Tennis Lessons

The little guy has pretty good form!

He loves playing tennis, we even play inside when it is too cold outdoors. Nothing has broken yet but I am sure it is only a matter of time. I know we are only setting ourselves up for trouble later on by letting the boys play ball inside, but it is just way too much fun.

He's actually watching the ball, that doesn't always happen.

Here is a video of our little Tennis Pro.

Here we have lazy-boy-tennis...

The Super Hero Interview

Playing with Carlie

The boys were all ready for church.

Carlie loves it when her brothers play with her. She gets so excited and laughs all the time.

They take good care of her.

More of the Kids

We had a visit from Dave's brother's family.

This is their youngest of 4 boys, Peter.

He and Carlie are only a couple months apart.

Here's our happy girl. She enjoys eating, sleeping and laughing.

We found out this week that she is going to need eye surgery, she has some muscle issues and her eyes are always turned in. She is our little cross-eyed Crossman. She can still see and focus on things and the Doctor said the surgery will straighten her eyes.

This is how Cooper shows his BIG muscles.

Colby learned to "flex" his muscle from watching his brother.

Cooper loves riding his bike and when it is too cold outside he enjoys "training" on his Smart Cycle. We thought he showed pretty good form, but I think he needs to shift into a harder gear.

Death Valley

We made our annual trip to Death Valley with the Paterson family.

It was a little colder than usual (60's which still felt very nice after leaving Salt Lake)

so Carlie had to sport her beanie while she was outside.

Cooper's cousin Kara taught him how to climb trees.

Colby is quite the little fish and loves going under water!

We made an attempt to get some family photos! It worked out much better to have them take photos individually.

Family Dance!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

November

Carlie was blessed today by her Daddy.

Such a pretty little lady!

Is it just me or should Colby be a model!?!
I probably am biased but he is such a cutie!


Cooper informed us he isn't cute or handsome
he is "awesome". But we think he is cute and awesome.

Carlie fresh and clean after a bath.

The boys love to swim and the hot tub
feels real good now that it is getting cold.

We had some excitement the other morning... Cooper was running and tripped and hit my knee with his face and bit all the way through his tongue! It was pretty nasty and after a trip to the hospital we discovered there was nothing the doctors could do. After a couple days it healed up pretty good and Cooper was able to eat and drink again without much pain. Poor kid!

Great-Grandma Paterson sent all the kids snow-outfits for Christmas! We can't wait for it to snow so we can go try them out and build a snowman.

Halloween!

Grammy came to visit our new little pumpkin, Carlie.

Cooper as Buzz, Colby as Woody and Bullseye

and Carlie as a cutie pie.

To infinity and beyond!!!!

No tricks just a sweet little treat.

Happy Halloween!

Baby Carlie!

Carlie all fresh and clean after her first bath.

She was born Oct. 15th at 5:07 am.

She weighed 6 lbs. 14 oz. and was 20 in. long.

Colby being so soft with his new sister (these moments are rare so we cherish them).

Cooper loves having a baby sister, "Baby Pink" (as he calls her) will be well taken care of. He says he is going to fight the bad guys to protect her (her poor boyfriends will be in for it).

The whole fam.