Grandma Betty's 80th Birthday Party

On March 17th - we drove to Pekin, ND to attend Step-Grandma Betty's 80th Birthday Party!  The kids had such a great time playing outside and it was so fun celebrating with family.  What an amazing grandma/great-grandma we have!

Mason and Brekken (my step-cousin's daughter.)

 Alana and her god daughter!

Andrew with his little love!

 the kids playinig so nicely together!

 Mason was tired and decided to take a nap on the bench...

 The Beautiful Wiltse Family

 Uncle Matt giving Adlee some love

 Carter and Adlee - only 3 days apart - MIRACLES!!

Janet, Rod, Patti and Gma Betty

Springtime fun!

We have really enjoyed being outside in this awesome weather!  Mason and Adlee can't get enough of playing with all their outside toys - it is going to be a great summer!

Mason pushing Adlee in "her" car!

 Mason wanted to "race" with Adlee - he's such a goober!

 Adlee LOVES the swing!

 They look like caged animals...

 Our little chunky monkey...

 Kisses from Mommy!

 Mom is always the one behind the camera, so Dad thought he should do a photoshoot with Mom and Adlee!

 Our little honey - almost 1!

 Thanking Gma and Gpa for watching the kids while we were on vacation in the Bahamas!  We are so thankful that they could do it for us - We had such an amazing time!

 Mason and Adlee (& mom) made Gma and Gpa a photobook of all the great times they have had together!

 Mason really wanted to try to ride with no training wheels - he did great!

 'ATTA BOY!

 Mason LOVES sneaking into Adlee's room, turning on the light and waking her up!

 Just our typical photoshoot outside :)

Showing Daddy some love!

Mason's 1st time Skiing & Adlee update

Adlee is just about 11 months old now - and she is a busy girl!  She crawls all over, waves "bye bye", claps a lot, signs "more" and just said "Dada" the other night for the first time!  Our little girl is growing up TOO FAST!

We brought Adlee to Ben and Beth's house the other weekend and took a "mommy, mason and daddy day" at Andes Tower Hills in Alexandria.  Daddy was SO excited to teach Mason how to ski for the first time!  We were prepared to only be there for an hour - but Mason never wanted to stop skiing!  He did such a great job and we are so proud of our little boy.  Andrew cannot wait to take him skiing a couple times every year!

First time with skis on - he didn't know what to do!

Mommy was very nervous about the chair lifts - but Mason did great!

Skiing down the "big" hill! (no bunny hill for our little monster!)

Mommy and Mason on the chair lift!

I think the lifts were his favorite part!

Mommy and Mason skiing together - it was so nice that day!  50 degrees!

Daddy skied backwards to help mason...what a great daddy!

Last hill of the day...Mason did NOT want to stop!  

But after 3 hours of straight skiing, we thought we better! :)  

We are so proud of you, Mason!