It's Time

I tried really hard to get caught up on my blog before the baby, but it isn't going to happen. I will be going back to fill in all of the blanks. Tomorrow is the big day. Induction in the morning. I am feeling my usual nervousness and desire for it to be over. I want to know that she is healthy and I just want to have her here and come back home. The kids are anxious and excited. Poor Log I don't think he has a clue, but the girls are feeling all kinds of emotions like me. I hope I can handle 4 I am quite worried about it. Tonight after Bailey's soccer game we went to Applebee's, we have been promising the kids they could use their coupons from the library so tonight we went. I always like to do something with our current family the night before. I don't know why but it seems to help with the emotions, theirs and mine, well mostly mine.

This is a lovely photo I really should have stood up.

Good luck to me, thanks to Ryan for putting up with me the last 9 months, thanks to Melly and Spence for watching the kids, and thanks to everyone for the their well wishes, fun little surprises and great get togethers this week. Will hopefully be back to the blogging world soon.

The Month of August

Here are some of the exciting things that happened during the month of August................

Ellie after being brave and going first on the ski board

We went to Utah at the end of the month and while we were there we went out on Pops boat. It was the perfect day, the kids in Utah had already gone back to school so there was no one at the lake. The water was smooth and the beach was all ours. It was great. I even went for a little ski I figured I was almost 36 weeks if I went into labor so be it. It felt great.

My dad bought this trainer board for the kids to learn to ski on, it is awesome all they have to do is stand on it and away they go. They were all still a little nervous and we couldn't get anyone to step up to the plate. Bailey had a melt down just thinking about it. Finally (after Bailey's melt down) I told Ellie I would give her 2 dollars if she went first. She thought about it for awhile, then I remembered she had been begging me for more Cheetos at lunch, so I told her I would throw in a bag of Cheetos.......DEAL away she went.

Way to go El

Logan loved being on the boat and especially loved holding the flag. He still asks all the time if he can go on pops boat.

This is a much happier picture of Bailey, the first time I pretty much just shoved her out there and she cried. The video is hilarious, I plan on blackmailing her with it later in life. But once she realized it was fun and not scary, she was having a great time!

All the kiddos and Melly

While we were in Utah we went to see The Lion King with my sisters and their husbands. For our birthdays this year my parents gave us all tickets. We went to P.F. Changs before which is always delicious. Their fried green beans are my absolute fave. The show was really good. Seeing that I was pretty prego, I was a little uncomfortable and hot but it was still a good time. I really liked all of the animals.

I have been wanting to go to a Boise Hawks game since we moved here. We went to them pretty regularly when we lived in Vegas and the kids always had fun. They enjoyed it this time around too. The girls actually liked watching the game and Logan liked the ball, the Hawk and all of the treats.

They let the kids run the bases after the game.

Ryan and Logan Running.

Bailey and Ellie after they finished running the bases

Everyone enjoying their hot dogs and popcorn


This was also the first time Logan had ever had Cotton Candy. He couldn't get enough. The girls love it too, we had to buy another bag.

I love this picture. We took this at the first of August while Ryan was on his golfing trip. We went to the movies and saw "How to Train Your Dragon" and then went to Golden Spoon for frozen yogurt. We do this at least once or twice every summer. It is a fun tradition that the kids look forward too.

These two pictures pretty much sum up how Logan spent most of his summer. In his dad's shadow. He loved mowing the lawn and helping him fix anything. Which happened to be Ellie's bike a lot this summer. After two years with Bay and one with El the poor bike had seen better days, but Logan loved being right in the middle of the action.

This day he was still into the "soccer suits" and he came across one of Bay's beanies. It was quite the outfit. I really have to document that this is indeed Logan. In the years to come decked out in purple with the pink mower and pink beanie he could get confused with one of the girls, but it his him.

The girls were really into art projects this summer. They spent a whole day making a Hannah Montana museum in their room one day and they made this American Girl poster by cutting up the catalog and using anything AG the could find. The results were pretty cute. They kept it hanging in their room for a long time.





We have 1 o'clock church this year. Which does not work out great for Logan's napping. Some Sunday's he would fall asleep in the car on the way home. Others weeks he would sit on the couch and fall asleep. This week he enjoyed a little snooze with dad.

The Month of July

J u L y

One of my very favorite months. There is always a lot of fun things going on. Plus it always starts with my birthday.

Happy Birthday to me. The night before my b-day I went out with some friends to celebrate some of the summer b-days. We went to P.F. Changs and to see Eclipse. It was a great time. It is always nice to have a night out with the girls.

On my birthday Ryan and the kids were great all day. Bailey made decorations, Ryan got some great gifts, including my new favorite BSU hat, Ellie told me Happy Birthday at least 100 times, and Loggy wanted in on the party action!

