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Baby boy just turned 8!

So it has been over two years since I up dated my blog! So sad! I guess it just goes to show life got really crazy after #3 came along. So I am now expecting baby #4. It will be our 3rd girl in a row. She is due in less than a month. I am fat and cranky:) lol

I don't know how I am going to manage 4 kiddos. I guess if my mom could do 9 I can figure it out. Good thing I let go of  "perfection" a long time ago. I really have no idea how people keep a perfect house and seem to do everything. Only thing I can figure is that they don't cook well rounded dinners like I do:) So that makes me feel a little better.

My children are growing up so fast. I need to try and stop stressing and just enjoy them. They will never be so sweet and innocent again. Older ladies tell me it was the happiest time of their lives. My oldest just turned 8 and will be getting baptized next month! I can't believe my chubby baby is 8. My Arianna is 5 yr. and Alyse will be 3 yr. in a few weeks. They are such a blessing. I am honored Heavenly Father has entrusted them to me.

Time

Wow It seems like yeaterday my little monkey was 6 weeks old. Now she is an 11 month old dare devil! She started walking days after tuning 10 months and is now climbing on to furniture and jumping. She has her own adgenda and gets so mad when you spoil her plans. She gets mad when I shut the door to the bathroom so she can't splash in the toilet bowl or take away that old piece of pizza she just foraged out of the trash, life is hard. Most of the time she is a sweet baby, always giving mommy kisses (never dad), and pats my back when she gives me a tight hug. Man I love that little monkey:)

Alyse 6 Weeks

I can't believe it's been 6 weeks since our sweet little angel arrived. She is doing great. She's so yummy I could eat her with a spoon! She gets more kisses than any baby I know. I am always washing off sticky smudges on her head and face from where her big sister has kissed her with messy lips. She smiles everyday especially in the mornings. When I look at her it seems like I've always known her, she's so familiar. I can't imagine life with out her. She will be blessed at our church on July 5th Friends and Family are all welcome.

Alyse is here!

Alyse May was born May 13, 2009 @ 7:10 am. She weighed 6 lb 15 oz and was 20 in. She is beautiful and such a sweet baby, we are so blessed!

6 Year Anniversary & Trip to Zions

We celebrated out 6 year wedding anniversary on March 15th! We kind of celebrated all weekend, which was fun. We went out to eat on Friday night, I got my fill of crab legs (love 'em!). Then on Sunday our actual anniversary Kevin gave me a beautiful bracelet with almost 10 karats of citrine (my birth stone). It was very sweet. You can see it on my wrist in the picture of me, second from the top. By the way for those of you on belly watch that's me at 30 weeks. I am now 31 weeks:) Anyways, then for my gift to Kevin I surprised him with a trip to Zions Lodge. We stayed there in a cabin for the first two days of our honeymoon before we went to Hawaii. Since Hawaii wasn't in our price range this year I got us a cabin at Zions. This time around it was fun but not as romantic, I mean we had 2 3/4 kids with us this time!

We went to an old pioneer town, that's now a ghost town. It was pretty cool. Then we got to feed Elk, buffalo, long horn bulls and a pony. The we hiked Weeping Rock (Sammy called it Leaking Rock) Then the next day we hiked all the way to the upper Emerald Pool. We were only going to go to the lower one, then I said lets go to the middle pool then I was like what the heck let's go to the upper pool. By the way the ascent to the upper pool is a mother! I was pretty proud of my self for being able to do it at 8 months pregnant. I was really proud of Sammy too he made it the whole way with out having to be carried! And have to say I am proud of Kevin for carrying Arianna pretty much the whole time.

Little Stinkers!

Ahhh.. Don't they look sweet? You'd never know what little stinkers they were today at church! Sammy was racing hot wheels on the gym floor. I apparently really ticked Arianna off by not letting her past me, so she scrunch up her little nose and gave me the look of death then yelled at the top of her lungs "No Way, Mommy! No Way!" Sammy calls her "feisty girl" and she really is. She's also a total sweetheart, typical woman:)

We had a great weekend with my parents and siblings. I think everyone really enjoyed themselves. My kids LOVE their Grandma and Grandpa! And they are adored by their aunts and uncles. I feel bad they all had to go back to ice cold weather and terrible smog.