Winter fun!

 When we get family time we LOVE to take advantage of it.  Here are some of the fun things we have done over the last couple of months.

The kids LOVE bowling!!  Every free day we get they ask to go bowling.  

Here are the kids happily awaiting their turn to bowl!

Some action shots of Liam.

Barrick missing the pin he wanted.

Briony was crazy and all over the place.  She just wanted to run!

Our little Lilly Milly.  She did much better this time!

Barrick has been doing a lot of Lego's.  He has become quite obsessed.  He got some pretty awesome Lego sets for his birthday and Christmas and it has kept him very busy. 

We also decided to try out Scene 75.  We went on a slow day so we got to do everything by ourselves.

The kids loved the glow in the dark miniature golf.

The mini bowling was quit a hit!

Also a couple of fun arcade games. 

I have saved a couple of my toys when I was little to give to my kids.  Scotty was on call so I decided to pull out one of them.  My Littlest pet Shop toys were quit a hit.  They played at the table like this for almost two hours.

We have had some pretty epic light saber battles.  Along with many nights of watching the Star Wars movies. 

We also went and saw the Lego Movie.  Lots of fun times!

The Love Holiday!

 I love Valentines day, and celebrating the people that I love.  I am one blessed person to be surrounded by so many amazing, loving people.  We started out the day with pink heart pancakes, and little gifts for the kids.  The day and week was full of Valentines parties and lots of candy!

 

 Here are the twins at the church playgroup Valentines party!  Decorating cookies, lunch, and friends, what is not to love about that!

Later that night they had a ward Valentines dance.  The youth in our church watched the kids why the adults enjoyed a kid free night of dancing and food.  Of course as the night was coming to a close we brought our kids out because like I said in a previous post our kids are dancing maniacs!  Yes during that 30 minutes of dancing two out of the four had bloody noses by falling or running into people but wow can they bust a move!

It was such a fun night!  We also had a big snow storm that night and while heading home found a young teenage boy stuck in a snow bank.  Scotty stopped to help and Barrick was insistent that he help too.  Such a sweet little boy!

 Since we didn't have a night with just the two of us, the next night Scotty made a nice dinner.  He knows I LOVE when he cooks.  Food always tastes better when someone else makes it, so he planned a nice evening with food and a fun movie to watch.

 I also got these beautiful flowers from him.  Roses and Lillie's my favorite!

And who doesn't love getting mail!!  The kiddos were so excited to receive some fun Valentine's in the mail from Gma and Gpa Nelson.  Thank you, you guys are the best!  Like I said before we are so blessed to be surround by such amazing people!

Scotty's Birthday!

Scotty's Birthday came and went and it was such a fun day!  He had the day off of work so he got to choose everything we did that day.  For someone who is gone all the time and doesn't see his kids nearly as often as he wants to, he decided his ideal day was to stay in our pajamas, play Skylanders, board games, watch movies and just be at home with the kids.  So that is what we did.   

Of course that night we had a fun date planned.  We went to Red Lobster for dinner, and went and saw Monument's Men.  It was nice to get out, and Scotty loves his seafood and movies!!

It was such a great day and so nice to be able to celebrate Scotty!  He is a pretty amazing person and we are so lucky that he belongs to us!

Busy Daddy!

 Scotty has been pretty busy with work lately, and just going to get busier with two months of ICU coming up.  Even though he is gone a lot we try and keep ourselves busy too.

  One thing we try and do is go visit Scotty as often as we can.  One of the kids favorite things is go to the playground in the middle of the hospital.  It is right by the cafeteria, so we get food and go play.  

 So with a nice weekend we decided to go visit him and get our first playground day for the year!

  It had been slow at the hospital all morning, but of course the second we go out and play there was a code so Scotty had to leave, but we stayed and played for a while.

 Here are the girls going on the slides.  Briony could not get enough of this slide!!  She could have played all day!

 We also like to go see him at night when we have enough time.  The kids LOVE going to the hospital to see him.  We take dessert, play Foosball and watch tv in the residents lounge.

Of course we do some fun things on our own too!

