Teagie's party!

First a couple bath pictures - is this the cheesiest smile you've ever seen? Oh my Carterman!

My blue eyed boy now. He looks kind of robust here! He is a whopping 23 lbs already...and in 18 month clothes!

Ave always sleeps so sweetly. I just have to take a picture sometimes!

She is also the best sister a kid could ask for. She really can't get enough of Mr. Teague. She is always hugging and kissing him.

4 members of our volleyball team had a night out together. It was very fun! Thanks to my husband - our once a year vball night is pretty awesome!

Mr. Teagie Pie is going to be 2 on Wednesday! I can't believe it! He had his party on Sunday at Silver Bow of course. It was the busiest I've ever seen it, but we still had a good time. The pizza was delicious as usual!

He's been a little cranky lately (teeth), but he was surprisingly happy. He loved his cake and opening presents!

He is a big fan of Mickey Mouse still, so that's what we went with. And they wrote his name in orange, that's his favorite color!

I think he just bit a hunk of wax off his 2 candle here!

Miss Boo made us get the Minnie surfboard piece for her. She always gets her way!

Mason is just so nice. I love hanging out with him. Carter photobombed the picture!

These two are always buddies when they are together!

Mmm...brothers and cupcakes.

He loved opening presents, and these two were right there to help him with every one! This jackhammer from Erica and Landon was hilarious!

This drum from Auntie Terri, Abb, and Jord was his favorite. He had to play it right away!

His buddy Jordan was kind enough to take him on the carousel for me so I could take a picture. Ave is giving high 5's to Carter in the background.

Liam was being silly and making noises with his hand over his mouth. He's such a cutie - those blond curls kill me.

Abbey Jean the Dance Machine and Teagie - he was very happy when they arrived from dance.

Lastly a cousins and Auntie picture. I didn't get pictures of any of the Grandparents or my Aunts and Uncles (oops), but thank you all so much for coming! Especially Grandma and Grandpa Barsness travelling from Sunburst in the snow, we appreciate all of our wonderful family!

Another week of fun

Teague loves accessories as you can see. He wears that Ice Age watch almost everyday. Any sunglasses he can find will work too - he makes me laugh!

Ave calls this her sleeping hat. About once or twice a week, I go into her room at night to give her a kiss and find her like this. She's a cute little thing.

He has quite the cheesy grin. I love his new coat from Grandma and Grandpa Burgman. So many different shades of blue!

The boys were invited to a birthday party for their friend Darby out at Fairmont. They went to preschool with her, and she's in Carter's kindergarten class. We had a good time out there!

Ave came with me. She's been asking about Fairmont for about two months now. She also knew Darby from preschool, and Darby was so nice about her being there. There's Lando in the background! There were 7 boys and 5 girls that went. They had a blast!

This is a cute picture. Carter looks a little silly, but that's okay. They couldn't make it until pizza time, had to have a delicious pretzel first.

I love this picture. Miss Boo loves Laney. She's very good about cuddling up and giving her some hugs.

They have been very into look and find books lately, which is great. I'm going to have to find some difficult ones, these are pretty easy. Also, notice Ave's hair. She wanted a "Mulan bun" on top of her head!

Teague is obsessed with this Mickey Mouse one. He brings it out every single night!

Carter, who is usually my lazy child, wanted to go for a walk on Sunday. He, Poppa, and I went down to the trail. Carter taught us all about sonic booms, and how the ducks get food. He kills me. He is quite the animal expert. Or as he tell Poppa, "I'm not just a paleontologist Poppa, I'm a scientist too".

We had to stop at this awesome tree. It looks like about six trees fused together at the bottom. I think it's just cool to look at.

When we came back, Avery and Landon had each made a treasure map for Carter. He had a good time counting paces and digging up Transformers.

Oops, this one is out of order. On the way back from our walk, he blazed his own trail (and fell and laughed about 12 times)!

My blue eyed boy. I can't believe it's February already! He's going to be 2 and gain a new cousin (17 days Kelsie)!

Ave and her Daddy made a pretty cool ice castle outside. It's even bigger now, I should go take another picture.

While Ave was at dance today, I took the boys to Father Sheehan park. Sometimes, it's such a waste to drive home and come back 45 minutes later. It was a fairly mild day, so we tried it out and had a lot of fun. Teague loves to swing! He's also obsessed with the movie "Rio" and insisted on holding it while he was swinging. It is a good show!

My 49er fans last night (again out of order, oops)! They were so close! It was a great game though, and Kyle is excited for next year.

Landon swinging at the snowy park.

Carterman in the new car they got at the park. Hope everyone had a lovely Superbowl day (and Happy Birthday Aunt Diane and Happy Early Birthday Auntie Erica)!

A bunch of silly kids!

All the kids got so many cute clothes for Christmas. I love this happy dinosaur shirt on my Teagie man. He's starting to get very into dinosaurs just like his big brother.

We took a chilly little walk to Emerson last week. It was fun, but we didn't last there long. We've been trying to get outside a lot though. That's what hats, gloves, and coats are for!

My Dad's face kills me! He apparently was surprised I was taking a picture or Ave was getting heavy. She looks so happy swinging away though.

Ave's daycare always sends home homework for the days she doesn't go...so she and Carter always do their homework together at night. Teague is usually in there too. He likes to scribble on old homework assignments. They look so cute.

Carter always makes a fort to sleep in. He's laying under his giant dog and in between two pillow pets. Of course, blue guy is right there also!

Teague, the chocolate granola bar face, loves to wear Ave's tap shoes. They are super noisy! He fell asleep in his dinosaur bed in this exact outfit!

I love when these three play together. They've been very into Avengers lately. When Teague wears his Hulk pajamas they do a lot of searching for Dr. Doom. He, somehow, always gets into our house when we're gone.

I'm not sure what this move is, but he sure looks silly.

Ave, being a Montana girl, thought Jasmine's "winter wear" was quite ridiculous. She used a gift certificate to Hastings to buy a huge paper doll book, 2 Backyardigan books, and 1 Dora book. She loves to read (I'm so proud)!

Now, for a bunch of dance costume pictures. Terri brought a bunch of old dance costumes of Abb and Jord's over for Diane Trerise to look at. She and her family were our neighbors in Lincoln, and she was our dance teacher. She still teaches dance in Helena. Some of her girls were going to buy some of the old costumes for solos. We couldn't part with this one. It was Kelsie's when she was in 2nd grade. It's big on Ave, but she loves it!

That night we had an epic dance show at home. I had to play appropriate songs to go with each outfit. I believe she was dancing to Songbird by Fleetwood Mac for this one. It was graceful and lovely!

Bad Romance was requested by Teague. All 3 couldn't help but dance to that song. I love Ave's pose here!

She's got moves! Not sure where she got them, but they are fabulous.

She slept in this outfit the last two nights. She had a Ring Around the Rosie dance break with Teague, who had to dress up too. You can tell he idolizes his big sister!

One of my favorites, the King Tut dance. I have a "Best of Steve Martin" Saturday Night Live DVD. She thinks his dancing in King Tut is one of the funniest things ever (and she's right)!

What a happy little man!

Another one of Kelsie's old outfits - "Buttermilk Biscuits" right Kels?

This one was an ice skating outfit - it still worked perfectly though. She is one lucky girl to have Abb and Jord around. She's spoiled rotten!