Finally, after 5 years...

On March 7, 2015, Richard "graduated" from his Electrician apprenticeship program! He completed it through the IBEW and is now a Journeyman Electrician! It was a 5 year program of schooling and work. He was able to work with a few different companies and journeymen throughout the years and is grateful for the education and experience he received! 

It's official!!

The "graduation" was more or less just a "completion dinner". They provided a dinner for the graduates and their families and then had a little awards ceremony! Richard is the one on the far right. There was a boy I graduated high school with who also graduated with Richard that night...so that was fun to know someone else in the group too!

Our Supporters!! My parents on the left, and his mom and brother Daniel on the right!

Interview and stats!

Kinzie's annual Birthday Interview!

Kinzie had her 4 year old check-up on February 12, 2015.

Height: 38.5 inches

Weight: 31.6 lbs

*Petite, but Healthy as a Horse*!!

Kinzie's 4th Birthday!

Kinzie had a Frozen themed birthday this year! On Saturday, February 7th, she had a friend party during the day and a family party that night! lucky girl:)

At her friend party we played some fun games!

Throw the snowballs into Frozen Buckets!

Musical Snowflakes (cake walk)

Frozen bowling

Frozen Pinata!

Cayden loved it!!!

Frozen cake made by Grandma Sheri!

Her friends spoiled her with fun presents!

Then that night we left the games out for the cousins to play if they wanted to. We also had Frozen coloring pages to keep them entertained!

What's a party without yummy snacks?!?
Meatballs-Stone trolls
Donut holes-snowballs
Chocolate Kisses-To warm a frozen heart
String Cheese-Snowmen
Pretzel Sticks-Olaf's arms
Carrots-Olaf's nose

Frozen cake made by Grandma Sheri!

Quite the crowd! Glad she has so much family that loves her!

THE BIRTHDAY GIRL!!

Frozen Balloons!

Monday on her actual birthday we celebrated some more!

Opened presents from mom, dad, and cayden!

Ate a Chocolate Chip Chocolate Muffin (her favorite) for breakfast!

My Beautiful Birthday Girl!

Went to Burger King for lunch with Mom, Cayden, and Grandma!

And ended the day by going to dinner at McDonald's with Mom, Dad, and Cayden! What a spoiled little girl!

It's a ......!!!

On December 29th, we had an ultrasound to find out the gender!

This was the day before....boy or girl???

IT'S A GIRL!!

ps. it's a lot harder than it looks to get a 1 and 3 year old to throw/blow glitter in the air. 

To announce it to the kiddos, I made white playdoh the night before--2 with red dye in the middle and 2 with blue dye in the middle. We ended up throwing the blue ones away and they got to play with the pink! 

As they play with and smash it, the white playdoh is supposed to turn pink--it kinda worked! But they got the idea--and Kinzie was so happy (she REALLY wanted a baby sister)!

Another attempt! We ended up using pink confetti because the glitter just wasn't working out real well ;)

 We are all very excited! Richard was so determined and convinced that it was going to be a boy--so he was in a bit of shock and I think it took a day or so for it to really sink in. In fact, when the tech wrote "girl" on the screen, Richard replied with "Really? are you sure?" HA! But now he's thrilled and anxiously awaiting her arrival!

The ultrasound showed our due date as May 29, 2015!

Christmas 2014

Christmas came and went so quickly. The kids were at such a fun age to be able to really enjoy all the festivities! 

Kinzie putting the star on the tree! We put our tree up at the beginning of November!

Kinzie built this tower out of ribbons and bows all by herself and was so proud of it!

CHRISTMAS EVE! first ever matching pj's!

SANTA  CAME!

Singing Let it Go with her frozen microphone!

new Cars cup!

Firestation Set!

Let's build a Fort!!

Looks thrilled, doesn't he?!?!?

We can't wait for the weather to get nice and warm so we can go on lots of wagon rides!

Richard got a big gun safe! In this picture he's filling up his new Playmate Lunchbox with all of his new drinks!
I got a new credit card holder filled with a bunch of different gift cards!! Awesome Gift!!

We had a very Merry Christmas!!

It was a very snowy Christmas Day, but we still managed to make it out to Arbon for Christmas Dinner and to skype with my brother Challis!

Preschool Christmas party

This girl loves to help me bake sugar cookies! We made some Christmas ones for her preschool party!

We took a variety of treats to share with all of our friends!!

not a great pic--but here's the crew, minus Brayden.

The Treat Exchange! So many yummy snacks!!

This was the present Kinzie got from Allie, and we got to buy one for Emberlee!

We also played charades, pin the nose on the snowman, Christmas scramble, and made a craft!!

Dance Preview

The first weekend in December Kinzie had a dance preview where all the classes get to perform what they've been learning. Nothing by then is perfected, but it's fun to watch! It was at the Festival of Trees place, so we had fun looking at cool trees, gingerbread houses, and Mr. and Mrs. Clause afterward! 

She was so nervous but did good and her class was so cute to watch! They danced to the Olaf song from Frozen
 "In Summer"!