Congrats!

Congratulations Ben and Curt!!!!!

Now someone else has to have a boy to make it even again for mom and dad's grandkids! I am happy for you both. Curt with your first and Ben you crazy son of a gun with your fourth. Love you both.

The Baby

We are having



a




Baby!!!!! See if you can tell us what we are having. We are both really excited thanks for going along with this.




We love you all and again thanks for letting me do this.

Kaden and Kaleb in Snow

You can kind of see Kaleb falling in the snow and rolling around trying to get up, I didn't realize that what was happening but it was funny to see for a moment.

WHITE CHRISTMAS!

The Boys were so excited to open their Christmas gifts. Kaden woke up in the middle of the night though with a fever, so we gave him some medicine to help it go down. When he woke up the next morning, we all went downstairs, and Justin and I were like "Whoa, Santa came, look at everything we got!" Kaden came down and laid on the couch, then kinda went over to the presents and got one. I wish he hadn't been sick, because I know his Enthusiam would have been greater, however, once we started to open gifts he livened up a little bit. We woke up Christmas morning and it snowed over night, and was continuing to snow throughout the morning. It was magical. We had our first white Christmas. Now we know what the song means:)

After opening gifts Christmas morning, we had a Page family tradition and had crepes, with blueberry and apple filling. They have vanilla pudding and whip cream on top. YUM!

Kaden and a new beanie he got from Grammy's

We played in the snow on Christmas Eve. The boys had a blast, and we took turns throwing snow balls at each other. The boys were so cute. Kaden especially had fun, as we threw snow at each other.

Kaleb LOVES being outside. It does not matter if it is scorching hot or blistering cold. He was so funny because he reminded us of Randy from The Christmas Story movie, where he was so puffy like a marshmallow. He kept falling down, and it was hilarous because he would just roll around in the snow, exactly like the movie, and we laughed and laughed. He had a great time and didn't want to go in the house even though he was frozen. He cried.

Camping

While Ben has actually been home we decided to go camping in the backyard as a family. The kids had so much fun we made a fire and they got to roast hot dogs for dinner and then they were able to make smores for dessert.



Brody made his smores and then added a little something extra to it also a red vine. They really enjoyed themselves and so did Ben and I. Unfortunately it is winter so we only made it until about 2 am when both Shelby and Brody were getting cold so we moved into the house.

christmas pics

Yesterday we took pics for Christmas so here they are.

Growing so big!

She is growing so fast and getting her own personality. Just thought I'd share=)
Love,
Summer

Well kids I figure it's time I posted something again. I really don't have much new and exciting to tell everyone that I haven't already, but I still should at least throw something out there every now and again. We had Jenn's Dad down at our house today. Her sister and her kids came over also. It was really fun. I kind of like that this year and last they came down here the weekend before Christmas so we could celebrate with them. It's kind of like having two Christmas's. Not to mention they are just good people who are fun to be around, and his falling asleep makes it OK for me to nap while everyone is visiting. They gave me tickets to a Roadrunners game (the Phoenix minor league hockey team) and gave Jenn an IPod. Both were really sweet gifts, but I was planning on getting her one for her birthday next month. She loves it, and it will probably save me money so I'm ok with it. We have a doctors appointment on the 29th of this month. This is the appointment where we are supposed to find out the sex of the baby. I'm really excited to find out. My guess is girl, but who knows really. Anyway, love you all, will let you know if anything new, exciting or fun happens.

Pictures

So I'm a slacker in getting Dylan's 5 year pictures taken and Kendall's 2 years. At least it wasn't yet 6 months overdue. I ended up taking Dylan out of school because the only appt they had left were during school hours. He had an eye appt later that day so I just took him out a little early and then went to the eye appt on the same day.

So here is a preview of some of the cute shots we got...

I didn't get prints of all of these poses. That would cost way too much money. I did get 3 poses of each kid and my free cd with all 69 shots that she took of them. This place is so fun to go have pictures taken. Last night Dylan asked to go again! He wants to have his picture taken in his soccer uniform. Kendall was really good too and we got some really cute smiles from her. Carter loves this place too but I had already done his 7 year pictures, and he didn't want to get out of school so I passed this time on having all three together. I'll have to do that next time.

Nick Makes Our 100th post of the year!

What a way to make an enterance Nick. We love you! You made the 100th post of the year on the blog!

ITS ME

HI EVERYONE ERICA IS SHOWING ME HOW TO USE THIS. ITS STILL NEW, BUT HEY WE'RE HERE. ZACH SORRY ABOUT THE CALL MY PHONE CALL EARLY IT DOES THAT, I CALL ERICA SOMETIMES SHE CAN HEAR ME STOCKING AND SINGING WITH THE FRYS RADIO BUT WHAT CAN I SAY I LOVE BEING CRAZY IT KEPT THINGS EXCITING. WELL ITS GOOD TO BE ONLINE HOPEFULLY WE CAN HAVE SOME PICS ON HERE SOON. WELL ANYWAYS LOVE U ALL

NICK

Welcome to the Blog!!!

Welcome to the blog Nick and Erica!!!!

We are so excited that now the whole family is on!!! Yeah!!! Now if you post and let us all know what you've been up to we can all keep in touch a lot better.

By the way Nick thanks for the phone call at 3am the other morning. I thought it was Zach's work again as they had called him at 4am the previous morning. But no it was brother. At least I think he was more excited to find out it was you than he would have been had it been work. Anyways, I'm glad you guys are on the blog now

Love ya

Ginger Bread House

The boys and even Kendall when she woke up from her nap enjoyed decorating the gingerbread house. They had such a great time that when they were done...





