Beautiful Kids

I wanted to give a framed picture of the kids to Jared for Christmas, so I asked my friend to take a picture of them with her good camera. She ended up just doing a photo shoot of my kids for me just because she wanted to. Lucky me! We got a lot of great pictures out of it!

December

Merick learned to crawl just days before Christmas, just in time to be constantly trying to get to the wrapping paper on presents under the tree

Christmas Eve with cousins. Decorating cookies for Santa

The kids had so much fun having Cora and Gracie here for Christmas 

Christmas Morning!

Boys will be Boys

I love that Van and Ward can play together...and get into lots of mischief together now too. But they are so fun

 What my house looks like on a rainy day with 2 busy boys...notice the duct tape on the walls from the blanket fort that they of course destroyed

 They decided to get into our closet and dress up one day during quiet time and this is how I found them

My little tiger cubs.....these boys wrestle each other ALL THE TIME! They really are like little wild baby animals that are always pouncing on eachother. Any activity they do together always somehow ends up with them rolling around on the floor wrestling each other. It amazes me how it happens, but it keeps them happy.

Merick loves crawling on her brothers too, it won't be long before she is wrestling with them

Van Turns 5

 We had a Superhero Pinata birthday party for Van with some of the boys from church. It consisted of the boys attacking the villain pinatas with various superhero accessories until they were exhausted. They were a bunch of happy boys.

The villains

The Superheroes

Ward practicing his Hulk smash

Fall and Family Life

HALLOWEEN

TRANSFORMER AND POLICE OFFICER

My little bunny Candy Helper

2nd annual kids Turkey Trot running and bike race with friends from our ward

Life with 2 older brothers... they are always putting something on her head.

6 MONTHS AND HAPPY AS ALWAYS!

Introducing Merick to the Jeep rides.

Notice ward about to pile leaves on her head. He still doesn't like Merick and is always tormenting her.

This just shows how she feels about her brothers dumping leaves on her head

She LOVES to swing!

Van adores Merick and loves to just be near her

She loves baby food and is like a baby bird...she just keeps her mouth open as wide as she can waiting for me to put food in it.