The Bastian Family

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Elise's Blessing

We blessed Elise on June 3, 2012 in our ward. It was a wonderful day and, as you can see, she was a perfect, beautiful little angel :)

I know these are a million pictures all of her from slightly different angles, but I do these posting for the blog books I print later and I want them all! So you'll have to suffer through.

I can't believe those are all mine! I love this picture! (and as you can see from the following pictures, getting them all to sit still and look at the camera is almost a laughable event)

Elise's big brothers couldn't be more crazy about her. It's a fight all day to see who gets to hold her.

Love her!

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Luke is 4!!!

My little Luke turned 4! I can't believe it!

He started off his birthday festivities at school where they did a spot light and made a big about him. As you can see by the look on his face, he did not mind the attention at all ;)

Later that day we got together with all of Luke's grandparents. We opened all is presents before heading off the Chuck e Cheese.

And now for the highlight of the day: Chuck e Cheese (what is it with kids and Chuck e Cheese?! Man they love it!)

Elise didn't quite get what all the fuss was about

But Joey sure loved it!

And of course the big boys were in heaven :)

Later that week we had a little party for Luke with all his friends.

The Theme: Captain America

Captain American, himself!

And his cupcakes

(A secret: Captain America is an easy theme this time of year--4th of July decorations are plentiful, and work perfectly for the occasion :)

All the guests

Opening presents

Even Elise dressed for the occasion :)

Joey had his fun running around after the big kids

Time for the scavenger hunt!

The final prize? The Pinata!

And finally cupcake time.

Happy Birthday, Luke!

Sunday, June 10, 2012

A year or two ago we decided we would do a little family reunion trip every year. For the time being, the location of choice is St. George. So once again, this year we rented a large house with a pool and hunkered down for a few days of swimming (for the kids), golfing (for the dads), and shopping (for the moms). Here are millions of pictures, in no particular order, of all the fun that was had (minus pictures of golfing and shopping--because, well, we really only took pictures of the kids and they did neither golfing nor shopping).

Taking a break from swimming for a little show and crackers. Eliza, Ben, Luke, Anna, Livy, and William.

Little Elise just hanging out

Mikey, Kate and Amanda

Luke

Benny

I love this picture of William! What a cutie.

Mikey

Benny

Anna

Brad and his baby Sam

Cute little Sammy

Luke

Mikey and Kate turned the rock formation into a diving board

Amanda

Luke

Brennan, Livy and Sarah

I love this picture of Anna!

Lance playing with Luke

Kate

Lance with Luke and Mikey. I think he's giving Luke a little swimming lesson.

Anna

More swimming lessons

Livy

Water gun fight in the pool!

Luke and mama

My baby girl enjoying some time by the pool

She won't really do much swimming this summer, but I had to buy her an adorable suit anyway :)

So happy :)

Okay, so there are half a dozen pictures of Elise in ever so slightly different poses. But they were all so cute I had to include them all. :)

Herb and Brennan. Unfortunately it's hard to leave all work at home.

Elise in her cute suit :)

Joey and William--best buds

These are my favorite pictures of these two ever! They were so cute together.

More of my little lady just hanging out

Benny, Mikey and Luke. Playing king of the rock!

On the last day we tried to get all the kids together for a group shot while they were all dressed in church clothes. That's 15 kids between the ages of 2 months and 9 years. You can imagine the difficulty...