march

king arthur cake donuts are the most delicious thing ever. especially their frosting recipe. 

our annual oscar party. darkest hour, wonder, lady bird, greatest showman, boss baby, baby driver, the shape of water, lady bird, i tonya, battle of the sexes, baby driver, i tonya and the disaster artist. taylor and my mom won the costume contest for sure. although craig's shiny fish crop top was pretty aweso

going all out.

but still not as much as my mom. 

a fluffy bunny in a piiiink room. 

muddy buddy cookies.

we went down to portland to meet baby mason. he was sooooo cute and squishy. 

jocelyn and i took the older kids to a michael jackson laser show. haaaaaa.

these two little best buds stayed up until midnight. "i can see an 11 & another 11".

the next day we drove into the city for burgers and ice cream. we have a lotta kids!

our growing group.

tucker and sully are the cutest.

and huck and tess loved the smiths driveway and all their fun toys.

we had a perfect view of my favorite mountain on the way home. mt rainier!

sully's other best friend, our next door neighbor, johnny. i told sully that they are brothers from another mother and he loooooved that. 

for pi day!

saint patricks day breakfast. 

i guess she hears me say that a lot.

ballet class. that hand on the hip. its weird having the tallest kid in the class. 

hello.

cotton is a good sport.

so is huck. i weaned him for our trip next week and he has done such a good job. im so proud of him. he loves his bottle. but also annnnnnny normal human food we give him. except lemon pasta. he didnt love that. 

primary easter song in sacrament. tess' first time up there!!!! tagg always looks like hes gonna puke. sully always gets the giggles and tess had starburst stuck in her teeth.

we had our friends over for an early easter dinner and an easter egg hunt. 

kids name cards. 

adult table.

right before the hunt. while we were explaining the rules....

sexy!

baseball season has started. tagg and sully are having a great time and are doing so well. i do well when its sunny and warm at the games. so never.

my favorite little nugget ever. just learned how to turn around backwards and go down the stairs yesterday. 

walking home on a sunny day. my boys!

i tried making fancy buttercream flowers. it was very fun. 

the only way huck will "sit" in a cart or stroller. so yeah. useless.

all my babies at 10 months. 

our favorite babysitter and cousin turned 17 and had a surprise party. 

getting ready for church. this girl is the best.

the month of love and birthdays

guess huck loves meringue as much as i do.

tagg wanted to skip school and go skiing with his best friends for his tenth birthday. sounded good to me!

craig said they had a ton of fun. 

i might not have gone skiing with the boys but i made sure to have a themed dessert for tagg when he got home!

finished his birthday festivities at the dirty bird of course. 

they had a wax museum at school where all the fourth graders stood around in the gym and waited for parents to come around and press the "buttons" on their hands. then each kid would start speaking as if they were that famous person and describe their life. tagg was the founder of nike. :)

we went up to the pass to play in the snow for a minute.

huck!

they opened a salt and straw in seattle!!!!!!

on my birthday we went back to salt and straw. huck didnt mind.

we out to dinner with my parents. 

and bowling/fun center with my friends. 

and finished it all off with a cake with the kids and cotton. a pretty perfect birthday. 

they asked me to help with the ward valentines party. it sure is hard to make the church gym look less church gym-y but i tried. 

cutest cupids!

sully's valentines. 

taggs.

tess'. and those are mini tennis ball gum balls. 

x's and o's pancakes for vday morning. 

thats a lotta red food dye. :)

good thing i was able to salvaged a few mini heart pavlovas from huck's grasp. 

everything pink!

on valentines day we drove over to our friends house in sandpoint idaho. it had been a while since we were there in the winter time. it was stunning!

the boys skied at schweitzer while we were there. go sully!

while tess, huck and i stayed behind and made an ice rink on the lake!

tagg & sully loved having a sleep over downstairs in the toy room each night. 

huck was one dang cute snow bunny. we had a great time in sandpoint and are grateful for generous and fun friends!

matching nike brothers.

huck's first time in the car shopping cart. he thought he owned the place. 

speaking of owning the place. "my heart is in havana". the head jerk and closed eyes.... she uses the kitchen counter as her stage daily.

i took huck and tess down to southern california with my parents to celebrate my moms birthday. our first stop was shake shack at the new UTC. huck was loving his shake shack shake. 

had to make a stop at brooke's target for the essentials. this is how huck rolls around in shopping carts (much to fellow shoppers and employees displeasure). all my babies have done it! thats tess on the left at around the same age. 

girls' late night hot tubbing. 

my dad kept tess down in san diego on saturday (they went to the zoo and had a blast) so brooke, my mom, huck and i could spend the up in orange county. we had a wonderful, sunny lunch at bear flag and then snarfed down like 1823098 baking bettys cookies from fashion island. 

after getting to our hotel, cleaning up a bit and letting our lunch digest we headed back out for dinner at pizzeria mozza and thriftys chocolate malted crunch ice cream. fooooood.

the following day it was DISNEYLAND.

it was a perfect day. we took it slow and enjoyed shows and rides we dont normally do. it was very fun. clearly.

the group getting ready for pirates. 

mark twain riverboat in the sunshine. perfection!

these two.

we love brooke and her pool! a very fun february.