.com She is running a special right now!

SPOOKTACULAR Halloween!

We had MANY Halloween festivities so I am going to post about the kids first. So there will be more to come......

I LOVE Halloween for several reasons. One being my kids costumes and making them so ridiculously cute! I love how excited kids get about dressing up and trick or treating. Another being I get to use the word SPOOKTACULAR! I know random but for some reason I just love that word! So this years costumes definitely lived up to the ones in the past.

Our Trick or Treaters

The KING in his early years

Lexi was a pretty WITCH!
This is the rest of the bling on the King's cape

We went to a friends house on Halloween that lives in out neighborhood for some festivities and then went Trick or Treating. These are all of the kids ready to head out the door to claim their goodies!

Lexi wanted to see how it felt to be the King as well

Lexi and Mommy making a Spooky graham cracker house!

It was a really fun day! Happy Halloween!