January 2014

There's never a dull moment around here.  Here are some random happenings from the beginning of January.

Kristin gets her 1st set of fake nails and loves them!!!

Kade now has facial hair, he feels naked without it.  It's very hard to take him seriously with this mustache on.

Our sweet baby boy is now 3!  Time does fly.  Of course he still claims he is 5 or 7 depending on the day. =)

Gorgeous views from Luke's parent's house.

November Pictures

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October Pictures

September Pictures

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August Pictures

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July Pictures

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June

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A Great Loss in My Little World

It's said that you never realize how much you will miss something until it's gone.  I discovered this last night and even this morning as I mourn the loss of my garden.  Each summer we have a garden, and the kids and I enjoy watching it grow, harvesting vegetables, etc.  This garden also provides our family with enough vegetables, spaghetti sauce, salsa, and pickles to last us through the winter.  Yesterday a major storm came through here producing baseball sized hail coming in every direction (unlike anything I've ever seen).  It caused a lot of damage and shredded my garden in minutes.  We also found out after the fact that a tornado also touched down less than 1/2 mile from here (no damage was done).  So today I'm working on finding the blessings in this storm as I mourn the loss of my garden and ache for the farmers who lost their crops.

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May

Summer is just flying by and we have enjoyed many fun adventures together.  Unfortunately I'm way behind in going through my pictures.  I'm hoping to catch up before we start school again.  He's a picture from our camping trip in May.

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Summer Fun

The summer has only begun and it has already been lots of fun and full of adventure.

Saying good-bye to Grandma's chickens before we butchered them.

Kyler is so proud of his new helmet.  He wanted to wear it the whole day  as we ran errands and hung out at home.

Thanks to Daddy's help, Kristin and Kade learned to ride their bikes without training wheels.  We went for a family bike ride and Kade loved it.

Kristin was not too impressed with our family bike ride and requested that we never do that again.

Kade has been obsessed with baseball for a while now, so we signed him up for t-ball this year.  He just LOVES it and keeps telling us he will always love baseball. =)

Kristin had her dance recital, and like last year loved every minute of performing on stage.  If she could, she'd skip all the classes and just perform on stage.

Photo Shoot

The kids and I had a fun morning visiting one of our favorite parks in the mountains and taking pictures.  Of course a bag of candy was very helpful, they were all smiles. =)

Art at its Best

In today's art lesson we talked about trees and did a couple fun projects.  One project was painting a tree.  You definitely can tell a lot about someone's personality when looking at their paintings, or at least you can with my kids.  Here are their paintings:

Kristin's painting of a tree, which is more like a vineyard

Kade's tree, simple and to the point

Daddy Date

One of our kid's favorite things to do is go on special adventures/outings with Luke.  He could take them to something they absolutely hated and they would still love it just because they are getting to spend time with daddy.  Yesterday Luke took Kristin fishing and out to dinner.  They both had a blast.

Kristin said she caught 7 fish and daddy caught 8

Kristin thought this sign was hysterical 

Train Ride

 I love being able to spend my days with these 3 goofy kids.  They are so much fun.  Part of our schooling adventures took us on a train ride yesterday.  It was so much fun and the kids learned all about railroad safety.

Spring Fun

We have had a super snowy spring this year.  So this weekend we thought we'd take a trip up to the mountains before the next storm came in.  We enjoyed a beautiful park, a picnic, some fishing, etc.

It was a good this we enjoyed this little bit of sunshine because the next day we woke up to snow.  After 24+ hours we had a little over a foot of snow.  We have enjoyed playing in it.

You know it's time to be done playing in the snow when you see faces like this. =)

March Hi-lights

I can't believe it's already April.  It seems like the last few months have flown by.  As always, there's never a dull moment around here.  Here are a few of our adventures from March:

Luke and I enjoyed a weekend away in San Antonio

We've enjoyed some warmer spring days

The kids went on multiple eggs hunts, our neighborhood hunt ended up being in the snow (the kids loved looking for eggs in the snow)

We enjoyed a week of fun easter projects & crafts

Disney on Ice

Starting our garden