SO I LIED, CATCHUP 6 0F 5

Again, no pictures. But Kaiden is playing basketball now. And he loves it! I love that little one but he is not very athletic. He is doing his best, and every game and practice he is getting better! He is a great learner. But his personality and disposition are not aggressive or in your face, and I think if he was more that way, he would do a little better. But he is doing good,and we are real proud of him. He has had two games so far, and they totally slaughtered the other team in both games:-) It is so fun to go and watch them play! His best friend is on his team, and his best friend's dad is the coach( he went to college on a basketball scholarship, so he is awesome!), so it will be a fun season. And we are really enjoying it!

CATCHUP 5 OF 5

On New Years Eve we had a large party at our house, it was fun. I have no pictures, of course! We had friends over till about 1:00, which I know is not late, but it is lately for us! Especially Will, he had a rough go of it, he was so tired! We had soup and games, it was fun, and very safe:-)

I have new year's eve 'goals'. I will not disclose them all, cause I will probably fail at them and then you can rub it in my face. But no, I really do want to lose about 65 pounds (I know big numbers, but sine I am done having children, I want to get back down to my pre children weight). That is my main one. And probably the hardest one! I have the inspiration, and the 'buddy' system, and my family behind me, so I am praying it works, but I just have so little will power over food, and energy to work out! It is going to be HUGELY difficult! All your prayers and good thoughts are greatly appreciated:-)

CATCHUP 4 OF 5

Christmas Morning we woke up early, opened presents then went to Gramma and Papa's and opened more. Of course the kids were spoiled! This is the day that my 'on the fritz' camera officially died! So not many more pictures. I received a new camera from my wonderful hubby for Christmas, but I just barely got it working as well, so there is about a week here of no pictures:(. Then we had a large DELICIOUS meal at Gramma and Papa's. Then we went to a movie with some good friends of ours, the Wilkin's. We went and saw Bedtime Stories, it was way cute, and I highly recommend it! Then we came home ate candy out of stockings and tried to clear trail ways to our beds:-).

CATCHUP 3 OF 5

Christmas Eve was challenging, I had to work in the morning, and ended up stuck there for an extra 2 hours, which is per normal. And before I left for work Rylie was sick throwing up, through the night and into the afternoon, needless to say we were EXHAUSTED! She finally started to feel better, but we had canceled our dinner plans, We were having a large Christmas Eve dinner at our house, but because Ry was sick nobody wanted their children sick for Christmas, it ended up just being us and my parents, which was fine. We did end up going to the Christmas Eve candle light service at our church. That was beautiful and fun. I did make the kids get dressed up and look nice, though it was EXTREMELY hard to get them to sit for pictures, AUGH!!!! Here are the pictures of my beautiful children!!!!

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS MY TWO FRONT TEETH!

CATHCUP 1 0F 5 PART 2

Well I realized I forgot these pictures in the original part 1 of 5, so here is another portion of it. If you know me well, you know that an occasion HAS to be celebrated on its origninal day, regardless of how we celebrated before. So even though Rylie had a HUGE party, we still had to go out on her actual birhtday! We (just our family) took her to a new restuarant in town, it is called Pirate Island Pizza, and then she got to have a movie night. Pirate Island Pizza is a way fun! We had a blast. These are pictures of her getting her birthday cake from the restaurant, and them singing "Pirate Queen" to her. It was great!:-)

CATCHUP 2 OF 5

The Saturday before Christmas our church did their annual children's Christmas play and 'happy Birthday Jesus' party. This year they performed the Singing Christmas Tree from Veggie Tales. It was WAYYY cute!!! All of my kids except Will were in it this year. Kaiden was a French Pea, Kayla was a sheep, Rylie was a cow, and Nic was a camel. All except Nic had a solo of some sort. It was so cute, I was SO proud of them, they did such a good job, and it was so stinkin cute! I am hoping to get the video of it. And keep it for ever, it was just so precious. Here are some pictures, again camera on the fritz.

CATCHUP 1 OF 5

So I have not posted for awhile. Sorry! I have been in a quiet a 'funk' lately. But now I am going to try to play catchup on some of my posts here.




RYLIE'S 6TH BIRTHDAY


Rylie's brithday was two days before christmas. We had a party the weekend before. This was her first real party. Cause it being so close to Christmas, not many people have ever showed up, due to being out of town and other issues. Except her 1st birthday was HUGE! But she does not remember that. And also this was her first year in school, so she was able to invite her whole class. We had a quite a large party, it was extremely loud and she had lots of fun! My camera is on the fritz, so these are not good pictures but you get the idea:-) Let me see there was probably 35 people, it was CHAOS!!!!!:-) But she was SOO blessed!