{May 2015: Cinco De Mayo, Flowers, Harry Potter, Mother's Day, Science Fair}

Baby H getting a ride on Daddy's shoulders.  Our Three Girls, helping plant our Beautiful, Colorful, Spring Flower Garden.  We Love our Helpful Kids!

 We finished reading the "Harry Potter" series as a family, and watched the last movie together.  We love these books.  So profound.  So imaginative. We put the littles to bed half-way through the movie, and they fell asleep.   

 Celebrating Cinco De Mayo as a family.  We love partying and celebrating whenever we get a chance.  Plus we love any excuse to eat Mexican Food.  Little Miss R, made this awesome Cinco De Mayo Cake; all by herself! :)

Our sweet little Baby H.  We all love her.

Fun Rides with Daddy.  Looking at the pretty flowers.  Hanging out with Baby D.

Sleepy Baby D.  Doggy little man C.  Happy little miss H.

Celebrating Mother's Day 2015: my sweet family brought me a delicious breakfast in bed, made me a special lunch & dinner, brought me my favorite two kinds of flowers {roses & lilies}, gave me presents & cards, and made me a cake.  I felt very appreciated, loved and spoiled.  xoxo

 Little Man E entered the 4th Grade Science Fair, "Dissolving Sugar at Different Heats".  It was fun to go support our sweet little guy at his school. #babywearing

 

{So Many Fun Family Adventures! Jan. 2014}

Baby H snuggling Big Sister R in her play pen {in Daddy's closet}.  Baby H Snuggling Daddy.  So sweet! :)

Walking to the Park together.

Having a Blast playing at the Park.

 Baby H loved playing with her Balloon.  I love Baby H's beautiful long eyelashes!

Reading stories with Daddy.  Fun at Library Story Time {Making "Snow"}.

We love having Movie nights together!  It's fun shopping together too.

Eating Delicious Food Together {at Restaurants}.  E & R redeemed their certificates, that they earned from being Good kids at school. :) Top Left: Mark and I {Elizabeth} celebrated our Anniversary of 12 years since Mark proposed {02.15.2014}!

Family Fun times together.

The kids had fun watching Television on the ceiling; while getting their teeth fixed. {02.19.2014}

Fun at Art Night at E & R's Elementary School. {11.21.13}

Little Man C playing with Sweet Baby H.  {Mark and Big Brother E in the Background.}

Daddy swinging Baby H on the fun swings.

 Our Sweet and Happy Kids! :)

{Christmas Festivities and Traditions: Dec. 2013}

We loved decorating our Christmas tree together.  We took our tree out of storage, but we left all of our ornaments, stockings, and other decorations in storage.  So we bought some decor, ornaments and stockings at the Dollar Store.

Our family sang {"Silent Night"} together in church yesterday. It went very well. We were so proud of our kiddos! Merry Christmas!!!
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  Our family sang "Silent Night" together in Sacrament Meeting at church during the Christmas season.  It went very well.  We were so proud of our kiddos, who sang out with all their hearts.  That same day, I sang in Relief Society (Women's meeting) at Church a duet, "As Sisters In Zion", with a friend, Whitney.  It was fun.

The kids have enjoyed playing in the snow this Winter Season.  They like building things and having fun with the snow, together.

We enjoyed building and decorating a Ginger Bread House together (tradition). 

  The kids loved finding creative places to put the candy on the Ginger Bread House.

 We went to our Kid's Elementary School Winter Music Concert.  They did an Amazing job on their songs {with their classes}.

We Loved watching them perform with their 3rd and 2nd grades!

 

   Our Baby Loved Being Cozy in Her Stroller, while the other kiddos played in the snow together.

When Mark was on a Scout Campout, the Kids had a Movie Party Night with Mama.  We had a Blast together.  I helped the Kids make an Advent Calendar at Library Story Hour, and we had fun counting down the days with that.  We acted out the Nativity Play together (tradition) and we loved doing that together.

The kids enjoyed playing all of the parts, and we enjoyed singing together, reading out of the Bible, and Remembering the True Meaning of Christmas together.

November: Visits, Haircut, Thanksgiving, Mission Call, Twilight

This is a walk that we took, while we were up visiting my Grandma, Aunt Luetta and my Mom (who was there visiting and helping).  We had a very nice visit with them on a 5-day weekend.  We got to visit with some of my other relatives while we were there (because there are a lot of them), including my Aunt Patty and Uncle Rob.  On the walk, we found a sweet neighborhood kitten, that let all of us hold and pet it.  Very kid friendly.

The top pictures are of Mark giving Collin his very First Haircut.  I had a really hard time letting Mark cut his hair for the first time; because he had all of these bright red curls.  So adorable.  Mark cut it pretty short.  Little Miss R and Little Man E performed together in the school-wide Veteran's Day Assembly.  It was full of patriotic songs, that were very moving.  We were so proud of them!  It was nice to be able to have Mark's mom come and watch the kids perform also.

