It's snow much fun!

Paige, Kaylie, and Kamber (Paige does not know how to take a picture without posing!)
The return trip of Porter's loop. See that look of terror on his face?

The maiden voyage.

Even the dog ran along.

Grandma Jo Bean is currently having a greenhouse constructed at her house by Uncle Skinny. He brought all the little girls with him to play with all my little ones. During the afternoon, the sun actually came out and so they all wanted to go out and play. Adam became the entertainment committee. He started up the 4-wheeler and hooked a calf sled to it and gave the kids rides around and around the pasture in front of the house. The girls loved it and wouldn't get off. Porter took one trip and half way through, he started screaming, "I'm scared! I'm scared!" He did eventually take a trip around with me holding him, but only if my arms were wrapped tight around him. (So much for my tough little boy! lol)

One year older and wiser too....

'Tis the season for birthdays at our house! Here are the pictures of the celebrations:

(The computer won't let me rotate any of them today so you get them as they are - sorry!)

The birthday boy ready to blow out his candle.

Riding his dino like a bull.

It's a dinosaur!

Brand new Wranglers from Grandma Jo Bean!

A football blankie so Daddy can have his back.

Getting started on his gifts.

A cowboy cake for my little cowboy.

The kids wanted to "eat" the candles off Adam's cake.
Porter actually took a bite. YUCK.

I forgot to bring candles so we dug in Adam's mom's cupboard. He wanted it as a '454' because it a good caliber gun and engine.

Sarah's favorite place in Grandma Jo Bean's kitchen.

The birthday boy and his cake.

Sarah did not like frosting on her hand.

Sarah's sweet Teddy Bear cakes.

Poor girl got sick on her birthday. You can see how flushed her cheeks are in this picture.

She was really not sure what to do with the presents.

The toothless wonder!

Paige finally lost her first tooth yesterday! I am so happy and sad at the same time. Happy because she has been having problems eating because of the tooth hanging on by a thread and sad because it means my baby is growing up! She lost it while watching TV. Apparently she was standing in front of the TV and wiggling her tooth when it popped out. She was so surprised that she just started hollering "MOM! MOM! MOM!" and when I found her she had this huge grin and blood streaming down her chin. The tooth is MIA. I don't know where it went but we're going to have to let the Tooth Fairy know the story in a note when Paige goes to bed tonight. She has not stopped grinning and had to call and tell all the grandparents because she is so proud to be so big! As you can see from the picture, lost tooth number 2 will not be long!

How many trips to the doctor can the Hatch family make in one month?

We are setting an unfortunate record right now. Someone in our family has had to go to the doctors office for something unusual for the last six weeks now! It all started with all three kids getting pink-eye on New Year's Eve. That is one heck of a way to ring in the new year! We went to Billings 48 hours later after we were no longer contagious to spend some time and celebrate the holidays with my family. It is always fun to see them. Adam and I got to go on a real date and go to the temple together, which had not happened since Sarah was born! Adam also got to go to Cabela's. While we were there at Cabela's, Porter started SCREAMING that his ear hurt. We ended up taking him to the Immediate Care place at the hospital and ta da! He had an ear infection. I got to spend almost an hour waiting at Walgreens for his prescription. The following week, I got to take Porter back to the pediatrician because it looked like the pink-eye was making a comeback. Then the next week, Adam started texting me at work that he was having a "gut ache" as he calls it and wanted to know if I had one too. I didn't. I asked where his pain was and he informed me that it was all over his stomach but mostly on his right side. I immediately started freaking out that it was his appendix. He wouldn't leave work to go get checked out but he did agree to go after work. Turns out it was a gall bladder attack but the nurse did yell at him for waiting so long to come in with lower right quadrant abdominal pain and told him to listen to his wife next time. (Thanks Nurse Kim!) A few days later Porter came down with a cough. I wasn't terribly worried about him. It just seemed like a typical cold until a couple days in when he couldn't stop coughing at night and started complaining of headaches. I got him in at the pediatrician's office. Turns out his oxygen level was low (in the 80's) and he had a 102 fever. They gave him a breathing treatment, steroids, and flushed one of his ears which was massively infected AGAIN. Finally, last night I was cooking dinner. I heard Porter start to cry but that's not anything abnormal with my three crazy children. It's probably more abnormal for them to be quiet. (In fact, Adam and I have discussed many times how incredibly stupid we were as children. We thought we were SO sneaky and we always got busted. How did our parents know?! Sneaky=quiet. It's such a dead giveaway! lol) Turns out that they were real tears. He had jumped off the arm of the couch and managed to split his chin open on my great-grandma's traveling trunk which now houses our DVDs. We got to rush to Immediate Care again. (You know it's bad when one fo the PACs come out the door to go home and wants to know what you're in for this time!) Luckily it wasn't terribly deep so we were able to get away with "liquid stitches" (why do they call super glue liquid stitches??) and a band-aid. The best part was how angry he was that they had no spiderman band-aids and had no sugar free suckers like they do at the pediatrician!! I do have a regularly scheduled appoint for myself next week but I'm really hoping that this is one streak we can put an end to!