My Dad

It’s my Dad’ birthday today! I love my Dad. He’s the wisest and most easy going person I know. I’ve learned so many good things from him. We video chatted with him tonight and it was fun to see him, but would have been more fun to see him in person!

We had some errands to run after I picked the kids up from school. The whole drive Tenley played peekaboo with Luke and caught him on camera holding the blanket up all by himself. He’s a cute one!

Cute Shirts

Some of the kids needed a few new summer items for our upcoming trip. I couldn't help but get a few cute things for Luke as well. I love this new shirt I found. I honestly didn't notice the back until I went to put it on him today. I thought it was just a 'Team Mom' shirt. But this is much better. :)

Big Kids

I've been getting sick of toting Luke's car seat around. He's 11 months old now and he is chunky! I mean that in the best way. I love my chunky little man! But he's heavy. So he rode in the grocery cart for the first time today and he did a great job!

Tenley had dance pictures tonight and I had to put a lot of make up on her. She looked so grown up! I'm not so sure I like that. But she is one beautiful girl!

Outside Playtime

Luke said 'Dada' today! It was so adorable! That has been all my kids first word. I've been trying so hard to get him to say 'mama', but no luck. I can't believe how much he's grown up. He is one sweet and cute little guy.

Ryder and I had a fun morning. He chose to count all the way to 100 today. Then we played with the dog outside. Ryder likes to blow bubbles for him. And we jumped on the tramp.

Tenley brought home Ryder's favorite book from the library. It's called "The Day the Crayons Quit." It's really funny. She had checked it out before and Ryder was sad when she had to return it, so she got it for him again. So sweet!

Selfies with Luke

Kade stayed home from school today because he’s not feeling well. He and Ryder both had croupy coughs all night long. Ryder acted fine today, but poor Kade was still not feeling well. He got a lot of rest and even a nap this afternoon.

My other boys and I read a few books and played on the floor. Luke loves to see himself in the phone! It was hard to get a selfie of us because Luke would crawl so fast to get closer to the picture of himself. He’s a funny boy!

Luke

Watching our little Luke move around and explore is so much fun. He's pretty content to just crawl around by himself and find whatever he can grab. It's been so nice to have a happy healthy Luke again!

Throwbacks

I love looking at old pictures! I came across some of when Kade was Luke's age and I think they look so much a like! I also can't believe how big Kade is now!

Cuddles

My little Luke is so sick. He has a high fever, a bad cough, and no energy. He is not a cuddly baby but he cuddled with me all day. I’m so sad that he’s so sick and we’re all hopeful that he’s doing better tomorrow. The cuddles were really nice though!

Door Stoppers

Luke is moving around so fast these days! He loves to army crawl but I noticed him trying out his knees today. Crawling might not be too far away! His favorite toy is the door stop. He could sit there (and has) for an hour just playing with it. 

I decided to look up the weather in Antarctica since it seems so ridiculously cold here and thankfully it is not as cold as Antarctica! I’m grateful! Keena really loves the deep snow and it’s been fun to watch him play and dig.

Target

Luke is always such a great napper in the morning but for some reason he wasn’t willing to sleep today. He cried for over thirty minutes and I finally decided we should go for a drive because he always falls asleep in his car seat. So we went to Target. That store is always bound to make me happy! He didn’t fall asleep on the way there and he still fought it so hard while we walked around the store but he did finally fall asleep and stayed asleep for a few hours. Thank heavens. And the shopping therapy helped me cheer up too. Lol

My Roly-Poly

Luke is such a cute roly-poly! Unless he’s being carried, rolling is his form of transportation. He can roll all over a room! It’s so cute. He also loves to check himself out in the mirror. He always smiles when he sees himself! 

Basketball

Luke and Ryder had a screaming match with each other at lunch. Ryder would squeal and then Luke would try and mock him. Of course, when I started a video Luke stopped squealing back, but it was cute in the moment!

After school Kade had his first basketball game of the season. In the car Brad coached him on being aggressive-in the determined sense of the word. Kade really took it to heart and was the most aggressive we've ever seen him. He stole the ball, and had two rebounds! It was fun to see him play.

Skiing

I wanted to go skiing as a family for my birthday, but since Brad works on my birthday we went today. It was cold, but the sun was out and it was a beautiful day. We all bundled up with three layers and we stayed plenty warm. Gathering all of our gear took a while and we got up to the hill later than we would have liked. We did the bunny hill for Tenley and Ryder first. I held Luke and we watched Brad try and teach Tenley and Ry at the same time. It didn't work out too well. And then for some reason the power to the whole hill went out! So we went inside and ate lunch. We had some friends get stuck on the lift for over 20 minutes before the power came back on. Pretty crazy!
When the power did come back, I took Tenley and Kade on an easy run. Kade has skiied the hill so many times so he was going to be our guide, but he got sick of waiting for Tenley. She really did a great job for her first time down a real run! But it was definitely slow going. After I got her down Kade wanted to take me on a harder run that he has finally mastered. I should have realized that he is a better skier than me already! We got to the top of the hill and I lost my breathe looking down. It was definitely the steepest hill I've ever skied down. I couldn't even see the bottom for a little bit and when another skier skied over the hill I couldn't see him for another ten seconds. It seemed to me like it went straight down! Kade was just laughing at me and kept telling me it was no big deal. I tried to keep up with him, but he definitely beat me down the hill. He's becoming a great skier! I'm proud of him and glad that I'll have another great guy to teach me some skiing skills when I'm able to go more often! When I got back to Ryder and Luke, Luke was fast asleep in his car seat (thank you, Brad!) and Ryder wanted to keep skiing! Even Tenley wanted to do some more runs. I'm so glad they are enjoying it.
We picked up Cafe Rio for dinner on the way home and snuggled and watched T.V. My body is tired! haha. I'm definitely getting older. But it was a wonderful day.

Baby Toes

We woke up to a beautiful blanket of white snow and sparkling crystals in the trees! The snow is pretty. But it is COLD! We spent most of the day inside. The older three kids played games downstairs while Brad and I watched football with Luke. Luke is such a sweetheart! He’s such an easy going baby. He doesn’t make a ton of noise and when he does it’s just sweet cooing. He just laid in between us smiling and cooing and playing with his toes. I love him so much! 

We finally got out of the house tonight to have a game night with friends. It was fun!