Happy 1/2 Birthday Taylor

Party time with friends to celebrate Taylor's 1/2 birthday. The beauty of throwing a party for a 13 1/2 year old and his friends is all you need is food and a place for them to hang out, they kind of take care of the rest :) 

They played the ball of saran wrap game and watched a movie. Easy and Fun! 

Taylor has some really good friends! (a big bonus for one of those friends being his cousin!) They are kind, fun, and incredibly easy going. I hope the rest of these teen years goes this way!

Happy Birthday Justin!

 His last year in his 30s and life is looking pretty amazing. These five kids (and their mommy) look up to him quite a bit!! 

It's also becoming a tradition to have a big group hug for his birthday! It makes me so happy!!

Corbin's 15th birthday

He's 15!! This was a huge growing year for Corbin in so many ways. We quite like who he is and the fun he brings to our family! We loved celebrating him this day ♥

I made a goal this year to make a music video for everyone and watch it on their birthday. It includes pictures and videos of that person from the past year. It was a BIG success. I loved watching his face while we watched the video ♥♥ (The two songs I chose for the video were 'I lived' - One Republic and 'Thunder' - Imagine Dragons)

Happy Birthday Corbin!!!

our second teenager

I feel like every time Taylor reaches a new milestone, it hits harder than it did when Corbin would reach them. Something about our second child getting older really solidifies that our family is growing up....and fast.

Taylor is an incredible delight to our family. He is full of kindness and goodness. He is so helpful and his hard work with playing the piano is really starting to pay off, I love hearing him play.

It seems we often have some kind of Christmas party on Taylor's birthday. He is always so willing to celebrate his birthday somewhere else and to have such a good attitude about it. (which is why the half birthday celebration works so well!)  We enjoyed being at his Aunt Alayna and Uncle Jeff's house this year. Taylor requested ice cream sundaes and it was delicious (and super easy!) 

We love you Taylor!!! Still can't believe that our Christmas baby is a teenager! ♥♥

Adeline is three

Happy Birthday to our Adeline! When I woke up in the morning, I walked outside and saw the most amazing sunrise after the nighttime rainstorm we had. There was even a double rainbow! It was the perfect sign that it was going to be a beautiful day celebrating our girl.

Adeline is in the thick of her love for princesses so we couldn't turn down an opportunity to have a princess photo shoot on her birthday and she loved (almost) every minute of it. Corbin and his friend were standing behind me for part of it and got her laughing and smiling so well. 


Adeline felt like a princess all day as her brothers showered her with love. She was excited about her cake and all the extra attention. 

We are all so grateful that Adeline is in our family! She is full of spunk and sweetness and we couldn't love her more!