The Beaz

Instagram... again with the phone pix!

2012-02-16T00:22:00.000-07:00

Okay, okay, so I have a fancy schmancy camera and here all I've been doing again is taking pix with my phone! I NEED to get better at lugging out big mama, but it is SO NICE to stop playing Scramble for a minute on your phone and snap a pic, am I right?! ANYwho, here are a few of my fav's lately.

Leaving Las Vegas

2012-02-11T14:07:00.000-07:00

Hoping this crappy phone video looks okay. :)

On our 3rd day we enjoyed more free shows at the Circus Circus. This is Alexandra. She's Russian.

She does all kinds of crazy stuff on a net high above a stage, with no trampoline just in case.

Jameson couldn't stand it. He hates the danger aspect. It's too cute. :)

Then we got to see Zuma-Zuma! I was super excited because they were some of my favorite performers on America's Got Talent. They were so fun and full of energy. They are truly amazing!

J-man loved these guys. I was glad he was finally able to relax while watching a show. :)

After the shows we went back out to get a picture of the Las Vegas Sign. Doug climbed out and took a few and me and the kids stayed in the car. (The girls were sleeping.) So then we decided to go see the mermaids at the Silverton. But on our way there Irelee woke up and decided she needed to eat. I thought it would be easier to nurse her in the car, so we went back to the sign so Doug could get some picture of the older kids by the sign to kill time while I was feeding peanut. :) Yes, my husband is responsible for that darling pic of the kids by the sign in the last post! Go sun flare! :) Anyway. It totally worked out in our favor to go back because they found someone very special while they were there.....

Thats right! Elvis just happened to be hanging out there in the parking lot! Now Lo didn't have a clue who this dude is she was getting her picture with, but one of the first things I taught Jameson to say when he was 2 years old was "Elvis is the king of rock and roll." Trust me, it was so cute when he would randomly say that to strangers in his super high voice as a tiny little dude.

Seriously, how lucky are they to get their picture with the king?! Poor me just had to watch from afar. Sniff. sniff. But it was cool cause if Baby Do didn't have to eat just then, they would have never have had a chance to meet him. :P

Also, on a funny note, some people stopped my husband while they were there and asked if they could get a picture with our kids. Ha! Cracks me up. So he said sure. So some strangers from China have a picture with my kids. Sheesh, why not?

So on to the mermaids at the Silverton! So this casino isn't on the strip, and I think when I go back I might stay there, cause it's fun without being right there in the middle of everything. The kids had a blast and this was London's favorite part of the trip, that's the reason for the onslaught of a million pictures your about to get....

This particular Sting Ray LOVED Jameson. And it's pretty safe to say the feeling was mutual. It was so dang cute, seriously, this dude kept flying/swimming over to James every chance he got! I'm just noticing that I keep writing dude. I'm not sure whats up with that? Maybe because I'm blogging int he daytime instead of the middle of the night, so I have a little more energy and DUDE just slips out more? I dunno. ANYwho.... There is s HUGE tank there, right in the casino filled with fish and mermaids. :)

Jameson's friend, just look at that smile!

But the mermaids had London's eye.

This one kept trying to get Jameson to give her a kiss, but he wasn't having it at all. So she finally started to get London on board. Lo was a little more willing. :P

There is also a pretty awesome waterfall there.

She had the kids turn around for a picture, but I didn't get my flash out in time, so it's a little hard to see.

I really loved how awesome the mermaids were to my kids. Seriously, everyone was so so nice to my kids while we were there. It was so dang cute!

Please excuse this crappy picture, but it's the only one I got right here and Doug had to have a picture with the kids in front of his favorite city in the world!

So that night after the mermaids we went to the MGM to see the lions. We were so sad when we finally got there and found out they already went to bed for the night. Dang it! Gotta love a long walk for nothing! But it was good because this was our only time out on the strip and we were lucky enough not to see anything scandalous. Well except for an extremely pregnant lady in a little black dress and stilettos. And that was just offensive to me, because she was making me look bad. ;)

We took Lo over to the "Princess Castle" she loved it, but my son was way to cool. Just look at the look on his face. Ha!

Then me and the girls decided to wait there while the boys went and got the car for us. :) I got London to smile for this pic by letting her play Temple Run on my phone if she did. Gotta love those bribed smiles.

The next day, we got outta dodge! ;) We headed out for the long ride home. Again, the kids were awesome in the car. I seriously don't give them enough credit sometimes. Or I guess what it is is I psyche myself out thinking of the worst case scenario. Anyway, they were great. But LOVED a short nursing break here and there.

We had so much fun, and as cheesy as it is to say... the best part was just being with my family. They bring me so much joy. I couldn't be luckier and often wonder why I lucked out. Now, I'll stop bombarding ya'll with vaca pictures. Do ya feel like I just invited you over for dinner and then bombarded you with a slide show? Ha! Ah well. Now onto the more everyday aspects of our lives. :)

Viva Las Vegas!

2012-02-06T02:26:00.000-07:00

London and Jameson - Las Vegas

WOW! This post has been quite daunting, because, well, I take a LOT of pictures... so narrowing down to whats important was hard. So this is actually the first of 2 Las Vegas posts. So on with the show!

K- So we took a very VERY spur of the moment trip to Vegas. We've never been there together, not as a couple or as a family, so we thought it would be a much needed break for all of us! My sisters were planning a trip down there, and if you know my sister Rileigh, you know she can be quite persuasive. ANYwho, we were a bit nervous taking our kids there because there is a LOT of very GROWN-UP stuff we didn't want our kids around. But with careful planning and a lot of luck we avoided it all! Wa-hoo! Family friendly trip to Vegas! Thank you heaven for your help. :)

Lolo somewhere between here and Vegas

I thought this pic of Lo described the car ride quite well. ;) It actually wasn't bad. I am nursing so timing potty breaks with that was the hardest part. But we made it there in really good time and even stopped off at a long lost friend's house for dinner near St. George. It was really fun. Here's a few pix from our road trip down...

Salt Lake area I-15

Thank you Instagram for your help in documenting our trip. I'm ~~addicted to~~ in love with Instagram.

Hurricane, UT

St George, UT

Pulling in to Circus Circus

We decided to stay at Circus Circus. I was nervous because I've heard so many conflicting reviews on it and I had never been there before. I've heard it was ghetto, but then has been cleaned up over the years and is now nicer. So the eternal optimist in me thought it would be perfect. Kid oriented and easy on the wallet. It ended up being not bad. The room was really nice. We paid a little extra for an upgraded room. I didn't love all the walking through the smoky casino to get anywhere. If we ever go back with the kids I don't want to stay anywhere with a casino. I just can't stand the smoke. Also the only room service you get is pizza and the pool was out doors, kind of dinky and closed. BUT all in all it worked out just fine. I LOVED the free circus shows there and the people who worked there were WONDERFUL and everyone treated our kids SO SO good.

The Golden Duo

The first night we got there we were itching to do something fun, so we wandered down to the free circus. We were able to catch the last show of the night. They have shows going all day into the late night every hour or so. It was awesome. Did I say free? Sorry, but seeing something amazing in Vegas for free was pretty cool. We did so good saving money while we were there, mostly thanks to friends on facebook giving us good ideas of what to do. Thanks guys! The Golden Duo from Argentina were amazing that night.

No net. Seriously up sooo freaking high with no net. It killed me.

So these girls were amazing and buff and super nice. We got to meet them the next night. Wanna know something thats gonna make you sick. That girl on the bottom.... you know the one with the rock hard abs? She has 3 kids! THREE KIDS and looks like that? The clincher??? Her youngest is 10 months old!!! She looks amazing! I told her "There goes any excuse I ever had!" So after dazzling me with her mad skills high up the air with no net, she tells me she just had a baby? This chick is my hero!

The view from our room that night. We stayed on the 22nd floor.

Day 2

The strip

The next day: I was such a baby about taking my kids onto the strip for fear of what we might see. So we decided to drag the strip a few times first. :) It was actually so nice to drive up and down with the windows open. I would kill for the weather they get there this time of year. Sooo jealous!

More strip action.... the kind of strip action thats appropriate for kids in Vegas ;)

Gold and Silver Pawn Shop

So it probably comes as no surprise to you that me and Doug are big time nerds and love Pawn Stars. So we HAD to visit the pawn shop! We read online that it kind of sucks there, so we were worried we wouldn't like it. Thank goodness we read that, that way were were pleasantly surprised! The people who work there were super friendly to my kids and just loved the baby. They were very cool and chill there and they have some really awesome stuff. Doug and I wanna go shopping there someday when we have money to blow on crap we don't need. But for real? They had a picture I fell in love with and wanted and then found out it was a Picasso! Seriously!? Shoot! Guess I can't buy that one anytime soon! Ha!

Super Bowl and Championship rings

So, did we see anyone famous there, or anyone from the show? Well we didn't get to shoot the breeze with Chumlee, but we did get to see Rick driving his truck and we also saw Danny Koker from Count's Kustom's. He's the guy they bring in for car restorations. He was on camera standing next to an antique car in the parking lot a couple cars away from ours. We sat there like idiots and watched him while trying to remain cool, like we really weren't. Then we accidentally drove through their shot and probably made them mad when we left. Oops! So I think Danny (with his long hair and bandanna) is kind of hot. Doug didn't get the same vibe from him though, I don't think...? ;)

And now a few random Instagram shots of our kids doing various things...

Lo eating it up at the buffet, girl loved her some beans.

J-man after getting a penny flattened.

Irelee pointing at something super interesting.

Lolo and Jameson meet Sponge Bob

So there was a pretty awesome place called the Adventure Dome in our hotel. It's an indoor theme park. Think mini Fair/Lagoon/Circus type place. We went to a 4D movie. The kids and I saw the Diego Dora movie first then Doug took J-man to the Sponge Bob movie. I wasn't sure what 4D meant. So for those of you who also don't know.... It means the movie is in 3D and your chair moves and water squirts you in the face and bubbles fall from the ceiling and different smells and air bursts hit ya. It's actually pretty awesome. I loved it and so did the boys. London cried. And said she didn't like movies where someone spits on you. Ha!

