Our family pictures

Got some pictures taken by Curt Brinkmann. He did an amazing job! I love them! Of course, I love the cute faces in the pictures so any picture would be great to me, but these are exceptional.

Happy 5th Birthday, NOAH!!!!

More Birthday...

I made Aunalie a "Sleeping Booty" cake and Mason a basketball cake and Sleeping Beauty was by far the easiest cake to decorate. I will never do stars on a basketball cake ever again! Being a former math teacher, I should have known the surface area on that thing is enormous! I think I have carpal tunnel syndrome now! ha ha.  We decided Mason loves basketballs so much because he was born in March... madness.  

Noah's birthday cards to Mason, the bottom one is Mommy holding Mason.

Cousin Carter and Noah

Sleeping Booty

Aunalie's favorite person ever, Camden!!

C.E.C, PARTY, and Circus... oh my!

Wow, we had a busy weekend! For Aunalie's AND Mason's birthdays, we went to Chuck 'E Cheese, had a party with the fam, and then went to the 67th annual Shriner's Circus (where my dad informed me that he went to the first one, even though he is only 60!) Unfortunately for my mom, she got hurt and couldn't go, but Cecilia was more than happy to take her ticket! Grandma Karen, Grandpa's Al and Lonnie, and I took the three kids. I thought it was GREAT this year with the bears and dancing elephant. But I've decided that I think adults can appreciate the circus more than the kids because adults realize the danger involved when you are dangling by the heal of your foot (or by your neck) about thirty feet in the air. Geesh. Anyway! I think that the kids had a GREAT weekend and the best part of all is that they didn't seem to have such a struggle to get back to normal!! Sunday was kind of a detox day, but it wasn't so bad. In fact, none of them asked for any more cake, and the kids behaved so well, we even cleaned our garage!! I think they got their fix of sugar with the final cotton candy at the circus! But it was fun, and we now officially have a 4 (soon to be 5), 3 and ONE year old! I can't believe it!!

Happy 3rd Birthday, Aunalie!!!!

My baby girl is THREE today!!! And, oh girl, is she three! Diva, princess, Spongebob fanatic?!, big sister, little sister, tomboy, girl with a 'tude, sweetheart, rockstar... She is our princess but when we call her princess she reminds us, "I'm NOT a princess, I'm just Aunalie!" Happy Birthday, Sweetie! We love you SO much!

Happy Birthday Mason!!!

And sometimes it's CLEAR Happiness!

I also live by what Ferris Beuller says, "Life moves pretty fast, if you don't slow down once in a while, you'll miss it!"

I was trying to clean the kitchen... Mason and Aunalie were "helping."

Notice Noah is wearing Aunalie's pajama pants?  That was his idea.  :)

Mason + Basketball = pure happiness

Noah + Angry Birds = pure happiness