Ridin in style...

Mom's off to the airport, with a quick stop @ Jackson's school first...

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They really do love each other :)

I took this photo tonight of the kids sleeping. They wanted to sleep in the living room, so since they're on spring break we set up a pallet for them to sleep on the floor. They were so cute, I couldn't resist a picture.

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It started with Jackson pulling Kierstin across the tile on the blanket...

...then they decided they BOTH wanted a ride!

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a sight rarely seen...

Jackson's room looks SO good when it''s clean!

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Jackson's new toy...

Jackson got to choose this year between having a big birthday party, or getting an "expensive" gift. He chose the gift. :) Here's Jackson and his new bike he picked out.

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Presentation at school :)

Jackson is doing a presentation at school today on George W. Bush.

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New floors!

Brian and his Dad spent all weekend putting new performance wood floors in my office.... I LOVE IT!!

Jackson took advantage of the open space to play a little raquetball in the room.   :)

February 21, 2010

QUICK! They're sitting quietly! Nicely! GRAB THE CAMERA!

Here's Jackson and Kierstin looking for Waldo together. :)

February 16, 2010

Jackson's baseball game!

Here's Jackson, ready to play catcher...


A couple of action shots...




And Kierstin playing with Janessa (aka "the baby")

February 14, 2010

Sledding Day 2! Kierstin is FAR more brave on day two! She wanted to go by herself almost every run, and by the end of the day was even going on her tummy face first! Crazy girl!

Again, it was very warm, 45-50 degrees, and was absolutely GORGEOUS!

February 13, 2010

SLEDDING! What better way to spend Valentine's day?!

One of the things that we LOVE about Phoenix is the weather... Not only that we don't have to deal with ice and snow, but that if we do decide that we want to play in the snow, we have a short 2 1/2 hour drive north with snow galore!

Today we drove up to Flagstaff to go sledding. We're going to stay overnight, sled some more tomorrow, and then drive back home. Flag has had 208" of snow so far this year, so there's PLENTY of snow... but even better than that, it was 50* today! So we got to enjoy the snow, without freezing our thin blooded Phoenix tooshies off!

Here's Jackson and Kierstin on the sled together...


...and mama with sissy and Jackson

February 7, 2010

Super Bowl Sunday! We had a pretty low key Super Bowl this year... Amy brought the boys over, the kids played, and we watched football. It was nice. :) I realized as they were leaving that I'd forgotten to take any pictures... so here are all the kids by the door, getting ready to go home. HA HA. Jackson and Kierstin, Cameron and Caden.

February 1, 2010

Tonight our friends Cameron and Caden came over to have dinner with us! :)

January 27, 2010

Silly pics with the kids today :)

January 26, 2010

Finishing touches on Jackson's room...


Moved the toy bins to this side of his bed, and hung his first soccer jersey.


Moved his dresser under the dirtbike on the wall.


And hung his shelves... Trophies and video games on top, hats and book bags below!

January 24, 2010

Jackson's room is all painted!! Poster hung on the wall, the only thing we're waiting on is for the blue shelves to dry and get a second coat of paint. Here's a couple more pictures of his room.

January 8, 2010

So here it is... the first day that I didn't get a picture taken. :) We knew it would happen, it was only a matter of time, and I'm sure it won't be the last.

Since I didn't get a picture done Jan. 8th, I decided instead to post some pictures of the new bedding that I bought yesterday for Jackson's room. Recently, Jackson and Kierstin switched rooms, so right now poor Jackson is sleeping in a room with butterflies on the walls! I promised him we'd fix it quickly, and we're going to. I ordered this bedding - DIRT BIKES! - and he is THRILLED!

The second picture that I posted is a HUGE decal that will go on his wall over his bed. I'm going to paint the wall behind his bed the blue in the bedding, and the other three walls the tan color in the bedding. This "shadow" decal will go on the blue wall, and it will look like a darker shade of blue, or a shadow. I think it's going to look really cool! Then, Grandma Cheryl bought him a huge poster with about 50 different dirt bikes for another wall - so he can lay in bed and dream about which dirt bike he will buy someday. :)

I'm really excited to get it done!!

January 6, 2010

Posting a day late... oops! This pic was taken yesterday, though. :)

Here's another one of my fashionista (fashionisto?). He's had this hat for quite awhile, and we didn't realize when he got the jacket and tee for Christmas (from Kag) that is was such a good match for the hat!

So he wore the hat to school yesterday (not IN school, only on the way to and from we agreed). He said on the way to school that a girl on his bus wanted to wear it, so he let her... and on the way home a different girl on his bus wanted to wear it... so he let her. After a discussion about how we don't share hats (headlice - EEWWW!) I realized that I've lost him... My second grade boy has two fifth grade girls that wants to wear his hat. You can sure bet he wore that hat to school again today, and my warnings were thrown to the side in favor of cute girls wearing his hat - I'm sure of it!

January 3, 2010

He's so cool. :) Suddenly, my 7 year old thinks he's 15. I'm not sure how that happened. This is the hat that he BEGGED for forever, and Uncle Andy bought him for Christmas. Also, pictures of him on his skateboard, of course, where he spends the majority of his time outside. I love this boy!

January 2, 2010

FAMILY GAME NIGHT!

Tonight after dinner we decided to break out one of our Christmas games, Pictureka. We hadn't played before, and found out that we had been missing out! It was lots of fun. We played two games, one was girls against boys, and the other was Mom and Jackson against Dad and Kierstin. Somehow, Mom's teams won both games. :)