Aunt Lizzy is 2 months older than me!

Liz is 2 months older than I am! It has been so fun being so close in age. She has a beautiful family that we love to hang out with. Her oldest is two years older than Lindsey, so she preps me for what is ahead with hormonal girls! Liz gives whatever calling she has 110% I love to learn from her and her love for serving the Lord.

Aunt Liz is known for her fun and gorgeous jewelry.

You are a great sister-in-law!

Love it when we meet up and enjoy date nights together.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Aunt Liesl

Auntie Liesl is Erik's twin.

She has such a fun personality.

She loves Brian Regan (the comedian).

She is great with teenagers.

We love her so much and hope she had a great birthday (she is 7 minutes older than Erik)!

Saturday Sports

Yesterday was such a gorgeous January Saturday that we wanted to hang around outside. Lucky for us Ramie had her second soccer game, so we went. She did so awesome! Go Scorpions! From there we went to Conner's basketball game. He did so good! He scored 8 points and passed the ball around so well. They won...go Sharks!

Geography Bee

Monday, January 12 Conner was in a Geography Bee. It was for kids in 4th, 5th and 6th grade. He is in 4th grade. The kids were all given a packet with 100 questions they had to find the answers to and memorize. With Christmas break and cousins here visiting we didn't get much studying done. Erik and Conner worked on it a little bit answering about 60/100 questions. Worried about how competitive Conner is we reminded him of his lack of studying due to a busy holiday season and told him to just do his best. I was so worried and just hoped he'd make it through the first round.
Here Conner and his buddy Austin Carpentar waiting for their turn. WOW, Conner continues to amaze me. He is so talented! He made it to round 7! He has his Dad's awesome quality to be able to remember things sometimes only heard or read once! He answered a question Erik had no clue without even blinking. Go Conner Go Conner! He ended up coming in Fourth Place. We are so proud of you Conner!

Offically potty training, yikes!

Wish me luck...I have committed to hanging around the house and potty training Coleman (yikes)! Hopefully he will catch on quick. I am hoping since the minute he wets his diaper he wants changed. I think he is ready! I have found boys to be much harder than girls. Let's hope I am wrong! I will return and report with hopefully great news!

Carmel apples and sticky taffy time...

Monday, January 5th was a big day for Lindsey!

She woke up with braces...
and went to bed with no braces!

What a happy day! After 3 years of braces Lindsey is finally free.

She got a permanent retainer on bottom and goes in for her top retainer today.
We will have to do a little bit of gum graph on top where she had her tooth surgery, but other than that she is good to go. Of course, now we want our teeth whitened. We will try the whitening strips first:)

All her friends and leaders were so cute last night at YW's. They made a huge deal of how pretty her teeth look, you all rock!

Our baby is a SUNBEAM!

Oh my gosh is it possible? Cole is in SUNBEAMS! Scary...he is my baby!

What an emotional day this ended up being.

This will be an interesting year in primary. I've already volunteered to help in anyway:)

He looked so handsome, I love how Erik does his hair!

This was also his first time to wear a tie!