This is our 101st Post, Aren't we tough?

Its a bird, its a plane...
The kids had a little fun with the tatoos Grandma LaPierre sent

Alex had 4

Brigham has 5 Lissie has 4.

And Taylor has one.

Thanks Grandma.

Summer going ons....

These are in no particular order. These are just random pics from the summer.
We went to Yellowstone with my fam. Here is my bro and his fam infront of Old faithful.

We went tubing a couple weeks ago when we were visiting Mark's fam for a baby blessing. It was cold but everyone had fun. Here's Mark with Alex and Brigs.

When we were together with my family, my mom had a tea party for the kids. HEre they all are.

As we were packing up the house to leave this is how we found the girls. They were talking and reading/telling stories.

THis is a moose that was walking around our neighborhood. We also had a badger in our backyard, but I couldn't capture that because Mark has the camera.

Here's Lissie enjoying the tubing.

Here are the girl cousins at my sisters wedding.

Here are the bigger boys talking to the couple.

Here is a walk the kids went on with Mark. Notice in the sunshine there is a bunny that was hopping around our yard.

Triplets already? Nope just the baby boy cousing having a fun time.

Here is me with the kids at Artist point my favorite place in Yellowstone.

On our way back home we were able to catch the airshow. Much to the liking of all the boys present. We also had my sis and her hubby here,but I didn't get any fab pics.

I hope you don't mind this...

Last weekend, Mark and some friends ran the Wasatch Back Ragnar Relay Race and they did FABULOUS! This is the start of the race and this is when they announced their team the Random Runners. They all had matching shirts, so the guy in green is who started. Mark was the 6th leg and had 3 different legs he did (as did all the team mates). He made all his projected times plus was quicker on a couple of them. (They projected them from 10k times that they did earlier). His first leg was 6.1 miles down hill, the second 8.1 uphill, and 3.1 pretty even keel. They started at 1:00pm and finished at around 6pm the next day. (the whole race is approx 188miles). Overall they came in around the top 12% of over 600 teams. Pretty good I think for a bunch of amature runners.

Here he is on his first leg of the race receiving the baton.

Here he is with great running form.

This is their time (I think it was a little bit off, but they are team 430).

Here he is with his team mates (minus one who was chasing his child) when the race was finished.

They were excited and a couple of them have come up to me and said how amazing of a runner Mark was. They all did really well. I guess it was an amazing experience.

One year ago Sunday....

This was the little ball of happiness that joined our family a year ago. I can't believe that it has already been a year since Taylor was born. He is such a happy and very determined child. Taylor was in our room when the other kids woke up. All 3 of them came in and and one said "ITS THE TODDLER." (side note, when I refer to him as my baby I'm quickly reminded that he is a toddler). Then all 3 of them sang him Happy Birthday. That day they all called him the birthday boy all day long and then would say stuff like they loved playing with the birthday boy. They ran into church and told everyone it was his birthday.

Singing happy birthday, Taylor grabbed the cake.

Here he is enjoying the ice cream. He didn't get much messier than this. In fact he started to cry when he saw his hand was a mess. We just had to wipe him down without a bath.

Enjoying part of his toy (its a car that came with a boat, he absolutely loved). It was fun.

Well I haven't written in an extremely long time because we have been BUSY. Alex finished school and had a fun program. Brigs and Alex started T-ball, which they are enjoying. Mark has been training for a big team race (187.9 miles in total, I believe). Planting the garden, weeding, etc. Then we had visitors and visited for 2.5 weeks, with Mark's fam and then mine. Finishing wedding dresses, skirts, necklaces, doing reading programs, and getting a new garage door, because the other was destroyed. Well we are back and now we're trying to get the house back in order and semblance of normalcy. Our dryer broke the Monday after we got back and we had to get a new one. It was great fun, but I think we're back to okay.

This is Betsy and Tanner with the nieces and nephews when they got out of the temple. Congrats guys.

My mom and dad did a lot to make this special for everyone and we had a blast. I'll be trying to post pics before they get too dated. IT may take a while.

