We spent a fun afternoon at our friends, Hannah and Ava's house. Little did I know that the boys have been watching "Dancing with the Stars" at their Nana's house and have learned a few moves. The four kids came out from "rehearsal" with these choreographed dances (all Tanner's doing). Hmmmmm.....

Happy Birthday video

A cool talking phone from Granmimi and Granpa Howard. I think she likes it!

Our happy birthday song to the latest princess in our family!

April Fools....no, she really is ONE!

I guess we'll go in reverse. She has now figured out that cake is GOOD, and she wants to share with Daddy. We switched to a small cupcake as the "little cake" was a bit overwhelming for her! Daddy is helping her say, "I'm one now". My cousin JuDawn make these sweet petal cakes. One for the big guys, one special cake for E and cupcakes for all else. They were so yummy! Her cousins, Dillyn and Mia passed on this cool ride for E to enjoy. She loves being pushed around by her brothers. I might have another "motorhead" on my hands.....Now, this is how we started the day off. Look how big my little girl is today! She even let me put a barrett in her hair. Notice by the end of the day, she had NO clothes on and who knows where that cute barrett is.

My flight experience!

So, we had a girls weekend planned in McCall and I got to start the weekend off right with a sweet ride on Jamie's airplane! Jamie is a new friend who is the mom of a preschooler I see for speech therapy and we swapped services. The pilot and the therapist! It was awesome and the kids (and dad) loved seeing and playing in the plane before Jamie and I took off.A view of Boise downtown as we flew by. The boys were in hog heaven! Tanner was sooooo disappointed that he wasn't going. Even Elise go in on the action! Jamie was sweet enough to to a "fly by" our house. The kids and Matt are standing in the driveway waving....can you tell?

Here is just some of the spectacular views as we climbed into the mountain ranges. And down to the unmanned runway in McCall 35 minutes later (a 2.5 hour drive!). It was incredibly fun! I only wish I had the brains (and money) to learn to pilot myself. Opens a whole new world!

What a little personality we have!

Elise is beginning to show her little spit fire personality and we love to laugh at her everyday. Today just happened to be throwing a ball and grunting as she did. Exerting so much effort, I guess. We also like to capture this funny crawl that she is using. One leg out....looks much like what Tanner did as a baby! Tonight, she was standing on her own, letting go of the couch and laughing. I'll capture that next time!

We've spent many weekends working on this cabin to get it finished. Well, I should say, Matt has spent weekends working. The kids and I enjoy playing, making videos, setting up forts and relaxing while watching the snow fall. We love it. Although we are technically not supposed to move in. You'll see we have much furniture in already and are making ourselves at home. We should have the occupancy permit next month. Daddy and Tanner working on the stove outlet. This is the small galley kitchen in rough form.Nice flip, Tanner!And Alex is next!

Queen of the castle is what we say.

Sweet music

Alex, Tanner and Elise singing for you!