playing kick ball

A few weeks back we went to the park and played kick ball and had tons of fun. The sun was shining and we ran around for quite a while. next time I will take more pictures, but everyone wanted to play with me and I couldn't take pictures forever.

 Such a cute  picture, he is winking and telling me how much he loves me. On his 4th birthday

 Ty's dump truck cake. He told me he wanted gum balls on his cake so I pot them on for lights. I put chocolate rocks dumping out and he LOVED his cake. It tasted great.

 Ty's cake and getting ready to celebrate.

 His fire truck that he wanted so badly

 Some fun pictures  when the kids were little when we lived in Wyoming

 New bikes that we got for the kids for Christmas that they love riding.

 setting up the tree stand last summer

 When he was 6 months old

 Tyler and the great pumpkin. 2 falls ago

 08 visiting the biltmore in NC

 Kids when we went camping in 08 in TN

 Ty 2 yrs old

rolling down the hill in IN


I don't have all the pictures from our old computer on this one so I know some are repeats from years past but they are fun.
Tyler is now four and is such a character. He is very stubborn, energetic, full of life, imaginative child that loves his trucks, and riding his trike. He still is very skinny but is getting very tall. Getting off the gluten has done wonders for him. He is learning to be a good friend and loves others very much. Tyler seems to have something funny to say that he doesn't know is funny and makes us all laugh.

Snowcapades

Adam exausted after all day in the snow with the scouts playing games and sledding and tons of fun!

Adam's first run down the first hill of the day. many more runs and hills to come.

End of the day for John, he didnt want to have a picture taken of him being sooo tired.

Here is the sooo tired picture, I was dragging him to the car.

Joe and I

Johns run

Helmet getting a little lopsided from all the fun

Sammi at the end of the day

Sammi going down the slide

Having fun

Sam's drawing

 Boys and Joe in the iderod pull, the boys pulled the sled

Adam pulling

 The start

 Snowshoeing

 Building the fire

 building the fire still

 and another angle

 one of the hill for sledding

 group picture of all the cub scouts and family members that could go

 John's first run down the sledding track

At the end

We went as a family last weekend to the scout camp and spent the whole day in the snow. We woke up at 5AM and dropped Ty and Ian off at a friends house so we could go up the 5 of us.It would definitely not be fun to have had the little ones there, too cold and long of a day. We got home at 6PM. It was a wonderful time together and we had tons of fun with Adam's cub scout troop. Definitely will happen next year. 

Ian turn 2 in November....oops

 Got himself dressed, arms and head were in the correct holes.

1st day home

Well, I didn't post anything about my baby Ian turning 2. I really feel bad.  He has really been a joy. I wanted to share a few things I think are cute he has done lately. I was outside with Sam, Ty and Ian They were playing kings and were capturing Sam and I and tied us up as prisoners. I looked down to Ian and said "Please good king, untie us and let us go free". Without hesitation he said, "no I a bad king, HAHAHAHAHA!"

I couldn't keep a straight face after that and "broke" my bands and gave him a big hug.

I was trying to have Ian and Ty take a nap the other day and while Ian is in his crib looking at me lying with Ty in Sammi's bed, every second he peaks his eyes back and forth between being covered behind the crib rail and looking at me just to make sure I was awake or something. So cute.

He is discovering new words everyday, and loves to say the prayer, I helped him say the prayer today for lunch and for him to bless the food, and he said bless the chips and cheese. I corrected him  and he said it again, and remembered that is what was in front of him for lunch.

Ian is spunky, loves to laugh, is brave, loves all animals, loves Sammi, and wants her probably more than he wants me, loves his blanket Grandma Nancy gave him a few Christmases ago. He WON"T be parted from it.He is a great friend to Ty and plays great with him. He has the sweetest voice right now, I would love to capture it and share it on the blog. It makes me smile when he talks it is so cute. My baby is growing so fast, I will take the time to wright down the adventures this year if I lose my memory I will remember that I wrote something down and look back and see my beautiful children and their adventures.

I can't believe how time just flies by sometimes, I remember holding each of my children when they were just born, and Sam is almost as tall as I am at 10 years old. I am grateful to have these children that the Lord has given to us to raise. I hope I can do my best everyday to help them become the people they are meant to become. With as little damage as possible from the mistakes that I make daily. I cherish the moments I have with each one of my children and have started again implementing mom and me time once a week. I did this in Indiana and the kids love one on one time to talk and play individually with me. I think they act more kind when I do this. I have also remembered to slow down and listen to them about whatever they want to talk about and that is important to all of us. I can really get overwhelmed with all the noise in our little house sometimes, and this is one way to help my mind not rattle (so much).

Happy late birthday my baby!