25 Weeks

The 31st of May, 25 weeks pregnant. I am feeling good. It is starting to get really hot and i am not feeling very motivated, but maybe that is a good thing. I am taking it easy and my blood pressure is cooperating!

Kids Weekend part 2

On Sunday, the last day of our kids weekend, we took the kids to Hogle Zoo. It was in the 90's that day and it sure felt like it, but the kids were pretty good about not complaing and we had a fun time see all the different animals. Our favorites were the Elephants, Giraffes, and Monkeys. Parker love the snake area and Paxten seemed to be fascinated by everything. There were a lot of areas in the park that were under construction/renovation which was disappointing, but will give us an excuse to come back next year when it is all done. We packed a picnic again this day into the zoo and the kids rode the merry go round inside the zoo.  After we had seen all there was to see, each of the kids picked a souvenier from the gift shop and we got in the van to head home. All of the kids were asleep in no time, we wore them out! We had such a fun time together. It is great to have a sister to do these fun things with and I think we may have to make this a tradition! The kids loved being together and doing something out of the ordinary, we only wish that Matt would have been able to go with us as well.

Kids Weekend of Fun

Charyn and I thought it would be fun to take the kids on a fun weekend to Utah after school got out. The kids were most excited about sleeping in a Hotel and swimming in the hotel pool! We left on the Friday school got out, after Parker got home. We drove to Layton and stopped for dinner at McDonalds (this is after all a kids weekend, right!) Then we went to Hobby Lobby, our choice, to look around and find a few home furnishings and scrapbook supplies. The kids started to become restless in the store and we knew we had pushed our luck, so we made our way to our hotel. The kids immediately wanted to get into the pool. So we did! They swam for over an hour and had a blast! after swimming we had popcorn and watched TV until they finally fell asleep close to 11! The next day we had plans to visit Scheel's, go to the park for a picnic, and then to Boondocks for miniature golf. The kids rode the ferris wheel in Scheels and looked at the huge aquarium. They ran around at a nearby park and we had a fun picnic. Then in the afternoon we went to Boondocks to play mini golf. I am not sure what Charyn and I were thinking taking 4 kids and 2 strollers to go play miniature golf. The kids were everywhere, except by us! I think Charyn and I managed to actually play a total of 4 holes, which was a waste of money, because we were trying to keep caught up with the kids. It was extremely hot outside so the kids were fussy and whining! We did manage to make it through all 18 holes and then went inside to play some video games. Zander and Paxten had fun playing whack a mole and Parker and Paige liked the ski ball machine. We ended up getting only about 100 tickets, which didn't get very much in return, but the kids had fun. After a long morning and afternoon, we decided to go back to the hotel and let the kids swim some more and order in Pizza. It sure is fun to eat pizza in a hotel room! The kids were exhausted and fell asleep before 10 that night!

Parker's Award

Parker received an award on the last day of school for the most improved stufent in his class. This award was given out by the Blackfoot Elks Club and he recieved a cool medal and I was so proud and pleased with him and how much he has advanced this year. He has had some struggles, but has worked hard to overcome them and to do his very best and that is what makes me so proud. He had completed the 50 in a minute challenge for the first grade and has excelled in math. He has also worked super hard, especially the last few weeks of school on his reading so that he could get to 100 AR points before the end of the year. I was about in years one morning when Mrs. Hunt called me to tell me Parker had good news, when he told me that he reached 100 AR points I about started crying! Yay!! He was thrilled to finally accomplish this goal as well. So I felt like this award that he received at the end of the school year summed it up pretty well. Parker has improved so much and I hope that he continues to work hard and have successes in school! I love this kid!

Paige's Preschool Graduation

Paige had her Smartie Pants Preschool Graduation on the 23rd of May. She was in the morning session this time so her program was at 5:00. She has learned the song Zippity Do Da in school sings it so cute that she was asked to sing a solo at the graduation. I wasn't quite sure that would happen. She did it during their practice the Tuesday before and she was confident that she could do it during the graduation. As the program started and Paige realized how many people were in the audience she began to get worried and scared and started to have "stage freight" as she called it. She barely made it through the opening song before she burst out in tears! I felt so bad for her up there on the stage in front of all those people crying and there wasn't much I could do to help her out. She managed to get her emotions under control enought to say her part, "When I grow up I want to be a dentist and a mom" Then when the next song came on she started crying really hard. I think she realized that her solo was coming up and she was extremely nervous about it. I went up to the stage and offered to sing it with her in hopes that would help her out. It turned out that I sang a solo of Zippity Do-Da by myself and it was extremely off key as I sang, trying to keep my emotions in check as well. I just wanted to cry with my sweet little girl. There were well over 100 people there that night, so I could see how she was so overwhelemed and nervous. After the "solo" she seemed to recover and feel better. She sang the last song really well and received her diploma with a half smile. As soon as the whole program was over she was laughing and running around and acting like her usual self. She had to get a picture with her bestest friends from preschool Sloan Gibbs, and Tessa Beck. And she had to get a picture with Miss Mandy, of her her favorite people. For the teacher gift this year, we gave each of the teachers a pot of flowers with a note attached that said. "thanks for helping me grow this year!" I can't believe my little girl with be in Kindergarten in the Fall! Where does the time go?

21 Weeks

Here is a picture of me 21 weeks along in pregnancy #4. This was on the 3rd of May. On the 6th of May we had our big Ultrasound to check on the baby and make sure that all was going well. It is always so fun to be able to see your baby on the screen growing and moving inside you. Sharla, the technician is so good at what she does and was very thorough with the ultrasouns and showed me everything that she was looking for and looking at on the screen. Our sweet little baby girl has a strong heart with 4 distinct chambers, we saw two working kidneys, a working bladder, a 3 vessel cord, no abnormalities in the growth of her head, (no sign of down syndrome), no cleft palate or lip, and the length and size of her bones, brain, and stomach were all right on track for being 21 weeks gestation. I was so excited and relieved to hear all this great news. At one point during the ultrasound she was able to get a 3D image of baby girl's face and I could totally see the resemblamce between her and the other kids. She is definitely going to fit in with the rest of our family. She raised her little had to her mouth at one point and it looked like she was waving to me. Amazing!! It makes me so eager and excited to meet this newest little miracle. I can't wait to hold this sweet girl in my arms! I am feeling pretty good at this point in the pregnancy. My blood pressure has stayed under control and has been in the 120's/75ish so as long as we can keep that under control we will good for a while. I have only gained about 5 lbs and I am feeling good about that. I may not look like that is all I have gained, but it must all be in my big belly! 19 more weeks! We are on the down hill now!

Paxten and his Nose

I am seriously going to try and get this blog updated before #4 arrives! It may take me a while, but it will evetually happen!


Paxten has this fascination with his nose for some reason. I am not sure if it is just a boy thing, or if his nose is constantly bugging him. Either way, the majority of the time when I look at my sweet little boy this is what I see! I am constantly telling him to get his finger out of his nose. He laughs and thinks it is funny! The worst part is when he actually manages to get something and then before I can grab him a tissue he puts it in his mouth and says, "yummy" What a gross little boy!! I sure hope that this little "habit" passes and he isn't a serious nose picker for the rest of his life! He can get away with it now while he is little and cute, but soon it wont be that way! My silly boy!