Miss Kate

Here are a bunch of random pictures I've taken of Kate over the past few months.  When you get to dress up a girl with nowhere to go sometimes a picture is necessary! 

 

 She came with drama that's for sure!

 Four month birthday!

 Thumb sucker!!!  Yikes!

 

 This girl loves to have something in her mouth at all times!  Usually its her hands when the paci isn't around.

 Cute dress and shoes from aunt Chels

 This is her spit face.  To entertain herself she makes a spitting noise over and over...such a funny girl!

 One of my favorite 3-6 month outfits...

Daddy's Girl

McKay gave Katelyn this cute dress for Christmas before she was born.  It says I love you on it:)  She loves him so much and I know he adores her!  He takes good care of his girls!

We love Grandma Shoell!

Easter weekend Grandma Shoell fell and suffered some heart complications.  She spent awhile in the hospital and a few weeks after that in a rehab facility.  We love her so much and are grateful she's back home recovering.  She is a great lady and means a lot to our family!

Baby Mays

Sarah had her darling fourth little boy on May 21st...(day after Chayce's bday!)  He is so sweet and I'm so happy for her!  Between the three of us we have 11 kids now!  Love these girls so much and grateful we are still close!  Congrats McGiven family!

Meeting Grandpa and Grandma

My Grandparents came into town for Kristen's graduation and were able to meet Katelyn for the first time!  So fun to have them here!

 She was a little onery at dinner :)

 They treated all of us to a delicious dinner at La Jolla Grove...it was a fun night.  Thanks so much!

 Love our family!

Preschool graduate

We finished our first round of preschool!  Peyton has had two great years of preschool, one with Miss Denise and Miss Heather and now a graduate from Miss Shannon's preschool!  We had a great year and Peyton has progressed and done so well!  He is starting to read and is doing great with his writing. 

Getting ready for the program

This is classic Peyton and Sam...love these little boys!  Hoping they get put in the same class next year!

The graduating class of 2025!

 

Chase, Sam, Peyt and Brooke.  It was so nice to have our fun neighborhood friends with us and made it great for carpooling!  We will have 25-30 kids going to school together from our neighborhood.  So fun!

 

 We love Miss Shannon! 

 Great Grandma and Grandpa came into town just in time to come to the graduation!  Fun to have them with us!  My cousin Kristen graduated from high school the same day!

 Proud Mommy, Daddy and brother!

So excited to enter the world of public schooling!  Kindergarten here we come!

Chayce turns three

Once a new baby comes, your "baby" grows up fast.  "Baby Chayce" sure has grown up in the last few months!  They move from toddler to little boy pretty quick!  We had a great weekend celebration to start off Chayce's third year right!

Saturday night dinner at Chik-fi-la!  We gave both boys the choice to go anywhere for dinner and they both chose it!  Best fast food in my opinion so I can't complain!

 Chayce wanted to party at Chuck-E-Cheese so that's where we ended up.  We had fun playing arcade games together and the boys rode a few little rides.

 Sunday we had a Mickey party with all the family.  We bought a Mickey doll for Chayce at Disneyland and he's been a Mickey boy ever since.

 Can you say spoiled!!!

 Loved that face!  Thanks for the fun sprinkler from the Erk aunts, uncles and cousins!

 Chayce is also into trains...more than Peyt really was.  He loved his Thomas pillow pet from Grandma and Grandpa!

 Puzzles from Mom and Dad

 These two LOVE each other

 Ready to make his third wish...

 Love my little boy...

 

 Yes very spoiled...thanks family for all the fun gifts!

 

I'm excited for the adventures three brings...potty training :), preschool and lots of fun!

Mother's Day 2012

I'm so grateful to be a Mom to these three kiddos.  They are my world and I love spending time with them.  They are teaching me to work on many things in my life...the biggest being patience.  I've always struggled with it and being a Mother shows my weakness even more!  So glad they are so patient with me and love me even when my weaknesses get the best of me! 

Peyton, Chayce and Katelyn, I hope you always remember how grateful I am to have brought you into this world and to be able to raise you in our family.  God doesn't make mistakes and sent you here to us for a reason.  The Ercanbrack name is a strong one and as your Mother I hope to teach you how great you can become...

 We headed over to the Ercanbracks to celebrate and snapped this picture of the three babes...Jersey, 5 months, Katelyn 4 months and Asher 2 months.  They make us so happy!

Despite feeling a little sick on Mother's Day it was wonderful and a great reminder of how blessed I am...

Father and Sons

The boys had a great time at Father and Sons this year.  This was Chayce's first time and McKay said he did pretty well!  Thank you to the Hamblins for letting them stay in their nice trailer...makes camping much easier!  Lisa and I enjoyed ourselves up at Fashion Place mall with a yummy dinner at Cheesecake Factory followed by some H&M shopping!  So fun to now have a girl to hang out with when the boys go away!  So grateful McKay loves spending time with his kids!

Tulip Festival

This year was the first time we've been to the Tulip Festival and I loved it!  We will be going again!  It was one of the most relaxing, fun afternoons I've had with the kids in a long time.  My Mom took us and we had such a great time wandering through the gardens looking at all the different areas.  It's nice to take your kids places where you don't feel like you're always telling them no!  They had a great time wandering and enjoying being outside!

 We always have so much fun with Grandma!  She creates so many neat experiences for us to enjoy!

 At the end of our day the boys wanted to run down the big hill.  Chayce was having a hard time finding the energy to climb back up...so brother helped him out!  Loved this moment.