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Welcome to our blog! Craig and I were married on February 11, 2006. Craig had two sons from a previous marriage - Hunter and Colton. I was very lucky to inherit two wonderful kids right off the bat. I feel so blessed to have them in my life. And they put up with my OCD remarkably well. Kyla joined the family on August 8, 2006. She is our little angel...most of the time!!! She loves her brothers and they love her too. We continually get compliments on how sweet they are to their little sister. I recently started a new job as Director of Clinical Services for a mental health agency, and I also have a private practice on the side. Craig works for the Veteran's Administration Hospital as the Systems Redesign Manager. He is a wonderful husband and father. Life is good for our family!

Our Family Album


Sunday, June 6, 2010

Mother's Day Festivities and Professional Pics

PERFECT is the best way to describe this Mother's Day!!! I feel so blessed to have so many wonderful people in my life. We were able to spend the day visiting both Craig's family and mine. And in between visits we even got some professional Mother's Day photos...(part of my Mother's Day present from Craig and the kids.) I feel so lucky to have not only the BEST mom in the world, but also a WONDERFUL mom-in-law. Not to mention that I also have the most thoughtful husband and kids who made this special day (and EVERY day) so GREAT. I truly feel like the LuCKieST girl in the world!!!

Here are a few of our professional pics (taken by the very talented Amber Fischer)...



I LOVE these kids so much!!!

Mommy's beautiful little angel...





Kings of the TREE!!!



Me and my handsome hubby...

I know..."GROSS"...as Hunter says... :)

Three generations of Knutson girls...

My beautiful mom and daughter






More presents....beautiful cards and flowers!!!

Thank you so much Craig and kids!!
My mother-in-law, Lydia, gets a new computer!!

And...Internet 101 lessons from Dean...

LOVE this one of the kids!!
And...one with Grandma Fagan!

Colton getting a headlock from Aunt Karen!!





My WONDERFUL parents!

Grandpa Knutson sneaking m&m's to Kyla...as usual! :)

Kids LOVE to play with boxes!

Oliver wearing Grandpa Knutson's hat...CUTE! Colton and baby Max


Uncle Craig and little Max

Hunter and Max

Grandma Knutson smooching Oliver

Mommy FINALLY gets a chance to hold her baby!!

Oliver and daddy

Aunt Pammy and baby Max!!

We hope everyone else also had a WONDERFUL Mother's Day!!!

Craig's Fishing Pics...

Craig has been doing some good fishing lately, so I thought I'd throw a couple of his pics up from a recent fishing excursion at Swan Falls. I'm not much for fishing, but I sure LOVE to eat them...and Craig can cook fish like no other!! Yummmy!!!



Saturday, June 5, 2010

Colton earns the Presidential Education Award!!!

Congratulations to Colton!!!! He earned the Presidential Education Award. This is quite an accomplishment...in order to earn this award, students have to have received all A's and B's in both 4th and 5th grade AND also scored in the top 15% on their ISAT's. So HOORAY for Colton, who was ONE of only five kids in his class who earned this award!!! Smart kid!!! We are so proud of Colton for all his hard work!!!

The Certificate

Letter from President Obama...


Colton was NOT too excited about getting a hug from his little sis in front of his friends...
Hugging his teacher...Mrs. Orlovich
Colton and Mrs. O

Hunter Track - Spring 2010

Yes...I have fallen WAY behind with my blogging...so I am just throwing up some pics of Hunter at his track meets this Spring. This was his FIRST time participating in track at school; and he REALLY had a great time. The season flew by...just like everything else these days!! We are so PROUD of Hunter and all his accomplishements. Enjoy a few of his track pics...

Hunter and Dad


Getting ready for the triple jump...
Hurdles!!
Nothing says prepared for a race like having your hands in your pockets! Sorry, I couldn't resist! We made sure to give him a hard time for this!! :)

Monday, May 24, 2010

Welcome Max!!!

Wow! I have fallen VERY behind on my blogging...so now that baby Max is almost in college, I will post his baby pictures! Ha ha ha...though he's not in college yet, he is already almost two months old. He was born on April 9th. Little Max is such a good baby and gets all kinds of love and attention from his cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents...and yes, his wonderful parents and Big Brother - Kim, Jack and Oliver. We are all so happy to have a new member of our extended family. We LOVE you, Max!!! Enjoy the pics...
I LOVE this one...so sweet!

Proud Papa...Jack
Proud mommy and big brother - Oliver
Uncle Craig and Max
Aunt Pammy
Close up...
Cousin Hunter and Max
Cousin Colton and Max
More with Hunter...the baby hog...lol
Too cute!!
Kyla and Mommy
Oliver is digging his new glasses he got from Uncle Craig!!
Awww, poor little Kyla feels so neglected with brothers giving their attention to her cousins. :(

Friday, April 9, 2010

Happy Easter!!

Despite the fact that I had been really sick with a sinus infection the entire week prior to Easter...and that this was the first Easter that we didn't have the boys with us...it turned out pretty darn good! I started feeling a little better on Easter day...which was a nice change. I still made sure Kyla got to dye her Easter eggs...which was lots of fun for her. And the Easter Bunny was pretty good to her too! There was no shortage of candy in our house, that's for sure! We enjoyed a wonderful ham dinner with all the trimmings at the Fagan's house too.
Dying the eggs...so FuN!

A special egg for Daddy!

LoTs of Eggs!
Silly Girl!!!
The Easter Bunny came to bring candy and presents!!

Kyla's special stuffy...
World's BesTeST Daddy
World's BeSTeSt Mommy
Kyla loVeS Grandpa Fagan!!

We hope all of our friends and family had a wonderful Easter too!!!