February

February was a fun month. We went to Disneyland for Mackenzie's 3rd birthday. It was so fun for her. She loved all the princesses and we had fun spending the day with her.




My little Luke turned 2. I can't believe how fast time goes. He is getting so big. He has such a fun personality and he has been such a joy to have. He loves his brothers and his sister and they love having him around. Tanner even recently mastered the skill of changing diapers. Now that is true love!!!
Here he is with all of his loot, nothing spoiled about him:)
Bekah got the Fairness/Justice award for her class at school. Here she is with her friend Madisen who also got the award for her class. It was pajama day at school, she doesn't usually wear pajamas to school I promise.

January catch up

January is supposed to be a month of rest and recovery after the holidays right????? Not for us. This crazy girl turned 9 and being the great mom that I am, have no pictures to prove it!!!

We made another fun trip to Disneyland!! We have definitely enjoyed our season passes.

This major event in January was my dad's surgery. They had to go in and remove his T2 vertebrae because of cancer and in it's place they put a steel rod and mesh plate. He will eventually start to grow his own bone. The human body is so amazing!!! But in the meantime.....
he gets to wear this lovely brace. And yes it is as bad as it looks. For those of you that know my dad, patience is not one of his strong suits, so this has been quite the growing experience for him and my mom has always been blessed with patience (thank goodness) so she has been taking really good care of him. He has been doing really well and he is back to work now so that has helped a lot. I am so grateful to have such a wonderful mom and dad and I am grateful for the many wonderful blessings that our family has received this year!!!
Last but not least, Tanner went on his first outing as an 11 year old scout. Hiking in the canyon across the street from our house!!!!

December catch up:
Our primary breakfast with Santa was a success with everyone except Luke!!!





Christmas was great this year or I guess I should say last year. My brother Jake came with his family and we had so much fun with them. We spent Christmas Eve at our house and then we opened up our haul from Santa over at Dave and Jamie's house. The amount of presents was crazy but we had so much fun. Their prized gift from Santa!! I have to say we all have enjoyed playing the wii.

Back from my blogging hiatus!!!

So after much "encouragement" from my mom I have returned to the blogging world so I will give a brief rundown of what has been going in our lives since last November. I will try not to bore you but because I don't scrapbook I gotta get caught up.
November:




Cousin Rachel had her first surfing lesson by Uncle Rob

Mackenzie and Luke found markers and decided to try them out!!!
We had our annual trip to Knotts Berry Farm with our cousins and grandmas and grandpas
Luke and Jackson loved riding all the rides, they are so cute when they are not trying to poke each others eyes out

....and last but not least my baby turned 11!!!!!!!

Baker Family Pictures

A Cold Day at the Beach

A couple of weeks ago we went to the beach on a Saturday afternoon. It was freezing, but the boys were decked out in their wetsuits and they were off to surf. Rob and Kyle heading out for the waves . Kyle only lasts as long as his first wipeout, I think he likes the wetsuit more than the surfing:)

Tanner coming in for the day. He gets better and better every time he goes out.





This is a picture of Luke right before a wave came and completely drenched him. He was freezing!!!!

Halloween!!

Halloween was fun this year. It usually streses me out because of cost and I am the least creative person around so this year I managed to do it under 20 bucks so that made me happy. We love all the Halloween treats and parties.
We also made it to California Adventure last week. The kids had fun riding rides and seeing it all decked out for Halloween.






Luke and Bekah really enjoying their sugar cookies!!!

Kyle's kindergarten had a Halloween parade so all the other grades could see their costumes. He was so excited. I took Luke along . They were both pirates.


Luke loved playing in the drinking fountain. He had never seen anything made just for his size.


On Halloween night we went to my sisters house for dinner and my brother Lance and his family came down from LA to go trick or treating with us. All in all we had a good Halloween week aside from most of us being sick at one time or another. They got way tooooo much candy and I love picking up candy wrappers all over my floor and in my couch cushions. Anyone else have these problems?
This is my only group shot. Nice huh? It doesnt even have everyone in it.
Bekah and cute little butterfly Mackenzie.

In case anyone is wondering...??? Tanner is a zombie basketball player??? He is at the awkward costume phase and this is what he wanted, he at least it was free right?