Micaela is 6 years old!!

Micaela is 6 years old today!

We no longer have 5 kids, 5 and under! (Not that we're all of a sudden normal or anything.. haha)

Micaela has been such a joy and such a big help in our family already.

She had her friend party yesterday and got all dolled up for the occasion. She LOVES getting all dressed up and fancy -I even put some lipstick on her - she was in heaven!

We are so proud of our big girl!

Happy Birthday Micaela!!

Bad nicknames

For those of you who have had to endure an hour or two in our home with our kids.. you know that we have some pretty bad nicknames for our kids. Like therapy-worthy nicknames.. :) For example, we've been known to call Elizabeth 'Bizzel-Squizz.' I have no idea where any of these nicknames came from - I suppose they've just grown and mutated from early, normal-sounding nicknames.

William's current term of endearment is "Billiams." I'm sure it will get much worse as the years go on..

Fun times

Activity table from Pottery Barn Kids: $200

Huge tub of tinkertoys from Toys R Us: $30

Four siblings playing together for nearly 2 hours: PRICELESS!

A Blessed Baby

We had William's baby blessing last sunday (dec 23) at my dad's house in Orem, UT. Several of our friends and family members were able to come (thanks everyone!) - it was wonderful.

Here's one of the proud parents:

The blessing participants:

Andrew was feeling brave and went in for his first kiss.. (sorry Sophie!)

Now William is a blessed baby!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

ok, and one of Micaela

This just cracks me up a little.. Oh, and she's wearing a little mermaid costume there, while eating a sucker and watching pbs.

Holy depth of field, Batman!

Seriously.. for all you photo nuts out there, this is probably, what, like a 1cm field depth or something. I didn't alter or touch this pic at all except to shrink the file size. Half the pics I took had one eye in focus and the other blurry even though they're in roughly the same plane. I need to tell my lens to calm down a bit..