Birthday Mania!!

We celebrated March birthdays this past Saturday on Kole's 1st birthday. I was a great day of good food(Pizza Ranch) and good conversation.


Here is Kole with his first birthday cake!!

The rest of the March birthdays. Susan, Ella, me and Dad.

Ella enjoying her own personal princess cake.

Kole with his lawn mower that he received as a gift. He loves it. He can even pull the cord!

Our Big 3 Year Old!!

What a blessing Ella is to our lives. I can't believe she is three already. It is going way too fast. She has informed us now that she's three there are many things she can do. Such as not sit in her booster seat at the table.(notice she is sitting in it at breakfast) She also believes that she will now be able to go to school with Addi and Daddy as well. She had a very special donut for breakfast and was able to open her presents right away this morning. She is modeling the new birthday shirt. The book bag was a highlight since she has been carrying one around constantly since our trip. She fills it with her 'treasures' which range from books and toys to sunglasses and jewelry.

Kole is walking!!!!

After many weeks of cruising around furniture and lunging from thing to thing he has finally started walking. He is doing more walking than crawling now. It's amazing how fast it happened. He got a lot better over the weekend and then spent all day doing it yesterday with Grandma. He is so interested in getting better right now that he isn't getting stuff quite as much. He also wins the prize for our child that walked the earliest. I realized that the order they walked was in the direct relationship to how much they weighed. Kole is the thinnest and walked the earliest whereas Addi was the chunkiest and walked the latest. Here is a little clip of him in action.

Ideas for a snow day!

Say What?

This last week I have noticed the girls have some interesting words that they use. For example:

Addi-"Mom I need to rememberize that verse for Pioneer Club next week." (memorize)

Ella-"I would like a Kbar for snack" ( granola bar)

Addi-"The tubberware is on the counter." (tupperware)

Ella-"Let's read Junie D Bones" (Junie B. Jones)

I think my favorite would have to be when we were driving past a pasture with buffalo in it and Ella yelled to me very excited Mom I just saw a lion!