*Family*

We were lucky enough to see John, Tammy, Tanner, and Addi. We weren't supposed to see them until this summer but with some change of plans we go to have everyone but John stay with us from Wednesday to Sunday. It was SOOOO good to be with them. I feel like we're missing out on so much with them because they live in Colorado, so it was fun to play with little Tanner and meet our beautiful little Niece Addi. We kept it pretty low key and just hung out. One of the days we took some pictures of Baby Addi. (She is about 5 weeks old here)

The kids got along really well for the most part. Tanner is a ball of energy and he liked to pull Skyla's hair, it was actually pretty funny...poor thing:)

This is the Friday night that John came. Chris took all of the kids to go pick him up from the airport...what a daring man. He didn't get in until around 9:30 so they watched a movie until it was time to go. Doesn't Chris look exhausted? He has been staying at the school Mon through Thur from 7:30 or 8:00 in the morning until midnight then Friday and Sat 7:30 am til around 5:30...poor guy, I wish I could do something for him!

Tanner LOVED Uncle Chris:)

Saturday was soo much fun. Sean and Tom's families came down and all the boys took the kids to Jumping Jacks and the girls hung out at the house and then we had a yummy dinner and some amazing cake (courtesy of Tori) It was Tanners second birthday on Friday so we celebrated with everyone. What a cute boy! Anyway, we are so grateful that we got to hang out with our amazing family and can't wait to see them again in the Summer...it can't come fast enough:)

*Valentine Crafts*

I LOVE doing crafts with my kids. We did several things for Valentines Day but I'll have to add pictures later because their not all on my computer. We talked Daddy into helping us for about 15 minutes before he had to go to school. These are little hearts made with Starch Glue and yarn and then you bake them and their little ornaments.

*Jagger Eating Solids*

My sweet baby Jagger is eating solids. It has been very different for us with him, our other two kids had to eat solids right at 4 months because they were so tiny and threw up milk. I have to admit it was nice waiting. I don't think he loved it but I don't think he hated it either:)

Hunter helped later that day, he is such an awesome big brother to Jagger!

*Sewing*

I know this is not a big deal to most everyone but this is HUGE for me! Chris got me a sewing machine for Christmas and I used it for the first time. I literally only stitched a straight line, but it turned out so good!:) For those of you who know me this really is a big deal, my mom would just staple things that needed to be put back together so for me to know how to sew a straight line...gosh that's exciting stuff:)

*Jagger 6 Months*

I can't believe my baby is 6 months old already! CRAZY!

This boy lights up my life...sounds cheesy right?! IT'S TRUE!

I just look at him and he melts me... doesn't matter what face he's pulling, he is freaking cute!

6 Month Stats:

Height: 26.5 inches 50%

Weight: 16 pounds 1 ounce 20%

Head: 83%

*Reading*

Hunter is doing SO great in school. A couple of months ago he started bringing home little sentences to learn and now he gets to bring home books. I am the proudest Mom around. It's crazy to think that my baby boy is READING! It's so exciting to watch him progress but I won't lie, it is really emotional for me to know how fast the time is going.

The other night I was getting the kids ready for bed and Hunter was standing in front of me (I was on the floor) and I looked at him and said "Look how tall you are now!" and then pretended to cry. Hunter leans down and puts his arm around me and says "Do you want me to stop growing and be a baby again?" I said "Yes!" and he looks at me with the most serious face and says "Well Mom, I can't I don't have enough magic for that!" I can't get enough of him.LOVE.LOVE.LOVE!

*Fun Photoshoot*

My cousin Alyse, sister Jess and I all LOVE photography. Alyse had the brilliant idea of getting together and do glamor shots of each other and in the process learn a bit about lighting. We had the best time, there was a lot of laughter and dancing:) The first four are some that I took, the next one (of me) is from Jess and the last two are taken from Alyse!

I had such a good time and I can't wait to do it again:)

Love you girls!

*Pudding Paint*

My awesome sister in law, Elisha gave me the funnest idea to do with my kids. Make pudding and paint with it. It was so fun, Hunter and I practiced words and we drew pictures (yes I said we, I wanted to play in pudding too:) I loved it and so did the kids, we will definitely be doing this more often. (and it's easy clean up:)

Skyla mostly ate hers...shocking I know;)

*Potty Trained!*

First off I am WAY behind on my blog and my goal is to be caught up by tomorrow night...wish me luck:)

(Quite the picture, I know:)

At the beginning of January Skyla filled up her Princess Potty Chart with stickers and is officially potty trained. She does great during nap time and is almost there through the night. We are so proud of you little one:) (and SOOO happy to only have 1 child in diapers:)

*First Tooth*

On Sunday, January 2, 2011 I was in Relief Society trying to keep Jagger quiet (he is SOOO noisy, not sad noisy HAPPY noisy) and he was grinning this HUGE grin at me and I noticed his first little tooth has popped through. My baby is growing up WAY to fast! If you look close it's on the bottom right. SO CUTE!:)

*Jagger*

I CAN NOT get enough of little Jagger! As you can tell I can't stop taking pictures of him either:) Every little thing he does, every expression he makes is so dang cute that I HAVE to capture it.

This is him at 5 1/2 months...can you believe it?! He's growing WAY to fast!

He is sitting up on his own now pretty good, he usually falls when he is chowing down on his hand but other than that he can sit there for quite a while.

