Valentine's Day Thank you's!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Just had to add this "lovey" lady's new sunglasses!

She loves them !

I am lucky enough to have three of the most amazing teachers for my boys at the elementary.

They all LOVE their teachers, so when I suggested we get them something for Valentines, they were so excited!

I found Valentine's Day mugs at Michael's for .....

$0.79
I had seen such a cute cookie bouquet on my friends food blog

www.snowdelicious.blogspot.com

So yesterday we spent the day making these!

The kids are so excited to give them to their teachers!
I love Valentines Day!

I also am going to have an ultrasound today.

I like to wait until after 26 weeks, I will be 28 weeks on thurday.

I am excited to see this little one kicking in there. It is so active! I also am anxious to see which way it is laying in there! I am almost positive it is not head down, which I why I can't breathe when I bend down to pick things up off the floor, or when I eat.

We will not however, be finding out boy or girl!

A girl has so few surprises in her life! Gotta take the ones we can get.

{Princess for a Day} Emma's 3rd

Happy Birthday to my Em's

Immediately after the bath she put on her Cinderella gown and wore it the rest of the day!

I love this lady! She is so spunky and talks like she is 5. She has been so excited for her Birthday! and since she has been telling everyone she is 6, 3 is getting closer to it.

She is so fun to have! I love her little personality!Love the hip thrust! She is all girl!
She wanted a "Fancy Nancy" tea party...with friends of course,
So Evalee, Kayani, and Lacey came all dolled up!

We had food on frilly toothpicks of course.

fruit and meat and cheese, really fancy since it was on a frilly toothpick!

They even made their butterfly placemats themselves!

Then we painted nails!

And ate cake!

{Have to say I was so excited that I actually made a cake that

looked like what I was going for!}

Em's wanted a cake that was Strawberry Shortcake's house!

{Thank you bundt pan and scrapbook paper!}

Em's holding up her fingers to show she is 3!

Love how she holds the middle one down with her thumb!

Then present time!

We only opened the ones her friends gave her, the rest we saved for later!

She was surprisingly fine with that!

Thanks for coming girls! It was a great tea party birthday!

Later she opened her other presents,

Then we ate Little Ceasar's pizza for dinner!

What a great birthday!

Surprise! We've Got Baby Goats!

We didn't think we would have baby goats this spring....We didn't have a billy goat(you know the male counterpart to the whole birds and the bees thing)! Apparently, a baby boy has no problem getting the whole herd pregnant!

Are you sicked out? I am. He was still nursing! Come on!

I just have to chock this up to you live and learn!

So last night Noah and Sam headed out to feed the goats and came in with a cry of...

"We have babies...."

Try explaining that one!

It was so cold though, and they were just freezing and getting trampled by the other big goats. Good thing we found them when we did, especially since we weren't looking for them.

We had to put them in our coats to warm them up.

"Mango", the mama.

Caleb keeping the little girl warm....
I think we will name her "Rosy" jury is still out though.

Me keeping the little boy warm.

Great! another boy!

We did casterate all them except the one that we were going to sell to a lady.

When it was time to sell him, she informed us she had gotten one from someone else....Thanks for that!

Sorry little man, but you will be de-throned! If you know what I mean.

Now looking at the other goats, We think they are pregnant as well....guess I will get to milk this year anywhoo!

24 Weeks {Today}

So a girl can only take it for so long.

Since I started school, I have done nothing crafty...I mean nothing that I wasn't in a rush to throw together at the last second. So today, for my reward of writing a paper that I have dreaded for far too many weeks, I got out the paper and long forgotten scrapbook supplies and set to work.

I saw something similar to this in the "Better Homes and Gardens" magazine, and thought it was doable.

It is quite festive and makes me smile!

and now my creative juices are flowing, I am antzy to do something more....but what?

Another thing is that I been having a discussion with Ryan about the size of my girth.

I really feel like I am about as big as I usually am when I deliver.... His words exactly...

"Oh no!!! You have a long way to go!"

Really, should you say that to me?

Since my memory is failing me, and I have no pictures from past pregnancies to compare to, I decided I should document this one, because it may be my last.... or I may want to compare next time ;)!

So courtesy of Mara...

Me at 24 weeks

I am really trying not to complain, but can I just say that my other pregnancies were so great...

I thoroughly enjoyed them.

This one, not so much, I guess it is a lesson for me so I know what other women go through, but I must say I was fine taking their word for it!

