Our little man...

Our little man all dressed up from church! Jalen is such a sweet little boy and he has the blondest hair and the bluest eyes! He is 14 months and a BIG boy! He wears 24 months clothes and weighs a ton! He is also all boy, totally different from our two sweet girls! 

Jalen's room, see post below :)

And one more makes 5...

Yes that is right we are a family of 5! Hard to believe that just 4.5 months ago we were a family of three with one three year old and now we have a 3.5 year old, 14 month old and a 7 month old ! Our life just kicked up a notch haha! If you follow our blog you know we had a little boy named Jalen in our home for just a few weeks well he has returned to our home and we can't be more happy! We are not sure about his case and where it will go but we will continue to pray for gods will. We spent the weekend moving our guest room and office to the basement (thank you to Jon's parents who have been so patient with us while they are staying with us for the holidays) and made it into Jalens room. We ordered him a new crib and I bought some used bedding and used some stuff around the house. (Three kids are expensive!) I will post those pics in the morning when he wakes! Jalen is so sweet and is just amazing. It's a ton of work but well worth it! Jalen also is a amazing sleeper, and lord knows we need one in this house! 

Frosty...

So we have been working on Soley writing her first name and today she wrote her last name for the first time. I think it looks pretty good for a three year old and using a marker board ( they are hard to write on) she did everything on there all by her self. 

The other day Soley came in the room and said mommy can you get your camera out and take some pictures of me with my babies? Lol I said sure! 

Jon took Soley outside today to build frosty. ( Jon assured me that soley put the buttons on, and that he tried to get her to move the ones that were on her scarf, lol but she insisted that is where they went. Lol ) 

Sparkle and the cinnamon rolls...

Sparkle was up late flying to the North Pole and needed a coffee to stay up. She left Soley cinnamon rolls. Her first time ever having them. 

This was yesterday I'm behind, sparking making snow angels in powdered sugar... 

Sparkle comes again...

I was talking with my mom last night about sparkle and she said I wish I had a kid to do this for! I said well go ahead and take a night. So she did, I set it all up but she provided the product and idea! Thanks mom huge help! Turned out amazing! She even got sparkle a skirt! Too cute! 

My sweet girls! 

Christmas tree, Snow cream & Sparkle

So we started the Elf on the shelf this year and two things.... One, soley Loves it and believes every min of it. Two, it's so much work!!! But fun :)

This is our first three days with our Elf, sparkle. Yes she is a girly girl!  Can't wait to share with you what else Sparkle our elf does for the next 19 days! So part of the Elf is that you can't touch her or she will loose her magic. So the other day Soley was telling my mom all about her and said... Rari (my mom) you can't touch her or she will loose her magic and when she is flying back to the north poll she will fall right out of the sky. Lol she is too funny! 

So today we got quite a bit of snow, so much fun for kids! So we decided to make snow cream for the first time. Soley had a blast! 

And with all that snow it was so fitting to put up a chriatmas tree. This year we decided to go with a real tree. I thought it would be fun and easy, boy was I wrong they are a ton of work! But we finally got it up after all our nice ortaments were broken by our 3 year old and the fact that the tree fell down 3 times. But it looks good and Soley had a blast. She put every ornament on and was so proud. I love seeing her feel like she accomplished something and is so proud of herself. And she put the star on top! 

Beach Photo's

So back in Aug we went to the beach with my parents, and some family friends (our OBGYN (who delivered soley) and her family, they have been my parents best friends since before I was born!) Anyways, while we were down there I got soley's pictures taken, and they were AMAZING! I just got the C.D. in the mail today, VERY LONG STORY! But I finally got them, so I wanted to post them! Enjoy, she is so pretty! And this lady shot all of these in 30 min, Soley did so well!

This is just a few of them, they are all so great it's hard to choose, luckily I got the entire C.D! 

The pier really was that teal color, it was so cool, and great for photos! It was several shades of teal, the neatest thing! 

Amazing right? If you ever head to Myrtle Beach, you have to check this girl out! 

Cousin Love...

More to come on a wonderful trip!!! But just a quick pic until I'm able to post. How sweet are these two cousins? 

Swim...

Soleys has been taking private swim lessons again, she took about 5-6 this past summer and did amazing.  So we took a break for the summer and continued to swim with her at our pool and my parents pool.  So we decided to join the YMCA for the winter so that she can continue to work on her swimming.  We also decided to do a few more private lessons to build on her swimming skills.  It's important to me that she can swim well, and properly.  I will video more next week but I caught this today, you can hear Mya squeal at the end :)  She did very well today even know she was very tired and getting over being sick from the weekend. Enjoy!

Fall is in the air...

The pictures say it all... But Mya was taking a nap a few weeks ago and Soley and I decided to rake up all the leaves, and of course, jump in them!