Magic

We were riding in the car the other day and Alexis asked us if there was such a thing as Magic? So Ryan began to tell her no, and told her the reason why. After a few minutes of telling them why it isn't real, Brytlee say's, "Daddy you are magic because one time you cooked me a hamburger REALLY FAST"!

Adison's Blessing

We blessed Adison this last Saturday in our home. It was such a busy weekend, we had a bridal shower for Chase's bride to be... and my parents came down and helped us work on our yard on Friday, and Julie blessed her baby on Sunday. We decided to bless Adison this Saturday because there was a chance that Ryan may be out of town this next month. It was kinda nice to have it on a Saturday so that all my family could make it without having to wake up early and drive two hours to make it to our Church. We had a great turnout, all of Ryan's family was able to come and his Grandma Thomas. All but Chris and Cindy and Brad was able to make it from my family along with my Grandma and Grandpa Mueller and Becky and Jaycee, our good friends the Marlow's and that is about it. We had such a amazing day and it was so special to share it with so many people that we love! Thank you so much to everyone that made such a big effort to be with us. We love you all so much!
Ryan did a wonderful Blessing. Adison wore the same dress that all of her sisters have been blessed in.
She was hungry but I didn't want to feed her in her dress. So we just kept putting a Binky in to hold her off as long as we could.

My Grandma Janice is who we named Adison Janiece after. She is such a amazing women, and I love her so much. I am so glad that I have a daughter to share a name with such a wonderful women! (It was funny when I called her to find out how to spell her name she said, "just spell it the right way.... not like mine)
Ryan's Grandma Thomas. Also a amazing women! She is going to be 91 this year and still gets around like so is so young and healthy!



It was such a great surprise that Sara was able to make it to the blessing! She lives in St. George so I never thought they would be able to make it. But luckily Sara had a Aunt that was getting married very close to us and came right after the wedding and then spent the night with us! I wish that we lived closer because she is so much fun and such a sweet heart! (And Elizabeth LOVES little Mia)


Elizabeth was so happy to see Mia and even more excited that they were going to have a sleep over! They are the same age and in the same grade and play so great together. Elizabeth just loves her and say's she is her best friend.
Adison is lucky to have three little cousins that are very close in age to her. One only being two weeks older than her. I am sure these little girls are going to be the best of friends.
going from the left to right. Dan and Julie's little girl Jane (2 months), Lesh and Leo's little girl Kinley (6 months) , and then our little Adison (6 weeks and three days).

Smile

At six weeks Adison weighed 10 lbs and 14 oz. Had had a really bad cold for two weeks and then a bad cough. I took her in because I was worried it could turn into something more than a cough but she was fine.
Also at six weeks Adison started to smile! Not just the "I have gas smile" but a real smile.
She is such a good little baby and she just melts my heart. She has started sleeping better and I just keep praying for it to keep getting better and better until it is all through the night.
She takes a bath every night around 9 and then about 9:30 eats and goes to sleep. I love to hold her while she sleeps and just cuddle her on my chest for as long as I can and then I lay her down for bed. She will wake up at 2 or 3, eat, then burp, and then back to sleep. Then she wakes up again at 6 or 7 and does the same thing. I just love having a new little baby and want it to last forever. It is so amazing what a strong spirit I can feel from her and what a connection we have. It is hard for me to share her with other people because as soon as she is out of my arms I miss her and want to hold her again.

Easter

We had such a beautiful Easter weekend! The weather was great, the kids were so excited, and we even got to see the Easter Bunny!!! We went to the local egg hunt and in the past we have not liked it very much because it was over in 10 seconds and our kids never got anything. But this year they changed things up a lot and it was great. One rule I loved was NO PARENTS could help. This made last a lot longer. They had put money in a bunch of the eggs and my kids only found the ones with the quarters. (there was 20 in each group that had 20 bucks and 1 that had 50.....) Also they made it so all the age groups went at different times. I loved this because this was the first year that I have been able to watch all my kids do it.
Brytlee was so nervous and she was so thoughtful for other kids that she would pick up an egg and hand it to another kid, or she would see someone else going for the eggs so she would just move out of the way and let them have them. So she only had about three eggs. But Elizabeth knew what she was doing.... she came back with her bucket overflowing, and was nice enough to give Brytlee half of her eggs.
Alexis was in the last group to go, and she wanted to find the golden eggs that had the money in them. She was standing by her friend from School and her friend had already found one of them in the tree. So instead of picking up as many as she could, she just looked for the golden ones, and she didn't know why she only got five eggs.......

It was such a nice day that after it was all over we stayed for about a hour at the park and the kids just played. I was so glad to be outside, and not be rained on or watching it snow.....
Little Adison slept the whole time we were out and stayed bundled up and warm.
This little outfit was one that Ryan bought for Elizabeth when she was a baby. The hat has little bunny face and ears that you can't see very well, and the shirt has a little bunny on it.
Sunday the girls woke up before us and when we came out they had already picked up everything! So I made them hid it again so Ryan and I could watch them do it. Later that night we went to Ryan's family's house and had a great dinner and had another Easter egg hunt.
Adison isn't very happy in this picture, and Denton really hates the head bows that I put on her so after the picture he took it off of her and said that was why she was sad.
BFF!
They got twin shirts for Easter and they look so cute in them!
We tried to get a picture of all the grandkids but Jackson was missing, and it is almost impossible to get this many kids to hold still and smile at the same time. (Judy is so funny because she is almost as hard to keep her looking at the camera....)
This may have been the best one that I took. Crazy how many little kids we have running around now..... (13 in 9 years)

I got board so.....

