More than half way

For those who don't check Facebook or just didn't see the video,

the verdict is in............

this pregnancy is going by very quickly.  We are very excited and I absolutely LOVE having older children who are completely excited for a new baby.  They ask questions all the time, talk to my belly, and give us some very strange name suggestions!  Jaxton's favorite name right now is Dodeeeee or Super Baby.  The other two give us names that I really just don't like, i.e Rachel or alyssa.  They aren't bad names, just names I don't see our daughter having.  When we decide on a name, it will be a secret until she comes in March.  I needed something to surprise people with since Spencer wanted to find out the gender.  (well, we honestly needed to find out since I have gotten rid of practically everything baby). And there are absolutely NO good baby thrift store around here!!!!  I miss all the ones in Spokane :(  We went thrift store shopping and the couple we went to want like $3 for a onsie or little jammie and why in the world would I pay that at a used store when I can buy it brand new for about one dollar more or even cheaper on clearance?  Anyways, we are very excited to meet her in March!!!

Baby Belly progression

With my 3 previous pregnancies, I have never taken pics of me pregnant.  But now that I live so far from all my friends and family, I am getting requests for pics.  So here we go...

13.5 weeks

16 weeks

                                                       16 weeks 5 days (This is when I noticed I started "showing") Just look at the difference 5 days made :)

17 weeks 4 days and getting bigger by the day 

Who gave her permission to grow up???

Our Princess was born 7 years ago today.  I can't believe she was this tiny.  Warning:  This post has quite a few pictures.

 family pic of the 4 of us (Don't mind me, I just look awful!!!)

3 months

6 months

7 months

9 months

13 months

1 1/2 years

2 years

2 years

2 1/2 years

2 1/2 years

3 years

4 years (first day of preschool)

5 years

6 years

6 1/2 years

7 years

Our baby is all grown up!!  She is such a wonderful, beautiful, and sassy little girl!  We love you Rylee!  Happy Birthday!!!

Breaking News

A video on how we broke the news to the kids 4 weeks ago and then how we used that video to tell family

Pink or Blue?
We simple can't say.
We're so excited
for our own "Labor"  day! 

March 2013

A little behind

I just posted pics of the kids and their first day of school and realized I hadn't posted anything about our last half of Summer... so here's a quick recap.

The weekend after July 4th we headed to Spokane for the Brower family reunion in Priest River.  It was great seeing my in-laws and the kids enjoyed every second they had with Grandma and Grandpa and a couple of their cousins.  

 We only had a long weekend with them...BOO!   on the last night, we had a movie night watching Tangled with them and eating Pizza in their hotel room

 This was right after family prayer with them...I just loved that night with them!

 Before we headed out of town on Tuesday morning, we hooked up with my brother and his wife and their kids and ate some breakfast

 Then we stopped by Aunt Katie and Aunt Danielle's work to say hello and goodbye to them

 This was a pic I got of the kids a couple weeks ago waiting for daddy

 The kids had lots of sleepovers together and with this one I made a fort for them to` sleep in and I listened to them giggling and laughing from outside the room.  It was so cute, I had to get a pic of it

 Blake FINALLY lost his 3rd tooth.  That boy does not like to lose teeth!

 Blake earned going to a movie with just me and we loved it!

 We spent lots of time outside...even in PJ's

 JD finally is potty trained!  We celebrated by getting him a specially made Tow Mater cupcake (for only $2.50- Thanks Broulims!)  He felt special!  And I love that he is going potty in the toilet!!!

 This is what our Sundays look like after church!  Lots of rest!!

 We spent some time at Porter Park and Rylee is so good playing with her little brother

 JD spends most of his days playing with his cars.  If I am not down in the family room, he will put them in a bucket and follow me where ever I go.  He is literally my shadow!

The last two days have been pretty quiet with the other two in school now.  We have spent the time playing with cars and we did some cleaning this morning.  He loves to "help" mop.

First Day of school 2012

 Today was the first day of school for the kids.

                                                       Blake 3rd grade

                                                       Rylee 1st grade

                                    They're so cute!!

                                 JD wanted a first day of school pic too

Waiting for them at the bus stop!  They had an "awesome" first day.  They talked my ear off for a good half hour when we got home and as they ate their snack.  I hope it continues to go well for them!

July 4th Fun!

We had a fun 4th of July!  We met up with some friends from college who were in town visiting family and spent the day with them at the Menan 4th of July thingy (don't know what it's officially called).  ANyways, we had a blast, but it made for a very long day!

But our fun began Tuesday when the kids did 4th of July hats at the Library for craft day.

 I took a couple pics of our fun yesterday.  The hightight of the day was the pony ride.  (Rylee has been wanting to ride a pony for quite some time)

 Rylee got her face painted too!

 The parade was hot and the fireman kept squirting their hoses, so this is what JD did every time he saw the hose!  (He was in the back of the truck)

 They had this little water slide that kept the kids cool in the 90*+ weather.

 They also had a dunk pool and all the kids wanted to do it.  I don't think JD knew what he was in for :)  He was a trooper.  Just whined for a minute right after, I think more because he was surprise by the sudden dropping than anything.

 I took a pic of the traffic on the way back into Rexburg because I have never seen it like this!  This is us trying to take our exit, but traffic wasn't moving too fast!

We had a great day with the Kelsey's and got home very late.  Jaxton fell asleep during the fireworks and Blake kept asking when it was going to be over because I wouldn't let him fall asleep (We couldn't carry him back to the car too) and he just kept saying "I'm so tired mom."  All three were asleep in the car within 10 minutes :)