Happy 3rd Birthday Lee Lee!

Avery Lee age 3

Can you tell she loves Lady bugs...here is her lady bug pillow pet backpack filled with all the treasures Gramma and Grampa sent to her.

Little Missy with her cake..as you can see there is a pic of her on the cake. She wanted to eat herself. It was funny! She had a great day. We had a simple family party with just our family...how did my house get thrashed as if 20 kids were here??

Our Cute Kiddos

Muscle Man

All tuckered out

I can up the stairs on Sunday and this is how I found Zoey. I think she played a little too hard, she was tired.

Miss Personality

Avery cracks me up everyday....she is always telling windy stories or talking to herself. She has so much personality. Hard to believe that she is going to be 3 tomorrow.

Another Tooth!!!

Rylee lost yet another tooth...she is posing with my tooth fairy pillow from when I was her age...yes it is old! :) Anyway, my mom found it and sent it here. It is really handy. There is a pocket on her back that you put the tooth in and then the tooth fairy leaves the money in it. She put it on her vanity in her room..much easier for the tooth fairy than having to reach under the pillow.

Here is her close up...All 4 front teeth missing and then 2 on the bottom. She has a tough time talking with out a lisp.

US!! :)

Here is a shot of us that Rylee took today after church. She loves to take pictures with the camera. She got this one of the first try...not to shabby!

LOVE this boy!!!

How can you not just LOVE this SWEET boy??

9 months...

Here are each of the kiddos at nine months...

Rylee 2004

Zoey 2006

Avery 2007

Levi 2010

Green Dinner

They were excited and ready to eat!

For St Patty's Day I cooked an all green dinner. The kids think it is fun! On the menu:
Asparagus, peas, broccoli, lime jello, vanilla pudding




I also put green in the water when I cooked the rice


and green in the stroganoff...kinda looks like chip and mint! :)

Levi-9 months

He is finally enjoying some tummy time and not screaming when we put him on his tummy. He scoots a little bit, but is not pushing up to crawl at all...darn...just breaks my heart to not have him into everything. :) Still our sweet, sweet, happy little man!

I know one day early, but he will look like this tomorrow too. He went to the Dr for an ear check. He was 23 lbs 12 oz and 30 ins long. He is a BIG boy! More of him to love!

and more sleddin'

The Pillsbury dough boy! The little man all bundled up!

more sleddin'

Avery slowly coming down the"mountain" as she called it :)

Crazy cousins getting ready for a run

Lyn and Zoey having fun

My handsome guys!

Sleddin' at the school

For family night we went sledding at the school. It was a lot of fun and I have a bunch of daredevils in my family!

We rode the snowmachines from our house to the school (2 whole blocks)

Ryan tearing it up

Zoe Zoe heading down the hill

Rylee having a blast

Zoey Swim Lessons

Waiting her turn

Swimming with her teacher

Jumping...that girl has no fear!

Zoey did well too. She loves the water. She passed a few things off and is on her way to being a great swimmer like Rylee.

Avery was going to take lessons too, but she got a bad ear infection and could not. It was pretty nasty!! We had to use ear drops and oral meds to take care of it because it was oozing!! On the first day, she told the teacher, I can't take lessons because I have chocolate in my ear. (the dark infected fluid coming out) The teacher didn't know what to say!

Rylee Swim Lessons

All our girls love the water, we took swimming lessons again this winter. Rylee did really well. She was having trouble floating on her back when she first started this session, but she got it mastered by the end and passed to advanced beginners. She only had one thing that was not passed off her check list...the back crawl, but they don't even teach that.

Jumping in the deep end

Swimming in the deep end

swimming on her back

Swimming the length of the pool all by herself.