Austin's 31st Birthday...and other stuff

Austin turned 31 yesterday. What an old man! (I turned 31 16 days ago.) The kids had fun making him a birthday hat and presents and also buying him a gift or two.


Ice cream birthday cake - yum! With formula one race cars on it.


Golfer Jensen


Austin's dad got the boys some "dog tags" with their names on them. They wear them all the time until Jensen decided his was supposed to be on his dog stuffed animal, since "it's a tag for a dog."


Me with my big girl. 10 more weeks till she gets her baby sister!

Can't wait to put her in some dance class or something when she's a little older. I think she'll LOVE it!

She's finally starting to get a bunch of teeth.

A few pictures...

Sorry, it's been forever since we updated our blog. Here are a few pics of us recently...

My brother Justin and his family came to visit us for New Year's. They only live 3.5 hours away and it's so nice to see them every other month or so. For New Year's we went to the Holiday Inn for a party they were throwing. Austin and I had won tickets for 2 families so we all got to go. It was SO fun! This pic was at the Iowa Historical Museum. Also very fun.

The kids got so much great stuff for Christmas. Luke loves star wars and got a new light saber and star wars pjs from Austin's mom.

The kids woke up at 4:30am Christmas morning. We decided to go ahead and do Christmas since we had to leave for Church before 9am.

Jensen loved the gift Luke got him. Gotta love these sweet moments.

After about 4 years of Austin working on this model, he finally finished it! I don't know how he does these things. They're so small and you have to have such a steady hand, I would have messed it up 100 times. It's pretty cool, wish you could see it in real life. He did everything on it down to the little, tiny details. He would work on it every few months when he had time.

Our cute girl. Loves chocolate chip cookies. Can you blame her?

Her Christmas outfit.

Shawna got her this cute shirt and Jensen got her the headband for Christmas. Either way she's adorable.

This is another project Austin's been working on. My sister Sarah was so nice to buy all the materials for this cool advent calendar. We were going to make them at her house over Thanksgiving, but ran out of time and energy. Austin spent literally 30 hours on this thing over school break. As you can see, he very artistically talented. He made each box design himself, painted everything, etc. He is a man of so many talents. This calendar is so cool. Come by our house around Christmas and you can see it in real life.

Eliza giving out Chocolate kisses...