Crafting Party

Ugh! I hate it when I get behind on blogging.  I am always torn between going back and trying to catch up(which takes forever and I never have time to do) or just starting back up.  So for now I am just starting up and maybe sometime I will have to do a post on all of the things I missed. 

Anyways, a few weeks ago I had a big craft day at my house with my mom, sisters, sister-in-laws and the married nieces.  It was so much fun.

 We made these cute shamrocks and another really cute shamrock that Sarah cut out, but for some reason I didn't get a picture of that one. 

And this Easter table runner.

 

My mom, Bessie and Sarah spent 2 nights and the kids had so much fun playing together.  I feel really bad, I even put them to work cleaning my house.  On the second day they were here some one called and wanted to look at our house, so they all helped me clean the house and get it ready.  We had it whipped out in no time.  If only I could have like ten people cleaning my house at once every time it needs cleaned. ha ha ha.  Thanks again for helping me clean!!! 

Jammies!



Brooks and Halli.  I love Halli's face in this one.

Hank.



Brooks.



Granny Beck hiding from the camera.:)





Even Sammi got to spend the night.  She thought she was so big cause she got to have a sleepover at Hank's house.

Family Pictures 2012

Our last family pictures were a little outdated.Since they were missing Halli.  So thanks to Makala for taking some new ones for us!  She really had her work cut out for her.  I didn't realize how hard it was going to be to get a good family picture with three little kids who never stop moving!

Family Pic 

Hank

Case

Halli

The Girls

 Boys!

Jake and Tanna aka Mom and Dad

 

Halloween

The boys have been so excited for Halloween this year.  Hank decided a while ago that he wanted to be a dinosaur.  Well the closest thing I could find to a dinosaur was this dragon costume, but it turned out ok cause Hank just thinks its a dinosaur with wings.

Roaring like a dinosaur!

This monkey costume just matched Case for some reason.

He looked so cute in it.

Halli's 1st Halloween!

Halli the Witch.

Halloween night we headed down to the Halloween Barn Party in my Dads old red barn. 

The boys weren't to sure they wanted to go in when we were met at the door by FrankenGranny!

Hobos!

 

Happy Halloween!!!

Pumpkin Carving

A few weeks ago Hank found a pumpkin carving kit at Wal Mart that he just had to have.  Ever since then he has been begging us to carve our pumpkins.  We finally got around to it for family night this week.  Hank didn't want Dad to help him carve his, because he thought Jake would carve a scary face and he was insisting that his pumpkin could NOT have a scary face!(shocking, I know!)

And then Jake had to turn it into a competition, so it ended up being :

Team: Dad and Case

against...

Team: Mom and Hank.

(The little fangs were the spookiest I could get Hank to agree to.)

Only problem is that left no one to be the judge, well except for maybe Halli.



So Jake still says theirs was the best, while Hank insists his is the best and Dads is scary.

Either way we had fun carving them and they now add a little Halloween fun to our front porch! 

Happy Halloween!!!

Pumpkins and Rolling Over

A few cute pictures of the boys picking out their pumpkins from Grandma and Grandpa's garden.

 

 

Halli is getting so big.  She is over 3 months now and she just rolled over all by herself for the very first time today!!!  It is amazing how fast they learn and grow.

 

Baby Blessing

Halli had her baby blessing by her Daddy on September 2, 2012.

With a beautiful blessing and lots of family there to support us it turned out to be a great day. 

We love our little Halli so much and are so grateful that she is part of our family.

  Family picture on Halli's big day!

Thanks so much to Grandma Becky for sewing Halli's blessing dress and crocheting her blanket.  I think she was a little nervous when I asked her to make them. But I am so glad that she did cause she did a great job and I think they both turned out so cute.

Another cute Picture of Halli in her dress.

I love her little grin in this one.  

 Halli with Grandma Vicki and Grandpa Karl.

Halli with Great Grandma Connie.

Halli with Grandma Becky and Grandpa Craig.

 All tuckered out from her big day. 

Camp Out

Since we had a new baby right in the middle of the summer this year we haven't been able to do too much outdoor summer type stuff.  So we decided to do a camp out on the lawn.  So that just in case Halli got to cold I could take her in the house.   

It turned out to be a pretty warm night and she did really good.

She slept great all cozied up in her car seat. 

Case and Hank were so excited when we set up the tent.  They thought it was a great adventure. 

I think it is so cute how the littlest things can seem like the coolest thing ever to them.

Jake even brought out the TV.  So after we had a fire and cooked hot dogs we watched a movie and ate treats until we fell asleep.  Even though we were just on our lawn it was still really fun and made it feel like we kind of got to go camping this summer.