Catch up time...

Wow! What a busy, exciting, fun year we've had. Oh that's right! No one would know because I have slacked off in the blogging department. Oh the life of a mom, well, THIS mom anyway.  I take the time to read other moms blogs and they seem to be able to do it all. Home, kids, husbands, crafts, cooking, AND then take beautiful pictures and blog about it.  I've ever claimed to be wonder woman.... just a woman who makes you wonder sometimes.....  But I am a woman who loves her husband and family more than anything. I try to cook, clean,(sometimes successfully) nurture, love, and support my family. I do take time for myself and read and take the occasional nap and do the occasional craft.  I need to actually schedule blogging into the mix.  This is my "journal" so to speak, which I have never been good at keeping.  The kids love to look at pictures of themselves here and remember what we've done.  We have spent the last week or so watching our old home movies from when the kids were born, Christmases, school programs, etc.  It has been so fun to see how they have grown.  Sometimes I forget how cute and innocent they were.  They are still cute mind you, just in a more grown up way. It was so nice to be able to watch those videos and share funny stories about each of the kids (like Nathan not being able to say "Piglet" and calling him "Pliget"), that I thought I'd better update the blog with the happenings of the Sill family.
So, this will most likely be a very long post. But just for you - it will be a year of pictures!!  Yeah!
So we will start with Noah's birthday - from last year.

Noah turns 7!!!!  The Pirate Party

He decided that he wanted a pirate party - complete with a pirate cake. He helped make it like he does every year.  I think that's the best part of the birthday.  We dressed up as pirates ans played games and had a pinata.








Halloween crazies of 2011.....

Sill Family Pumpkin Carving Contest






Nicholas turning 9! Doing silly faces every time I try to take a picture.....hhhhmmmm.... wonder who he gets that from?  Every year Nicholas wants pumpkin pie instead of a cake - this year it was gone before I got a picture of it.

Nathan did a Veteran's Day program and represented the Unites States Army

 Grandpa was able to come and see it

Noah had a fun First Grade Christmas Program

What a cutie!!!

Christmas 2011

 Nathan DARE graduation

Nicholas doing his "Nikolas Tesla" impersonation...(book report) 

 Our first big adventure in 2012

We decided to take a much needed vacation in March when the boys were off track.  We wanted them to see and experience some truly beautiful and amazing things.  We first stopped in Bryce Canyon for a day. Then traveled down and saw

 the Grand Canyon, The Hoover Dam,- Gallup, New Mexico- Four Corners, Canyon Lands, Moab, and Arches National Park.  It was an amazing week with an amazing family!