One last pic I thought was cute, Al helping Brig tie his shoe on Sunday. Well hope all is well with everyone. :)

Yeah

Amidst all the boy cousins that have been born this past year, we finally have a girl cousin! Welcome Amelia DeeDee. She was born VERY VERY early Thursday. She was 6#8 oz and 21".
We can't wait to meet you! ( we would post a pic but unfortunately we don't have one, if Julie posts one maybe I'll steal one of hers). So congrats Becky Ben and Addy! We are excited for you guys.

In case you were wondering...

I haven't written in a while because I've been working on some things for my sisters wedding. I have now finished and have a couple things to post. This past weekend we made a quick trip to Mark's parents to say Happy Mother's Day to Mark's Mom. We didn't get there until Saturday and we were busy until we left. (so sorry my fam we weren't able to see you but we will see you for 1.5 weeks, and you aren't either of our moms). Saturday night Mark's parents, Mark and bro went to his other bro's house, where they were hosting a wedding shower for his sis in law. He wanted Mark to come and see, as they'd fixed their lawn up really nice for it. Well they asked me to go, but I didn't want to leave the kids. Mike persuaded me to go and he and his friend watched the kids for about 1/2 hr to 40 mins. Its the first time we have left Taylor with anyone, except at Jamie's wedding. The kids were easy to entertain. Taylor looked around after playing for a bit and his eyes watered. Mike and his friend hurried and filled his bottle and then sat him on the couch next to him and my boys on the other side. THis is what we came back to, mind you it was only a little over a half hour. How cute is that? Of course I had to run and take a pic. Thanks Mike!

This is a face that Taylor constantly is making, We can't seem to capture it on video, but we did catch it this way. It is absolutely hilarious.

This is Lissie with her Easter Hair do. (was too slow to post the other Easter pics, but we got some good ones.)

And here are the boys being silly. They are such good friends. Alex brought pics of Lis and Brigs for show and tell the other day (he already did Taylor at the beginning of the year) and he told them who they were. He said this is my brother and we like to play together.

AND...... Mark finally reached the ranks of 30. We celebrated with his fam! It was great.

Good times

We received a call out of the blue from Mark's brother, Mike. He was up in the area doing some work. He was with his boss, so he didn't have a lot of time to hang out, but Mark and Mike decided we'd meet up at Big Judds for some eating fun. The kids were so excited to see Mike.
Here is the last bite of that big hamburger. Mike was able to eat it all, plus some fries and a cone. He said he was feeling a little sick. That night Alex threw up and I thought it was food poisoning and I told Mark I'm not going there again. (It was the worst I've ever cleaned up and I almost lost it myself, and I have a strong stomache). BUT then the other kids were sick within the next few days, so it wasn't food poisoning. (Much to Mark's relief).

So I've been noticing also that Taylors hair is getting longer and theback was starting to be a little hairy(hee hee), though this pic doesn't really show it. You can see the hair on one of his ears. I decided I was going to cut it.

Here are the results. It looks good, but he looks more like a little boy. I must admit, too that I don't like the longish hair on baby boys. I think I cut all the boys hair around this time.

This is supper from last night. Chicken pot pie. One of Mark's favorite. I gave him a call and let him know. He was happy. Mine always come out like this, but its pretty good.

APRIL FOOLS! It was actually a dessert. Hee Hee.

Yummy! The kids and Mark loved this kind of dinner. (I actually had some pizza made too...I couldn't just let them have this).

This is how I made it. I made a crust and baked it. (I found this idea in the Family Fun Mag). Then I bought some candy. (flavored tootsie rolls and starburst). I cut the yellow candies and shaped them into corn, the green candies cut and shaped into peas, the orange candies were cut and shaped into carrots, and the white candies into chicken. Then I cut a banana to look like potatoes. Next was to stir up a batch of vanilla pudding. I put the pudding in the crust and added the vegies and chicken and mixed it in and then put the top crust on. Mark had no idea until the kids said, Mom you put the candy in the pie. It was so fun and I have been wanting to do this for a very long time!

One funny story too (If you don't mind). Yesterday I was talking to Brigham about his dream the night before. He had screamed out in his sleep, but never woke up. He proceeded to tell me about the dream, which of course the details have escaped me. But Man is it fun to watch Brigham tell a story. THen he said Mom I didn't say a prayer because I wanted to see how the dream ended. Silly kid. (we've been trying to teach them how to not feel scared at nights especially after bad dreams.)