St. Patrick's Day!

Tyler recently joined the Knight's of Columbus, so when they threw their St. Patty's day dinner, we went. We meet we a co-worker of Tyler's and his family. We had a nice meal of corned beef, red potatos, and cabbage. This a the only picture I got of Kaija in her Irish green, hanging out with Donna, enjoying the simple pleasures of a balloon.

Lumberjack Longjohns!

These are from the beginning of February.

Tyler's cousin Susie and husband Dan sent us these cute longjohns, butt-flap in all. I haven't seen anything like this babysized, so I had to share.

Kaija and daddy are practicing her ski stance.

She really seems to enjoy watching skiing.

I am also throwing in a picture of Kaija's first Superbowl. Of coarse the big moving objects on the TV interested her.

Day at the hill!

At the end of January, Kaija and I worked the timing booth at the Pine Mountain Invitational ski meet. This was Kaija's first time out by the ski hill. It was a beutiful day.

Kaija was tuckered out after a hard day's work and fresh air. She was such a good girl.

My big girl

Kaija wore her little cheerleading outfit to cheer dad on at the ski race and after they had fun playing with her building cone.
Kaija is still adament that she doesn't want to crawl or stay on her belly too long but she sure likes to stand and is really starting to cruise if she can hold on to fingers.

Addison's 2nd Birthday!

Another Beautiful cake!

And a beautiful birthday girl!

You gotta love this smile.

Olivia's getting some early practice.

Say cheese!

Thanks for the goodies Matt!

Everyone just enjoying.

Time to open the presents.

Can we say happy.

Horses were a popular gift this year, and were a good choice. She loved them.

The rest are just a few more family shots.

Kaija'a 1st Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve is always a wonderful time to hang out with my family.

Kaija doesn't mind her first time on Santa's lap.

Here is a Christmas round and a scary close up of Tyler.

Youngest goes first. Sorry Elijah, we missed you.

Opening that present was tiring work.

The young ones enjoying each other, in a circle of ring-around-the-rosies.

Once they tired of that, they opened up a horse ranch.

Well, I hope all had a wonderful Christmas. We all did.

Christmas Daze!

Kari and Kenny came a week early to celebrate Christmas with us. These are a few pictures from then. Let's get this party started! This is our excited little girl in the mist of opening presents with Aunt Kari & Uncle Kenny.

I think she actually said Merry Christmas or I am just a mom stretching the truths of her babbles.

Kari brought a game called Sing Star, so we started our Karokee competition. The funniest part is that Kenny kicked my rear singing Madonna's "Material Girl."

This is little Aunt Jamima opening another present after breakfast.

Look at those pretty blues.

Loving life and trying to open a present.