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Baby GIRL! Kyla Joelle was born March 29, 2011 at 2:25 pm. She weighed 7 lbs. 10 oz and was 20 1/2 inches long. She is such a gift! This beautiful picture was taken by Beth Strotz Photography.

Lexy Marie!

Ben and I spent a day of our mid-winter break visiting our family in Marysville. They just had a new baby girl and she is DARLING! I could hold her for hours...and I did! This baby is SO loved and we are thrilled that we get to watch her grow! Thanks for sharing your beautiful baby girl with us Lindsey and Levi, she is truly a blessing to our family!

SNOW!!!

It was a family afair at our house...it's amazing how one little 3-year-old can get six adults outside playing in the snow!Landen wishes the snow could be warm! How about that snowman? pretty good right? Landen loved it, until he saw his daddy making the body and as he rolled, the snow on the ground "disappeared." The grown ups had to take turns pulling Landen on his sled...I didn't get pictures of that, but trust me it was hilarious! They all came to the consensus that it's harder than it looks to pull a sled! When we ran out of snow in our backyard, we moved to mom and dad's backyard...Ace LOVED having snowballs thrown at him. He would chase them and dig at them until they broke apart! The snow is fun, but this family is ready for SPRING!

Ruby's Bed-Head

Ruby has a special blaket that she sleeps on next to the bed...we call it her "Princess Bed"...well the other night she kept whining by our bed and it turns out someone put her blanket on our bed...and she wanted it down! The second I tossed it on the floor she was out like a light! You can see she isn't super impressed with my desire to take a picture of her while she was sleeping!

Study Study Study...

...that's all I ever do! On a regular basis, this is our breakfast bar.
I have started studying with food...probably not the best idea...but ya gotta do what ya gotta do! I remember having a very close relationship with Crispy M&M's when completing my undergrad and for my masters it has turned into Pretzel M&M's! But for this session I had some Valentine chocolate on hand so that did the job! The end of the quarter is within reach!

Happy Valentine's Day!

When I got home from work my sweet hubby had roses, a box of chocolates and this "I LOVE YOU" balloon. I shared my chocolate and enjoyed my flowers...and Ace really enjoyed the balloon! He literally stood my the counter and whined until we figured out what he wanted was the balloon. When we finally put it down lower on the ground he just stood there looking at it. Eventually he started jumping up and really playing with it. I got a great video of it so I'll try to post that later too! He is seriously, the cutest, funniest, most lovable puppy ever!
Happy Valentine's Day everyone, hope it was a good one!

Cutie-Pie-Cupcake

Mom and I picked up a cupcake magazie/book on one of our many trips to JoAnn's. It has inspired us (along with many cupcake shows on TLC) to make cute cupcakes! These ones were my favorites so far...simple but cute!
I don't know if you can tell from the picture, but it's a chocolate cupcake, with light pink frosting, with white pearl sprinkles on top!