AAAAAHHHH!

1)Katy and Betsy surprised us and came and visited. Here is Katy with Taylor. I was lame and didn't take very many pictures. Okay I took 2.

Here's Betsy. We had lots of fun. We went to the park and the girls spoiled the kids. It was fun
2)Alex turned 6.

Here he is with his gifts. And our gumball icecream.

Here is the cake. ITs a worm cake. The kids helped me make it. It was great

Here's a cute picture of Lissie
and 3) I went shopping on Saturday. When I came home Mark told me I had to go see Brigham. So I did. He and Alex were so excited. First this is what I saw...
Then this is what I saw....

and this is what I saw last.....




Yikes!!! Brigham lost his top tooth. I was trying not to freak out and asked what happened. He was climbing the tree and slipped and hit his tooh, obviously, and knocked it out. They then said, Mom we thought you were going to be exciteed. I said, yeah, I'm excited. YIkes Yikes Yikes. I then said oh the tooth fairy will come. WE couldn't find the tooth anywhere. Crazy.

The next morning he woke up and the first thing he did was see if the toothfairy came. We forgot,oops. So as he ate breakfast, I searched the house for change and Mark checked out the situation. Brigham checked again and they were under his scriptures. Maybe the toothfairy wanted to remind you to pay your tithing on it? Or maybe put it in a different place since it was harder to find the tooth? It was crazy. He was excited. He now analyzes how it is to eat everything with it.

So those are our AAAAHS for the last week!

According to Carrie...

Okay I saved this picture and flipped this, but I don't know why it keeps doing this. This is Taylor. I put him down and he stayed asleep like this. How funny. He's getting so big. We took him to his 4 month.

I got tagged, again, and thought it would be fun to do something on Mark since I'm not too exciting. Julie did it for Jon, so I thought great idea I'll copy her. So these are the things that I could remember or attempted to make up.

7 Things Mark wants to do before he dies
1. Sky dive
2. Get his pilots license
3. Hike the Grand Teton
4. Go on a real honeymoon with Carrie
5. Go to France with Carrie
6. Tour Europe with Carrie
7. Go see D.C.

7 Things Mark can do
1. Make a really good dinner
2. Speak French
3. Write really well
4. Fix things
5. Be a great Dad
6. Be an awesome husband
7. Work hard

7 Things Mark can’t do
1. Whistle
2. Roll his tongue
3. Speak German
4. Play football (though he’d like to)
5. Fail
6. Be in RS
7. A cartwheel

7 Things that attracted Mark to Carrie
1. Her character
2. Her determination
3. Her good looks
4. Her eyes
5. Her personality
6. Her athleticism
7. Her height (yea, right)

7 Things Mark says most often
1. Stinks
2. Tough Guy
3. T man
4. Big Guy
5. I love you
6. I expect obedience
7. I’m going to get you

7 Celebrities Mark likes
Okay I can’t think of a single one

7 Favorite foods of Mark
1. Chocolate
2. French pastries
3. Cheese
4. Good bread
5. Meat/sausages
6. Good crunchy pear
7. Squash fried with onions and some spices

7 people Mark think should do this
I think 7 people should just do it.

Makeover???

After many weeks of not posting, I finally have broken the silence. (I actually have some pictures to post). The weather is getting colder and colder :(, and the kids are getting bigger and bigger. Taylor can now fit into some 6-9mo clothing. Maybe its just the fact that I like the clothes to look a little baggier and not fitting.... Pics later, I'm sure. Lissie had a friend over the other day. Lissie came out of her bedroom looking like this. Clara had put some makeup on her. It was cute so I took a picture of them. Also notice Lissies hair...
Sunday we went on a walk. It was a bit cold so I told Lissie she had to get a sweater and some shoes. She also got some socks. Gotta love it! Also notice the hair...

Did you notice? We cut a 2-3inches off her hair. She didn't like it being combed and she wanted it cut. So I cut it just above her shoulders. Its cute, and we can still do lots of fun things to it.