Irelee also likes Sponge Bob

Lolo and the nice clown

While the boys were in the movie, Lo and I found a clown! She said she only wanted to see nice clowns, not mean ones. Whatever that means! So this nice clown had her spin this ball on her finger! She did so good! When we left I asked her if he was a nice one and she said yes, but was disappointed he didn't ask her to honk his nose.

Later that night we headed to the "kid gambling" place at the hotel. It was the huge area around the circus stage that had all kinds of carnival games and cranes and such. It was so much fun and we won so many silly stuffed animals. You would have thought the kids were in heaven. Here you see Lo and J-man battle it out.

Jameson won but then gave his prize to London. He is such a sweet kid.

Watching the Flying Angels

Then we stopped in for another circus act. These were the Flying Angels! Three girls and one guy who flew above us on the trapeze. At these shows we always had an amazing view because the stage and seating is pretty intimate. We were usually on the front row because we had the stroller, so it was really nice. This show was amazing, it even had the two girls in it from the night before.

They preformed with a net. It was crazy when they were done and bounced down right above our heads.

This was London's favorite act, and she really wants to do this someday. Jameson however doesn't like things where people can get hurt.

Pictures really don't do it justice, but they were amazing!

My sleepy crew after the show.

So it's a fact that in Las Vegas, there is no such thing as bedtimes. :P We lived it up and let the kids stay up late, and they.... well looked beat after this last show! Ha! My tired lil punkins. Around here they're bedtime is 8:00, but there... well, they say "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas." ;)

So something you must know. Doug is brave. I am not. So he thought it would be a good idea to ask the performers for pictures after the show. So he caught them on the way to their dressing room and they happily obliged to meet our kiddos and get a picture. They were so so gracious and kind.

We chatted it up with this gal for a while. (I wish I knew her name!!) Anyway, ya, she is the one with the 3 kids. Ages 8, 5 and 10 months. I just can't believe it! I kind of think after I have a baby I have a while before I feel the pressure to lose the weight. This girl is seriously so amazing, in more ways than one.

So that wraps up our first two days! And hopefully I'll post the last two tomorrow! Night night!

Babes

2012-01-31T21:34:00.000-07:00

Irelee • Clover • Nixon

Irelee 7 months

Clover 11 months

Nixon 6 months

We were hanging out one night and realized it had been a while since we got a pic of the cousins together.

We're missing Ellie in this pic. She is 7 months old too!

It has just been so so fun having all these babies together. And seeing the way they adore each other makes it even more special. Irelee cannot get enough of these guys. Tonight we were over at Nixon's house and she was going nuts over him. Madi had her hug him and it seemed to make her feel better, but it seemed like she was trying to talk to him and frustrated she couldn't. It really makes you wonder what kind of connection they all have. Xoxo!

Jameson

2012-01-23T16:02:00.000-07:00

This is the best big brother around.

He makes me wish I had a big brother.

He sings "Itsy Bitsy" to his baby sister in the back seat of the car when she's crying,

and it always calms her down.

He makes breakfast for London because she likes him best.

He shares his D.S. and all his games.

He lets London sleep with him when she's scared at night.... which seems to be getting more common.

He makes everyone smile and laugh around here.

He's a good egg.

He's my favorite boy.

I love him.

Dance Recital

2012-01-18T23:54:00.000-07:00

This year my Aunt Kirsten told me about an amazing dance studio her kids were going to, and since I have a girl who's old enough now- I was SUPER excited to get her signed up. I also gave J-man the chance to dance too, if he wanted to. They had a hip hop/break dancing class, so he was ALL over it. Man, we've had some fun this year! In the above picture is J-man on the right and my darling nephew Roman on the left.

What made dance even more fun was having all of these fun cousins in with us! Here is Ro-Bear and J-man again. Roman was the youngest in the class and kept up just as well as the rest of them, and James had sass. I was a very proud mom and aunt!

Jameson also got student of the month this month in dance, he was so stinkin' excited and I was too. Dang us moms just can't help being proud can we?

They danced to "It's a Hard Knock Life"

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Onto little Lo...

My 3 year old cousin Peyton was in London's class but didn't stand by her so I got a pic of her first.

Originally Lo's spot was not on the end, but she wanted to be by her cousin Tyller, so she somehow ended up there. I'm still not sure what happened. All I know is I have a lot of pictures of a girl I don't know that was standing in Lo's spot and it took me a while to find her. Ha! My eye sight sucks, and girlfriend does what she wants.

Here's all the little crocodiles lined up. This is the 3 and 4 year old class. I was pretty nervous for Lo because one of my earliest memories was my first dance recital when I was 2 years old. (My mom taught dance so I got to squeeze in early) anyway it's a short memory of me walking out on stage and not having a clue as what to do or any memory of my dance whatsoever. But girlfriend killed it and did JUST fine. WHEEW! I'm sooo glad she wasn't as dorky as her mom. ;) At least she won't be haunted like a scary memory like that. ;)

Little lady rocked it with her cousin's They all did so good! Also her friend Kymbrie is standing on the other side of Tyller. Their song was Crocodile Rock from Gnomeo and Juliet. It was the most adorable dance.

And here you see Lo Lo gets her flexibility from her mother. ;)

At the end of the dance the scary monster chases them off stage and they all squealed and screamed. It was so adorable.

My cousin Kenzie is quite the dancer and even had a solo this year. She is Jameson's age and they both have curly hair. They are quite a little pair of performers and LOVE a crowd. ;)

Here is another cousin Kassidy. She did an amazing job as well!

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The finally was a circus theme and all the classes danced. We got to dress up their costumes to reflect the circus, so that was fun.

Lo and Kymbrie clowning it er I mean dancing it up.

Someone was the last one off stage. :) Oh be still my heart, so cute.

Then J-man's class was up again in no time for the circus act...

One of my favorite moves. What a stud!

My cousin Savannah came out and I was able to get a picture of her. Her class was adorable and she also did so good.

The finally was amazing. I am so impressed with this dance company. They did such a great job and one of the things I like the most was the costumes were modest and they weren't all hoochy-ing it up. You know like on that one episode of Dance Moms? ;) But for real. I'm so glad we found such a great place for our kids to stay kids!

This was me attempting to get a picture of them after it was all over. They were a little tired and well... preoccupied. I'm just such a proud mom and so glad we've kept them in dance. It hasn't been easy to commute all this time, but it's been so worth it!

Christmas

2012-01-15T21:28:00.002-07:00

Wow, I've waited so long to post Christmas, now I'm totally out of the mood and ready to move on! Ha! But since the point of this blog is for my kiddies to view one day, I best spend a few minutes on Christmas 2011. :)
The kid on the couch picture above grows every year in leaps and bounds!
I never want anyone to not have anything to do Christmas Eve, so the get together at my house has been growing a little bigger every year. I just love it! We eat good food and the kiddos open their Christmas jammies to get a picture on the couch. This year my Grandma J lead us in a bunch of Christmas carols and told a Christmas story, and the kids ran around like a bunch of crazies. Then while cleaning up afterwords my sisters and I got a little, well a LOT crazy on the air guitar. Thank you very much TSO. :) There is a video floating around out there somewhere I'm scared I'll stumble upon one day. :)

We got such a kick out of Irelee. I am not joking when I say she was the most excited kid that morning. She loved opening presents and playing with all her new stuff. It was so stinkin cute to see her so happy and excited.

Oh I could just eat her up! Look at that chubby bubby arm. Yum!

J-man was super excited to get a surprise gift he's been wanting but forgot to ask for. The Mario in space game for the Wii. I think he was a little bummed he didn't get the 3D DS, but he got some cool games for the DS he already has so I think he survived. He was a very good boy this year.

London was so tired that she seemed a bit unimpressed or unexcited, so we were pretty nervous maybe she was unhappy. But after the day wore on she started really getting into her toys. Wheew! I think she was just zoned out from the night before.

It was a pretty dang good Christmas. :)

6 months

2012-01-01T16:04:00.000-07:00

Baby girl is 1/2 year old!

Can you believe it?

She is an absolute delight.

She keeps everyone in the house grounded and happy. :)

She is sitting really well and likes playing with her toys.

She's not much for rolling, but enjoys lunging for the things that she wants.

She likes make a high pitched squeal/scream to get someones attention.

She doesn't like to be alone and has gotten quite attached to her mother.

No complaints here. :)

She got a guitar that makes noise for Christmas and rocks back and forth when it plays.

She still does the "booby dance" when she's hungry.

The other day the craziest thing happened.

I was sitting at my sisters computer with Irelee on my lap and there was a picture of her cousin Ellie on the screen. Irelee started shaking. I was so freaked out because I thought she was having a seizure. But it turns out she was just excited. :)

Then a few days ago I had her sitting across from her other cousin Nixon and started shaking like that again while they were cooing at each other.

Then last night at a NewYears Eve party she started doing it while watching the kids play, then I noticed she kept doing it once they were done and the only kid left running around was her cousin Clover. She was watching her so intently shaking and smiling.

So I think it's pretty dang cool and adorable that when she sees these little babies she was born with she gets so excited she shakes. It just goes to show me that they are kindred spirits and probably chilled out in heaven together before they came down here and greatly blessed 4 different families lives.

She still has yet to do her shaking thing here at home, or for any of us! Ha!

Oh Irelee Jo-Ann, I love you so!

Happy 1/2 year birthday my darling.

London's letter to Santa...

2011-12-17T16:46:00.000-07:00

Hello Santa, I wanna princess, and a airplane and a game, cause Jameson has hims game. Its chompter, and a Beauty and the Beast movie, and a penguin and a candy cane and a snow man and a Santa toy again. AND a Christmas tree and paper to draw on like mom. And please I have Tangled again and a wallet and a bucket and a kitty cat, please. please, please. And a book. Cause Jameson has hims a book. Pretty please, pretty please! And Done.

