Snow

So i have not updated in a while because really we have not done a single thing in weeks. I think I am just so busy doing our everyday stuff like laundry and cleaning up and cooking and baths and just STUFF that we really dont do any thing.
I have however started on the process of a new schedule(hopefully) I have registered Ashlyn and Lexi for a Tiger Tots program at the local High School so 4 days a week from 11:15 to 1:50 I will be down to just two kids! In that time I am hopeing to get to the gym and get in a good workout. or do shopping and that kind of stuff! then in August Ashlyn starts real school!!
But in the mean time...we had a real good snow a few weeks ago. My first mistake was letting the kids go out and play. It was a mistake because we were not fully prepared with snow gear. We have some stuff but it was not enough so the next day we went and bought everything we needed for the kids and Jesse and I, but it was too late. the kids were already sick. I really dont think much of it, just thought it was a normal cold but Lexi had a fever of 103.5 so we took her to urgent care and found out she had pneumonia. The next morning I took the other 3 kids in to be check because they had all had the same symptoms. so the results were Ashlyn has pneumonia and and ear infection and carter has an ear infection and Kimber is just fine. Kimber is sleeping alot b ut I think that has to do with other stuff like growth spurts and such. So we have added dubble time of doing nothing. Ashlyn and lexi sleep alot and just watch movies allllll day long. All I can say is thank goodness for my books on my ipod or I would have to listen to all the barbie movies all day!! so here are a few pictures of our snow and the girls sleeping since that is all I have to show for the past little while.

Christmas picture (almost)

This Christmas Jesse's aunt Angie bought the kids there outfits as there presents which I was so greatful for. I hate having to choose because they are all so pretty. This will be the only picture you will see of me on this blog untill I get the baby weight off so enjoy!! I love the picture of Jesse and Carter. He is such a little man I love it. Thanks again Angie the girls loved the dresses!

Just Carter

Juat a quick video for Grandma and Grandpa!

Earings

OK so I thought that Lexi would be a little older before she would want or be able to handle getting her ears pierced, once again she suprised me. For the last few weeks she has been talking about getting earings. So I talked to her about it for a while and she decided that it was ok if it hurt for a while and as long as we got Ice Cream after she was good with it. So yesterday we took a trip to the mall and here is how it went.

The Happy Before

Getting the placement right

Happily waiting still
Get Ready

SHOOT!!!

First HairCut

I Finally did it! I cut Kimber's Hair. With the first two girls I was not all that sad to cut off there baby curls but with Kimber I was. So here are just a couple of pictures of that sad first cut. I am just glad it turned out cute!
She was so short we had to get two boosters.



this is Shannon the hair dresser

Ta-da!

First Snow

As most of you know I am a born and raised California girl. I lived there for 22 years and then moved to Arizona of all places so my expericene with snow has been limited to a few trips to Big Bear and Juliann. I have been really nervous about moving to Missouri because of my limited knowledge and starting today i am going to be tested. Jesse had to work this morning and before he left he came in to tell me that it snowed and he tried to wake the girls so he could show them their frist snow but they would not budge. I looked out the window in our room first and it was really pretty. When Ashlyn came in to my room I told her there was a surprise outside. I took her to the kitchen where there is a window that looks out into the backyard and she was so excited to see that it had finally snowed! we have been talking about it for weeks now!! so here are some pictures of our morning.

Back Window view

Front yard to the right

Stright out the door

Ashlyn had to call Grandma and Grandpa in Arizona!

