HAPPY BIRTHDAY TWINS!

Happy Birthday Kellan & Burklee! It has been a fast two years. They have blessed our lives so much in such a short time. We are so grateful and count our blessing everyday. They have been such a fun and crazy adventure thus far.

Brother loves sister so much!

They were both so fascinated with the candles. We ended up watching them blow them out about 10 times.

Kells was extremely excited every time he blew his candles out. Uncle Tanner had to quickly pull the cake away each time so it wouldn't get demolished.

Who needs a fork?

We told Kellan to give sister kisses...he looked at her...thought about... then said yuck! He didn't want anything to do with the pink frosting.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY

The traditional green breakfast...yummy!

Ammon loves to have our green breakfast...yet he never really eats anything!

The babies didn't know what to think about it!

PORTLAND

Jeff and I traveled to Portland with the twins for the women's Big Sky Basketball Tournament. It was a fun trip because we got to do a bit of everything. The kids loved riding the streetcar around downtown Portland. We especially enjoyed spending time with Kurt. We also got to hang out with Chris and Wendy and their four kids and we were able to spend a little time with Grandpa and Grandma Tingey.

He was loving all the attention he was getting while wearing his new hat.

She wanted brothers help to get over the dip in cement

Give kisses!

Portland Zoo on a cool and wet day. Best time to go because we had the place to ourselves. It was so much fun.

Kells looks kinda scared.

We had such a good time!

BIRTHDAY BASH

Jeff surprised me with my favorite cake...red velvet! It's not as good as my moms red velvet but it was still pretty dang good!

He also surprised me with my favorite popcorn. Aunt Mel brought some home from Chicago a while back and I fell in love with it. When we went to New York we found a Garrett popcorn shop and I went hog wild. It is sooooo good! I think I consumed 50,000 calories of the good stuff...it was worth it! Jeff as a side note maybe next time you should get me a smaller container :)

My little helpers.

She is so excited for cake and ice cream :)

FEBRUARY FUN

I was able to take the boys to stay at a hotel . We had so much fun swimming. Ammon is finally getting a little more daring around water. Kellan was content to sit in his floaty and watch.

Ammon won an art contest that was put on by the organizers of Brooklyn's Playground. All the schools in the area participated and two winners from each school were selected. We were so happy for Ammon when we found out he won. He loves to draw and color and he loves playgrounds so I think it was a perfect project for him.

The kids are getting the itch to be outside! On a warm Sunday after Church they all headed for the swing set. They all stayed out until dark to take advantage of our first somewhat warm day.

Kellan went down! He was sitting at the table having breakfast when he leaned to far foreword in his high chair/booster seat and SMACK! He hit the floor so hard and blood was going everywhere. I thought his scream was loud but Burklee definitely had more volume to her scream and cry. I don't know if she was scared or sad...all I know is that she was loud! I had to have Ammon contain her while I tried to clean up Kells. It was quite the morning.

More swimming! Cadence, her kids, Whitney and Porter came over to the hotel to swim with us but before we decided to swim we had some pizza in the hotel room. Just imagine six excited cousins under the age of 6 running around a small hotel room....CRAZY! I can't believe we didn't get kicked out of the hotel.

Ammon had to pick 100 things to put on a hat for his school party. If you look closely you will notice his picked 99 pieces of candy and one letter T! The kid loves sweets.

WHAT'S UP IN TWENTY ELEVEN

JANUARY

Lots and lots and lots of basketball games:

We ended up going to about 14 basketball games during the month of January!

The kids were real troopers...most of the time:)

As Burklee says "go meangals"

Lots of fun enjoying the beautiful snow outside:

Kellan after a long ride in the sled. Good thing he fell out of the sled when we were close to the house rather than a few miles away! He was not to happy with me :)


I was in Soda with babies while my parents were out of town and decided I couldn't waste the beautiful day. So I pulled the kids down around the pond. It wasn't easy but it was great to be outside.
Don't mind my stressed look...I struggle when it comes to taking pics of myself!

Ammon and his buddy...they are growing up so fast! They love to ski together and then they just hop on the lift by themselves. It seems so crazy to me. The other night they went night skiing together and Ammon said they just cruised the hill by themselves.

After ski lessons one beautiful Saturday afternoon.

We also had lots of fun inside:

Ice cream has become a great babysitter!

Just Dance!

Our Burks is busting seams!

I think we might have a little hurdler in the making!

CHRISTMAS IN THE COUNTRY

Before we headed for the country we had to fit in some bowling and Kent's annual birthday breakfast at Elmer's.

Kent and Jean showing off their great skills. I don't know if you can see who is in the lead so in case you can't see I will just tell you...IT WAS ME! I won two games in a row. It is a rare occasion for me to win something when I am with the Tingey crew! So, of course I have to rub it in!

Birthday Boy and Kellan waiting for some delicious breakfast.

Burks wasted no time digging in!

Even after a huge breakfast we can't forget the cake!

Christmas Eve tradition. Guess what it is...

P.J.'s of course.

Everyone loved their Christmas pajamas.

Instead of putting a doll in her new stroller she decided to put her zu-zu pet. The other favorite thing to put into the stroller is sippy cups.

Mom got us each a sign and some sweat pants.

Kellan kept riding Burklee's horse and...

Burklee kept riding Kellan's horse.

Our little photo shoot was not going as planned. They both looked so cute in their new pink coats. I wish I could have got a better picture of the two cuties!

More bowling. Kellan was content to hang with Bonkin, meanwhile Burks was running all over the place! I will blame her for my poor bowling performance. I was distracted and worn out from chasing her all over the place.

Of course we had to do some cross country skiing! I wish I could do this everyday...I love to go out for a quiet ski in the woods while getting a killer workout!

We had such a great time hanging out with our families over the holidays!