I scribed this as quickly as I could as told me her list for Santa. Good thing I was typing it and not writing! Ha!

Whirlwind

2011-12-16T00:19:00.000-07:00

It has been a whirlwind last week or so. We found out last week that we had 5 days to find a new home. It really tested my faith. I was terrified we wouldn't find something in time and just felt like the ground was taken out from under me. Literally. One day in the process of looking for a place, London asked me if we could make cookies for Santa. I just lost it. It broke my heart to know she had no idea we didn't even know where we would be living for Christmas. I spent 3 days on the road with my kids in tow, going from town to town in our area in search of a home. We got so sick of the dollar menu that we started packing a loaf of bread and PB&J in the back of the car. The kids were such troopers. Bored to death and putting up with an overly emotional momma. I shudder to think back to how I was feeling just a week ago.

Fast forward to now. We were so blessed to have found an amazing house, in an amazing neighborhood, in a small town I think I might just fall in love with. My parents have been amazing through this all. My Dad, Doug and Michael did most of the move on their own. And our new neighbors helped us when they pulled up! Awesome! It was really hard work, but we were blessed with a beautiful day Saturday and things just fell into place.

I'm still a little emotional, where as I can't find ANYthing. I still need to unpack all our stuff and get ready for Christmas all at once. We don't even have a tree up yet and that is breaking my heart. I want the kids to be all snuggly, settled in and in the Christmas spirit by the time the big day arrives. I know this was a necessary and positive change our family needed, it was just a little jarring to say the least.

Agh. I know there are so many people worse off than me right now. So I will quit my pansy ass crying. ;) And now I'll share some of our phone pix from this last crazy while. :)

I took this the other morning and decided I had 3 little things to be happy about that day. :)

Little Lo was in rare form that day.

This pic was taken while we were on the road, looking for a home.

The groovy wallpaper from my old room.

One of the ornaments I'm making.

The bunk beds, stuck in our living room. We finally got them taken apart to get them up the stairs, but for a few days they were are "decorations."

Lo helping decorate the tree at the old house.

Now this is the way my Lo usually behaves. ;)

Irelee driving for the first time at our annual trip to "Fantasy at the Bay."

I found this pic on my phone last night. Lo has been taking my phone and shooting video's and apparently this picture. Irelee is about to take Doug down in a head lock.

O town

And guess who's sitting?

J-man lost a tooth at the old house. Then he lost it again somewhere on the floor. We never found it before the move. I keep telling him if he writes a letter to the tooth fairy she'll understand, but he has yet to do that. Silly dude.

Irelee feeling cool she gets to play with her sisters toy.

O town

Lunch break at Dad's work.

Irelee giving up the smiles for the ladies at work.

Lo "helping" in the back of the moving truck.

Irelee kicking it, literally, the first night at the new house.

J-man walking to my car after school in O town.

Dancing

Hair-Do

2011-12-04T00:34:00.000-07:00

So I've been crying about my babe losing her hair and looking so bald...

then all of a sudden today, I realized she's not bald....

She's blonde!

I thought I would be more sad to see the brownish reddish go,

but girlfriend looks so good as a blonde, I freakin love it!

ALSO, I'm aware the pic doesn't really fit with the theme here,

but it was just too cute and I don't have one of her hair just yet.

That is my goal for tomorrow!

Xoxo!

5 months!?

2011-12-01T22:45:00.000-07:00

Irelee getting kisses from her aunts this thanksgiving.

No way is my little peanut 5 months already.

It's killing me!!

Highlights:

She has officially lost most of her hair.

London actually started crying yesterday because she noticed her sister was bald.

"Where's her hair?! I want her hairs back on her head!! I don't want my baby bald!"

It was so cute because I've been grieving over her losing this hair for over a month and she just now noticed.

She la-la-la-LOVES her jumperoo! Especially with music.

She learned how to roll from her front to back when she was 3 months old but has since forgot how.

Now all she has to do is grumble and we fight over who picks her up first.

She may never learn to move on her around own. ;)

She is still nursing like a champ. She's also now eating sweet potatoes and banana baby food.

She refuses rice cereal on it's own. I don't blame her. That stuff blows. ;)

(Wow, I may be abusing the winky face tonight)

She still likes watching football with her dad and Yo Gabba Gabba at times.

Lately girlfriend has decided she can stay up as late as she wants and sleep in.

I'm not quite sure how to get her back on schedule. It's killing me. I seriously haven't slept all night in over a year. She is still getting up to eat a few times a night.

BASICALLY she is as sweet as can be, even with us trying to spoil her rotten.

I'm hoping to eventually wield my stern parenting hand with her, but just knowing she is my last baby I can't seem to help letting her get her way in every situation. I will try to stop before she becomes a total brat. BUT I didn't spoil London and look how she's turing out. ;) Kidding kidding. She is a gem. A feisty gem, but still a gem.

I love you my sweet little Irelee!!

So so grateful for her in my life.

Football

2011-11-28T21:04:00.000-07:00

Hermit

2011-11-27T22:56:00.000-07:00

My girls <3

Irelee is getting much more used to Lo getting right up in her grill.

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My friend called me the other day and left me a message asking me if I had become a hermit.

Dang her..... she knew.

Since our move I have become a total hermit. Hiding inside all day

Irelee chilling in floating swing.

Lo coloring. Her pictures are becoming recognizable these days. I just love her people. A circle with two dots for eyes and two lines for legs. Perfect!

Irelee chills with the baby in the mirror while I get ready for the day.

She also enjoys watching Yo Gabba Gabba with her dad at night once in a while.

Doug, Irelee and I got to attend a chamber of commerce weekend get-a-way.

This is a pic of Irelee at her first banquet. She had fun I think, other than having to nurse in the bathroom.

Hanging out in the hotel bed. I think she enjoyed being the center of attention all night. :)

While nursing she likes to be in control of the remote.

This is Doug "house hunting" aka trespassing on some really creepy land.
Needless to say we won't be living there. :P

The other day we went for a ride and Lo wanted her "pets" strapped in up front next to me before we left. She was being a "Pet Doctor" NOT a veterinarian so don't even suggest that! Lol. You may get an earful. Speaking of London and earfuls. She has been quite entertaining in her little tirades here lately.

Ie:

The other day she found Jameson's metal baseball bat and was chasing him with it so I shouted...
"Don't look Ethel!"p
oh wait, wrong story.... I shouted...
"Don't hurt your brother with that bat!"
and she said...
"I'm not, I'm just gonna teach him a lesson!"

Oh.My.Goodness that girl.

K- another sassy London story:

The other day out of frustration I said to the kids....
"WHY do you always listen to your dad and not me?!"
and she said...
"Cause we don't like you."

OUCH!

Ya, she's a little sas, but what would we do without her? Lol!

Anywho.... let's end this post with another cute one of Miss Irelee...

So glad she doesn't know how to be sassy yet. :)

James goes to the ER

2011-11-20T15:11:00.001-07:00

Last week Jameson woke up around 3 AM with a severe stomach ache.

We had him do all the right things we could think of to make him feel better.

He literally cried in pain until 7 AM when we finally decided to take him to the ER.

I was having a fit because I didn't want to take the baby there and have her exposed to germs, and since I'm her primary source of food I had to stay home with her. So we decided the boys would go and the girls would stay home until we learned more.

I'm telling you, I was pacing and pacing, and calling Doug more often than he would have liked and less often than I wanted to. It was killing me not knowing how my little guy was doing. It killed me not to be there with him. Doug said as soon as they figured out what was wrong he would call and then I could decide if it was something I needed to be there for or not. The Dr. thought it was his appendix and I was afraid they would haul him into surgery before I got a chance to get over there and love him up first!

So my sister Amy agreed to watch London and me and the baby made our way to the hospital.

When we got there I saw a completely different kid than the one that had left our house that morning.

Apparently they thought he needed morphine for the pain, so he was as pleasant as could be watching cartoons and laughing so hard, I thought people 20 miles away might hear him. Ha!

It was pretty funny. He was in good spirits and it made it easier for this momma to handle.

He had to get 2 CT scans because the first one didn't look quite right. And he was more than happy to oblige. When we got the news it wasn't his appendix I was so dang relieved! I just don't think I could handle him going under the knife right now. I'm such a nervous control freak when it comes to my kids health, I'm afraid I would barge into the operating room and start barking orders all Grey's Anatomy style. ;)

They finally released the little guy stating they didn't really know what went wrong that morning but suspected it was food poisoning. That's just great, JUST what we wanted a hospital bill for. ;)

But you never know when it comes to your kids, so we prefer erring on the side of caution, and we'll just be grateful when we get the bill knowing nothing more was wrong with him.

My heart goes out to Mommas out there with kids in the hospital for any reason, but just the thought of it being a serious reason made life unbearable. So my heart, love and prayers will always turn to parents taking care of kids with serious problems. What strong people they must be to go through something so horribly hard. I just know God has his angels watching over them, because otherwise it would be too much to bare.

I'm so grateful my little J-man is back to his old self telling me all about Pokemon, Baukugan, Mario Brothers and his new favorite Sargent Frog, asking a million questions about everything under the sun, and running around doing a million things at once. Ah my little Jameson, I adore you.

Headed to his second CT

Assuring his Momma he's gonna be alright.

Phone Pix

2011-11-07T23:58:00.000-07:00

Miss think rocking her jumper-oo for the first time.
She LOVES it!

My Strawberry

J-man playing with his baby. :)

Can I just say J-man is the best brother a girl could EVER have?!

My girls are sooo lucky to have him! He loves them so much and treats them like princesses.

He's been on binkie duty and Itsy Bitsy Spider duty in the back seat of the car when Miss Thang starts up throwing her fit. Which happens much more than any of us can handle. He is amazing! Thank you little man!

Pretty girl is getting so big!

I was none to pleased to see this snow.

