Family Pictures in Thatcher

We just took family pictures in August when Aislee was born but she has changed so much and I didn't want to wait until the Holidays to take them again! So we just used my camera and took them ourselves with my sister-in-law's help! Thanks Laura!! They are not professional but she caught some good ones! These are some of my favorites. Koston was of course good for about 30 seconds and then it was just a battle!! So of course, we bribed him with candy and it still didn't work. So our family pics are just real life with him. We are spending the weekend with Adam and Laura in Thatcher. We only have a few left before we leave again for the summer. We are moving to Chicago for 5-6 months for Jordan's work. We are excited to go again, but sad to leave family and friends. We're certainly not excited for the 28 hour drive with the kids. Thank goodness for movies in the car! Koston is addicted to Alvin and the Chipmunks.... I guess it's a little better than Annie; which was his last favorite. The kids and I plan on flying home for one visit in July sometime. We have a family reunion in Seattle in July that we are hoping to go to and also fly to Arizona while we are over here!

KOSTON is TWO!!

Everyone says time flies... now I believe them.
I cannot believe that he is TWO!! He is such a fun kid and we are loving every moment... well almost every moment. He has been an adventure from day one. I can't say that i loved spending those first 10 days in the NICU before bringing him home. However we were able to cherish every moment because we had no other distractions.
I think he is a typical kid until we are around other kids and he seems to be so HIGH MAINTENENCE?
Oddly, I even enjoy the harder moments... when he wakes up in the middle of the night on vacation screaming so loud he not only wakes us up, but all the dogs in the neighborhood so they can join in on the yelping! Come to find out that we was teething and he had 6 teeth come in that week! Maybe we would have picked another week to go see Grandpa Brian. Thanks Jordan for taking him on a ride up Provo Canyon to fall asleep and have a 4am nap for 2 hours before coming home.





















Koston's 1st BIRTHDAY!! Still looks like that when he eats chocolate cake!!









This is my little man on DAY 1.... a tad too little to come home right away, weighing in at 4lbs 2oz!

Grandpa Dan's old timers!

All the cousins were together this weekend and we all went to Thatcher to visit Grandpa Dan! He always has random old cars and trucks so it was fun to take photos with the kids and the cars. Even if they had been playing and had dirty faces and hands! They were loving life!

Rare Moments!!

Very rare moments.... not rare for Jordan to fall asleep anywhere, let alone the couch! However it is very rare for Aislee to fall asleep being held. She likes to be put in bed to sleep, so when this happens we take full advantage of it!! Koston was eating his santa PEZ... every last one before his head hit the floor. He also never falls asleep like this. He RUNS and I mean RUNS all day until his head hits his pillow for a nap or bedtime! I love this kid!

Polar Express and The Deer Farm!

Koston absolutely loved Santa! I never thought that would happen! He was so excited to see him. Santa gave him "five" and Koston wanted to chase him down the aisle of the train. I didn't have the best seat for pictures, but it was so cute! Unfortunately he hated the Santa in the mall on Christmas Eve? Go figure? Maybe it was because Santa was dressed in suspenders and striped socks with some funky Santa suit? Koston along with all his cousins loved the deer farm in Williams. He surprisingly was not scared of the deer at all. He loved feeding them!

I kept telling myself I needed to take my kids to have their pictures taken for Christmas.... it never happened! We snapped a few pics by the tree! Koston loves his little sister... most of the time! She loves to laugh at him. She just watches him run around and gets so excited. I love it!!

We had a Christmas party with friends and decorated cookies with the kids and had a bonfire in our backyard. It was a lot of fun!! We'll be making that a tradition every year! I'm pretty sure Koston ate most of the candy decorations prior to decoration cookies!!

Aislee's Blessing

My beautiful little lady.... I feel like we just blessed her and it has been over 3 months. I don't know where time goes, but here I am playing catch up again?? I tried to upload photos once before but I'm so bad at this and I couldn't figure it out!
We blessed Aislee in our Chandler ward that we miss so much. We are beginning to like our ward in Queen Creek, it has just been hard to get to know anyone when we are gone so much!! We got home from Omaha a couple days before Halloween and blessed Aislee on November 1st. The kids and I flew home and Jordan made the long trek across the country in the car alone with all our stuff!