Up to no good

I've been a slacker lately with the blog, it's not that we're not doing anything, I just keep forgetting to take pictures.  The past two weeks I've been outside in the yard cutting down branches from all the trees in our yard, digging out old plants, and planting new ones.  I never got into our yard in WA partly because I was so discouraged at how out of control weeds were up there.  It's nice to have a yard I really love and now I get to decorate.  I'll take some pictures soon when I get all the flowers in.  I just have a few pictures of the kids just hanging out.  And busy Owen getting into everything, I swear any quiet minute is him getting into something he shouldn't.  He's just so cute though, it's hard to ever be upset with him.

This looks like a spotlight but it's just our skylight, I think this may be foreshadowing for her future 

Got a little glider on the front porch

Spring has sprung

So I'm a little behind on posts...so we'll skip to Easter!  It was a beautiful sunny day today, the girls had three Easter Egg hunts over the weekend.  One was a friend's birthday at a park, the other was at Jarom's parents house, and the last one was this morning at our house.  It was a busy but fun weekend.  I made a quiche this morning, and we had one of Jarom's friends over for brunch.  She just moved here from WA to work for Jarom at his new building.  Since this is our first spring here at the house it's fun to see what blossoms out in the yard.  We have some amazing trees that cover our deck out back, I could be out there all day just lounging.

A baby no more

My little boy, Owen, turned one yesterday!  It's been a crazy year and it seemed to have flown by way too fast.  We took Owen to a little children's museum up in Lafayette to celebrate.  His favorite thing there was a piano, he just lit up when he heard the noise he could make.  His least favorite thing was the sandbox, he started crying as soon as his little feet hit the sand.  Then we went back to Jarom's parents house where we had cake and presents.  These videos are hysterical since this isn't the usual Owen we know.  He looked at us like we were crazy people.  Riley wrapped one of his gifts and wrote such a sweet note to him (pic below).  He is such a joy in our lives and I hope he'll always be a mama's boy :)

A day at the park

It's almost always sunny here, and sometimes we even get days in the 60s like today.  I forgot to upload these pictures from a couple weeks ago.  Just a day at the park.

We've got a walker

Owen took his first steps a couple weeks ago, but this time he's getting braver and taking a lot more.  He gets super excited when he goes far and it's so cute to watch how proud he is.  He'll take the title for the earliest walker among the three.  Riley and Ella were about 13 months.  Owen's birthday is next Saturday :)

Blizzard 2012

Thursday night it started snowing, it didn't stop until Saturday morning.  We got just about 2 feet of snow!  I love how it's completely silent outside with the snow on the ground.  Saturday the sun came out again and the streets were dry and clear.  We went out into the backyard and couldn't believe how deep it was.  So here are some pictures from our winter wonderland.

The Karate Kid

This past month Riley signed up for karate after school for 6 weeks.  I think she originally did it because her friends wanted to, but in the end I think she enjoyed it.  At least she got some self confidence from it, here are some videos.  As a side note it was loud, I'd take the other two kids to watch her after school and most of the time I couldn't hear myself think!  It was quite entertaining watching all these kids with all their intensity :)