If you look close you can see three big branches that crashed down in our backyard. It kills me knowing how much work we have left to do out there under all that snow!

Lo getting all up in baby's business first thing in the morning.

I saw this dude hanging out at the gas station..... only in Cache valley. ;)

This is how Irelee and her dad like to watch football on Sundays.

This was taken during our move. I felt so bad that while the men were carrying heavy things and the women were packing... I was nursing.

Gorgeous flowers my Grandma got from my aunt on her birthday.

Halloween '11

2011-11-03T23:28:00.001-06:00

Lo-Bean was Strawberry Shortcake

This year for halloween weekend we moved. Yep, because it's always so much more fun trying to achieve something horrendous around a holiday, am I right? So after carefully putting everyone's costumes where I could easily find them, some still got lost. I couldn't find Lo's costume or J-mans mustache. Thank HEAVENS Doug found them. Wheew!

J-man was Mario

Have I ever mentioned on here that my darling London can be... well how do I put it? A little high maintenance? ;) And these freckles she was sporting seemed to emphasize that fact.

Luigi & Mario

My darling nephew Roman aka Ro-Bear ALSO is a big fan of Super Mario Bro's and he looked awesome as J-man's right hand man. Those two are pea's in a pod and it was so cute to see them have so much fun. They "power jumped" all over town getting treats that night.

Lola, London, Roman & Jameson

Here are the silly little twerps lined up and ready to go! They were getting a wee bit impatient waiting on their cousins... and maybe with their parents as well for taking so many dang pictures. ;)

I only wish now I remembered what in the heck the girls were doing.

White trash Doug and my pretty little kitty

So it needs to be said that Doug came up with his own costume this year. Yes, that's a mullet wig and a homemade shirt. ;) We totally lucked out on Irelee's costume. Because apparently it's slim pickins to wait until the last minute to get a costume. But I fell in love with this one.... Doug and I rocked off. He wanted a cow costume... Now come on, I was the clear winner to begin with right? ;) No but seriously I would have been totally down with the cow if it wasn't totally boy'ed out. It was all gray and didn't even have pink in the ears. So well I guess what I'm saying is everything ended up great.

My adorable niece Tyller was a cowgirl

So after we somewhat rounded up the troops we headed over to the trunk-or-treat.

The very first trick-or-treat of the night

My cute little nephew Nix was a VERY scary monster. ;)

Girlfriend enjoyed herself even though she didn't get any treats and the hood of her costume kept getting in her eyes

Hotdog time

Finally caught a smile

Stinkin cute niece was a witch.... apparently we missed the hat ;)

Other than the mad rush of moving we had a very enjoyable Halloween.

It was great hanging out with my sisters and their kiddos.

BTW because I am a proud aunt you should also check out my other nephews and niece who live out of state on this blog.

After the trunk or treat my little Lo was ready to go home. She was pretty much furious with everyone for calling her Strawberry Shortcake instead of London. She complained about it all night and took off her wig as soon as she could. Yes, after throwing a fit all day just to get into the costume, she couldn't wait to get out of it. So Doug took J-man "real" trick-or-treating to actual houses while me and the girls chilled at my Grandma's. It was also her 81st birthday so that was really fun. :)

I love halloween, I really do. (Except for the creepy scary stuff.) Ironic? Probably.

4 months old

2011-10-27T23:10:00.000-06:00

Irelee turned 4 months on the 21st of this month.

It was the first time I made a conscious effort to take some cute pictures of her on her month b-day

(kicking myself for not starting earlier.)

ANY-who, didn't matter too much anyway because she was sick with a cold and she just looked miserable in all of them except this little gem.

I love it so so much because it shows her personality perfectly.

Delightful.

We went to her 4 month appointment today and got her shots for the first time since the hospital.

(She had a horrible cold on her 2 month appointment, and I kept putting off going back in so we're behind.)

She did great! Or so I'm told. I just couldn't handle being there for her shots. Her dad was such a good sport and held her while she got them, I paced the waiting room ready to nurse her as soon as they were done. Shots are seriously WAY more traumatic for the parents, I think. ;)

4 Month Stats:

Weight - 12.10 lbs - 25th percentile

Height - 25.5 inches - 85th percentile (Wha?)

Head Circ - 41.4 - 58th percentile

I'm really not used to one of my kids, MY KIDS being tall. Sheesh, or average height for that matter. ;)

Although I do think J-man and Lolo came in at least 60th percentile at one point or another and gave me false hope. ;) NOT that being short is horrible! It's fantastic! ;) Lol! :) I knew from the minute my youngest was born she would probably be the tallest because her fingers weren't fat little nuggets,

they were long and skinny.

My guess? She's probably going to be about average height, which is taller than I ever thought one of my kids would be. All shapes and sizes I tell ya, and I LOVE it!

Also at the Doc we discussed the whole whopping cough "epidemic" that is taking place in the town we are MOVING TO THIS WEEKEND. AHHHH!!!!

That's all this hypochondriac needed to hear! And being behind on her shots totally makes me more on edge. I've been paranoid about pertussis it since I got pregnant, so Doug and I got our immunizations and now, NOW I am the idiot who was forever late getting hers done. Bah! Grrr.

He told me we should be okay if we spend the majority of time at home.

yay.

Oh well. It's in God's hands. You do what you can and leave the rest to him. He is in complete control.

(A mantra I have to repeat daily to keep my paranoia at bay.)

So we also upped her dosage of Zantac for her reflux. I tell ya, I can tell the minute and day when it stops working as well. (from her gaining weight and us not upping the dosage.) So I was very relieved we can give her more relief from that nasty problem. Poor peanut.

So my babe really likes her Momma, but I'm not convinced it's not just because I carry her food. ;)

She really likes her dad too so it's nice that neither one of us feel left out too often.

After we put the big kids to bed it becomes a fight for her affections. ;) She's just so fun and we can't put the little bugger down. She really prefers to be held too which makes me think she may not crawl as quick or walk, but it's okay with me. I just want to keep her my baby for as long as I can!

It kills me how fast they grow!

We tried giving her some rice cereal the other day and she doesn't seem to be a fan so we're gonna hold off a bit. It's probably best to wait until we move anyway.

She seems to be doing fine breast feeding exclusively.

Her personality is pretty chill. She smiles pretty easily. She loves it when we sing to her. Itsy Bitsy Spider is her fav. She loves, loves, loves her big brother and is still a little weary of her big sister, but I think she's getting used to her being all up in her grill. ;) She loves to watch Baby Einstein and Yo Gabba Gabba. Yes, you don't need to reread that. It happened on accident, I didn't even realize it was on and she became transfixed. It's even starting to grow on me much to my dismay!

She really has the sweetest, most pure and peaceful demeanor. It's really hard to even describe. But to say the least we are all in love with her. She has everyone in this family wrapped around her finger and doesn't even take advantage. :)

Phone Pix

2011-10-25T20:19:00.000-06:00

A group of us went to Wingers for dinner the other day and Irelee snubbed us all and watched football.

Gathering leaves

When the game was over she talked with her dad :)

Someone was chillin in my laundry room. :)

Pumpkin Patch

2011-10-24T09:59:00.000-06:00

My kids daycare decided to take a trip to the pumpkin patch in West Haven and invited us along.

I've never seen such a huge operation, it was pretty dang cool.

For instance this was Lo climbing up their "little slides"

J-man with his "girlfriend" Courtney. :)

I suck in for pictures, Lo puffs out. I love it!!

It was such a gorgeous day! As I'm sitting here all freezy now, I'm really missing it.

Much easier to concentrate with your tongue out.

My man found just the right one.

Loading up on the hayride.

Right before it took off I dropped my lip gloss, it fell all the way down to the pumpkin patch.

Lo was SO upset about the whole rest of the day.

We need to get it mom, baby HAS to have it.

I was so confused. Why does baby have to have my lip gloss?

The she started laughing... she thought I said burp cloth.

So all day she worried and fretted over this supposive burp cloth I dropped.

Silly willy.

We had a great day till I got a call letting me know Irelee wouldn't take her bottle!

So I had to leave early and take the 2 extra kids I was carpooling with me.

They didn't seem to mind, so it worked out okay in the end.

Authentic

2011-10-19T23:13:00.000-06:00

2 of my sisters and I went for a drink run on Sunday.

It was the 17 year anniversary of my Moms death. This year with so much going on I found it wasn't as hard on me as usual, but I imagine it was still pretty hard on everyone else.

They say time heals all wounds. They lie.

I digress.

Anywho, we got to talking about goals and changing our lives for the better.

I told them one thing I really want to change about myself is to be the same person in every situation.

You know like, I have a phone voice, a talking to old people voice, a polite voice, one that swears and one that doesn't.

I want to be authentic all the time.

I don't want to beat around the bush and get all nervous around people.

I don't want to constantly second guess what I've said or if I've hurt peoples feelings.

I also don't want to second guess other people.

I want to give them the benefit of the doubt.

My husband is blunt and he says what he thinks and he's taught me the value of true honestly.

He told me that the people who are always nice to your face are the ones who talk behind your back and the ones who say what they think will tell you to your face. You will always know where you stand.

Now I am a far cry from being blunt. (except with my family I suppose.) But I do want to get more in touch with me. Love me or leave me, ya know?

Wow, I'm getting wordy here... my bad.

So ANYway, me and my sisters decided to live a week of being purely authentic with everyone we come in contact with. OR at the very least give it a good try.

Welcome Monday morning.......

It started with an email from an unhappy customer.

My authentic self wanted to be blunt and maybe rude cause that person really hurt my feelings.

My professional self knew I had to be polite.

My normal self would probably kiss that person's butt so someday that person would like me.

So......

I was polite but direct.

I didn't kiss that persons butt and I walked away feeling proud.

But then after talking with a few more customers I started to get unhappy.

There is no way I can be authentic! I have to be nice! The customer is always right! Not that I had a reason to be rude, but I was just overboard nice and cheesy cause heaven forbid they don't like me.

