New Year

As the new year is quickly approaching, (countdown roughly 2 hours away) I look back at all the memories from 2010 with our friends and family ,and I am looking forward to another year filled with great new memories.
Ethan turned 11, Eli turned 3 and Ella turned 1. My cousin got married, my sister got engaged and we spent a lot of time outside watching Elijah run up and down the street with his dump truck. Ella has grown up so much this year, it has been so fun watching all her changes, and now we are chasing her around everywhere just like her brothers.

We are in for a crazy year with Ella in her terrible 1-2 phase (not my favorite) and Elijah and Ethan both in there sassy, stubborn phase (funny since they are 8 years apart).  I pray Chris and I make it through this next year with a smile everyday and I hope for good health and happiness in the new year for everyone.
Happy New Year!!

Sledding, Sledding, and more Sledding

 Chris was out sledding with the kids for about 3 hours yesterday and another 2 hours today.....

I helped once... mainly took pictures

Ethan and Eli together

Eli loving his new sled

Seattle Trip

Fun at Pikes Place Market. We had our picture taken behind the counter with the whole crew!

breakfast by the water

fun in the streets

space needle

at the top

my BFF Staci and I at the top

Happy Holidays

Finally getting my christmas cards in the mail this week!

Fun at Idlewild Park-Cranbrook BC

Here is the address to Chris's you tube video at this park, it has a great sledding hill and out door rink that they went ice skating at today.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfrM4HhViHE&feature=player_profilepage

Fun in the snow

Elijah having fun in the snow

Dad with Ella and Eli

Ella checking out the christmas tree, she only took a few ornaments off

sitting with daddy reading a book, when she is ready to sit down she will back up and plop right down in your lap...so cute

Ella in the snow

Family Photo

We had a group picture taken at my cousins wedding in August and it turned out pretty good, except Ella isn't looking at the camera of course.

Halloween 2010

We started out our day getting ready for Halloween by Chris finally carving his pumpkins and then taking Eli to Cat Tales BOO ZOO event they had that day. Kids were free and the cats all got a pumpkin with meat inside to eat and play with. Chris and Eli also were interviewd by KXLY news and were on later that night at 11:30pm....so cute.

I can't believe I didn't get a picture of Ethan and his friends tonight, but they all looked great. Here are some pictures of our day. Happy Halloween!

All the pumpkins finished

Eli and his good friend Drew and his sisters went Trick-or Treating together

I was Snow White handing out the candy

Ella looking to see if there are any more kids coming! Everytime the door bell rand she ran to the door to help give out candy.

Pumpkins 2010

finished pumpkins

pumpkin seeds

Here are the kids pumpkins we carved this year, I am still working on 2 more. We made pumpkin seeds this year for the first time and they turned out pretty good.

Ella's 1st Birthday

Ella eating her birthday cake

playing with her stroller

opening presents

in her pumpkin outfit from papa

Boo walking

Ella loves playing with Eli and Eli loves to play in his underwear :)

walking around

she learned how to crawl on Eli's bed, but she can't get down

More pictures from our sunmer...

Me and Grandpa Lehman

Me, my mom and Ella
Kadence and Ella

Here is a picture of Chris and the boys when they went hiking in Dubois this summer.

Ella

My baby wll be 1 in a couple weeks which is bittersweet since she is my last one. She has been walking everywhere, getting faster and stronger each day. I think she will be running in no time, which if you have met any of my children, will surely be fast!

I still can't believe a year has almost come and gone. I am enjoying this as much as I can.....before she is all grown up

6th grade camp

ropes course

my lovely cabin bed

the owl I volunteered to hold

Fair

Grandpa Mike was visiting this weekend and was nice enough to take us to the Spokane County Fair. We had to stay over in the kid rides, but Ethan found a haunted house he liked, a carpet slide and the swings. They had a great time.

car ride

spinning bears

carousel

more cars