the birthday boy at 5

we celebrated ethan's birthday in school today.  i just LOVE how special they make it!  ethan got to color a picture of himself for his school scrapbook.  we also had a little interview to fill out together.  today in school he shared all of his answers and pictures with his classmates.

what is your favorite thing to play with at school?
blocks


what is your favorite thing to play with at home?
thomas the train


where is your favorite place to be?
dallas at chic-fil-a


what is your favorite cartoon?
thomas the tank engine


what is your favorite movie?
thomas and the misty island rescue


what is your favorite food?
steak (there was no hesitation when answering this!)


what is your favorite game?
hi-ho cherry-o (this was always one of my favorite games too!)

happy birthday to ethan!

he is FIVE!!

we had a perfect day celebrating the start of his fifth year!

we partied angry birds style.

it has been a while...

hoping to start the new year off right by getting back into posting.

happy new year from my three little monkeys!

hope everyone had a merry christmas.  ours was busy and crazy, but perfect.

christmas eve dinner.

merry christmas eve.

the kids and i ended 2011 with our last picture of our 52 weeks of photos project.  i really enjoyed doing these pictures even though some of the weeks we had to rush to get it in and quite a few of the pictures were similar.  it was okay though, when i looked through them all at once it is so neat to see the progression of our family.  you forget how much the kids change in one year...it is too hard to see it when you are looking at it every day but looking back there have been so many changes!  i am in the midst of doing a blurb book and hopefully will have it done soon.  i am so excited to see how it turns out.  i am definitely doing the 52 weeks project again, it is easy enough for me to undertake and it gets done...i'm trying to figure out how to document it this year.  i love the idea of an instagram book just because i think square pictures are fun, but not sure if i'll go that way or not.  either way, get ready to see 52 more pictures of us over the next year :)

52 weeks of photos: final week * december 30, 2011

so very thankful

so very thankful to have these three in my life. we have had a perfect weekend celebrating thanksgiving and just spending time together as a family.

happy halloween!!

i can't believe i'm so late in posting these, but it is what it is.  we celebrated earlier in the day with a halloween parade at the boys school.

later on in the day we joined friends for a potluck dinner and then group trick-or-treat.

and then we ended the evening at grandmother and grandfather's house.  our sweet little black cat would not stay still for one minute...she loved sharing all of the boys candy with others :)

a fall tradition: pumpkins and hay!

this is one of our yearly traditions.  the boys love the pumpkin patch and this year baby sister got to join in on the fun.  she loved being able to run free :)

we did another one of our favorite fall traditions, the hay maze.  we've done this every year since ethan was about 10 months old.  the boys are just getting to the perfect age to enjoy it all.  there is a hay fort, hay maze, slides and rubber chicken throwing.  then you end the night with hot dogs and s'mores made over a campfire.

  

miss mollie

she is such a character these days.

wants to be the center of attention.

wants to make everyone smile and laugh.

we can't get enough of her and her ear to ear smile!

oh my, my miss mollie...we are going to have our hands full with you!