Greats on the Rock!

Last Saturday we went and visited my Grandma and Grandpa Cooley's old place on Lake Martha.  They are going to be tearing down the house so we went one last time to sit on the rock and see the place I learned how to climb a rock and climb trees.  My parents, Grandma, and my niece and nephew also came with us and we relived one of the oldest traditions we had as a family, pictures on the giant rock!  I am so excited that I got to take my kids pictures on this rock at least once in their lifetime.  It is a very special memory for me now!

 The kids were trying to figure out how to climb the rock on their own.  :-)

Kiley, Riley and Zack (Meg's kids were not able to join us) 

Kiley, Riley, Rowan and Zack.

 Great-Grandma with 4 of her 9 Greats!  :-)

 4 generations (Mo wasn't with either, Mom had picked up Rowan and Riley)!

 Me and my kiddos on the rock.

 Family photo.  The last time Darin and I had our picture taken on the rock, Coko was the only one joining us.  My how we've grown.  :-)

 Riley and Rowan.

 Proud Zack!  He figured out how to climb the rock by himself!

 My kiddos goofing around on the rock.  :-)

So many wonderful memories!

A Very Happy Birthday to Our 10 Year Old Niece!!

This beautiful girl is 10 today!!! Can you believe it??  Double digits!  I certainly can't believe it! 

It doesn't seem that long ago that I was sticking my finger in her mouth during her baptism to stop her from crying.  :-)

 And now she is this wonderful girl who is adored by her two cousins and us as well!!!

We love you Meghan and hope you had a great day today!  Happy to hear it didn't snow on your birthday! 

Oregon had more snow last week, this time they just had a 2 hour delay.  Just enough time to make a snowman.  :-) 

Hope you took a picture!

Love you!

Happy Belated Birthday Uncle Chris!

I'm a little behind here!  So sorry Chris! 

We hope you had a very happy birthday yesterday skiing in probably the warmest weather in MN possible!  Hope you had a great day celebrating!

A New Bike For Kiley

When we got a new bike for Kiley for Christmas we had no idea we'd be sharing videos of her riding her bike so soon.  She had been asking for at least a month and surprisingly in FEBRUARY we had a beautiful 60 degree day and we decided it was as good of time as any to put it together for her.  Well she loves her new bike as you can see from these first pictures of her first day riding her bike.

First Day of Riding!

Anytime we have a nice day she is on her bike!  See the post below for more pictures and videos of our little speed demon!

Crusing Now

Nearly a month later she is cruising now!

And trying to keep up with her brother.

Kiley Whizing By

Keeping Up With Zacky

New Changes to Kiley's Room

Back in December we told you about updating the kids rooms but we wanted to make more changes to Kiley's room to make it more into a big girl room rather than the nursery with a bed in it.  After some talk with Kiley we decided to keep Daddy's clouds and the Pooh boarder but update the bottom of the wall with a more girly color and add some butterflies.  Kiley decided the color she wanted was purple and she and Daddy painted her room, (Daddy was very brave)!

It really turned out great!  I LOVE the color and with a few added touches by me here is what the room now looks like.

 I couldn't find a valance with butterflies that would work so I created my own with some clip on butterflies I found at Michael's and some blinged out valances at JCP.

Then added a few more butterflies to the wall to frame her new artwork that I have had for almost 2 years now.  :-)

I'm pretty excited about how everything turned out if you can't tell.  :-)

Tooth Numer 2 is Out!

Tonight after we put Zack to bed he came back down because his tooth was hurting.  It was REALLY loose and he'd been playing with it.  So we asked him if he'd like us to pull it out.  And I did!  He was so giggly about it!  It was so cute!!!  Then we went upstairs to put the tooth in the new toothfairy pillow my sister found for me and I said, "Bye tooth,"  and he said, I kid you not, "Hello Money!".  :-)  SOOOOOO FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was a really long tooth!  No wonder it took weeks to come out!

Happy Leprechaun Day!

That is what Kiley calls today!  *d:-) 

The Leprechauns have been busy in our house today.  Hiding gold coins and turning our milk green.

I'm not sure these two aren't full of mischief too!

And who has heard of baseball in MN on March 17th???  We are nearly 80 degrees today!!!

 Zack decided to try his luck and take the training wheels off today!  We're taking baby steps though. The wheels are back on.  :-) 

Hope you are all having a wonderful St. Patrick's day!