My kids are silly...

So a couple of days ago Emma came to me like this...


She had done this with no coaxing from me. And she was very proud of herself and thought that it was the funniest thing. (And so did I!) So I figured I needed a picture of it for later on. You know...the boyfriend years! I'm sure she'll love me for it. And then she'll have kids of her own and do the same thing. She came out to day with used popsicle sticks and laughed so Andrew had to try it and we all laughed. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of him. But they are a riot! It's fun having kids!

A couple of days before the previous picture, Paisley came out of her room from her nap like this...


I guess she wanted to make herself look presentable when she awoke from her beauty rest. (Like she really needs it!) And of course I had to take a picture for posterity sake. She actually walked around with it like that for a while. I just let her until she tried to pull it out herself. Then mom came to the rescue.

These are some shots from that same day. I took the one of Andrew and me, but Andrew took the one of Emma and me. I think he did a really good job for a 4 year old!




I could only get a good picture of James with Paisley and Andrew. There was one with Emma in it, but it turned out blurry and by the time I could take another one Emma had run off and was done taking pictures. Oh, well, I'll take what I can get!


Such a handsome man I married!!! Don't mind that the kids aren't looking at the camera. As I stated before, I'll take what I can get!

Merry Christmas and Happy New year

So I'm sitting at my sister-in-law's house looking at other people's blogs realizing it's been a while since I've updated mine. Since I've gotten pregnant with this little one I've been a little sick. As most know I tend to get pretty sick the first trimester. So now that I'm officially over all my puking (it only took 16 weeks) I figured that I could go ahead and write something down.

The kids had a really good Christmas and we've been having a ton of fun visiting with family! It's nice to be able to have the opportunity to do that at any time but especially at this time of year. I don't have any pictures yet, but they will come as soon as I can get them. Paisley has been talking more and it's rather interesting to get to see how she is interacting with her cousin Elizabeth who is 10 months old. She's kind of been a little turkey and it's giving us some insight to what she might be like with the new addition. She learned a new word unfortunately while we've been here. "Mine" and she was taking something away from Elizabeth when she said it. Isn't that great!! Andrew got a transformer for Christmas and has been playing with it nonstop. And
Emma is doing so much better with her speaking. Sometimes I'm really glad that she's talking so much more, but other times I'm wishing for the days when she didn't. But all in all like I said the kids are great. And the newest one (that's not her yet) is making his or her presence known. We should be finding out in about a month, but I personally am thinking it's a boy. Other's think otherwise, but only our Heavenly Father knows right now. Of course there will be an update when we know for sure. But so far I've felt the baby move a couple of times and when I had a soda last night (very little) the baby was moving around a lot more than it has been.

So I hope that everyone has had a good season. And here's hoping to a good New Year.

This is what happens...

When you fall asleep for just a second cause you're super exhausted from growing a baby.



Thankfully it's only peanut butter. But needless to say my house smells of it now. And thankfully again, neither one of them is allergic. They're hands were brown from it. I was only able to get the 2 pictures. I was afraid if I waited any longer there would be more peanut butter in my house than I wanted. It was already painted all over the bouncy horse. You know, the ones that have the springs attached to them and you ride. From back in the day. And i ahd a hand print and smears on my couch. Plus a few patches on the carpet. It's so fun!!! I had to laugh or else I would have sat down and cried. Good times!

The news is out...

So the other post I was talking about...I wasn't feeling too well on the day we were doing the party. The reason being that I had taken a pregnancy test on thursday, the day before, and it came back positive!! Yes I said positive! For those that didn't know we had 2 different tests come back positive. Once in November of last year, the Sunday before Thanksgiving. And I started on Thanksgiving day. It was rather sad, but from what I've found out it was a false positive and not really a miscarriage, but still sad. And then again this February, but this one was more so because it was an actual miscarriage. They said it was chemical, but a little over a week from the positive test I started and of course was devistated. We didn't have time to really tell anyone the first time and because of what happened we didn't want to tell a whole lot of people about the second one. So this time around we were going to wait until James and I had heard the heartbeat and then let everyone know. But I'm not the most patient person. Anyhow, after I had taken the pregnancy test, I started spotting. So because of what had happened before I called the next morning and they had me come in to do a blood test. I had to go back in the following Monday to have another one done so they could compare and I wouldn't know anything until that day. A little bit of a long weekend. But they called me on Monday as soon as they had the results and said that my HCG (the hormone that makes preggo tests come back positive) was 253 on Friday and it was over 3000 on Monday. So I was definitely pregnant!!!! I was so relieved as was James. So we proceeded to tell just about everyone we know. Yes we are crazy and we do know what causes it! And we couldn't be happier. This little one should be here sometime around June 14th (due date), but hopefully before and not late. When we told Andrew that I was going to have a baby the first thing he said was I have 2 Paisley's in my belly. I asked him if he meant there were 2 babies in my belly to which he replied yes and that they were 2 girls. Since then it has changed to a boy and a girl. Here's to hoping he's not right this time around. Nothing against twins, but wow, that would be a lot. He was right about Paisley being a girl though! But we'll see. So far though everything seems to be going well, I'm already getting sick, (this usually takes a few weeks) and I'm super exhausted. But I'll make it through. I'll keep updating as I know.

Birthday parties

Okay so better late than never, but here are some pictures from the combined birthday party. James turned 34 and Emma turned 3. So we had a little get together with friends and actually held a party. I know I'm an awful mom, but Emma has never really had a big party. Her first birthday we didn't really do anything because I was sick and pregnant with Paisley. And her second we didn't plan anything either cause there weren't alot of little ones her age to invite over ( I know, excuses). So this year we went all out.


Here's James with his new iPhone. Which he loves and is playing on constantly. I know I'm a good wife! (Boast!!)


The birthday girl on the run. We...I mean I...decided on a fairy theme. Every girl had fairy wings and we did wands that were going to be decorated, but decided against it cause of all the chaos.

James' cake. He wanted a rubix cube. And since we didn't have the height to do the whole thing we decided on one section. Turned out awesome, but I can't take the credit because I wasn't feeling real well ( a whole other post) and my WONDERFUL sister in law decorated both cakes.


Here's Emma's. She did a really good job on this. It was fun to play.



Me smiling for the camera. And a few of the people at the party. Let me tell you it was a house full. Crazy amounts of people, but fun none the less.

Emma's birthday

I'm still finding it hard to believe that my little one has grown up. Any of them for that matter! She's 3 today! We are planning on doing a party for her this Friday in combination with James' birthday. There will be more pictures then I promise! But here are a few of her today. Such a grown up! Or at least she thinks so.



This isn't a birthday present, she just happened to be holding it when I took the picture.
Tonight to celebrate her birthday we are taking the kids to go see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. I've heard it's funny and I'm hoping the kids get a kick out of it.

Picture of the kids

I was able to get a picture of all the kids that actually turned out okay.

They sat still somewhat and they are all looking at the camera so I'll take it! I'm so glad that Emma is finally liking the idea of taking pictures. She says cheese whenever she sees the camera and smiles really big.

Isn't she adorable?!

And here's sweet Paisley. She's growing up too!
Oh, I almost forgot that we cut Emma's hair. We took several inches off. Somewhere around 4 or 5 inches. And of course she's still cute!