I know I am a complete slacker when it comes to this blogging thing. Forgive me! I meant to get picutures of Anne's birthday up months ago but never had the pictures where I could get them saved onto the computer. So here they are 2 1/2 months after her birthday. Here are some of the highlights of her 3(that's right 3) birthday parties (one with each side of the family plus her actual birthday with just us and Tee). The Giselle birthday card from Grandma was a huge hit! Then we went to Cold Stone with Aunt Tee. Anne got, get this, cotton candy ice cream with gummy bears! But she loved it. The next weekend we had a family party with the Stevens and I got inspired to try a princess cake. Actually, a lot easier than it looks. Thanks to Mary for letting me barrow her cake stuff to make it. It was fun celebrating her birthday all month.




Next up, Halloween! As you can see, I copped out this year and bought Halloween costumes. Best decision I ever made! Well, not really, but was a huge time saver, and I probably would have spent just as much money and stuff to make costumes and then they wouldn't have turned out as cute anyway. At least that's how I justified it in the store. They loved their costumes though and wore them everyday for about 2 weeks. Here's one of Anne wearing her's back at the start of October. It was still really hot and I found her about passed out on the couch asleep and sweating away because she had refused to take it off no matter how hot she was. The pictures are a bit fuzzy, but Libby's shirt says, "This is my costume".

And Last but certainly not least, Thanksgiving! Where I completely lost my head and didn't take a single picture all weekend! So sad, but it was awesome! We went down to my parents from Wednesday untii Sunday. We had so much fun. Especially Thanksgiving day. I wish I had a picture of our 10, that's right, 10 pies. One for each adult! And yes, we ate them all. We really out did ourselves this year, and yes we are pie snobs, as my husband likes to call us, but that's only because we make better pie than everyone else. That night we siblings had a blast playing Apples to Apples, wish I had a picture of that too, but alas I was too full of pie to think straight! It was so much fun to be with everyone all weekend!

After watching the news last Monday night, I've realized how dangerous it could be to let just anyone see the information on our blog. So I've decided to go private. If you would like to continue to read this blog, please post your email and I will make sure you get and invite each time I post.

Also, I promise to get Halloween pics up soon. So stay tuned!

I've never done a tag before, but this one looked kind of fun so here goes.

How long have you been together?
Since June 2003- 5 years, 4 months
How long did you date?
3 weeks?
How old is he?
26
Who eats more?
If I'm pregnant, then me. If not, Kellan.
Who said I love you first?
Me.
Who is smarter?
I am better at reading and test-taking, but Kellan is much better at applying and understanding things.
Who does the laundry?
Mostly me, but Kellan usually ends up folding and putting away.
Who does the dishes?
Me, but Kellan usually rinses and putts away.(See the pattern?)
Who sleeps on the right side of the bed?
Depends on were the bed is. I sleep on the side closest to the girls and he sleeps on the side closest to the alarm. The girls don't wake him up, and the alarm doesn't wake me up.
Who pays the bills?
Both. We both struggle with this one, so working on it together somehow makes it work.
Who mows the lawn?
The landlord, Roger!
Who cooks dinner?
Me, but Kellan helps a lot. He's come a long way from when we were first married, he didn't know what a Tbs or a tsp was.
Who drives when you are together?
Kellan, I hate driving.
Who is more stubborn?
Me, Kellan just said so.
Who kissed who first?
Kellan definatley kissed me first, although he says it's my fault for "smiling" at him.
Who asked who out?
Hmmmmm. I chased down his phone number and called him, but he wasn't home. He called me back and invited me to go to Lagoon with a bunch of our work friends.
Who proposed?
Officially, Kellan. However, that was a month after we had decided to get married. We're still not sure how the conversations leading up to that decision happened.
Who is more sensitive?
Me.
Who has more friends?
? Our kids are our social life.
Who has more siblings?
Me. I have 3 brothers and 2 sisters, Kellan has one of each.
Who wears the pants in the family?
The girls

After several weeks of procrastinating I finally got around to getting our family picutres taken. I've been planning on doing them in the fall outside all summer, but September rolled around and the leaves turned and for some reason I kept putting it off, as if I had all the time in the world before the leaves would drop and the weather turn cold. Finally I called our awesome friend Bonnie and we did them last Thursday which was literally the last day we could have done them. A lot of the leaves had fallen, but it was still gorgeous up the canyon with the ground covered with the leaves. It was pretty cold though. The girls suffered minor hypothermia and some weird bug bites thanks to my procrastination, but they were good sports, (except Libby, we couldn't get many of her) and I think when you see the pictures you will agree that the sacrifice was worth it. Thank you Bonnie! It was quite the day, hiking around in our church clothes in the cold. Our church clothes were the ones that matched and I didn't think it would be that cold or that Bonnie would have us climbing through wash beds and all kind of bushes. Our picutures turned out wonderful though, and hopefully everyone will forgive me for what I made them go through to get them.

As many of you know, Kellan is a die-hard cubs fan. It doesn't matter that they've broken his heart for 26 years now. Every year he gets his hopes up, and every year they manage to screw up yet again. I say, this year is no different, but Kellan instists that this is The year. I guess we will see, but I think the YouTube guy sums it up pretty well. The first video is the only one I meant to post, but I can't get the other three off, so just ignore them and watch the first one.

Well, as you can all see, the long awaited update is here. Also, as you can see, I've finally started to figure out this blog thing.

We had an interesting summer adjusting to a new baby while Kellan was working and pulling his hair out over Math 1010. But we definatly had a good summer in spite of Math 1010. We even braved it camping for one night. We were sure we'd end up getting eaten by a bear, or loading 3 crying girls up in the middle of the night and heading home. But everyone had tons of fun, and we're glad we took them. Good memories. Also, we planted out first garden with Aunt Tee. We have tons of potatoes now, but not much of anything else. We blessed Libby, and enjoyed having our families up for that. Mostly we just enjoyed having our own back yard for the first time ever, and playing in the sand box and kiddie pool. I can't figure out a slide show, so I'll just have to post a ton of pics for now.

Now Kellan back to school full-time and working part-time. He finally convinced his manager to give him the morning shift, so for the first time in a year, Kellan gets to be home almost every night for dinner and bedtime. Yea!!!

Anne turned 4 last week, I can hardly believe it! She's quite the quirky little girl, and has definatly kept us entertained over the years. Her latest is to call everyone, including her parents, "sweetheart" or "honey". You can just imagine.

So finally the explaination with the flour pics. One Sunday afternoon, the girls made a tent and wanted us to play with them in the tent. Kellan had had to work really late the night before and I was eight months pregnant, so we were both really tired and ended up falling asleep in the tent. A while later we awoke to the sound of clanging pots and pans. "Great!" I thought, "Their into the pans again." So I stick my head out of the tent and can just see into the kitchen, but instead of seeing the kitchen, all I can see is a cloud of very fine white dust. Yep, my kitchen was completely covered in 15 lbs of flour. And we're not just talking the floor. It was in all of the drawers, and all of the pots and pans which had all been pulled out. And right in the middle of it were two little girls throwing it up in the air and shouting, "Sparkles! Sparkles!"Anyway, it wouldn't have been so bad except the week before they had flooded the bathroom in about two minutes- the people beneath us had water dripping from their bathroom ceiling. And, just that morning they had woken up early and very quietly to make sure they didn't wake us up, they emptied the entire contents of my sisters purse (she had forgotten it the night before) leaving a trail of stamps( an entire book of them) and change throughout the house. Also, they ate a whole pack of Trident gum. Well, at least we get cheap entertainment by taking pictures!