HI everyone! If you are still following my blog you will know that I never post anymore! I have decided to get back with it but I have started a new blog with my new email. My new blog is http://foreveryoung1203.blogspot.com I think that is the address. Check it out if you are interested. I will try to figure out how to keep following the rest of your blogs as well. I am mostly starting up again because I think it is a good way to journal. I have linked my new blog to my google account I think so if you follow my google+ I think you can find it there too.
Thanks.

Valentines!

I know it's been awhile do here are some valentine pictures! Happy valentines Day!

December so far!

We had a christmas party at oyr house so we Had a good excuse to get our house all ready for christmas! Its all decorated up and looking really cute! The boys helped pick out our tree and decorate it. It was a lot of fun. We even got lights on the outside of the house and a wreath on our door! We even got Joe's office all decorated for the holidays! We've been listening to Christmas music and watching Christmas movies everyday too!
On Monday both Matthew and Rebekah went to the hospital for day surgery to get tubes put in their ears. We ended up getting all the kids up at 5am to be at the hospital by 6am. Then we all hungover and were there to be with them before and right after. They even had them in rooms right by each other the whole time and they let us keep our other two kids with us since they were being do well behaved. Luckily they always had a movie for them to watch. We were actually done with both and out of there by 9am! Both are doing fine now! Here are some before and after photos! I think we have a few pictures of decorations too!

4th of July

We had a lot of fun on the 4th! We started the day with a yummy breakfast at our church, where the kids also participated in a bike parade. Then we went and watched the lake Oswego parade downtown where the kids enjoyed getting tons of candy! I was a little disappointed that there weren't any floats or school groups like bands or dance teams, and of course there weren't any horses or tractors like the parade I'm used to in st Paul. But the kids enjoyed it. Then we came home and the kids rode their bikes down our street for our neighborhood parade and the firemen threw out a bunch of candy at the end, they loved that. We had a little bar-b-que in our back yard then just relaxed for a couple hours while made some fun cupcakes for the bar n sue we went to in the evening at my parents. We had lots of fun there just being outside and enjoying the sun. When it started to cool off we sat around the fire and roasted marshmallows, then we watched our own fireworks show provided by my brother in law and his boys, it was awesome!

Our most recent adventures

I haven't been very good about updating my blog so I'm trying to get better today. Rather then try to catch up I'll just start from now and go forward.
We have definitely been keeping busy. The kids and I went to the fire station last week and had a great time. We went with our play group from our ward and we ended up with a pretty good sized group.
The weekend before that joe and I went to Eugene for the celebration of the end of his ce course that he's been taking for the last year. It was a fun event, they had a black tie dinner at a nice winery out there. He got a nice plaque too.
We also celebrated joes birthday the same day as fathers day!

Our little girl!

Here are some photos of Rebekah when she was just a week old. We were lucky enough to have our good friend come over and take some pictures for us. They turned out really nice! Thank you so much Pam!! We hope you all enjoy the pictures as much as we do! We think she is the prettiest baby ever!



So like her brothers!

Fun with our little girl!

Just after her first bath at home, isn't she sweet!?
Here she is in the bathtub, she actually didn't mind it too much when the warm water was on her.
Big brother Jacob, trying to help.

They love there little sister.
Sweet as can be and so like her brothers!