Gabe 3 years old

Love these pictures, just like I love this sweet boy!

Pictures by Johanna
Thank you!

Happy Adoption Month!

Adoption is a daily celebration in our house!

This is why we love adoption:

Luke

Gabe

and

Clark

Our Forever Family was formed!

We are grateful to the Lord for giving our kid's

birth families the strength to making this possible.

Visiting rural Idaho for a birthday party!

Wined him up and let him go!

Super fun play equipment!

The birthday girl with her

cake made by the Frosted Cherry

A special birthday card designed by Luke. This is the first family portrait that he has ever done. My favorite parts were the flower on the little girls shirt and the mini transformer family at the bottom of the card.

Cousins from Arizona came to visit!!!!

Such a treat to have you come and visit. Love you guys!

Indoor Soccer

We decided to let Gabe play this year. It better than wrestling him in the stands. He is hilarious to watch. He grins and waves as he runs by in the crowd of kids.

Luke is quite the athlete and loves to kick the ball hard.

Gabe thinks he's a pretty tough guy.

Luke with his new soccer buddy.

If you look closely, the team is lined up to slap hands. Gabe has his hand facing the wrong way and Luke puts both arms out.

We love indoor soccer because its simple (No practices, no out of bounds, no goalie) and fun. It a great chance for exercise in the winter.

Clark

has learned to pull himself up on the side tables. More treasures to discover! He loves shredding and eating tissues. Yucky and messy and cute!

Wrestling with Dad

Peeking during peek-a-boo :)

Gabe's coloring "NO NOs"

#1 Marker on the car

#2 Purple crayon on the pink polyester blazer of the 85 year old lady in front of us in church on Sunday. Funny, but not to her when Gabe apologized. Luckily she had raised 7 kids and was understanding and joking about it later.

Update on all

Luke-Mr. Smarty pants! Received the "Academic Award" at school. He was also one of the highest scoring students in his class on the IRI tests (testing letter names and sounds).

Gabe- Had his 3 year old doctor visit: Weights 33 lbs. and 40 inches (75% for both). He will be starting indoor soccer with Luke on Saturday. Very exciting.

Clark (getting ready for a brain freeze) Still big (25 lbs.). Crawling all over the house. He eats everything off the floor including wrappers, paper, and old treats. He's like a goat. I can't vacuum and sweep enough. He loves to play with the little people figures and climb on his brothers. He mimic actions and sounds like waving, clapping, lip smacking, peek-a-boo, bye-bye, and mama/dada.

Ben took a "one day" time to BYU for ESPN Game Day. The game was disappointing, but he had fun.

He climbed the "Y".

Ben also scored on an awesome find:

Our new house

Yes, we are moving!

Only two miles away and not until the new year.

We are going to rent our current house.

It's an amazing house for a killer deal!