spring is here

With Spring comes alot more work outside. Mike was working on the sprinklers outside, most of our neighbors were, and kade and neighbor friends Payton, go get there suits on and begin running through them. it wasn't particularly a warm night, but there was water- I thought it was nice that he thought to put it on. oh and by the way this is like 9:00 at night. it was DARK OUT!

Kade had a birthday, april 30, HE is now 4 years old. he was pretty excited for his birthday. I thought I was pretty organized that day, he got a new bike (thanks cousin Jace) and Lincoln logs, a slip n slide, water gun, and another dart gun. it was a great birthday. I will have to admit I slacked on the cake. he wanted a soccer cake- happy too, but just ran out of time... so I added blue coloring to a store baught icing, and did my best free hand... not so good. HE didn't mind and we ate it -3 min later.
Ah Hailey- she has such a sweet tooth- I don't know where she gets it. ..

for kades birthday we went swimming, and it was so much fun. Kade loves the water- we just need to get him in swimming lessons now so he doesn't drowned.

Robert, Amber and family came- it was very fun.


Last weekend- it was a nice weekend, thus it was jammed packed with fun things. Among which we went on a hike, to some hot springs in spanish fork canyon. it was very fun. the hike it's self wasn't bad... but when you have a double jogging stroller filled to the brim with kids and everything you need for an over night stay in guam- you have a little bit of a problem. the kids were troopers, mike developed 10 new muscle he didn't have before just pushing/carring the kids and I learned why I have always watched my feet when hiking- so I don't fall down. this whole balance issue isn't quite what that exciting.

these were the falls we hiked up to, and the water was very warm- in some places really hot! we decided that we are going to do it without kids and no time constraints - it's hard to enjoy a hike when you are running the last mile of it so you can get home for another commitment- thats the last time I will believe spencer and his "2 hours tops" I think it was 2 hours to get up there for us. ... WE HAD KIDS

and this is a picture I just took today- very up todate- Colter Bruce Kinghorn is still such a sweet baby. I love holding him, all my kids, he is really smiley, I wanted to take a picture of him smiling but he had already fallen asleep.

I love my kids.

three weeks and counting

I just need to say that I really do have an amazing husband. He made pink heart shaped pancakes for breakfast, surprised me with roses (when I thought we weren't doing that this year) and bought me new blinds for our bedroom windows. what more could a girl ask for? he also made dinner, got the kids ready himself and took them to church while I took a nap. thank you mike for a wonderful valentines day. I love you

ya she's eating butter- there is nothing else to say...

Kade needed to get in on the action.

OK here are some pictures we have been taking the last 3 weeks. Colter has been such a fun baby. we can't imagine live without him. the strangest thing is ever since we brought him home Hailey has taken it upon herself to be WAY more ambitious, and maybe that isn't the right word. I hate to say terrible twos... but she never climbed on the table before.... anyway we are great and having fun.

He is finally here!

I am one proud big brother. Ya, I have three now, holy cow.

He is well on his way to a good mullit, I wonder if they make tank tops that small?

Hailey finally warmed up to the idea of having the little guy around.

Colter Bruce was born at 4:43 and Jan 25th, 2010. He was 6 lbs 12 oz and 19 1/2 inches long (I would say tall, but since he can't stand up I would think that "long" is more appropriate.)

Hailey didn't take to kindly to him at first, but quickly realized that he wasn't too bad. Kade just thinks that it is cool to have a brother.

Em is doing quite well and is glad to be home. I am just glad that her mom is here!

christmas and New Years!!

Hailey got a piano for Christmas and has really enjoyed it. she is really sweet and doesn't bang on the keyboard. that aside thank goodness for a volume button.
the kids also got a sled, which we were able to try out on new years. they loved it. mike being mike, reliving his favorite movie. Oh don't worry Hailey did it too. luckily no stick this time. can't say that for the next time though.
one of our Christmas presents was a family outing to snowmobile races. it was in an outside stadium, cold but it was fun. I even caught- a DVD they were throwing into the crowd. OK, I didn't catch it, I used my body to my advantage- if you've got it... use it right?

Going Private

Well I have put allot of thought into this, and though I totally understand that it is more convenient to be Public, I think I too am going to make the transition, and go private.

My sister shared a story about bad people using the faces of little kids and putting them on naked body's and selling them, I think My kids faces are pretty cute and feel that I do need to protect them.

I might have been a little hasty is switching to private so quickly, and since I probably don't have all the emails I need, if you are interested in being invited to my blog would you please leave a comment with you email address and over the next little bit I will compile them.

thanks,

By the way all is well, we had a great Christmas and hopefully those post Christmas pictures of coming. hope you all had a great Christmas and a happy new year.

what we have been up to.

Happy Halloween, or Fall

Kayden had a preschool halloween party. They had so much fun. decorating cookies and playing different halloween games
Kade won these teeth at his party
here he is telling me what he will be for halloween that facial expression with him say " Aarr "
and then clearifing (as if that wasn't enough) "a Pirate"!
we were given these read cowgirl boots and they were so cute on her we had use them. that is how we decided she she was going to be. Mike had these old bandannas from a work thing so I just made her outfit out of them. it was nice not really buying anything.

I just cant get over how cute she is. she can say candy now surprise "nanny" and does she ever have a sweet tooth.

We had a fun Halloween night. I wish there was some way that we could go out as a family. Kade really wanted mike there. We finally left candy on our door step and walked around together.

Hailey got the concept but figured out early on that it was faster to just let me carry her. We had a fun evening. and the kids were still in bed by 8:30!! I was not going to give that quiet time with mike up.