Family Pictures

We had our family pictures taken back at the beginning of November and I am SO pleased with how they turned out!  My great friend Anna Rogers took them, and she did a great job.  We only had like 30 minutes or so of great light, and I think that she did a great job with what we had!  Thanks Anna!  Now- getting them up onto the wall in a good form....

Happy October!!

So I ran out of picture space on the old Blog- and haven't been able to figure out how to do it again!  But don't worry- I just signed in as Cole and now I can do it!  SOOOOO- back to it!

We have been SOOO busy the past couple of months.  Cole is SO busy with church/work/everything else.  So we like to see him when we can.  Work is going well for him.  He is ramping up his consulting business doing anything and everything that he can to get his foot in the door places, and is doing a great job at it!  He is the BEST and I am so grateful to have him in my life.  I love that guy.  The kids are growing SOOO fast!  I can't believe how quickly things change around here.  It makes me sick for heavens sake! 

We have been doing alot to keep ourselves busy, so without further ado- here is a photo essay of the month of October!

The kids have been playing a LOT of dress ups lately, and they made a SWEET fort (something they also have been doing a lot of!) downstairs and all dressed up like pirates.  That's a pretty cute pirate!

Notice paytons scary pirate face!  haha!

This little buddy learned to sit up!  YAHOO!  Best stage ever!

His sibs think it's pretty cool that he can do that as well!

This is one drooly, sweet, angelic, quiet, happy, snotty little baby boy!  LOVE HIM!

Again with this face!!!

These two really are great buddies now that they play with each other each afternoon while Lincoln is still at school!  It's fun to see them actually interacting!  They play different stuff than Payton and Lincoln do.  It's fun to see the difference!

I became an Usborne Books consultant, and the kids are REALLY loving all of the new books that they have gotten lately!

We are silly.

Payton finished up his soccer, and here we are watching his last game! It was FREEZING COLD!  But we had a great time watching him.  I can't remember who was sick for this game, but someone threw up on me right after this picture was taken. Like- REAL throw up.  Not just spit up.  It was awesome.  This started the month long flu-fest at our house.  Ah nuts. 

Payton was pretty pumped about his ribbon- and became quite the great little soccer player!  He's a go-getter.  That's for sure.  His coaches don't quite know what to do with all that energy!  But he also takes LOTS of water breaks.  Gotta ramp up the energy right?!

Cole's WONDERFUL sister Erica came for a work thing and was here for a few days, so we got to hang out with her some, and it was SOOO much fun!  The kids were in HEAVEN Having someone else to play with that's an adult and will actually play with them (note- I try to play with them as much as I can, but I can only play ninjas for so long!)  Thanks for coming out Erica!  We had SO much fun!  We went to the spaghetti factory, and the kids got some amazing balloon animals made for them from the lady that is always walking around.  What a great idea!

We also went bowling, and the kids had SO much fun ! I love bowling!

Morgs thought it was "weowee loud!" :)

Silly Halloween props!

Stay tuned!  More to come!!!

September Goodies

Since I got my new phone, and actually started up on Instagram, there has been a LOT of random picture taking!  So here's some goodies both from my phone, and also the good camera to help get you through.

I started selling Usborne Books (yahoo!) and I had my first start up party one night.  So Cole brought the kids outside and they were able to watch a movie on the tramp!  DREAMY!!!!!!

Not to worry that Stockton and Morgan almost have the same size of head!  So cute. 

Stockton is NOT loving baby food!  He won't eat anything but mama's milk!  Soooo, we are slowly working on getting him to like things. It's not very often that he eats it- but when we can get him to take a few bites, it's good for us.  He just seems quite content with just milk. :)

This is usually what happens.  STRAIGHT out of the mouth, on to the chinny chin chin.

Morgan likes to get in on the action.

This kid could live on the tramp! He's so cute.

No one can make cute Stockton laugh quite as fast as Payton can!  He loves to play peek-a-boo with his feet.  Notice Morgan in the background doing the same thing with her baby!  So cute.

One Sunday after church, everyone fell asleep so Lincoln and I played games for like 2 hours!  It was a blast.  He chose trouble, and he whooped me!  It's weird with him getting older and actually having to try at games and nintendo, and things like that. It's not going to be long before he's beating me at everything!  Sheesh!

Hello Kitty!

My Bald little Aggie

Brothers

Payton is in his gymnastics class, and Morgan can not WAIT until she gets to go!  Her face is plastered to the window watching very intently every week.  Soon baby girl...soon!

Mom- I REALLY want some fruit snacks and to watch a show...NOW!  PLEASE!  (Hey, at least there was a please in there!)

Classic Bathtub shot

Could you not just EAT this baby?!  LOVE HIM!

Time Out for Women

I had the opportunity to go to Time Out for Women with a few of my friends, and it was lovely!  It was SUCH a nice break away from life and the world.  It was a great time to recharge my batteries and get some great words of advice from alot of wonderful speakers.  I have been having a really hard time lately being happy and upbeat and alright with my life. Don't get me wrong- I have a great life!  But it is SO busy!  Cole is really busy with work, and church and the kids are busy with school, sports and everything else- and it seems (I know every mother feels this way!) that I am letting myself slip a little bit- and that I don't get to do many of the things that I would like to.  So it was SO nice to get a way even if just for a few hours to recharge my batteries a bit.  I'm so grateful to Cole for watching the kids on Friday night!  We had our schedules a bit mixed up, and Cole had forgotten the time of his training with Elder Bednar on Saturday, so we got a babysitter for Saturday!  I took Stockton with me, which was just fine- because he is an angel baby!  He really was so great!  What a great baby.  Love that kid! 
      anyway....the speakers were all FABULOUS!  Friday night was great.  We had the opportunity to hear Sheri Dew speak and she is ALWAYS wonderful.  So inspiring and wonderful.  Jennie Oaks Baker also was the performer and she was PHENOMENAL!  I have never really listened to her music that much, but I thought that it was so beautiful. It was neat to hear and see her kind of double personality!  She was HILARIOUS when she was talking, but then switched into this professional maniac on the violin when she would perform.  It was so great.  Julie deAzavedo Hanks also talked, and it was so wonderful as well.  All of the performers/speakers were so great- both days!  On Saturday, we listened to- Oh, now I can't remember his name!- Brian something I think.  He's the man whose family (4 of them) were killed in a car accident by a drunk driver and forgave this young man, and how he has moved on with his life.  It was so awesome.  There were also a few others that spoke that I-regrettably- can't remember their names.  I do remember that the Our Best Bites girls spoke- and they were so hilarious and witty.  Also, Mercy River were the performers.  I have to admit, I don't love Mercy River usually, but they were so great at the conference.  It is always fun to hear peoples personal stories as they perform and things.  It was wonderful.  I am SOOOOO glad that I was able to go!  I was rejuvenated, and happy, and excited to get back to life, and my kids, and all my other responsibilities.  Yeah for Time Outs!

Crazy Stephie Dix

Steph Wessler, Katie (can't remember her last name! So bad! But I DID just meet her that day) Steph Dix, Me and Anna Rogers   Great group of ladies

It was fun- the conference was at the Convention Center- so we had to take the pic of the big blue bear!  Until Next Year Time Out!  Yahoo!