Happy Easter!

We had a great Easter. It was filled with lots of fun and wildness! My kids' favorite aunt (AUNT NELLY) Janell is going on a mission to Seoul Korea on her mission and her farewell was Easter Sunday. It was really good. We are going to miss her so much!!

It has been about a year since I have taken my kids pictures. These were after egg hunts and church and lots of playing! But, some turned out nice... I need to do better with taking pictures and videos. Time is flying by so fast and my kids are growing and so many things are changing and I really don't want to forget.

Anyway Easter was a great one and I am grateful that we got to spend another Easter with all (most) our loved ones! Hope you all had a great one as well!

8 !!!EIGHT YEARS!!! 8

Where has the time gone? EIGHT years?! Wow, we are old! Or got married young...Whatever the case eight years seems so long and so short all at the same time.

It is crazy to think about how much has changed since then... Like Jonathan can now grow some hair on his face...

We have twenty beautiful children... Did I say twenty, I meant four...

I am totally teasing... I love my life! Eight years ago I married the man I loved and today I love him even more, so we must be doing something right.

Jonathan is my best friend... He can make me laugh and make me cry, he can drive me nuts - both good and bad, he can embarass me like there is no tomorrow, he can tease me until I want to scream, he can make me laugh until I can't see straight, he can win bets without being too smug and will pay up when he loses them, he can be so thoughtful, and he makes me feel like I am the most beautiful women in the world.

I love my crazy husband.

I am so glad I married him!

It has been so long since I looked at our wedding pictures! It was fun to go through all of them with our kids and tell them about our wedding day... like how nervous their Mom was and how NOT nervous their Dad was, why their Dad's fingernails were blue and black in the pictures... because he was building houses and had so many blood blisters from hitting them with hammers, Why we "had" to kiss so many times in the pictures...

It was fun to go through and answer questions. It helped me remember what I was thinking and feeling.

Anyway, It's been a good year and I am still glad I am married! :)

And did I say how much I love the music on blogs? I always turn on my playlist and listen to Jon and my favorite songs. So I decided to put our song on number 1. It is on our wedding video...Speaking of that I can't remember the last time I watched that...

I am sick of my kids being SICK!!!

You know, the other day, I was talking to Jonathan and I happened to mention to him that we have been so lucky that no one has gotten sick in our family.....IMMEDIATE REGRET!!!!! I think like the next day Avery started coughing and then Evanna and then Alyvia....It has now been a few days and Lyvi is still sick right now...She wants me to hold her ALL day long...that is not a joke or me exaggerating...literlly ALL day... Luckily Avery and Evanna have been better with the coughing, although two nights in a row Avery had ear aches.... AHHH.....Thanks to some good ol' onion oil, she is better and healthy as can be....Evanna still has a runny nose but other than that is great! Lyvi on the other hand just breaks her Daddy's heart every time he sees her. Thank heavens it has only been a couple days, and today she ate well and drank well! So that is a good sign. She really does look quite pitiful....her sad tired little eyes... I HATE HAVING SICK KIDS
And, did I mention I am EXHAUSTED?! If not, I am so freaking tired... I have been up almost all night with one kid or another for the past three nights... Lucky for me, but unfortunate for Jonathan, he helps and so he is just as tired as me...Poor Jon...
I cannot wait to sleep in my bed, all night, with my husband, and without any kids waking up or getting in our bed!! Some parents are adamant about NO KIDS IN OUR BED! But after being up so much and being so DANG tired, I didn't give a hoot if all of them were in my bed, as long as I could get in a few minutes of sleep!(Thank heaven's for KING size beds...lol)
Enough complaining i suppose....I have so many good things that I should try to mention those too...lol..... I am thankful my kids RARELY get sick....between eating healthy and vitamin C we have lucked out quite a lot! I am thankful that my babies and kids have always slept through the night...I cannot imagine what it would be like to have a baby up all night! Poor sleep deprived mothers! I can handle a few nights I guess! I am thankful that my husband was home by the time they got sick! (He was gone the week before, work related, and we all missed him SO much!) Come to think of it, I think the four days he was gone was the longest we have ever been away from each other since being married! I know, LAME! lol... I don't know how people do it being away from each other! I can tell you something though, We would not have had as many children so quickly if Jonathan had a job where he was gone for long periods of time! So in essence I am grateful for his job and could not do it without him!
When I look at it that way I am SPOILED! I guess life isn't so bad after all.... :)

WHY ME?! OH WHY ME?!