A fun filled weekend

This weekend started out with driving to Mark's family's house. We got there a little earlier than we'd planned and his parents were out at a dinner. On the way down Brigham stated- Mom I feel really sad because our family is all over the place. This is after Alex had stated something about being excited all day to see his family. Brigs then stated that when we were at Island Park he was happy because so many of our family was there.

Saturday was didn't see much of Mark's dad as he was in meetings. His Dad got released as Stake President. It was nice to be there, and I could kind of picture what it was like when my dad was released a few months earlier as a counselor. It was a bit of a long day for the kids as we were in the chapel over 3 hours and then we made them stay in their Sunday clothes. (They weren't too happy about that). My brother blessed his little son, Travis, which we drove to see. That was really nice. We were sad not to see much of them, but had a lot of fun chatting with them before the blessing.

This is the only picture that I was able to get the whole weekend. Here is Lissie with the goggles as we drove to my bro's family's place. This is also the only nap the kids got. Well the kids were tired, so I didn't take the goggles off for the blessing, to limit the amount of chaos.
It was really nice. Then we headed back to dinner with Mark's fam for a quick bite to eat before heading back home. It was nice to be there with everyone, and missed those we weren't able to see. Taylor did finally reach the point where the only people who could help him were Mark and I, though everyone was great to help out and offer to help. We're glad we could be there for these 2 special occassions. Thanks to all for accomodating us!

We're ready....

Here are Brigs' and Lissie's backpacks. They love having them.
Here' they are with a couple of their school supplies.
Here is Taylor cheering for the Red Sox.

Here are the first 2 cobs of corn from our garden. Brig and Alex shucked them, well sort of.
We went swimming. They had a cool slide.
Taylor's first time swimming. He got a little wet. This was our choice for the weekend. We also played at this really cool play place and watched Prince Caspian. We had a fun time.

First day of school and First day riding the bus

Here's Alex already to go to school. He was pretty excited. We surprised him with his backpack with school supplies inside. Lissie wanted to be in the picture to.
Here's Alex standing in line waiting for school to start.
Today Alex got to ride the bus to school. Here he is waiting at the bus stop.
climbing up the stairs,
getting off the bus. I followed him to school to make sure he knew what he was doing, and went to the right place. He didn't even know we were there until Brig and Lis screamed goodbye to him out the window as he walked into class. Today he figured he gets to play for a bit before the bell rang!

Lissie and Brigham also have their own backpack and a few school supplies as well. I haven't gotten to take a picture yet of them, but we will and you'll see. They were pretty excited about that. They're going to do a little bit of playgroup learning things with some kids, so they are ready:).

Taylor's blessing and Visit from the parents

This is Taylor after his blessing in his outfit. All the boys have worn this suit with different ties. Als the kids have used this blanket.
Here are all the kids before we left for the blessing. The boys have matching ties! We had lots of visitors for the blessing. Marks family-his grandparents, aunt and uncle, mike and jerrica, his parents and jon and joe. My family-my parents, laree, betsy and tanner, nikki and chris and jax, mykenzie, and jayden (and payton in spirit, he's still in the hospital). Most of them stayed at our house. We enjoyed having all of them here. It was a really nice day. Sorry I didn't get pics of all the visitors.

my parents stayed a couple of days. They made the rounds to see all the new babies. Monday morning my parents spent doing science experiments with the kids. This one was funny to watch. Their looking at how things looked bent in water.
Then we went and visited some sites, where we had a picnic. Here's Laree.
Here's looking out.
Then we visited one of the schools in the area for Laree. Here's Betsy. There is a pic of her with the kids and she looks like a star with her kids trying to evade the paparazzi.
This is a pic of my dad with Taylor. I have a picture of him sleeping while holding everyone of my kids when they were a baby, just like this.

Well the next day the kids all were sick so we just sat around talking until my parents and Betsy and Laree left for their next stop. It was really fun. My sister took lots of pics and gave them to me but they are not accessible at this moment. We had a lot of fun having them here. The kids loved it.