May your Christmas be blessed as you celebrate Jesus this year!

(and really truly I am going to mail real cards still this year..... just need to get into town and pick them up!)

and you thought I forgot about blogging......

Nah, I didn't forget. Just never seem to find the time. I am going to get better at it though. I will try and post more often, especially since most of you who will read this don't get to see the kids as often now! Here are a few random pics of kids over the last couple months and keep scrolling through, I put posts in for the 4 kids who had birthdays in the last 4 months.....
And just some trivia.... for 3 weeks in November I had a 1 year old, 2 year old, 3 year old and 4 year old..... kinda fun ;-)

Nov 2013

sleeping in his new crib

Ailish and Tadhg

Making a birthday cake for new cousin Owen

Caeden

Building castles

Swimming at Priest Lake

Torin - 11 months

Torin - 10 months

irresistible baby feet

fall 2013

5th birthday

Alannah Caileen - 5 years

Such a sweetheart...full of love, life and laughing

On the move, following big brothers, chasing little brothers, sweet sister play, full of conversation and never ending new outfits and combinations to spark the imaginations. 

A Princess and pink girl all the way!

I love you sweet girl!

Scenery

Scenery from around here this fall........... it's beautiful! They are in a rather random order, but will give you an idea of the scenery around us ;-)

The first 3 pictures are the panorama of the "back yard", basically the view from the whole back of the house. The first picture is the far left.

our driveway entrance

looking down the driveway

Priest Lake

Priest Lake

Pend Orielle (prn Ponderay) River - on drive to Sandpoint

kinda blurry picture but the low clouds are really cool ;-)

on drive to house from Priest River

on way to Newport

on road close to our house.....rough rush hour drive ;-)

more cool evening clouds

open burn season around here is rather disconcerting to this Colorado girl ;-)

frosty trees are so cool

Priest Lake in November

the girls

first braids.... too cute ;-)

the art of self portraits..... ;-)

swaddling all her babies....together!

sharing the swings

"nursing" her baby while we were grocery shopping....adorable!

One

 Torin Pierce - 1 yr old

You are such a sweet boy, so cuddly and fun, full of personality. You have a great smile and and easy-going manner. You are starting to love to try and include yourself in the big kids playing, crawling after them, you go up the little 2 steps quite well, pull yourself standing and are just starting to walk along something you are holding onto. You are in 12/12-18 month size clothes and size 2 diapers. Your hair is pretty white blond like Colm and Tadhg. You are probably 17-18 pounds and I often get asked if you are tiny for your age, I don't think so, you have been measuring pretty similar to Caeden at this age. You say mama and da, and just started saying "wow", you can clap and play peek a boo. You love to eat, you eat pretty much whatever we do and almost always just feed yourself- life as a the 6th child you know doesn't leave much time for mama to spoon feed ;-). You are still nursing maybe 4-5 times through the day and maybe once at night. You love your taggie blankets. 

I love you little buddy!