Cowgirl Katie!

November 2009

Today Katie was running around the house being a cowgirl! She looked so gosh darn cute. I couldn't believe she could still fit in this costume to be honest it's only a size 2. My favorite part is the princess snow boots!

HO HO HO...

Nov. 2009

Today Justin, Katie and Megan came out of their bathroom with this silly soap on their faces. They were pretending to be Santa Clause.

I have teeth!

November 9th, and 11th

Only 5 and 1/2 months old and he already has his two middle bottom teeth crazy!

Here is Ryan wearing his shirt that says "Yay my first tooth" How appropriate for the new arrivals don't you think!

Can you see it?

We're getting there!

November 2009

So it has been a lot of work but it's sure exciting at the same time. Our basement is slowly taking it's shape. Here are some of the pictures below.

Putting up the insulation. This was not fun!!! Rob and I never want to be insulation people that's for sure. We stayed up until 4 am to be ready for the sheet rockers. Yeah it's done though.


A lot of work.

The Sheetrock's delivered.


Into the basement it came.

Putting up insulation.

We have sheetrock! Here it is after they taped.

The mudding and taping! That is one messy job. Then the sanding, wow we had so much dust in the house I am still dusting and vacuuming daily weeks later. Now Rob has been hanging doors and putting up baseboards and molding. Hopefully soon we will be painting and moving kids around. I'll keep you posted though!

SILLY BOY!

November 2009

Today I came in the living room and Katie had put Justin's silly glasses on Ryan. He looked like a little old man. I couldn't stop laughing!

Happy Birthday to me.

October 2009

So I'm getting older but I'm ok with it. Here I am at my parents celebrating my birthday. I had a great one. Rob gave me Diamond earrings that were beautiful. It was a great day!

Me with my cake.

My parents gave me the worldwide ward cookbook for my birthday. I love this it has some great recipes in it.

Happy Halloween!

October 31, 2009

Happy Halloween! We had a great Halloween this year. Rob and I took turns taking the kids out and handing out candy and the kids had a great time.

Carving pumpkins, Megan wasn't very happy.

The finished pumpkin.

Megan as Cinderella, Justin as Spiderman, Katie as Sleeping Beauty

and Ryan as a Chicken. They all looked so great!

What a day!!! Fun n' crazy!

October 30, 2009

Today was one of those days where every minute of your day is planned out for you with no time to spare. Unfortunately I had to move some things around since Ryan was up most of the night I had to take him to see the Dr. first thing this morning he had an eye infection and sinus infection. So while I was at Dr. Rob took the girls to see Justin in their Halloween parade at school. When I got home I packed up the kids went and picked up Justin from school and off we went to trick or treat at Rob's grandpa's assisted living. They had a cute witch tell them stories then the kids got to trick or treat. From there we drove in to Rob's work and trick or treated at the office. They love doing this and it is so much fun to see all the kids in costumes. The kids love it too, any time they get to go to dad's office is fun to them. Then we went from there straight to Rob's parents where Rob's mom does a silly Halloween dinner every year. It's the type of dinner where you have to guess what each course and item is then you get served really silly things. It's fun every year and a lot of fun. And from here we went home. What a LONG but fun day. I'll be honest I'm glad it's over. BREATHE!

The kids at Grandpa's rest home listening to the witch.

Our family at Rob's work!


At Rob's parents Katie and her cousin Kaitlynn happened to both be sleeping beauty this year so we thought we should take a picture!

Preschool Halloween

October 30, 2009

Today we had our preschool program They did such a great job. They sang some fun Halloween songs then we had pumpkin sugar cookies that I made!

Cookies

GI Joe Ninja Timothy, Pirate Brooklynn, Sleeping Beauty Katie, & Kangaroo Jade don't they look great! (They are singing in this picture).

Making Halloween sugar cookies!

October 28, 2009

Tonight I made Halloween sugar cookies with the kids! They had a lot of fun frosting them.

Ryan enjoying all the action.

Justin frosting so carefully!

Megan eating! Just what she did best!

All 4 kids making cookies!

