Driving to Arizona...

This is what I have had to resort to....what kind of mother am I?? I guess she is happy... For now...4 more hrs to go!!

We hope everyone has a

Merry Christmas!!!

We Love you all!!

Haloween

This year Haloween weekend was spent nursing two sick kids back to health! Hadlee came down with the Flu on Saturday, I assured her that she would be better by Monday to go to school and participate in all the fun activities.....well..... I was WRONG! I tucked her into bed with a fever of about 102 on Sunday night. So she missed school and her halloween party and parade. So I missed it as well. Hadlee was so bummed, and so was I. I love to go watch my kids in the parade. Lucy was my other sickie, she has been battling a cold for about 1 1/2 weeks and I decided to take her in on Halloween to see if there was something else going on...Double Ear Infection!! Poor Baby. For having that going on she really was quite a angel, for the most part! Trick or Treating was perfect, except Hadlee had to miss out on it, she went to about 5 houses and had to go home, she cried the whole way home...poor girl... Allie did take around her Halloween bag for her and got her a lot of candy. What a sweet sister! She only got a few odd looks from people who didn't believe her. Come on, really? Besides all that, the weather was PERFECT and it was a fun day/night!

Family Pictures

So everyone knows how stressful family pictures can be...What should we wear? Where should we go? This year it completely escaped my mind until a couple of days before, and I hadn't given it much thought at all, so it saved us some major $ because we just used whatever was in our closets! AND, to top it off I was working that day! I normally work on Tues but had switched it to Monday so I could go with Noah to the pumpkin patch. So our chosen destination was quickly changed to the trail and bridge behind our neighborhood ( we really are so lucky to have such beautiful scenery all around us)! Yes it was the same as last year, but oh well! Lastly, it was FREEZING and soo windy when we were suppose to have our pictures taken....Enter our beautiful and most talented friend/neighbor Hillary! She is truly magic with her camera! And my kids all just adore her! She does our pictures every year and I just love, love what she does with that camera. We got a couple of great shots of our family with us all looking/smiling at the camera! And, I am super happy with the individual shots of my kids too! Pheww, check that one off the list until next year.....enjoy!!

Pumpkin patch

We took the kids to the pumpkin patch tonight. I think we found a really cute one!

My boys

My brother took this cute picture tonight ! I thought it was a keeper.

Hadlee's movie Trailor

Here is the fun movie trailer that my talented brother made for Hadlee yesterday. We are having so much fun with him here with us...he is teaching us all the fun stuff that our new computer can do :)

Happy Birthday!!

Yesterday my Sweet Little "Haddie Becca" turned 9! It seems like yesterday that she was born...She was the BEST baby for us! She never fussed, slept all the time, and ate like a champ. Hadlee is such a good little girl, she such a good sister to both her sisters, and brother, a great student, she loves to go to school, and as most of you know, she is great at any sport she tries (complete opposite from her mom!) Her hearts desire is to play tackle football....butI have resisted so far, saying you can play soccer, basketball and baseball, but for the love of pete, my little girl is not going to play FOOTBALL!!! She still plays almost everyday after school with her friends :) I guess I am ok with that....As for her birthday, I checked her out of school a little early and we went to In N out burger, her fav! My brother even made her a movie trailer with our computer that she was the star of! She really got a kick out of that! Then we just had family over and ate yummy pizza and cake and ice-cream. It was a fun day! We love you Had, and we are so proud of what a great little girl you are!

She Sits!

My sweet baby Lucy got her first tooth and started to sit up all in one day! She has grown up so fast, but we all sure enjoy every second! She is very adored by all her siblings for sure! And she adores all of them too! It's fun to see when they get home from school, she lights up and starts giggling and wants them to play with her! I love this age...before they start to really be mobile.....

Who looks like who?

So this past week I have been working on making photo books (finally) for my kids. I made them all books with their first year last week, and after looking at all their baby pics for days and days, they all kind of started to morph into each other!! What do you think? Who do you think is who??

Its about time!!!

Well I know some of you....namely my brother...will be in utter shock to see this. I know, it's taken a LONG time to get back into the swing of blogging, but I figure it's about time! I will begin with Kevin's Birthday, kind of appropriate since that is where I left off 2 years ago! We had a great day, Well let's start off with the weekend before. Kevin and some neighbors had the opportunity to go to the UTAH/USC game in Cali, he had a great time even though it was a whirlwind trip. They lost :( but it was still a great game! Noah and I spent the day on his birthday getting ready. I decided to have a "favorite things theme". We collected all his favorite items from various stores (not Noah's favorite thing) brought them home and put boxes over them oprah style! The kids thought it was fun revealing them that way. We finished off the night by going out to dinner with the family. It was a good day. Thanks for having a birthday Kevin, so we could do some celebrating! We love you!