Your birthday was happy for us, too :)

My friend Allison had her 30th birthday a few weeks ago and her wonderful husband put on a fabulous surprise party which we were lucky to be a part of.

We met Allison at the spa, and I don't think any of us could have been more nervous.

 Or maybe it was just me that was nervous. Or I didn't get the smile memo on the picture below. Who knows.

 There she is!!! She was surprised and then we got our nails done. So that was kind of awesome.

 The Hutchkin-(as named by Michele, below) came with us and made the rounds through lots of loving arms.

 This picture of the stink eye made me laugh out loud. He loves his Meredith!

 Then we got to go to dinner! Yum and fun....so very thankful for these people!

 The man side.

 And finally we got to spend a fabulous night at the Marriott and go to breakfast the next morning. I'm pretty sure I've never gotten out of the house for a night with a 15 day old baby and it was a real treat!

Happy, happy birthday dear Allison!!! And thanks to the Ferwerdas for treating us to such a lovely celebration. :)

Just a bunch more pictures...

My favorite thing ever.

 That's his roar face.

 Oh those sleep smiles...

 My blue eyed girls...

 We love Oma..

 and Grandpa...

 Reese feeding her baby...

 Grandpa and Kaiya enjoying some peace and quiet

 Grandpa and Hutch's hands

 My friend Michelle...can't imagine if I'd had this baby without living 2 minutes from her!!

 I'm just not really sure about this combo...love them though!

It's the end of the world as we know it. (And I feel fine)

Oh my goodness I love having 4 kids. And I'm not even going to blame being 6 weeks behind on the blog on them, but rather on my iPhone, which I got the Friday before Hutch was born-basically eliminating my need to ever use the big computer. But I've got to get back on track because our hard drive has crashed twice leaving a scant history of our previous children as infants so the blog is an important historical artifact for us.

Not really sure how to catch up-so here's just a bunch of pictures. :)

I think I've taken just under 2 million pictures of his face while I'm holding him. It might be a problem.

Love my little helpers!!

We are equal opportunity swaddlers in our home.

I violate a lot of rules. A lot.

My four little loves! Hopefully the pictures improve from here. :)

We love you like crazy, girl!!!

The night before Hutch was born we had a little gathering to celebrate Reese-who turned two 5 days after he was born. I can't say enough about how much we are enjoying Reese right now...if you recall a post from a few months ago, life with her was still delightful, but a little more trying-making her current cuteness all the more enjoyable.

We ended up with about 55 people but thankfully we were able to hire some excellent help.

And help they did. All day long. :)

Sack dinners for 25 kids. :)

Guacamole for 30 adults.

And the star of the show!!!!

Our three little princesses.

And hugging so sweetly. I kind of want to frame this because it makes me laugh.

I miss her shelf. :)

We threw all the kids on the floor in Reese's room to eat. I figured worst case scenario we were out a Target area rug.

Presents!

Unfortunately this is the only cake picture we have because our camera died at a very inopportune time.

I love this picture of my Mom and Grandma chatting! And sweet Dad just sitting there like men do. :)

This girl really is so much fun. She has different voices, knows exactly how to make you laugh when she's in trouble or has been up to her antics: lipstick everywhere, hand sanitizer everywhere, bags of chips and candy gone, etc. She really is fun, and funny, and a stinker, and knows all of it. :) We are so thankful for this spunky, bright eyed addition in our sandwich of children. We love you Reese!