Our Girls

Mailey asked if she could use some of my makeup. I opted to do it for her, since I didn't want to find broken eyeshadow or my eyeliner gone. We had a lot of fun, and even did her hair curly. I let her wear my red high heals just for fun. I got a glimpse of her as a teenager. I think I'm scared. She asked me when she could start wearing make-up for real. I told her the twelfth of never. Alright maybe when she's twelve. Ah, they grow up so fast.

This first picture is Kieryns evil smile, it just oozes stinker-in-the-making. The second one is Scott stealing kisses from her, she hates that. You can tell she's working up a scream by the look on her face. She will only give kisses if it's her idea. Scott loves to torment her. Kieryn in the tub, isn't she cute? I love it when they start to play and have fun in the tub. When she was smaller, she'd scream her head off. She has the funniest expressions.

Happy Birthday to the best dad and Hubby ever!

Yesterday was Scotts thirty fifth Birthday! Thanks Hon, for all you do for us you are the best. We love you!

Bah humbug!!

We got our Christmas tree up finally. I usually put it up the day after Thanksgiving at the latest. most of the time it is the week before. This year I just didn't feel like doing it. This year has gone by so fast that it doesn't even seem like Christmas time. Christmas isn't my favorite time of year, but it is my kids favorite time. Scott told them all that I was going to put it up today, and they wouldn't stop bugging me until I did. I am very particular about how I want it decorated, and usually do it without the kids.(I'm a control freak, I know.) This time I didn't care, and let them just put anything up they wanted. It turned out pretty good and they are all very proud of their decorating abilities. Just ignore their goofy faces.

Girls night out.

Last weekend my mom, and sister's and I had a girls night out. We left all the kiddos home with the dad's and just took the babies. My youngest sister's, inlaws let us barrow thier cabin. This is a view from inside looking out. It was snowing.



We hiked a little bit, and took rides on the mule.



We watched chick flicks, ate junk food, played games, and talked all night. We had a blast. My oldest sister couldn't make it. We missed you Lynea.




Kieryn and her cousin Maycee had so much fun playing together. They are only a month apart.

Kieryn's 6 month pictures

My cute baby girl. I got these done yesterday, and copied them off the blog of the lady who took them. These ones aren't the one's I picked out but they are still sooo adorable. Of course I am biased. The only thing that I am not so fond of, are the funky hats she sometimes puts on her. The one's I picked are of her smiling, and without the big hats. Kieryn makes the funniest expressions. I wish she'd have put the one with her big frown. Oh-well. Would you look at those chunky legs, so stinkin cute!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAILEY!

My first born turned nine! It is crazy that I have a nine year old, I feel so old. I am so glad that she was my fist child. Although I didn't know it at the time, she was an easy baby and a all around good kid. I had nobody to compare her to, and so she seemed harder than she really was. Now looking back, and having three kids after her, I realize how good she is and always was. She is a sweet girl with a great personality. She is friendly, and always a help. This is the cutest picture of her and Kieryn. Kieryn is giving her baby kisses. She adores her older sister, and Mailey was so glad to get a little sister. Happy Birthday, May-May, we love you.

Silly Cole

last night Cole, being the stinker that her is, got into the cereal right before bed. I came down stairs to him munching away on a bowl of cereal. I said, "Cole, you better finish every bite of that cereal. Your know you aren't supposed to get into anything without asking." Cole is famous for wasting cereal, it usually ends up in the pantry for a week, still sitting in his bowl. (He doesn't like milk, so it is dry cereal.) For some reason, this time he put milk in it. So I thought that after I went down stairs to check, and didn't see it anywhere, that he had finished it all. This morning when I opened up the fridge to get out something there his cereal was. Complete with plastic wrap and all. At least he was trying not to waste it. Sorry about the picture being sideways, it wouldnt work.

Blessings

I have been so stressed, for no apparent reason other than life in general.
Sometimes you just have to step back and really look at things to get perspective on you own life. Being a mom, for me is really hard. I know, I know, it is such a blessing, and there are some that would scourge me for saying so. But it is true nontheless. I have been given children easily, I don't have a problem getting prego or even keeping pregnancies. In fact it has been quite the opposite. I have often thought, why is it so easy for me and so hard for others that would do practcally anything for a baby? Let me tell you the reason. It isn't that I don't appreciate my little blessings, I love them more than life. I just seem to not tollerate the little blessings own agency. In short I have a problem with not being able to controll the temper tantrums, disobedience, or the baby who won't eat or sleep. So my friends it is patience that I am to learn. I haven't learned all I need to, and doubt that in this life I ever will. But today, I have to say, I couldn't ask for a better trial, it sounds stupid but all in all I know that it is a small thing compared to many others trials. And to my little blessings, "I love you more than you will ever know!"

Three and a half hours later.......

