Say Cheeese!!

So it has been a couple of years since our last family pictures. The twins had pictures done this week at school and so I arranged to have ours done this weekend and it worked out perfectly since Tim and Crista are in town. With Tim and Crista getting ready to head to Delaware I thought it would be good to get a family picture before they moved to the East Coast and we don't get to see them as much. The kids are growing so fast I can believe the twins are getting ready to turn 4 and Addy is almost one and Austin is getting taller trying to catch up to Marrissa. Then there is Marissa who is turning 12 in August but looks like she is older.




The Spring is here and everyone is getting antsy and want the warm weather here so we can get and go camping and four wheeling. I have started selling my cards and scrapbook page layout at the quilted bear with a friend. In the first month I have sold almost all the items that I had put in the booth and it has been neat and exciting. Here is a picture of some of the cards I had done.

Megan and the Cell Phone....

Megan has always had such a fascination with cell phones. I don't know how many times we've caught her with our cell phone in her pocket or in her room calling Becky. If Becky gets to many calls from her, she generally call us on our house phone saying that Megan has the phone some where. She has taken the phone to school a couple of times. Well Thursday she took it to school again, the teacher got it away from her and put it up. When Robert picked up the kids and brought them home, he went looking for the phone and couldn't find it. He asked Megan "Where is the cell phone" and she told him "at school". When we called the school to verify this they said yes they hadn't taken it from her but now they couldn't find it. They still hadn't been able to locate it by Friday night so we bought a new phone (I was actually already thinking of doing that any way).

Megan is such a girl and when you ask her why she took the phone to school she just says "I wanted too." As she gets older I can see that she is going to keep up on our toes about everything. Boys, Phones, Make-up and clothes, she is the miniature version of me to a point. She acts like she is the boss now and she is only 3 1/2.

Nikolai is also going to keep up on our toes just because he is so active. He goes non-stop and we can never seem to get him to go to sleep unless we strap him in the car and then he is out within minutes. It is like he know if he stop for 2 seconds he would go to sleep and he just doesn't want to miss anything.

Austin has completed another term at school he got a B in Math (we are so Excited) and then C's in English and Language Arts. He has a hard time concentrate on those subject so we are still working with him. He is also going to scouts every Tuesday night with is fun for him and me.

Robert and I are celebrating our 12Th anniversary today. I can't believe that it has been 12 years. We are going to go out without the kids tonight for dinner. He is the one that has arranged things so I am not sure what else we will be doing.

WOW the time flies....

I can't beleive it is already February! Wow. The time just seems to go by and I can beleive it. The kids are all growing so fast. Nikolai is going in for his second set of Tubes in his ears this week. That should be fun for us. Megan is becoming a little Debbie (as Christie says). Friday she took the Cell Phone to school in her pocket. (I had no idea she had it) when I asked her why she said, "Because I needed it!" and the other day she was over at grandpa's and was aked to go tell grandpa dinner is ready and he said "I will be up in a minute" and she said, "No, you come to dinner now!" They have such personalities and attitudes.

I spent a couple days in 3rd grade with Austin to see how his days are during the rotation through 3 Teachers. (Yes, the have 3 teacher is 3 grade.) It was a real eye opening experience. The challenges that the teachers face today are far more difficult then I remember. We are currently working to get him some extra help with reading and such to ensure he has a successful education. Nothing is more frustrating then having to argue and fight with him to complete his homework for 2 hours a night and that is just to complete a simple worksheet not even working a report.

He has transferred Scout troops and is now part of the Stake Pack which included a few kids from school so it should be fun. He has been excited each time I have picked him up after den meeting. Scout-O rama tickets will be going on sell soon so if you are interested let us know. I beleive they go on sell in March.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

We hope your holidays were just as fun as ours. Tim, Crista and Adilyn made the long trip from Altius AFB, in OK to spend time with the family for the holidays. It is always great to be able to spend time with them. Addy is growing so fast. My best friend Becky and her family came for a visit. It was a last minute surprise and they were able to spend 2 weeks.

Christmas was good. Santa Clause was very good to the kids and they all enjoyed the day. Megan got her wish and receive a Kitchen Set for Christmas, Nikolai got a dump truck and cars and Austin got a high powered telescope to look at the stars, a digital camera and an MP3 player that we still can get it to work.

Becky and I enjoyed facials for the first time on the 2nd and now our husbands are in some trouble as that is something that everyone should experience at least once a month. The good news is that Becky and Drew may be moving closer to home this Fall. If things work out and plans do not change Drew will try to get into BYU-Idaho in rexburg, ID in order to finish his degree. It would be so nice to have them closer.

We took the kids sledding for the first time and they had a blast. We went to the Community College and they were able to have a fun time here are some pictures of the twins coming down the little hill. They were also able to drag the sled bag up after them.



As we begin the new year we have decided that it was time Megan needed her own room. So last weekend we move Austin and Nikolai into 1 room and gave Megan her own room. they like the fact that they have new rooms and the twins are now in Twin beds but yet they are still preferring to all sleep in the same room. I guess maybe is was still to soon but as long as they all go to sleep I have no problem with them all sleeping in the same room.

Meet the newest member of the Family!!!

We'd like to introduce you to Chase. He is our new puppy. He is a Shih-tzu/maltese mix, 2 month old and still try to figure out what happened to his mom and dad. The kids are so in love with him they will not leave him alone for 2 minutes. We have been thinking of getting a puppy for quite some time and I have see him on KSL.Com for a few days so we finally called and went and looked at him.