What a week! We have had so much fun (with a little sadness) this past week! Julie and the boys came to visit, the kids were in heaven.. Julie and I - not so much.. We learned quickly that when our kids get together they DESTRUCT things! Grandma says that when they are separate they are ok but all 7 of them together is asking for trouble.. It was really good for the kids to see each other, and now Sky thinks he has 3 new brothers.. Uncle Brandon came to visit us for Christmas and brought his dog Rusty, Probably the last time we will see him due to old age.. :( we are all going to miss him! On the 24th we took Zoey to the ER with a low grade fever and bad rash all over her body.. They sent us home and told us it was a viral rash.. (aka "we have no idea what is wrong with her") She continued with the fever and we ended up taking her in again for them to tell us she has the "Foot and Mouth" virus, which might I add is highly contagious! (I know sounds like a fun one!. So we will be waiting for that to pass to all of the rest of us. Also on the 24th Uncle Ryan came home from Georgia. We had all the fam over Christmas morning for presents and breakfast. The kids were loving their gifts from everyone! On the 27th we noticed our dog Rondi was in labor, (the kids were ecstatic!)around 10 she had the puppy and unfortunately it was dead :( Now we are all sad and mopey.. including the dog.. She keeps taking Zoey's toy babies and rubber duckies and putting them in her bed and laying on them.. It breaks My heart. It has been a long couple of weeks (which is why I cant blog ever!)

sky's new glasses

Ryan's b-day

Happy Birthday Ryan! Happy Birthday to an awesome guy who has stuck with me through thick and thin! You are my best friend and the love of my life! We are all so lucky to have you in our lives and dont know where we would be without you! Thanks for all you do for us!

Something New

So I decided to post some of my new projects I have been working on.. These are just some of the ones that I am taking to the craft fair with me. I am also working on Spooky and EEK! (will post as soon as possible) Im doing BABY and also getting ready for christmas! OH and the bracelets! I am so excited about those because they cost me about $5 bucks to make and I get soo many compliments on them! Its so fun having little girlies! Hopefully soon I can get better at this whole blogger thing and change up our page..

Grandparent Day

So the other day was Grandparent day at school for Maddie and Skyler. To their surprise Grandma came to eat breakfast with them! They loved it! They were so cute when she had to leave.. They cried even :( For all those Grandparents we have.. Sorry we didnt show our appreciation more, But we SURE DO LUV YA!

FIRST DaY Of ScHoOL!!

So today was the First "real" day of school for all three of our oldest! I was trying to hold myself together all day! First we got Ryan off to work and next it was Taylor's turn to catch the bus, then Maddie and Sky had to be transported to their Preschool..(I feel like a soccer mom) Needless to say, I felt a little overwhelmed..They pretty much had to kick me out of the school.. After getting back home Zoey and I collapsed (it was only 9:30!). While talking and playing Zoey giggled for the first time!! It was the cutest! After making myself busy for a couple of hours It was time to pick up the two little ones... that's when the trouble began! I went to turn off our new "used" car and it wouldn't shut off! (I know here we go..) I swear when it rains it pours on my nerves.. After taking a long trip to the mechanic shop, they showed me how to take out the fuse and disconnect the battery for now until Ryan can fix it.. What a day!!! Ya it was only 1:00pm! It was definitely a memorable day for sure!

Just an update.(I know, I know) Its been a while.. Our life has been a whirlwind lately! Having 4 kids is both wonderful and exhausting! Its really hard to get time to sit down and update everyone.. Taylor has been in Summer school every day and thats going well.. She graduates on Friday and then we start preparing for school to start again. Maddie and Skyler are both starting preschool this year too! Zoey is officially 3 months and is as chunky as ever:) She is 13.5 lbs and 22 inches! Shes so "Healthy" as everyone says.. lol Really they mean she's chubby :) Hmm what else.. Maddie slammed her finger in the car door, we thought it would be ok but it kept swelling and turning more blue. She ended up having to have surgery on it to sew up a laceration under her nail bed. It wouldnt have been so bad if she would have fallen asleep after they atempted to give her a sedative 3 times.. They ended up having to do surgery with her wide awake. Not so fun.. But its doing better now, although she still wont use it.