They couldn't wait to eat it!!
I told them they had to wait for daddy to get home. He was at a meeting. But as soon as dad walked in the door. You can guess what happened...

Our gingerbread house is nothing but 4 walls at this point all of the candy has been eaten off the house and most of the ginger bread is gone too. It would probabally all be gone if school didn't interfere with eating it all day. When I woke the kids told me that they already ate breakfast... The gingerbread house was breakfast this morning! Oh what fun we have when we live life as if we were 2, or 5 or 7 years old with no parents telling us to eat a healthy breakfast. Yummm..... Sugar for breakfast. (At least we don't do this everyday, or do we, fruit loops, cinnimon toast crunch? they all have sugar in them too? Oh well at least we all had a great evening a another fun morning.)

Christmas

Zach - Curt
Ryan - Desi
Ben - Nick
Curt - Zach
Desi - Ryan
Nick - Ben

Reminder on Christmas!

Could someone post the list for Christmas Again, I don't remember. Thanks!

Chicken Noodle Soup with Homemade Noodles!

I found this recipe and I make it probably three times a month, my kids especially love the homemade noodles, and it is not hard to make. I love to eat and make a lot of soup when it is cold outside. I think it would be fun to share some really good recipes that we have found.

Noodles:

1 cup flour
1 Egg
1/2 tsp. salt
2 Tb of milk
1/4 tsp baking powder
1 Tbsp oil

(I usually make about three times this much because my kids love them)

Beat eggs slightly; add milk. Combine flour, salt and baking powder. Knead thouroghly until dough is stiff. Roll dough on counter top. Put flour on top of dough. Roll up jelly style. Cut into 1/4 inch noodles. Cover with towel and let stand for 1/2 hour. (like mom says it is easier to cut them up when they are dry and not too wet. When I triple the batch I usually cut the dough into three and roll them out seperately, just a little easier than having a huge big thing of dough!)

Chicken Soup:

Chicken
Chicken Broth
Onions
Celery
Carrots

I usually buy the cheap chicken for my soups (ie: chicken drumsticks or thighs) Cook the chicken in the broth. Cut up everything onions, carrots and celery. Add veggies and noodles to chicken and broth. Cook until noodles are done. ( The center will be look like the outside, if they are not done, the center looks like there is still flour in the middle)

We love this and I think you will too.

If you don't have time to do the noodle, use egg noodles and it is still really easy to do when you don't have a lot of time.

Kendall is just so CUTE!!

Kendall found this costume hanging in her closet yesterday. and she insisted on wearing it over her cloths! She was being so cute and asking to have her picture taken. So of course I took her picture over and over and over again. We had a great time dancing and taking pictures.

So before we painted we had talked about what color we wanted to do our room in. In the past we have used a lot of Dark Green and Navy Blue. Zach came up with chocolate brown and sage green. So when I had a hard time a few months back I went shopping shopping and more shopping. It was one of the few times I've gone and spent money and not felt bad about it that evening. So while in Kohls I found this bed set with brown blue and green in it. It cam with the bed skirt and pillow cases comforter and sheets! for $70! What a steal. Expecially since the comforter is so nice and warm that I don't have to put 3-4 blankets on our bed this winter just to not freeze to death each night. (As you might imagine, Zach loves this cold weather and is still sleeping with out covers. At least I can stay warm : ))
So this is a picture of our new bed covers. I really like them and they match the paint almost perfect! I really like my room right now.

Noodles

So when mom and dad came in October, Zach requested noodles for dinner one night and after almost 12 years of hearing about these world famous noodles I was lucky enough to taste them for myself. And yes they are as good as they were talked up to be. Mom made them with me so that at a future date I could attempt the process on my own. Hence the day has come for me to try it by myself. (Mom and I had made so many when she was here that I had enough for 3 meals after they left. The noodles have been gone for a while and I have been meaning to try and make these myself.) So here is the noodles after I laid them out to "dry" before cooking some for dinner tonight!
Mom warned me last night that it was easier to work with them too wet than too dry... by the second time I rolled out a piece I was starting to get the hang of it. The first ball I rolled out was way too wet and when I cut the noodles they all stuck together. so the next ball I rolled out I made sure to add more flour before folding and cutting and they came out "perfect" if I do say so myself. I was so excited to get them turning out the first try instead of having to add more flour and re roll out the dough and try to cut again. Hopefully they taste as good as they did when mom made them. Things always taste better when someone else cooks so I guess Zach and the kids will have to be the judge of that. Anyways thanks Mom for the lesson on how to make these. They are one of Zach's favorite meals!

TWOO WUV

Everytime I look at these pictures of all these beautiful families (and particularly beautiful grandkids....My grandkids by the way), I just melt inside! I L O V E M Y F A M I L Y !!!!!!!

I'm so, so, so proud of you all!

Kaleb Turns ONE! November 14th

Kaleb and his birthday cake!

We had a Mickey theme! You know we love Disney!

Kaleb's very own cake! I love the first birthday for that reason.

I made a Mickey Mouse cake. I thought it turned out really cute. We had a very small party, Kaden opened all of Kaleb's presents and he loved them! Can't believe how fast this year has gone by now!

Halloween costumes

Our cute kids on Halloween. Justin and dressed up as zombies,but didn't take pictures we were too ugly!