Happy Halloween!

Cam was a pumpkin, Ava was Snow White for the party and a witch Saturday for trick or treating, and Bennett was an octopus. I couldnt get a great picture of the kids together,but this is what i do have...

Cameron was sooo happy, comfy, and just stinkin' cute (just like his little personality)

I was way bummed when I looked at the pictures of Ava and realized I forgot to untuck her white collar on the dress...dang it! So no pictures with the "full Snow White effect".

 

But She is cute anyway, right?

I definitely got the most complements on Bennetts outfit. I paid a lot for it when Cam was a baby and it is by far the best baby costume ever and I plan to use it with all my kiddos. Bennett was by far the hit of the show.  Sorry, no great pics of him either.  But you know my kids, they are all perfectly adorable!

Birthday Party!!!

My baby i turning 1! I can't believe a year has almost past since I brought this tiny baby home from the hospital. SO it is time to celebrate!

What: Bennetts 1st birthday party/ potluck dinner!
When: Sunday, Oct 24th @ 5:00
Where: Our place!
Other info: Unless you have a better idea we will be eating taco salad. I will provide the meat/chili and also dessert. Please let me what you can bring. This is what we need: chips, lettuce, tomoatoes, cheese, salad dressing, sour cream, guacamole, drinks, or paper goods. Please have it preped and ready to eat, but no birthday presents please (we just want enough good food for a great time instead)!

It is sure to be a blast, hope you can come!

7 Years

This comes a few days late, but I still have to mention how grateful I am for this amazing life I have! The last seven years has brought a flood of change in our lives. Getting married, moving 6 times (all within a 30 mile radius mind you), Billy graduating with both bachelors and then his masters, me graduating with my bachelors, growing our family by adding 3 children and another one added soon, purchasing our first home, etc. There has been so much growth and change, it has almost been a constant! Still, with all these changes I sometimes feel that we were married just yesterday.

We celebrated our 7 year mark with a weekend get-away in SLC. We got a room, enjoyed dinner out, stayed up all night watching a movie, playing card games, and well, you can guess what comes next... Breakfast we ate in bed and then we spent the morning in the temple. Lastly, we finished the day by picking up our three kids and enjoyed a family night at the BYU game. It was one awesome day.

Still, the best part of my day was and is waking up every morning with my best friend next to me. I love knowing my kids are happily and safely sleeping in their beds and we have a whole day in front of us to learn and grow (and clean, oh wait, not so much that one). What a life the Lord has given us! My husband is amazing, not perfect but pretty darn close ;-) He loves me, supports me, works harder than I've ever known anyone to (and he doesn't ever complain about it). He is kind, thoughtful, always putting me first, and a wonderful loving father, and has a testimony of the gospel. I know the favorite part of each of our days is when he walks in the door!

If you had told me before I met him that I would be married at 17 I would have thought you belonged in a metal hospital. But when I met him, I knew he was one in a million and I just couldn't pass this guy up! And so we have worked together and laughed together, and created this amazing life for ourselves and for the children that the Lord has blessed us with. As a mom of 3 almost 4 kids ages 4 and under is hard and mundane sometimes, but with the Lord and Billy at my side I find that in the mundane is also the celestial. I am grateful for my life, and especially for my husband. He is my best friend, confidant, and the love of my life. Thank you, Hun. I cant wait to see what the next 70 years will bring to us!

I LOVE YOU!

Avas birthday

I can't believe my little girl is almost 4! We celebrated her birthday with Alanas at my grandmothers home. I wish I got some pictures of the kids going down the long slip-n-slide, but alas! yep, sometimes I just fail mommmy-101. But i did get SOME pictures of the event! It was a blast...

My Cute Kids!

Well, I haven't updated for a long long time. We've just been busy! We had an awesome week in MO visiting family and attending a reunion (of course I totally forgot my camera) and other than the terribly long car trip and braking down on the way home it was a blast!

Here are my perfectly adorable children:






Ans with how cute these stinkers are, who wouldn't want another? I guess what I am trying to say is that we are expecting another baby sometime this March. (Next time I have got to remember that a 3 year old doesn't keep secrets very well, no matter how much you tell her it is a SECRET). Who would've thought after struggling for alomsot 3 years to get Ava here I would be getting ready for the fourth baby in four years? crazy!