Finding Time

When I started this blog I had great intentions of keeping it up to date. I really did. I don't know how time escapes us to fast but here we are already in July! July... I think to myself how is it possible at 7 months of 2010 is already gone! Next month Carissa will be in Kindergarten and Christopher in 2nd grade. Cody is going to be so lost without his big sissy there to lead him to the way of trouble! But I know my house will enjoy her being in school. She is my child that gets her little hands into everything under the roof! Everything, actually even things that are not under the roof but outside. If it has a sign Do not touch she is the one that just must touch it!

I have a ton of pictures that I need to upload and a ton of updating I want to do. No promises but I will try to update nightly until I am "up to date". I have even set up a reminder on my phone. Lets see if that helps me! I really enjoy reading blogs now I just need to get better at being a blogger! We'll see right...

Little Turbo

What can I say, I really do want my kids to grow up on a farm! On Thursday, May 13th I brought home a little baby chihuahua. He was born on March 31st, 2010. Just a mere 6 weeks ago. He is absolutely adorable and the whole house is in love with him. Naming him was amazinly easy. I decided to name the little guy "Turbo". I think it fits him well. Gary thinks we should call him Mr. Shakes. Silly Gary. I will post pictures of him soon!

Just one more family pet to add to the zoo!!

Really? May 2010!!

It is May 2010! Really? Where did January, February, March and April go? The months slip by almost as fast as a blink of an eye! it just amazing how fast time slides by. Remember when you were a kid and it seemed like Christmas was so far away? As an adult it feels as though it comes faster and faster every year. I was going to try update the blog with monthly post but I just don't see that happening. So quickly...

Starting with Christopher - He is now toothless on top. Missing both his front top teeth! It is pretty comical watching him eat things that he needs those two teeth for.

Carissa is now 5 years old and she is missing both her bottom teeth! I really can not believe how big they are getting!

Cody is 3 years old! He is by far the loudest with the least amount of words! A scream says it all right?

Cailynn is such a big girl! She is 19 months old and wearing 2T! She is such a riot! Full of spunk and personality!

We have had a few additions to the family. We have a new pet snake that ALL the kid like. No name but he is pretty! We have a new kitty named Jasmine. She is 8 weeks old now and is such an adorable little thing. Very playful and great with the kids. Last but not least we are doing the chicken thing again!

Pictures to follow!

Six years ago... Christopher entered this world!

Happy 6th Birthday my little man! 6 years ago you made me a Mommy for the first time! 6 years ago you showed me how big my heart can be! 6 years ago you made Daddy such a proud Daddy! Our live is so much richer with you in it! You have such a calm nature about you. Your smile simply melts every inch of my heart! It amazes me that you are already in 1st grade and that you are 6 years old. It really feels like yesterday that we welcomed you into this world. I remember that day so clearly. My heart felt like it was going to jump out of my chest the very second I saw you! We love you so much little man!!

From Christopher's 6th Birthday

Craft Time for Carissa

Today Carissa and I had the perfect opportunity to have a little craft time just her and I. I loved watching her in such deep thought while she was painting the caterpillar (aka egg carton). This was such a great craft for her. She surprised me with her patience and she followed direction so well. We are definitely going to plan to make craft time during our week. She showed that she is more than ready to do it and is capable of following direction and it will allow her to get in touch with her ever growing creative mind. All that know Carissa know how creative and busy that mind is! I hope that you enjoy these pictures of our craft time!

First we painted:

From Craft with Carissa

Then decorated:

From Craft with Carissa

From Craft with Carissa

And here is our finished project:

From Craft with Carissa

1st Day of 1st Grade Update

Christopher was full of smiles when he he opened the door from his class room and saw that Mommy was standing there waiting for him. It was too cute when he had asked me if I waited outside all day for him. His teacher seems to be a wonderful lady and I introduced myself and asked how Christopher was. She said he was an absolute pleasure and she is sure that that they are going to have a great year. Christopher was eying this Kindergarten teacher so we had to say hello to her as well. Mrs. Hofmann is an absolutely amazing teacher and I am so glad that she lead Christopher's first experience of grade school. She really paved and awesome path for Christopher and I am sure that Mrs. Blacke will too. Cheers to an amazing school year.

On a side note I am extra excited as I am only working part time and plan on volunteering for the PTA this year. I want to be "that Mom". I am so thrilled to have this opportunity and I am sure that I will fully enjoy it as well Christopher as atleast while he is young.

