FEB Happenings

 Love these little buddies, they are best friends everyday and they make my heart happy :)

 I used to stress about theese two having a relationship, as he gets older, it seems to be growing a bit and I love watching it happen :)

 We threw lil darc out in the snow and she loved it for about 10 min! She was just soooo darn cute in her lil getup!  She also is loving doing anything that the kids are doing, she's growing up tooo fast for my liking...

 Kai was super excited to have earned a spot in the spelling bee! He made it 8th place out of 20 3rd-5th graders. He had 5 words! He did great :)

 This is one of those really sad, but later really funny moments. Meili wrote this :( bad mommy moment I guess!

 We love visiting the kids' school!!!

 vday parties!

 Rich stepped up his vday game this year and surprised me for a night out with dinner and painting our own canvas. He came up with the design even. He even had chocolates and roses when I got home. I was super surprised. Could not ask for a better husband and daddy :) This was one of my most favorite dates! loved it so much :)

 our little vday gems :) 13 yrs baby

 I curled her hair for the first time

 like I said, best ever :)

 Meili doesn't often play dress up, but when she does less princessy and more edgy... ninja

 I hope these cheeks never go away...

 So blessed :)

January & Grams

 Here's our first family pic in the new year! We started it off by heading to Grams for a long weekend, bre even met us there! The kids had a blast playing in sand that they got from Uncle Jerry & Aunt Becky. We stayed up late playing euchre, had awesome food and enjoyed everyone's company! We even got to see Lauren for a minute :)

 

These two just speak in their own language that only they understand. They totally get eachother :) It's very precious :) 

 Did lil darc's hair in piggys for the first time, made her little baby face look extra fat and we loved it :)

 Lil buddy still falls asleep like this, pinkies pressing on his upper lip where he used to hold in the binki :) it's the BEST :)

 seriously can't get enough of his antics...

 some 16 mo pics

 BABY FACE :) YUMMY

 Meili is starting to be more mommy oriented lately and I'm loving it :)

 ...and just because she felt like it :)

 life is good :)

Christmas!

 Christmas is soooo fun :) Minus the lack of sleep part! I absolutely love seeing the thrill and excitement on the kids faces. I love capturing it in a photo. There is just nothing like it! This year was no exception! Santa spoiled them for sure...

 Kai got his ruby necklace and suit and a few other surprises

Santa was holding on to meili's guinea pig for a while til D gets a little older so he brought her a few surprises...

 T is so easy to please! He got an amazing train roller coaster and a piggy bank and a firetruck! He was thrilled :)

 Darc got a baby and a stuffed animal, and a ball bouncer! She was just happy to be up eating all the chocolate out of the stockings :)

 The aftermath....

We even cooked our own christmas dinner! complete with bubbly :) GO US!

 Needless to say... we were all pretty exhausted later!

 Happy Holidays! We have so much to be thankful for! We are so blessed :)