{5.4.20 - 5.10.20}

Eli turned two this week. It's crazy to me that he is already two! It breaks my heart and makes my heart feel so full at the same time to see my kids growing up! I love who they are and I love watching them grow. I just really do wish it would slow down sometimes, but with every milestone that Eli passes I may or may not feel like celebrating a little! Haha! 

He is pretty excited to have his own bike! 

He was so excited to open every gift and was thrilled with everything he pulled out of the wrapping! // He was just so happy with every little aspect of his birthday! I loved seeing how excited he was about everything! 

The cutest blowing out candles face that I have ever seen! // And he was so proud of himself!! 

We took some pictures of the kids in front of our pretty crab-apple blooms. I really do wish I was better with descriptions of my kids and their personalities, but this pretty much sums up the girls in a photo. (Lyla//Alya)

And the boys...Axel is so crazy and Eli refuses to look at the camera when I want him to. 

He did not like the bees flying around the tree. 

We went on a hike with my cousin and her kids! I love Eli's lip and Alya thought the new way to carry her backpack was pretty cool! 

There was a rope anchored in at the top of this cliff and the kids each tried to climb it! 

Lyla wanted to do it so bad! I love how brave and adventurous she can be! Maybe I need to get her some better hiking shoes! // Alya tried it, but she sure didn't love it. That's okay though! I'm just glad she still tries things even when she's afraid to do it! 

He's cute! // She made it! 

Eli wanted to carry all the sticks that he could find. // There were so many rocky hills for the kids to climb. They were all very steep and they all climbed up and loved it...coming down was different story! Haha! 

We decided we needed to get Bullet some exercise, so we went fishing so he could play in the water. He is such an athletic dog! It's fun to watch him in the water. There is no hesitation, he just goes for it! // I love you, miss Lyla! 

This kid!!!! 

Sometimes I try to make her fix her smile, but other times I love that she is going through this smile stage!! 

Alya can only smile or look at the camera. Both is hard. She is so cute!! 

Here he is, refusing to look at the camera for me. I think in the second picture I only caught his face because he was showing me a rock he was about to throw into the lake! 

We took my Mother's Day picture in our new room this year! Three out of four smiling is a win I would say! It's always an adventure to get this picture! 

Here is one wall in our new room! It still needs some furniture and we need to finish the bottom of the bookcases, but Matthew built those bookcases himself and framed out this wall and did all the mudding and taping and laid the flooring. Basically he has finished this room 100% by himself! It is looking so pretty! 

Eli is a little pyro and I'm a little afraid of this new skill that he has learned! 

 

{7.29.19 - 8.4.19}

Bullet loves the bath! Which is so funny to me because of how much Mo hated the tub! Bullet is not usually in the house while we are getting the kids ready for bed, but I let him inside tonight. he came downstairs and he just stepped right into the tub. It was pretty funny! 

His daddy has some big shoes for him to fill but I think he's up for it! // My happy little guy is pretty darn cute! 

{5.13.19 - 5.19.19}

The kids have been begging me to pull out the swimming pool because it's "soo hot outside!" It's not that hot in my opinion...not quite hot enough for the swimming pool. But I had to water my flower bed today and let them convince me to let them run through the sprinkler. Originally I wasn't sure it was much better than getting the pool out, but then when they would only let me turn the water up high enough for it to reach their mid-calf I figured we were okay. // I love Alya's prep for her run! 

He is loving this playing in the sprinklers business! // I also love his prep for his run through the sprinklers.  

Eli just woke up from his nap so he was good to just sit and watch while he re-oriented himself. // I gave him an m&m cookie and he was clearly thrilled!  

Man, he's cute! // Look at his sweet smile! I love his little teeth and the noises he makes when he's happy! 

Alya is actually getting pretty good at her photography skills!  

I don't remember why he was so sad, because I know he liked dinner. He had it everywhere!! // Bullet doesn't just sit and cuddle. If he lays down somewhere you almost can't move or he'll get excited and try to play...which would be fine if he wasn't so annoying about it! So when he curled up on the couch with me without trying to bite my fingers or the strings on my blanket I had to document it! 

The finished piece. Mike got the piece of Aspen attached and put the frame around it. I think it is so beautiful!!

