Big helper

Brytlee is making a fort behind the couch so Adison can play and have fun. She loves being a big sister and can not wait for Adison to be big enough to play with her a little better.
Brytlee has been such a great helper for me the past little while. I am so happy to have someone that is willing to do what I ask right away, and even without asking will start cleaning up. She has been so funny with the girls when they get things out she will say, "uh... you guy's.... I just cleaned that up!" or when they are trying to sneak a treat she will tell them, "no guys, just one a DAY!" She really gets into things also, when she starts something she works so hard until it is done, and she always does a good job. I have really enjoyed her help and hope that it lasts.

Santa

Santa came to our ward party!!!! I wanted to run up and do the scene from Elf, "Santa!!!! I know him, I know him" but I held myself back. The girls were really cute with him and they all told him what they wanted for Christmas. Adison was good for him, but in this picture she wasn't holding still.

Brytlee asked for Pink Chocolate milk and some cupcake things she could paint....
Elizabeth asked for an Ipod touch and a monster high doll.

Alexis asked for an Ipod touch
Adison wanted some diapers and some baby food!

just for fun

I tried to do the sock curl in our hair and we wanted to take some pictures to show how it turned out. So the girls all had fun taking turns taking a picture with me.





I have such beautiful girls on the inside and out. I am so proud of them and all that they do. I am so lucky and happy to be their mom and love watching them grow.
And I am so lucky to have this handsome guy as a husband!!!!

Adison

Adison is getting so big. These pictures were taken the end of October... so I am a little behind, but she had just learned to climb the stairs and it was her favorite thing to do. She has not dared to go down them yet and is so careful when she is on them. While she is awake this was what she really liked to do...

This pictures he is doing her yell at me.... anyone that is in our ward knows what this sounds like...
Yea, I made it to the top....
now lets do it all over again!
Adison has been making some very funny faces, and loves to put her lips together, put air in her cheeks and blow raspberry's. She does it for fun and when she is eating.
This face is when she is saying "uh oh" or "wha sat" (what's that)
This face is just so cute! So far she is the only girl that doesn't have blue eyes. The are a cool color right now, and I am not sure what they are... some times they look green, and some times they are grey.
Oh, what a smile. I just love this baby girl of ours.
What a kid, I love having this baby with us and I love to see my girls with her and Ryan with her. They all love her so much and she loves them all so much. Adison really loves being with Ryan in the mornings (and I really enjoy that also) it makes it so easy for me to get up and go to the gym while they have their time together. Ryan is such a great dad and takes such great care of all of his girls, and he loves playing with them and being with them. I am so lucky to have such a wonderful husband, and my girls are so very lucky to have such a great dad!

Coloring Contest

Brytlee won the coloring contest again this year at the FCMC. She was so happy and had colored almost every picture in the whole book so I am glad that after delivering them all to everyone that it payed off.
Elizabeth also won this year at Dr. Hull's office. She was so cute, and wanted to win so badly. She has never won before and has tried each year. Both her sisters had won and she really wanted to win. She even said a couple of prayers that she could please win this year. It just melted my heart.
She was smiling all day when I told her that she had won, and the day that she needed to go and get her prize and take her picture she asked me if we could go about every hour....
I was a little sad that Alexis didn't win this year. She only had time to color three pictures and had a few that she had started that were really cute. She has been so busy with violin and basketball that she is running around every day of the week. I know that if she would have colored a few more she would have won also. All my girls love to color and are so great at it. I am so proud of them when they do their best and work hard.

Girls night out

Me and the girls went out for a night of shopping and dinner at Sizzler while daddy and adi stayed home to hang out. We went to Walmart to look for all our cousin presents and see what they would like. The girls liked picking out there gifts that they wanted to give, and enjoyed looking at all the toys that were cute.
Alexis and Elizabeth both read to the amount they needed to get their Sizzler coupons so that is why we went there for dinner. The girls were so good and kept telling each other to act like lady's.
I had a good time with them, and we had some good laughs. I did do something funny during dinner. The waiter came up and said something and for some reason I called him "Hun" I have no clue why because I don't call anyone pet names but my girls or Ryan. But I just played it cool and all the girls just laughed and laughed. Then Alexis said, "mom do you think you are going to get into trouble?" I didn't know why, so she said, "don't you think dad is going to be mad that you called him hun?"
I am so looking forward to the times that me and my girls can go shopping together and hang out like this. I love going out with my sisters and mom and just hanging out.

