WOW! We need a CATCH UP post of ALL Time!!

Life has been happening around here and it has been BUSY! I haven't taken a lot of pics lately--like for the past 2 months--but what I did capture I am going to caption briefly. You get what you get with me nowadays...

We had Christmas with my family and as always it was great! We were able to go to my Aunt Tammy and Uncle Paul's house for Christmas Eve to partake in their families festivities. We frosted sugar cookies, ate a delicious dinner, played chimes for a little competition, and went on an awesome hayride around Salem Pond. It was very fun. Christmas morning is so much fun with our kids at these ages. They get so excited for everything! It was a good Christmas and they were even able to have Mr. and Mrs. Claus come for a personal visit! It was a definite highlight!!

My brother Andy and his family came up on Christmas day and we took a picture of all the grandkids in front of the tree. We did this last year and since then, added Cole. Their little guy, Crew, has grown quite a bit. Next year we will have another addition to put under that tree...Kristin is expecting their 2nd baby in July! Yay cousins!! (Brinlee is holding Crew and Cam has Cole...that's a lot of C names. Haha!)

In the middle of January we went up to my grandparents to celebrate Aidan's birthday and my grandma's birthday. We have done this for the past 2 years and it has been really fun. We meet my parents and sister there and have a little weekend getaway. Here they are blowing out the candles on the cake. (Aidan's birthday is 3 days after my grandma's and Cole was born on my grandpa's birthday in July. Kind of a fun bit of trivia for you.)

Aidan started the preschool up on campus this semester. Both of the girls each had a semester in the preschool up there and it has been a wonderful thing for my kids. Aidan absolutely loves it! He loves going and playing and learning. It doesn't last long...only about 2.5 months, so it will be a sad day when it ends. He is going to preschool with his friend Keaton. Cambree and Brinlee went to preschool with Keaton's sisters. (My BFF's girls Sadie and Tess!)

Cole turned 6 months old in January. Sadly we are in March now so he is nearly 8 months old. He weighed 22 lbs at his 6 months appt. He is such a little fella. :) I have been taking pictures of him in the laundry basket so that when he is a year it will be fun to see how he grew over time. It sounds cooler in my head. He is still quite the baby...very challenging. He is very smiley when people talk to him and he has an adorable baby laugh. He is SO spoiled and refuses to be left alone ever. If he thinks you are going to put him down he stiffens up and throws a big tantrum. He learned to roll over to his stomach a couple of months ago but that is about it. He can sit up alone though so that's nice. Hopefully he gets mobile soon and happier??? Hopefully!!

Since he can sit up on his own fairly well, we will let Aidan join him in the tub every so often. This is much more exciting for Aidan than it is for Cole.

Cambree and Brinlee have been performing for dance at several basketball games and we have been busy with that. Strangely enough I have don't have any still pics of them in their costumes. Just videos. But, their recital is in April so we will get some pics then for sure!
Cambree participated in ski school this year. It was 4 days and 6 hrs each of those days. She had our cousin Jordan for her snowboard instructor and SHE LOVES SNOWBOARDING!!! Mike was able to take her skiing/boarding on President's day and it was good for both of them.

Brinlee had a talent show at school and it was very delightful. She played a piano solo and did a lot of practicing before hand to memorize the song. She did a very good job. I was proud of her.

Mike just got a new calling in church. He is now the Sunday School secretary. I am still the 2nd counselor in Young Women's and so now our calling mesh very well. This has been really nice because Cole has had a nasty cold that has lingered and we haven't been taking him out. So we tag team parent on Sundays. Mike takes the kids for the 1st half and I go for the 2nd half. It works for now.

Those were the main points for the past little bit. I will try to keep up with things on here, but who are we kidding? I am a lazy blogger nowadays... Hope all is well with you peeps!!