Thanksgiving Break

We had a great Thanksgiving vacation week. It started off with a camping trip in the new RV! The kids and Eric are over joyed excited having an RV to travel in and I am trying to gain the enthusiasm for it as well! It happened to be raining, windy, and about 40 degrees-cold for here, I wasn't ready for that!

Driving I wouldn't have known we were in Texas, there were lots of trees that were changing colors, not a very good pictures though. 

Kids hanging out on the drive there.

It was freezing and wet everywhere so we weren't outside much but I got one fun picture of Colt enjoying the fire for just a few minutes!

We went with our new friends the Ellsworths and had an awesome time hanging out!

The mastermind driving his big rig!

During the week we got to visit our friend Sister Peterson and she was very kind and patient with them and baked cookies and muffins and they were all so happy! They love going to see Sister Peterson and have a another person listen to them chatter for a while!

The night before Thanksgiving we got to go to the movies to see Frozen with Grandma and Grandpa and Kevin and April's family. I think it is a great pre-Thanksgiving tradition! Everything is funner when you have cousins and friends with you!

Movie pictures! Ellie was sitting in between Grandma and Grandpa and did great sitting through the whole movie. She got so into it, yelling loudly at the screen when something bad happened or when she was concerned, so funny!

Miss Ellie decided she wanted to be dressed up for Thanksgiving, she looked adorable! Thanks for the dress Aunt Cassie, I love it! We had a fun day at Grandma and Grandpa's with some of the family, some were out of town and some poor people were sick.

Colt's Thanksgiving preschool hat!

Livy and Rae came to Activity Days with me and one of the crafts were these cute pine cone turkeys, what a happy bright girl you are Livy!

We also got to have a fun play date with Rilynn! She was in the girls kindergarten class and moved so they don't get to see her much now. She is one of the girls favorite friends so they are always happy to get to play with her.

Rachel made this card for the troops during our activity days activity.  I love her trying to keep up with the older girls and spell everything herself. "You are my Hero. Whoops, the tree is tipping."

"You are awesome!" No you are awesome Rachel! I love your sweet spirit :)

I am sure thankful for the great week we had together, even the rough times, it was fun having the kids around and Eric even got to be home a little more than normal with all the cold weather :) So many things to be thankful for this time of year!

New Babies

We had two amazing new little girls come into the family in the past few months!

 Lakey Kealani DeMartini

10/31/2013

7lbs. 12oz., 20 in.

I hear she is the sweetest, such a good girl and loved by her big brothers! What a cutie!

Only two weeks later another little miracle arrived!

Lily Lois Nielson

11/16/2013

8lbs. 10oz., 21 in.

Long awaited little miss is just perfect and such an adorable little beauty. I am so happy that these two little girls are here and bringing so much happiness to their families! We love you guys, congrats!

Colt is 4!

Colt is 4!! I love this kid!! He is sweet, funny, passionate, dramatic, uses his hands when he talks, serious, sincere, believes anything his sisters say, likes to bug his sisters, and loves to play with them!

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to Colt, happy birthday to you!

His favorite gift was his small prize machine! I would love it too if it didn't play terribly annoying music the whole time. I did love that entertained him for a week straight though!

Colt and Ellie got a few fingers into the cake before we got to the party!

Colt and his buddy and cousin McKay! Colt had his party at Chuck E Cheese and he was super happy to have all his friends there with him.

Livy won one of the big payouts of tickets! She was pretty happy!

I think he spent most of his tokens on this roller coaster ride! 

Get ready to blow out the cake, and….

Go! I love how happy Caroline is watching him!

Happy boy! Happy birthday Colt! We sure love you buddy!

Colt got a turn in the ticket blaster. He was a little unsure about it so Livy went with him to help out. It was hysterical because the tickets and his arms were flying everywhere and he didn't catch one, poor kid! He did have one stuck on his back when he came out!

Luckily Livy wore the crown and got a lot stuck in there and she got a few in her hands. Such a sweet sister, she is always trying he help out her siblings, love her.

Dad made it for some of the party and his little shadow was right there with him! Rachel has a special love for her dad. She always wants to hang out with him which is awesome. I love you too Rae even when you love dad more than me! Poor Rachel, she was scared to death of Chuck E Cheese and he came out for a little dance 3 times while we were there so we had a few crying breakdowns but we made it through. Mascots are her biggest fear, but we are working on it, poor girl.

I love this one!

Ellie was awesome at the party! She took care of herself and ran around the whole time just having fun.  Thank you Ellie for making my life easier at this party, such a cutie and so fun, sure love you honey.

He opened his gifts up after he got home and loved everything! 

He loves showing people "I'm this how many" he is on hand! He makes me smile. I hope you had a great birthday Colt! We all love you and are so happy you are in our family. You are the best boy we could ask for !