The 4th

 I've been so bad lately with taking pictures, but Sean's been good at taking over! :) On the 4th, in the morning, Sean went and played golf with all the guys and in the afternoon we headed to Sean's grandma's house to a bbq and to hang out with everyone! We had some amazing food (a pregnant ladies favorite part) and it was good hanging out with everyone!

 

This is a face we get from Cohen a lot these days if we tell him no! So dramatic!

 And Miss Lyla - isn't her dress adorable! I love how it turned out!!

All in all, a great 4th with our family!

Our Easter - 2013

 I didn't get the chance to edit any of these pictures but I figured if I waited until I had time to do that I would never get the chance to blog it. 

The Easter bunny came and both the kids were spoiled! Lyla was extremely spoiled by getting the bike. The Easter bunny has no plans to spoil them this much in the future! But Miss Lyla needed a new bike and it was good timing. She was SUPER excited, but I think a bit intimidated by the bigger bike. If the Easter bunny would have given Cohen a basket full of balls, he would have been just as excited!

We headed to Milberger for church with Sean's family and then we headed to Nana's for lunch. Delicious! 

We then had our annual Easter egg hunt and the kiddos loved them! Cohen really didn't have much of an idea but he still had fun!

The kiddos and their Mimi

 

All the kiddos minus Hoyt. Um, can I say how freaking cute are Lyla and Cohen holding hands?

We then headed out to my parents and had an Easter egg hunt there and this time Cohen had a little better idea of what to do! 

 

Here she is with Uncle Kevin, who she adores. I'm not so sure what is so special about him! :)

 Kevin, Kelci and Ben. Ben was on the sick side (as was Cohen) so he wasn't in the best of moods!

 Not the best picture (and I REALLY need a hair cut and to feel like a human again). But this is us! Haha!

Pops and Granna with their grandkids!

And that sums up Easter for us! Family time and lots of good food!

More Halloween tricks

The week before Halloween, the kiddos painted some pumpkins. Or colored them with crayons for Cohen.  Him and paint would not mix. Lyla likes to paint every ounce of whatever it is that she is painting so her pumpkin turned out black! (As did her pumpkin from preschool!)

 Cute halloween shirts and lots of hugs! :) Haha. This makes me laugh!

  The Monday before Halloween, we carved our pumpkins. We kept it to simple faces this year.  Lyla enjoyed getting all the guts out of the pumpkins with me while Daddy carved. And Cohen make ruckus all around the house! :) Ha!

 I love her! And for the record, she would have done all of this naked but I insisted she at least put on pants. She loves to be naked! (Random fact: Almost every night she takes off her pants and undies whenever she is sleeping).

 Cohen doing what he does best - pushing all the buttons on the dishwasher while Lyla and Daddy are working!

 The Tuesday before Halloween, Lyla had a fall party at school! They got to paint pumpkins, play pumpkin bowling and also a jack-o-lantern water game! She had so much fun! I got to come and help the class and enjoyed it so! I've waited a long time to be able to do this and love the fact that I get to stay home with my kiddos to do all of this and not miss out! Makes me super happy!

 Our finished pumpkins! Lyla picked out the littlest pumpkins for Piper! :)

Pumpkin Patch

 In October, we headed to the pumpkin with the kiddos and Sonya.  Lyla loved having Sonya there and I think Sonya enjoyed hanging out with us too!  I had shirts made for the kiddos and LOVED how they turned out! So cute!

This is by far the best family picture we've taken minus our professional family pics. It normally doesn't look like this! Ha!

 He enjoyed playing in the dirt!

 This year she rode the tram by herself. Made me kinda sad! :( She's getting to big!

 Off to get our pumpkins!

We had such a good time and a beautiful day to go! Later on, we went and ate with Sonya and Nana in Russell!! Love family time!

Trick or Treat night ::Halloween 2012 ::

 This year, Lyla was excited for Halloween in September. It was quite a long month! They day of Halloween, when she came home from the sitters, she goes, is TODAY the day we go trick or treating? :) She's been slightly excited! 

She had been asking to be Spiderman for Halloween. Well, I'm to much of a girly girl to allow such nonsense, so after much deliberation, we settled on Spider girl.  She's got her spider part of it and I got the pink! :) 

Abi and Avery came over before they went to their church party so we could get some pictures and see them in their costumes. Obviously, Cohen isn't in his costume, but this year we had Clark Kent, a dancer, Spider girl and Spider woman (per Avery).

 Silly girls!

 In their costumes. Cohen's costume was by far my favorite! I loved how it turned out, just wish he would have kept the glasses on! It made the costume!

 This girl loved trick or treating and "got" it this year. She kept pointing to houses she wanted to go to and would have gone to every house if we would have let her. We stopped by a few friends in town and even went to our old neighbors and the old house! 

I wish I would have gotten a picture of their buckets. They tuned out super cute!