Snow Day :)

Today we headed up north to play in the snow with the Bauers and we had a Great Day!!! We had the truck piled with blankets, jackets, gloves, beanies, boots, extra socks, clothes and we were shedding our clothes it was so warm... But thats the way to play in the snow :)
We built a fire after lunch, made coffee and hot chocolate and didn't leave until 4:30... it was an awesome snow day!




Our family


The Bauers




Tori and Molly


Tatum and Carli


Tori and Codi


Taylor with Tatum behind


Thanks Bauers for a fun day... thanks for the pictures Cari :)

Happy Birthday Tori

Well today is Tori's 10th Birthday and we always let the girls pick where they want to eat and then do something together. We went and ate lunch at PF Changs (she knows how to pick the restuarants huh) and then went to see Bedtime Stories... funny movie :=)

Going into PF Changs


Tori with mom and dad waiting to eat


Tatum and Taylor with chopsticks in hand


Tori and her birthday sundae


I can't believe my baby is 10 already. I remember 10 years ago waking up at 5:00 am thinking I was going to have you on Christmas Day, waking your sisters up so they could open presents before I had to go to the hospital... well you decided to wait all day and into the night before you decided I should go... then at 1:05 a.m you made it the best day after Christmas ever!!! You were so perfect :) My sweet little Angel from heaven. You have grown up so fast... always wanting to do and keep up with all the other kids even though you were the youngest. But at 10 you are still mama's little girl and love to cuddle, love hugs and kisses and even still want to be held even though your getting tall and too big to carry. You are very special and I love you very much.

Pictures of Tori as she has grown up....






































Scrolling down all these pictures and seeing how you have grown is about how fast it seems the 10 years have past... a blink of the eye. I love you so much and I am looking forward to the next 10 years... (just slow down a little bit and don't grown up quite as fast these next years) :) I cried as I viewed these pictures... such great memories of my baby girl!!!
hugs and kisses forever
Mommy :))

Merry Christmas to All

We want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and that you had a blessed day :) We started off going to church on Christmas Eve and then heading over to my brothers house for dinner, presents and games. We started off playing LRC (this is a dice game) all of us played even the kids... there was 13 of us so 13 dollars each round you could win.... well the game ended 3 times with it landing in the center... two of those times was by Taylor :=( which means the round rolls over again.... by the fourth round there was 52 dollars in the center and Tatum won the pot!!! It was so much fun... the excitement when there is only one quarter left was the best part.
After that the kids played their own games and the adults played cards until 11:30 then we all headed home to get ready for Santa. :)

Tatum woke up first at 6:30 and woke the rest of us... The girls made out as usual with lots of good stuff :) We had breakfast, played rock band and a few other wii games and then headed over to my parents for Christmas dinner. We helped them set up the wii they got for Christmas and then played cards the rest of the day. It was a Great Christmas... :))

Our Family on Christmas Eve


The girls with Grandma and Papa


My sister and her family


My brother and his family with grandma and papa


All the grandkids


Christmas morning getting ready to open presents


Can we open these???


Merry Christmas