Night out on the town!

So, for Joshua's spring break, we loaded up the car and drove to Denver (on the spur of the moment-Joshua's favorite thing to do)! While we were there, we left the kids with my parents for a night and went and stayed downtown at the Hyatt! (Courtesy of my awesome brother Ryan and his wife Katie, thank you so much!!!) We had such a great time and wish we could do this every month! We were having such a great time that I only took four pictures. So, here we are at breakfast at Einstein's.

This is the view from our room....the 27th floor! If you look carefully in the second picture, you can see the capital.

Flashbacks!

So, I am walking down memory lane with pictures and thought I would include you! These are some old favorites : )

Caleb six months

Caleb 9 months

Easter Sunday four years ago!

Ethan ten months at the splash park
Adalyn five months
Ethan 5 months
Adalyn and Ethan in the backyard in Katy

More pics for the Aunts

Adalyn's cake was really neat. There are three figurines of girls in white dresses. They were on my cake the day I was baptized, twenty one years ago. Thanks mom for saving them!
A special picture with Nana.
Grandma and Grandpa Norris made it also.

Baptism week

Here are some random pictures that my mother in law took while she was here visiting. We had a great visit with her!

We will miss you Uncle Ron

The week of Adalyn's baptism my Uncle Ron (my Dad's only brother) was kind enough to spend two hours with us, taking Adalyn's pictures in her baptism dress. He took 180 pictures and they turned out so beautiful. We had a great time! He took the picture in the previous post of her with the black background. A week later, he was killed in a tragic accident in Arizona while returning home from my great uncle's funeral. He was changing the tire of my other uncle's car and a driver fell asleep on the freeway and went off the road and hit my Uncle Ron. He died at the scene. It is so sad and tragic. We will miss him dearly. He was a wonderful man. ALWAYS giving and serving and doing things for others. I will treasure this picture forever. Thank you Uncle Ron.

Adalyn is eight!

Well, Adalyn turned eight this month and she has grown into a little lady! I am amazed at how much she has grown up this last year! She is still full of life and loves to have fun! She is the little mommy at our house and the boys follow her around everywhere and want to do everthing she does. She is into everything girly: fashion design, hair, the color pink, music, art, baby dolls, lace, dressing up, talking on the phone, cooking, sewing, jump rope, dancing, long skirts, giggling, twilight, boys, singing and the list goes on! She is such a joy in our family and has so much love to give. She is such a sweet heart and we just adore her!

Snow day!

We have had several good snow days this winter. The kids have had a great time building snow houses with their kid size snow shovels that Santa brought. Treston enjoys standing at the door watching the kids. He has only had one chance to play in the snow, and he learned really quickly how important gloves are- He kept pulling his gloves off repeatedly and Mom would quickly replace them. He did catch on to what they were for, and eventually started to bring them to me when they would fall off.

10 Months

Here is our little Treston at 10 months. He walks and babbles, is full of personality and he grins every time he sees the camera! He is so happy all the time (with the exception of getting dressed-cries every time). He is such a joy to have in our family. He is so easy to love and makes us all smile!

Merry Christmas Everyone and a Happy New Year!

Norris Grandkids

On the Plane

Denver here we come!!

Christmas Morning (a little early)

So, our kids surprised on Christmas Morning and slept in. We had to wake them up so we could catch a plane after we tore through the presents. Santa was good to everyone this year and Joshua was really good to me. We really enjoyed our little family Christmas.

Christmas program at school

The kids had a Christmas program at school.
They were so excited about it. They did a great job singing! Right after the program we took them home for our family Christmas eve before we left for Denver. We made sugar cookies, watched the Polar Express and had a fantastic Christmas Eve dinner.

Adalyn wrote a note to Santa telling him that we have a cat named GIGI. I think she wanted to make sure that GiGi didn't get left out. Well, Santa left a can of tuna for the kitty. Thanks Santa!