Pictures!

I know some of you saw some of these pictures on FB, but here are some different ones and some of the same for you to see Mom of the kids on Easter and the dresses I made. Up close you can tell they were made by a rookie, but I thought they turned out pretty good! The girls (well Annika) just loved wearing hers!

Hi! Had a few things to share with you all!

We had a blast in McCall over New Years. Great snow, beautiful cabin, fun friends, etc. The tubing hill was so much fun. We also had fun sledding, hot tubbing and the older kids and Jeff snowmobiled a little too.

Our big project in January has been our basement - bigger windows, new texture, painting, barn wood accents, new laminate flooring, and (coming this Thursday) new carpet!! :-)

This is the hole cut in the side of our house!! Our progress looks so good on the inside, but our front yard is one big mud hole from the huge holes they had to dig to cut the concrete for the windows.

Carson had 3 buddies over Friday after school for his birthday to play, eat dinner, dessert, etc. We will have Ron and Penney in tomorrow on his real birthday to celebrate too. For his football themed birthday, he wanted a cake decorated like a f-ball field. So here is my finished product - bendy straws for goal posts, and teddy grahams for the players!!

Annika went to Jr. Cheer camp this past week after school and then the girls performed 2 cheers and a dance last night at half time of the varsity game. She loved it so much and it was so cute to watch last night (despite what you said Kami - Jeff said you didn't think much of cheer camp on the phone last week!!) With the help of the HS cheerleaders, they even did a little lift (stunt) at the end of one of the cheers!! Very fun!

Kamryn is "on the move" as Coleman would say. That is how he refers to it as she scoots all around the room. She now gets up on her hands and knees, can get in the push up position too, but isn't quite crawling yet. But when she wants to get somewhere, she scoots with her arms and toes, kind of like an army crawl.

Annika's new thing is to try to dress her and Kamryn alike. When she can find the same type of outfit, she calls the two of them Twins for the Day!!

And here are some pictures of the kids one day when we were out getting barn wood for our basement project. Looks like Kamryn was getting her first taste of granola bar!!

I officially resigned from my position at T-O in Nov. and now have applied for the junior high v-ball coaching position at Liberty. I interview this Wednesday - yikes, the thought of an interview is a little scary!

Guess that is enough - Better get to bed!! :-)

Hi All!

Had just a few things to share!

Here is a Coleman story. Lately his favorite little phrase is "jeez" whenever he falls down, drops something, someone does something he doesn't like, etc. Well this past week he has added "us" to end of it; so, what was a cute little phrase that made me laugh has now become "Jesus!" Yea, NOT SO CUTE!

Here one of his latest favorite activities - he gets a bunch of books, sets them up to make a "pen", sits in his pen and "reads" books.

Kamryn isn't real interested yet in what her brother is reading to her!

Carson has his last soccer game this Saturday. He is playing with the 2nd and 3rd graders, so the little runt gets knocked down a lot, but he actually scored his team's only goal this past Saturday. He was pretty excited!

I have been going out to volunteer in Carson's classroom on Wednesday mornings - Penney keeps Coleman and Kamryn for a couple hours. I love it - being in the classroom, keeping up on what the kids are doing, a break from the little ones, etc. A nice way to break up our week!

Annika is so excited to have her first real field trip this Friday - to the pumpkin patch. The other day she got off the bus with a new library book and told me that Carson read the book to her on the bus. I said "that is pretty nice having a big brother, huh?" and she says "Yea, it's SO cool to have a big brother!" (I'll remind her she said that next time they are arguing!)

The guys finished seeding yesterday about 4 and it started raining around 5 and getting more rain today. Very good timing I say! :-)

Coleman's potty training is going very well - in underwear all the time now (when he's awake anyway!) His timing is something else though - I swear just as I start feeding Kamryn he has to go - every time it seems! Poor girl gets latched and unlatched constantly!

Kamryn and her little smile - she has started to kind of giggle - just some squeaks when she is real happy!

