April 12 of 12

Alright, so this is really the 13th of April, but I totally forgot on the 12th.  The 12th would have been fun because my parents were in town and we showed them all around Missoula.  The 13th was pretty fun too because Courtney and I flew to Vancouver, Canada where he had a conference.  My parents were wonderful and stayed with the kids. We had such a great time.  Thank you Mom and Dad!!!

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1. My dad and Courtney chatting over their computers for breakfast.
2. Pop-pop walking the girls to school.
3. Nana and Wilson watching cartoons.
4. Our tiny propeller plane to Seattle.
5. Courtney waiting for our flight.
6. Seatlle airport food court.
7. View from our 23rd floor hotel room over looking the harbor.  Wilson would have loved the cranes.
8. The happy couple!
9. View from across the hotel.
10 View looking across the water to the hotel.
11. Bad picture, amazing Japanese resturant.
12. Granville Street, downtown Vancouver.

March 12 of 12

Better late than never.  Here are my March 12 of 12 pictures.  I started out not really into it, but it turned out to be a nice, true representation of the day.  It is nice to capture the everyday and see what really happens.

Feburary 12 of 12

So a friend of mine has been taking 12 pictures on the 12th of each month for a couple of years.  I always thought it would be fun, but just never got around to it.  I have finally decided to do it this year.  Time is passing too quickly and these sweet kids of mine are going to be 18 yrs old very soon.  I just want to remember the little things we did everyday.  Nothing fancy or super exciting, but how we spent our lives together.  Maybe it is because Wren is so sweet (and not so sweet) these days and I know how fast she is growing and changing and how pretty soon she won't be this crazy, surprising, little girl anymore.  We love to just watch the funny things she says and does these days.  She keeps us all laughing (and pulling our hair out) and it won't last long until there is homework to do and friends to play with.  

So here is my 12 of 12 for February and I will put on January's too just for fun.  Anyone want to join me?

Sorry, I am still working on getting the templates and captions right.....it is a work in progress. And I could not get the picture of Wren in big shoes to fit in the template and just gave up.  Maybe next time. 

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January 12th 2012

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December and January Oh Boy!

Oh boy!
It has been quite the busy, fun, exciting month.......so I think this will just be a picture post.
(Sorry it is such a long picture post.)

One of our many attempts at our christmas card photo

Wren can now take the lids off of markers

Avery and Macey were in a hip hop dance class.  This was Avery's hip hop costume for their performance.

Macey dancing to "You got to fight, for your right to PARTY!"  Awesome.  They were so impressed Court and I knew the words.

Avery and Macey got beautiful German dirndls from Grandma Stewart who lives in Germany right now.

Wren got one too, but didn't want to be in the picture.

Wren enjoying a little snow....it is all we have had!?

A fuuny picture of Wilson at his preschool christmas program.  I am not sure why or what he is doing.

Wilson's first time skiing!  He did so good and loved it!  A perfect warm day in PC.

Macey's first day too.  She pretty much taught herself and loved it!  I wish we could do this every weekend!

Avery had fun too, but was bored by the little hill and wanted to go on steeper stuff.

Wren spent the warm afternoon playing on the ski hill and licking the snow. 

All the Manwaring cousins on the hill.  This was the best picture we could get of Wren.  She never EVER holds still.

We went to see the lights at Temple Square with some Stewart cousins.

Sledding in Park City

All the Stewart girl cousins!  We love our dresses!

Recently baptized Stewart cousins

Christmas Morning

Funny boy

Our beautiful Christmas outfits from Nanna!  (Wren really didn't want to get her picture taken, again)

Manwaring cousins on Christmas night

Christmas cousin nativity

Home again to MT to do some dishes....

and do some wrestling...

and some exploring of the mission mountains....

and St. Ignatius Church!

So come do some exploring with us!!

Merry Christmas from our little Elves.

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Our first Missoula Thanksgiving

We had a nice and relaxing Thanksgiving.  We were so excited to have James, Wynn and Acadia join us. 

 

 We bought our turkey a little late, so all they had left was a 23 pounder!  It was huge.

The aftermath

 On Saturday we drove up Lolo Creek about 20 min. away and went on a christmas tree hunt.  It was a beautiful canyon and the kids loved sizing up every tree we passed. 

Success!

More success!

We ended with a nice winter picnic

Our Big Buddy Turns 4!

 Wilson turned 4!  We had a nice low key birthday for him.  A couple of presents, we explored the Rocky Mountain Elk Preserve visitor center and had cupcakes self decorated with lots of blue sprinkles. 





 


 We were gearing up for the Jedi Training Party on Saturday.  Courtney was the master Jedi planner and played lots of games with the eight crazy little boys we had.  This was Wilson's first ever friend birthday and he was so excited for everyone to come over.
 

                                          Jedi training with pool noodles for light sabers.

  The Emperor came to test the Jedi's skills. (Some of the boys were a little nervous.  The camera flash came on, so you can't tell, but with the glow in the dark light saber in the dark basement, he did look a little scary.)

The Jedi cake

And a little bear too......

Wilson is such a sweet boy and we loved watching him get so excited about his birthday!