Ana's 1st haircut - take two!

The take two is for those of you who remember the post about her first non-haircut!!! Now it was time, for real. We really cut it!!

Ana enjoying her first professional hair wash!




Ana's hair was cut by our good friend Becky from Studio 9A


The before picture - 21 inches long!


The first cut! Yes we saved it for her baby book!


Grandma helped distract Ana when it got a little long


Watching Becky cut her hair!


The after picture - 6 inches cut off!


Ana did great!! She likes her new hair!!! Thanks Becky!

Ana's Dad and brothers were super excited to see Ana's new hair!! They all came running when we walked in the door and said how beautiful Ana looked!! She has such a great Dad and brothers!!

Carter's birthday parties....

Carter had a fun birthday!! He started out by opening some presents before school. He got a lot of skateboarding things from Mom and Dad!! Tech Decks are the coolest to him this year. He also got his very first skateboard!!

After school he had his friend party with 6 of his closest friends! It was a lot of fun. Thanks to the beautiful weather they were able to play football outside. Sports was Carter's theme this year.

On Saturday we had our family party. Aunts, Uncles, cousins, and friends helped us celebrate Carter's special day!!

No sugar for Carter, so we had sugar free pudding instead of a birthday cake. He's blowing out his candle here!!

Thanks everyone for helping us celebrate Carter!!!

Carter's Birthday!!!

Today Carter turned 9 years old!! These past 9 years have gone by so quickly. I can completely picture myself in the hospital nine years ago today with my big 9lb 13oz baby boy!!! Looking at him now you would never guess that he was a big baby! He has trouble keeping his pants up because he's so stinkin thin.

I wanted to take a minute to talk about my first born son. He's totally awesome and I love him so much. He is one my best friends. His heart is what amazes me most. Carter has such a generous and compassionate heart. One of my most favorite memories of Carter (and I have a million) is traveling to Ethiopia with him. Riding around Addis Ababa and seeing his face as he handed out food to the hungry people on the streets. Carter said on that trip, "God told me to feed the poor".

This boy is awesome. As much as I don't want to see him grow up, I am so excited to watch him grow into the man that God has created him to be.

Happy Birthday Carter!! Dad and Mom love you so much!

Happy Halloween!

The kids had a lot of fun celebrating Halloween. This was Ezra and Jackson's first Halloween ever!! They hadn't even heard of it before coming home. They are big fans!!!!

Black Spiderman


Ninja Turtle


Superwoman - but also a frog


Ezra - Ninja and Carter was a football superhero


Ezra and Jackson's very first trick-or-treating house!

Durant is very excited about his candy


Jackson kept saying, I love Halloween!!

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First Snow!

The boys were really excited to see their first snow ever!! They had fun feeling it and putting it on their faces. They are really looking forward to building snowmen and throwing snowballs.








Jackson was so excited about his new boots! He's never had boots before and it was like Christmas for him to be able to wear them to school!!

Things are going well here. Last week the kids had a couple days of off school. It was fun to have them all home for 4 days straight!! We took them all to the Mall of America. This was Ezra and Jackson's first time there. They really liked it! Especially the rides!!

Durant driving his big truck - this also happens to be what he wants to do when he's a grown up!

Ana playing with some Legos with Daddy

Ezra and Carter on the bumper cars!!

Jackson was the lead truck driver!

Legoland was a hit!

Jackson and Durant both love to match. Here they are in matching shirts and pj bottoms.

Ezra has spent the last three weeks being a crossing guard. He really likes it!