T-Ball AND Baseball

The kids have started the baseball season!  Technically Keltsy is T-ball, Isaac is baseball...the difference being the game is played off a Tee vs. being coach pitch.  Anyway, they both had games this last Saturday - of course they were both at the same time on different fields - so I attended Keltsy's game and took pictures, Jesse attended Isaac's game and took video.  Here are the pictures:

I will just say, I hate my camera.  This is such a fun shot, but I hate that I couldn't get the camera to focus for the first half of the game. 

Here's Keltsy, in case you can't tell, she sort of zoned out this part of the game.

And here she is "down and ready"!

Spencer's Birthday!

Happy Birthday!!!

Spencer Preston Hunter

Oct. 18, 2009

5 lbs. 5 oz.

1 yr. old!

2 yrs. old!

October - sickies and Halloween

I'm almost caught up on this blog!

Spencer and Keltsy were both sick with a croup-y virus. Keltsy responded well to the medication, Spencer didn't.

He had to have a nebulizer to get over the coughing, but that's pretty typical for him. I wonder if his prematurity has anything to do with that...

He figured out pretty quickly that it helped him breath more easily and he started taking his treatments on his own (meaning I didn't have to sit with him to keep him from pulling the mask off his face).

Poor Keltsy missed her Fall Break because of these sickies...blech!

Halloween was pretty fun at this house this year! The kid's adult cousin Brady let them play the game "Angry Birds" on his really cool phone. They were hooked and convinced Jesse to download the game onto the laptop. We went Angry Bird Crazy!

And we had a fun night at the Ward Chili Cook Off and Carnival

Our Halloween Night pictures didn't really turn out - next year I have to remember to take them BEFORE we go trick-or-treating!

Happy 6th Birthday!

Happy Birthday!!!

Keltsy Ann Hunter!

7 lbs. 13 oz.

1 yr. old

2 yrs. old

3 yrs. old

4 yrs. old

5 yrs. old

6 YEARS OLD!!!

Keltsy is my sweet, darling, smart, tiny, adorable little princess.

She brings so much joy to our family, is a great little & big sister.

She has a caring heart, is a good friend,

is trustworthy, and strives to choose the right.

Fun at the Beach!

Being in Arizona, we're now only about six (maybe seven) hours away from Jesse's grandfather who lives in California. We have been meaning to take a weekend trip for quite some time to visit. After Jesse's trip to Paris, we ended up with a free night at Best Western so we decided to take advantage of that and made a weekend trip of it, visit with family and take the kids for their first trip to the ocean.

The first picture above is all of us looking stiff, the second picture when grandpa was checking to make sure we smiled, we all look better, but you can't see his handsome face. It was a good visit to see Great-Grandpa, Uncle Mark and Aunt Chris (hope I spelled it everything right!). We really enjoyed seeing them and having the kids briefly meet the family. We've missed living close enough to family to be able to do these sort of trips.

Before we visited with family we had fun at the beach!

When we first got to the beach, it was warm but overcast - perfect recipe for a sunburn, by the way - and there was a pod of dolphins just a few waves away (yippee!). The beach we chose to visit was right at the end of LAX, so we were able to have fun seeing airplanes take off. We went with some friends (who are internet shy) and had a lot of fun catching up and visiting with them and their two adorable children.

I love being able to build these memories with our children!

Random Spencer Pictures

When I was posting this I thought I would have pictures of all the kids, but I guess since they're in school I'm not getting as many pictures of them. So here's your dose of Spencer cuteness!

Value of hard work

One of the greatest gifts my parents gave me was the value and appreciation of working hard. I managed to find someone that shares that belief as well, and it doesn't hurt that he's a looker as well ;).

As pictured above, our yard needed a lot of work. One of the project was laying pavers around the perimeter of the home. Jesse worked long (and HOT) hours on this project. It took almost every weekend for several months to complete. Here's a few pics of the kids helping dad lay the last of the pavers.

The stone wrapped from the front driveway (see background in above picture) all the way around the house to the front on the opposite side. I'm so glad THAT project is DONE!