Our snow day!

If you have seen any of my previous posts during the winter months you would know that I have a bit of an obsession with the snow! I just love it! We do NOT get enough of the snow over here in western Washington... although, living in the foothills means we get a bit more than some do out here. A few weeks ago we had a few snowy days... it was just cold enough to snow but not quite cold enough for it to stick... if it had we probably would have gotten 6 inches total. We really only had about an inch on the ground, just enough for the boys to play in. I swear it must have stayed for about 2 weeks! We never have temperatures that stay that low. I loved it! sadly... It has all melted now and our yard is back to mush.

Joshie making a snowball

Notice his awesome angry birds hat... he insists on wearing it backwards like he does with all of his hats.

Noah loves the snow too

Here's one just for fun... Noah loves his baby brother! He is always asking if he can hold Danny. Look at that red hair on that baby! I just love it!

Christmas

Another long overdue post here... 
Christmas was a little different for us this year... I was still recovering from my surgery and was not able to be running all over town like we usually do. Christmas Eve we went to a candle light service at our church, it is one of my favorite services at our church... I absolutely love it! We have so many people crammed into our building and everyone is so happy to be there. On Christmas morning We had a nice time at home just us and the boys for a few hours. It was wonderful! Now that Noah and Joshua are getting older I really wanted them to have time at home to relax and of course... play. I have to say now that we have had that for this year I think we will be doing the same thing from now on. My mom and step dad came over for lunch and we had a nice time just being together. That evening we headed over to Micah's aunts house for snacks and caroling,,, the kids even had a visit from santa! Of course... I forgot my camera for all of that...

Joshua opening the first present of the night at Papa's house... Noah and Landon were also excited

" Look at my cool batman cars track mom!"

Noah was so excited about this star light up thing! Actually it is pretty cool... you turn it on and the whole room lights up with stars at night time!

This pictures reminds me so much of my niece lily who lives out in Wisconsin.

Noah and Joshie opening up their gifts...

Joshua loves his toy story figurines... Thank you Aunt Amy and Uncle Kevin!

Noah loves his ninja turtles costume... Thank You Aunt Julie and Uncle Brad!

Caleb holding Danny... he loves babies!

Christmas morning... Joshie was so happy to find skittles in his stocking

Noah opening one of his gifts

Joshie ( still holding onto his skittles) opening up his gift from Noah... Evil Emperor Zurg.

Noah and Joshua with their gifts from each other.

Another cute Noah face

Love my babies!

Noah's gift he has been asking for for MONTHS!

Me and my love

Our gingerbread house! Our boys loved doing this... One of the families who brought us a meal after coming home from the hospital also brought this gingerbread kit for our boys to build. We had a great time! Noah loved sticking all of the candy on it.. and Joshua loved picking all of the candy off! Thank you Shaw family! I hope all of you out there had a Merry Christmas!

Our not so little family of five

My poor blog has been so neglected these past few weeks! I cant believe that it is already close to the end of January! where has the time gone? it seems like a few days ago we were patiently awaiting the arrival of our sweet Daniel... now he is 5 weeks old! Even more unbelievable is that i am just now... 5 weeks later posting pictures of our little baby! life has been a bit of an adjustment with 3 little boys in our quickly shrinking house.  this time around my recovery has been much harder than it was with my other two boys, I am so thankful for Micah he has been an incredible help. i am going to miss having somebody wait on me hand and foot, although I so look forward to going to zumba again

this is our last picture as a family of four. i love Noah's goofy face!

Micah Daniel and me in the hospital

Joshua meeting Danny for the first time... you can tell he wasn't too excited. he has since warmed up to him.

Noah was very excited... he even picked out a little giraffe for Danny

Danny with papa

Danny with grandma

Me and Danny

Daniel and Mimi

daddy and Daniel

sweet little baby foot

these next few are pictures i took when Daniel was about three weeks old... I was finally feeling well enough to get out of bed and was just dying to get pictures of my baby before he started to lose that new baby look. I think I got a few cute ones. He is just so precious... of course I am probably biased. Daniel Micah Stevens was born on Sunday December 16 at 9:47 am. He weighed 8 lbs 4 oz... our smallest baby yet... and he was 21 inches long. He is the first of our boys who looks very similar to Micah did when he was a baby... I just love his red hair! We were so surprised to see a full head of red hair on our little guy. He has such long arms and fingers, his feet are big too! He is just perfect... I am so in love.

looks so much like Micah!

I am just loving every moment with my precious Danny... I don't ever want him to change... silly I know but it just goes too quickly. before I know it we will be celebrating his first birthday.