I know what you all are thinking - everything is just peachy, everyone so happy. Guess I just shared the happy times; we definitely have our fair share of fights, screaming, crying, etc. (especially the 2 yr old!) I'll leave you with 1 question I do have these days - I just don't see myself as really being a very dramatic person; where in the world did my kids get all their drama? Especially the middle 2 - holy cow they are so dramatic sometimes! From their dad? :-)

1st day of school

We actually did the 1st day of school thing twice. Carson started yesterday (Tuesday) but Annika is in the Mon/Wed kindergarten class, so she started today. Both were so ready to start. Carson had a great day yesterday in his new class - he is in a 1st/2nd combo, and there are only 5 1st graders in there, so he really is in a NEW class, but loved it. Annika was ready to go this morning. It was cute to see them get on the bus together. I think Carson helped her out - sat by her, made sure she was doing good, etc. I met them when they got to the school and spent a while in Annika's classroom. She was smiling and loving it when I left. I can't wait for her to get home to hear all about it! Here are some pics.

And here is one of the little 2 making the most of their time together! (Coleman was having a good time; I am not sure what Kamryn thought about the whole thing!)

Smiles and Harvest!

I had to share some pictures of Kamryn's sweet little smile! I have so much fun trying to get her to smile and finally this morning I got the camera so I could capture it and share it with you guys. (I couldn't pick a favorite one to share, so here are few of them!)

Harvest is going well - even though we don't see Jeff much and the days as a single mom of 4 can be very long sometimes, it is just a neat time of year. The kids love riding on the combines - have been out several times and we just rotate the 3 kids between the 2 combines. Here are some pics I took today when we were out riding.

Carson started flag football this week. He is really liking it so far - only 2 practices, but he is very excited about it. I have to share this picture of Coleman and Kendall (Chad and Marie Denny's little girl). This was during flag football practice - they were just walking around holding hands and then stopped and were just looking out across the field and (if you can't tell, Coleman is pointing at something with his right hand) I don't know what Coleman is pointing at, but Marie got this picture of the 2 of them.

Oh, one more thing. Before the guys started harvest when we were waiting for it to dry out after we got a bunch of rain, we snuck away to Silverwood for a day. (I still think of you everytime I go to the ticket booth there, Kali!). It was a lot of fun, the kids had a blast (spent 1/2 day in the H2O park and 1/2 day on the rides). The older 2 and Jeff went on one of the big roller coasters and loved all the rides. Coleman found these little helicopters and loved them. There was no line, so he would go on it, get off, out through the gate and back on for the next time - over and over and over again! This picture of his "thumbs up!" sums up his feeling for what he calls "hopper coppers!"

Kali, the other day we saw an airplane fly over and Annika asks me "When can I go on an airplane down to where Aunt Bud lives and go shopping with her and stuff like that?" Where did that come from?

Kamryn Kalyn!

I know, I have been a little slacking in getting these pictures posted, but here they are - FINALLY! Kamryn is so sweet! She is a great baby. She is a sleeper - there were actually a couple of nights that I was a little worried because she slept so long! (Never had that problem before!) Annika is a great helper, would sit and hold Kamryn all day long if she could! Both of the boys also love to hold and play with her! Enjoy the pics!

pictures of kids!

Hi! Here are a few pictures and updates. We have had a busy last couple of weeks, but Carson's last day of school was today and I think things should slow down a little - at least for a couple of weeks until #4 arrives! :-) 2 1/2 weeks till due date, but we are looking at maybe inducing on the 25 or 26 (2 weeks from today!! WOW!!), depending on how things are at that point. I feel really good, am enjoying being able to be outside (unlike the previous 3 pregnancies), but am anxious for baby to come!

Here is a picture of the baseball kids. The practices are over and games have begun (Mon. and Wed. til the end of June). The kids love it. It is fun to see the 2 of them on the same team. Carson is doing great and Annika is improving - when we can get her to focus instead of playing in the dirt!

We had Annika's dance recital last weekend. Her class danced to a song called the "Bunny Hop". The little leotards were so CUTE!

We had both "graduations" in the past week. Annika's pre school grad. was just a little picnic in the park, but Carson's kindergarten grad. was pretty neat - they walked to the real graduation music, had a slide show, sang songs and wore hats. Hard to believe that he is a 1st grader!

Here are a couple of pictures from our day on Ron and Penney's boat a couple of weekends ago. We pulled the older 2 kids behind the boat on a tube for the 1st time. They loved it. Here is Carson on the tube. In the boat, Annika has the orange flag and so of course Coleman decided the fly swatter would do for his flag!

Guess that does it. I will be in touch with any baby news! :-)