Norah's silly faces

This is my favorite of Norah's cheesy grins! She loves to make silly faces and poses for the camera! Kailey is normally the one who gets her to make the faces and is always the one to snap the picture and I am so glad that she has captured this funny stage that Norah is going through! We all have so much fun watching Norah, she makes us laugh!!

Potty Training

Today is Day 3 of potty training and Max is doing GREAT. He hasn't had an accident since Day 1 during the night!

Last night he didn't wet the bed!!!!! This is just huge! There have been some tears...okay alot of tears! He is afraid to let the pee out! He has the cutest little pee dance and my favorite potty training moment has to be on day 2, so yesterday, when he had been holding it and holding it and he was getting a stomach ache and, and, and...when he finally went he sighed and said "that's amazin'!!!!" He also graduated to a big bed (he didn't get out last night!) and doesn't have a bottle at night anymore! Go big or go home! He really hasn't minded, so I guess that he was ready!

Max is holding his clock that tells him that he has to pee in 5 minutes!!!! Whatever works for him! I AM SO PROUD OF HIM!!!

Any ideas on how to get Norah to STOP using her body as a canvas?

Me & My Girls!

Today for Family Day we kinda all did our 'own' thing! Steve stayed home with the babies (who really aren't babies anymore!) and Kailey and I went to a movie and shopping! She is wearing her new outfit! Emma went with her friends to a movie which she cried in! Bridge to Tarabithia...Kailey and I went to see Music and Lyrics...which to anyone who grew up in the 80's, would find it very funny! I remember watching the very show that they were making light of! It was a lot of fun!

My girls are getting so big! Kailey is going to out grow me here any day and Emma isn't that far behind her! Norah was so funny when Steve was taking the picture...she backed her butt into the picture! She had to be a part of it! I love it!

Okay...so this picture is kinda blurry...but this is so typical of Norah!!! She is so dang funny and this is just her...she was obsessed with Kailey's lulu head band and wouldn't let her have it back! She wore it all evening long and would growl when we would ask for it back!!

my sweet little niece...'naia' as Max and Norah call her!

Happy Valentines Day!

For Valentines Day I surprised the girls with a pink breakfast! They had pink pancakes with pink whipping cream and red sprinkles on top. They had pink juice and valentines candy...then for their lunches they had all pink stuff...pink yogurt, pink applesauce, pink juice, valentines candy....they had alot of fun or so I hope!

Max's Birthday Cake

I am not sure how to flip this pictures...but it was Steve's birthday as well! I have both of my boys birthdays in one the same week!

Happy Birthday Max!

Max turned 3 this past week! He was so excited for his birthday and his presents!

After the taste of icing...

I was making cupcakes for my nieces birthday and Norah was loving the icing...a bit too much!

Who ever gets Norah up is the person that she is glued to...this time it was Emma! She was not going to leave her side for anything!!!

Countinng down to the new year...

For New Years Eve, I had a bunch of Kailey and Emma's friends over for a party!!! They played and screamed and played and sereamed some more and more...the babies were awake until 2:3oam...but the girls had so much fun!!!

For Christmas Dinner, the girls got to sit at a table all by themselves! They loved it especially when I lit the candles!

Snuggling with Norah on Christmas morning!

Norah loves little babies! Today she was reading to her baby with all her blankies!

Christmas Eve...before the kids got to it!

All the Piepgrass' got one!

My Little Pieps!!

For Christmas Eve I made jammie bottoms for my kids and then put the letters on their t-shirts!! They all loved them!

Norah loves this hat! She just looks so funny in it!

The whole gang of friends that celebrated KK's 11th Birthday!

My baby girl turns 11!

I can hardly believe that my little girl turned 11! It seems like yesterday that she was just so little! She had a great birthday, I think!! She celebrated with 15 of her 'closest' friends!!!! We played games, ate pizza and had banana splits and then they all slept over!!! It was a great time!

My Sweet Norah

Family Picture Time...

My two little...

Look at these chillies! Norah's room was spotless this morning and now look at it! Max dumped everything from the bins in the closet and then pulled out everything from the two bottom drawers in Norah's dresser-he then sits in the drawer. He then climbs into the crib and is now tormenting Norah!!! It is a wonder that I can even keep my house semi-clean with these two hooligans!!! It is also a good thing that I love them and that they are cute!!

I am painting my kitchen, nook, living room, laundry room and that is all just in one day!! I was in much need of something other than pukey taupe!! As you can see I chose a green! It makes such a difference! I love it! Yeah...I am a bit excited in this picture! My saying for the day was, "I can not believe what a difference this makes!"

My sweet little guy!

Norah and Max up to nothing good!!! Norah never sits in her seat to eat her dinner and Max follows her! I did put a stop to this...right after I got a few good shots!!! What a pair these two are!!!!!

You would think that it would be Max leading Norah into trouble...but it is sometimes not that way at all! Norah is a climber and has taught Max how to do it! She isn't afraid of anything...except... me leaving the room!!!!

BBF

These 3 are the best of friends! We all loved having Brandy over for a couple of days while they were here...we will miss her!

This is such deja-vous!!!! All of the cousins, well most of them, sitting on the Leavitt Chapel's stage! I remember having the same picture taken JUST a few years ago!!!
Check out Max in the back left!!! He is such a joke!!!

My friend from high school-Jodi Skinner and I are now severly out numbered by our children!!!!
My little family went down to Leavitt to visit with her little family before they headed back home to Utah!
Good friends are such a blessing!!!

The girls plus Max all made a hut in one of the rooms and watched a movie!!! Boy, you would think that all they did was watch movies! But really it was the only time that they all stood still and proved to be a good kodak moment!

Norah and Emma relaxing on the beach!!

Check this out! Emma, who is normally so scared to do anything, jumped off the boat roof and we couldn't get her to stop!! Cole and her jumped and jumped and jumped!! She also stood up on the boogie board and loved it! It was fun to watch her jump out of her 'comfort zones!'

We went to the Shuswhaps with the Percifield's and Max had so much fun! (We all did!!) But Max hadn't forgotten Karly at all! He layed down with her and watched a Dinosaur movie! It was great to see him sitting still for longer than 2 seconds!

I had made Max a lion mask at one of the kids tents and at first he didn't like it but then when he realized it was a lion...well everything changed! He was roaring like a lion to everyone! Then Eden saw how fun it was and the two of them were trying to scare everyone! They had a ton of fun! Max would roar and then ask, "scared you?"

There was a mini horse track for the little kids and Max loved it! Funny thing is that he has a horse just like this at home and he doesn't give it the slightest bit of attention! But here on the little track he wouldn't let it go! He went around 2 or 3 times and then I had to pull him out of there!

Emma, Kailey and Anna watching the marching band.

Norah and her Daddy

The Safety Bear was Anna's and KK's favorite site!!!!! At least they weren't afraid of it...like they are with clowns!!!!

Grandma, Tania, Anna, Eden and all of our family went to Spruce Meadows for the day! Max thoroughly enjoyed the bus ride that we could have done just that and come home! He thought that it was just dreamy!

Spruce Meadows

We are all on the bus to go into Spruce Meadows! Max is in heaven because he is on a bus! He was so excited, he kept screaming "bus, bus, bus!!!" We could have just stayed on the bus and he would have had a great day!