Torin's birthday!

February 9th- my baby has turned 3! It was a very happy/sad day in our family. He is getting bigger and smarter everyday. It's hard to believe how fast he has grown out of the baby years! It seems like just yesterday he was a sweet little baby, but at the same time it seems like he's always been with us! Quite a strange phenomenon that is! Another strange phenomenon around here is that I seem to take WAY more pictures of him than the others. I think I'm trying to reverse the curse on last born! I also think he is just crazy-photogenic and he just keeps posing for me! It's awesome, I love it :-)! And yes, it probably has something to do with having a nice digital camera and just being able to snap away to my hearts content...

We had a monkey party for him with some of our closest friends. He LOVES monkeys, and he was thrilled with all his decorations and his 'monkey cake!'

I think his favorite gift was a special 'hand-me-down' puppy from Zach

January

Here are some misc. pictures from January. The highlight of the month was probably recieving our new pet Julien! The boys love him, and I have to say I do too! And there are some other pictures of the boys just being boys... Gotta love chocolate fondue! Kaleb and Torin like to sleep together sometimes- I found them like this one night and thought it was SO cute! My 5 boys

Julien the leopard gecko!

Zach's Birthday

Sorry I haven't updated for so long! A lot has happened since November! I just lose track of time I guess... Let me start with Zach's 11th birthday! My little boy is growing into a man! I can hardly believe that he is almost as tall as me, and growing more mature and handsome everyday! He wanted to have his 'annual' boys sleepover with 5 of his closest friends again. We had to cancel the first party because we had the stomach flu in our family, then we almost had to cancel it a second time because Zach was really sick with a horrible virus, but he recovered in time! 2 of the boys couldn't come on our make-up date, so we ended up celebrating it again 2 weeks later for them! All in all, Zach had at least 3 very fun birthday celebrations!

Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas in Oregon with my family! We even got to see a bit of snow, and found a place to go sledding. Here are some pictures...

Our annual stop at a gas station in Mt. Shasta to play in the first sighting of snow!

The boys on Christmas morning- waiting to see what Santa brought! Yes, we make them wait until we are all up and together (to get pictures of course)- we are mean parents :-).

Thank you Nana!

Torin loved the presents!

Just what he wanted!

Sledding with Daddy!

They built a 'mossy' snowman with Papa!