34

Another year older and wiser too...or so I hope. I had such a great birthday this year. Lots of phone calls, spontaneous treat to my favorite place ever....Red Mango!, emails, gouda cheese from my parents (true love there if you know me at all), messages, cards in the mail, pictures drawn for me, homemade gifts from my kids, a night out with my man, games and laughter with good friends. I mean, there can be no complaints with all of that above! I really feel blessed and I am thankful beyond words.

 My homemade lemon sour cream pie! Mmm!!

Cheers to being 34!!

Daddy/Daughter

I'm pretty sure I could hear Abigail's sheer excitement all the way from the pool to my house, which is several miles away. It is nearly impossible to say no to this girl. You just have to say yes to her because, well, she's adorable! So when she asked her daddy if he would take her swimming, boy did he ever! And who wouldn't want to take this munchkin swimming? Even I might venture my post baby body into a suit for her! Thankfully, she hasn't asked me.

Babies

There's always a baby to hold at the Eyre house.

The Progression of the Pickle

FHE (family home evening)

It's usually a production when he teaches the kids.

Teaching them about commandments and the importance of keeping those commandments.

Abby chose our activity of play-do. And Hannah made the dessert (with some help from me of course).

Fun night. Fun family.

Ladies must dress up sometimes

These two were bored. So I dolled them up with a titch of makeup, fancy hairdo's, and gave them hot chocolate and cookies. Boredom solved!

Squishy Bum

Valentines Day

I was low key this year. The kids made their own valentines to give to friends at school.

We sent a silly picture to dad at work to show him we love him and are always thinking of him.

We spent the day at Dance lessons and Hapkido lessons.  Fun stuff!

She was sure a happy little valentine to have us come watch her.

And I'm not sure who was more in heaven; Aaron or Nathan, that they could do Hapkido together.

We celebrated our love for each other the next night with our traditional heart pizza and chocolate fondue!

It was a horribly delicious mess!

I love this group to pieces and would run with this gang anytime, anywhere, any day! Not pictured is my love! Boy, do I love him though. So thankful for his love and friendship.

A little of this. A little of that.

Nathan is LOVING his Hapkido class. Loving!

His sisters are pretty darn impressed with the class too.

Some pictures of the crazy snow we got a couple weeks ago.

When the kids scream inside, we put them outside. We might have gone a little over board this night since it was so cold. (Don't worry, they were only out there for a second and got the message real quick that we DON'T scream inside. Don't report us).

He drives me crazy. But he also makes me laugh. And I'm partial to his crazy side.

She is the cutest ballerina.

She is getting sooo good at this reading stuff.

Hannah brought me breakfast in bed one morning. I'm a lucky girl.

A Really Fun Date

It's not often that we can escape for a whole day together. We were offered tickets to go skiing though, and we did all we could to make it possible. Oh it was so good for the heart. I love being with Aaron. It's so fun to laugh. So fun to flirt and tease each other. He kicks my bootie on the slopes and I think enjoys showing off a tad too. I don't mind. It's pretty fun to see him wiz right past me.

Wish we didn't have these lame-o sunglasses on.

I had an AWESOME fall. And by awesome, I mean scary. Could have been so bad, but thankfully it wasn't. I fell right off a small cliff and headed for a grove of trees. Don't worry, Aaron came just in time to pull his camera out to get a picture of me stuck in the snow. Sweet huh? Laughing all the way. Love him.

I'm just so thankful I didn't hit those trees.
It was a gorgeous day with little to no crowds. Heaven!

Love Affair

These two have a love affair. I've never seen Aaron so hands on with any of his babies. (not to say he loves Joe anymore than the others. I think he's finally just figured out babies is all).

Aaron showing Joe how it's done.

Joe copying to a "t".

It is so fun to see these two together.

8 Months old

My littlest stinker is growing fast! At 8 months, he's found his vocals can be quite handy when he wants something. He eats everything in sight. He's teething like crazy, but nothing has broken through yet. He's still not sleeping through the night. He's pretty attached to his mama. He's obsessed with his siblings. He stares at people a lot. He's messy. He's perfect.