HAPPY (belated) BIRTHDAY BABY GIRL!!!!!

Its hard to believe that my baby girl is 6!!! It seems like yesterday that I went through the longest 9 months of my life and cried when we were blessed to have her come 10 days early!! What a HUGE blessing she has been in our lives! I could not have ever asked for a more beautiful wonderful patient kind and loving daughter! I am very grateful to my Heavenly Father for giving me the privilege of being able to call myself her mother! It is a joy to watch her grow and change and love!

WE LOVE YOU EVIE!!!!

Christmas Break!

We had such a super Christmas! We have so many things to be grateful for! A wonderful giving family, a beautiful home, 2 awesome kids and one on the way, the success of Jason's new business, great friends, and a loving Savior who gave his life for me!! Thanks to everyone for making this one of the best Christmas seasons EVER!!!!

Evie making her Christmas wishes known to the Claus

Lucas not quite sure what to think of the Claus

Evie thinks it is hilarious to rub her head on our new microfiber couch. I can't imagine why!

Too many late nights finally caught up with Lucas at our friends house, that or the youtube videos they were watching were really boring!

Evie has been asking for months for a "cake maker"! The Easy Bake Oven has more than done the job! She was super excited!

Lucas was convinced from the first time he felt this present that it was a bag of candy! I couldn't quite tell if he was more excited that it was a car or not!

The super duper deal I found on a littlest pet shop big huge thingy majigger!!! $10!! Yay me!!

Lucas has been asking and asking for a Mr Datato Head! He was so so excited he probably would have wet his pants if he weren't wearing a diaper :)

Lizzy and Rachel were closing their eyes taking turns letting Lucas "take them out" It was pretty funny!

Holy Blog Batman!!!!!

So since I am so so very behind on my blogging this post includes a massive massive massive amount of pictures. So I will just comment on the pictures and you can skim till you get bored :)

Shortly after Jason got home from selling for the summer we took a walk around the greenbelt as a family and had lots of fun climbing on the rocks and just goofing around.

My pretty lame attempts at being a photographer with my cheap-o camera :)

What my kids do when I attempt to get them to smile for the camera

My beautiful little boy

My wonderful family!

She is growing up so fast!

What my little sisters do when they are at my house and bored! Thanks Lizzie and Rachel!! We love it when you come over and are glad you like to so much :)

Dressed up like daddy!

What can I say.......ask Liz and Rachel! They can explain :)

CHEESE!

He had a lot of hair

So I had my first fun in the ER after Lucas connected with one of Jason's big metal hand held weights. (fort building and weights don't mix). We spent 3 hours in the ER and came out with 2 staples. Fun Fun Fun.

Thanks Grandpa Pymm for letting us have one of your HUGE pumpkins! We enjoyed it while it lasted.......RIP pumpkin Joe whose guts littered our street sometime after 9:30 pm on Oct. 30th :oP

He was approximately 70 ish pounds and I hope the kid who smashed him has had serious back pain for making my kids cry :) jk but i bet he was a booger to get to the street

The results of hacking through 5 inches of pumpkin hide :)

eeeeewwwwwww it looks like a jellyfish mom!!!!

Beautiful Barbie's Lizzie and Cami! Thanks for letting me do your makeup you 2 babes!!!

Yoda and Facebook, and yes I stole this from the Office.

Yoda very excited for trick or treating! I think he has a new favorite holiday!! He LOVED it!! He was practically running from door to door till his bucket got so heavy he had to drag it, but that didn't slow him down..... much

I have to say that I am extremely proud of how Evie's fairy costume turned out! I made the tulle skirt and bejeweled everything else including her face and hair!

She was also very patient and let me give her rainbow eyes!! :)

Her biggest toothless jack o lantern smile!

And last but not least we had so much fun spending time with family

Happy Halloween!!!

Its Been A Long Time Comin

I have not blogged in forever and I guess this will just be a super short update, no pics or anything. I am 15 weeks pregnant!! Yay! I have been massively sick. Bleck. But still I am super excited to have this baby! Both kids say its a sister so they will probably get a brother haha. We have been waiting a long time for this! We have all been home together for about a month. It has been super nice having Jason home! Evie is loving kindergarten when she is not bored :) she is learning so fast and is already starting to read on her own! Lucas is in the process of getting ready to potty train, i am pushing him to hard i think cause he is NOT interested, the stinker! Anyways thats about all I have to say! hopefully I will have some pictures and stuff soon!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY BOY!!!!