Anyway, then my son calls me from school to tell me we owe money for his lunches.

Now I had no idea we owed money until his teacher gave me a note about it at his parent teacher conference right before the weekend. She told us we could go in the office and pay right then so we went there and sat around for a while and no one was around. So we left with intentions of paying online. Well we completely forgot about the whole ordeal until the phone call I got at work... on Monday.... from my son.

I know it's my fault for not keeping better track. I get that. But having him be taken out of class to call me is just wrong. It's wrong because kids shouldn't have to worry about money. He shouldn't have to stand there and be forced to call his parent at work and feel embarrassed from being called out of class. And we weren't even that far behind. We are talking dollars people.

GRRR.

So what did my authentic self do?

Nothing.

Not a damn thing.

GRRR.

WHY? Because I am a major wus and have major problems confronting people.

So I sent my husband off to pay the money and told him, "you should say this, and that!"

But he wasn't mad like I was so it was just kind of left as is.

ANYWAY things started getting crazier. Later that day I got a call from his teacher about him being late and it just snowballed from there. I had to leave work to pump for the second time that day. I was worrying because my boss is getting tired of me taking all this time to go pump. Then just as I was finishing Doug comes home with J-man and I hear he got in trouble at school again. I had to get back to work because clients needed butts kissed, I still had to go take my milk over to the sitters and my stress kept building and building until my authentic self just SNAPPED!

So I yelled at my husband as I ran out the door.....

"I CAN'T KEEP UP, I CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE!

I'M NO GOOD AT BEING AN EMPLOYEE RIGHT NOW AND I'M NO GOOD AT BEING A MOM, I'M SPREAD TO THIN AND SOMETHING HAS TO GIVE!!!

I'M QUITTING WORK TO STAY AT HOME WITH THE KIDS!!!"

And thats what I did. How's that for authentic?

I gave my 2 weeks notice. I'm scared as hell, but I'm gonna be a stay at home mom and just try to get our lives together. Bills paid on time. Kids to school on time.

Clean socks for everyone that actually match. The whole 9 yards.

Wish me luck, cause heaven knows I need it!

.....

And just because it's cute, I leave you with a picture of my little ones all trying to save the princess....

A little video

2011-10-14T16:35:00.002-06:00

I have this silly little video I took on my phone of the girls a couple weeks back as they were just waking up for the day and I just love it.

I'm not sure if it's because London is a tad dramatic... "baby's gonna kick me off the bed"

or because she sounds like Pauly Shore "don't get off the be-ed."

Whatever the reason, here ya go...

Friday Phone Pix

2011-10-14T12:53:00.001-06:00

Heck ya! Posting on friday, take that!

Er ya.... Here we go!

Miss Lo at daycare. She was pretty excited to be a pumpkin head.

Have I mentioned we LOVE our daycare gal!? She is amazing and the absolute best!

Baby girl smiling at momma.

Baby's first hoodie :)
P.S. What the heck is up with the huge ole warnings on the car seats these days?
A tad bit tacky, we get it, put the dang thing in right.

Chillin with big bro! She loves him so much and always has smiles for him.... Lo on the other hand she's still a little unsure of. ;)

Be still my heart.

Kisses!!

I had the girls matchy matchy accidentally today, but oh how cute.

I pass this group off trees everyday on my way to work and can't help but think they feel like I do about fall and are reluctant to commit to the change. ;)

Tubby Time!

2011-10-09T21:58:00.000-06:00

Oh my little love, I could stare at her all day!

She is such a sweetheart!

And she's looking a lot like my Mom here lately.....

Grandpa Davis holding Nancy Jo 1957

Phone Pix (with a tiny announcement at the end)

2011-10-08T23:39:00.000-06:00

So apparently I'm no good at posting these on Fridays so.....

and apparently they load up out of order and I'm too lazy to rearrange them....

that being said....

Here we go!

This weeks phone pix!

Snack time! I bribed them with snacks in order to get them to gather their toys up in the back yard. :)

This is our B on the mountain that stands for the high school I went to. Usually there is a lot more mountain above it, but it's been stormy round these parts and the clouds covered a lot of our mountains which is really unusual for us.

On one of my days off we stopped by the office to visit Douglas.

London got some work done so he could relax.

I may have posted this before, I can't remember, but oh well.... it is too cute!

Close up of snack time.

Dad and Irelee chillin' at the office while Lolo worked.

BTW-

Have I mentioned we are moving?

Well, we're moving.

This is an adventure. This is an adventure. This is an adventure. This is an adventure. This is an adventure....

Starting to believe it!

On a roll! (Kenzie's party)

2011-10-04T13:33:00.002-06:00

We attended my cousin Kenzie's 8th birthday party.

It was a cowgirl theme and we got to ride horses!

I just loved how Kenzie and her friends packed London around and spoiled her.

And of course Lo found Peyton. Those girls are too cute together.

Rock, Paper, Scissors? Nah I think they just trying to figure out how to hold hands.

Poor J-man wasn't feeling very good so he sat and snuggled with his dad for a while.

I think little Lo is getting to be quite a good little cowgirl.

She hops up there with out any troubles or worries and completely loves every minute of riding.

J-man finally decided regardless of how he felt, he was gonna ride that horse.

I just love these looks of determination on these kids faces as they march towards the horse.

This is Tyller on her way to tame the beast. ;)

While the kids rode the horses, Doug decided Irelee needed to go down her first slide.

I think she kinda liked it. :)

We hung out with the Uken's in the shade and played with each others babies.

Don't you just love Miss Clovers eyes?

Irelee tries out grass for the first time....

but seemed more interested in eating her dress.
She's even cool with Clover taking her bow off... why not?

Cutie cute cowgirl sisters!

By the end of the party my man was feeling much better. :)

Thanks Kenz-a-roo! Great party!!

Friday Phone Pix

2011-10-03T16:42:00.000-06:00

If your super smart you might just figure out I'm a few days late on this one.

Bear with me.

Or is it bare with me?

I dunno, but lets get this road on the show!

I really wanted her to love this thing... and she does... for about 5 minutes at a time.

Oh I have to tell you!

She can talk and has been doing it for a month now! That's right, I kid you not she's been talking since she was 2 months old. In fact thats why I took this pic, she was talking at the time and I was trying to get a video for proof and hit the wrong button, so I went with it.

Okay so what can she say?

She says.......

(drumroll)

.......

"Uh-uh"

Okay so that might not have packed the punch I was going for! Lol! You have to hear it, it's the cutest thing ever. She says it over and over when she's mad. I will get a video here soon and you will see how damn cute it is! ;)

This is looking a bit familiar so I hope I didn't already post this, but she was getting a shoulder ride from dad and looked so tiny up there next to his big ole' head. :)

After her blessing laying on Madi's bed right before she decided to spit up all over it.

That would have been a great pic. ;)

Loleo watching TV, LOVE those lips. Well lip.... in my family we pretty much only have bottom lips. ;)

Loleo (the latest in nick name trends) all dressed up. We had a pretend picnic in the front room she told me her name was Tim and I needed to pick a name too. So I said some random name I don't remember now cause my brain cells died somewhere in my pregnancy and never came back. Anyway and she said, "NO, you have to pick a gouls (girls) name like I did!" Lol...... Mmmmmkay.

Have you seen a sweeter face?

No, no you haven't.

This is daddy helping her read her first book. She was totally into it.

Watching Baby Einstein late at night. She LOVES those.

Oh I am in LOVE with her baby hands.

Lolo tore it up finding the remote, but she got it!

Irelee on her 3 month b-day.

Irelee decided she would skip those wimpy horses and start right off riding horrific dinosaurs,

you know jump right into the big time.

Pretty much anytime I get her to sleep on her own I take a picture because it only lasts about 5 minutes tops.

My lil cowgirl. More pix from that day coming up on tonight's blog.

Now try reallllly hard to ignore the fact that she may or may not be flipping me off in this pic.

Just look at that adorable fat foot she was pointing in the air!

Your not looking at the foot are you?

Anywho, she was sitting there chilling watching us fold laundry and just had this foot up in the are the whole time.

So dang cute.

Lolo has been wanting to hold her more and more even when there's not a crowd or camera.

She's so good to her! Hooray! Because she practically terrorizes everyone else.

My super naturally blonde sister with her new dye job.

I always freak when she wants to go dark cause I love her natural so much,

but she really knocked one outta the park this time!

Gorgeous!

Oh my love. Every time I see this face I melt. She really has the sweetest personality.

And there you have it!

Friday er Monday Phone Pix!

Irelee's Blessing

2011-10-02T01:14:00.000-06:00

Oh my love, my little darlin'.....

My baby girl was blessed a couple weeks ago at my sister Madi's house with her cousins.

They drew in quite the crowd. ;)

Although I couldn't coax a smile out of her, I just know she enjoyed her special day. :)

Her Grandpa Marty performed the blessing. To his left is Uncle Bruce and his right is Grandma Jensen.

Here are the 3 amigo's! Cute little baby nuggets!

I was a little relieved my little peanut wasn't the only one who didn't want to smile.

Irelee, Ellie and Nixon.

My little Lolo is going through a Grandpa phase, she is obsessed with Grandpa Marty.

Lynette was awesome enough to prepare our breakfast we had afterwords.

It was so dang good, it's a pankcake/frenchtoast type meal.

Once breakfast was over the babies stripped down to their unders, well we may have helped them out with that. That's Clover being held by Lindsay behind Rileigh and Irelee.

Lolo also got comfy and ditched the bow. She was going for a kiss and I'm not sure Irelee was on the same page as she was.

And this is my sister-in-law Li (the mom of Ellie) holding Nixon (the son of Madi)

I just loved her silhouette and wanted her to see why.

(I think the pic is hawt, but if you don't love it Li, I'll take it off.)

Anywho- the blessing was lovely!

I felt so bad because I kept forgetting to let everyone know when and where we were doing it. It was during my crazy peach days time at work. But we were so happy to see who all came!

