What a cute little girl !!!!

On Saturday we went and had Abriee's fist birthday pictures done. I can't believe how cute she is. She loves the camera and does great when it comes to pictures. I just thought that I'd share the pictures with everyone..

Still no walking from Abriee, but she is getting braver when it comes to trying on her own. Hopefully in the next few weeks or so she will start walking.. Great milestone for me when my kids start walking..

The flue is finally over and I am feeling better. Finally have some energy back and able to get my house back in order. It has been a couple weeks since I have done much and it was a disaster.. I can't stand it and so I am glad to be feeling better. Never again do I want the flu and to be pregnant at the same time!!! I would rather my kids be sick than me..

Birthday Parties and the FLU!!!

Happy Birthday Abriee. I can't believe that she is already 1 years old. They grow so fast. This was my poor attempt of making a cake for her. I had bug party plans for her, but the week before her birthday I came down with the flu and still had it on her birthday.. I made it through the party, but wasn't really in the mood to worry about how it turned out anyway.. This was her princess crown cake. I got the idea off the Internet and seemed easy enough.. So my attempt didn't turn out so well, but luckily she doesn't know the difference..





Just another cute picture of Abriee. I can not believe how cute she is. if only she would grow some hair on the head of hers and if she will just walk. She is the biggest chicken ever when it comes to try. The second you let go of her hand to walk by herself, she just goes down to crawl. Hopefully one day SOON she will get it..







Of course Payton had to have a nap and not in his bedroom.. I left the kids with Ray while I went shopping with my sister and Ray said that he looked over at Payton and he was asleep in the window just like this. How funny is that?? I tell you he never makes things easy for himself.. Apparently he didn't sleep very long and I guess that I wouldn't either!!!



Now that I have had the flu for going on two weeks now, I am starting to feel better. Hopefully I will get it out of my system her in a couple of days. Nothing like being sick with two kids running around and a husband that is sick as well.. Everyone else got sick as well, but they only had it for a day or two... How lucky for them.. Oh well...




Happy Birthday Abriee!!!!! We are finally done with birthdays until December!!! And until this new baby gets here that is!!!

Payton or Gracie? Can't decide!!!

Today we ventured out to get Paytons' birthday picture done. No better place than Kiddie Kandids. They are great and very paitent with the kids.. Payton was being such a brat. He wouldn't smile at all no matter what anyone did. He looked at us like we were idots.. Not surprising though.. He never coroperates when it comes to pictures. Anyway we got one that was sorta cute and was probably the best that we were going to do. After 1/2 hour he was about done anyway.. So this is the final result in which I was sorta pleased with.. The best we could get so I have to take what we get eh??

I have been debating on whether or not to change our blog name. Ray said it was kinda dumb when I first started this and I have been debating on whether or not to change it. I have a few ideas and I am just kicking them around for now. I don't know.. Just don't be surprised if you get on and its all changed up.

Here is a picture of our wonderful Gracie.. Hopefully one day she will not be under my feet everytime I turn around. Now she is definately worse than a kid..

She is such a cutie though!!! It really gets to you when she looks at you with her sad little eyes... We love her even though she does drive us crazy!!!! Just like our children. Rays claims that the new baby is #4 cause the dog made #3... Tuff luck for him she doesn't count as any child ever!!! But still wouldn't trade her for the world either!!!

Remodeling !!!

This is our wood burning stove that came with our house. We have dedcied that we really won't use it and just don't want it so we are taking it out.. Now that Ray is home and has all kinds of time we decided that we should go ahead and take it down. That was our Monaday project with the help of Payton. After taring all the brick down Payton helped us haul it out on the patio and now he has a few beat up toes from dropping the bricks on his toes.. About an hour into it I feed him and put him down for a nap.. Here is is helping!!!

Now that that is done we are back to being bored. We have done the one thing that we needed inside for now. The rest is outside work and the snow is in the way!!! Now Ray understands what I go through everyday with the kids.. It is nice to have him around. Now I get some adult converstaion.. But hopefully he gets back to work soon so I can paint in the house when it starts getting warmer!!!

A what??? A BABY!!!!

So I have not been feeling so peachy the last couple of weeks and only one thing could be wrong with me... Of course its true.. After a home test I had to see a doctor to make sure it was a correct.. So yesterday I went to the doctor and yep... I'm pregnant!! Number 3 and sooooo excited.. I am just glad to be getting on the road with babies. My philisophy... have one baby have them all. No need to wait years and years to have all your kids.. Needless to say we are excited and a little stressed as well considering the facts of life right now. Anyway, I am only about 6 weeks so approximate due date in Oct. 8 or so.. I go back in 2 weeks to get another ultrasound to measure the baby since its not so big right now!!! Go figure!! In reality for me I will have the baby way before then. At least 3 weeks before then and mabe even sooner. The doctor says that at 32 weeks he will be looking to have a baby if the baby is in anyway stressed at all. So we are ahead for another long road with baby.. Just wanted to fill everyone in that keeps up with bloggin'.