Heartburn...not so fun! Especially when all I crave is spicy.

Morning sickness....Thank goodness it is gone...not fun! But 14 weeks is a long time when your nauseated everymorning you wake up, So glad I didn't have it with the other six.

Lack of Sleep...usually the inability to get comfortable at night comes with the last 4 weeks of pregnancy, not starting at 4 months.

I still love it though, there is nothing like laying down at night and feeling a little baby kick inside...Love it.

Can't wait...yet I feel like time is going so fast. I know it will be here before I can blink.

I have three classes halfway done, and six others to finish.

Plan to have all of school done by the time the baby comes.

Smile!!!

Out My Window

It is so freezing cold here, and each morning I look out my window to see this most beautiful bird perched in the branches of my tree. Everytime I see it I think of how God takes care of all his creatures. The tree outside my window is a crab apple tree. The fruit has long since been froze and wilted, yet they are a small treat for this beautiful bird. All of nature perfectly follows God's laws, and in return for their obedience, they are watched over and provided for.

Consider the lilies of the field, consider the birds in the sky!

And it is the same for you and I.

The Lord is my shephard, he leadeth me to green pasutres...if only I will follow.

Girls!

My shadow in the bathroom!

Cinderella with Cinderella!

Show me those pearly whites!

"Pink Ja-Wa"

Seriously so cute!
Love her style!

{2}wo Year Olds

Emma is at it again. She has invented a new word. "Suvvy" You know, soft and fuzzy...ssuvvy. She got a new jacket for christmas with a sherpa lining...it's her suvvy jacket and when she crawls in our bed to 'nuggle with us she like to lay on her daddy's suvvy pillow. Everyone has now started referring to their sherpa jackets as their suvvy jackets and their microfleece pillows as their suvvy pillows. The power of a two year old!

What can I say! I love two year olds, that's why there always needs to be one in the house...coRRect? There is just so much they are discovering and learning, and I love to see life through their eyes. When she was born, we were debating a middle name...should it be Hope or Grace. We liked both, but ultimately Hope won out. I say it is because I HOPED she was not be the last...Ryan says it is because he HOPED she was. It was only a joke, and if you could see how whooped he is over his kids, especially his girls, you would understand why, even though he thinks six is a lot of kids, he decided number seven was due to come! So about the time Emma is four, and starting to get to be a know it all {it is inevidable, it comes to them all}, we will have another "going on" two year old. In May, Arkoudas number 7 will join our family! When we told the kids, I half thought they would be like, whatever. no excitement, but on the contrary. They couldn't believe it, they jumped up and down and were so excited...even the older boys...they kept saying..."Are you serious...your not just joking!" It was so fun.
My parents come home from their mission in May, so hopefully my mom will get to be there this time!(I can HOPE!)

Caleb's {NINE}! 2011

Noah made brownies while we were gone to sushi, so we could have brownies and peppermint icecream when we got home...only problem, he got busy playing his ipod touch and they got a little burnt...

How many fingers...

Look at that grin...the shirt says it all! Oh, I mean the smile says it all.

Fishing pole from Grandma and Grandpa, now all the boys have their own.

He also got a wireless router...he was so thrilled, whatever!

Caleb's Sushi

One of our favorite traditions is to take the birthday kid out for a dinner of their choice by themselves. It is so fun, each kid has their own personality and food type. Caleb has been saying for so long that he wanted to try sushi. So for his birthday.... The unsuspecting...He chose the Great Falls roll, because it had eel in it...

Definately not his mother's child. It also had crab, cream cheese, cucumber and avocado.
He was a sport. I don't think he loved it, but I know he loved the idea of it. He ate most of it, and claimed to want to save some to see if any of his brother's were man enough to try it.
Result:
Sam: wouldn't even smell it
Noah: tried the eel, but wasn't impressed
Max: tried so hard to "man up" and try it, he licked it and said, no thanks
Mara and Emma: wouldn't even look at it.


Eat the Wasabi!

And they were nice enough to bring him his own icecream for a birthday treat!

what a great time we had with Caleb!

(Ka-lEEb)

Christmas Morning!

Merry Christmas To All!

We have now officially joined the world of BARBIE.

Opening their I-pod touches!

They can't contain the excitement!

"You'll shoot your eye out!"

Caleb and Max both got DSi's from Ryan's parents.

She is always wearing this now!

Bitty Babies for the girls!