Not so much fun being pregnant on your birthday, or anytime really, but at least you can eat as much cake as you want and not even feel one bit bad when you eat the rest for breakfast. My sister Mel made the cake for me and it was delicious, we made homemade mint oreo ice cream to go with it. YUM!

For dinner we went to Flatbread Community Oven. It is one of favorite places, they have the best salads and pizza. Plus it is kid friendly. Win-Win.

The kids can make their own pizza and then go watch it cook in big oven, they loved it

There were also some fun fountains outside for the kids to play in

Jackson, Avery and Logan were in heaven

How cute are these 3?

It was fun having my sisters and their families celebrate with me.

It was a good birthday!

I am glad everyone could stay to enjoy the holiday weekend.

Red - White - Blue
How cute are you?

4th of July spread. Gotta go big.

So good: ribs, steak, shrimp, salads, watermelon

and of course Flag Cake

Logan is crying because he wants cake, he doesn't want to take a picture with the cake, he wants to EAT the cake. He LoVes cake - obsessed actually.

Hey cute girl you were awesome in our kick ball game

Love this picture of him, look at those eyes

My friend Natalie gave those earrings one year when we went to fireworks together. They use to glow in the dark. Bailey made me promise that I would save them for her, so she could wear them on 4th of July. This was the first year she could and she did not forget. She ran around looking for them. Good thing I saved them she looks cute in them .

El is sort of a scaredy cat so she stayed close to Grandma, Logan loved looking at everything but didn't want to stray to far away either.

Although he did like the snakes

The weekend wasn't the warmest, especially for 4th of July, but no one seemed to mind too much. We still managed to have a great time.

My sister Jenn put together a little party for all of the July birthdays. So after a trip to Baja Fresh we came back and had some birthday for festivities. Avery and Bailey also have July birthdays, and since Avery was turning 1 the next week the party was mostly for her.

There were wheel barrel races

3 legged races

A pinata

and of course lots of candy

It was a really fun weekend. Thanks everyone for coming to party.

Some of the other things we did in July......................

Swimming Lessons

This was a big deal for Ellie to jump off the diving board by herself, she was very scared but she did great. But she didn't really want to do it again.

She made great progress on her swimming this year

Bailey learned to dive this year and really started perfecting her strokes

The kids also all got hair cuts. Bailey chopped hers off and donated it to Locks of Love again. She was really excited about it and loves her new short hair.

They sent her a postcard thanking her, she thought it was awesome

Ellie got a trim. She was mad. She said it looked exactly the same. It really did look much better, and her hair is finally getting longer and thicker so I told her she couldn't chop it yet. She was mad!! But now she likes that she can have ponytails and Bay can't.

He may look happy now, but it is only because it is over. He screamed, thrashed, and screamed the entire time. He HATEs haircuts. He won't let me do it, won't let Ryan do it, or my poor friend, at least when she did it you could tell he got a haircut. Bless her for her patience with him. I hope it gets easier soon, his hair grows fast. Good thing he looks cute right?

We went to see Toy Story 3 afterwards. The kids loved it, thought it was hilarious!

We went to the zoo with Mel and Jackson one day. This year Logan really got into it, he loved looking at all of the animals, he tried to talk to them or wave, it was fun to watch him. The girls still love it too, which is nice. It made for a great way to spend an afternoon.

I love Logan's face, he is trying to see the giraffes, he wants nothing to do with me. Thanks for smiling girls, you can look at the giraffes now. Jackson wasn't about to turn around either.

Now we can see everyone. It was a really nice day to be at the zoo, not too hot. Which is great because all of the animals are out for you to see.

The penguins are always a fan favorite



We had to get a zoo water bottle at the end of the day, the trip wouldn't have been complete without it. They still use them so I guess all was not lost :)

One day Logan discovered all of Bailey's old soccer uniforms. He called them soccer suits and was very insistent that he had one on at all times and the girls had to wear them too. Since he stopped wearing bibs sometimes it worked in my favor, but when we had to go somewhere like church it wasn't such a fun new habit.

This one was working great as a bib. I love this picture.

He is so exhausted, they had all been playing outside all night. He was mad he had to come in but he is so tired he doesn't really know how to feel.

We also had our primary Pioneer Activity.

I love celebrating Pioneer Day and singing all of the fun Pioneer songs.

We had some fun water games the kids could play that related to the Pioneers.

Ellie is walking across the frozen river


We finished off the month by going to the Tim McGraw concert

It was really fun, we went to dinner with some friends before. We had good seats, it was a fun night out. It was really hot in there. I wanted to stick my head in the beer cart a few times, but I figured being pregnant and all it would send the wrong message. But it was really hot in there.

I think Tim was a little hot too.....ha

The next morning Ryan left and a golf trip with his dad and brothers They started in Boise and headed up McCall way. They golfed four different courses in 2 days. They are crazy, but they had a good time and can't wait to do it again.

One of the courses they played

Thanks July you didn't disappoint, see you next year!