SUPRISE!!!!!

For Kelsey's 13th birthday she decided to just have a fun night with her best friend Karisa. She was planning to have dinner at Osaka (the yummiest Japanese Restaurant) with just the 3 of us. Well little did she know that a few of her friends were at the restaurant to suprise her. She was so surprised. Here are some pictures.

Kelsey and Karisa getting ready to go.


SUPRISE!!!!


Some pictures from dinner.






Being silly outside.






They were having a little too much fun!










After dinner we stopped for icecream and then I dropped everyone off. (Well except for Karisa who spent the night) She had such a great time.

On my way to bed...

but I forgot to mention in my last post that Noah is completely potty trained now! It took about a week. That was it. Those that say training a boy is harder than a girl...they don't know what they're talking about. He was waaaaayyy easier than all 3 of the girls combined! Here's a few pics of him in the bath the other night.







After Mommy washes him off he likes to wash his belly all by himself.







Of course he likes to dress himself!



Look at the big boy underwear!



I love that little crooked smile of his!

Some new pictures!

I know it's been a while. I've been so busy with my digital scrapbooking stuff that I've been neglecting my family blog. At least I'm not neglecting my actual family, right? haha

The twins just finished up basketball. They loved it so much! Here are pictures from the end of the season party. The got really cool trophies.





Kelsey was in a lacrosse tournament this weekend. She was so excited to get the first goal of the season.











The twins got rollerblades for their birthday. They're having so much fun with them.









I know I say it every time but I'm really gonna try to update my blog more often.

Picture of Noah

Look at how big my little man has gotten. I can't believe he's turning 3 in less than a month. We're letting his hair grow out and look at those curls! I remember cutting Morgans hair when she was little and the curls disappeared forever. I thought for sure Noahs hair would go straight like hers but apparently he has his Uncle Bill's curly hair. Noah is starting to look so much like my brothers son Max. I need to find a picture of Max to compare them. :)

I know I've really been slacking

but my old computer was a piece of junk. I haven't been able to get my pictures off my camera for the past month or so. I finally just got a "new" computer so I'm gonna be much better about updating my blog. It's actually my mom's old computer but it's so much nicer (and faster) than my old one. I have bunch of pictures that I'll be posting in the next few days. :)

Our trip to the Aquarium

It didn't happen! Here's the story.

They were having $1 day at all the main attractions in the city. Ryan and I told the kids we'd go to the Aquarium and they were super excited! Here's some pictures from the trip down.















We got there at 9:30 (30 min before they opened) to find the longest line EVER! We waited in line, which actually moved pretty fast. We pay for our tickets and find out that we can't get into the Aquarium till 2:15!!! What in the world could we do in the city for 4 1/2 hours in the FREEZING cold with 4 kids, including a not-so-patient 2 year old????? Well we left and went to......

The Bass Pro Shop to see Santa!!!! The kids didn't mind. Morgan and Jenna were a little bummed but we still had a great time.





No Aquarium but we still got to see fish!


Noah wasn't too thrilled with Santa but as long as Kelsey held him, he was fine.




We should've known that $6 for the whole family to go to the Aquarium was too good to be true! Maybe another time. :)

I've been a slacker

I've been slacking on updating this but I've been super busy. I'm about done my Christmas shopping which is awesome. Everythings already wrapped and ready to go.

A friend of mine, April, took pictures of my kids and I got them today. I'm soooo happy with them. Noah was not the least bit cooperative so I'm surprised she got so many good pictures. Here are some of my favorites....

























Didn't they turn out great?!?!

The twins are loving basketball! They played a little scrimmage the other day and Jenna got 3 baskets and Morgan got 2. They were so excited. Morgan says it's her favorite sport and I'm really proud of how aggressive she is. She's much more aggressive than she normally is with soccer or lacrosse. This might just be her sport! Jenna's the tallest one on the team. It makes her so mad. She hates being tall. We keep telling her that you want to be the tallest one on the team but she doesn't believe us! haha

Kelsey is loving indoor soccer and lacrosse. Her soccer team is pretty good, only losing one game so far. She's scored a couple goals and is just really having a great time. She has a really nice coach and she likes playing for him. Lacrosse is a different story. She likes it....but they're playing all these really good teams (most of them are 8th graders and her team is 6th/7th graders) and they're getting their butts kicked. All the other teams have been together for a while and her team is just a bunch of girls from all over thrown onto one team. It also makes it hard because they don't practice, they only have games. She likes it alot, it's just frustrating.

That's about it for now. I have some other pictures I plan on uploading and posting soon. :)