Gabe is 2!!

Our little "Gabers" is two already! I can't believe how fast time flies. Gabe turned 2 on April 10th. We had a family birthday party on his birthday and the next day had an extended family party for some of his cousins. Gabe loves trucks and tractors so we had a construction birthday party.
He was so excited that the kids were going to sing "Happy Birthday" to him...but it had to be the "Cha, Cha, Cha" version.

For his construction/tractor party we played some truck relay games,

Opened presents...

And had some cake and ice cream...

He had a fun time.

Gabe is such a sweet boy and we're so glad that he's a part of our family!

He loves:
* To laugh and be silly

* To play ANYTHING with his older siblings

* His blanket

* His Mommy and Daddy

* Being outside

* Trucks, tractors, and cars,

* Animals

* Snacks

Our little Gabers is getting pretty independent and now says, 'Do it myself' to EVERYTHING! Although he's getting more independent he still loves to be cuddly and will let you hold him. He's been our ONLY child that will fall asleep while you're holding them and now that we have 1:00 church, that works out pretty good!

I took him to the doctor today (a little late) and here are his stats:

Height: 35.5 inches........75 percentile

Weight: 33 pounds........95 percentile :)

Head: 19.5 inches.......70 percentile

I just barely put together some scrapbook pages of his birth on Smilebox....doesn't seem that long ago.

We love you Gabe!!

This free digital scrapbooking design personalized with Smilebox

February, March, and a little April...

Wow! Time has really been flying by without me documenting anything! My birthday was at the end of January and Jameson did a great job of making it special as usual. He surprised me with a new kitchen table with chairs that match our bar stools! Here I am posing with my cake..Jaxon and Brooklyn completed 2 weeks worth of swimming lessons. Brooklyn pretty much ended up getting a private lesson since her class started with 3 girls counting her and ended with just her. They both really liked it and they both passed! Jaxon loved the goggles..For school Jaxon got to dress up as one of his favorite characters from a book. He loves all of the "Froggy" books, so this is what we came up with...I decided to surprise the kids with Disney on Ice tickets-the Disney Princess one that Brooklyn and I went to last year was so great that I wanted Jaxon to be able to see it. This one was Disney Pixar's Cars along with Tinkerbell and some others. Dad stayed home with Gabe and I took Jaxon and Brooklyn. We had fun and afterwards went for ice cream. Here we are getting ready to go...And here they are watching...The hats came "free" with the cotton candy...Since Santa gave us snowboarding lessons, we've been going up to Park City a lot and it has been fun! I fell really hard on my BEHIND/LEG after only going a few times and I think that it ruined me. I was getting good too!! I now am MUCH MORE CAUTIOUS and Jameson is better than me...dANG!! Just kidding..I'm sure he would be anyway but that fall definitely held me back. It has been a great activity for us to do together but mostly great for Jameson and Jaxon to do together. Every year around this time we start searching KSL classifieds for good deals on trailers. We have thought about upgrading from our little tent trailer since when we bought it we had 1 kid and now we have 3. We found a trailer on KSL that had been listed for a while and didn't seem to have any "bites" so we called and went and looked at it and LOVED it. We told them that we'd think about it and called them back that night and they said they'd already sold it!! I was devastated!! We had looked at other trailers but I just wanted this trailer to be "THE ONE" and was sad that we'd let it slip away. About 10 minutes after Jameson got off the phone with the owner they called us back to tell us that they were going to honor our offer before the other one since his wife had spoke to us first and told us she'd hold it for us until the end of the day. YAY!! We were sad to say goodbye to our little tent trailer and all of the fun memories but we're glad that we'll still see it because Jameson's brother Pace and his wife Jan bought it. We're excited for them to have a trailer and already have some camping trips in the works. Goodbye little trailer you've been so fun... Hello new trailer!!!
Yes, this is my FAVORITE feature!! Mid-March we hosted the main meal of a progressive dinner at our house with our friends. It was fun!! Jameson's Birthday was April 2nd and the kids were very excited to give him his presents. He went snowboarding that morning with Jaxon because that was what he said would be the most fun to do on his birthday. Can you tell these kids love their dad? The kids were very excited for Easter (as so was I-my favorite holiday!) . We made treats... And decorated eggs.
Happy Easter!

The kids had fun Easter morning playing with their Zhu-zhu pets and other little treats they got from the Easter Bunny. After conference we went over to Grandma and Grandpa Frew's house for dinner. The kids got to have 2 Easter egg hunts: one with Grandma and Grandpa and one with Great Grandma and Great Grandpa. We all had a fun time!!

Brooklyn is 3!

Our little "Dee Dee" is 3! I can't believe how sweet this little girl is. She was so excited for her birthday to come and when it finally came she kept telling us that she "got bigger". We celebrated on her actual birthday (Sunday, 24th) with just our family. She woke up early and before church she opened her gifts from us. She is so fun to buy for now! Jaxon had bought her something one night when he was out with Jameson and he was so excited to give it to her. Here she is posing with her gifts. And here she is with the gift Jaxon picked out for her. It might be a little too old for her but Jaxon was sure excited to give it to her. After church (and naps) we had cake and ice cream and sang "Happy Birthday" to her. Monday night we had her extended family party. We had planned for this for the week and Brooklyn was pretty excited. Here is her invitation. (back)

I actually attempted a cake again (against my better judgement!), and I guess it turned out ok. She liked it and that's all that matters! She picked out the Barbie and everything.

The kids helped me throughout the week with making all of the decorations (or at least watched me make them) so they were pretty excited.

She had a fun few days and already acts so much older that I can't believe it! Brooklyn is very kind and shares SOOO good with her brothers (especially Gabe). She is very good at cleaning things and when it's time to clean up she is the BEST at picking up toys. She still loves her "yellow" which doesn't resemble anything near a blanket but I will be sad when she doesn't need it anymore. She fights sleep more than anyone I know (except her Dad!) and is almost always the last one to bed and the first one awake. She is so smart and is good at many things including puzzles which she could play for hours. I can almost always find her packing around a purse stuffed with little dolls, toys, blankets and trinkets. She loves Dora, Tinkerbell, Princesses, Grandmas, Grandpas, dollys, her yellow and anything with sugar in it! (wonder where she got that from?) It is so nice to have another girl in the house and she loves to remind the boys about things that "only the girls" are doing. She loves to get dressed up and be girly but can definitely hold her own with the boys as well.

She is so sweet and we love our Brooky so much!