Tori's 6th Birthday

My little Tori turned 6 yesterday. We had a great day!  We kind of celebrated all weekend though.  I brought treats into her class on  Friday, and on Saturday Steve took her and her friends (Jacob, Mia, and Brooklyn) to go see Frozen and eat cupcakes.That night we went to Olive Garden for her Birthday dinner...in the negative degree weather! Its been FREEZING here! Steve said they were all going crazy together but they had a good time. lol! On Sunday we had donuts for breakfast and went to church.  We also gave her money because she wants to shop with Sydney and got her a couple outfits.  Steven made her a treasure hunt to find the gift he picked out for her.  It was very sweet of him. Then we just hung out and then I made her fav, dinner (meatballs, rice and pears) and ate cake!

Sydney hits double digits

Sydney turned 10!  We celebrated by  having her favorite breakfast of cinnamon rolls and TruMoo milk.  We gave her some cloths and money this year. She loves to shop! Steve took her to lunch @ Panda express, and After school I made her dinner she requested and had cake. She was very precise about how she wanted her cake decorated.
On Saturday Steve took her and her BFF Asia and Courtney to the roller skating rink (again) and then to the cupcake shop.  They had a good time especially Steve at the skating rink....He was in heaven ;)

Thanksgiving 2013

This was our first year in Idaho Falls for Thanksgiving, but we decided to spend it in Salt Lake City. Our friends the Olsens wanted to go with us which made it fun! We both got rooms at the Hilton down town and headed down on Wed. after Steve got off work (3ish) it was a nice drive an refreshing to be in a big city again!!!! Never thought Id say that. We went to in n out burger and then went to Scheels. A ginormous sports store.  There was even a Ferris wheel inside that Steve and the kids went on.  The kids all went swimming at the pool and the next day we had breakfast at the hotel and then went and walked around Temple Square. We fed the kids a snack and went to the movie Frozen @1pm.  Then we went to Tucanos right after @ 3.  The place was super crowded and the little girls were cranky and I hardly sat long enough to even eat! Not as relaxing as I hoped it would've been. Then we said goodbye to our friends because we needed to head back since Steve needed to work @ 3am the next day.

Name change

After a long 2 months of debating in my head whether or not we chose the right name, we decided to change our little babies name to

Harper Ivy Kate Brooks

2 months old already!

Harpers Blessing

Harper is growing too fast! I want her to stay little forever!

 

These were some professional pics we had taken of Harper Kate when she was only 6 days new!

Grandma and Grandpa Kanooth came for her blessing.  We all enjoyed them coming and spending time with us.  The kids loved all the games they played with them and taking them to school. 

Harper was zonked out on Papa and he loved every minute of it.

Sydney and Steven are such big helpers with Ivy!!! It definitely helps to have their extra hands to hold her or pop her passy back in her mouth.

Tori was very excited to loose her first tooth!  The tooth fairy had a very busy 10 days....Both Sydney and Steven lost 2 each and Tori 1 all within a week and a half!!

Pumpkin Patch, Pumpkin carving and HALLOWEEN

We went with the Taylor Family to the pumpkin patch.  

Tori and Mia
Lower Left- Sydney and Asia

The girls each got to wear their costumes to dance class and learned the thriller Dance. 

 Before and after our pumpkin carving. Sydneys is the Boo!- Stevens is the cyclops,Tori's is the witch and Reese painted a jack o lantern face.

Already to go out Trick or Treating with Dad while I stayed back and passed out candy with Ivy .

Ready for school. They got to wear their costumes the whole day and had a costume parade.

Our friends had their little horses dressed up for Halloween and the kids loved seeing them.

Reese only lasted 10 mins out in the 35 degree, wind blowing , raining weather.

Thanks KIDS! :)