Back to School!

Abby didn't start school but here is an update on her!!

Madi on her first day of Preschool

Hunter is off to first grade.

Abby turns One!

She really liked her cake.
She really liked her presents

Her siblings like attention

Such a cutie!!! She has been such a joy in our family. She is the happiest easy going child I have ever been around. We love her so much!!!

Madison Graduated from preschool back at the end of May. She was so excited to be done with three year old preschool and moving on to four year old preschool. Also I think she has a really awesome teacher!!!

Hunter's Staples

So we are really behind on our post but here is a lovely picture of hunters staples. He rolled down a hill straight into a metal light post. Needless to say the post won.

Madison turns four!!

Madison turned four years old on May 9th. Man they grow up so fast. She had a big birthday party with 21 children. Sadly it rained on her birthday so we had to have the party inside. It was fun none the less.

The balloons were for decoration but seemed to be the hit of the party.
She got so many presents.

Everybody anxiously awaiting the opening of the presents.

She wanted a strawberry shortcake birthday party!!!

Easter

Easter was fun this year, we were very busy and the kids ended up with more candy than they will ever be able to eat.

My mom had given the kids silly string in thier baskets and this is the aftermath.

Hunter stoping to give a big cheesy smile.

This was taken at the mortensen house. Hunter was in the back shooting his rocket.

The happy family.

Spaghetti Night

Spaghetti has always been a big hit at our house with the kids and me. We gave it to abby tonight for the first time and it was a huge success.

Madison had to get in on the action.

Mexico

Here are some pictures from the trip Brady and I took to Cozumel. We stayed at an all inclusive resort for five nights and had a really good time. It was nice to get away without the kids and have some time together.

This is the scooter we rented one day to drive around the island and do some sight seeing.

This is how we spent most of our vacation. Laying on the beautiful beach, well our beach was rocky but still nice.

This is us at the top of the lighthouse on the island.

Brady laying by the pool.

Here is one of the prettiest beaches on the island. We stopped here when we had rented the scooter.

This is what happens when the parents are busy.

We were busy working on a project upstairs and had told the kids to play with Abby downstairs. The older two had wanted to play basketball and found that Abby was getting in the way and getting hurt. This was their solution so that they could continue to play basketball and watch Abby as well. I have to say it worked very well, Abby was happy and so were they.

Snowmobiling trip

Our annual snowmobiling trip to Bear river lodge.

There is nothing better than a nice hot bath after some snow time.

There was a dog race this year when we were up there.




Some of us at the starting line.

Jazz Game

We took hunter to the jazz game on junior jazz night. The kids had a blast and loved going to see a professional team play. Even though our seats were as high as they could be.

Valentines Day

Every valentines my parents take all the grand kids to Kangaroo Zoo. It is a place with a ton of blow up things the kids can slide on and jump on. This is one of their favorite things. This year we even made all the kids awesome valentine shirts.

Kiera and abby chillin with grandpa
The two besties

Hunter sliding down one of the huge slides

Some of the grand kids

Some more cousins!

Hunter had his first junior Jazz basketball game last night. He was very excited to play. He is much smaller than anyone on the team but he is by far the cutest. He even was able to manage to throw the ball into himself at one point dribble down court and score a basket.

Hunter playing in the number 8 jersey.

Playing some defense.

He keep having to check what color his wrist band was so he knew who he was suppose to guard.

Getting some pointers from the fill in coach.