November Visitors...

We love visitors!!! Doug & Sadie, our long lost friends in Seattle came to visit, and we were OH so excited. These are Doug & Sadie whom our kids think are family. Lovingly called Uncle Doug and Auntie Sadie. We have been friends with them since day one of our marriage. I love having old friends like that. Before the kids, when we would go back and forth to and from Seattle at least once a month to visit, then Tucker came, then Taylor and Jacob, and now Jackson and Carson. Our little group of 4 is now and army of 9. It is so much fun! Not as easy to cram into small places like we used to, but fun nonetheless. I had to go do a photoshoot while they were here, and while Doug and Ben were happily entertaining Tucker with the play station, Sadie made up a cute little scavenger hunt for these two, I came home right at the end. That little Jacob is a cutie, and both of our kids just love their 'cousin' Jacob. Don't mind the raggamuffin children. Once lovely thing about being friends for so long, is that there isn't a need to impress. AND there isn't a need to go go go, we usually just hang out while they are here, grab a bite to eat here and there and just enjoy great friends and great food together! :)

All the kids in our bed; watching polar express. Ok, only the big kids were watching it,

Jackson and Carson were really excited about taking this picture. :)

I did sneak out with this cute little man to take some photos of him for his 9 month shots. He is THE absolute cutest thing I have ever seen! I just love him. And he is so happy and smiley all the time.

The very next weekend, my mom and Allen and Kelli came into town for the weekend. It was our annual November birthday bash. This has been the year of grandma visits, and we have loved every minute of it. Between having the babe, and surgery and my siblings coming into town, grandma has been up a lot and we love having her here!

Taylor and Grandma dancing with Chuck E:

Oh, and some EXCITING news was unexpectedly announced while at chuck e cheese:

 

Woo-hoo!!! That is #4 for them (crazy people!) and we will get a new little niece or nephew in June! :) Yay!!! :)

Of course, the plague has been at our house, so this was also the weekend that Ben and Tucker started throwing up, so poor Tucker didn't even get to celebrate his own birthday party. But, my mom and Allen and Kelli did take the kids to jump and bounce, while I stayed home with the sickies.

Cassidy's typical face:

Oh, but grandma did get her to actually smile!! Woo-Hoo grandma!

We waited a few days, and luckily the sick boys started feeling better, so we just did a be-lated present opening. Taylor led us in Happy Birthday:

Giving gifts to my kids is the best. They are both so animated when it comes to opening gifts and get SO excited:

Cute cousin BFF's:

We have fully embraced the Seattle Seahawks as a family. I was never a fan growing up because my family members were such big fans of other teams, that I just never got into them. But after going to the game in September, we decided that we needed to embrace the Seahawks as our team, since we are from Washington State, and they are pretty awesome. (And Russel Wilson is a hottie...but that's besides the point!) :)

It was also Aubrie and Cassidy's birthday, so it was fun watching them open their gifts:

We missed our other cousins being with us, but luckily we all got to see this cute little thing: 

We are missing her like crazy!
And this guy's no visitor, but he did get home from Alaska which we were really excited about!!! :)