Graduations..

Luke just might be the most handsome preschooler around.  This little girl on the right was his "girlfriend" and she even stole a kiss one day while Luke wasn't paying attention. 

Luke, his "ME" book and Mrs. Hollman.  What a great teacher.

Jake is the cutest kindergartner I know!  How did I get such great boys.

Jacob LOVED Mrs. Christensen, and she told me several times Jake was one of her favorite students.

And cute Nathan just enjoying the outings... Just 1 month old. (Love the old man hair.. right?) :)

Here is Luke performing like he always does...

And Jake singing away.  What cute little performers I have!!

Jake is 6 - wow, time flies

Jake's Birthday Breakfast of choice was crepes filled with nutella and fruit... not so healthy, but definitely YUMMY.

We are always glad Grandma can help with cakes.  Jake wanted a sports party so we came up with a basketball standard cake.

Jake was very happy about his "cool" cake.

more breakfast pictures

Relay games

blowing out the candles

We are so glad to live close to cousins... Thanks Grandma for bringing Kelton and Gavin to play!

Grandma's gift was a hit.

My crazy boys... aren't they cute though??

The funnest game ever... try to pop each others balloon.

Seeing how sunny it is, you would never believe just 3 days earlier it was SNOWING like crazy.  Weird Utah weather I guess. Well, I think the day was a success and I officially have a 6 year old that will be going to school ALL day next year.  I can't believe it ... really, I can't.  Jacob, we love you and are so grateful you are apart of this family.  You can be such a good helper and example when you want to.  You make having a bunch of boys a lot of fun.  You are mom's little buddy and its fun to just sit and visit with you.  You always have something interesting to say about everything... How did you get so smart?? Happy Birthday son!

The Dehners are here!!

Some of our Favorite Friends came and stayed with us right after Nathan was born.  It was soooo fun to have them here.  This is cute Miles holding the baby.

time for Morgan and Miles to go and I thought Miles was just sad to leave us...  about 15 minutes later he was puking in the car on the way home.  Oh, I wish those tears were for us, I shed a few for them when they left. :)

The Brostroms and the Dehners were our family in Ohio.  The Brostroms now live 15 minutes away -- yipee and we are trying hard to get the Dehners to move this way too!!  L2R: Nina & Cole, Me & Nathan, Amber & Will

Our boys (and Morgan).  Aren't they all so handsome.  Morgan is the greatest little girl to put up with all the rowdy boys.  Jake is convinced he is marrying her and that is just great by me!  Couldn't pick a better family to be apart of. L2R: Sam, Morgan Mike & Miles, Jake, Taylor, Kyle & Griffen and Carter

Amber and Nathan --- come back soon Dehners!

Nathan's Blessing

Grandma Heaton getting Nathan bathed and ready for the big day...

Could he be any sweeter?

We have 9am church and most my siblings decided to drive up from St. George the morning of the blessing.   They all left around 5am.  All my siblings and their families made it for the blessing (even through the crazy blizzard weather).  All of Taylor's siblings that were in Utah came too -- we had a house full...

Mom and Nathan

Proud parents and a Hungry boy!

Grammie and Grandpa Nadauld

All the priesthood men that participated in the blessing (not pictured, Steve Nadauld Jr.)

 From L2R: Kelly Heaton, Adam Nadauld, Steve Nadauld, Taylor, Rick Lewis, Gavin Heaton, Kirk Heaton and Lonny Heaton.

Just some cute pictures of the after party.. Estelle and Nathan

Katelyn and Lindsay entertaining Sam

And of course we got the golf cart out for the fun.  My nieces and nephews and Taylors are all about the same age.  They had fun together and a couple even "Paired Off."  I love being an aunt. :)

Grammie and Nathan

We were so lucky to have Grandma great at the blessing.  Isn't she beautiful!  She is so with it and funny, we love being around here any chance we can get!

Grandma Heaton

Jake in his comfortable napping position..

All in a hard days work for the boys.

Nathan and the Nursery

So my nesting finally set in about 1 week before the baby was born. We painted and decorated the new nursery... Now we have 2 nurseries for our little ones.


We were having a hard time keeping entertained, and so Luke decided to pass time by taking pictures... So nice. :)
I wonder if this little one will keep his dark hair. We love it.
The dark hair and blue eyes is my favorite combination--- what a handsome little one.

We haven't stayed home much. My family took the big boys and I got to tote around with Nathan for a week. It was GREAT!!

Taylor is once again a proud daddy..

And a few more FIRSTS around our house..

Jake lost his first tooth!! He was SOOO excited. He went to brush his teeth and brushed it right out. He's a vigorous brusher! :) The tooth fairy paid a premium for his tooth -- $2. Mom told Jake that the first tooth always gets paid the most -- the rest will be around 50 cents or so.

And Luke had his first piano recital. "The Bell Towers" you know the chime from grandfather clocks. he did GREAT, once he figured out where middle C was. I guess I should have sat him at the piano before the recital. The big grand pianos look a little different than ours at home. :)

Luke poses for the camera with his teacher Stephanie Haymond. She is great.

I love watching my kids perform! They are so handsome and talented. Way to go Luke.

here he is announcing his piece...

And here he plays it..

We SURE love you Lukie!!