I think this is one of the sweetest pictures I've taken. Nathan was holding Alice, saying good morning and she was absolutely smittin' with her Dada. He does this dog sniffing thing with them, sniffing around their heads and necks - if you've had a puppy you get me. He's done it with all of them and they've all loved it.

This was a funny picture from attempt two at her 8 month picture. It's amazingly hard to get a good picture of her at this stage! The other two kids trying to help are part of the issue :)
But, something hilarious must have been going on behind me cuz this little one was cracking up.


Sweet Jane. She likes to give kisses to whomever is sitting next to her. When She's snuggling with me or if Daddy is reading books, she'll lean over and give us kisses.

See, not so easy to take pictures of the baby, is it?!

I've been having Alice partake in group baths lately. I have Katherine hold her as there is nothing more slippery than a wet baby butt. She holds her while I wash her and Alice kicks about like a maniac and then Daddy comes to get her. After that I drain the few inches of water out and start over with the bigger two. Everyone seems to like it and it's fast for me - bonus.

Feelin' Lucky!

We're feeling pretty lucky at our house. Just look at these three, how could we not.

I was tickling them to get them to have some fun and smile...would help if I was looking at the camera and smiling too, eh?

Alice's four leaf clover is, by far, the cutest of the bunch. It also happens to be her 8 month today...well that sounds weird, she's 8 months old today and rockin' her bed hair!

We were all in our green spirit, this was the best picture we could get before running out of time and needing to move onto other things this morning. I know you can't see Alice's face, see above :)

Sweet Jane. She was in a bit of a mood this morning and not so into getting her picture taken.

Alice was pretty tired after her first St. Paddy's Day and breakfast - she tanked out for her morning nap looking oh so cute. I don't know why it's sideways, but it's too cute not to post.

Nathan turned 28 today!

For this hard working Daddy I planned a surprise weekend fishing/camping trip. Three of his friends were able to go and they had a great time. I sent him out for bagels Friday morning and when he came back there were fish hanging from the ceiling fan and an anchor and fishing chair on the table. I told him my Mom and Aunt Chris were on their way up to Phoenix (THANK YOU!) to watch the girls as I had to work the weekend, and he had the day to get his gear together.

We missed him terribly, but sent him off with hugs and kisses and hopes that he caught lots of fish.

When he got back Sunday he had quite the farmers tan and a few fish stories to share. A great time was had by all. I'm not sure if Alice missed Nathan and just couldn't get enough of him or if she's going to go into interrogation as a profession and is practicing.

This morning we had a family snuggle fest before breakfast. I took like 6 pictures and Nathan's eyes were closed in ALL of them...guess he wasn't quite ready to be up yet.

We all love you so much Daddy, Happy Birthday!!Monday and Tuesday we laid pavers. By we I mean Nathan while I watch the girls. Meticulous, slow work but coming along nicely, eh? We're getting them from my work as we're almost sold out and when they develop the lots by the model park they just take all the landscape, pavers, etc to the dump! Isn't that crazy?? We're gladly taking all the pavers our very tired, sore hands can carry.