Ok so it is not quite Lucas's birthday but since we are going to be traveling home on his REAL birthday next week we had a big party with all our friends here! It was so much fun! We have really made some fun friends and have been so blessed this summer! So I stayed up super late yesterday to finish this cake and i LOVED it! and then I had to ruin it by writing on it :) jk i still thought it turned out pretty good for an amateur. Anyways here are a few pics from the party.

Evie pretending to be the "cake monster"!!!!

El Cake-ito :) Almost done!!!!

The finished product!!!

All the friends singing happy birthday! (ok not all we had like 15 more people there but these are all the really important ones jk :))

Lots of candle blowing help! and it was very needed :) everyone got a little "piece" of lucas on their cupcake he he!

My baby boy! you are (almost) 3!

You have been such a light in our lives!

You always have such a happy smile and a big hug for everyone!

You are such a blessing and a joy!

I am so grateful that Heavenly Father sent you to me!

You are so good and brave!

You are so kind to your sister and so loving to all those around you!

You are so good at sharing (most the time)!

I am so proud to call you my son and I LOVE YOU!

Happy Birthday Buddy!!

Boys......Need I Say More?

This last week we had the sales reps from Jacksonville FL combine with our office. They just so happened to bring with them........wives and children!!!!!! HOORAY!!! Friends!!!! It has been such a great week! The kids have made some fun friends and I did not realize how much I missed adult interaction and conversation!!! Heaven on earth I tell you what!!!!

So here is my memorable moment for the year....... and just for fun I am going to tell this in story format, so here goes........

Dread filled my heart! Lucas had a bright yellow soft air gun pellet shoved deep in his ear canal. I didn't know what to do! My friend Kirsten handed me some tweezers. "Work!" I prayed, " Please please please work!!" Nothing! The pellet was the exact size of his ear canal and I was only pushing it deeper! Kirsten handed me a baby snot sucker. Maybe I could suck it out. Nope. ARG! I was getting flustered! What was I going to do?! We didn't have insurance! I couldn't take him to the ER! To expensive! I would have to figure something else out. I frantically called my mom! "What do I do?!" " I don't know! Let me know how it turns out!" Thanks mom! :os I head to WalGreens where they have a clinic where they do shots and general health checks. Evie says a prayer on the way and I call Jason's dad. If anyone can give a good creative solution, it is him! "Man I wish you were here! I love a challenge! Try hydrogen peroxide. Maybe it will bubble up behind and push it out." " Great idea! I will try that if the doctor can't pull it out! It is really sealed in there though! I don't know if it would be able to get behind!" He mentionssomething about a straw but I am concentrating on getting Lucas checked in and keeping his little fingers out of his ear so I am not paying much attention " Ha ha yeah! Maybe I could just suck it out with a straw!" Half joking cause I didn't hear what he really said. "That might work! Try it if the hydrogen peroxide doesn't work!" " Thanks! I will call you if I need more ideas!"

The doctor at Walgreens is no help and doesn't charge me. Good and bad!! Back to the car. On the way home what I said jokingly about sucking it out with a straw keeps tickling the back of my mind. What if.....could that possibly work?! Home at last, I check my utensil drawer. One last yellow bendy straw. I grab the hydrogen peroxide, just in case. Turn on a movie for child distraction, lay him on the couch put the straw in and suck. No suction! Moving it around a little and pulling his ear open a little more I try again......better! I actually get some suction. I suck for about 5 seconds and look in. Its closer to the surface! Again! and again!!! Ta Da!!! All of the sudden its out!! Say a thank you prayer!! and cry! I ask Lucas, " Are you ever ever going to put ANYTHING in your ears ever again?!" and his eyes get big and he shakes his head "No mommy!".

The End!!

Thank heavens for the blessing of the Holy Ghost!! I NEVER ever would have come up with an idea like that on my own!