Taylor is here!

This picture is suppose to be below, but got messed up so these are the brothers together. So happy....

Sorry for all those who have been waiting, I finally had a moment that I could get some pictures up. For those who didn't know yet, this is Taylor Martin. He was born at 13:01 Sat th 14th. He was 8lb6oz. He is a little swollen in this picture, but he does have Grandpa's chin! (the one he's named after).
These are the proud parents, I thought I'd be brave and put a couple of me in ;). This is a little after he was born and they were done cleaning up.
Here he is the day after with Daddy.
This is yesterday, taking a nap.
They gave us a stork dinner to celebrate the birth, lots of pretty good food.

These are the brothers all together. Finally. The kids are so excited to have a baby brother. They all exclaimed as they came from the nursery to hold him, he is so cute!!
THis is Lissie taking a turn being a big sister! She doesn't seem so little anymore.
The kids are reading to him. He has a little jaundice so the glowing is the special blankets they have for him to help. I don't think he have a lack of love or attention. The blankets do put a damper on holding him, though.
We call him our little glow worm!

So there you have our new little addition. It's fun to have a little baby around.

Alex ventures with Tball

This is Alex's first T-ball game. He played catcher at one point. It was his favorite position of all that he has played.
This is him hitting the ball.
They didn't have their shirts the first game, but they did get them and here it is. This is after the 2nd game. They get some sweet treats after their game. Thier team name is the Blue Dragons.
I don't know if you'll be able to see this or not. But these yellow birds with red heads and black on their wings have migrated here this year. There are sometimes 10 or so on our lawn and our neighbors. Their really pretty. We also saw a couple birds that have orange bellies and a deep royal blue on their backs with a little black.

Some things going on.

So Mark was waiting for a meeting the a week or so ago and decided he would climb the tree. As you can see below, Alex copied him. We had Mark's family here last Memorial Day weekend. Mark and Jon and Joseph climbed the tree again and made it to the top. We didn't do it with anyone else here, since these are the lighter of the boys. The other guys, I'm sure could do it, but our tree may not have looked as nice after.
Here is Grandma with Brigham, showing her something.
Lissie playing on the tramp with Grandpa. And that's all we got for pictures. Yes we were lame in taking pictures. We did have a blast however. Most everyone came up Saturday (except Mark's parents the night before0. We went to Big Juds, where my brother in law ate the whole hamburger and 1/8th. We went to the cave, we played games, outside, had lots of good food and enjoyed lots of company, celebrated a birthday etc. Danny and Haley were the only ones unable to attend for obvious reasons. We were so glad everyone came to visit us and hang out with us. The kids enjoyed playing immensely with their cousins and I think the only times they were apart was when we were sleeping. Thanks for all who came.
The next adventure we have done over the last few weeks is the garden. We rented a rotatiller and made our plot. We then found out our neighbors had one and we used theirs, which was better, and finished the job.

We planted corn, radishes, beets, and lettuce.
Then watered.
Yesterday we went and got a bunch of starters to go in our garden. Alex and Brigham digging holes.
Lissie following suit.
Just like Dad. We are excited- we have lots of tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, peppers and for the kids sake, tried one watermelon ;0). We are excited and hope to have some fruits from all of this.

Another congrats Danny and Haley!!

We, except for Mark, missed this wedding as well. But this is my brother in law and his wife who were married on Tues May 20. We're excited for you guys as well.

P.S. Look at the other 2 posts below, for Katy's wedding. I did these in order of happening, and did it all at once. (I'm trying to stay chronologically correct).

If we were there, what we would've worn...

The Happy couple.
The kids and I..

Again...
The family....
A copy of one of the pictures taken at the wedding..
Ohhhh.

So there you have our partying. Congrats again Katy and Micah...

Our Wedding Party

This is my sister Katy, and brother-in-law, Micah. They got married on Saturday May 10.

Since we weren't able to travel to my sister, Katy's wedding, my mom sent us a party box to be a "part" of the wedding. This is when we opened it. The kids loved their head attire and they ate some of the candy.

This is us celebrating with spartking cran apple cider, Yum. The boys kept saying, Mom we don't drink coffee. We told them that we wouldn't serve them something like that. They finally got that it was kind of like a soda mixed with juice. Here's Alex.
Here's Brigham.
Here's Lissie.
Mark...
And me. A little scary. We'd been working this day so no makeup or hair done. But I am sporting one of her colors!!!

Then we blew bubbles. So fun.
Here we go again. The wind blew the bubbles away too fast to capture them in the picture.

Anyways....congrats Katy and Micah. We are excited for you guys and glad Micah's joined the family. We wish you the best on this wonderful journey.

We've had a couple of visits

My brother, Bryce and his wife, Lisa and little girl Sophie came and visited us! It was fun to see them. The kids were so excited and immediately attacked Sophie and Bryce. Sophie was probably overwhelmed the first little bit, but by the end before they left, she followed them around the house. Elisabeth was happy to share her toys, and since it was a girl who wanted to play with them she was just fine with it. Here are the kids saying bye.
Hugs.
Kisses... They weren't able to stay to long because they had to head off to Bryce's internship. It took longer for them because of road closures due to snow (who would of thought in May?) so hopefully they were able to get their key. We were really happy they came to visit and talk with them.

A couple weeks before that, Mark's parents and brother came to visit. The kids were excited for this as well. They keep wanting to see Grandma and Grandpa, but our visits to them have been cancelled for one reason or the other.

We went to this lava hike thing. It was really fun. It was a little nerve racking for me because there were cracks all over and the kids are daring, but it was fun.
They then treated us to lunch. This is the icecream we got. Yum. 15 scoops. Its called the hungry heifer. It was cheeper then getting cones for everyone.
I did enjoy it... the whole thing(hee hee)
I had quite the tummy ache afterwards. :0). We were so happy they came to visit. Now we just have to make it down to see everyone down there. Unfortunately my doctor says no traveling until after the baby's born. I have less than 6 weeks and can't leave an hour from home. So I miss 2 sibbling weddings :(. It may be a good thing not to travel though as last night I was having slightyly harder contractions. Maybe I'll actually have the baby early, but who knows. I however would prefer not to have a baby in the NICU.
So thanks for all the visits, which helped with my sanity after this LONG LONG winter, and hopefully we'll get to see more family later!