January pics 2015 - lots of cute ones

Oh how I love this girl of mine!

She is THE SWEETEST sister.  Honestly, our home would not be the same without her - she brings so much more gentleness and thoughtfulness to all of us.  Here is another great example of that...

Rio was so sweet one day and was reading to her little doll when she noticed little Blake and decided to read to him as well.  She picked him up and put him on this Elmo chair and started reading to him and showing him picture albums.

How incredibly sweet right?  Blake was in heaven and loved every minute of it.  Plus, he is such a good baby and just sat there happy.  Darling pic - I'll treasure this one forever!

Out for a walk one afternoon with this cutie pie - I love his beautiful blue eyes!

Great helper I've got!

Logan loves the vacuum like most kids do and will always help me out if I need it.  Thanks little guy!

HAD to post this one.  These two boys (Spence and Andrew) spent honestly 10 or more hours putting our fireplace together.  There was a piece we wanted to go around it and man...it took a lot more work and time than even they had expected.

Thank you so much boys - it looks so much better now!

If you ever need anything done right and beautifully, these two are who to call.

Can you say Logan?

Um..yah..this was his doing and his doing alone.  One day, he went in the toy room and just starting dumping and dumping and dumping...

Apparently, I was also a "dumper" as a kid - I guess I'm getting a taste of my own medicine :)

However...

All the kids joined in with me to help pick up and ta-da!

Looks beautiful once again.

They are all awesome cleaners.

After the clean-up was done, they wanted me to take "silly face" pics of them so of course I did.

Love these 5 kids so much.  They are always so much fun and our little Blake is just getting SO big!

Oh my Jax.

This kid LOVES his hats.  He got this new one for Christmas and one night I went to check on them before going to bed and found him asleep with his hat on.  Love him so much!  You look adorable sleeping.

Making good use of our bday gifts & farewell dinner

I mentioned previously that the triplets got a bunch of games for their bdays but they also got some really fun craft things and even a candle making kit.

These fun things were from Grandma and Grandpa Morris - the boys got a coloring, drawing, swirling, creating kit and Rio got a little Barbie clothes designing kit.  So much fun - we haven't stopped playing with them still!

We had a farewell dinner at our house before Kristin and the kids left so we could hang out one more time and the kids were so excited which I loved to see.

*Grandma, Ethan and Cole*

*Logan, Hayden, Austin, Ty, Rio, Brinlee and Jax*

*Kari, Kristin, Kisty, Andrew (and Preston), Richard and Marc*

A day or so after that, the kids got out their candle making kits they got from Marc and Kari and were so excited to make these fun candles.

Luckily, there was a 4th candle so the kids were more than willing to share with Logan.  He was thrilled!

Spence helping Jax with his design - he's a little particular that one...well, they both are.  They make a great team!

Rio loved it - she's a crafty gal and loves anything cutesie :)

Austin took his time making his as well and had a lot of fun making his unique design too.

Jax was finished - looks pretty awesome I think.



And ta-da!  All done.  What a fun gift - they were proud to say they made their own candles... Well, actually the wicks didn't work so we put out own candles in to light them up but they designed the fun beads and bowls.

Great job kids!

That was a really fun gift and project.

 

Fun at "Airborne"

The Gilbert's gave the triplets Airborne passes and Chik-fil-a passes for their bday.  How fun right?  I love gifts like that because the kids love those places and it gets a little pricey to go all the time and then on top of that, they get to hang out with their cousins which is always fun.

I couldn't take too many pics because everyone always looks blurry jumping around so much.  But we got a lot of video and it was super fun!

Thanks Gilbert crew!

This is the picture most of the day...

all of them holding hands and jumping together!  I loved it - we miss these guys so much so every moment with them is awesome!

*Austin, Ty, Rio, Hayden, Brinlee, Jax*

Love how Rio is not quite up to the jump as Brinlee is - so cute!

All the big boys - GO!

 Look a that happy face!  He's ready for the plunge.  Go Jax!

 Austin was next...

 ...loved it, obviously.

Love all of you so much!

They all look so cute and had so much fun together, even Logan!  He joined the "big" kids most of the day in the "big" area and you'd have never known.

Fun day!

Happy New Year! Say goodbye to 2014

What a great year our family has had.  We moved near the end of 2013 and then had a great adventure in our little town home for a year, built our new home and then moved again at the end of 2014.  We had to say goodbye to many friends but hello to many more and we have already loved it here so much!  Our little Blake was born in March and has been such a wonderful baby and we have all enjoyed him so much.  He is so sweet, calm and smiley!  The triplets started their 2nd year of preschool and are doing SO well.  Logan turned 2 and thinks and acts like he's 5 so he has been our adventurous, loud and always fun entertainer.   So many other great things about 2014 but I am so glad we're settled and ready to stay put!

We've had a great year!

Happy New Year!

Welcome 2015!

We "partied" with the kids before they went to bed and we had Spence's siblings over.

They kids had so much fun and they were so excited to celebrate again because the triplets remembered last year too.

We had a little Sparkling Cider to ring in the New Year.  They thought that was pretty cool.

Spence with the kids and Lennox of course blowing their horns.  So cute!

Party animal Logan.

The kids and I ringing in the "pretend" new year!

Spence put on a YouTube video of last year to watch the ball drop - no one knew and it was great fun for all.

"Go outside and blow those horns and shake those shakers!"

Here's to the new year :)

Cheers!

Yummy food for all and we had a blast with Spence's sibs.

We all ate way too much and played "Sentinels" into the early morning.  That is by far our favorite game to play when it's just the adults...which is about once a year :)

So fun!

Selfie New Years Eve shots!

*Jon, Erin, Marc, Kari, Kristin (Mike had to go back to NV already), me and Spence*

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!