Halloween at Dance!

October 28, 2009

Here is Katie passing out her treat at dance. They all wore their Halloween costumes today. They all looked so cute!

first snowday!

October 2009

Katie like everyone at our house couldn't wait for it to snow so she could play outside! Here she is after we got our first few inches! She was having such a great time.

Justin's Birthday party!

October 24th 2009

Today we held Justin's birthday party. He wanted to do a sport theme so we played all kinds of sports with all his friends. He had 27 kids come to his party and they all had a lot of fun! I had bowling, t-ball, golf, punching balls, hopscotch, soccer, football, dodge ball on the tramp, frisbee, tag, hide and seek, etc. set up for the kids to play. It was fun to watch them PLAY BALL and have fun! I was just happy we had good weather!

Playing games with Rob. He is so good with kids, they loved playing with him!

The kids playing games on the lawn!

Katie and Megan eating lunch. Since it was a sport themed party we had hot dogs, chips, fruit, and water. I had them eat on blankets on the lawn like a tailgating or sporting event.

Justin eating his cupcake!

The cupcakes!

Gift bags. They had fun sport bracelets, stickers, sport erasers, gum, etc.

Justin opening his presents. He got so many fun and nice gifts thanks to such great friends.

Justin and all his friends holding the presents they brought him. 2 of his friends came after this picture. What a fun party!

It's raining, it's pouring....

October 2009

Today with the preschool kids at free play time the girls wanted to go outside and play in the rain. They sure did have a fun time!

Brooklynn, Jade, and Katie!

Pumpkin patch Fun!

October 2009

Today I took the kids to the pumpkin patch they had a lot of fun in the corn maze and riding the tractors.

Katie, Justin and Megan in the corn maze.

The kids on the straw!

Katie, Justin, and Megan by corn maze!

Riding the tractors!

Cute little baby Ryan!

Superheroes!

October 2009

So today my kids all came out of Justin's room running around like super heroes. This is a common occurrence at our house. They love to save the day. Megan in this picture happens to be the super dog actually. They are so fun to watch play together!

Katie, Justin and Megan!

Halloween fun!

October 2009

Every year I take the kids to our City's Halloween festival. They always have so many fun and exciting things. Games, costume contests, dancing, straw scramble, jump houses, etc. It was sure a lot of fun.

Justin, Megan and Katie!

Yeah Megan!!!!!

October 2009

So I potty trained Megan! My sweet friend Tiffany gave me the book how to potty train in 3 days! It so worked she was great by the 2nd day and is doing fantastic even at night!!!!! Yeah Megan we are so proud of you and mom and dad are so happy no more diapers!!! She had several prizes she earned here she is with one of her sticker charts full! She got ice cream for one and $2 to anything she wanted at the dollar store (she chose a princess necklace and some princess chap stick). Keep up the good work cutie!

Visiting Grandpa! Happy anniversary Rob!

October 4, 2009

Today 9 years ago Rob and I got married. Wow such awesome and wonderful times and memories! 4 beautiful kids and more memories than I can remember. Thanks for so many great years. I am so grateful to spend a lifetime and eternity with you! Rob and I went to dinner on Friday night to celebrate to my favorite restaurant the Texas Roadhouse. While there he gave me a Diamond necklace for our anniversary and then earrings (they were for my birthday in a few weeks but he couldn't wait to give them to me and they matched) They were beautiful! I wanted to cry, and he was so happy he picked them out himself! Then we went bowling I actually got in the 100's I was so happy but he still won! Then we went and got ice cream at spoon me really great yogurt with fruit! Yum. It was a great night and lot's of fun. Then on Sunday in between conference we drove down to visit Rob's grandpa and take him dinner with Robs parents the kids had a great time with grandpa!

Grandpa.

Rob playing with Ryan on the floor!

Ryan, Grandpa, and Great Grandpa! (Just missing daddy for 4 generations)!

A first taste....

October 2009

Wow the little guy is eating rice cereal. 4 and 1/2 months old he sure does love it!!! This was his first real food!

Yummy!

More???


All done and tuckered out!