Madi was sooo nice to let us do it over at her place. (Isn't her home adorable?)

Peach Days 2011

2011-09-29T00:06:00.000-06:00

This years Peach Days was AWESOME!

As I mentioned before we had my bro and his fam here so that was so fun and also my husband is running for city council so we got to be in the parades.

The first parade is the kiddie parade on friday night.

We decided to keep it simple and just dress up a trailer and let the kids jam out to some tunes.

They.Loved.It.

(So did we)

My sister-in-law also has some great pix here.

My brother-in-law Nick drove for us and we only almost fell off twice....

kidding! kidding! He did a great job. :)

On main dancers were Jameson, London, Evan, Asher, Roman, Lola & Tyller.

(But I would say the ones who really danced their pants off were J-man, Evan and Lola, they were the die hards of entertaining.)

The next morning as we waited in line for the parade, Lolo decided to do a little campaign work. ;)

The kids were sooo excited to be stars for a day.

Jameson took it very seriously and absolutely LOVED performing for the crowd.

I still have random strangers come tell me they saw him and thought he was awesome,

and he was!

Who's voting Beazer? Irelee is! ;)

Pretty sure this is our first family picture (besides the horrid hospital ones) pretty sure this is the best we're gonna get. ;)

J-man getting hydrating so he can keep on keepin' on.

Madi said it best when she said the kids started to look like drunk people on the dance floor at two in the morning who just kind of stand there staring and swaying. Lol! We so needed video..... wait there is one from someone on youtube, I'll have to link it on at the bottom.

He was in no mood to pose for a pic, he had fans to please.

These guys were hilarious. When they saw us at the end of the parade they started dancing and doing the Dougie. They were cheering on James cause they saw him the night before.

Oh so we did the "Dougie" pretty often in the parade because that's his name and we thought it was funny. It got pretty mixed reviews....

Well okay so maybe our town just isn't ready for the Dougie, lol!

We've had quite a few negative comments about our crazy rap music.

But here's how I feel about it.

It's Doug. Doug likes to be a goofball and dance with me and the kids, so thats what he did.
Also it was the clean version, so there was nothing offensive in it.

(some BYU kids did it for Jimmer for heaven sakes.)
Anyway...

I'm proud of him for being who he is, even if it lost votes for it.

You just shouldn't have to change who you are just to run for office.
The person I want representing me is the person who stays true to who they are.

And thats all I'm going to say about that. :)

This is one of the kids favorite rides, I think it's in all my Peach Days blog posts. It's adorable and they have so much fun.

And Lo wasn't crying on it this year, so that was good. :)

(last year she bumped her head as she was climbing in, so it wasn't good.)

Who wouldn't like zipping down the middle of main street?

Lolo cracked me up on this ride, because she looked so terrified and was kind of crying.... but then she wanted to get right back on again and again. (Her and Tyller are in the third seat back.)

K- I didn't notice this at the time (cause she put it back) but do you see that horn she's blowing?

Ya.... it's not hers.... I'm guessing it was someone who put it there while they rode the ride.

NOT what this hypochondriac mama wanted to see her daughter do.

Sheesh. And sorry to whoever is the owner of that horn! Lol!

Bear and her hubby Kristofor came for a little bit, and besides his terrible choice in clothes,

we enjoyed their company. ;)

Mado and Nick

Lola being her cute little self.

Lolo LOVES her aunt Aariel!

We also ran into Peyton! Those girls are always so happy to see each other!

You may notice all of these last pix are all of London and not the other kids.

Well my little Miss was sleeping and the boys were going on the Gravitron about a million times.

Then I had to go feed the baby in the car while Doug took the kids on more rides and got me some Peach Cobbler. As I sat there in the rain feeding my little peanut I decided I got the better end of the deal for sure. Sometimes those Mommy time-outs and much needed and appreciated.

Happy Peach Days everybody!!

Friday Phone Pix

2011-09-23T16:45:00.000-06:00

6 kids happy at once? Thank you Mario Kart.

Nix & Irelee chillin'

London trying out my Mom's baton.

A feast the kids made me in the backyard..... I felt so bad I couldn't eat it! (Allergies)

Sunday Nap

One of these things is not like the other... one of these things just doesn't belong....
Doug likes his tomatoes in the windowsill, I just happen to keep mine there too.
When I saw he put his up there, it looked so cute I took a pic.
Oh let's just ignore that dirty window, thank you.

Lolo wanting to hold her sis... cause I was taking her picture :)

Damn you fall.... sneaking up on us like that!

Just a few minutes ago J-man made the first prototype of the surf board airplane he plans to invent. :)
He's pretty peeved I'm posting this before he had a chance to get the engines put on.

Red?

2011-09-21T00:50:00.000-06:00

So.... my baby peanut is losing her hair.

I know, I know it happens to most babies around this time.

But it's always a little heart breaking to lose all those locks!

But something weird is happening to Miss Irelee's hair...

it's like the more hair she loses, the more red the hair left behind looks.

And neither Doug nor I have any redheads in our families we can think of.

It's so weird!

I guess it's good I've always had a thing for redheads. :)

I'm really digging it because I think it looks amazing with her skin and her beautiful blue eyes!

But it looks like her roots are pretty blonde so this might just be a passing thing.

But if not... bring on the red!

Oooo maybe she'll luck out and get freckles too!! I love redheads with freckles!

Meeting sweet Ellie!

2011-09-18T23:55:00.000-06:00

Irelee and Ellie

My brother Ben, his lovely wife Li and their 3 adorable kids came to stay with us for a few days!

It was sooo stinkin' fun. :)

It was great seeing them because they live in Washington and we've missed them sooo much.

Our babies are just two days apart and this is the first time we've seen Ellie and they've seen Irelee.

It was awesome! Although the only entertaining we really did was watch Pawn Stars on Netflix, it was so nice just to spend time with them.

Irelee, Ellie & Nixon

The night they got here our whole family came to visit and we were able to get pictures of all the babies together. Li took most of these pictures. She is a very talented photographer and was nice enough to let me steal some. :)

I la-la-love this one she took. It's like HELLO it's Ellie and her 2 little sidekicks!

While they were here we got to enjoy Peach Days together and bless our babies. It was awesome!

The day Ben's family left I bawled like a baby on and off all day.

I could chalk it up to being my mothers child or postpartum hormones but I think it was mostly because I'll never see the same Ellie I saw this time. Next time she'll be bigger and and more grown up and I just fell so in love with her that it was super hard for me to see her go.

(K- enough of that talk or I'm gonna start up again.)

Anyway...

Thank you Ben and Li for staying with us!

You shared awesome tips with us for our little lady, brought back the swaddle we thought was gone forever and even got us just a little hooked on Coke and Double Stuf Oreo's.

And now for the picture you've all been waiting for

ALL 4 BABIES TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME...

Irelee, Ellie, Nixon & Clover
The fantastic 4

The County Fair

2011-09-18T22:45:00.002-06:00

So a few weeks ago we hit the county fair.

I took a quick pic before we headed in because whipping out the big ole Canon with people and strollers and animals and balloons and cotton candy and and and.... well u get the picture.

So I think I spend the majority of the time in the nursing station.

Yes, they had a trailer just for nursing moms, it was pretty dang decent of them!

Lolo chillin' with us in the nursing trailer.

*Whoot whoot BRHD!*

Anywho, so I bought a few bows and a real nasty Coke and the kids went on way too many rides and got a little too whiney, so we got outta dodge pretty quick.

Cousin Tyller on the Merry-go-round

Lolo lovin' it too

J-man was even into it, although his fav was the Gravitron.

And just for fun I'll leave u with a pic of Lo tearing it up on the dance floor 2 years ago. :)

Friday Phone Pix

2011-09-16T16:59:00.000-06:00

K- so this was actually last fridays post but I forgot to hit publish!

J-man gives Irelee a bottle for the first time.

The light is too bright!!

After worrying about our economy Irelee has decided to take matters into her own hands.

London's Uniqua is the thing Irelee started grabbing first
(after her owls on the boppy.)

She seems to like football... should I be concerned?

J-man after his first day of school.

Sporting the super cute onesie Auntie Aarie made her.

Accidental shot of her ear I fell in love with... even thougj you can barely see it.

Grabbing the owl.

London on J-mans first day of school with a backpack and bow ready to go.

J-man's 8th Birthday

2011-09-14T23:17:00.000-06:00

Kenzie, Jameson, Roman & Lo

Jameson's birthday always falls right before Peach Days.

Peach Days in our town in a HUGE deal.

Basically the biggest event of the year.

My job at the newspaper gets crazy hectic to say the least,

and this year even more so because I've cut down my hours during the week.

So I had to work the whole weekend of my mans birthday. I feel so terrible.

But he was such a good sport.

He wanted a Pokemon party and was cool enough to let us do it at the bowling alley to make things around here less stressful. He had his friends and cards, so he was happy. :)

J-man and Kenzie, he loved his Pokemon cake.

I love his smile in this one. :)

I need to find out what he wish was. Every year it cracks me up.

Proud parents of an 8 year old!

Doug helped me with Jameson's 4th birthday party and it was just before that that Jameson asked Doug to be his dad. J-man has now had his dad in his life more than without. :)

Grandma Jensen loving on Irelee

Grandpa Marty cuddling Nixon and Grandma Jensen cuddling Irelee. So sweet!

Little Lo loved bowling and actually did quite well!

J-man had a great birthday!

He is such a sweet boy and has always been such a blessing in my life!

I can't believe he's been with me for 8 years!

Am I the luckiest mom or what?

Guess what?

2011-09-10T23:48:00.000-06:00

These two are hilarious! And we had so much fun in the Peach Days parade!

I'll tell ya all about it later cause dang!

Lol! My cheeks hurt from laughing so hard.

Life lately

2011-09-06T00:28:00.000-06:00

My little princess is 2 1/2 months.

Ahhhh actually she's 11 weeks!

