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Brithday Paigey!

Paige all dressed up in streamers from Grandma Jo Blander's birthday party.

Family love!

Paige is FOUR!

Porter refusing to eat spinach.

In the waiting room at the hospital after new cousin Keira was born. Kaylie likes to suck her thumb and play with someone's ear. Sarah's worked this time.

Sweet Sarah asleep in her swing.

Soooo Paige.

Adam made Porter a miniature roping dummy. He and Uncle Jerob are practicing together.

Porter and his dinosaur birthday cake.

Porter opening presents in Paige's Cindrella dress-up. (Definitely Adam's proudest moment!)


I think if there was an award for world's worst blogger right now, I just might win. I have been a perpetual procrastinator lately. Every time I think about updating I say to myself "Nah, I'll just do it later!" We have been busy! March is the craziest month for birthdays in my family. My mom turned 50 on March 12th and we threw her a surprise party. She had no idea I was coming to Billings at all and so she was doubly surprised to see me and the kids there! We had the fun opportunity to spend a night with my sister Nicole and her cute girls and we got to attend the singles ward to listen to my brother Ryan speak. It is a very interesting experience to attend a singles ward with three little kids, just so you know!



Our house is now red. They got all the siding done in about one week, which I think is amazing considering that they were stripping the old and applying the new! We now have carpet in the new family room downstairs and in the master bedroom. I transferred all the kids toys down to the family room and it has been amazing. They had so little room to really play in Paige's room that they and the toys would always migrate out into the living room, leaving me with a huge mess! At the end of the day now, I might have a handful of toys to pick up but nothing big. It has been a huge stress reliever for me. I don't feel quite so much like the family maid!



The kids are growing like weeds! Sarah now has her first tooth and is 15 lbs. and 27 inches long! I thought my other kids got big fast but she's got them both beat for height! Paige turned 4 on March 25th. She is getting so grown up and she loves it. Every time I tell her that she needs to stop growing, she gets mad at me and tells me that she needs to get big like me! Porter is such a boy and learns to speak more clearly every day. The other day I was loading the kids back into the van at Sam's Club and Porter informed me that he didn't want to ride in the van, that he wanted to take the truck that was parked next to us! He was very disappointed when I told him that the truck wasn't ours so we had to take the van anyway! Miss Paige is also going to play t-ball. She is so excited! It's going to be so cute to watch her play, although I secretly think that she's more likely to be the kid in the outfield watching the butterflies or picking the grass!




We start remodeling our kitchen this week. We will start demo on Monday as soon as I can get a bunch of the stuff packed up so we can tear down walls. We'll hopefully get all the sheetrocking, re-wiring, and painting done before Friday because my parents are coming up next weekend to help. My dad is going to help me tile and my mom will hopefully be the entertainment committee for my kids! Once it's tiled, we should really just have to hang cabinets, set countertop, and put everything back into the kitchen. I'm very excited to see the end result and very hopeful that we'll be able to get it done in about 1 1/2 weeks. I'll have to keep you posted!