Happy Birthday Keith!

It's official, Keith is again 1 year older than me. Keith celebrated his 31st birthday yesterday.

Every year on Keith's birthday he celebrates by taking the boys somewhere fun. This year it was a huge indoor playground/junglegym. The boys had a blast celebrating Keith's birthday.

We all celebrated that night @ our house with dinner and cake with our family.

Can you tell the boys were excited about Aunt Beth cake?

Me and the birthday boy.

LOVE her!:

My little Carter played so hard, he fell asleep in the basement, watching the big boys play Wii.

My sister-in-law and me,

Oh yeah, I dyed my hair DARK brown this week in a totally spur of the moment decision. Here are those pictures I promised you, Whitney and Jimmy. Gotta love the self-portraits...

Eight Months With Bear

Better late than never. I figured I better post this now that she will be 9 months soon. As you can see she wanted nothing to do with posing with bear this month.

Her stats: She is weighing in @ 16 lbs 10 oz

Happy Valentine's Day

Paige @ 7 Months...

...give or take a few weeks.

I seriously can't get enough of this girl. She just lights up when she see's the camera.

What We've Been Up To...

...since Utah.

We were snowed in with record snowfalls (No complaints from Carter, he LOVES playing in the snow):

We went swimming at Aunt Danielle's house:

Watched the superbowl at Grandma "Puppy's" house and stayed up too late:

We just hung out at home:

Saying Good-bye

I always hate this part. We had a really early flight Saturday, so we said all our good-byes Friday night.

I hope these guys will always love eachother this much, even when they are awkward teenagers.

(Yep, Carter's in there somewhere too).

The boys were so happy when their "buddies" came after wrestling to say good-bye. They even brought them wrestling shirts. Carter cried and cried when he had to take it off the next day.

My mom wanted a picture of all of her grandkids together. We completly forgot until it was very late and my children (okay, Paige) wanted nothing to do with a picture. Sorry mom, this is the best we got.

I'm really going to miss this girl! Thanks Kec, for everything. Until next year...

Utah Trip: Day 6

Our final day, lucky for everyone reading this, but totally sad for me!

We decided to get as many of the cousins together for lunch so we could so all the kids could have a chance to play with each other and we could hang out.

Here are some of the gals taking a tour of Rochelle's beautiful house. Thanks Rochelle for hosting.

The Noll girls:

Me and Kec:

We were loving the good weather while we were there. Ty and Grey thought it would be a good idea to pull eachother on the skateboard with the four wheeler. Later there was a rope involved too. Boys...

Some of the girls hanging out.

All the cousins that were able to make it...we missed all of you who weren't able to be there.

It's amazing how mine and Kecia's kids got along. It was like they hadn't been apart for two years. Their favorite activities this trip: Wii, bowling in the basement, building houses for the animals, hide-n-go-seek...the list goes on and on.

We decided since it was our last night together to get a baby-sitter for the kiddos and treat ourselves to a night out, just us girls (and Kris).

First stop: a shopping trip to Big Rock where we all got matching hats and other goodies.

Second stop: Dinner at Dave's Kitchen (yep, Dave is apparently Asian and makes excellent food).