Happy Birthday and Summer

Chad turned 26 on Saturday. To me that is one of those ages that sounds significantly older than the last. Anyway, on Friday we were able to spend an evening with Nathan and Paloma it was very nice. They treated us to some yummy Olive Garden for the occasion and we even had dessert which is rare since we usually eat way to much to even think of having dessert, I must say it was yummy, the entire time I was wondering why people don't eat dessert first just to make sure they have room for it. Saturday we were able to go out with some friends to eat at Michael's on the Lake and attend the Grant County Rodeo. That was also very fun!
The first picture was Chad and I before our date and the others were from earlier in the summer that I found on Chad's phone. This summer has been a really fun one! Swimming, feeding the birds, spending time with good friends, getting in shape and watching my babies grow... I am not sure but I don't think it gets much better!

Christmas, Birthday, New Year, New SUV

Well I have been slacking on my blog the past few weeks I think mainly because an entire week of that I was having fun with my family and especially enjoying the precious time that I had with my sister. I rarely have the chance to spend time with her family so it was a real treat! Anyway the past few weeks have been very eventful. First we bought a new car (picture is just like ours... but not our actual car). This was a much needed purchase as we had been living without a car since Thanksgiving and Dan and Lisa were generous enough to let us borrow one of theirs for that time. I am super excited about the Dodge Durango that we purchased because it has heated leather seats, runner boards (helpful when pregnant), a sweet luggage rack on top... i don't know if I will ever use that but I have always though that they were pretty cool, it has AWD and 4WD which was something that we were really looking for and last but probably the coolest feature of the entire car is that there is a 3rd row seat which means we can fit 7 people in this vehicle... very cool!

Next was Christmas which was very fun! We were very blessed in the gifts that we received and mainly the people we were surrounded by. A little crazy with 9 kids under six in the house but very magical and fun! I was spoiled.

I was spoiled again the following day on my birthday. Chad was very generous and thoughtful on my birthday and I was able to use most of the gift cards I received when I went shopping in Wenatchee with a few of my favorite people Mom, Aletha, Brynlee, and Dawson.

On New Years Eve we invited Tanner Gilbert, Shawna Juarez, Jake, Sariah and Sydney Mattinson and David and Molly Beus over and played games and ate a bunch of junk food. Most of us stayed up until midnight (David and Molly I am disappointed in you... I stayed up and I am huge pregnant)

Anyway, so I guess you could say we had a really great holiday break.