It's gone by too fast!

I love this girl sooo much.

I could be completely happy and at peace never putting her down.
Well, almost... there are a few things around here I've been neglecting. :)
I tell her all the time she's intoxicating.

It's funny how much of their personality you can see at such a young age.

For instance, she is determined, focused & patient.

I see this show up the most lately when she is trying to grab objects.

It's a big change around here because NOONE in this house is patient AT.ALL.

We could learn a thing or two from her.

Miss Lolo likes helping with her sister.

But it usually has to be her idea, or while the baby is getting pictures taken. ;)

It's so funny, when I say something like "Look at Irelee smiling at you."

Lo will say "I can smile too, look mom see!"

Or, Irelee is getting so big, she tells us how much bigger she is.

She reminds me a lot of how James was when she was born.

I love this picture so much!

I love how Irelee is pulling a face, it cracks me up and makes me wonder if this is just a glimpse of things to come. :)

I just love my baby so much and couldn't be a happier momma.

Sometimes I wish there were 3 of me though, I do feel like I don't get as much quality time one on one with my other kids. I'm sure they are feeling left out because I'm feeding this little gal ALL the time!

I've also been choosing alone time over sleep lately.

Since I never get anytime to just relax, I wait till everyone is in bed (including the hubs) and then take that time to blog, go through pictures or just zone out.

I usually go to bed around 1:30 but sometimes stay up till 3:00.

I always tell myself as soon as I get my Pepsi the next day I will be just fine.

So far I haven't noticed any difference, I'm guessing because I've stayed up with a newborn for over 2 months and before that I couldn't sleep well with my big ole prego bod.

LOL, it's a little weird that now that my babe sleeps through the night, I don't.

Hmmmm... sleep is actually sounding pretty good right now!

Maybe I should give it a try..... right after I check my facebook. ;) ;)

J-man's first day of School

2011-09-04T00:39:00.000-06:00

Second Grade.

My boy is in the 2nd grade.

I can't believe it!

Time has just snuck up on me!

The crazy thing is, he's probably the oldest one in his class, and I'm still not ready!

Before school started this year James told me,

"Mom, did you realize the end of the world is in 4 days?"

I kind of froze.

With all of our natural disasters lately I thought maybe he was clued in to something of epic proportions.

Nope.

He was referring to the first day of school.

It also happens to be my big guy's birthday today.

(It being 12:30 am)

My little bug has grown up so fast!

I'm just not ready to hear...

"My name isn't J-man/James/Bug/Booger/Whatever it's Jameson."

I'm not ready for him to not want to include me on every aspect of his life.

I'm not ready for him to be into girls.

*shudder*

I'm not ready for soooo much that he's almost ready for.

But I have no choice, my little bug was meant to fly.

(I'm a peacock you gotta let me fly!)

Does that mean he's a butterfly? Oh too cheesy, of course not but.....

*Sniff, sniff*

I do find myself wiping away tears realizing how old he's gotten and how much older he's going to get.

Yes I was that mom holding my baby boy when he was just 4 days old crying because I realized one day he was going to find someone to love and leave me.

Someday he would have a new woman in his life.

I kid you not I cried about that for HOURS holding my tiny little newborn.

Silly mama's just have a special place in their hearts for their boys.

But just look at this face?!

How could you not love this kid?

He is one of my greatest joy's and accomplishments.

Yes I take a lot of credit. ;)

Oh J-man when I'm done writing this I'll sneak into your room like I do every night and kiss your cheek and make sure your still breathing and pretend just for a minute that it will be like this forever.

Stupid post pregnancy hormones. ;)

Do you ever really know?

2011-09-02T00:33:00.000-06:00

Irelee's first time in the Bumbo watching the kids play out the back door. 8/19/11

So..... after I had London there was a time when I thought I was done having kids.

We happened to have a yard sale around that time so I was thinking if I sold a bunch of her stuff I could use the money to buy her new clothes.

Ya right.

We have found that the money we make on a yard sale usually buys pizza for lunch,

gas for the car and maybe if your lucky a Pepsi and a pack of gum.

Little itty bitty baby feet.

So, at that yard sale I sold my Bumbo for $3.00

Why? Cause I figured yard sale stuff needed to be cheap and it would all add up eventually.

....

Fast forward 2 years, brand new baby girl, kicking myself for selling all of London's stuff.

Trying to acquire the same crap I just had! Ahhh!!!

I started looking for used Bumbo's,

thinking I could find one someone else was selling for cheap like I had done.

Guess what?

I am the only putz out there willing to sell a Bumbo for less than $25!

Well I am not about to pay that for some weird boy colored one coming from a house I don't know.

So we found ourselves back at Target paying $35 for the same dang Bumbo we owned 2 years prior!

...

The moral of the story is.....

Well sheesh, I don't know yet.

It could be don't sell your possessions without first finding out their value.

or it could be....

Don't sell your baby stuff at all. Ever. Because really, do you ever really know?

Sister Love

2011-09-01T01:19:00.001-06:00

Sometimes I want to leave this place. Utah that is. The weather, although beautiful can be tricky. I hate winter, like HATE it! And there are so many other places that would be amazing to experience. I always told myself I couldn't move because I had to be near my grandma... I just couldn't leave her. But now.... the blame falls on my unknowing sisters. How could I leave them? What would I do without them? Let me introduce you to my crew....

Rileigh....

So here's Rileigh. She is 5 years younger than me. The day my mom brought her home from the hospital she was not what I expected. I guess I pictured a chubby smiley 5 month old in my head and when I saw the tiny pink wrinkly thing in the car seat I was wondering what happened to the gerber baby I was expecting. But we got along just fine and in no time she was that big adorable gerber baby. I remember my mom asking me if we should name her Rileigh Prudence or Prudence Rileigh. I told her Rileigh first and still take full credit from saving her from Pru. ;)

Why I can't leave her: She is my workin' buddy. If we need Pepsi's or lunch we can hook up and run. If I need my hairs done, she's my gal. She does a mean head of hair and thats coming from a picky hair person myself. I used to rock those sisters, but she has far surpassed my abilities! She's always up for anything. Drop the kids off for a few days? Sure! Why not? Dinner at her place 10pm? Of course! Late night movie, she's there. She is always up for fun. I could certainly learn a lot from her. I've become such a stick in the mud here in my old age! I also love that she can tell me if I'm having a hatin' bad hair day and love that she can give my husband crap. See... I can't leave her!

Amy....

I met Amy for the first time when I was 16. She was the only girl in the new set of siblings I was getting. She was darling and sweet but I soon found out, that girl was sassy too! I guess you would have to be with a family like us! She is artistic, musical and above all spiritual. I have a great respect for her dedication to religion. She is an amazing influence for good in this world.

Why I can't leave her: She is a good Aunt. She treats my kids and all her nieces and nephews so great. She always drops what she is doing to spend time with them and play. Amy is the life of the party. Whenever there is good conversation, she is there in the middle cracking jokes and having fun. She also taught me how to knit, for that alone she deserves major kudos! I love that she says whats on her mind. She doesn't seem to hold back and a lot of times it's pretty entertaining because it's not something we're used to! Someone who says what she thinks?! Lol, she has taught us a lot! She has a magnetic personality and I would miss her terribly if we moved away!

Madi....

Miss Madi and I go way back. I was 8 years old when she was born. She is the first kid my parents let me babysit. I felt like part owner of her. Like her 1/2 mom. (I'm sure my parents didn't see it that way, but I sure did!) I loved giving her bottles and changing her diapers. She grew into a fun kid but was such a mama and daddy's girl that she soon lost her love from me. *Sniff sniff*

Why I can't leave her: I can literally talk to her about any subject anytime. I will call her just to vent and she calls me for the same reason. I go to her house and pump all the time and just shoot the breeze and kiss her kids. Lately I've been pumping at work and really miss our time together. If you ever need a movie critic, she's your gal! She knows all there is to know about movies and Hollywood. :P She's the one I probably sneak away to movies with the most. We both appreciate a really good movie. I'm also impressed with her artistic vision when it comes to decorating or photography. I was just looking at some pix she took of her sweet new baby and was way impressed with all the cool angles and set ups she used. Dang her and her abilities, not to mention her long legs!!

Bear (Aariel)

Another facebook pic! If I have time I really should replace my other sissy's pix. I was 10 when Beary was born. Oh Bear. How I love thee. From the moment I laid eyes on this girl I was in love. I thought she was the prettiest baby I had ever seen. I remember holding her in the hospital admiring her perfectly rounded head and wispy white hair, I was in love! She was a little spit fire as a kid and could climb any surface you could put in front of her. She was a wild little thing but you would never know it now, as she is calm, collected and cool most of the time.

Why I can't leave her: Every time I get to see Aariel is a treat! I'm always excited. She's causes quite a fuss when she graces us BC sisters for a visit. Who got to see her, when and for how long. Lol! We are nerds, but really this girl is fun! She's eclectic, sweet and deep.... oh so deep. The conversations I have with her are good ones. She's always helpful and full of advice. Sometimes she seems like the oldest one of the bunch with such a good head on her shoulders. She is super creative and artistic and if that wasn't enough the girl has book smarts. This kid (woman dang it!) is going places. I love how fun she is and my kids just adore her. Sometimes I have to remind myself that she is not infact my oldest child I had at age 10, but my sister. I just love her so much I could put her in my pocket.

.....

See so snow be damned! I guess I'm staying put!! I'm such a lucky girl to have such and amazing family and support system around me. I'm soooo grateful my children have such amazing aunts!

Much love, and I hope this all makes sense since it's after 1:00am and everything I've read over so far looks kind of jumbly and such. :P

Bear Lake, in pictures.

2011-08-28T23:57:00.000-06:00

...

....

Bear Lake, you never disappoint!

And this year we were especially grateful it didn't end in a horrific storm like usual. ;)

We'll be back next year....

hey maybe next week!!

.....

...

Swimming, almost.

