Adalayde Laughs with Aunt Hilary

Happy Birthday Uncle Beastie!

Happy Birthday Brigham! Thanks for being such a great brother in-law and uncle to my kids! You are always so pleasant to be around and you always make me feel welcome and comfortable. Thank you for loving me and Anderson and Adalayde! They are lucky to have you for an uncle. I am glad that we were able to spend your birthday with you! Hope you had a good one!

Love,
Justin,Maris, Anderson and Adalayde

Happy Birthday Bethany!

Happy Birthday to our awesome cousin Bethany! Bethany you are such a sweet girl and so kind to everyone. One of the things that admire most about you is that you are always willing to stand up for who you are and what you believe in. I also admire the kind way that you treat Duncan and Olivia! That says a lot to me about who you are when I see the way that you treat your siblings and your parents! I hope that Anderson and Adalayde will treat each other the same way that you and your brother and sister treat one another. I hope that you have a wonderful birthday! I wish that we could have spent the day with you. I would have loved to have seen your cute face on your 16th birthday!! I still can't believe that you are 16! I love you!

Love,
Justin, Maris, Anderson and Adalayde

Happy Birthday Drew!

Happy Birthday Drew! I remeber how excited I was the day that you were born!! I was so glad to have a baby in the house and to have a little brother. I am so glad that you are my brother! Thank you for all the times that you have helped your electronically, computer challenged sister out! Thank you for loving me and my kids! I hope that you have a wonderful birthday!

Love,
Justin, Maris, Anderson and Adalayde

Hilary!!

I am proud of my baby sister!! Check out this blog post about her from her coach!

Happy Birthday Machi!

We are so thankful to have Machi for our grandma and for all that she does for us! Machi is one of the most generouse people that I know. She is always so thoughtful and we love spending time with her. Machi is a good friend and in turn has so many good friends. Liesl and I laugh because Machi litterally has friends all over the world! We are so glad that because of Machi we were able to spend her birthday with her. She flew Liesl, Adalayde and me down to sunny Arizona for her birthday. Then upon arrival she made us a wonderful dinner! That is how Machi spent her birthday, doing for us. Thank you Machi for all that you do! We loved spending your birthday with you and look forward to many more years to come of Sunny Arizona in November!! We LOVE you VERY MUCH!

Love,
Justin, Maris, Anderson and Adalayde

Adalayde really walked while we were gone. She is DONE crawling and has moved on to big girl walking! Pictures to come of the trip when I get them from Machi!

Halloween 2009

We had lots of fun on Halloween! We went to Lagoon and then came home and went Trick-or-treating! The kids loved it. Little Adalayde was suppose to be a butterfly but she would not wear her wings. Oh well we thought she still looked cute!