I was board the other day so Brytlee and I tried taking some pictures of Adison. Brytlee thought it was so funny to put her in a basket and wanted to carry her around.. (I didn't let her) Adison was not in the mood for this and we didn't get any great pictures and out of thirty pictures these are the best......
Almost falling asleep....
getting ready to cry......
and starting to get a wee bit cross eyed. But she still looks so cute to me no matter what! I will have to try out my photo skills another day to see if we can come up with something fun.

this and that

Little Adison is already three weeks old. She is 9 lbs. and 3 oz.
She is always wanting to eat.
Then she likes to go to sleep!
Sisters having fun for the camera!





Such cute girls!
Adison spit up right as I was taking this picture!
Her eye's are going a very pretty color of blue and her hair may have a little curl in it.

Spring Break

This last week has been my girls spring break. It hasn't been the most eventful week because we stayed home with the new baby almost the whole time. I am so scared to take her out because I do not want her to get sick. And the girls have been asking me everyday to have a friend come and stay, but for the same reason I have not taken her out, I have not dared to invite anyone over... I was hoping for some nice weather so we could go on a bike ride and play outside, but the entire week it snowed, rained, and was just so cold! Alexis was able to go to a couple of friends houses and play, but the other two just hung out at home. I still need to find a friend for Elizabeth that is her age and I can pair them up so she has a buddy for play dates and school, but it is so hard... She is such a friendly girl and makes friends with everyone she meets so I don't know why it has been so hard....
Later in the week I was feeling so bad that the spring break that they were having was mostly staying home and doing chores so I took them swimming on Thursday and Friday, and they had a great time together doing that. Brytlee was even getting brave and took of her floaty and went under water a lot. I am still so nervous so after a while I made her put them back on.
Saturday we went as a family to the movies to see HOP, it was a cute Easter movie, and the girls had a lot of fun. After that we went to Golden Corral to eat and they had a lot of fun picking out their food, and then eating all the sweets. They have a cotton candy machine, and a chocolate fountain so by the end of the meal they were so messy and sticky!
I am not really looking forward to have school starting again, it has been nice having my little helpers at home on most days. Some day's when the fighting starts I go a little crazy, but for the most part they were really good this week. They built a little club house in the basement and took the scooters down and they were down there for two day's straight playing great!
Adison has gotten so much better about sleeping at night. We figured out that I was just not giving her enough milk and so I started to pump to see if I even had any milk at all, and I didn't get much. And each day I get less and less. I still try all the time to see if it will ever come in, but still no luck. We started to give her bottles and she is much happier, and sleeping 3 to 4 hours at a time. I am so torn by this. With Brytlee she just WOULD NOT NURSE and had to take a bottle, but little Adison is such a good little nurser and wants to all the time so it is so hard not to. (Ryan calls me the binky) It is such a bond and I don't want to give it up, but it is starting to get weird doing it and knowing I am not feeding her but it may be hard to give up.

growing

I took Adison to her two week appointment yesterday and she has gained one pound. She now weighs 8 lbs, and 14 oz.
She is always wanting to eat and it makes me wonder if she is getting enough food or if she is just a little piggy.
If she is not eating she is sleeping (if it is during the day) or pooping. I guess that is why they say newborns just eat, sleep and poop.
Also at the doctors office, it was kinda funny when my doctor was checking her he said, "oh wow, she is already cute. .. most baby's it takes a month or so before they are cute, but she is really cute". He is a different guy so coming from him it was really funny.

Funny little girl

We have had a lot of talks with the girls about what they can and can not do around and with the baby. Brytlee was asking one day if she could feed the baby just something really really little. So Ryan said, "we don't put anything in the baby's mouth"! then Brytlee said, "oh, just moms boob"?
She is so funny!

Two Weeks Old

Our little Adison will be two weeks old tomorrow. It has gone by fast, but yet it feels like it has been forever sense I have been able to sleep at night. I keep saying it is a good thing this little girl is so cute..... because she is the worst sleeper at night. I have been very spoiled by my last three girls when it came to sleeping at night. (Alexis started sleeping all night when she was only two days old) (and my other two were good about eating and going right to sleep) Adison takes about a hour to eat and then a half hour to get a burp out of her, and then when you lay her down she poops or gets the hiccups or spits up and then you get to start all over again.... She sleeps great all day, so I just keep praying and praying that she will get better each night.

but like I said, it is a good thing she is so cute. Because when I pick her up and I am so so tired, and look at her cute little face, my heart just melts.

My parents came and stayed the night with us this last weekend, and it was so nice to have someone around to take the attention away from the baby and give the girls something to do. They brought dinner, and my mom made us her YUMMY bread, and we just hung out and had a nice time.
My parents were on a vacation in the Bahama's when Adison was born so this was the first time they got to meet her.

Jaycee came with her parents to see the baby, and she was so funny. She didn't want to hold the baby and was so scared she was going to hurt her.
My aunt Becky and Uncle Doug.

Karsten with Adison
Annette came again to bring my girls back from her house and Chris came with her. Her kids were so cute with the baby, and loved holding her.
Summer and Adison
The girls were so excited to see her after being away for the four days Annette had taken them to her house.


Alexis is going to be like a second little mommy


Brytlee loves to hold her, but only for a couple of seconds and then she is done!

Funny how she makes a different face and she all of a sudden looks chunky....
Daddy's little girl!



She was so nervous and didn't like her first few baths.
But after her little cord come off and we could get her all wet she would relax enough to sleep right through it.... She really likes to be covered up. Even when you take her diaper off she gets fussy. It has been a crazy first two weeks.