Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts

3/22/16

Liz turns eight!

This post is kinda old. Liz is a leap year baby and so she finally had her actual real 8th birthday on February 29th! We decided to throw her a birthday party fit for an eight year old and it was awesome. We got a bounce house for the day, ate hot dogs, and made cotton candy. The upside of all the little kids having hand, foot, and mouth? We all got to play together! So, if you're wondering about all the spots on the kids faces, don't worry, they're all better now, and they got to bounce in a bounce house. 
I'd say Pippa and Maggie were in the bounce house the longest, but at the end the bigger kids really loved it.
Charlie never got comfortable enough to actually jump. This kid. Afraid of nothing, and then afraid of everything.
Presents!!!
Boys playing a game

2/23/16

Trip to Tonasket

The last weekend of January we took a drive up to Tonasket to visit Andy's sister for the weekend. During our trip we decided to take the kids skiing! I really was not expecting it to go well, seeing as it can get very emotional when you try to get Charlie to do something he doesn't want to do. And he definitely didn't want to ski. Actually, it was just the renting of the skis and boots that was the issue. After he settled down for a few hours he actually went down the hill a few times! The bunny hill, but still! I was very impressed and can't wait to try again. 
Getting ready to leave :)
Auntie Liz is the best. Seriously.
This was right after the renting of the said boots and skis. Notice Charlie is not happy. At all.
Andy and Charlie going down the hill!
I mean, look at that smile!
I think this was when we told him to clean up his toys :|

1/13/16

Christmas Eve

Growing up we had a tradition on Christmas Eve to open up one present and one present only. I really loved this tradition but when I got married to Andy, we switched to celebrating Christmas with his mom on Christmas Eve, which I love even more than just one present. And now it looks like we'll be celebrating our entire Christmas on Christmas Eve so that Pip can have Christmas all to herself. Or maybe we'll just do stockings in the morning? Who knows. We're trying to figure out this birthday Christmas thing before she gets too old and realizes that everybody gets presents on her birthday. This Christmas Eve was wonderful because there was tons of snow, tons of family, and tons of food to eat! Really, the best things for a good ol' winter celebration. The kids all went outside and played for a while and here are the photos to prove it!
Snow Angel!
These girlies just sat and enjoyed the ride :)
Not sure this ended well
Ben made an awesome sled hill, but only a few kids would actually go down it.

1/11/16

Snow, snow, snow

Man, the snow this year is awesome! We had barely any last year and these photos were taken a few weeks before Christmas and there are still feet of snow in our back yard. We haven't actually been out to play in the snow since about Christmas, but it's sure pretty to look at. It has started to warm up during the day and then freeze at night, so there's a good layer of ice on most of it, but that still doesn't stop Charlie from eating it! Nope! He goes right for the dirtiest snow he can find and shoves it in his mouth, hoping that he can finish it before we spot him. I'm not sure what has gotten into him but he has been getting into so much stuff lately. He ate quite a bit of toothpaste (thankfully it was Pip's so its just the training stuff) and he has been trying to sneak stuff all the time! I'm not used to this and I'm not sure that I'm handling this well. Mostly because I think I scare him into not ever wanting to tell me the truth. Guess I'll have to work on that, or maybe I'll just have him watch some more Daniel Tiger and hopes he teaches him instead ;)
Back to the snow though. It is awesome and sledding hills are the bees knees. We made one in our back yard but these photos are from my brother's house where he made his own sledding hill. The older kids enjoy making snowmen, sled rides, and eating the snow while the babies just kind of stand there and watch. I think it's mainly due to the fact that they can't walk very well in their snow suits, but it does make for an adorable scene. We did pile them into a sled and run back and forth for a bit, which they seemed to handle pretty well :)
Our little love birds. Haha.
See what I mean? Pretty adorable, those two.