Sadie's Birthday extravaganza!!

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I am pretty sure this glurr (who recently learned to say girl the right way) celebrated her birthday for an entire week if not longer. She had a party for playgroup where they made valentine's wreath's and decorated their own cupcakes....so yummy! They opened presents, played dogs and she pretty much thought it was the best birthday every!!! I love when they are this age...so easy to please. For her actual birthday we went out to eat and came home and ate the yummiest ice cream cake....thank you DQ for making it so easy on me. Happy 4th Birthday Sadie! We love you glurr!

The Dunes

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We took a little family vacation camping at the Dunes over the winter break....its been a few years since I have braved the dunes and it was a lot of fun. We borrowed Papa Bob's toy hauler and a Razor and we were off on another adventure! The accommodations were a little tight for 7 of us but it worked out. We ate yummy food all weekend, took lots of rides, watched people race at the hill and the kids drove the golf carts all over the place. We did fire works, played games, and even lit these really good floating lanterns. The kids had a great time with the Stevens, Davis's, B. Bond and family, and D. Bond and family

Christmas Day

We traditionally had the Bond clan over for enchiladas and white elephant exchange Christmas Day Afternoon...."The Duke" picture made its rounds again along with an awesome hygiene package. The kids all love their presents and I am exhausted....until next year Merry Christmas!

Christmas Day morning 2011

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Kids were up super early. Santa brought all kids of amazing stuff....a family IPAD we must have been very good. The funnest reaction was Hayley...for the past 2 years she has been asking for a sit down razor motor scooter. We finally caved this year and got it. They kids each only got 2 presents from us and both of hers looked like shirt boxes. You could tell she was disappointed, but never said anything (super respectful as usual)...so I encouraged her to open one of hers first. She opened it and inside was the instruction manual to the motor scooter...her reaction was classic she was freaking out. We videoed it on the IPAD. Paige got Justin Bieber perfume, Sadie got a bike. All in all it was a pretty good morning....then off to church!

Christmas Eve 2011

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Christmas Eve we have a tradition of going to the movies with Grandma Suzanne and Papa Bob. We went and saw Alvin and the chipmunks shipwrecked.....the kids loved it! We opened presents and the big kids all got iPod touches....they were freaking out! They all had the same sized box and Hayley opened hers first and was dying. It was great! They other kids started screaming and ripping open theirs...pretty awesome! Sadie was super excited about her Hello Kitty Razor scooter too! Later that evening we had grandma Patsy and Tata Nufi and family over....Nix got a play table which is perfect for his new standing skills and Sadie got a dress up trunk full of super cute dress up clothes and accessories. All in all Christmas Eve was crazy....not sure how Santa is going to top that!

Paige's Violin Concert

For 5th Grade music Paige decided to go with the violin....tonight was her concert at Highland High School. She did amazing! There were so many people and so many kids, you really can't see her in the pictures :-( but we got one of Sadie watching Paige

Random Pics

First big boy tie

Holland and Sadie doing car pool with me....such good friends!