Family Photo Shoot

Yeah! We finally did a family photo shoot! Our photographer, Andrea, was AMAZING! She did a wonderful job of capturing the kids' personalities and was a dream to work with! These are a few of our favs!

 It was SUPER chilly that morning, so Miss K took to Daddy's shirt to keep warm.

 LOVE this one of our Jon

 the boys

the girls

Get Will!

 Our sweet girl

bros

Will's BDay Party

Will chose JJ Jump for his party place this year--the kids had a great time running amok! Will loved celebrating #7 with his friends and cousins.

some of the party crew

the girls: Annika, K, and Callie

Will is definitely set for a Nerf battle. :) Thanks everyone for coming to help make his party so fun!

All Things Halloween

We procrastinated this year and carved our pumpkins the day of Halloween, getting them done in just enough time to eat dinner and go trick or treating. Thanks Daddy for being such a good sport!

Miss K and her "baby pumpkin"

Hulk style

The finished products

Ready to go collect some CANDY!

Summer into Fall

Here are a few pics to sparsely show our summer and fall. Does anyone else seem to notice that they take way more pics with their phones now a days than with their cameras? Maybe it's just me, but I have tons of pics on my phone over the past few months, and not quite as many on my camera. :)

Will kicking

Jonny taking his fifth water break ;)

our left-footed cutie in action

yes, i'm just now posting first day of school shots :) here's one of Jonny's many signature looks

Jonny boy showing off his backpack, just like big brother's

my big first grader!!

In August, we went to Utah for a family reunion with the Stark crew--here are all the cousins posing on our last day at Aspen Grove. Look at all those blondies! Can you tell they have Swedish blood in them? :)

And back in June, yes, June, I co-hosted a baby shower for one of my besties, Julie, with her sister Windy. Baby Beau arrived in July!

UTAH

Last weekend Derrik and I jetted off to Utah just the two of us--thank you Nana and Papa. :) We were able to visit Derrik's parents, his sister, Chaunda and her crew, and his brother, Mike and his family. It was absolutely wonderful to catch up with everyone.

We then spent our last afternoon and night up at Sundance . . . we used to drive up there and shop/eat there when we lived in Utah and it was just as gorgeous as we remember.

The tree filled view off our deck

D attempting a nap

We strolled the paths around the lodges

Pretty waterfalls

Dressed up for dinner at the Tree Room restaurant

Pouty face cuz we have to return our sweet chevy malibu :( . . . and leave our cozy retreat

SPRING!

This post is a mish mosh of things from the past month . . .

Tis the season . . . I have two friends expecting babies soon--can't wait to get my baby fix! :) My friend, Windy, and I hosted the first one a couple weeks ago for our friend, Alyssa. She's having a baby girl and it was a blast putting together the party. It all turned out SO cute I had to take some pics to document it all before we dug in.

Candy jars and goodie bags to go

YUM!!!!

Alyssa (on the right) and Kelsey who's also due soon showing off their rootbeer bellies

Miss K strutting her stuff in her favorite outfit (this week)

Will had his Kindergarten Singing Concert last weekend and we had to warm up the camera in the stands while we waited, so D got some cutie patootie shots of the kids while we waited.

Will did SO good! He was so animated and loved performing . . . shocker :) . . . he's in the second row, 3rd in from the left.

Nana and Papa came to see Will perform and since Nana's bday was coming up we had a little celebration for her when we got back from the concert. Happy Bday Nana!!! We love you!

The kids always have to help blow out the candles.