Baby Dayne's 1 years old

Darlene's baby boy, Dayne, celebrated his first birthday.  He is such a cute boy, too bad this picture turned out to be fuzzy.

Hannah and Dayne are about a month a part.  Hannah's still the bigger kid.

We got Dayne this cool drum with other instruments. Hailey wanted to show it off.

Before the cake...

After the cake!

My kids really enjoy playing with Dayne (or just playing with his toys).

Happy Birthday Dayne!!!

Natural History Museum

 I took the kids to the local museum at the college with a friend of ours. It started first with taking the bus to campus so we didn't have to deal with parking. The kids love riding on the bus.

There was a small exhibit with skeletons of dinosaurs and other animals native to Idaho.

We spent most of the time in the hands-on children's room.  They put on masks.

Hannah had fun exploring.

Robert did puzzles.

The neatness thing they had where these magnets. I even loved playing with them.

Hailey also wanting to practice camouflaging. 

We had a fun time and should go back more often.

Hailey's Dance Recital

Hailey took dance from the Rec Center this semster and loved it.  She had very first (of hopefully many) dance recital.

At the very end of the recital, everyone got flowers. Here's Hailey with her teacher Trielle.

Hailey did such a wonderful job.  I'm so glad that she's able to do dance and be active. I think she has really enjoyed it.

Hannah's Pigtail

Here's Hannah's first ponytail!!!

Sledding

 Here are pictures from our yearly sledding trip.  Look at that hot stud with our sled!

Hailey was the first one to go down. Then Nate took Robert down but I wasn't able to get any pictures of it.  Robert is more timid about sledding and only went once.

Hannah is in the Ergo carrier on my back and went sledding for the first time.  She loved it. Hannah laughed the whole way down.

We went so far and so fast that we landed on top of the little bump in the picture below.

Unfortunately the toughest part is having to go back up the hill. Thankfully, Hailey's my big helper.

Though the kids are as bundled up as I could get them (both having 2 pairs of pants on), we didn't stay long and they screamed in the car and the cold started to numb everything.  Poor kids!

Christmas at Home

Our drive home took longer then expected because we got hit by a big snow storm right before the mountain pass near Price, UT at 3:00am and had to get a hotel. (We started our trip at 8:00pm so the kids would sleep and it would've worked out great without the weather delay).

When we got home, we had the kids open up their presents my my family.  Since, they have already been through Christmas once, they knew just what to do. It was so fun hearing Hailey and Robert oh and ah over everything.  Hannah just loved the packing peanuts.

We got new Wii remotes from my brother Kyle, so we could all play the wii.

Nate got the Messiah collection from my parents.  We was amazed at how nice they were and started reading that day.

Hailey loves her first doll house.

I got a Cricut cutter!!!  I cut out a lot of basic shapes for Joy School, so I'm really excited to use this and help things go faster.

Robert loves his Thomas train ABC puzzle.  Luckily we had enough floor space for him to spread it out.

I think Christmas is the best time of the year.  I love the excitement it brings and how it brings us closer to our family.  Thank you everyone who helped make our Christmas wonderful.

Aquarium and Chuck E Cheese

We spent a day in Albuquerque and went to the Aquarium.

Then we went to Chuck E. Cheeses.  I think the kids had a blast at both places.

Look at those cute kids in their matching outfits!!!!

They are playing with Chuck E Cheese in these pictures.

I played the Wheel of Fortune game and got 80 tickets with just one token. That was pretty amazing.  In the end we had over 200 tickets.