Finally an update

OK......So it has been a long time since I have updated this blog so here I go...
We have had a lot happen in the last month. it's not so much that i have been super busy but that i feel like I have writers block. I feel like i can't express well enough how i feel about it all, so forgive me in this blog but i just have to get this over with.
I guess the biggest thing to happen is our move to Missouri. Jesse and I went back and forth for a while about what to do and we finally made a decision that brought us to Missouri. For those of you who dont' know, Jesse grew up here and all his family still lives here. Back in June we had to make a very hard choice and that was to file for Bankruptcy and close our business. We just lost momentum with the housing market slow down because all our builders just could not find the work any more. So we closed up shop. Whatever we could not sell we packed up and left. Jesse's Grandma generously offered to let us stay with her since she lives by herself and that is where we are now. Jesse has applied for a couple of jobs and we hope to hear something soon. We do have one big problem now however. when we packed, we could not fit everything in our 20 foot trailer, because it was to heavy. Jesse had to unload some stuff and his tools were part of that. He had a plan to go back with his dad and pick up the rest of the stuff but a few days after we got to Missouri my dad went to the Arizona house to check the mail and the house and found all of Jesse's tools gone. It really sucks because now all plumbing opportunities out here have been taken away and he has absolutely no tools
Anyway.......So we are here in Missouri living with his grandma but everyone is happy and healthy and we like our new ward and that is all that matters right?
Here are some pictures of other little things that have happened in the last month like Halloween, and the zoo and the kids playing outside here.




Backyard of Grandma Hetty's (Missouri)


Carter helping me unpack


Ashlyn at the Children's museum in PHX



We couldn't go to the zoo with out any accidents right!!

Painting Pumpkins before Halloween

Jesse and Kimber Chilling at the zoo play area

Visiting with My Sister and her kids on our way to Missouri. They can sleep anywhere!!

Our best friends in PHX.

our Halloween Princesses

Kimber

Lexi

Ashlyn

The Zoo

Busy day at the Zoo for our Monkey man(notice his shirt!!)

Thank you Heather and Jason for getting us in free that day!!

She is so neat about everything!

Kimber's perfect Pumpkin

Carter size pumpkin

Ashlyn found a great one!

Look at that big pumpkin, oh wait that's just dad!!

7 1/2 months old!!!

NOW YOU KNOW WHY I AM BUSY ALL THE TIME!!!

THEY ARE ALWAYS ON THE GO!!!! (except right now, Dora's on!!! my 30 mins of free time)

I DONT KNOW WHO THEY GET IT FROM!!!

Our Projects

OK SO...... I am so proud of myself..... before i go on, all you "cool" moms are going to look at this and say "so what" "it's no big deal" but for me it is so please bare with me. one day i was sitting around with the kids and Ashlyn was as usual asking me if she could do all this "stuff" and i decided that I needed to get off my butt and do a quality project with them since i did not put them in preschool this year (long story for another day). So I mentally prepared myself (i Have said it before, having four kids should be fun but lets be real, with all of them under four it gets hard for me to please everyone at the same time.) and took them to wal-mart to pick out something fun to do. so we got home from walmart ate lunch and I put Carter down for his nap (one down) then I got everything as organized as I could and did a project with all three girls. when that was done I put kimber down for her nap (two down) and spent another hour or more with the older two girls and had a fun craft afternoon. now you might say "so what" but let me tell you it was good for me to do with them. I put all my rules and cleaning and "mess tending" aside and the girls had a blast. here are a couple of pictures of that proud day!!

Kimber's Birthday

Kimber is Finally 2! I think she has had the terrible 2's for the last year and now I have an excuse as to why she is so grumpy! I has nothing to do with how spoiled she is right (wink wink!!) Happy Birthday Kimber we Love you!

I was so lucky to find this Barbie. Ashlyn has it in Pink and Lexi got the purple one for her b-day so to find one in blue was great!!

Summer Fun!

This summer (as i am sure it is for the rest of you) has been a summer of staing close to home and just hanging out. The gas it takes to get anywhere is just to much so we have been staying home and the girls have had a lot of swim time thanks to my broher getting into a house with a pool. Special thanks to Papa to for working with the girls in the pool. With two other kids that need all my attention it gets kinda tricky to do these kind of things!

This is about as far as Kimber wants to get in. She's just happy watching everyone right now!

Look Lexi looks happy!!! Actually she really loves swimming.

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Ashlyn being a monkey!!

Carter loves this music table!