Summer Picture Overload!!

Snuggling with papa!

He isn't chunky or anything lol! This is when he was about 3-4 months old.

Not enjoying his siblings too much!!

Her last soccer game of the season!! She loved playing and keeps asking when she gets to go play again!!

First smiles!! Now he uses his cute smiles to make me get him out of bed or pick him up. He knows how to work his mommy already!!!

The boys hanging out with "brownie!" Seriously Des could you make my kids look any more pale!!!

We went up to my aunts cabin with my cousin and her family! These two boys were looking for stick to beat each other with lol!!

All the kids..... Oh and Brett too hehehehehehe!!!!!

He didn't have fun playing in the dirt! "Look mom I'm a pirate!" Yes he is ALL boy!!!

We saw this buck right outside of the cabin! Then we saw one with double the antlers!! I couldn't get the big one on camera he kept walking......

The kids loved their tumbling classes this summer!!

Swimming at my uncles house with Nick!

Doesn't Casen looked so thrilled!! Nick makes my kids look pale too!!!

Weston finally having fun and swimming around by himself!! Somehow we got both the kids to just off of the diving board!! They each did it only once and that was it for them!! Haha

Up Provo Canyon at the falls! He is such a daddy's boy!! Aren't they so cute together though! I love this picture!

We were eating dinner and Brett and I looked away for a minute and all of a sudden Weston was gone! I looked down at his chair and this is what we found! He was out cold!!

When we went camping we stopped in Heber City to get a yummy shake from this place up there and Madi was so excited because we got her her own Oreo shake!! She was in heaven!!!

Casen is going to be bigger then her one day too!! It's okay though she has the feisty little attitude that will keep her brothers in check!!

What mom I didn't eat any chocolate!

Crusties I get most days!

Proud daddy!!

Madi is in "Joy School" which is just like a pre-school. Just the moms of the kids teach and rotate weeks. Its cheep and the kids LOVE it!!! This was her first day of school!!

We have an office now for the company and I have had to bring this little bugger with me a few times and this time he was supposed to be sleeping in his car seat and I could hear him fussing and didn't think much of it but when I walked out into the front office this is what I found! He is already try to escape and get out of naps!!

He rolls from back to belly all the time!! He just refuses to go from belly to back!!! He will lay on his tummy and just scream when he is done and then Madi will run over to him and flip him over and he is usually happy for a few minutes and then flips back over onto his tummy!!!

Daddy went to Michigan and brought these two back matching Jerseys!! They are such studs with them on!!!!!

Aunt Rachelle is in culinary school so we went and saw her the other day and Casen got snuggled and kissed like crazy and loved every minute of getting all this attention from his aunt!!

June fun!!!

Our little princess got to play soccer this summer!! This was her very first game. I did not pick out her shin guards her daddy let her pick out pink ones! If it was up to me they would have been black not girlie pink! Its okay though I think she looks flipping cute with all this pink on!!

This was her soccer shirt! It goes all the way down past her knees its awesome!

They did a 30 minute practice right before the game. It was just a neighborhood soccer "league". There were probably about 6 teams or 8 I can't remember but they rotated each week so they always played a different team.

Notice that little girl in the pink in the front in the middle of all the green!? Thats my girl! If you look closely she is pushing the other kids out of the way! Go Madi!!!

Our little Casen about 2 months old.

You would think summer would mean less of this........ With a baby with asthma its never ending I swear.....

My 3 boys!

Cuddling Casen! She loves to hold him and he likes her for the most part! He gets really irritated with his older siblings after a few minutes.

He loves his daddy!!

Madi loves this dress! I got her matching silver sparkly shoes to go with it too! My little Weston is such a stud in his church clothes! Too bad they don't make zip up ties cheaper so he would leave it on!!

2 Months old

Nick's friend came down from Idaho with a bunch of his horses and he heard there was little kids around so he brought his therapy pony so that the kids could ride him!

A long day of swimming and riding the pony!

Casen't blessing day!

Petting the pony! I couldn't believe my kids did so good with him! They honestly weren't afraid of him! Which anyone that knows my kids knows that they are usually chickens! Especially Madi!

Weston's turn to ride the pony!!

Random

So today Weston found some change and some dollar bills on our counter! So the little stinker grabbed the coins and was trying to hide them from me so he could put them I'm his piggy bank! So I told him they were mine and he told me "no I had them first!" So I took the dollar bills and had them sitting on the couch next to me, Wes walks up slighly takes them and precedes to start shoving them into his piggy bank! I grabbed them from him and said "Weston stop jacking my money!" His response very clearly and kind of irritated with me "I'm not jackin' your money mommy!" I think someone taught him the whole "finders keepers rule" because when it comes to any money laying around he will take it and refuses to give it back! (dont worry I took my dollar bills back lol but let him keep the coins!)

