Yes it's been almost a year.

I haven't blogged since I had this little guy.  Easton was born weighing 8 pounds, 7 ounces.  He has been a fun addition to the family.  However, life is very busy with 3 kids and a baby, thus the no blogging for almost a year...

 Cole is a good big brother and loves this little guy a lot!  Emma has been a huge help, when she wants to be.  She watches out for Easton and makes sure he is always taken care of.  She hates to hear him cry...which has made him one spoiled little boy!

 Emma was baptized.  She was baptized with her 2 cousins.  We are so proud of the beautiful young lady she is becoming. 

 My 3 kiddos!

 Casey coached Cole's soccer team.  It was fun to watch him try to control five 5 year olds!

 The kids had a fun Halloween.  Emma made a cute cheerleader and Cole was Captain America.  Easton was a monkey.  We counted about 150 pieces of candy...and we're almost out!

December and January so far

Here is Cole being his silly self.  He let Emma and her friends dress him up.  I totally glanced at him and thought he was a girl for a minute!

Casey celebrated the big 3-2.  Nothing special about it, just that we're getting so old! ...Yes I feel the same age as him.

Emma always wants to dress up for wherever she is going.  Not sure where she gets that, have you seen some of the stuff I walk out the door in?

 

Cole as spiderman....

Posing at his Preschool Christmas Program.  What a ham! He's always making us laugh.  

He sang the songs so good.  I'm so glad he loves preschool.

Christmas at my grandma's.

Another program picture.

Christmas morning

Christmas at the Johnson's.  These two are only two months apart.  So grateful for close cousins!

The week after Christmas we hung out with my sister Aubrey a lot.  She lives in California right now so we don't get to see her all the time.  Emma told her while she was here, "I'm not letting you leave!" 

They miss her lots.

 

Emma had her last tap performance.  She had fun and is going to miss it!

November (Yes I'm that behind on blogging...)

As you can tell I haven't put blogging on the top of my list lately.  I actually haven't downloaded pictures from my camera since Halloween.  I guess I've been distracted by something...maybe it's this baby that's supposed to come next week!  I swear I've lost my brain since being pregnant.  Hope I get it back :)

 Casey's parents have a big huge tree in their yard and they have a "leaf party" every year.  The kids love jumping in the leaves with their cousins.

Here's my little brother Bryce opening his mission call to Buenos Aires, Argentina!  

Cole takes an awesome picture.  He's such a funny kid.

We went to the Temple Square lights with my family the week after Thanksgiving.  Cole thought it was his playground and had a fun time running all over the place.  

Good thing I had 4 brothers there to chase him around!

Halloween with a vampire and a skeleton pirate

Halloween has never been my favorite holiday but I must say these two made it so much fun this year. 

 We carved pumpkins (Dad helped get guts out and mom carved...)

 We had a family party.  I don't care to dress up, it's not my thing.  But there's a ton of pressure at this party.  So here's what I came up with....very creative I know.  We sprayed Emma's hair black for the party and once we realized how hard it was to get out, we decided not to do it for Halloween.  I just noticed her scalp still has some black on it!

 Halloween night we went to Warren's for free kids meals.  It was fun but free stuff brings everyone out! 

 Cole is not a fan of taking pictures...

Emma likes to choose scary costumes. I'm always surprised since she's such a girly girl.  Doesn't she make a scary vampire.  Cole is Jack Sparrow skeleton.  

Casey handed out the candy and played music out of his police car.  The neighbor kids loved it.  Glad he's such a good sport!

Cole and Emma lasted quite a long time, almost two hours.  We had so much candy.  I didn't think we'd ever eat it all.  But we've done a good job and there isn't much left.

Field Trips and Camping

 October brought some awesome fall weather!  I love the Fall season so I was super excited that we actually had a Fall this year.  Emma had a field trip to a farm/corn maze.  I tagged along.  It was fun but exhausting.  Being pregnant can kick your butt sometimes. 

 

Cole had a preschool field trip to the Fire Station.  I love the picture below! The look on their faces says it all, watching him put his gear on was pretty cool.

We went camping to Idaho with Casey's family.  Camping in October you say?  Why yes, his family goes every year and we pray for warm weather.  This year the weather was great.  The kids had fun and I'm glad we had this one small camping trip for the year (we were only there one night).