New Family Addition!

We have a new addition to the family!

Noah David Schipper ( son of Andy and Jodi Schipper, my sister and brother in law)

Born Friday, September 18 at 6:15pm

7 lbs 6 oz

19 ¾ inches

Grand Canyon with Jodi and Andy

Since Jodi (my sister) and her husband Andy were visiting we of course took them to the Grand Canyon. Here are some pics. It really is magnificent no matter how many times you see it.

More Pics from Rocky Point

Mini Vacation in Rocky Point, Mexico

In May during my sister and brother-in-laws visit, we had the amazing opportunity to go to Rocky Point, Mexico and stay in a condo for FREE! It was beautiful and we had a glorious two days there. The biggest decisions we had to make were what to eat, and whether or not to go to the beach or the pool which were both directly out the back door.

Being Like Bear Grylls

One of Levi's favorite shows is Man vs. Wild with Bear Grylls on the Discovery channel. Bear gets dropped off in remote places and his goal is to get back to civilization all the while showing you how to survive. He does all kinds of crazy things and has to eat all kinds of gross things, one of them being snakes! And sometimes he bites the heads off snakes and eats the rest raw! It's totally gross but of course my boys love it. We may have a future Bear Grylls on our hands...

A Big Boy Room for Levi

We wanted to show you Levi's new room! He loves his new big boy bed and the tent you see is our birthday present to him. It actually fits a twin size bed and can be strapped to the mattress so it'll be like he's sleeping in a tent! We haven't tried that yet because we're not sure he'll actually sleep so we're enjoying it on the floor right now.

Birthday Party Friends

Here are some pics of Levi and his friends at his birthday party. The girl he's with here is named Kylie and we're pretty sure he likes her a lot. Jason said at one point during the party he came over and asked for some M&Ms. Jason gave him some and he proceeded to carry them over and give them to Kylie! It's already started and he already knows that the way to a woman's heart is through CHOCOLATE! :)

Happy 3rd Birthday Levi

We had a great time hosting Levi's 3rd birthday party at the house. We were supposed to go to the park which is just a block away, but the wind was atrocious
and so we just opted to play at the house

instead. It was a Hot Wheels theme and I had fun making a race track cake with candy bar cars and all. We feel very blessed to already have so many people who love us and enjoyed having so many of them join us to help us celebrate Levi's birthday. The Thomas train he's playing with is his very first and he loves it! Hope you enjoy the pictures! He's so big!!!!

Mom, come see

Levi came running one day screaming "Mom, come see! Mom, come see!" When I went into his room he had laid all his books out in the floor and he said, "I made a triangle big!" You know, I was so proud and a little biased in thinking how smart our little boy is! It was a fun mom moment.

Candid Pics

I've taken a few really cute pics of Levi and just thought I'd share them with you. He's become quite the little ham and still cracks us up on a daily basis.

Snow Play

Levi was super excited to actually have snow at our house. The church usually gets snow while we would just get rain because we're lower in elevation. We were totally unprepared however, and poor little Levi kept coming back in for dry socks to put on his hands because I had given all his winter wear away not realizing it could snow here. I had kept his winter coat so at least he had that! I felt sorry for the poor cows too! Some of them ended up hunkered down by the fence for the night. I think they were in shock!

Wild Hair Levi

Levi grabbed a wig from our youth minister's office
last Thursday and looks too cute not to show you!

Cowboy Levi

Thought you'd enjoy some pics of Levi all dressed up as a cowboy. My mom went a little crazy at Christmas time but boy does he look cute!! These were taken in Texas when we went to visit my grandparents the week after Christmas. Enjoy!

Christmas morning in Arizona

We very much enjoyed our Christmas morning at home with Levi. It's the first Christmas we've actually been at our house and he got to wake up and open presents at home. I was already awake when he woke up so I went to go get him. He was ready to open presents but daddy was still in bed so we got Jason up and when Jason asked Levi where all the presents came from he said, "from Jesus!" That has to be the best answer ever!!! We opened presents and had a big breakfast and then played allllll day!!

New Year's Week in Texas

These are some pictures of Levi at my grandparent's house in Texas. We got to spend a week there after Christmas with my parents, my sister and her husband, aunts, uncles and cousins. It had been a really long time since we had all been together and Levi loved all the attention. He also got to ride out to the farm with the guys and feed some livestock.




We got some pretty cute pictures all
"cowboyed" up. Enjoy!