A style all her own!

 This cute girlie is the most girlie of all our girlies!!  She loves to accessorize and put together outfits all on her own.  I told her to get ready for dance, and she went through three different leotards before settling on this...

Tennis shoes and all.  It was too cute not to capture!  I love this girl!

FHE

 The only reason our kids beg for Family Home Evening is for the treats!  What can I say, they take after their mom...:)

I love that, for the most part, these 4 are really good friends.  They play and play and play together.  We have been so blessed with great kiddos!

Another BOY!!!

 This week I have felt that I am barely keeping my head above water with 5 children, all their activities, and one sick husband.  So adding another person to the mix is very overwhelming...

But seeing Parker's reaction when we told him we were having another boy made it all worth it!  We are so over the moon that we are adding another little boy to our family!!!

Concrete

 This was our project this last Saturday.

 We are making a spot to put bikes, BBQ, trash cans...

It was my first time working with concrete.  It wasn't as bad as I thought...we'll see how the finished product turns out!

Happy Late Love Day

I have recently fallen off the face of the earth...sorry!
I have new resolutions to be better!!!

For Valentine's Day, Mark was amazing and surprised me with not only a night out on the town, but an overnighter at a hotel.  He took care of child care,  kept the whole thing a secret and everything.  Good worker Markley!!!

Family Pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parker Age 9

Kasidee Age 9

Addison Age 6

Bailey Age 4

Reilynn Age 3

 

 

Thanks Marissa!!!! They turned out so great!!!

Christmas...finally

I am having issues downloading pictures with Blogger, it's not working...
So I resorted to Picasa....
Anyway, here are a couple pics from Christmas.  We stayed home and had a fun Christmas with just our family.  We made cookies, went on a hayride, made gifts for each other, and opened tons of presents.  It was a good year.

Our Sweet Baby is 3

 I can't believe that this little girlie is 3 already! 

 Even though she acts like she is 5, and she thinks she is 15, 3 years has passed like the blink of an eye!

 Don't these look appetizing...it's a good thing that my other kiddos could care less if there is a little slobber on their cupcake.

 Reilynn spent the day doing what she loves best, sitting on the couch with the iPad, having free reign to choose what she wants on Netflix.  No older siblings complaining about too much Dora or Diego.  What more could you ask for on your birthday?....

Silly String.  She was giggling so loud spraying her older brother and sisters.  Happy Birthday cute girl.  We love you so much, and couldn't imagine our family without you in it.

Not the best Thanksgiving!

 It isn't Thanksgiving without a little Turkey Bowl Football...so this is how we started our vacation in Mesa.

 It was fun to see all the family, cousins, aunts, uncles, grandad, grandma, great grandma...there isn't anything that can compare to family!

 Here is cute Logan, Preston, and Max.

 Then we had a beautiful Thanksgiving dinner at Grandad and Grandma's house.  Lots of yummy food!

 But then the flu set in Thanksgiving night.  Reilynn started throwing up first, and she continued to throw up for a solid 6 hours...

 Then Addison woke up early that morning throwing up.  Not fun!  Mark had tickets to a football game with some high school friends, and he was reluctant to go when kids weren't feeling great, but I told him we were fine and he headed out Friday morning.

 Friday late afternoon, I started throwing up (First in my brother-in-law's front yard...sorry again Jeff!) and threw up most of the night.  A big thanks to Grandad and Grandma for taking my kids for me!  Then Saturday I felt awful (pregnancy awful), and then Saturday night, Bailey threw up all night.

 We got up Sunday morning, packed the car and started the 19 hour drive home.  Kasidee threw up the first 7 hours of the trip.  We stopped in El Paso for the night, and Mark threw up that whole night in the hotel.  The next day we only made it another 7 hours, with Parker throwing up the last part of the car trip, and we stopped in Kerrville at another hotel.  Parker continued throwing up that night at the hotel.  We drove the last 5 hours, that felt like eternity, but we finally made it home.

I threw up a couple more times when we got home, and I think we finally had it out of all our systems.  Needless to say....we have had better Thanksgivings!

Announcement

Mark put together a little scavenger hunt to break some news to our kids...

Reilynn went first...

This is what she found...

Then Parker's turn...

Here is what he brought to the table...

Here goes Addison...

 This is what she found...

 Kasidee gets a crack at it (pun intended, he he he)...

 Here is what she found...

 And finally Bailey...

Count the cups...

Can you guess what our announcement is?!?!?  Yep...

number six is on the way!

Trick-or-Treat

We had Darth Vador, a pirate, a kitty, a cowgirl, and Snow White for Halloween this year. Some friends came to trick-or-treat with us too. It was a fun night!!! We have more candy than we know what to do with!