Happy 1st Birthday Hattie

Happy Birthday Hattie!!! We LOVE having you in our family. You Bring us so much happiness and joy. We love your cute little smile!

For Hattie's Birthday Party we had ice cream cone cake (which really confused some of the kids, but they were delicious) and of course a Train cake for Hattie

Hattie's Train Cake!

Hattie enjoying the first bite of her cake! She really didn't get messy at all, but she did eat a lot of it.


Landen helping Hattie blow out her candle.

My Grandma made this apron. I thought it would be perfect for her! She looked so cute in it. She wasn't too happy yet, she was waiting for a cake, but I think she still looks cute!

Hattie and Marvelly posing for a picture! These are two cute little girls!!!



Ohh what is it!!

All the kiddos diving into the loot!

Hattie and her first dollhouse! She is really loving it (and so is her brothers:)

Halloween

This year for Halloween Hattie was a leaf fairy (funny story...We had decided that we weren't going to buy a new costume for Hattie and she would be something we already had. On Friday we decided that we should figure out what costumes we were going to use. We put on the chicken costume, she looked cute, but she looked like Landen did when he wore it. So we put on the Spider costume, but this time she looked like Porter did when he wore it, so of course we loaded the kiddos in the car at 6:30 P.M. and headed to Target to see what we could find. This costume was all they had left that would fit her, and we loved it. She looked so cute!! And she looked like a little girl:) Landen was Dash from the Incredibles and Porter was Batman on Friday and then on Saturday he was a cowboy who was supposed to be riding a horse, but he didn't want the horse and he didn't want the cowboy hat either, so he basically was just a boy walking around asking for "nandy".

Getting ready to head to the Learning Center to go Trick-or-Treating.

A big group photo before they went Trick-or-Treating. (The Learning Center is a free facility for people living in the Bellevue School District or is in the Military. There is no other place in the country like it. It is a free place to go that has paid Pre-school teachers. They sing songs, have stroy time, and make crafts. They have two large rooms full of toys and books. Landen is also doing a reading program where he gets one on one time with one of the teachers who goes over some new words and books and then he gets to take the books home to practice and brings them back to exchange for new ones. We LOVE this place. Porter was to busy playing to stop for a picture, but Landen and Hattie are in it.

One Saturday we headed over to the Hank's house for the wards Trunk or Treat. We went a few hours early so we could carve pumpkins and play in the leaves. It was so much fun!!!

























Landen and Hunter posing for a picture







Spider Man (Stephen), Dash (Landen), Tiger (Kael), Iron Man/was a tiger before (Austin). These boys were just running around playing together having a great old time!!

After the Trunk-or-treat Ty took the boys around the neighborhood to Trick-or-Treat, while Hattie (who was asleep) and me passed out candy. We had such a fun time this Halloween. (Yes that is Ty being caught stealing our kids candy:)

Random Pictures

These are just a few pictures I took while we were still in Utah that I never got around to blogging about.

We had a Birthday party at Grandpa and Grandma Loveless' for all the July and September birthdays. We of course had to have a pinata which of course was the hardest thing in the world to break. We broke it right off its rope and then took a baseball bat to it. It did eventually get broken and we had lots of candy!!

We went to see the baby elephant and the Hogle Zoo before we left. She was so cute and fun to watch play. I couldn't believe how small she looked and she weighed over 200 lbs, but I guess compared to her mom she would look small.

While we were in Utah we spent A LOT of time at the Doctors. Hattie and Porter kept getting anything and everything. Hattie had 4 ear infections in 2 months. We finally went through the process of changing doctors to doctors at a Hill Air Force Base and we took all the steps to get Hattie some tubes in her ears. I thought her little socks looked so cute with her id band on her ankle. This is right before surgery which took only 15 mins! She hasn't had an ear infection since and we haven't had to go to the doctors since:)!!!

So now we are finally back in Nebraska (and we have since the 8th of October) we are just sitting around patiently (or not so patiently) waiting for the A.F to bring our dad home. Their flights just keep getting delayed (and I don't mean like a couple of hourse, but like the first time it was 50 hours and the second was 15 hours) which is no fun for anyone! Hopefully it doesn't get delayed again and he will be home really late Saturday night:) We can only hope!!! Once Ty gets home we will go pick out a new camera (just as a reminder don't water your camera it doesn't grow. I still can't part with it. Even though it doesn't work it still just sits in my closet. So sad!) So we should back in business posting all our fun adventures!

Happy Birthday Landen!!!

Yesterday Landen turned 5. I can't believe our little boy is 5 years old!!! We started the day off right with a good old Loveless tradition and that is breakfast in bed! We LOVE this tradition. Landen chose to have french toast. We sang Happy Birthday to him and then he....

blew out his candle. He also got to....

Open his presents from his Daddy, Mommy, Porter, and Hattie. All he wanted for his birthday was a space ship and that is exactly what he got. He is really into outerspace and astronauts. He says he is going to be one someday. We sure hope so:) After breakfast we played with his toys and got ready for our big party. The best part about the party was...

Getting to talk to his Dad. He really misses his daddy and loves talking to him:) Unless there is a swimming pool involved and then its a hi bye and jump back in the pool! We all had a lot of fun in the pool.

After we finished swimming we did another one of our favorite Loveless family traditions and that is a....

Had a pinata. We LOVE pinatas. I mean what is better than an object you hit and in return it gives you candy. I can't think of anything:) This is a homemade pinata we made during the week. We usually buy them, but they are always so hard to break. Well this thing took the cake. Next time we will do a few less layers. They had a lot of fun trying.

After we broke the stick twice we finally got the thing to break and it was full of candy. After all the pinata fun it was time for cake and it looked a little bit like this...


Yep thats right Batman. We are big Batman fans. I don't know how we became them, but we are. After some cake we...

Opened some presents. Landen got a lot of fun stuff. Thanks to everyone that came and made Landens Birthday special!

Hattie was enjoying all the left overs:)

Guess Who?

So guess what 2 little boys got to sit in this big crane?

These 2 lucky littl e boys. This is one BIG perk of Grandpa's Job is he has all the connections. My dad is doing an addition just right around the corner from where my parents live and today they were setting trusses (?spelling?) so after getting home from the Nature Center we headed over there. All the boys wanted to do was see the crane, but to be able to sit in the crane just made there day!

"N" is for Nature Center

Yes we finally made it to the Nature Center for "N". We have been planning on going for the last 2 weeks, but either the weather was bad or one of us wasn't feeling well, but we finally made it. Here are the boys standing by the only wild thing we saw that wasn't in a cage. Lets just say the Nature Center was a one time adventure for this family.

Hattie really loved playing with these feathers in the education room.

Our 2 little bears playing in the bear den.

Landen playing in the "tree house"

After ALL the walking we finally stopped and had a picnic. Yes that is Hattie asleep on the ground. She was worn out!

Family Night

Monday for Family Night we headed up to Pineview Dam. We stopped by good old KFC and got ourselves some dinner and headed up the canyon. We had some dinner and then we PLAYED!! The kids had a blast. When we pulled up Landen said, "Mom its just like the beach in Nebraska." I am assuming he is referring to the one at Louisiville State, but maybe he is a little confused and means California. Who knows? We had a lot of fun. The sun started going down so I made the boys get out of the water. To say the least they weren't happy with me, but all in all we had a blast!

Hattie pointing out the seagulls to Grandpa.

Landen carried pale after pale of water from the dam. I am suprised there was any water left in it when he was finished.

Porter pointing out the boats to Grandpa.


We had a "friendly" little game of 500. Needless to say we all suffered only minor injuries.