Check ups

Adison and Max both had a check up today and they are both doing great.  Adison has slowed down a little on her growth and is only in the 85% in both.  She is 38 1/2 pounds and she is 40 1/2 inches tall.
Max is 24 pounds and that is in the 95 % and he is 30.9 inches tall (about three feet)  he is over the line and is 105%.  He is looking like he is going to be a tall boy.  So thankful for good health and for strong bodies.  So glad that they are growing and looking great!

Billboard stars

After Adison was born the hospital asked Ryan and I if we would pose for a picture  for a billboard that they were doing.  I told them yes and then they said they wanted to have Adison in it and have it look like we had just had her.   I had to laugh because she was six months old at the time and her head was large and there was no way she was going to hold still like a newborn and make pictures work of them.  So they said to come anyway and they would just use a baby doll.   It was so funny, and weird to do these pictures.   If I only looked this put together after I have a baby that would be  something huh.

It is always a cool experience to have a baby and each time I have a baby I feel so much better after I see them and they are alright.  I have been thinking a lot about if we are going to have another baby, or if we are done, and that is one of the hardest choices I have ever had to think about.  When I was pregnant and feeling so huge and sick and miserable I was 100 percent sure I was never going to do that again, and even for the first few months when he was not letting us sleep and I still felt so miserable I was for sure I was done.  But now that it is all in the past and things have gotten better when I think about it the answer is not no….  It would be so fun to have two little boys and a little brother for Max to play with and have as a friend forever.  But I am not sure I ever really want to feel pregnant again.  The thought of getting pregnant again just makes me feel sick.  But I am still now sure.  I wish there was some way to know when you were done for sure, and not just for selfish reasons.  Everyone has told me that you just know when you are done, and I have to say that is not true what so ever for me.  Because if I wanted to be done there is so many reasons I would be done, but they are all for the wrong reasons.  But if I pray about it and really ask God if I should have more children I think the answer would always be yes.  That is the reason we are on this earth is to multiply and find joy in families.  So I guess I will still pray and think about it and I hope that we will know soon what we need to do.  

Pumpkin snow man

Do you want to build a snowman?  I know you can't say that without singing it…. Ha ha.  We hear a lot of that around our house these days.  The girls loved painting the snowman and they did such a fabulous job.  I had to take all of Adison's clothing off because there was no way that she was going to paint without getting it all over the place…. 

When I asked them what the snow pumpkins name was, Adison said it was Twiala.  She always has great names.

At the same time, Ryan was painting the front sidewalk.  

the back porch is all done and sealed and now we can enjoy it without stressing over spilling something on it..  I love the way it turned out and it was something that I know Ryan has always wanted to try and figure out so I am glad we did it.  He is never afraid to try something where most people would just think it would be easier to hire it out.  Ryan is such a perfectionist that I know when he does a job it is always going to be 100 times better than any one else would do.  He is such a amazing man and he is all mine!!!!  I am one lucky lady and I know it!  

Its all about the MAX

Our little heavy weight champ!  If I only lived somewhere warm that he could really wear this for Halloween.. but instead we will just play dress up in it instead!

Max loves to play with this chair.  He bangs it like a drum and just hangs out.  He is such a sweet little boy!

This is another one of Max's favorite toys to play with.   He loves to put the balls in over and over, and then he will try and crawl around with the balls in both hands.  He will go to his forearms and try to crawl that way and it is so dang funny.  

Brtylee and Max are such great buds.  He loves to hang out with her and she can get him to laugh so hard.   She sometimes thinks that she is bigger than she is and makes me a little nervous with him, but she is always just trying to help me out and wanting to play with her baby brother.  She is such a great big sister!

Max has figured out how to get around in his walker pretty good.  He loves to go to where the action is, (or his sisters or where the balls are)

This was so cute.  He was just hanging out on Alexis's lap for about 20 minutes so cute and calm., watching tv with her and eating.  It was like he was just enjoying being up with the big kids.  

