Happy 1st birthday Nate

I am a little late at posting this since nate's birthday was on jan. 2nd!!! Oh well, better late then never. This birthday was a little bitter sweet for me. Knowing that it is the last baby is a good thing, but also makes me a little sad that we are out of the baby stage;(. My sweet Nate boy, you make me smile every day. I feel so blessed to have you in our family. Your laugh is contagious. Your daddy and I love watching you learn new things and try new things. Your brother and sisters are in Awe of you. I can already see a bond between you and zach and am so excited for you boys to grow up as best friends. I love that you will still let me hold you while you drink your bottle and that you crawl around the house saying mama all day melts my heart. There is a saying I came across recently that sums it all up. There is this boy who kind of stole my heart.... He calls me mom! I love you baby boy! Happy birthday my sweet boy.


We were so happy when Nate was born...such a long trying pregnancy and an even LONGER labor/delivery.  He had to go in the NICU for about a week, but was very healthy for 4 weeks early.

One happy daddy to get to hold his baby boy.

Can't say thanks enough to his NICU dr. who was always checking in on Nate.

This is one of those pictures that I will cherish forever...the look on Zach's, Ashlyn's, and Mady's faces when they finally got to see their baby brother for the first time.  The nurse that took care of him was so sweet to let them help push him out the door!  I'll never forget the day we brought him home and finally felt like our family was complete!
 Baby boy loves the water like his big brother Zach.


Every boy should get to be a pirate at least once;)

Love this happy boy

His very first trip to disneyland

Nate's first haircut was just a couple of weeks before his first birthday;)  WE LOVE YOU NATE!!!!

I'll post pictures from the big carnival birthday party later!

Disneyland

A couple weeks ago my friend hooked us up and we couldn't refuse a trip to disneyland...only sad things were Zach and Ashlyn got sick while we were there...and that Wil wasn't able to go!
The kids had a good time though.  Here are some pictures from our day at Disneyland.

Halloween 2011

I am not even going to try and "catch up" on blogging...for now I'll just start from now.

We had two dance Halloween Parties, a church Halloween Party with trunk or treating, both kids had a Halloween parade during school, and then we went Trick or Treating on Halloween.

 Ashlyn's Hip Hop Class

 Mady's tap and ballet class

 Mady doing their little dance

 Funny Face

 Cute carebear

 Mady's tap/ballet class

 Being silly

 With Miss Kenzie and Miss Julia

 Carving Pumpkins with daddy

 Mady's pumpkin

 Ashlyn's pumpkin

 My cute girlies and their pumpkins

 Of course Zach wants a DRAGON carved pumpkin;)

 Zachy Man's Pumpkin

Nate's first pumpkin!!! Love this little guy;)

 My Diva

 Sassy Diva

 The Great Magician Zach

 He showed everyone halloween night how to pull a bunny out of the hat;)

 My sweet carebear

 funny girl

 Here they are ready for the school parade;)

 The Magician in the school parade

 Here come the afternoon kindergarteners...I took this picture so you can see just how tall their principal Mr. Fedders is.  He is such a great principal and a good sport about halloween.

 Mr. Tinman (the whole front office were characters from the Wizard of Oz

 there's my Diva...and for those people who know him  (that's corey right in front of her;)  )

 Ashlyn's teacher Mrs. Schoenberger...as she called herself the QUEEN BEE

 My carebear and doggie at the second parade.

 Ashlyn;)

Half of the Kindergarten class!

We had so much fun this Halloween and we hope that you did as well:)