4 months

My little BIG man went in today for his checkup and my little I mean BIG man is not little anymore..

His weight is 18lbs 4 oz which is 95% and his height is 27.25 which is 97% 

but he has a nice size head only 87% 

He is a thumb sucker its cute, none of the others did that! Here's him looking at his hand, bring it to him mouth, and then the smiles!  He is also grabbing things and they find his mouth!

Our To Does...

Wow just a few more weeks until the big move! And here is what is on my mind!

- Go have a fun New Years!

- Find the cheapest moving truck- (have one on reserve but I think I can find better)

-Find a place to live 

-Get rid of all our clutter

-Pack our home

-Try and get my kids in to preschool and sign up for kindergarten (herd they probably wont get into the school I was hoping for)

-Erik getting all his things passed off and get him done! (He did pass his tests! YAHOO)

-Move to Arizona

-Unpack and get settled in

-Then get another check off list when we get there!

Ho, Ho, Ho, Merry Christmas

For those who have not gotten our Christmas card its coming- I just picked them up yesterday!
here's you a sneak peak. Well the picture that is on the card! 

 Thanks to an amazing friend who I said- You take good pictures wanna take our family's! And she did and I love them! Thank you Leslie!!


We love Santa

At our ward Christmas Party

Eriks Graduation

 We had a great day last Saturday, Erik graduated from University of Western States with his Doctorate in Chiropractic. He did it in 3 years when its a 4 year school!! Way to go babe!

 Erik's Parents

 This is our friend David Bagley 

He somehow got stuck with the extra small robe..

 This is what Ethan did while all the names were being called up- It was just to loud

 This is them giving the oath of Chiropractic 

 Future Graduate.. This will be so cute if he one day wants to be a Chiro!

 My in-laws bought us a cake for our open house and it just felt weird to read Dr. Arter!!

 And here we have the sread!! Yumm!

 And more yummy food!

So what are our plans:

 

Well, We are moving to Gilbert, AZ where Erik will work for Foresight Chiropractic.

We are so excited for our move and for our new adventurers we will be having! 

to name just a few...

1-We need to buy bed's for everyone.. Sadie is the only one who has one of her own, which has the crib mattress so might as well get her a bed so I can have my crib mattress back for Mitchell. Also need to buy a crib as well.

2-We don't own a vacuum, we have only lived places that have already had them.

3- Some time soon (hopefully).. would really like to have a vehicle so I can leave the house.

We have been very blessed to have lived the places we have lived and have saved the money we have saved. But now when we move it will feel like a bunch of empty rooms! But I'm still extremely excited and know that everything will work out! 

Thanks for all of you who came to the open house I really felt loved. I will miss Portland, but mostly the friends I have made! But that will be another post I am sure ;)  

Mitchell

 These are old, but finally played with them so they are ready to see!

Love that boy.

Big five

He's five, my baby boy is 5!

He wanted to have a Wall.e party and so what better thing to do then watch the move... no work in that, right?  Well funny thing is- They didn't even watch Wall.e I did a switcharew and watched How to Train A Dragon, I think Wall.e is boaring and we hadn't seen How to Train A Dragon so there you have it. And it was great!!

They had Pizza and bread stick's then popcorn and after the movie we did the cake and ice cream. 

And this is what you get when you ask another little kid to take your picture!!

They only get the person they care about in it. 

So I made someone else take a picture and Ethan wouldn't smile... 

I don't really know what he is doing!

He was done with the pictures, And I only wanted a good one of us... didn't get one..

His friends and cousins 

Ethan has been on a Wall.e kick this year, hence our Halloween costume 

which we left in Preston, if I would have known he wanted a Wall.e b-day I would have brought it home... And one other thing.. Took it to P-town for Halloween and he didnt even wear it! 

Anyways...

This time he wanted Wall.e in his box with just his eye's peering out.. I added the wheels with the extra cake..

The Favors were rice crispy treats with a letter E on them for Ethan or Wall.e. And yes that is what I did for Sadie's Party I had extra.. And had to think fast. 

We had a great time and his friends were so nice, he got exactly what he wanted.. Lego's and that is what he has been playing with the every day since. (And his dad has been playing with every day since.)

Mitchell at 2 months

 Mitchell has been so fun, I cant believe its been 2 months already! Ethan and Sadie both still love him so much and cant keep away from him.

 He loves the water

He now smiles all the time, he smiles then pulls out his bottom lip and looks like he will start to cry on the dime... then back to a smile.. He's a keeper..

And I thought I would be calling him Mitch but I don't, I love Mitchell- so if you were wondering or even care.. He's Mitchell or Mitchell Snichell

And yes.. he is almost 3 months but I had to get this up before then..

Brothers

 

Ethan in the picture and Mitchell with the cute smile. They do look alike hu! But Ethan has him some cute dimple.  Which we still don't know where he got!  

Just heard Ethan ask Erik what it feels like to be a dad... And Erik said well pretty awesome, I don't think I'm the best dad though... and Ethan said- You are the bestest dad I ever had! 

Sadie's Minnie Mouse Clubhouse Birthday Party!!

Sadie chose Mickey Mouse Clubhouse birthday party for her party after I found it off my cousins blog..But I turned it into Minnie mouse clubhouse.

We made invitations that looked like the Minnie Mouse ears:

Picture to come.. 

After everyone arrived, I asked all of them if they have ever seen the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse shows. I then asked, "What do you say when you want the clubhouse to appear?" Everyone yelled: Meeska Mooska Mickey Mouse! I then played the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse music...."It's the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, come inside it's fun inside....."

I told them that we were going to have toodles come and help us with Sadie's birthday party. So everyone yelled: "Oh toodles!"

Each picture represented a game that we were going to play. The first mouseketool that was picked was: HOT DUCK. We passed Donald around the circle. while "Hot dog, Hot dog, hot diggity dog was playing... If I would have had a pluto it would have worked better... but it was like: (hot potato)

The next mouseketool picked was: PLUTO. Pluto represented Pluto, Pluto, Ruff:  (duck,duck, goose)

MICKEY MOUSE was the next mouseketool. Mickey represented musical ears. There were Mickey pictures on the ground with pictures of: Minnie, Mickey, Goofy, Pluto, Donald, Daisy, Chip & Dale, and Toodles. We played music and when the music stopped everyone picked an ear to stand by.

The next mouseketool picked was: MINNIE MOUSE. Minnie represented pin the bow on Minnie.

 Each child got a chance to see how close they could get it right on Minnie.

There was one more moseketool and it was the mystery mouseketool. We took off the ? and we saw Mickey Mouse holding a present. 

It was time for Sadie to open her presents!

WOW, she was spoiled! She was given tons of stuff! Thank you to all her friends!! They definitely know what she likes!

After presents, I told them that we had a picture puzzle to put together. We sang, "Picture Puzzle, Picture Puzzle, picture this." (I know we watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse WAY to much!)

I told the kids that his meant it was time for cake (really cupcakes) and ice cream. And cheetos because thats what mice eat?? hee, hee Im so funny!

I had them color there blow things.. note to self.. blow things bad idea.. they would blow them right in your face and there spit would come out with it! 

After everyone was done with their treats, it was time to go home. Sadie gave everyone a minnie, or micky mouse crispy treat we dipped the ears in chocolate and the girls got pink tootse rolls as bows, with a real bow they could wear in there hair, and the boys got a card game!

Thanks for stopping by! Sadie

Oh has anyone made those tissue flouting thing?? There fun to make and cute deco... didn't really take a good picture of this one, I made two.

I just loved all there smiles!! And I did love these balloons I got at sixstar in Logan