He is such a big boy!  I wish time would slow down and he would stay this way for a long time.  I am loving every single minute with him!  I love having a baby in the house and love the sweet calm spirit he brings into our home.  All my kids are so great with him and we all just love having our little boy.  It was funny because I said something to Adison about her being careful with my baby and she looked at me and said, "mom, he is my baby too!  You have to share him!"  It was so funny and so true.  Oh and another thing that I love that Adison will say is, "are my grills home yet, or where are my grills?" which she means the Girls, aka her sisters.  It is so cute the way she sounds and the way she say's it.

Its a bird, its a plane!

I hung some cute little airplanes in Max's room from the ceiling.  He is in love with them and loves to look at them and point and do his cute little talk.  He is funny when you touch them and get them to move he gets so excited, but doesn't seem to want to touch them himself.  He woke up this morning and was so funny about them.  He was just reaching for them and laughing and doing the best smiles.  

It was so funny because he was reaching so hard that a few times he "fell over"  so dang cute

This little boy is so dang fun.  It is so funny how he is such a boy and already loves to play with little boy toys.  He loves to push cars and trucks around and loves any kind of ball.  He also loves to play in the dirt and eat the dirt……
He is so dang sweet and I love it when he gives me these sweet smiles!

little funnies

Adison has been saying so many cute things.  She gets her today and yesterday's mixed up all the time, but when she tells a story she always says, "thats what it was yesterdays huh."  or "renember dat"
Another cute thing is when she gives us a gift that is something she wants she say's, I got this for you so you could share it with me UHHHH!"  Max was playing with a toy, and she said, Oh he is to little for that.  So I better take it,  he wants to share it with me huh.
I know there are so many things to write, and I need to be better about putting them down because I always think I am going to remember, but then I don't.
I think it is so funny that you can see the little personalities in these kids at such a early age.  I can already see Max's sweet little personality and I just love it.  He has started to laugh if we laugh and think he is being funny, and kinda show off or act shy around people.  He has the sweetest spirit about him and is just so dang addicting I can not get enough of him, and that is how all his sisters act about him also.  We all fight over him and love to be with him.
Adison is such a little princess and a cute little girl.  She loves to be beautiful and loves her life.  (which she will sing and tell us in one of the songs she has made up.  It goes, "I love my life, and my home, and my family, and its my life, and I LOVE IT!)
Brytlee is harder to figure out because she has lots of sides to her.  She is so very helpful and loves to make others happy.  She is silly and loves to make us laugh.  She can be shy, but on the other hand she is not shy at all…. she is so sweet and cares about others more than herself most of the time.  She would give her own shirt off of her back if someone else needed it.  I have watched her do things like this so many times and it is so good to know that she is willing to serve others.  She is very smart, and she loves her sisters so very much.  She is tender hearted and gets her feelings hurt very easily, and it is so sad to watch her hold back tears.  (she doesn't like to cry in front of us and and wants to hide or run away when she is upset)  She loves to cuddle and every morning we get a great Brytlee cuddle from her before school.  She is very responsible, but can also be very sneaky… but all together she is such a great girl and we lover her to pieces.
Elizabeth is our little peacemaker.  She has always been such a sweet girl and just has a way about her. She hates it when someone is in trouble, and will often cry when someone else is sad or if they get spanked.  She will yell at us, "don't spank them"  or something so she doesn't have to see them sad.  She is so loving and loves to give us hugs and kisses.  She is so smart and loves to help others at home and at school.
Alexis is the second little mom…. she loves to make sure all the sisters are doing what they should and boss them around a little.  Alexis is such a sweet girl and is happy 90 percent of the time.  She loves to have fun and loves to play.  She is the most like me out of all the kids and that may be why we knock heads more than the others and why we get each other so well also.  She is a hard worker and such a smart girl.
I love all my kids with all my heart and soul and they are my greatest treasure in this life.  I am so thankful for the opportunity to be a mom and I am so thankful that our heavenly father has trusted me to have them with me on earth and I am so thankful that I get to have them with me forever and ever.

