Birthday Girl Channing!

 Cheesy Smile!
 Then her first donut!

 Her best friend, Aunt Natalie...she loves her!

  Her first cupcake

 Poor Ella...Channing is always sitting on her or combing her hair. She loves her big sis!

 

Channing turned one this week! I can't believe we have already had her for an entire year! She has been such a joy to our family! She has an adorable smile when her thumb comes out of her mouth and she is fairly easy to please. She loves baby dolls, combing everyone's hair, macaroni and cheese and chicken nuggets. She also is walking along everything and balancing well. She is very active, but not walking yet....but I am in no rush for that. With her personality I am afraid she will go straight to running! She loves her siblings and is always tackling them or waving at them to get their attention. She is a pretty good sleeper and rarely cries when she wakes up, so I am never quite sure when she wakes up from her naps. She has discovered the scowl and is always giving a grumpy face and then laughing afterward. She is our little firecracker at times, but we love her!

Our growing child!

Yesterday Cavin turned 4 years old! Man I swear time has flown by. He is such a big kid now. It is so sad to me. He is such a sweet kid and I just love his personality. He loves monster trucks, the ipad, mario cart wii, numbers, and he could color and play with playdo for hours! He always has the funniest things to say and very rarely is grumpy. He is just a happy boy and he really brightens my day and is such a wonderful son! He had a party in the morning with 5 of his friends and then he had a party at night with Grandma and Grandpa Speers and Aunt Natalie. Out of all the things he got, I asked him what his favorite thing was and he said "my number shirt from Grandma" Really?!? He just loves numbers. Happy 4th birthday Cavin!

Weekend Fun!

These past two weekends have been fun. We got to relax and spend one weekend at home watching General Conference and we love two days of pjs!

Here is our fort....and skyping our family in between sessions!

Cavin was having fun doing Ella and my hair. He loves to add lots of pretty things!

Doesn't it look great! :)

Don't worry he also did manly things too :)

Channing is always pointing at things and saying "what's that" It's cute!

She now has 8 teeth and they are cute little mater teeth! haha

She always looks at me like this!

The next weekend we got to spend Easter dying eggs and visiting family!


We had lots of fun colors!

We also got to dye eggs with these cuties!

Ragnar's cousin Laurie lives in Sugarland and we hung out on Saturday with her family and his Aunt Brigette. Here are the 6 kids...Benson, Matthew, Connor, Ella, Channing, and Cavin. We had a great bbq and visit. We really should see them more often! Our kids are all a month or so apart! We then went to spend the night at my parents and had Easter Sunday with them. We got to go to see the Hunger Games the night before and just relax. It was a nice weekend and we are so grateful to have some family close!

Bluebonnets--on overload!

So this picture pretty much sums up our attempt to take pictures of the kids in the Texas bluebonnets! Channing is such a happy baby...but for some reason...she wanted NOTHING to do with the flowers! So this is how Ragnar spent his time...trying desperately to make her interested enough to even just get ONE picture! Not such luck.....hence the reason there are a ton of pictures, because I couldn't get one that I really just loved!



Cavin is terrified of any bugs....poor child....I hope he grows out of it. So he would not sit in the flowers, and barely would with a blanket. We got some shots after much bribing!






Ella on the other hand was in LOVE with flowers. She talked about bluebonnets at school and was very excited to see them. She just has had a rash on her eye that will not clear up...but she is still our little princess!

This picture makes me laugh, because literally Channing NEVER cries and I think Ella and Cavin are trying to figure out what in the world was happening?!






We finally got one of Channing at least doing her signature thumb sucking!


Oh how I LOVE my kids. I just sure wish it were easier capturing their adorable personalities on camera!

Easter Egg Hunt 2012

Each year our community does an Easter Eggstravaganza! The kids seem to enjoy it, so we continue to return :) They do a big Easter Egg hunt a couple weeks before Easter and split the kids into age groups to hunt for eggs. Since Cavin is only a month away from being 4 and it's easier to keep him with his sister, they both went on the 4-7 year old hunt!

The sun was so bright!

Here are all the eggs on the field and in the background is the "Easter Bunny" We of course (given Cavins phobia to any animal in costume) had to go to the other side of the field!

There were lots of eggs and Ella was too fast to even catch her on camera!

They went fishing, made a bunny hat, got a balloon, hunted for ducks.....and had fun!

and a post can't be complete without a picture with Channing in it :) Happy Easter!

Happy 29th

So this past weekend I celebrated my 29th birthday! I can't believe only one more year til the big 30! I am getting nervous! The week started with a birthday get together that my friend Emily put together. We just went to a restaurant called Cheddars and hung out. Our waiter was not really on top of his game or very polite, so it took a long time, but it was very kind of my friends to take time away from their families to celebrate my special day. I am lucky to have great friends.

Rachael, Brittany, Me, Candice, Emily, Michelle, and Natalie (Mitzi, Jamee, and Ruth were also there but happened to leave before I remembered a picture!)

On my actual birthday, I drove over to my moms house and my sister Natalie, my mom, and the kids and I went to lunch at Red Robin. It was tasty :) After I left the kids and I went to get Ragnar who had taken a half day at work and we enjoyed a day together. We used a spa gift certificate he had and I got a massage and we got pedicures and it was nice. Then we went to the galleria and ate dinner at the Cheesecake factory and then spent the night downtown at the Embassy Suites. It was a fun day. I was grateful that we got to spend some time together and that my mom was willing to take the kids.

When we got home it was Saint Patrick's Day...so we celebrated my birthday and the holiday together!

Ragnar bought me this new bedspread for my birthday. I have been looking for the perfect one forever, but decided I would never find the perfect one, so I chose this one and I like it.

It was a great birthday....here is to one more year in my twenties!