Thursday, March 30, 2017

Happy 10th birthday Kate!

We have been parents for a decade!  It blows my mind!

It was so fun getting to celebrate this special girl.  

Her big birthday present this year was a sewing machine.  Kate is always begging to sew and was so excited to get her own machine!


For her special birthday breakfast, Kate chose poppy seed muffins, strawberries, and eggs with bacon. For her special birthday dinner, Kate chose potato bar.


Kate chose Texas sheet cake for her birthday dessert.


Kate with Grandma Lewis with her new birthday outfit

Kate looking in her new sewing kit.

Kate has already sewn a few things--a pocket for a few different people and a little bag that turned out really cute.

Kate is such a responsible girl and so much fun.  She is constantly coming up with good and fun ideas for all of the kids to play.  Logan just loves her and definitely looks to her as a second mom.  Kate and Ty will run off and play together a lot as well.  Ty will play house with Kate and they have a lot of fun together.  Austin and Scott really look up to Kate and love to play with her too.

Kate's favorite color remains to be blue, but sometimes is joined by hot pink and currently purple.  Kate continues to have a love for soccer and is getting better and better at it.  She also started playing basketball this winter and did really well.  She enjoys playing sports.  Kate also still really loves reading.  She is currently reading Harry Potter, but it is not uncommon for her to be reading about 5 books at the same time--she will have these all stacked in her room.  She is growing up so much and continues to develop her sense of humor.  She helps us read scriptures and remember family prayer and family home evening as well.  She continues to excel at piano as well.  Kate is also very known for being a very honest person.  When she says something, you know it is the truth.  

We love you so much Kate!!  You are such a special one!

Thursday, March 23, 2017

Scott gets his Bobcat








Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Two funny big boys

Austin and Scott are growing up so much.  They are so obsessed with everything Star Wars.

 
They also really love Calvin and Hobbes and have recently discovered how awesome Harry Potter is.

Austin LOVES these headphones

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Spring Happenings





 We made some freezer meals, it got too big for our biggest bowl to mix, so we decided to try a garbage bag (clean of course) and it worked surprisingly well!

And we got 5 delicious freezer meals out of it!

Grandma and Grandpa came over for a turkey dinner, here all the kids are looking at pictures in Grandma's phone.  (Scott, Austin, Kate in the back)

Logan doing a checkup on Grandpa


Ty and Mom love to play Guess Who together.

Logan discovered this stroller and loves pushing it and walking behind it.

After being put away for years, we got this bike trailer down and these two boys love it!




Kate loves pulling it with her bike.

Austin got his Bobcat for scouts


Austin and Scott were so cute, bringing all of this stuff in and organizing this train.  These two boys always come up with such fun ideas and are so sweet with baby Logan.  They are always very tender and loving with him. (Scott in stripes, Austin in gray jacket)


We also had some basement flooding.  I was downstairs with Ty when he asked me why the window was dripping.  We had gotten a record setting 2 inches of rain and it was too much. Luckily, we got the problem figured out and now the carpet is fixed.

 Jake and Angie came into town overnight for their spring break and we went to the Natural Curiosity museum with them.  We had a lot of fun there.


Logan loved playing at this water table.


Logan and Jax


We went to the school to decorate teacher's doors for teacher appreciation week and Ty wanted to push the stroller.  He is getting pretty good at it.

Logan loves his Kate!

Ty doing a puzzle during General Conference

Birthday Party at Ryan and Malece's house

Kate got to be a lunch worker at school, she really loves doing this!