It's OFFICIAL!!!!!!!

*Warning*

This post may contain material only women could understand, but feel free to read on if you want. It's Official! We are going to have another baby. I am so happy to finally be pregnant again. I have wanted to get pregnant and have another baby since we lost Adam exactly two years ago. Robert and I have both let fear keep us from having enough faith to take the chance and try it again hoping that I won't lose the baby and all will be fine. Last month we decided to be brave enough to try and it worked. We feel so grateful to our Heavenly Father for all he continues to bless us with. So I also feel relieved because since I have wanted to be pregnant this whole time each month I would swear that I was pregnant and be so depressed when I would start my period. The relief is now if I experience pregnant symptoms I will know I am not losing my mind. We told the kids and they were really excited, but said "they only want it to be a boy because we have more girls in our family and since Adam was a boy".

Allison: Yeah, mom it has to be a boy.

Me: Allison we need to be happy with whatever God sends to our family.

Allison: But mom can't you tell the baby to be a boy.

Me: No, honey.

Allison: O.k. mom I guess it could be a boy or a girl.

Mr. & Mrs. Bean

I'd like to introduce Crysany and Matt Bean, husband and wife for all time and eternity. Actually let me start before that, we threw Crysany a bridal shower here at my house a couple weeks before the big day on 8/8/08. Grammers, Laura, Sarah, and Noah all drove up from San Diego and we had three full days of fun. We waited to give Grammers her birthday present till she got here cause we made her a really special rag quilt with pictures of her grandkids on it. She loved it. Then we helped with all of the wedding stuff and it all turned out so beautiful. Crysany looked gorgeous and all the hard work finally paid off. Then the morning after the wedding we all went to our wards annual breakfast and day of boating at Paiute. It was a lot of fun and then we still had some energy to go out to eat at the all you can eat buffet and then came back to our house for cake and ice cream to celebrate my birthday since it was the next day. All my kids were so sad to say good-bye not knowing when they would see them again.

Tagged

I have been tagged. I am supposed to admit 6 quirks. So here I go, hopefully I don't scare anyone too bad.

1. I am not a very patient person. If someone tells me they will be somewhere at a certain time I expect that. Ex: Someone coming to look at my house at 1:00 and they just casually show up at 1:45 Can't stand it.
2. Kids that pick their boogers and eat them. When I see a child do this I am the first to offer them a tissue. Normally when I ask them they are embarrassed I saw them and turn down the tissue saying they are fine and finish this process once they don't think I am watching anymore. Sick! Or family that will pick their nose and roll the booger and flick it in my carpet instead of getting off the couch to get a tissue.
3. Dirt under your fingernails. I make sure that my kids have short nails so there is less of a chance to trap dirt. Men with dirty nails is bad enough but it grosses me out to see kids nails really dirty.
4. If my hair is already styled, I hate for anyone to touch it or it to get messed up because of how long it took me to style it. Hence when my family just came to visit it was sprinkling a little bit and I needed to water my garden, they thought it was the funniest thing in the whole world that I put on a shower cap so my hair wouldn't get wet and went outside like that to water see pics in my last post "A week of fun".
5. People that don't return things. If they borrow something and weeks later get around to giving it back or not at all.
6. When I go to get something and it is not in it's place. It drives me crazy when I need something and can't find it.

So there you have it my six quirks-now I tagg-Shaela, Sue, Laura, Dee Dee, & Tracy.

A week of fun

July 19-25 was a week full of non-stop fun. Collette, Dakota, and Brenda drove up from San Diego and Shaela & kids drove down from Elko so we could all be together before school started again. The week started off with catching a toad in one of our window wells, so the kids got to play or torture the poor toad for a few days. Then we went camping up at "The Palisades" state park. Now I'm talking just 4 women and 8 kids for an overnight tent adventure. Let me just sum it up....we left the camp grounds wondering what our husbands actually do when we go as a family because there wasn't anything we couldn't do. We set up a ten man tent, dutch oven, and washed off Anthony three times for pooping in his pants ( I think he was confused poor guy). The rest of the week included lots of laughing, games, hair cutting, and lots of food. It was so fun we already have next summer planned.

4th of July

This is the girls marching in the Parade I was talking about.
The night before our church puts on the children's parade.
It is tradition to decorate the kids bikes with anything red, white, and blue.
The kids were excited since they learned how to ride their bikes they would be able to ride all on their own. They did awesome.
So the morning started off with the parade and the girls were in it so it was just up to Anthony to catch all the candy to share with his sisters when the parade was over. Let's just say he caught enough for the whole neighborhood.

Lindsey, and Hadyn marched with the girls.
Daddy had to go back to work after the parade, so that's why he's not in this family picture.
Then we finished off our festivities with a fish grab. There were these huge pools of water that were filled with bass and the kids according to age get in these pools and try to catch a fish with their bare hands. Mommy helped Anthony catch this fish and Alexis wanted to get her picture taken with it too. As for Allison she didn't care for the fish at all. She didn't want to smell it, let alone even think of touching it.

Cheerleading Camp

Allison and Alexis took a cheerleading camp the week before 4th of July. They learned several different cheers and then got to get a shirt and pom poms to march in our big annual 4th of July parade down main street. The songs were so easy to memorize I caught them singing them all the time. See if you can find the girls in the first three pictures, and watch for them marching in the parade on my next entry on 4th of July.

Our Summer Goals

When the kids got out of school for Summer break, we came up with three goals that we could work on and try to accomplish before they had to go back to school. The three goals were:

1. Learn to ride their bikes with no training wheels.

2. Learn to Jump Rope.

3. Learn to tie their own shoes.

Well I am pleased to announce the girls were able to accomplish all three! Anthony is still working on all three ( he mainly practiced riding his bike with training wheels but focused on not crashing). Good job guys.

Cousins

It is always fun when we get to spend time with my kids' only cousins Kyren, Melayna, Brayden, and Paysen. Kyren and Bobby enjoyed video and board games while they laughed about old funny fart stories. The rest of the kids and I enjoyed playing outside and later on lighting off our own fireworks show. Saturday 6/21/08. All the boys looking cute.
Paysen don't let your mom see Auntie let you hold Fireworks.
Alexis is a natural Piro.
Me and Brayden.
Girls will be girls.

Mormon Miracle Pageant

Talk about a really neat experience-People come from all over to see a live play of the Prophet Joseph Smith's life mixed in with the story of the pioneers and Christ coming to the America's. The Pageant is performed on the hill side underneath the Manti Temple. They don't even start until around 9:30 so it is totally dark and have a lot of lights to light up the hillside. My sister Shaela and her family drove down with their ward from Elko Nevada just for the Pageant and to do Baptisms for the dead. So Shaela and Kenny stayed in Manti and we got to have all four of her kids spend the night at our house. My Dad and his new wife Valerie decided to go on a road trip to go visit all of their kids so they got to my house the same day that I went to Young Women's Camp (see my earlier post) on 6/18/08. So they went with us too. Allison, Brayden and Melayna being silly waiting for the Pageant to start.





Those are some serious fishy lips!
Anthony loves to give everyone kisses!
MMMUUUAAAHHH!!!
Cheezer!

Summer Fun

Well I am going to try to back blog all of our fun summer adventures since I got behind and just didn't blog all summer. The kids got to start off summer with a fun camping trip at Otter Creek with daddy and our friends Wade, Lindsey, Brett, and Paityn Christensen. They fished, played by the water and of course had way too much yummy food.