If you can top my day, well then heck, I wanna hear it!!!
The day started off good... church at nine and we were going to make it on time!
So, we pull up, I grab my church bag and Evanna and I get out of the car.... We are walking kind of fast because there was snow all over the ground..... I just happen to forget that my skirt has gotten too big for me..... Ya, you're thinking NO not that....But oh yeah, all the sudden in the middle of the parking lot....WHERE EVERONE CAN SEE..... my skirt hits the ground.... was I wearing a slip???? NOPE!!! I drop my child and my bag and pull my skirt up.... When I look up my "SWEET" husband is laughing so hard he has to bend over to catch his breath, then says "nice legs but next time can you show me in private?" SO FREAKIN HILLARIOUS JON!!!
Ya, why me? I didn't even look to see who was out there, I just ran inside.....

THEN: after church I go to get in the car and there are like three tampons sitting on my dash!! What the?! WHY ME? WHY ME? (It's not even my time of the month....so where did they come from?....I have sweet kids...) :)

TO SAY THE LEAST, I AM HUMBLED.... completely humbled.......

Christmas is over?!

These are our Christmas pictures to our Christmas cards that I still haven't sent out...Ya...I know...! I am actually surprised that anyone is smiling in these pictures.... :)

Christmas this year was nice... Jonathan worked Christmas Eve and Christmas this year. It wasn't too bad though because he only had one train. So he was home all of Christmas Eve! (Which happens to be my favorite!) It was so nice to give our kids their pjs and then have them sit on the floor and listen while Jonathan reads why we truely have Christmas... My kids were sitting in front of their daddy and listening so intently I just had to take some pictures.

Yes, Christmas morning is fun and exciting and we did have a great one!

We really do have so much to be thankful for...I am sure we all do!

Jonathan and I always go through our year and we say the best things and worst things that happen. It ends up being something we usually end up laughing over. My answers: BEST: Moving into our little house so we can be out of debt soon! :) And of course the obvious...Having my whole family safe and healthy this year! Nothing beats that!

WORST: Not having our cement walkway done before Christmas.( I can't tell you how much dirt we track into the house not having them done) (but I can't be too sad, when they are done they will be beautiful I am sure... All stamped and stained.....Hopefully soon!)(see, I have so much to be thankful for if that is my worst this year!)

Jonathans answers: BEST: Healthy family, good job, actually achieving his goal of getting more fit and not getting me pregnant this year!(that one is a joke...sometimes he has crude humor...we LOVE kids and love being blessed with sweet babies...although four right now is good! :)

WORST: Hiring and Firing (I asked him why hiring....He said it's like having one or two families totally appreciate you and then having a hundred or so families hate you forever...(ya i guess I can see that side) He also did say hiring could be on the BEST too, because it's nice to get to choose who you work with.

And about the firing, It KILLED him to fire someone... Ya that was his worst! He says he will be more careful on the hiring part, so as to erase the latter part of firing! lol...

Pretty much we had a great year....All the bad in the world cannot erase how much good we had this year. I know where all the good comes from and I love my Savior. I love Christmas and I am sad that it is over...Hopefully we can keep the spirit of Christmas and the spirit of giving all year long!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Jonathan cleared off our computer and put all my pictures on mybook. I am too lazy to hook mybook up and too lazy to go get my SD card, so I will put our Christmas card pictures on later! (which by the way, did not turn out very well...picture four crying kids....one frusterated mom and one husband who hates pictures anyway...not matching clothes...a quick "lets take a picture") ya, not the best moment..but mostly thats our life!
I can't believe Christmas is in four days! Where has the time gone?! You know, Jonathan and I have tried something new this year...We decided not to do any Christmas shopping until the very end. The "very end" ended up being...THE VERY END!!!! We finally went yesterday! As in Monday the 20th! lol... But it is done! It was SO hard not to do any shopping... but, I am glad we did it. It made for a really fun day for Jon and me. Janell watched our kids ALL day and we took Alyvia and went shopping. One thing that makes it easier is we only do the three gifts... sometimes that is so hard, seeing all the fun things they would absolutely LOVE, but I am glad we do. I like having more meaning to Christmas and then we don't feel bad spending a little more to buy nice gifts that will last instead of just buying to buy. IN FACT my kids still have their gifts from last year...they play with them everyday!!
Well, this post was going to be our Christmas letter and pictures... but isn't ... Maybe someday in the next three months I guess! :) Any who, MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

GOOD DAY!

This picture cracks me up! :)
Story behind it: J.T. rented Spy Kids 3 D. But, they don't give you glasses for it.... He was so sad and he cried and we told him sorry. THEN his daddy decided to get him these...(Flashlight Filters) AND they worked!!! He was so happy, but his little arms did get tired from holding them up. He looks so funny to me, but I am glad his dad is smart enough to figure things out...Richardson Rigg....It works on everything from cars to 3D movies....lol











I really did have one of the funniest best days the other day! From seeing J.T. wearing those to just having a good day.... So I decided to put up a couple pictures of my good day. There really wasn't anything that special, just one of those days where you are in slow motion and can enjoy every little thing....I Love my husband for making great days that I remember!