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.)

"Luck O' the Irish!" This is our spread for the good ol Irish day. Corned Beef. YUMMY. Notice Taylor in his green.

Because he was sleeping when I took this pic. Here are the kids sportin their outfits. Thanks Mom.

Well I had to get a pic of this. It makes me sad to look at, but it was also so cute (I'm not biased at all). It made me realize how big he's getting. Getting ready for church. He weighs a wopping 20# and his 4 year old sister weighs 29#. How funny. It has gone by too fast.

Here is how I found Lissie for her nap, after fighting her for a LONG time. I went in there and couldn't find her and thought to myself, I didn't see her run out, so I did a little investigation. Found her here.

Also, We Have started the wonderful cryout for Taylor to fall asleep at bedtime by himself and I think its been accomplished in 2 nights! (Cross our fingers and Knock on wood). He cried for an hour on Monday night. Tuesday night 5 minutes. I thought he was asleep and went and checked (after 1/2 hour) Oops. So I fed him and gave him a big hug and put him down. 5 mins of crying. Today I put him down for his first nap and he yelped as I put him down and that was about it. He even slept better the last couple nights. Alelujah! I think this is the absolute hardest thing to teach a baby. Thinking of it makes me cry (and I swear this time that Mark was almost in tears), so if that was it, Happy day!

This is Lucky, hacking into the Hills computer!

For #10, there is a place in the desert that is warm right now, definately not here, that you would enjoy visiting. If you go to this "site" you can see some pics of the cool areas and some of a couple people you know (#6A &6B). Love LUCKY the Leprechaun..

Wow

The other night we had a little eat out in the living room. We had some oreos. Here's Taylor after he ate his. Taylor is growing fast. He weighs 20 lbs or more. He learned to crawl a month ago and hasn't stopped getting into things since. In fact he would prefer to walk and constantly is trying to stand and walk.

Here he is trying to walk. He walks like this.

He climbed on top of this box and then couldn't get out.

He also climbed up this step. He also can say Mum and dadada and I(hi). He loves his dad and the other day went to the door about the time Dad was to come home and waited for him there. He crawls up to him and says "I dadada."
Brigham also was excited today to sign up for kindergarten. Here he is in front of one of the school's buildings with a packet they gave him after he was done being tested and signing up.

When we got to the school he wouldn't stand for a picture. He went running in so this is all I captured. There's Lissie running behind him. She was sad that she has to wait another year.

Here's the princess with a smile and dancing.

Party Party

We were able to go and see some family 2 weekends ago. Mark's brother farewell was that weekend. He is now in the MTC. (I can't believe he's that old. He was almost 11 when I first came into the family). It was really fun to see them all and catch up.

I have a sister that is getting married and so we got together to go dress shopping with her. It was fun, but do to some unfortunate events were not able to see too many dresses with her :(. However, we did meet up at Jamie and Michelle's. We did get to see Lisa, but her kids were sick and we missed Bryce. So we ended up eating lunch with everyone else and Betsy made a darling cake for Lissie for her birthday. Here it is. She was in absolute heaven. We have been counting down for her birthday since Brigham's. When everyone started to sing to her she just grinned and grinned. See her birthday was actually the next day, so she was stoked.

Here she is. She also wanted to go dress shopping. We were going to leave as it was getting later and we had to do supper and baths and bed so the kids would be good for the next day and it was suppose to snow and be icy. (Our van does terrible in those conditions). Well she was so bummed not to be able to go to the dress appointment, as that is where we were originally going before lunch. So I talked Mark into driving to the dress shop and staying in the car with the boys for 15-20mins while we saw Betsy in a couple of dresses and she got to try on a flower girl dress. He agreed.

Here she is with Aunt Betsy and Mykenzie. She loved it. She started to dance and twirl with Mykenzie. She said "I'm doing balet." And she had pretty good form with it too! Those girls were cute. We only wish Sophie was there to twirl with them. I had to pull her away from the dresses and leave, much to her dissapointment. We had so much fun seeing all that we were able to see. And Lissie enjoyed being around lots of girls.
The next day we had Jon's farewell. It was really nice to hear his testimony and I think he's pretty excited to go.

It was also lissie's birthday! After the festivities we made a cake and sang to her. Here we are making her castle cake!

And here she is blowing out the candels. She was really lucky to have 2 parties and she was spoiled by everyone. Thanks! It made it special for her.

Alex has officially finished basketball for the season. He made one basket the 2nd to last game and was really close to making some baskets the last game. He is pretty good at it and really enjoys it. He's good at defense and defending and rebounding and dribbling. I enjoyed watching him. (Brigs and Lissie got a little bored though :)).

Here he is trying to shoot the ball. His coaches were trying to get him to shoot since he usually passes.

And here he is dribbling. What a fun season.

Baby Tag

1.Where were you when you first found out your were pregnant? At home for all three

2.Who was with you? Mark, Mark, Al and Brig in other room, kids in other room and Mark I believe as well

3.What was your first reaction? Excited, shocked, shocked, excited
4.What was your husband's reaction? Excited with all

5.Who was the first person you told? Mark of course
6.Was the pregnancy planned? Planned?, none of them happened when we thought
7.Was everyone happy for me? Yes, so so, so so, sort of

8.What was the sex? Boy, boy, girl, boy

9.What was the nursery theme colors? Didn’t have any

10.Did anyone throw a shower for you? Yes for the first
11.Did I get any outfits I didn't use? Not that I can remember
12.How much weight did I gain? 40, 30,30,35 ish
13.Did I get stretch marks? yes

14.Did I crave anything? Salad and fruit at the beginning and at the end Sweets! With Brigham especially

15.Who or what got on your nerves the most? Others being perceived dumb

16.Where were you when you went into labor? Hospital though with brig and tay I was having contractions before

17.Did I have any complications? Yes, but not too serious

18.Did your water break? Would they be here if it hadn’t :o)
19.Who drove you to the hospital? mark

20.Did you go early or late? Late, late, early, early

21.Who was in the room? Dr, nurse (1/2) and Mark

22.Did you videotape it? That is so wrong and gross

23.Did you have any pain medication? Yes, but didn’t work with the last 2

24.Did you have a c-section or natural? Natural

25.What was your reaction to the birth? excited with all

26.How big was the baby? 7-12 21in , 8-0 21 in, 6-7.5 18in, 8-6 21in
27.What was the baby's full name? Alexander Mark, Brigham Lee, Elisabeth Carrie, Taylor Martin

28.Did your husband cry? Nope but he almost passed out

29.When is the next one coming? Not sure

30.If you could would you do it all over again? We’ll see

Now I tag, anyone of my friends or siblings/cousins who have had a baby and my mom

For the Sleepless....

The caption says "Someday you'll be a teenager, and You'll want to sleep all the time...and then I'll have my revenge."

So Taylor has not been sleeping well at all. I have only had a few hours a sleep a night. I saw this cartoon in the paper the other day and it made Mark and I laugh. I thought the parents out there would appreciate it.