Happy Dad's day!

To all those dads out there! Happy Fathers Day! I am so thankful to have such good dads in my life! First of all my dad! Obviously I wouldnt be here with out you! Thank you for all your wise wisdom, even though some of the time I didn't listen (or walked out of the room :) I wouldn't be this far in life if it wasnt for you! We are so lucky to have the best Papa, Friend and Dad! And to the other man in my life.. I am also so lucky to have him! He is the best father I could ask for my kids! He not only loves them, he truly cares about their future and what kind of person they can be. They are also so lucky to have him in their lives! This is his First year as a Daddy and I am so proud of how far he has come! Even though the other kids aren't here to tell him, I know they love him and appreciate him! Love you both!

So Cute!

Its always fun to take pics of your brand new babe! Here are some of the way cute ones that we got of Zoey

She's Finally arrived!

After Her long awaited arrival she is finally here! Here are her stats Weight: 7 LBS 13 OZ (holy crap!) Height: 19 3/4 inches Just after 2:00 in the morning on Mothers day my water broke in bed. After a mental check to make sure I hadn't peed the bed I shook Ryan and jumped up.. And then it all began... We all loaded up in the car and headed to the hospital. Luckily we were the only ones there and they got all 6 of us in and comfortable.. After a short 8 hours she arrived! And she was worth it all!

Big bellies!

So here are some not so recent pics of my belly.. Sky just had to get involved and show his growing "baby" too. We took these about 3 weeks ago and all Ive gotten so much more HUGE! So far we are Dialated to a 2 and 70% effaced.. Hopefully at my doc's appointment on Monday he will put me out of my misery, And we will have a baby shortly after..lol

Easter 2009!

We had an awesome Easter this year! Ryan had to work on Sunday so we celebrated on Saturday.. The Easter bunny (aka Ryan) made sure the kids had plenty of eggs to find. He made a cute treasure map and had all the kids running around the yard to get all the eggs. Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa for some of the lute, we also couldn't have gotten our eggs done without Grandpa's Drop Cloth. As you can see Skyler was pretty much wearing all the die on his hands.. He fell asleep that night with his hand on his eye and he had a blue eye the next day..lol It all Ended with an awesome dinner at Grandma's and Grandpa's. Its nice to have dinner as a family again!

3d imaging of our baby girl!

On Tuesday i had yet another Dr.'s appointment and yet another ultrasound.... the 14th ultrasound so far, although it is amazing it just makes you even more anxious for the baby to finally get here already! After spending the weekend in the hospital with contractions every 2 minutes apart, we now have to have ultrasounds every week to check on my cervix and to make sure Zoe's cysts are not growing larger. Usually she is a little stinker and wont let us take a clear picture of her face.. But on this particular day we got some awesome ones... She has the most chubby cheeks of them all so far! Anyway other than the great food at the hospital (yea right)..(no baby)... and plenty of bed rest, I also walked away with staph infection from them.. So now with plenty of antibiotics in my system for some reason I dont think the pain and suffering I have had is gonna end. (we all know what antibiotics do to women..:) But I can say for sure that in the end Its all worth it! And I can totally use all the pain and suffering I have gone through to give Zoe a guilt trip when she's older:)

So this is a little delayed. But in the spirit of all the flippin snow and freezing weather we are having i thought it would blend right in.. During Christmas break we decided to take the kids out in all the fresh snow we had just been blessed with.. lol They had soo much fun trying to make a snowman.. Ok Ryan was the only one making the snowman, the rest of the kids were trying to eather tackle ryan or throw snowballs at him! But he got them back when they got on the sledding hill.. Skyler fell face first and had already lost his gloves, so he was all done and really wanted to go home. We tried to warm his hands with the heater in the car but it wasnt good enough.. All in all the whole event lasted about an hour but all of us were exhausted and ready for some hot chocolate and a nap!

This year a couple days before Christmas Uncle Brandon came to visit... He brought tonz of presents for the kids and of course the Beloved Rusty (his dog) Every time he comes the kids hate to see them leave, they love that dog! We had 3 days of presents including Christmas eve and then the kids left that night to go to their dads..