Great girls

Last night for FHE we wanted to have the girls make a choice for Christmas. I showed them this picture above, and asked them what made them feel sad about this picture. They had a lot of things to say about it but they didn't know that there were really kids in the world that didn't have food, or couldn't understand why people didn't take care of them and love them. It was really sad to think about and it really got them thinking. I asked them if they thought we should give up some of our Christmas presents and buy kids that NEED them some. They were all very happy to do this. I was a little surprised that it didn't even take them any time at all to think it over. We went to Kings and found each of them a name on the tree that they could buy things for. Alexis made the comment that a few of them wanted way to many things. I thought that was funny. After we bought almost all the things it came to a lot more than we thought it would be so we asked them if they wanted to just get everything for just one or two of the kids? They said that they would be willing to only get one present for themselves on Christmas day so that these kids could get everything that they wanted. (I had a hard time with this thought and didn't like that idea at all, but they were happy with it)
When Alexis and Elizabeth woke up this morning they told me that they had thought about it, and it would be a lot of money for them both to get a i pod, so maybe they would spend more money on the other kids, and they could just share one. I just had to tell, them that Santa would figure it out and not to worry about how much anything cost, and as long as they were good, they would get something.
As a parent I want to see my kids so excited on Christmas, and I had a hard time picturing them all only getting one thing..... but they were more happy to give than they have been to receive. And that is what I need to remember.
Also, when we wrote our lists to Santa this year, Alexis was so sweet. She said,
"I only want two things this year, a I pod and the shinny boots I saw. And also can you please make sure that my sisters get everything they want." She can be so sweet sometimes. I love my girls so much and I am so thankful that I have been blessed with my little family of girls. I can not imagine anything else, and wouldn't want it any other way!

Group pictures

I took the girls in to get their pictures together and I thought they turned out cute. I can not believe how grown up all my girls are. Alexis looks really old and it makes me so sick.... time has gone by so fast.



poor little girl always has a bump or bruise on her little head. I don't know why she wouldn't smile for the lady, but she still looks cute.


I love my girls so much, and I am so proud of all of them. They are all so different and great in their own ways. There are things about each of them that I just love so much, and then there are things about them that can drive me crazy, (I think it is the things that remind me of myself that drive me crazy.) I am so grateful to be a mom, and have a wonderful husband that is such a great dad. I am always the happiest when we are all together as a family. Even if one of us is missing, it just isn't the same. I don't want it to sound like our life/we are perfect in any way. I probably could have a whole other blog that was just all the complaints and bad things that go on in life, but I really don't want to remember all of them. When I look back at our life, I want to remember the good times and the things that made us happy. Life is hard, and it takes A LOT of WORK. But as long as we all work together, and want the same things, it does make life a little easier.

soccer pictures

Soccer was a lot of fun this year. It kept us really busy having the two girls in it, and having two games a week. Monday Lizzy had practice, Tuesday Alexis had practice, Wed. Lizzy had a game, Thursday Alexis had a game, and then Saturday They both played games.
Elizabeth was really funny to watch. The way that she moved was like she was dancing most of the time, and she would give us cute little smiles every time she did something in the game. She did improve a lot over the season, and I almost scored a goal in a game.
She really enjoyed having her cousin on her team and having her aunt as her coach.
The team wanted to look tough in their pictures
Alexis improved a ton from last year to this year. She really loved playing and she was also very fun to watch. She scored four goals during the season. They played on a bigger field and stayed in the same position. Alexis played forward.
Alexis also had her cousin Rett on her team, and it was nice to watch them both.

Adison's 6 month picturs

This is a month or two late, but I just got around to scanning these to my computer. We had her pictures done right around six months. I wish I would have put a shirt on her now that I see them, but I guess now is the only time in her life she will be able to get away with this.


She wasn't her usual smiley self and was just trying to figure out what everything was.
Such a sweet little baby!