We had Thanksgiving at our home, the weekend before Thanksgiving week.  We like to establish our own traditions with our little family (even though we very much enjoy having the festivities with our extended family as well).  I gave the kids Thanksgiving Coloring and activity sheets, we read Thanksgiving books, watched Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, passed around a 5 kernel burlap sack, and each of us told 5 things that we are thankful for, and we talked about the 1st Thanksgiving.  It was wonderful.  Then we went up to Washington {we picked up my mom, on the way up and she rode there with us} and celebrated Thanksgiving with my side of the family, because it was our year to do that.  We had a fabulous time celebrating with them also.  We had all of my 6 siblings (except Tommy who is on his mission) and their families there for at least part of the celebration; although my sister's (Celestia) hubby wasn't able to come (because he's recovering from a recent surgery) and so she brought him home some food.  Afterwards, my sister Angela and I went to the Black Friday Event, and scored some fabulous deals for our kiddos.  But let me tell you, doing that while nearly 8 months pregnant, was not the best choice on my part.  My feet were SO swollen when we got home {which they usually are at this point in my pregnancy}.

The top 6 pictures are of the kiddos spending time with their cousins, while we were up visiting my side of the family in Washington.  They always love spending time with their cousins.  They built forts, had sleepovers (we watched the "Grinch" and made Chocolate chip cookies), helped Grandma decorate her Christmas tree, ate Thanksgiving at the "kids tables" and had all kinds of fun on our 5-day weekend up there for Thanksgiving.  Bottom 2 pictures, are of spending time with Mark's sister Kristy's family when they visited, and when we had Mark's parents over for dinner.

I was so thrilled when my little brother Joseph got his mission call in the mail while I was up there!  Usually with living away from the area (and everyone else in my family still is around there), I am the only one who doesn't get to be there (in person) for my brother's to read their mission calls (I usually have to listen on the phone).  But Joe got his while I was up there.  It was so exciting for us to be there when he opened and read his call to the RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA MISSION (English Speaking).  It was extra exciting, because our brother Thomas (pictured above left), is on his mission in the SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA MISSION (Lao and Mein Chinese Speaking).  They will be overlapping on their missions, for about a year (Missions are 2-years long).  Apparently, Joe might even be able to go be Tommy's mission companion for a couple of days, on the way down to the MTC, in Provo.  Which would be so neat for them.  The kids (and Mark and I) are so proud of Joe and Tommy for serving the Lord; and also of Mark's parents who recently returned from a mission in the DES MOINES, IOWA MISSION (English Speaking).

Well, Twilight Breaking Dawn 2 came out, and I had to go Opening night, with my Sister-in-law Summer.  It was awesome!  We loved it.  I was surprised that my Bella/Edward t-shirt still fit me, while I am super prego (I've worn it to all of the other showings of the Twilight saga).  Then while we were up in Washington, Mark and I went with Angela and Grant, and it was super fun too.  Last picture is of Little Miss R showing off her prizes, from when she went to the ER to get one staple in her head from getting an owie.  We have had the worst luck with owies with our kiddos lately.  I hope that it goes back to normal soon, which is no more owies.  But I guess with active kiddos, it's bound to happen occasionally.  It's just hard to watch them go through it.  Our Poor baby.

 Some of Little Miss R's {6 year} pictures from her Session.  To see more, view my Photo Blog.

Some of Little Miss K's {4 year} pictures from her Session.  To see more, view my Photo Blog.

 Some of Little Man C's {2 year} pictures from his Session.  To see more, view my Photo Blog.

Joy to our Family! {Dec and a bit of Nov.}

 Christmas was a JOY to our family!

 Little Man E, 1st grade performed in his school production, "The Nutcracker Suite" musical.

 Little Miss R performed in her Kindergarten Christmas musical.

Here are the kiddos building our gingerbread house, a tradition in our family.

 Mark making memories on our Christmas with our kiddos. (We celebrated early  with them)

I Love baby  C's sweet little smile in this picture.

 Baby  C got into the butter.  Yummy! :)  

 I went to go see "Breaking Dawn part 1", with Mark on the 2nd night. He's gone to every "Twilight" movie with me.

On opening night, I went with my  SI L and friend Summer to BD pt 1.  We loved it.

Little Man E with his friend, M.   Below, Little Miss K with her friend, N and Little Miss R with her friend L. 

Little Man C with his friend T. Below, me with friend Nette and my  Mom with my  nephew C.

It was our year for Christmas up in Washington this year.

  Me and Mark sharing a special moment with Little Miss R

 Uncle Danny  with our kiddos

We went to Latin Farms with my brother Danny, Jolie and nephew C.  Such a fun place!  We are feeding and petting the animals. 

Baby C being held up by Daddy  out of the maze.  Pretty  cute expression!

 Our family

Our family enjoying  fresh donuts and homemade apple cider, at Latin's.  So delicious!

 I went to see "Breaking Dawn" again with my  mom!

Ladies night out.  Wow, I really  look like my  mom in that picture!

 It was our year to go up to Washington for Christmas.  We had a wonderful time celebrating with my side of the family.  We also acted out the Nativity  Scene (annual tradition) and sang  Christmas carols.  We had a great time!