Picture Faves!

Here are a couple of our favorite pictures from our yearly photos. We have been blessed with the best photographer! We are saddened that she is no longer going to do photography. Stacy has blessed us with some beautiful pictures since Harper was just 1! 

Happy Birthday to Mom!

This year, I had quite the birthday! I spent most of my day with my work family!  We planned on going out over the weekend with family, but Harlow came down with influenza, so that changed our plans. We decided to lay low at home and order in from 3rd Street. While I was snuggling Harlow all afternoon, Harper was busy preparing quite the surprise for me! 

It was the perfect birthday dinner with great service, complete with dessert from Grandma Ingrid. These kids have such a heart of gold, she thought she had to do something special for me! 

Christmas!

Another whirlwind of the holiday season has come and gone. Those days just go so fast once they are finally here. The kids all received letters from Santa after visiting him that informed them they were currently on the nice list! 

Santa didn’t disappoint this year! He did perfect with an easel, iPad and bunk beds for American Girl Dolls! 

This year, we hosted a couple different get togethers! Harper is all about hosting and making signs, she loved it! 

We are so blessed with wonderful family! We had lots of games and socializing! We are excited for our little getaway trip in Deadwood next month as part of our Christmas present. 

Halloween fun!

Halloween was a chilly one this year! But that certainly didn’t stop Harper from thinking we needed to have a car in the church trunk or treat! 

The kids always have so much fun painting pumpkins! We carved the giant pumpkin! 

We had quite a crew with Cruella, the Toon Squad and Elsa! Cruella was a new favorite movie so Harper had been planning her costume for quite some time! She really wanted them to have a theme costume but the other two bailed on her after a trip to Target 😁

Harper thought it was pretty unfair that they had to go to school the next day! 

Collins Rae!

While I’m quite behind in the blog world, our lives are moving right along!  The biggest, funnest, grandest news is that we are Aunt/uncle and cousins! Sweet Baby Collins was born on October 10th, just a tiny little peanut! We are all quite smitten with her ☺️.  She’s certainly stollen all our hearts in such a short time.  She planned her big entrance perfectly for Aunt Tif to be able to visit her first week at home!  Collins was too teeny for the newborn clothes, but thankfully Harper and Harlow have quite the wardrobe of preemie clothes for their dolls that Collins got to borrow for a couple weeks! 

We pleased the kids and flew out to meet her in November! They were beyond happy we flew rather than making the drive. 

We had a beautiful weekend in Colorado getting to snuggle and love up on that sweet baby girl! 

The holiday season has fallen perfectly over Kelsey’s maternity leave so we also got snuggles over Thanksgiving and Christmas as well!  The kids are such big helpers with her! The girls each got to give her a bottle this go-round and Harper managed her way through a diaper change! 

Tyler and I were blessed to be chosen as her godparents! She is a very loved little lady! 

We will be counting down the days until we can see this sweet little one again, thankfully we only have to wait until the end of January.

The “icing on the cake” is that Kendyl and Tucker are expecting a baby in June! We are so excited for a baby close that we can snuggle all the time and not have to share so much 😁.   This Aunt life is fun one that I’ve waited quite a long time for! 

Oh, before Collins left, we had to try to recreate a favorite picture we had of Harper. 

Isn’t she the cutest! 

Homecoming 2021

The kids had so much fun with the homecoming festivities this year! They got to dress up every day, go to the pepper rally, and Carter was the homecoming crown bearer. 

Carter was so handsome in his suit! He had been quite nervous a couple weeks leading up to it, but was a little cooler the day of- until about 3 minutes before halftime.  The timid, nervous little boy in him came out again! While we weren’t entirely sure he was gonna suck it up and do it- he pulled it together with about 8 seconds left in the 2nd quarter!  He did a great job with his duties when it came time 😁. 

They all had to get picture with their favorite girls! We definitely aren’t ready for our go- to sitters to not be around much longer 😥, but we are excited to see what their future holds!