Sunday, September 20, 2015

January Fun and a Surprise Visit!

The girls found the cutest doll to play house with! They're happy, he's happy, we are all happy!


This is what we do in the winter.

Ha ha! I love it.

 I guess we bored Bama? Or she is just a very righteous example for her posterity.

Little boy blue.

One of my kids snapped this picture and I love it. Totally captured life at the time. Potty training Addie, snuggling Everett, Zach's lego on the floor. This is life.

Cutest chic around.

4 months old!


This was an AWESOME fishing day! They caught all of that in 1.5 hours! EfFISHient fishing! I wish it was always that great!

Justin's pride and joy.

Everett experiencing snow. Wee! And after 7 years of living here I FINALLY got snow pants and they make a world of difference!

So cute. Man, I took this picture 8 months ago. Kate has grown up SO much since then! Why are they growing up so fast?!

Ha ha! Stuffed in his snow suit. I think he likes it though? What is this strange new world called outside? Don't worry Ev, I'll show you again in May.

Thanks for capturing nature nursing, hon.

WAY TOO CUTE! I love snow lighting and how soft it is.

BLUE eyes!

Took this picture of Costco poutine to make my bro jealous one day. :) Now it is here to share to all of my American friends who have never tried it. Come on up! And Costco does it best. 

Beautiful winter sunrise.

More winter day activities. Dancing with cousins!

Ha ha! A couple of friends gave me this hat and soother so I had to take a photo so show them they are going to good use. :)

Crazy hair day at school! They girls with one of their best friends, Cheyenne.


 The wind made it even crazier!

The weather was amazing this month, like in the teens!!! I took Everett outside in the baby swing in only his sleeper and it was so nice!! My parents were already in Utah and the roads were amazing with no sign of snow so they came up for a few days!!! I LOVE SURPRISE TRIPS!!! We didn't tell the kids. It was so awesome to see their true love for Papa and Mer Mer. They are celebrities around here! 




We just hung out for a few days. I love it so much when they come visit!

Playing at the park with grandpa and some neighbors with bunnies ( in January! Is that grass green?!!)


Mom and Dad even got to go to school with Zach and watch his choir practice...

 ...And to Kate and Kara's Kindergarten! They even let Addie stay. She was in heaven.
Just a couple of sillies.

 Pretty hair!--I'm sure they were looking at Papa and Mer Mer's iPad. :)

They wanted a real tea party with Mer Mer and their (my old!) American Dolls. 

Everett even got to join in. He was Mer Mer's Bitty Baby. :)

Adorable innocent child's play. I loved this. :) 

Selfie with Papa! A lot of these are his pictures I stole. :)

And we made Mer Mer's famous chicken noodle soup with real noodles!! Yummo!!!!



 
Zach loves Mer Mer's Famous" soup. That's what he calls it. "Is it Mer Mer's famous soup? Yay!!" I always say yes. Because then he will eat it!

 Just a cuddly guy after a nap in the chair. He was starting to roll about this point so we didn't have as many big chair naps!

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Christmas and New Year's!


Annalee Jean and Adaleigh Jane at the Dahl Family Christmas Party. Only 26 years and 6 days apart. :)

 The cutest little Nativity actors!


I juts never wanted to forget the way his cute little bum bunches up. I love his cuddles. And that big, round, bald head. Wow!

Christmas Eve we got all domestic. :) Kids and cousins had to decorates some cookies for Santa! Julie's and Jason's family were in town so we had half of all of the cousins together.

Then we all got together for our traditional Christmas program at Grandma and Grandpa's house.

Santa came and paid us a visit after the program! Took a little break from all of that present delivering to stop and say hi! 


The girls wanted to be Santas helpers. I think we may have caught him a bit off guard.

Christmas jammy time!

Aw. Cute little brothers.

These girls all got the coordinating jammies (by chance!!! We love Costco. Ha!)

Everett feels silly he and Zach match. It's cool boys.

Our Crew all jammied up.

Matching jams!


Bama gave them all an ornament too!

Lucky me...I got jammies as well! My wonderful hubby tried to replace my red onesie jammies that were lost on the plane a year prior. :( Matched my sisters and i got them probably 15 year ago? Anyway, he was so nice to try and make my dream come true! Love you Hon. Can't wait until you get a matching pair. ;)
And yes, in case you were wondering...the back flap does work. Velcro and all. It's a bit drafty back there though. They only put velcro on the top so the side gape. YIKES!



A few pictures from Christmas morning. 

Santa brought them all an animal baby to care for. 

I cannot believe I don't have pictures of anyone else?! Not even baby Everett on his first Christmas?! Guaranteed there are videos. I hope! It was a busy morning with 5 eager kids i guess. I don't know...I'm out of excuses!

Santa brought this too! 

Everett in his new Exersaucer. He loves it. Yay for seeing the world upright!

Santa brought Justin these chairs. Whatever, i'm not giving Santa credit for these because I searched long and hard and got a sweet deal! Go me. Ice fishing chairs so you can easily lean over and look in the hole. Justin was thrilled.

I tried to stuff my 'tiny newborn' into his stocking for his First Christmas picture. HA! He's not so tiny. Super adorable though!



My men.

Howdy partner! I made him some triangle bibs. He obviously loves them. 



Gotta love this little fox bum.


Zach picked Everett's name for Christmas and gave him this owl. I think it looks just like him! Round, white, fuzzy, with bright blue eyes!

Celebrating the new year!

Kids had tons of fun with Alvin's brother Isaac.


Last picture of 2014! My New Year Kiss!

New Years Day family picture. Happy 2015!