Birthdays, Birthdays, and more Birthdays!

Spring had always been slow birthday-wise in our family until Noah came along. Then one by one we've added Ella, Riley, Alexa and now new baby Jasmine. I guess now I have an excuse to just keep on shopping straight through Christmas!

First we celebrated Alexa's 1st birthday. She's getting so big, and I can't believe she's already 1.

Alexa and her mommy on her 1st birthday!

Alexa and her favorite Aunt on her birthday!

(can't you see the resemblance??)

Yummy birthday cake from Sugarlips Cakery!

Then came Noah's Birthday! Noah is 6 this year. My how time has flown. It seems like just yesterday we were celebrating his 1st birthday, now he's all grown up and almost done with his first year of "big kid school." This mama isn't liking my last baby growing up so fast.

His crazy laughing monkey card from Aunt Dana & Uncle Wes. (thanks for the annoying card you two! Just wait, now you have a child....paybacks... well you know the rest :)

Uncle Gary flew in for a visit just in time to celebrate with us!!

Alexa with Dana & Wes. I think she's all partied out at this point!

Thank you Granny & Poppy for his "6 fives"

He promptly spent it on Beyblades :)

Noah's fabulous cake from Sugarlips! Yummy!!

Uncle Josh and Ella flew in for a few days to visit, just in time for Noah's birthday. Unfortunately, Aunt Dana has the pics of them together on her camera. As soon as she shares (hint, hint) I'll add some more pics of their visit, and our trip to the zoo while they were here.

We've had a good past month visiting with family, and taking lots of spring time outings. It'd be nice to do it more often.

Coming up next.....more pictures of Ella & Josh's visit.

Karen

Long Overdue.....

Obviously I'm a bit behind in updating my blog. I haven't posted since last February which makes me a total slacker.

We've had a busy year this past year. Noah started Kindergarten (cue the waterworks), Reaghan is studying for her drivers permit, and Sydney is getting ready to get her braces off. My how they've grown.........and how the time flies! I, of course, am NOT getting any older :)

I finally have a new computer (iMac, love it!) that will upload photos, so over the next few days, I'm going to try to upload some pics from the last year. (these were taken by an RT I work with, check out his work here: mblonde.smugmug.com)

My niece Alexa is just turned 1 and I have another new niece, Jasmine, born just before Noah's birthday this month! Our family is growing more every year!

I still love my job in the Peds ER, although it has been crazy busy the last couple of months. I've changed my status to Seasonal RN which means I work 7 days every 2 weeks, but I'm off 3 months in the summer with pay (kind of like a teacher) so I'll get to play all summer this year with the kids!

Gotta run....more to come with pics hopefully.

K

"It was a perfect sacrifice by a perfect person to perfect some very imperfect people. By that single offering, He did everything that needed to be done for everyone..." Hebrews 10:14