{3.11.19 - 3.17.19}

Cutest little man wearing his sister's sunglasses! // Lyla was so proud of her building she built for her dinosaurs! There were many floors and many rooms for all the dinos to enjoy! It was quite impressive! 

Love this little trio!  

I told him to smile for me and this is what I got! Haha! He's such a ham! // Bullet is getting SO big!!  

On one of our walks this week Alya volunteered to give Axel a ride. He seemed to enjoy it, but when we asked him about he laughed and said it was scary!

I love these boys of mine! The laughter of my kids is the best!

{2.11.19 - 2.17.19}

Eli was so funny when I got him all bundled up so I could go shovel the driveway. He did not like the idea of having so many layers on until we got outside. I put him on the ground and he just sat in one spot watching everything that was going on with a smile on his face almost the whole time! 

My little blue eyed boy is too cute! // Alya was so cute helping me shovel! She helped me with my driveway, the sidewalk in front of my house and then she helped Matthew with our neighbor's driveway and sidewalk (and he has a lot of sidewalk!)  

We made a couple of snow dinos! This is the girls' triceratops.  

They added all the little "frills" behind his horns and after this picture was taken they gave him chocolate chip eyes. He was pretty cute!  

Bullet is starting to want to explore more than just our yard so he doesn't like that he has to be on his leash and confined to one area while the rest of us get to play. He is getting so big, though and I think he's pretty. // I love snow days when it's nice outside. When it's just bitter cold it's no fun for me. I'm glad we've had some nice weather that let's us all get out and play!  

This is Axel's Euoplocephalus. (You-pho-caf-alus)  He built this little dinsosaur's tail and did such a good job! It was so cute! // I didn't have the energy to make valentine sugar cookies so we settled for valentine no bake cookies instead. This might be our new tradition! It was pretty fun and so easy!   

Axel thinks that he needs to come up in the middle of the night every night to snuggle mom and dad. I wish I enjoyed it more because he is so sweet, but it's so hard to get a good night's sleep with a little boy pushing his bum and feet in my back all night. I woke up one morning to Matthew having left for work and Axel on my side of the bed with his favorite show turned on my phone. He's a little Mr. Independent!  

This cutest little baby LOVES the bath! Everytime I turn the tub on for him or any of his siblings he goes crawling straight to the bathroom and pulls himself up on the tub, jabbering with excitement the entire time! // Our neighbor's pine tree is so pretty flocked with snow!  

Eli loves the guitar. He crawls into the corner we keep the guitars in to strum on it all the time and when Dad pulls it out to play it's even better!  

I love these kiddos and I'm so glad they are mine! (I loved the way the boys were looking at each other in this one!)

{12.17.18 - 12.23.18}

I'm so glad my kids have fun aunts who want to spend time with them! Jeni and Crystal asked if they could take the kids for a bit and they had something fun planned everyday! They went ice-skating and downtown and played hard!  

The girls loved that they got to buy a goat and some water at the Light The World station. // I love this picture of Axel! He looks so happy!  

"I Love To See The Temple"  

We had my family Christmas party this week! It was a lot of fun! I didn't see much of my kids...they were too busy playing with Nana and Tia! 

I love this picture of my mom and Eli! 

Eli loves to share a piece of my toast every morning! I can't believe how big he's getting! // I also can't believe how fast this puppy of ours is growing! I think he's doubled his size in the last week!  

On our way up to our Christmas party we stopped at Cabelas and I just had to take a picture of Eli in front of their beautiful tree! // I tried for a really long time to keep Bullet in my lap while on our way home, but he wanted nothing to do with me!  

Eli seems like he wants to be on the move, but he just lunges forward onto his hands and pushes himself back up. Despite the fact that he's not crawling, he gets himself around. He just scoots and twists and maneuvers his little body around to where he's never in the same place that I put him down in. I love it when he wiggles around and Axel comes in and says "how did you get there!?" // Look at his little crossed feet!!  

I love having pictures of my sleeping babies! They look so peaceful and I just can't get over how beautiful they are!

I honestly don't remember what our little family home evening lesson was about, but we had Dad doing some pushups, and the kids wanted to get in on the action. I was dying!!! So funny!

Jeni and Crystal sent me this video while they had the kids and I thought it was so darn funny! I love how Lyla tries to shoo the ducks away and Alya's little panic attack is hilarious!!