2011-08-28T00:48:00.000-06:00

So a couple weeks ago my sister invited us to go swimming. I didn't want to take all three and so joking around I asked her what time she was going to pick up the kids. Well apparently my little corn cobs do have big ears and they ran and got dressed in their suites while I was still on the phone with her!

So I figured it was a good time to put Irelee in the suit I got for her the minute I found out she was a girl. ;) So we waited and waited for Doug to get home from work. As soon as he walked in he was bombarded by kids jumping up and begging for him to take them. He couldn't say no so after dinner they headed to the pool..... when they arrived they found out it was about to close! Oh no! So my sister invited us over to her house for a swim and a BBQ. That ended up being just perfect. :)

Lola's B-day Party

2011-08-28T00:27:00.001-06:00

My darling niece Lola had her 2nd birthday at the park! It was way fun! (BTW these pix posted in opposite order and I'm just rushing to get this done before the baby wakes up so it will have to just be. ;))

One thing that is adorable about Lola is that she adores babies. It's so cute, every time we see her she has to come check up on Irelee. It's so adorable especially since my own kids don't pay as much attention to her as Lola does. ;)

It seemed to get dark fast and even after dark the kids (and GRANDMA) ran all around playing games!

These two handsome fello's are such good friends. (A little ice cream face there for ya. ;))

Here's another couple of great friends! Can you believe Lola had horsie rides at her party?! The kids were so excited!!

Lola giving her aunt Jolene a kiss. :)

Right after she blew out her candles! (Okay so posting backwards is a little weird)

Love Ro-Bears face in this one!

The Elgan fam minus Nix.

Another darling niece Clover having a fun time with her dad.

My little Lo seems to be a natural on the horse!

So So fun! And perfect timing my little lady has woken up! Gotta run, but I'm learning if I don't edit the crap outta pix and just go as fast as possible right now, I just might start blogging again. ;) ;)

2 days in the life....

2011-08-25T17:02:00.000-06:00

Pokemon Play-Doh creations.

Presents from the kids. :)

Sleepy head slept in today..... it was a quiet morning!

Last night before bed.

It started with Doug holding the baby... then some other kids decided to pile on for dads attention. :)

Babies!

Fun impromtu BBQ last night.

Irelee, Clover (Gigantigous) & Nixon

Irelee & Nix chillin' earlier that day.

J-man & Baby

Hello Bright Eyes!

Going for a walk...

2011-08-21T23:07:00.000-06:00

The other day we went for a walk, for the first time since I had the baby.

It was stinkin' hot and I thought I was having a hard time, so I pushed that dang stroller up the street past the kids and then suddenly felt very alone.....

Ya they were sacked out on a strangers lawn....

Lol!

Um ya, and the homeowners were in their garage with the door open so I begged and pleaded for my kids to get up and continue the trek, before they wondered what the heck was going on.....

We eventually did make it home.

We don't take walks during the hottest part of the day anymore.

Smiles

2011-08-18T00:05:00.000-06:00

It's hard getting this sweet girls smiles on camera! But we gave it a shot. :)

Miss thang is 8 weeks. sniff sniff.

I could eat her up!

Princess Party

2011-08-15T22:22:00.000-06:00

Jameson and his "girlfriend" Courtney.... oh and Lo desperately wanting to be part of the twosome. ;)

A couple weeks ago our chamber put on a princess party at the park and then we watched Tangled on a big screen! Hundreds of people came, it was really cool.

J-man snuggled with Courtney, it was so dang cute and a total eye opener of what we're gonna have to look forward to in the years ahead. ;)

Baukugan.... don't ask.

Lo also ran into her friend Kenzie so she was pretty dang excited. :)

Lo & Kenny

Did I mention I can nurse?!

Totally random, huh? Well it will all make sense here in a minute.

ANYWAY- I've not been able to really nurse my other babies so I'm totally thrilled that it's working out with Irelee. It's crazy to not be spending bank of formula (my kids and their allergies required the super expensive formula.) I have had to give up dairy completely and soy. But so far it's totally worth it! Yay!

K- why that matters to this post?

Because at the park in front of hundreds of people, while nursing my lil lady, my nursing cover blew in the wind and everyone got quite a show! Now I'm sure not all eyes were on me at the time..... but I am aware there were a few... the laughter tipped me off.

LOL- oh well! I have huge boobs and shit happens. :P

....

On another note? Have you ever noticed the 3 child blog curse?

There are a lot of blogs I followed until they had a 3rd kid.... then all of a sudden they stopped blogging.

I was pretty confident that wouldn't happen to me.

I was also confident that 3 kids wouldn't totally overwhelm me.

Ha!

Well I'm gonna keep plugging away at the blog, and hopefully get back to blogging more regularly.

As far as tackling 3 kids.

It.is.hard.

SO WORTH IT!

(but still hard.)

More catching up to come!

Instagram

2011-08-09T13:18:00.000-06:00

My latest obsession is Instagram.

Love it. love it. love it!

When I don't have my camera handy....

or don't care to edit when I do....

I whip out my phone, click and post!

Wonderful!

So here are some of my favs.....

You should join!

And give me your username and I'll follow you,

and to follow me search for aerodaisy. :)

Going out to eat with kids....

2011-08-06T23:11:00.000-06:00

Nuff said.

Six Weeks

2011-08-01T13:50:00.000-06:00

Baby Seal

I can't believe she's 6 weeks old today.
I can't believe I'll be going back to work tomorrow.
I can't believe I'll have to leave her for any amount of time.

She's addicting. Like a drug.
I could hold her all day, and most days I do.

I can't believe she's my last baby.
I can't believe how smitten with her I am.

She's naughty at night.
She likes to stay up till 3am every night and she fills the evening with bouts of eating and screaming.

She can get away with it.
She's my boo.

I can't believe I've been able to nurse! :D
I hope to continue but I'll talk to the Doc today and see whats best for her colic.

Ahhh...
I hafta go now....

I have to spend every last second of my last day of maternity leave with my love, my heart.

Xo

The Jensen Family Reunion

2011-07-27T10:23:00.000-06:00

My dad holding Irelee.

This year my Aunts and Grandma put on a really fun family reunion at Willard Bay. My Aunt Kirsten's family brought their boat and took turns taking out groups, while everyone played on the beach and ate yummy food. :) It was really special because my Uncle Tom, Aunt Kristina and cousin Lindsay were all able to come from Florida to celebrate with us. What made is just as special was the fact that my Grandpa was able to be released from the nursing home to come as well. He did amazingly well for how far his alzheimer's has progressed.

My cute niece Tyller.

Rileigh, Clover and Kirsten

Lolo got a pony from the fishing game.

A boat load of family. ;)

Lindsay, Kenzie, James, Sarah, Peyton, London & Lenanne play the fishing game.

J-man gives Aariel an impressively mean look upon her request. :)

Aarie berry took most of these awesome pix. :)

Oreo face.

Lolo and Pey Pey are best friends.

Did I hear you say she looks like her mother here? How could you!? ;)

What I love about this pic is it shows their true personalities... these are not girls you wanna mess with.
Independent sassy little things.

Clover finally crashed out after quite the tantrum... you would never know it, she looks like and angel.

AJ kisses Lolo's hand better.

Aunt Kristina gets a picture with Grandpa.

Love those little baby hands!

Grandma and Grandpa entertain Clover or is it the other way around?

Aarie Berry and her little niece. Clover looks a lot like Bear did as a baby.

My beloved cousin Jesse hold my baby. I just love these girls.

Lindsay and Kenzie were thick as thieves and even had matching swim suits.

AJ loving the waves.

Getting ready to ride the tube!

Thats my kid!

Daddy getting dirt of Lo's face

Clover, such a babe!

I just love my girl!

Doug seems to like her too. ;)

My dad with his brother Tom.

Libra power! Jesse, Grams, me and Sarah

Irelee meets Nixon, Nixon eats Irelee

2011-07-24T20:01:00.000-06:00

So I took Irelee over to meet Nix and he met her with a big kiss!!

So they basically just tried to eat each other, it was the cutest damn thing ever!

I could eat them both right up. :)

So I think they are pretty much already best friends. ;)

And this proud big brother just melted my heart!

the fantastic 4

2011-07-22T18:39:00.000-06:00

The Fantastic 4 have all arrived!

Nixon has now joined the group!

Our family was blessed with an amazing abundance of babies this year.

All born within 5 months, 3 of which were born in one months time!

...

First my sister Rileigh and her husband Chris welcomed...

Clover Ella-Jean

2/20/11

7 lbs 5 oz

20 inches long

Then a few months later our family welcomed...

Irelee Jo-Ann

6/21/11

7 lbs 1 oz

19.5 inches long

Then 2 days later my brother Ben and his wife Li welcomed...

Ellette Michelle (Ellie)

6/23/11

8 lbs 7 oz

21.5 inches long

And now my sister Madi and her husband Nick have just welcomed the only boy to the group...

Nixon Marty

7/19/11

7 lbs 7 oz

20 inches long

We are so exited for Nixon to finally get here! Now our 4 babes we've been waiting on for so long are all finally here! We are so lucky and so blessed!

I can't help but feel like my mom and grandma had something to do with this. :)

Buddies & Colic?

2011-07-15T22:08:00.000-06:00

This is my cutie pie niece Clover with Irelee at Wingers the other night. I love the cute baby stage Clover is with Irelee's funky newborn stage, it will be so fun looking back at when they're older and 4 months is a tiny difference instead of huge..

The truth is I have a million and one pictures trapped on my computer begging to be blogged. I REALLY wanted to blog tonight. Unfortunately my baby has become VERY high maintenance. I'm starting to really worry she might be getting colic. AHHHHHHGGGHH!!!! Jameson had colic and life turned into a living hell. In fact right now Doug is trying to calm her down by singing the Cheers song and Smooth Criminal, all while she screams..... so I best go try and save them both! She's been crying on and off since 5:00..... it's 10:00..... this really might be colic...... HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!