Devri's blessing

While we were in Idaho, we decided to bless Devri there since alll our family is there. Here are a few pictures from that evening!

What a sweet baby she is! She has been so much fun and is starting to smile at us. What else can I say, life is good!

Christmas in Idaho

The Holidays flew by. . . and here is a little recap of our quick trip to Idaho the week before Christmas. First of all snow, and alot of it. Kierstyn and Ben were so excited to play in the snow. We had to borrow some snow clothes, as we don't have any but we found some that fit and the kids had a great time. Blake & Ben helped clear the driveway before heading to the backyard for some sledding.

Here's Blake with Kierstyn, Ben, & the Copper cousins ready to hit the slope!

I'm not sure who had more fun Blake or the kids. After sledding for a while they had a snowball fight and then they made snowmen!

While they played outside this is what Devri did.

Here are all of the Gardner grandkids! I love this picture!

Then we headed to the Chappells for more holiday fun. The kids made a gingerbread house and painted cookies!

Here's the proud Grandma with Ezra and Devri.

The kids with Grandma & Grandpa Chappell! Happy Holidays!

What an adventure this trip turned out to be. Not only did my car break down but the keys got locked into my parents car I was driving and all our stuff was in it, including the diaper bag. Oh what an adventure! Despite that we had a great time and look forward to our next trip up north.

The formal birth announcement

With my first 2 kids, I made and sent out birth announcements. This time around I'm trying to make it easier on myself. So here is the birth announcement. A little slow, but finished!

Our Christmas Card

I guess we're going green this year, and only doing the electronic Christmas card. Much easier and quite honestly the only way I was going to get it done this year. Simplify is the key word this year!

Merry Christmas!

For the holidays I like to do a different Christmas activity with my kids each day to celebrate the season, keep them busy, and count down to the big day. Well, that hasn't happened this year. I have to admit I'm barely keeping my head above water as I try to take care of my three kids, get them to and from school, homework completed, house cleaned, laundry done, dinner on the table, groceries in the fridge, not to mention getting ready for Christmas. And so a big thanks to Mary Jane for inviting us over to see Santa. I don't think I would have gotten it done this year otherwise. Kierstyn & Ben thought it was so fun and were so excited they got to tell Santa what they wanted this year. And amazinly enough we got a pretty good picture with our whole fam!!

Holidays Flying by . . .

Boy, what happened to Thanksgiving not to mention the first part of December. We had a great Thanksgiving with my parents and my brothers. My house was so full and I was so busy I almost forgot to take any pictures at all. I did manage to get a few in and get some Christmas shopping done as well.



And by the way Congrats to Jared & Andrea on their big news!! I'm so excited for you.

We also took a quick trip to California for a baby blessing. Here's Grandma & Grandpa with the new grandkids- Devri & Dylan.

A little backtracking. . .

Here's a few events I meant to post but never did so I'm doing a little catching up.

This is Bentley's first day of preschool! I can't believe he is already old enough for preschool. But it has been good for him to go since Kierstyn is now gone all day.




Bentley played soccer this year. He loved it! The team didn't do so well but they did win the last game of the season which was pretty exciting.





Happy Halloween! Here's Kierstyn & Ben with their pumpkins they carved. Yes they carved them with Blake's help. Below that is their costumes. Bentley wanted to be a pirate this year and Kierstyn wanted to be Princess Tiana. I think they turned out pretty cute.







This is the gang at the school fall festival. We didn't stay too long but they did have fun!