Ok people

I have slacked off on my blog and feel bad about that! So since Halloween let me just tell you what happened in no particular order! We had Karissa's 3rd Birthday, Thanksgiving and Black Friday shopping. I scored some great deals as usual and started and finished almost all my Christmas shopping on that day. I'm so glad Kelli went this year, it felt like the old times! I think this was year #7! I got to go with some friends to the opening of New Moon.  Yes, if you didn't know I am a Twilight lover! Ok we also had my Birthday and of course Christmas and New Years. We took the kids on our annual Polar Express ride last month as well. We got to enjoy a lot of time with our families over the Holiday's which always means a lot. We got to talk to Elder Blake all the way from Brazil on Christmas morning. It was nice to hear his voice after a few months. I'm so glad I only have one son to send off on a mission! I couldn't survive much more than that. LOL
Our most recent event was last Sunday when Matt took me to the Cardinals game. He got me tickets for Christmas. I didn't want to watch the Cardinals, you see they were playing my Green Bay Packers and I got some sweet seats up close to watch the Packers hand it to them! Hope it happens again this Sunday!
Matt and I have been keeping busy at work and the kids just started back to school after their Christmas break ended. Kylie has her 8th Birthday coming up which means her Baptism is near. We haven't set an offical date, but we will let you know when we do. I'll go ahead and post a few random pictures on here, but I'm pretty impatient and most all the pictures are already loaded on my FB account. Ok all thanks for reading!

 

 

Happy Halloween

This year we had a vampire, an army man, a kitty cat and a cute skunk! We took the kids to a trunk or treat instead of going around the neighborhoods. We have found this works a lot better! The kids get just as much if not more candy. It's all in one centralized area that is blocked off from traffic so it's so much safer in the way of traffic. They enjoy it, so it's good! Here are just a few pictures from our night.

 

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Tyler is six!

Tyler is six! Happy Birthday to our one and only little boy! The time sure is flying by! I can remember his birth like yesterday, which was a rather scary experience for us. He had some respiration problems and was flown from our hospital to a hospital in the Phoenix area that could better handle his needs. He recovered nicely and you'd never know he had a rough start. He is such a sweet boy, so sensitive and kind. We had hoped he would have gotten a brother, but he loves his sisters so much. He is a great help to everyone and looks up to his daddy and grampas and Uncles so very much. He wants to be like all of them! Tyler we hope you had a fun Birthday and know we love you so much!








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Pumpkins

Matt and I had planned to take all the kids to the pumpkin patch last Monday. Kylie and Tyler were out of school for fall break. The kids had spent the night at Grammie and Papas on Sunday night, they will stay there any chance they get! Anyway turns out that Aunt Brooke and Grammie both had come down with the flu pretty bad. We were advised that Kylie and Tyler should stay at their house so they don't come home with any germs for the little girl. So we wound up taking just the two little ones to the patch while Kylie and Tyler were held hostage at a sick house..ha ha! Everyone wound up getting better, but poor Brooke had it pretty bad!
Tyler's class had a trip planned to the pumpkin patch for Friday so he wound up getting to go afterall. So this year Kylie missed out, but I brought her home two nice big pumpkins to choose from and she was fine with it.
We got them all carved with the exception of Kennedy's. She didn't want to hand it over so we just let her look at it on her high chair tray! So here are some of the pictures from our adventures.

Kennedy had a P-A-R-T-Y!

We didn't get to do much celebrating on Kennedy's actual Birthday. You see, my sister was getting married the following day so the rehearsal and dinner took place on the 8th. We were travelling to Phoenix on Kennedy's Birthday afternoon and the poor thing actually got sick and threw up all over in the car a couple times. She turned out to be just fine, we were thinking maybe a touch of car sickness. Anyway, everyone did wind up getting sick on Saturday. Kennedy still got to see a lot of people on her Birthday including her great grandparents, two great aunts, my brothers and of course Nicole and her almost husband Chris, her gramma and bumpa and lots of other friends! Anyway, on Sunday we had her offical Birthday celebration and she got to see Grammie and Papa and Auntie Brooke too! Thank you to everyone for all the great Birthday gifts! She loves them all!

Happy 1st Birthday Kennedy Paige

So this post is 2 weeks late, but I've had it written in my mind for a long time! :-)Was it really a year ago that I was giving birth to my final baby? How fast the time goes by. The days leading up to Kennedy's birth were pretty normal really, but exciting because I knew I was in labor. I mean fourth baby, I feel pretty qualified to know whats real and what's not. Imagine my surprise after contracting pretty vigorosly for 2 full days only being dialated to a 3! I was ready to call and schedule the induction myself when fortunatley things started to change on their own. So a year ago our one and only little red headed baby was brought into the world. Kennedy is such a precious, happy little girl. She rarely cries, and if she is crying she has some good excuse. She loves her big sisters and brother so much, her face really lights up when they come around. She is zooming all over the house these days and is now starting to want to walk! I can wait for that, really I can! She is in the 84% for her height and weight. I think she was around 23 pound and 30 inches when we had her checked. I could be off on those numbers so don't quote me!
I am going to post a handful of pictures leading up to this point!

The last time my belly will look this way...


Kennedy's First Halloween

First of many Polar Express Rides

Just a pretty picture

The princess on her Birthday