First Grade here we come!

How is it possible that Christopher has headed off to 1st grade? It just amazes me that my oldest is already in first grade. I know that doesn't seem like a big deal to those that are sending their first born to high school or college but let me tell you it is! I asked Christopher yesterday what would he like for breakfast and he decided on pancakes. So pancakes it was! He ate great and was just so excited to go to school today. I think i was just as excited. I love to see the smile on his face and I love to see him interact with all his friends. Christopher is such a clone of my Mom and it makes me so happy. He makes friends with everyone he meets. Puts a smile on his face and will say hi to everyone. He is such a calm-natured loving little man and for that I am so proud.

Enjoy a few pictures of his first day of 1st grade!

Happy 4th Birthday Carissa!

My sweet Carissa is 4 years old! Where has the time gone? I mean seriously! It feels like just yesterday I was walking in the hospital ready to have her!!

Cailynn has her 1st TOOF!

During one of my many exploratory feel of the gums I finally felt was I was looking for! A TOOF! Cailynn got her first toofer! It does not even seem like she could possibly be old enough to have a tooth already! It was her bottom right. Unfortunately the little booger will not let me get a picture of her pearly edge of a tooth so this picture of her just being extremely so stinkin' cute will have to do!

From Happy Girl Cailynn

Happy Easter 2009

If I had only one word to describe our Easter it would be WONDERFUL! Staying up until 3:00 A.M. that morning probably wasn't the best idea but the Easter Bunny had to wait until all the kids were soundly tucked away (which happened to be about 11:30 P.M. due to Christopher's excitement) and then the filling and dividing of the basket fun began! Before my eyes even began to get use to being shut I heard the morning commotion of "The Easter Bunny came! The Easter Bunny came!" So back up it was to see what the sneaky Easter Bunny left.

It only took about 2 seconds for the kids to take everything out of the baskets that had been so carefully put in them but all was fun!

After all that excitement it was time to get ready to go to church. Christopher was really excited to be going to church. He is an amazing little man. At the age of 5 he already has such a strong relationship with God. He really inspires me to get a better relationship with him myself. We met Terry, Kristen and Amberly at church and it was a really nice, fun service. I definitely see this as a new spiritual journey our family is heading down. Here is a picture of us outside after services.

After church we all came back to our house and the kids thoroughly enjoyed the Easter Egg Hunt! I don't know which one had more eggs but they enjoyed the hunt so much! After all the excitement it was time to sit down and enjoy our Easter Feast as Christopher called it. It was all mouth watering from the Honey Baked Ham to the Strawberry Pie!

We really had a wonderful 2009 Easter!

To Enjoy the rest of the pictures of our wonderful Easter CLICK HERE!!

Green, Yellow, Blue, Pink Purple, oh my!

As the kids get older it seems like the fun just is beginning. Christopher always has this look of excitement, Carissa can't wait to do the next fun thing, and Cody just smiles and goes with the flow. We colored eggs today and I can truly say that it was one of the most fun times we have had doing a project with the kids. It could have been because there was extra help. It could have been that the kids were really into it. Whatever it was we had a BLAST!

CLICK HERE for all our Easter Egg Dying Pictures!

Bad Boys! Bad Boys!

We got home yesterday and unloaded the kids. When we went around back the edivence of the Boys doings was APPARENT! Gary tells me to go around back and look at my rose bushes. So I go and ofcourse the boys (Tank and Gunner) follow like nothing is wrong. I took one look and gasped! All my beautiful bloomed roses are GONE. Poof Gone! There were a few petals of the missing roses on the ground.

Gary and I turned around and asked them which one did it. Neither fessed up at first but then Gunner let out the pee works. When he gets nervous he just pees! So I knew right there and then that he was the guilty one. We told him no and that these were OFF limits and he just peed some more. LOL

Every plant I have gotten these doggies have eaten. I wouldn't have thought roses taste good but apparently they taste as good as they smell. We have a few roses getting ready to bloom on each bush. So we will see what happens to them. My poor roses didn't even know what they had coming for them.

Bad Bad Boys!

Carrots for Cailynn

We tried carrots and YAY! Another one that agreed with her! I think our days of her getting extremely gassy are OVER! I say that with such a relief. Now don't get me wrong the girl can still pass the loudest gas out of all my children but now she does it with a smile on her face! I see her taking after Daddy already!

