February 25 - Day 3

Skate Class

Tyler got a blue ribbon and graduated from Tot Pucks to Young Pucks (the 6 year old + class)

February 24 - Day 2

Backwards Day at Preschool

February 23 - Day 1

Playing Grocery Store

Pizza Picnic and a Movie

Valentine's Day

This year Mike got Mia flowers for the first time. She has them sitting on her changing table and smells them every time we go in there to change her pull up or undies (we are working on potty training)

The kids are holding the clues for the trail of hearts. This is the third year in a row we have done it and they love any kind of scavenger hunt game so this is a big hit at our house. The kids got sleeping bags for their gift.

Siblings - Love You and Hate You

North Carolina

Baking with Grammy - Don't Ask

Christmas Presents

Christmas Eve

Can't you just totally see the intensity in Mia's eyes? I tell Mike that whatever she does, she will excel because of her intense discipline.

Christmas Eve Chaos. So Christmas Eve was so chaotic (in a good way) that Mia actually left the room without opening any gifts and went to the playroom and just played by herself. She is not good with crazy situations and when you have hundreds of presents and 4 kids hyped up on Christmas, it's just going to be crazy like that. But Tyler had to open all of her gifts for her. For some reason, she has no interest in gift or card opening. He always does it for her. Quirky Mia.

Pre-Christmas Eve

Bye Elf

Sammy, our elf went back to the North Pole today after leaving some goodies for Tyler and Mia. See you next year Sammy!

Baby Be Blessed

For Christmas, I had a Baby Be Blessed doll handmade for Mia. They are very hard to get and I had to get online at 6am in August to get one made in time for Christmas. On her tummy she has a scripture and her features are made to look like Mia. Sadly enough, right now Mia doesn't want to have anything to do with her but I am hopefully that will change. I think she is adorable.

December Pictures

That's not Bella. That is a coyote that keeps hanging around our house. Fortunately, Bella is big enough now that a coyote is not going to mess with her.
Caroling.

Mia was sick so Tyler and I went to Christmas service together. (ignore the fingerprints all over the fireplace.)

The day of Tyler's school Christmas program

Wedding Pictures