New Calling

After being in our new ward for over a year, Ryan has been put in as the President in the Elders.
I had been giving him a hard time and wondering why they gave such a amazing guy such easy callings for the last year..... (he has been the weblo's scout leader, and a sub for sunday school) I think it had something to do with building a house, working full time and being a football coach... = no extra time for anything!
I have had a lot of people ask me if I am ready for this.... I am not sure what to expect or what they really mean. I know that it will take up a lot of time, and I also know that Ryan will do a great job at it. I am so blessed to be married to such a wonderful man that is so strong in the church and a great example to his family. ( and I can't leave out he is incredibly good-looking!!!!)

rub-a-dub-dub

I know I have said that I "LOVE" our family sized bath tub, and so I had to show everyone why. You really can fit a whole family in it. My kids really wanted to go swimming the other night, and we took to long and by the time we got all ready the pool was going to close in 15 minutes. So instead they all jumped in the tub instead. (Ryan's brother Chase took my spot) They said I still could have gotten in but for some reason being pregnant I have a bubble, and there was not enough room for me and the invisible bubble to get in.....
The girls still had to take the snorkels, goggles, and tube in the tub.....


Such sweet girls. Alexis has been so amazing this last week. I have said several times that I really really like her this week!!!! She has been working really hard on having a good attitude and has been doing her chores every day and them some. She has been very thoughtful of how I am feeling and has tried to even help take care of me. It makes life so much easier when you have a little help and there is four happy girls in the home! (soon to be 5)

One more week

I am down to the last week of my pregnancy and I have heard a few times from my husband, "I don't remember you ever being like this with the others", or "you never felt like that with the other girls". So I thought I better write down some of my pains before we both forget them.... (just so we can remember for the next time)
From day one this has been a harder pregnancy. I threw up more, and felt sick all the time. I hated the way I have felt the entire time and can not wait to feel like I have energy and my mind is back to normal. I have gotten so big with this baby, and everything hurts. I can't sleep very well at night, but in the day that is all I feel like doing... If I do take a nap I really can't sleep at night so I try not to nap. My ribs are always killing me, my hips hurt, and my feet are so big I can not fit them into a shoe. I had to wear flip flops last week to church. I have a hard time breathing at times, and the heartburn is something I have no matter what. Even when I wake up in the morning I still have heartburn. I have gone through 7 bottles of tums with this pregnancy, and I am almost out so I may have to go buy bottle #8.
It is so amazing that girls go through all this pain and trust me.... there is going to be so much more pain before I get to meet this little angel.... but after we hold them in our arms for the first time, everything we went through to get them here is gone and you just don't remember anything but the good. I am so looking forward to the good, and can't wait to see my baby. I know that everything I have felt is a small price to pay for having the most wonderful gift that a mother will ever receive.

funny story

I was talking to Brytlee and saw that she had a scratch on her foot so I said,
"Brytlee, what happened to your foot"
And she said,
"Lilly (our cat) scratched me, she thought I was someone else".
I had to laugh, she loves playing with Lilly so much and goes outside in the freezing cold just to go and be with her. I have to keep a close eye on her and make sure she doesn't sneak outside because most of the time when she does she has not shoes or coat on.....
Love this little girl

School Pictures

2011 school pictures. This is the end of the school year picture
first of the school year. (poor girl gets cold sores at least once a month....)
Class pictures. She takes after me, I was always on the back row.
End of the year picture for Alexis
first of the year. (I don't know why her hair didn't stay curled)
Alexis class picture. (she is on the bottom row)

My Baby......

I know that Brytlee isn't a baby anymore, but she still is my little baby for now. I am sure once her new sister comes things will change, but it is so hard to treat her like she is a four year old when she is my youngest. I catch myself doing things for her, and the girls also doing things for her that we would have never been doing to the other two girls when they were four years old.....

I took Brytlee into JCPennys to have her pictures taken for her birthday and she was so funny. She has a very hard time with her smile, and most of them looked like she was really cold or really scared, so the guy taking the pictures just kept saying, "try not to show your teeth", and other tips like that. I had to laugh a lot because she was trying so hard.


Brytlee is so fun and has such a personality. She is full of energy from the moment she wakes up, till the moment she goes to bed. She loves to play games and watch the girls play on the computer or the wii. She is so good at Memory and plays that one a couple times a day.
You can always tell when Brytlee is getting into trouble because she is either really quiet or she just has a look on her face that gives her away. She has always loved books, she can look at books for hours and whenever we go to Grandma's house she grabs a big pile of books and hands them to grandma to get reading. She also loves to play dolls, she can play with Elizabeth for hours, and the days when she is home alone she will still get out her dolls and play for hours by herself. She also loves to color.
This Christmas our little town gives out a coloring book for all the local businesses and you turn them in and they give you a little treat then latter they judge them and have winners that they put in the paper. As soon as Brytlee got her coloring book she colored the whole thing front to back. After she was done she wanted to color more so we ended up getting her two books and she colored just about all of the second one also. She ended up winning in her age group for the hospital here in town.

