Kinley is TWO

I can hardly believe it has been two years since we were blessed with sweet Kinners! Time has FLOWN BY!!! This girl is amazing, she is a goof ball already, super super super active (even puts her sister to shame), busy and tests our every bit of patience we can muster up. Her big brown eyes melt our hearts whenever we look at them. We sure love her a ton, and feel blessed everyday for her! We are excited that our baby is two, we feel like we get to start a new phase of life with kids, not babies. We are excited for all the adventures that come with teaching these three all the fun things we love. I am gonna need some new nieces and/or nephews SOON though, until then I would love to borrow anybodies baby for a few hours, and then give them back and sleep all night long :)...

Here are a few pictures of her celebration...

The decorations


The two year old herself






Gift baskets


The cake




Poor 3rd child, a little low on pics.

Spring Break

We had such a fun, spur of the moment spring break! I loved it! It was really nice to spend time with just us five! Our kids did amazing, they really adapt well to us changing things up. Kinley slept like a champ both at naps and night time (which was my biggest worry). Anyways, I will let the pics do the talking, they are way more fun to see then me babbling on anyway!

Adventure #1-Princess on Ice
Kaya was in heaven, best friends, fancy dresses, curls, and princesses. What more can a 6 year old girl ask for?








Adventure #2- Skiing at Loveland.

Kaya and Kasen did so well, they have really turned a new leaf, and we enjoyed skiing with them. We were on the slopes from 10:00 to 4:00 with an hour lunch. They never got tired (we did!). Kinley did great hanging out, napped in my arms and played in the snow. We enjoyed being with our friends the Sarnow's for the day!!!







Adventure #3- Mountain Biking
I don't have pictures, but it was really fun!! Kaya and Kasen rode their bikes, I trailered Kinley, and Dev taught the Kaya and Kasen to ride on dirt jumps.

Adventure #4-Scavendure Hunt/hike at Bear Creek Nature Center with friends.
No pics of this either...

Adventure #5-Hotel stay in downtown Denver.
We stayed right by 16th street mall, so it was fun to walk everywhere. The kids loved swimming, the escalator and eating out for every meal!





Adventure #6-The Children's Museum.
They had a great time. Kasen spent most of his time in the building room with Devin so I didn't get pics of him. I spent my time chasing Kinley from one room to another and Kaya was happy to do whatever!







Adventure #7-Walk around the Kayak park downtown Denver.



Adventure #8- The Aquarium
We met our friends The Lloyds, and enjoyed looking at all the "fishy's" as Kinley would say. The highlight was the mermaid show. I think Kaya almost peed her pants watching the mermaids, and then to find out one was named Kaya, well that was just -amazing-
















Adventure #9- Monkey Business for Gabe's Birthday
I love that we live so close so that we can be a part of Gabe's big days!!









Adventure #10
I went on a mountain bike ride by myself, with no bike trailer. I have not done this for a very very very long time. And it was on my new (SRAM geared) bike, that I LOVE!!! I hope it is the first of many!




Not bad for last minute huh!! Most of all I loved having Devin along the whole time!!!

My three Valentines

Since our anniversary is Feb. 16th, we like to devote Valentines Day to our kiddos. I love to shower them with love! This year we took the first 14 days of February and talked about the 1 Cor. verse on love. Each night they would pick a heart that had one part of the verse (ex. love is kind, love is not self-seeking etc,) and we would talk about what that meant and how we can use it in real life. I think they caught on and I look forward to doing it more each year as they can really understand what true love means.

We also had cute shirts as always (thanks again to my aunt Mindy!) Presents (thank you Oma), candy and fun heart pizzas (Devin and I had fondue :)).

Kaya and Kasen both had Valentine parties at school.






















And this is Kaya's art show. Her art teacher did the face painting and I think it is so cute!! I think Kasen really thought he turned into spider man that night :)

Major Catch Up!

So, clearly I have not gone private. I haven't given my blog much thought lately. Being a mom of three has most definitely caught up to me! I am not sure how you with more then three keep up with things like this! Anyways, thought I would take the night to do a really long update on the last few months... so here it goes.

First off.. Thanksgiving! We spent it in Salt Lake, we stayed at Tina's house, we got there right after a big snow storm and the kids had a blast playing in the snow, really they had so much fun together. I love getting these 7 kids together!!!












My dad got married the day after Thanksgiving! It was a fun celebration and we love his new wife Kathy!!! They had the grand kids as there wedding party, they were so cute!










CHRISTMAS!... the highlight was Kasen's new motorcycle. He (and Kaya) love it and ride it surprisingly well.

Tracy, Dale, Gabe, Tonya and Drew slept over Christmas Eve (Oma and Papa came over that morning). It is so great to have both my sister's here!!!! Christmas with cousins is too much fun!
















And some fun we had over Christmas Break...
















Potty Training! Yay







Happy New Year!!