I also came across this really cute website..Lilypie.com It has some really cute counting tickers for the baby and the kids birthday.. Kinda cute so I posted one for each kid so everyone and see how old they.. Only if I could get pictures on this thing. Still trying to figure it out. I really just need to take it and get it fixed, but now that will have to wait until Ray gets back to work!! Watch for up dates on the baby and later I will try to get the ultraasound picture form yesterday up..

Happy Birthday Payton..

Today Payton turnes 2 years old. Where has the time gone?? So we had a birthday party for him last night. My compture is still being dumb so I can't give you any pictures, but it was fun. He really couldn't figure out why everyone was watching him open gifts. I was so hoping that he would cry when we sang Happy Birthday to him, but he just looked at us like we were crazy and hid under the table. Last year when we all sang Happy Birthday to him he cried and cried and took forever for him to calm down. We missed getting it on video last year and so I was hoping this year he would. We had the camera ready and everything. He just looked at us like we were all crazy!! Oh well... We enjoyed it anyway and had a good time.. I attempted to make a Wiggles cake and I failed miserably.. Good thing he really doesn't care.. All he care about was the pictures of the Wiggles that I printed and put on the cake.. Those guys will keep him occuppied for ever..

Friday they layed Ray off work and so now we really have to be frugile with money.. Hopefully the work will pick up REAL soon. Something you have to deal with when you are in the construction business.. Winter months can be slow. We feel really lucky because there are guys that have been layed off since October and we have been blessed to have worked this long. At least he has insurance built up that will last until he gets back to work and as for money.. who needs that anyway.... Hopefully some other companies with the Union will have work.. If not then by the end of March something will come up when the works starts to pick up for Cache Valley.. Those of you who have ever been in this situation wish us luck..

Happy Birthday Payton!!!!!

Heart attcks to puppies.....

This last week has been a crazy mad house for us. Last Sunday Rays dad had a heart attack. We got the call about 3 pm and were told they were life flighting him to Provo.. So we loaded the kids in the van and headed down to Provo. I guess the storm was bad in Roosevelt, so they had to go around the storm to get him down to Provo... Eventually he made it around 8:00 Sunday evening... We stayed there until about 11 or so to make sure he was alright and to see what the doctors had to say. It turned out the he had 3 arteries that we clogged. One at 90% and 2 at 70%. They decided to stint the artery that was at 90% clogged and will stint the other 2 in the next couple months.. So gladly to say he is doing good. Just week and tired trying to get his heart strong again. I guess some tissue was damaged so he will have a recovery ahead of him.. He is doing good and we are so blessed that everything went well and he is okay..

They released Rays dad on Wensday so we went and picked him up. The roads home were closed so they stayed with us the rest of the week. We took them home on Friday after Ray got off work. We stayed at Rays parents Friday night and headed home Saturday morning.. I enjoyed having Rays parents here, but I am sure glad to have my house back. The kids really enjoyed having grandma nd grandpa here as well. It was really nice to be able to spend time with his parents and get to know them better. Even though we have been married almost 4 years( 4 years in June) we have rarely spent alot of time with his parents. It was really nice to actually enjoy my in-laws as well. It was good for the kids to get to know them as well and enjoy their comapny too..

After a heart attack, everyone realises that life is short and to enjoy it while you are here. It was really interesting to see how everyone changed their way if thinking and now all everyone wants to do is spend time with each other before its too late.. I was really blessed to have the opportunity to spend time with them. Too bad it had to take smething like that to make it happen..

On a more happy note,we decided to take a big step into puppy ownership!!! Onemore baby to tend to... But I love her as well. We bought us a 7 week old chocolate lab purebreed... She is so cute and very good with the kids. We had to get one so that Ray will have a hunting companian for duck hunting.. Payton loves her a little too much and I hope that she will survive his brutality!!!!! We named her Gracie and she is just too cute.. I hope that she doesn't drive me crazy, but I am sure that she will.. Abriee doen't really care for Gracie and when Gracie walks in the room Abriee starts crying. It is actually kinda funny... Hopefully she will get over it soon!!!!

There is somethig wrong with our computer and it won't let me put pictures on so when we get that figured out I will get some pictures of the puppy and some cute ones of Abriee and Payton..