No I didn't let her cry for three and a half hours. She cried for 20 min. then fell asleep, woke up thirty min. later, and cried again for 20 min. After that I just got her up. She was very happy when I finally went into her room, the little stinker. So after we played for a couple of hours, I feed her a bottle and she went right to sleep. Why is it they look like little angels when they are sleeping? Just a few hours earlier I could have swore she was somehow switched at birth with someone else's little monster. I love when I can look at her sweet little face, and say it's all worth it.

So I love my little Kieryn. She is a doll, and is mostly happy now days.
Right at this second I am listening to her scream her head off because she is so tired she can't see straight. I hate it when she screams. And let me tell you, she can sure belt it out. I have tried without success to get her on a schedule, but with three other kids it can be kind of hectic to say the least. I had her sleeping for about nine hours a night when she was about three and a half months old, and then she got sick. That has all changed now, and she can get up at night three to four times. I have tried every trick in the book, letting her cry, not picking her up, saying shh, shh, shh till I am blue in the face. I've come the the conclusion that all these so called doctors are all full of hot air when it comes to getting babies to sleep through the night. Kids just come with thier own personalities, some are hard and some are easy. What a bummer, that mine decided to be difficult. Its a good thing I love her to death, and that she's soooo darn cute!

What we did for Labor Day.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

The last hike of the summer.

This was the last thing that we did for summer break. Another Hike. The Kids were really excited to go. We went to someplace in Ogden, (sorry I don't know the name of it.) Anyway, it was a hike to a waterfall. We looked it up and it said that it was two point five miles. We thought that was both ways. We thought wrong. It turned out to be about five miles up and back, and the last mile was strait up hill. Jackson was a champ, he stayed in front the whole time and never tired. I don't know where he was pulling the calories from to do it but he did. He is soooo skinny. Cole did great going up, but was a little tired comming down. Mailey was the slowest, right back there with me.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD HADLEY!

This is my sister-in-law Lindsay, baby Hadley, and thier other daughter Brinlee.

Cute baby Hadley

My Cute little brother Shane and his wife had thier baby on Friday at midnight. Poor little thing got caught in the birth canal and broke her arm in two places and her clavical bone. You can see the sling that she has to wear now, it is so sad. She is a cute little thing though, look at all that hair!

Is it genetic?

This morning Mailey wanted to pick up Kieryn. She was in her portable swing, it sits about six inches from the ground maybe less. Lately, Kieryn has become pretty wiggly and when you pick her up sometimes she gets really excited. So Mailey picks her up and promptly drops her. Yikes! Luckily it wasn't to far from the ground. She fell on her forehead. Anyway she starts to scream, mostly cause she's scared. Of course I rushed over and took her from Mailey, and tried to console her. Mailey then started to cry because she felt so bad. I told her that when she was three months old I accidently dropped her. I was on my back holding her up in the air, like supper man, when I lost my grip on her and she came down head first on top of me instead of the floor although. It was Christmas Eve morning and I cried most of the day, because I felt so bad. Mailey stopped crying and said, "So you dropped me?" And I said,"Yep, sorry about that." Then she said "I guess it runs in my blood then." I had a good laugh. When all else fails, blame it on your gene pool. Maybe, my mom dropped me on my head too. I'll have to ask her about that.

My last baby brother, got married

So I had a busy weekend. My youngest brother got married, and we had his fiance's bridal shower the day before they got married. Everyone had so much going on this month that it was the only day available. I can't believe that all eight of us are all married now. Pretty crazy how time flys. They got married at a reception center up the Provo canyon, just past Vivian Park. I had never knew there was so much up that way. It was really pretty, and the weather was great. Well, congrats bro, we love you.

St. George

Make a Smilebox slideshow

We went to St. George this weekend to visit my sister and for a mini vacation. We had a lot of fun. The car ride wasn't even that bad. Keiryn was pretty good for her first long car trip. Scott went golfing with my bro-in-law Jared, while my sister and I took the kids to do other stuff. We fed the ducks, went to the splash pad, went shopping at the outlets, and to Jumping Jacks. Our kids dont get to see thier cousins very much, so they had fun just playing at the house too. My sister and I had fun just visiting, without worrying about the cost of the phone bill we usually have. Sorry about the video at the end, It is sideways.

The 24th

On the 24th Scott and I didn't want to travel to either of our family's places. We have been in the car way to much lately, and Kieryn hates the car. The parade in Ogden was to early in the morning, and Kieryn has to have a morning nap or she's cranky. It is amazing how much a baby changes what you are and are not willing to do. Any way, we decided to go on a hike with our kids up Ogden canyon. As you can see Kieryn was very excited about the whole thing. The other Kids complained about how far it was, then asked if they could do it again another time. I had fun, even if Kieryn cried fifty percent of the time. I think we will do it again sometime.

The Splash pad in South Ogden

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So I am sure most of you have heard about the splash pad in South Ogden. It's free and it isn't a pool, so you dont have to worry about your kids drowning. My Sister, lives in St. George and says these are all over the place there. Hopefully they will catch on here and start doing them all over too.