The Houtz House Party: Photo Friday

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Monday, December 10, 2012

Party on Sesame Street

Just a few photos from the twins 2nd Birthday!

I just LOVE that the mantels in this home make for ENDLESS possibilities for ALL occasions!

Note the little guy in the bottom right of the above photo. They had a very hard time being patient waiting for those Elmo cupcakes.

Marshmallows for eyes & tic tacs for a nose.

Toy Story Mr Potato Heads & retractable swords were the highlight of the present opening portion of the evening.

It seems Elijah was not in fact a fan of the candles...or was it the Big Bird birthday hat?

Until next year... post signature

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Fall Fun & Halloween Happenings

Just wanted to share some photos from our trip with our best friends and the kiddos to the farm & pumpkin patch a couple weeks ago.

And would this season REALLY be complete without some cute kiddos in Halloween costumes? Our friends Amber & Wilson and their ADORABLE kids came to trick or treat with us too! What a fun fun night!

And TOTAL THANKS to my MIL for snapping these photos while we were out and about!!! If you watched yesterdays vlog you know I didn't get one picture of Elijah! Boo to me (no pun intended). But, Karen saved the day with these shots below!

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

I don’t want to forget what they say & do

That we called Ian the “Turkey Chief” when he was 6 months old and it stuck! Long story short, J called him “chief” one day and Ian thought that was the funniest thing ever. So we started calling Ian “chief”. On Thanksgiving we called him “Turkey Chief” which he also thought was hilarious and he’s been the “Turkey Chief” ever since.

Ian’s called Jacob Dean (yes we use both his first and middle name…always have for some reason) “Ab Dean” since he was born and so now everyone calls him “Ab Dean”. That’s his name.

Elijah was never really Elijah or Eli he’s been “Lijah” since his first days of life.

That “Ab Dean” does this little kick move that looks like he’s walking really fast puffing out his chest and giggling. We call it the “Ab Dean shuffle”. You ask him to do it and he proudly obliges.

That we pronounce Julia’s name more like “JulYA”. Ian’s pronunciation stuck once again.

She’s the little lady.

Ian pointing to my husbands bare chest and saying “Hairy, why no hair up there?” pointing to his head.

That Elijah is so flexible he kicked himself in the forehead and left a red mark!

Lijah’s favorite thing to do is color. He wants to color as soon as he wakes up most days.

Ian LOVES baseball.

Ian is the ULTIMATE protector of his brothers and sister. He has been since the moment they were born!

Ab Dean LOVES books and still tends to want to eat more crayons than use them to color.

The first time Julia rolled over we missed it. One minute she was on her back. The next she was on her tummy. Yep...she’s our 4^th child.

This post was originally going to be a Quinoa recipe. I’ll share that soon.

Today it was more important to record my memories.

Friday, June 22, 2012

It’s a zoo around here

This week I’ve been a bit lazy over here! As far as blogging goes that is.

It’s been gorgeous out and the kids and I have been enjoying being outside in the pool.

Doesn’t it just make you HAPPY to see fun things like splashing in the baby pool through your kids eyes?

Such a sweet sleepy lady! She just laid out under the deck while the kids played! LOVED this photo!

Last Saturday J and I had the opportunity to take JUST IAN to our little local zoo for his birthday day! It meant so much to be able to spend that special time with just him.