Enjoying the warmer weather

Strike a pose!! This is how he wanted to sleep while Brett was holding him!

My handsome little man in his Michigan beenie!

Looking at this picture I now understand why people ask if they are twins!



Brett's parents came in town a few weeks ago and so all of Brett's sisters and his parents and us went up to the falls up Provo canyon and played and ate lunch! It was so much fun!



We decided to make lunch and bring it to the park and have a picnic with the kids! It was so much fun and some very well needed family time.

Keeping watch over the kids!

They had these huge tires you can climb on as you can see and Brett and the kids had so much fun on them!

I love these three! Casen was sleeping in his car seat by me the whole time which was nice.

Handsome little man!

Our beautiful princess!

Baby smiles



I love seeing these little smiles when he is sleeping! He does these cute little laughs too when he sleeps! It makes me wonder who he is talking to on the other side and what funny stories they are telling him!! This is what makes the middle of the night feeding well worth it!



So far behind!!!

My baby girl turned 4!! Poor thing didn't get much of a birthday though... We hurried and did a little "party" with just the 4 of us. Grandma was awesome and brought over a cake and some dinner to us earlier for Madi because I was only 32 weeks pregnant and having contractions regularly so I was staying on the couch trying to get them to stop. Well they didn't and right after Madi was done opening up her presents Brett and I were off to the hospital!

A month before I had him so I was about 31 weeks pregnant here.

This was my present for my birthday from my amazing husband!!! I LOVE my new car! I have never wanted a mini van! In fact I have always sworn I would never ever ever have one!! Well here is my Chrysler Town and Country and I take back all the mean things I said about mini vans because this one is amazing!!!! Thank you so much babe!!!!

Easter with the kids!! I have to tell you these two both weigh 33 pounds and are just about the same height! Lately everywhere I go everyone asks if they are twins!!

Look how long her hair is! This is Easter at Renee and Bridgette's (Brett's sisters) apartment! They did a little Easter egg hunt for their boys and Madi and Weston the kids loved it!!

Later that day at grandma and papa's house! Those are my cute little nephews! Kai was so cute with his bunny glasses on! He refused to take them off!

The race was on with the 4 grand kids! Weston followed Kai around a little but mostly he and his daddy went Easter egg hunting! Last year he would run up to the other kids and steal eggs out of their baskets! This year he caught on to finding his own eggs! He kept getting distracted though wanting to open them and eat the candy!

Our princess!

The traditional adult Easter egg hunt! I was on bed rest and was told by everyone I couldn't compete..... But at the last second my brothers gave me a bag and let me participate! Let me tell you though they still love to tease me because they decided it would be so funny to give me the bag with a huge hole in the bottom of it! I didn't even realise until all of my eggs fell out everywhere!! Thankfully my mom had my back and brought out a bag with no holes in it so I could actually keep my eggs!

Seriously how can you look at this picture and not laugh!! This is one of those fake stick on mustaches! Brett and I couldn't stop laughing at this kid! He is such a goof and loves to be center of attention! If he isn't then he will make it that way by doing something goofy and silly!!



Look how cute these two are! She is such a big helper and Brett is so good and patient with her helping her and teaching her! They were putting the Easter eggs in boiling water to get the "shrink a dinks" to stay on! They are buds and love to have fun together. In fact both of my kids are stuck to his hips as soon as he walks through the door. Seriously I couldn't ask for a better husband or daddy!



After 4 weeks on bed rest and a short active labor our baby boy Casen Jay was born April 16 at 1:22pm! He was 4 weeks and 2 days early! He weighed 6 pounds 1 ounce! This is the first time Brett got to hold him! It was only for a second because they had to take him to the NICU because he was early and having a little breathing problems. Brett was an amazing support through the whole thing and while I was in the "observation" room he was so funny and kept me up and walking around and laughing! After all the funny weird things I kept doing and dancing and jumping I'm surprised he didn't put me in the psych ward after Casen was born!

These two are in love with their brother! Casen had to stay in the NICU for about 5 days...... It was hard going back and forth trying to balance being with Madi and Wes and being at the hospital. Thankfully I have an amazing husband that took care of them and me and everything at the house and anything and everything in between! He didn't complain once! He did all this on top of working full time and going to school! My mom would take the kids during the day when Brett was working and I was at the hospital and as soon as Brett got done working he would grab the kids spend some time with them and go to bed and start all over the next day not to mention trying to find time to come to the hospital to see Casen. Let me tell you how excited we were though when we were finally able to bring Casen home! We were both emotionally and physically exhausted him even more then me! Somehow we made it through that long week (it seemed forever!!) and are settling in at home very nicely.

You don't realise how big your "babies" are getting until you bring a tiny new born home!

So handsome! He looks just like his daddy and big brother!