Brytlee's birthday

Our little baby B is growing up. She just had her fourth birthday yesterday and she had a great turn out for her birthday party. We had all the Harris family, and the Jagielski, and Grandma and Grandpa were so nice to drive 4 hours to be with us on her special day.
When Brytlee was little we used to call her baby B, so now when she sees a bumble bee she says, "that's me". So for her birthday she really wanted her cake to be a bumble bee.

The picture of the bee had black frosting, and I am not sure how in the world they got the frosting black. I bought brown frosting thinking it was already close so just add a bunch of each color of food coloring and it should go black. But instead it went like a cow pie green color. S0 we had to use the black licorice instead.
Everyone singing happy birthday to dear Brytlee

She got a great bite from her cake!

She loved opening her presents, and she was spoiled by everyone!
My parents gave Brytlee this game "Beware of the dog" and we played it together this morning and I had a few good laughs. It scared Brytlee so bad that she didn't want to try and kept telling up to get the bones for her. The very first time it barked was on Alexis's turn and everyone jumped (I may have yelled) I think this game is going to be a great one for us to play with the girls!

Brytlee with Grandma and Grandpa Harris and Alecia's baby Kinley.
All the kids ran around and played and danced, and had a lot of fun. Brytlee loved having everyone around, and had such a great day. She is such a sweet heart, and I am so thankful to have this sweet little angel as my own little girl.
I had to put this picture on to show Alexis that she is WAY TO BIG to be drinking out of a sippy cup. I think she was maybe needing some attention during the party or something....

Valentines date

Ryan and I went on a date this weekend because I knew that we wouldn't be able to find a babysitter on a Monday, and Ryan play's basketball every Monday night. So I kinda MADE him take me out on a date early so we wouldn't let it go by without celebrating. I have been wanting to try out a new Thia food place and see the new movie "just go with it"
The Thia food wasn't my favorite but I am not sure I ordered the right things. I went to a Thia place in Jackson hole that was soooo good, that I was hoping it would be the same. After dinner we went to Best buy looking at camera's and then our favorite place in the world.... Walmart.
After shopping we went to the movie, and we both really liked it. I laughed so hard at a few parts that I was crying a little.
I am so glad that I have such a wonderful husband!!!! I love him more than anything, and look forward to dates like these so we can just hang out and be together just the two of us. Even if we have nothing to say, just being together makes me feel complete. I feel so lucky to have such a great husband and I love him with all my heart!!!!

Basketball

Alexis is playing basketball again this year and she is loving it. She has improved a lot and is getting more and more confidence with each game. This last week they played and it was her best game yet. She stole the ball, made her very first basket, made a point from a foul, rebounded five or more times, was aggressive and did a great job guarding her man. She only has one game left, and she is going to be so sad when it is over. It has been so fun watching her play and learn more and more each week.

baby is comig soon.....

So it just hit me that next month... I am going to have a new little baby. I am very excited to see this little girl, but I am so nervous also. I feel like I have heard so many bad things about other peoples babies that I am a little worried, and also because I painted our house while I was one month pregnant. I have had so many worries about... what if I did something bad to this baby, and she has a birth defect, or something very wrong with her health.
I know I worry about WAY too much and I wish I didn't but when it comes to my family it is hard not to. I love my family more than anything in the world and I just want them to be happy and have everything that they need and want....
I think our family is so ready to have a new little spirit in our home, and I know that I am so ready to be done being pregnant. I don't know if it is because I waited so long between kids or if it is because I am older, but this one has been the hardest pregnancy for me. I have not felt good, and just don't feel like myself at all. I was really sick at the beginning and throwing up a lot. I can't sleep very well at night, and then I am tired all day, and EVERYTHING gives me heartburn. I also have to apologize to my friends and family because I think I have had depression and I have been very anti-social for the past 8 months. I hope that after the baby comes that I can feel better in the head and get over that because I do love you and want to talk to you.
I also should apologize to my kids. I feel like I have been the worst mom ever to them while I have been pregnant. Not only because we lost our camera and I have not taken a single picture for like 5 months, but because I am so un-fun. My oldest girls are so sweet to me and ask me how I feel a lot and worry about me. They have been so understanding and I hear them say sometimes, "hey be nice to the pregnant lady". I am also very glad to be done building our house because it took so much time away from our kids that I always had so much guilt and they were sooo sick and tired of it.
I also feel so lucky to have such a wonderful husband who always know what to say, and what to do to make me feel better. I am sometimes in shock when he tells me I look pretty or anything nice because I look so huge and really out of shape. But I know that he still loves me no matter what I look like, and he always treats me like a princess.
I know that my girls are just as excited as I am to meet this new little baby, and I can't wait to see what she looks like, and feel the spirit she brings into our home. I can't believe we have waited this long to have another baby, and I hope that we still know what to do with a little one.