Scrap Page Catch Up

My New Year's Resolution last year went really well! I only had a couple pages to catch up on at the beginning of this year before I was able to make our 2013 book. So of course this year I made the same resolution, but am totally slacking! I just can't get in the groove. I sit down to scrap and end up on Pinterest! Oh well.. here are some pages I'm trying to catch up on from January til now.

Back in January we celebrated Luke's birthday! He was so excited to open his presents. Crazy how he is just turning into a little man!

Also back in January, Johnny turned 18 months. He starting going to nursery, at church, and hated it! Now he loves it.. most days. But he does love playing outside and helping daddy work on stuff.

 

One morning in March, Mark came up to me while getting ready for school and said, "mom there is a steer head on my nose!" He scrunches his little nose up and sure enough the outline of a steer head shows up! I decided to scrap this memory and call it "Born a Cowboy" .. cows are in his DNA!

 

And in April we went to the fair! We love the fair! The food, the rides, the rodeo, the food.. oh wait I already said that! We had a blast!

 

These next two scrap pages are the more recent memories. ^^Mother's Day! Me and the kiddos :)^^

 

and Allie's Spring Violin recital. The recital was only two days ago, so 10 points for me for not procrastinating! Allie did great. She is loving violin and we plan to add the piano this Summer to switch things up.

Whew! Now I need to scrap Mark's birthday, May Day and lots of camping and canoeing trips!!

Allie's Baptism

Our sweet daughter, Allie was baptized by her dad, Dustin, on January 4, 2014. Allie is an amazing girl and we are so proud of her choice to get baptized. She knows the gospel and is so eager to learn more and share it with others! She made a goal to memorize all the 13 Articles of Faith before she was baptized and she did it! After her baptism we finally had her birthday party (since we all had the stomach flu on her actual birthday). It was a great day celebrating Allie and her baptism.

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2013 Scrapbook!!

I know I've been completely AWOL on the blog for the past few months... er year, but that is because I've been scrapbooking!!
I made it my 2013 New Year's Resolution to scrap more and blog less. I've done really well keeping up with our pictures and now I have our family's 2013 scrapbook ready to print!

I'm printing with Adoramapix again, for the fifth time. I absolutely loooooove their books (and prints). Their photo-books lay completely flat and are printed on actual photo paper. The quality is amazing and the price isn't too bad either. Right now they are having a 40% off sale til the end of March. I'm getting my 68 page, 10x10 inch book for $90!

Feel free to click through the book (be sure to click "view larger"). But here are some of the pages from the end of last year, that I haven't shared yet! Enjoy!!

Johnny

July Fun!

26th Birthday | Family Pictures

On the 8th, I turned 26 years old! 30 doesn't seem very old any more!!!

For my birthday Dustin asked if I wanted to take family pictures. Well of course I did.
So off we went with the tripod to Red Rock, set the timer and said chhhheeeeese!

Out of about 100 pictures, we got one good family picture. I'm a little bummed that Johnny has his binkie in his mouth, but its better than screaming, I think.

Estefan and Allie are always so good to sit still and pose for a portrait.

Mark and Luke... not so much. I ended up doing retakes later at home.

And we're doing Johnny's three month pictures on Friday with Kiss a Frog Photography. 

So stay tuned for those!!

Jumpin' Jack's!

We did Jumpin' Jack's again this year for Emma and Isaac's birthdays!














We had a great time!!

Estefan is 10!

On July 20th Estefan turned ten!!!!


He's really into Legos right now, so I made him a lego cake.


Make a wish!


He got legos, legos and even more legos!


I wonder what that present on the left could be?? A fishing pole!
Cards and money, too!


And always, a book, we got him The Call of the Wild.

We love you Bud!
Can't believe you are ten! Stop growing, would ya?!

Mark's Birthday Party x2

Since Mark's birthday is always right smack dab in the middle of the fair and Easter, it seems like every other day we have a party for him!

This year Mark wanted a construction cake with trucks and backhoes. So thanks to Pinterest this is what I came up with! It looked like a big fat mess with Oreo crumbs everywhere, but construction sites are usually messy, so it was all good. Plus it was yummy!

We had an Easter/Birthday party at Grandpa Jack and Grandma Gaye's house and he got some fun stuff. He loooooved the handcuff's that Aunt Jill gave him!

A few days later, on Mark's actual birthday, we had another party at our house with the Hardy's.

Where he got so more fun stuff!

I love this kid so much!

Happy birthday, my Big Cowboy!