Sarah is 5!!!

Miss Sarah turned five on Sunday. I can't believe how big she is getting. We had a fun time celebrating her birthday. She had a family party and then her cousin spent the night. Then, more proof that she is getting older, Monday I took her to her kindergarten screening.

She wanted a princess ice cream cake:

Here are all the kids: (a rare photo where they are at least all looking)

This is just to show that our baby is getting so big. He will be 9 months next week!

we're moving in!!

I wrote the following post about two weeks ago, and we closed on our house today.... so here is the story:

So, as many of you know, clark and I have been looking for a new house for over two years now. We had one under contract and we got cold feet, and backed out, then we quit looking for a while because we had Jared. Then we had another one under contract, that all the forces in the universe were against, and that fell through. Needless to say, we had gotten frustrated with the whole process (especially because I know exactly what kind of house i want, a two story, four bedroom house). So anyway, we decided to start asking people if they were wanting to sell their homes to us. You would be surprised some of the answers we got, but at one house, that I particularly liked the outside of..... the people had been talking a half hour before about calling and listing their house that next week! we were so excited. So to make a long story a little shorter, we looked at the house , offered on it (saved all the real estate fees), had it under contract on the 1st of Feb. Then, on the 3rd of Feb. our current house hit the MLS listing at 8:00 in the morning. Two people looked at it that morning, and it was sold by 1:15 for almost our asking price! Clark and I are just thrilled with how nicely this whole thing worked out. To make matters even better people on both ends wanted to close fast, so it looks like this whole thing will be done this month!! The timing is unbelievably perfect, because i have to register sarah for kindergarten this month, and we will be living it the school that i have been wanting her to go too. Anyway, everyone told us when it's meant to be. . . .things will go smooth, and we feel so blessed to have everything working out so well. We are sad to be leaving our house though. It has been the perfect house, we just out grew it. It is hard to believe when we moved in six years ago, it was just Clark and I. We are excited to start organizing everything in our new house.

As a side note our school district has a FREE preschool program that i got sarah enrolled in at the beginning of the month and she loves it! So she goes there 4 days a week for three hours a day. I was glad she got accepted because our school district does all day kindergarten, which i am not thrilled about, but i thought it would be a lot for her to go from being with me all day every day, to being gone every day. Anyway, we have been busy!

This is the kids last Sunday before church

Happy 2010

We had a fun time at Christmas. It snowed and blew so much that we were stuck at home Christmas day and the day after. Here are some pictures of our fun.

Jared's first time in the backpack. This little guy LOVES being outside.

Here are the kiddo's before church:

Ryan got some new games for Christmas and we have had so much fun playing them:

Sarah is now signed up for a ballet/jazz class and is so excited to go every week:

Jared turned 7 months last week. It is hard to believe how fast they grow. He is such a cutie

Thanksgiving

I got some cute pictures of the kids and their cousins at my sisters house. We had a great time.

Grandpa and his two newest grandbabies (Jared and Lauren are about 6 months apart)

Helping grandma make some cookies:

Jared and his cousin:

Fun November

Here are some pictures of the last month:

Clark took sarah and ryan up camping one last time in Nov. They went up to keyhole and then to devil's tower. They had a lot of fun, and Jared and I had fun staying home too!









Our Thanksgiving pictures are still to come. We were able to go to denver for thanksgiving. we had a great time with family and got to go to the zoo and the temple. we saw new moon on thanksgiving day and we were the only ones in the theater so that was fun. we came back on sat. because our nephew Eli was blessed on Sunday, and here is the whole family:




Last night grandpa and grandma took Sarah and her cousin to see the nutcracker. They had good time and the girls looked super cute!

Ryan's 3!!!

We had a fun time celebrating ryan's birthday yesterday. it is hard to believe he is already three. the theme for this year's party was, of course, trains.

here is his train cake:

the birthday boy with cousins:

this has nothing to do with his birthday, but last saturday we had a trunk or treat. The weather was yucky so it was inside. anyway, thanks mom for making the frog and snow white costumes, they are a hit!!

1880 train

Since my Ryan loves trains (as i assume most boys do) we decided to head over to the black hills last weekend and take a ride on the train. We wanted to do it for his birthday (which is at the end of the month), but the train stops running this weekend. Clark took Sarah and Ryan, and me and Jared drove around to pick them up. Everyone had a great time, and the weather was beautiful, (this week we have been in the 30s and snowing everyday).

Ryan talking to the train engineer:

Jared enjoying some sun, waiting for the train to arrive!