Life always revolves around TIME...

Since time is the reason I never post on my blog then I obviously don't have time for a LONG catch up post so I'll try and just keep it to a couple pic's per month as much as I can and give the 'short' version of this past year since I've posted last - here it goes!!
February~

 Happy Birthday 1yr old! (He wasn't so sure about the cake as you can tell)

Happy Valentines Day! And Brian and I celebrated our 5th Wedding Anniversary too :)

March~

 James became famous, he/we got interviewed for a fundraiser on Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia's!

 Happy 4th Birthday Spencer!!

 Zaxton, Gracie & James at their combined Birthday party!

Had a combined party for the 3 cousins all born w/in weeks of each other!

April~

BYU Women's Conference - Stayed at my beautiful friends place in Park City, good times!

 Spring Break in Las Vegas - took Brooklynn & Ezzy to The Lion King - amazing!

 Girls Weekend in Arizona w/my besties from High School and forever!!

 Spencer on his bike w/out training wheels for the first time like he was a pro :)

 Happy Easter and General Conference Weekend :)

May~

 Spencer graduating his year of swim lessons!

 Happy Birthday Daddy!

Graduated his first year at All Academy Preschool :)

June~

 Spencer @ 11mths

 James @ 16mths - at least James gave me 5mths longer till the terrible two's started...

 Spencer's 1st season of Soccer - and he played T-Ball as well all in Bear Lake!

July~

 All the Penning grand kids w/their gifts from Grandma & Grandpa from Italy!

 Exactly what me and my 3 girl cousins would be doing when we were growing up in the summers :)

 Happy Birthday Mommy!

Good times at the Hirschi Hideout...

August~

 Ice Skating in the middle of summer :) Brooky missed out :(

 Hooley's visited us in Bear Lake - Awesome family!

 School day's & carpooling begins...

 Lagoon day - very hot day but FUN!

The new 'official' McCracken family, got 3 new incredible niece and nephew's!

September~

 Bear Lake Heritage Day's - 'Fish Catch' poor Spencer was super scared of doing it for some reason...

 Sunday Hike w/Randi and the kiddo's up Limber Pine Trail in Logan Canyon!

 First day of his 2nd yr of Preschool for Spencer - James REALLY wanted to go too!

Our awesome friends Becky & Eric, he rode in Lotoja and I got to be a cheerleader at the Montpelier stop :)

October~

 Traditional pumpkin carving FHE night!!

 Boo at the Zoo - Grandpa Hirschi took them while sitting for us during our trip!

 Traditional Fall picnic at Green Canyon w/fishing and hiking!!

Pumpkin Walk at Elk Ridge Park!

We got the opportunity to go to Cancun, Mexico in October as well so I'll leave that for the next post b/c there's so many great pic's and this is already full of so many - so to be continued :) Hope you all had a great summer and just recently Halloween now onto Thanksgiving and the holiday's I just can't believe there already here - soooo crazy but lots of fun to be had :)

JaNuArY uPdAtE ~

James (11 months)

Jaimee (around 11 months, I think)

Our new employee...cheap labor ;)

 So I came across this picture of me from when I was the same age as James is right now about 11mths give or take and thought there was a big resemblance so I tried taking some pics of James downstairs to emulate my pic the best I could and he wasn't having it! He knew he was gonna go in the hot tub w/his daddy and he didn't want to miss out on anything knowing his dad was just outside starting w/out him - but I picked the one where he was squinting w/not a happy face but it was the closest It came to looking like my pic. What do you guys think?? Cheeks, nose, eyes, even the hair a little and chubbies all look familiar, right?!? :) 

The rest of the pictures are just some cute shots we took during this CoLd winter month of JaNuArY.. it's almost over now, YAY!!! February here we come!! Busy month ahead - Valentines Day, my parents coming to town for a long weekend over Presidents day holiday, our 5th Anniversary, James' 1st Birthday and hopefully get some skiing in too!! So fun posts to come!!! Check back soon :)

Our Sunday best, thanks nana :)

Getting ready to hot tub!!

Another Hirschi that loves the hot tub!

Daddy and his boy's!

Father Son Campout

By the looks of his face he is a happy kid!

Last month Brian had the opportunity to take Spencer to the father son camp out for our ward up at Green Canyon! It was Spencer's first time w/his daddy as a BIG boy and many more times to come I'm sure! Brian was so excited and really wanted to take James w/him too but mama had to put the knix on that one since he's just a baby and still 'relies' on his mommy for food!! But maybe next year we'll see! Thinking 3 is the right age for that stuff though, sorry babe! Who know's he'll probably beg and I'll probably give in -- only time will tell! Anyone else have suggestions on what age dad's should start taking their boy's to these things, do you think I'm crazy to want to wait till 3?!?!

Well anyway they had a dinner, went on a hike, played in the fire (which now that's all Spencer wants to do is put sticks in the fire and play in it whenever we have one) then they got up early had break feast and was suppose to go fishing but the lake/pond was gone when they got there, so weird -- I think they were fixing it or something but Brian was bummed so they got home at 9am, so early I thought I'd at least have until noon but no dice the boys were back! Brooklynn was at her dad's that weekend so it was just me and the babe, but once he was in bed for the night I just watched some of my show's and had a fun little surprise from my great friend Becky who was helping me stay away from my evil cookie dough craving - Thanks friend, I think I must be honest though I did it - yup I'm coming clean I tried the drink you told me to do and I ruined it w/too much lemon or something so I said screw it I'm making cookie dough! I can't believe I am doing this - but hey we all fall every so often, right?!?! I've been wanting to tell you for so long so well here it is :) Just so we're all clear I am trying to lose weight so we are partner's in crime and she was helping me be strong which worked for a while but not the entire night! Please forgive me!!

Yup a VERY happy kid!!

And there he is learning how to play w/a stick in the fire!

Finding new buddies on the hike!

And here's the empty pond/lake whatever it is!!!

Preschool Begins!

On the way home from his first day of school - all smiles!

Wow Spencer is in Preschool, what an adventure this has been for him! We've been having a bit of a roller coaster ride w/this boy! I am hoping it is just and 'age' thing and will get better w/time - which I'm sure it is. I know he LOVES going to school because he always comes home happy and excited but some mornings are really rough for this little guy when it's time to leave the house or go into the school. He seems to have the worst time if daddy takes him cause oh boy he doesn't want to leave his daddy or the big truck of course! Also we carpool w/my neighbor and we've had some days where he has a hard time leaving and getting in her car - it's just a big transition for this little guy going from being at home all the time w/mommy to leaving twice a week to a different place that his parent's aren't at I guess! I'm hoping next year we don't have as many or any meltdowns like we do right now! Plus I know it's still the beginning of the school year and I'm sure it will get easier and more familiar for him as it goes! He started in September so not even a month ago yet so there is hope I know!

He get's to do tumbling on Tuesday's and Swimming on Thursday's at the end of the time he's there so I like that a lot where he's getting some extra curricular activities done and getting his energy out! He always comes home tired and ready for a nap which makes for a happy mom :) He also comes home singing the alphabet song and telling me all about the letter's he's learning, it's so cute! I know he's loving it it's just getting him out the door sometimes! We are so excited for this new adventure in his life and hope he develops a love for learning during the process!!

This is our carpool buddy, Bronson!

His first day picture!