Teaching Atticus some tricks

Holden absolutely loves giving Atticus his treats. He makes him shake a paw first before he gets his treat. He has to do this every night before bed. This is the best video I could get. Holden always stops performing when he sees the camera on him

Future Iron Chef's

I bought the kids this play kitchen and they LOVE it!! Holden loves to cook vegetable soup and popcorn. Maddie enjoys talking on the phone and washing dishes. For the most part, they play nice together but there have been a few fights over who gets to cook the food.

My Birthday

We celebrated my 32nd birthday at my parents house on Saturday. We got to see the Hunger Games during the day and then to my parent's for dinner and cake. I had a great birthday with my family. Here are a few pictures of Holden helping me blow out my candle (yes there was only one, we did not want to burn the house down)....

Vegas!!!!

We have been trying to plan a trip to Vegas since my 30th birthday. This is the first birthday since, that I am not pregnant. Our friends Hillary and Logan have a birthday in March as well so we celebrated all the March birthday's. We had such a great time and it was so nice to get away and just relax. We missed the kids of course but it sure was nice. Here are a few pictures..... We forgot our camera so these are from my phone

we took the tram to the Bellagio to see the beautiful gardensgetting a drink before dinner at Caesars Palacewe had the BEST Italian dinner at RAO'sThey had the biggest meatballs I have ever seen. If I ate meat I sure would have tried one
Thank you so much mom and dad for staying with the kiddos. We had a great couple of days and some much needed relax time.

7 months

Our baby girl turned 7 months old today. I just can't believe how fast the time has gone by. Here is what she has been up to:

*finally eating her fruits and veggies. I tried her again after she turned 6 months and she took to them great. She loves to eat and I have yet to find something she has rejected

*wears size 4 diapers

*wears 9 month clothes and some 12 month

*still taking a morning and afternoon nap

*sleeps from 7pm to around 6am (Sadie and Holden are my early birds unlike Maddie who can sleep until 8:30

*Loves playing with her toys and puts everything in her mouth

*she is the happiest baby and always has a smile on her face

*loves watching Holden and Maddie play

Little miss Sadie, we could not have dreamed up a better little girl. You are such a blessing to us and we love you so, so much pretty girl!

My cutie pies

Here are just a few pics from the past couple days. Holden loves helping mommy clean..
They still LOVE bath timeLittle miss Sadie in her swingcrazy Maddie girlsister love

Happy St. Patrick's Day

The kids had fun dressing up in their St. Patty's Day outfits! I had to work but they had a great day with daddy. Here are a few pictures from their day.....
such a ham

6 month photos

We took Sadie for her 6 month pictures on February 17. We took a couple shots in her baptism outfit and the rest in a cute dress auntie DG and Uncle Mike bought for her. Thankfully Sadie was a smiley girl and gave us some great pictures

Family Day

The weather was so nice and warm on Sunday we wanted to be outside and enjoy it. There is so much work to be done in the backyard. The kids love doing anything outside so we put them to work......

just waking upHolden wanted to draw a self portrait of himself......pretty darn good, he is really into drawing eyes right nowbeautiful Sadieworking hardenjoying the sunalways up to something