He rolls around EVERYWHERE!

You have to keep a close eye on him because he's a fast little roller.

He is VERY expressive...this is one of my favorite looks:) He Loves chewing on his bottom lip.

He got his first tooth, the middle bottom and now is chewing on everything!

He now arches his back and scoots around this way.

I was looking at Hunters ABC book that I made him when he was 1 and Jagger looks A LOT like him in some pictures. It will be fun to see how similar they look when their older.

*Sick Kids*

*This was a couple of weeks ago but I wanted to record it (it was on facebook...you gotta love copy and paste:)

My poor poor kids! Jagger started off with a cough several days ago, now he's pretty much over it, then 4 days ago Skyla started getting a cough, sore throat, and fever. Yesterday it took a turn for the worse and she cried almost the entire day. She just keeps getting worse so we took her to the Dr., they weren't really sure if it was croup or pneumonia so they sent us to the hospital to do 6 different tests and x-rays. The Dr. just called me and said she actually is in the beginning stages of BOTH! Scary. Then she woke up about an hour ago and I took her temp after she had been awake for awhile and it was 104.2 Yikes. To make everything even better Hunter asked us if he could go to bed at 6:30 so I took his temp and he is at 101.4 Its going on the 5Th night of no sleep for Mommy:) Wish me luck:)

*Family!*

We were lucky enough to see Chris' sister Cindy and Brother in law, Wayne and their darling family! They came up from Texas for 4 weeks and we got to see them on 2 different occasions. We had such a blast just hanging out, eating, talking, and playing games. We wish so much that we could see them more often but are SO grateful we got to spend some time with them!

I took their family pictures in the backyard...aren't they a GORGEOUS family?!

*Scary*

Chris and Cory had the bright idea to go to the cabin to get one of our old snowmobiles and fix it up so they both had something to ride around here. Well they decided to take Hunter, Kaulin, and Sadie with them. They only had 1 machine (my grandma's old XLT) that was semi working. They had to go up to Fairview and get a chain before that was officially running right. They left in the morning and last minute decided that they were going to spend the night up there so Elisha prepared them to go (They had already left our house when they decided:) So they were on there way. Elisha said that Cory called her at 2:00 from Fairview and they were on their way up. So I went about the rest of the day taking care of the younger two kids. After dinner, Elisha was going to come over and show me the new bedding she got for Christmas (beautiful by the way:) and Mom and I told her she should just stay the night she said she would think about it, but probably not. She had a few more errands to run and by the time she was done she called and said she was coming to stay. Nobody wants to be alone when the boys are out of town...Right?! Anyway, I had rented a movie for us and when the kids were asleep we settled in on the couch with our snacks. So we start watching "Charlie St. Cloud" and are kind of wondering why the boys haven't called us yet to tell us they were safe. They ALWAYS call as AS SOON as they get up there...especially when they have our kids. The later it got the more scared we got. If you've seen the movie you would know that it WAS NOT appropriate for the feelings we were having concerning our family. In the movie when Charlie finds the note on the door "Come find me!" Elisha looks at me and says "Is this a sign" So naturally we are in full blown panic mode! My Mom and Ken where downstairs watching a movies so we decided to go ask Mom what we should do. We kept trying to call, knowing we wouldn't get through but to show them that we were trying to call if they checked their phones. Chris' phone kept ringing which meant it was turned on so I was so confused as to why he wouldn't call...It wasn't out of battery or it would have gone straight to voicemail like Cory's. Anyway, it was pitch black outside and FREEZING cold outside. We just kept thinking maybe the snowmobile didn't work and they were trying to get to our cabin and of our poor kids so cold and scared and then we thought well did they even make it to the cabin or did the car go over a cliff or slide off the road? Let's just say our minds went wondering to the most awful things! We decided to say a prayer and then we called a bunch of different people to see if they new if certain people where up in Fairview that we could get a hold of...their wasn't then my Mom called the Sheriffs office (I was busy crying and freaking out) and as soon as we told them there were three kids, one 6 and 2 4 year involved we had their attention. He said he would send someone up to make sure they had made it to the parking lot and call us back as soon as he could get back down the mountain where there would be service. We new that if they made it to the parking lot the chances of them running into someone to help them or breaking into a cabin were pretty good. Elisha felt pretty calm and decided to go to bed. Mom and I waited up til 2:00 AM when the officer said that the car was there. I felt better (not great but better:) so we went to bed.

The next morning Elisha went home early and we told each other that we would call each other as soon as we new anything. We heard NOTHING. Kelly called early and asked if I wanted him to get some buddies and go looking for them. I said I didn't hear anything by noon then yes. After talking to Elisha she said realistically to give them until 2 and what do you know we heard from them around 11:30. I answered the phone and the first thing that came out of Chris' mouth was "I'm soooo sorry we COULD NOT get reception up there!" I started bawling and thanking my Heavenly Father for keeping them safe. You could hear the kids laughing in the background. Obviously they had no idea what we had just been through. I thought I had lost my boys. I know that sounds dramatic but I just kept thinking why would I think that something that traumatic couldn't happen to me? It could! None of us are exempt from tragedy of one kind or another. When they walked in the door Chris came running over to me and said "We're Alive, We're Alive!" then he looked right at me and said "You are so paranoid" My Mom and I just looked at each other like "he DID NOT just say that!"