Lots going on

I helped Annette and Rob paint the front room in their house.  It was Summers room, and then Joslynn's room.  It was pink strips and now it is the same color as the rest of the house.  We put a desk in it and tried to stage it as a office.  Some people cam and looked at the house and that was the comment they would leave…. I don't understand how some people can walk into a house like that and not see that they could make any room into a office and it doesn't have to stay the same as what it is stages as…. it kills me how weird some people can be.

I came home on Sunday just in time to go to church and found our four wheeler leaking gas all over the floor that we had worked so hard on.  I freaked out a little and called Ryan and told him that it was eating up the floor and it was going to be ruined.  He hurried home and after he cleaned it up we found that it was all fine.  The floor is stronger than I thought.  (thank heavens)

Alexis wrote a cute little poem for her grandma Judy in her English class.  I sent a text to her to show her it and she loved it.  She had to go to the school and give Alexis a huge.  I thought that was so sweet.

The last doctor's appt. we went to they ordered a cat scan for Elizabeth and I am so glad.  I am to the point that I want to do everything possible to figure out what is going on with her and get it fixed.  It has been a week and we still don't really have any answers and I have called the doctor and the hospital a few times for the past few days.  So they are getting sick of me, but there is only one way to fix that…… give me the results.  Sometimes I just want to scream at these doctors.  I know they have a lot going on…. we all do, but when you are waiting on a test result you should at least hear back before a week has gone by.  

Adison took a picture of me while I was making some caramel apples for Brytlee's soccer team.  

I had to snap a picture of how I looked one day that I just had to run to Logan fast and pick up sealer for Ryan… I was one hot mess

I love it when I get some great smiles and laughs out of my kids.  This is what makes me happy, and feel so great inside.  They are all my world!!!!

Look at this sweet face.  He just has the sweetest spirit and is the best little guy.  I am so in love with him and could just kiss and cuddle him all day long!   I got the sweetest text from my Brother Brad that said that Max was so cute.  I was a little in shock because he always tries to be funny and say they look like yoda or Mickey Rooney or something like that.  But he just kept saying such sweet things and then said that he could tell that he was a sweet and special little guy.  It really did make my day to have Brad say something like that. 

Judy had a Halloween party and we were cleaning and waiting for Max to wake up from a nap and we all thought we were missing out on the party because we were over a hour late.  But when we pulled in…… we were the first ones at the party.

Alexis put together a gangster/ justin B. costume.  

Max was a football

And Adison was a girl riding a chicken.  She was so funny, and a few of the kids thought the legs were really hers and couldn't figure out how the chicken was walking.

Lex was laughing and said it looked like she was laying a egg when she would kneel on the ground.

Alexis's soccer is over for a little while.  Her coach put together a party for the family's and the players.  They all played a game together and the parents won 7 to 2 or something like that.  Ryan was the star player and had so much fun playing.  Brytlee was playing with them and she was one of the fastest players on the field.  That girl has wheels!  She was so close to scoring a few times also…. it would have been so exciting to see her score.  But she did great and had fun anyway!

Frozen!  I found these in Logan and the lady made a great deal I had to get them all….. They were suppose to be 20 each but she did it for 10 instead.

Adison was so happy and had to wear her Aunna dress to church and then she has worn holes in the elsa dress already.  

This was the worst!  I was so sick all day after this happened and I am still so made about it.  I had just started to make a costume for Brytlee and had the sharp rolling cutter for the material out on the floor next to my leg and Max grabbed it so fast and tried to put it in his mouth.  The guard was up and so i am so thankful for that.  The blade is so sharp that if it wouldn't have been I think it would have gone all the way through his mouth.  It was a little deep and kept bleeding so Ryan super glued it together.  I am praying that it doesn't leave a huge scar on his face…. It just kills me and makes a huge pit in my stomach to see this and think about it.  

My poor baby! 

these things are so bad for baby's.  I learned a lesson to never ever put them on the floor

Ryan and I have been working hard to get the concrete all ready to stain.  I just keep crossing my fingers that it is all worth it and that we love it…. We still need to put the finish on it and that changes the color a lot so I will have to wait and see then what it is going to look like. 

They put a rope swing in at the gym and the girls have loved it.  Elizabeth has asked to go back every single day.