 Dance parties are a daily affair at our house.  The KIDDOS go crazy for dancing!  I am one lucky mom, they are pretty darn fun!

 Wrestling/Karate/ battles in the basement.  Another favorite tradition is to get Chic fil a,eat it in the car, then let them climb all over the car like monkeys.  We started this when I was pregnant with Briony.  One of the few things I could eat when I was pregnant with her, and the kids love it.  We always do it on a night when Scotty is going to be late or he is on call.  An added bonus is not making dinner, and no clean up!! 

 

 

  Like I said Monkeys!!

 At least once or twice a month on the weekends the kids love to have sleepovers in the basement.  We go and rent a couple of free movies at Family Video, add popcorn and M&Ms and these kids are HAPPY!!

We are in the last stretch of residency!  It is a little unbelievable these three years are about over, but we are ready to do some more of these fun things with daddy!!

Completely unrelated just had to add a couple of pictures of this little munchkin!!  She is the funniest little thing ever!  I am so lucky to have this little buddy of mine with me all day.

 She is getting so big and makes everything better!  Everyone in our house thinks she does no wrong.  Yes she can get a little feisty sometimes, but give her a little tickle or  play monster with her and it is over.

She is fast approaching two and I look back and cannot believe how fast she has grown up.  I do not blog nearly enough about this little one, so here is a few pictures!

Christmas 2013!

 Christmas so much fun!  Basically a continuation of how wonderful Christmas Eve was.  The kids were so excited and couldn't believe after waiting for so long it was finally here. 

 Here they are waiting their turn to go downstairs and see their presents!

 I love this picture!  Barrick had been talking about getting a 'REAL" green light saber for Christmas for months.  He talked about it everyday.  He was always reminding me that he didn't want a fake one like at the toy store.  Let me tell you, we stressed over this gift for months.  In the end it all worked out!

 With all things in our lives, whatever Barrick wants the twins follow suit.  They idolize that big brother of theirs.  So here are all of the kids with their favorite gifts.

 My cute little boys!

Last, these two little girls.  It has been so fun to see Briony get older and see their relationship change.  They are such good little buddies.  They will disappear and I will find them playing babies, barbies, or watching Tinkerbell. It has been so nice to see Lilly who has been in a boy world her whole life finally get a little sister to enjoy all those girly toys with.  

We had a fabulous Christmas spent together as a family. 

Christmas Eve.

 There is nothing better in my mind then a day at home with my family.  Add the fact that there was no fighting, lots of playing, laughing, good food, and just amazing quality time!!  That is how our Christmas eve, and also our entire Christmas break was.

We spent the day in our Pajamas, watched movies, played games, and had so much fun!  in the evening we had our sibling gift exchange.  Here they are waiting to give each other their gifts.

 

 Seriously look at these kiddos.  They are so much fun!

 A big group hug after opening their presents.  They were all excited to give their gifts.

 Then we finished off the night with yummy food and a movie party in their new Christmas Pajamas.  Such a memorable day.  I am so blessed!

The twins turn 4!!

 Liam and Lilly turned 4 the end of December.  Scotty was working a month of nights over their birthday but it still worked out great.  We had a primary kick off breakfast at church with breakfast and games.  Then we came home and played for a bit then woke Scotty up and took the kids to Chuck E cheese for their birthday.

 Here are the twins watching the show!

 Our table with our gifts and prizes.

 Chuckee was huge and a bit scary, but they loved it!!  Well all of the kids except Briony, she liked him as long as he was far away.

 Briony thought the show was pretty great!

 They got to take a turn in the ticket blaster.  The lady who was in charge was really nice she gave each of the kids the 1000 dollar ticket and made a really big deal about it.

 Lilly ended up having Barrick go for her.  She told us "I don't want my hair to get messed up!"

 Here are all the kids with Chuckee.  See what I said about Briony!

It was such a fun night and a nice break to be able to go and have a party all ready.  With all three older kids birthdays the week of Christmas it was a nice break to have somebody else do all the work!! 

My very favorite part of the day was Barricks homemade cards for Lilly and Liam.  We really are so lucky to have these two!  They are completely opposite but fit so well together in our family.  Happy Birthday you two!!