Happy 3rd birthday, Hannah!

You are just so SO wonderful!!  Happy birthday! We love you!!!

love this.

Video: Carter's first steps

This video was taken about 3 weeks ago... Carter's first steps!  Not THE first steps but a glimpse of where he began.  NOW he's fully walking and can stand up from the floor quickly and everything!  It's AMAZING how fast he's changing!  It's time for a new video soon!

Hannah's 3rd Birthday {Party}!

We had Hannah's birthday party a week early since Kevin is working this weekend.  The gang came down (my parents, Kevin's parents, Nannie, Aunt Sheila, and Paul and Holly and Claire) and enjoyed a nice dinner, presents, and cake.  Since Hannah's been talking about Tinkerbell so much and wanting to be Tinkerbell when she grows up, I went with that as the theme of her party this year. 

very simple cake {for the most part}

Carter enjoying Hannah's birthday cards

Hannah's big present from us and the grandparents--her first doll house.  she loves it!  (Eli too!)

my sweet girl!

Another great day in our book of memories!!

Family Day: Children's Museum

Outage 2011 is coming up next month.  Kevin will be working nights for at least a month straight.  With him sleeping during the day even on his days off that makes it hard to much as a family at all. Except for those few days off, we don't even get any meals together.  SO we're trying to make the most of our days before then!  

Since we don't really need many more TOYS in this house, we used the kids' Christmas gift money to got a membership to the Lincoln Children's Museum.  The kids and I had been there a couple times last year but it's been quite awhile since then.  So we headed there for the first time as a family a few weeks ago.  I mostly stayed with Carter while Kevin took the older kids around.  I'd forgotten how much fun Carter would have there!  I brought the umbrella stroller for him, but that was definitely unneeded cuz he was down on the floor playing almost the whole time!  It's such a great museum for younger kids, we can't wait to round up some friends and head back soon while Daddy's sleeping during the day!

Just a little hello

from this little guy:

Oh well.

I was just cleaning up all of my photo folders off the computer desktop (importing into iPhoto) when I realized I never posted these pictures on the blog.  

Before Carter fully takes off walking here, I had a picture in my mind of the older kids each holding one of his hands to help support him.  But it didn't quite turn out that way in real life.  Carter was resistance and just wanted to GO.  So I ended up with mostly shots of the kids individually rather than altogether, but oh well!  Here are my cutie pies...