Giddy Up says Carissa

Today Carissa had her first ride on a horse! A can see this being the start of a new addiction for my sweet little princess. She is going to be the kid you ask "What did Mommy and Daddy get for you for your birthday little girl" and her reply is going to be "A New Horsey"!

I knew she was going to have NO fear and that is exactly what she had. She was so eager to just jump on the horse not caring how wild or crazy or big it was to her.

She wasn't too fond of the helmet but told her without it she wasn't riding. So the helmet made it through the whole ride! Her she is sporting the cute little helmet.

She was in heaven just going around and around.


Look at my very proud girl! She makes me so proud.

Our Crazy Little Monkeys

After Cailynn was done with her yummy bananas all of the monkeys came out and wanted a picture together. I thought how fun. I haven't gotten a good picture of ALL four of them in awhile. Well, apparently I wasn't going to get one tonight either. Click after click and all I got were funny faces! It was pretty funny and I couldn't help but laugh at their cute little funny monkey faces!

Attempt #1

Attempt #2

Attempt #3

Bananas for my Little Monkey

Well, tonight Cailynn tried bananas and Cailynn loved them! I try to introduce a vegetable and then a fruit and then another vegetable and then another fruit. Cailynn was super gassy as an infant so I try to take things slowly with her. I waited a little longer for bananas. It was always a first with the others but the thing with bananas is that it is a favorite around here no matter what the form! I tried to make sure I was feeding Cailynn while the other kids were playing their little hearts out. Cailynn was on her last few bites and here comes Carissa. She gives me that look like I know what those are and say Mommy I want some! Reminding you this is a 4 year old that wants to eat her itty bitty baby sisters dinner! Carissa just blinked her pretty big eyes and I couldn't help but give her a bite. Cailynn was not thrilled with that because it meant I wasn't shovelling it in her mouth fast enough! Needless to say the whole banana size 1 container was gone! As always there is a picture of Cailynn trying her first bananas!

And Who Thought Pink was pretty?

Who ever said pink was a pretty color never saw a 2 year old and an almost 6 month old with pink eye! Today when Cailynn woke up I took one look at her and couldn't help but feel so sorry for my poor little girl. She could barely open her eyes but she still thought that we were the funniest things she ever saw. I made her an appointment to see the doctor and sure enough when we went to pick the kids up there they were both Cailynn and Cody with booger eyes!!!

So seeing my kids with these horrible boogery pink eyes just gives a whole new meaning to "Pretty in pink"!

Squish Squash

Cailynn hasn't made any of the funny faces the others did when we have introduced the different baby foods. Carissa was my major sour face baby making the worst gag me faces ever. Cailynn just takes them in and eats them. No questions asked or funny faces! But she actually had this eagar feed me attitude with her Squash!!! She LOVED them! We found a favorite!

First Peas

Can you tell what is on Cailynn's face? Yep! She was a good girl and ate all her yummy peas!!! I was expecting this face letting me know that they tasted as horrible as they smell (this coming from someone that hates peas and to think I am making my little defenseless baby girl eat them! Atleast she enjoyed my torture!

You want to see more of the Cailynn-Bean eating more and even holding her fork CLICK HERE!!!

Just Hangin' Around

This weekend we didn't really do much but hang around like a bunch of monkeys. I managed to do about 5 loads of dirty laundry. Did I manage to put it away is another story. The kids played with their battery powered cars/trucks and stopped for a quick second for a picture


Yesterday Michael and Liz came over to just hang around with us and brought Bruiser over. Gunner and Bruiser played hard! Cailynn for the first time fell asleep in her Mei Tai! It felt so nice to have her sleep on me like that. She is not a real big cuddle bunny so I definitely snuggled her up!

Liz took a family picture of us just lounging around on the front porch. Of course Gunner had to have his big white butt in it!


Today we were cleaning up the yards and Gary managed to get the 50 year old forklift stuck in the dirt (ok it isn't 50 but looks like it). It was pretty funny.

Good thing Michael and Liz were here again to help get it out. Liz arranged wood planks and we were able to push it out! It was definitely a funny moments. It would have been a great picture the 4 of us pushing this 3000 pound fortlift out of the dirt.

Ofcourse it is 9:30 Sunday night and I am not ready for Monday. I am never ready for Monday. It just comes way too fast! I still have clothes in the dryer. I probably won't get those put away either but hey... atleast they are clean right!