Our big girl!

Our little girl turned 4 on March 4th with a whopping FOUR parties!! :)  She is truly  the sweetest girl in the world & a light of our lives.  I have no idea where this time has gone but I know she is growing up to be an incredibly thoughtful, loving & spunky little girl.  She is still a little peanut (not yet 30 pounds!) but what she lacks in size she makes up in personality and we just love her so very much.

We gave her a new bike for her birthday!

Birthday Party #1 was in Billings at the water park with Grammy, Grampy, Aunt Lez, Uncle Bryce, Jane & Blake!  It was so fun to share her big day with them & even though the water was a little chilly the kiddos had a blast!

Jane is getting so big!  The kids absolutely love spending time with her!

Ummm...how cold do they look?? :)

Liv & I watched while the big kids dominated the obstacle course!

We came back to Lez & Bryce's house to open presents & eat cupcakes! 

I didn't do a good job with taking pictures but here she is opening the pink watch Daddy gave her!

Birthday #2 was her little breakfast in bed!  Blueberry pancakes were served :)

Birthday #3 was at her preschool & we brought our special little ice cream cups & animal cookies for her little friends.

SO excited!

Birthday #4 was a little swimming/pizza party with Nana & Papa & Uncle Dusty & Gina at the hot springs.  This little girl just loves to swim! :)

These two are such good buddies

I just love her expression here--feeling very special!

She had been asking for a "pony" & my folks found this girl--she was very excited! :)

Sweet Blake

Lez, Bryce & Blake came up for the visit the last weekend in January and we had so much fun with them!  It was soooo good to see my little sweet Blake & I loved holding her & seeing how much she's changed!  I wish I would have gotten more pictures but at least I got some really good ones of Blake! :)

Brady & Liv just love her.

I honestly think Brady would hold her all day if he could...such a good little (future) babysitter! :)

Fun With Grammy & Grampy!

Grammy & Grampy came up for a visit last weekend & we had so much fun (as always) with them!  They watched the kids Friday night while Jeff & I had our annual couples bunco--they took the kids to dinner & a movie & had lots of fun playing!

 The next morning we all went to watch Brady at his little guy basketball camp at the Ridge that he has on Saturday mornings.  Here's his little cheer squad!  He was very excited to have them there. :)

After basketball we headed to the Museum of the Rockies to check out the new exhibit called Rainforests--it was awesome & we all loved it!  It was fun for Grammy & Grampy to check out the museum because it had been a long time since they had gone.

This was showing the kids how far certain frogs can jump & see how far the kids can jump in comparison!

Showing Grammy some of the cool dinosaur exhibits!

This was a little zip line!

Grammy gave it a whirl too!!

Up in the Yellowstone kids play area

Trying the monkey bars!

These would have been so good if the kids had been looking a little perkier!

It was such a beautiful day we decided to go on a walk/scooter/bike ride around the neighborhood!

All in all it was an awesome time with them--the kids are always sad to see them go--the four of them have such a special relationship!

Liv Shooting Hoops

Livvy was working on her game the other night & getting lots of help from big bro! Please disregard her lack of pants (not sure what happened, it was after dinner/before bed playtime) :)

nice sneeze at the end, mama...:)

Ski Weekend!

We headed up to Big Sky a couple weekends ago with my family for a little ski weekend together!  EJ & Jenee flew home which was so nice because we missed seeing them at Christmas!  We stayed at a slopeside condo, went on an amazing sleigh ride, skied together every day and laughed!  A.LOT. :)  The only photos I took were on my phone so they aren't great--loved every second of this trip--family is the best.

Here we are in the sleigh--would recommend this to anyone--Lone Mountain Sleigh Rides--you take the sleigh up the mountain & eat a delicious dinner in a little log cabin complete with live music!  

EJ & Jenee had a helish trip out here so missed the sleigh ride but here are my folks & Dusty & Gina

Brady in the condo

My family helped me celebrate my 33rd birthday up there which was so sweet!

The 3 couples went out for a bit in Big Sky one night while Nana & Papa watched the kiddos--we had a "wing-dinger!" :)

EJ with the killer photo bomb...

After 2 full days on the harness with Papa--Livvy learned to ski on her own!!  

Mixing in a little beer pong

One of the runs my dad & brothers & I took--it's a little steep!!

I caught EJ in the middle of teaching us what to do if we fall on a run this steep...so funny

Dusty, EJ & Dad

Dusty & Gina gave the kiddos these sock monkey hats...they hardly took them off all weekend!

Rock/Paper/Scissors is always a good way to kill time at dinner!

...So is balancing spoons on your nose!

Liv learning some good stuff with Papa!

We kinda stumbled upon a black diamond run with Brady--he handled it like a champ & frankly was pretty proud of himself! :)