Summer Sun

We have been spending a lot of time enjoying the summer sun! I forget how much fun you can have in the summer time when you aren't hugely pregnant. hahaha. We have had lot of fun times at the water park and rigby lake.

This is Mak climbing the rock wall... we are so proud of him he is so brave!!!

We get along so well at the water park hahahahaha!!!

Emmett took a while to get on the slide.  When we first arrived he went racing across the park and climbed the slide... but before he could go down, the giant bucket of water dumped right on his head... so it took him about 45 min. to work up to it again, but once he did we couldn't get him off!

If you know Makray, you know he is a little fish!  No fear!

Sissy loves the water park, she is more than happy to splash all day!

So this is a horrible picture of all of us... but seriously, when does mommy ever get to be in a pic with ALL the kids... so i love it!!!

Don't you wish you knew what he was sayin.... trust me you don't want to know!

We have spent a lot of time with my good friend Taryn and her girls, my boys and her Brylee are in the background, and that is Taycee with the stylin goggles!!!

Dave's Big Day

So often you hear things like "the day you marry will be the greatest day of your life." I have to say I disagree... and though that day is high up on the greatest and most important days of my life... over the past 6 years I have come to find that there have been many many days equal to it. Today was a simple ceremony and a gathering of friends and is really just a short sum up of the past four years, and yet it was one of the greatest and proudest moments of my life. There are no words that can describe how proud of David I am. The work and time he has put into his doctorate degree has been incredible, the sacrifices he has taken for his family have been even greater. In the four years of our time spent in Pocatello we have completed our family with two more little babies, watched Makray grow into a very competent preschooler, helped Emmett fight and conquer his hearing and speech problems, spent dozens of nights in the hospital with  a very sick and premature newborn battling immature lungs.  We have had broken arms, RSV twice, pnemonia, crupe, ruptrured ear drums, ear tubes, deviated septums, and lots and lots of premmie problems, and lets face it I was pregnant, puking and contracting for more than half of the four years.  We have had countless sleepless nights, up with babies, studying for tests, and going over and over a budget that every month just barely made it. We have replaced a garage door, landscaped a backyard, sanded and painted over a graffitied fence not once but twice. We have lost three very loved grandparents and watched more than half a dozen new beautiful cousins come into the world. I have watched David pass up good choices, for better ones. I have watched him work longer and extra hours to keep us out of debt. I have watched him leave before anyone was awake and get home after everyone had gone to sleep, and after this had gone on for several days at a time, i would watch David sneak in to kneel at the beds of our sleeping children, just to spend a few moments with them. David has protected and provided for us in every way he possibly could and today I had the privilege of watching him walk across the stage and be hooded as a Doctor of Pharmacy. All the wives huddled together and cried tears of joy and relief that this exciting new step is before us. This day wouldn't have been complete with out our friends and family who have supported us. YAHOO!!!!!!!!!

SISSIES!!!

Addelyn (cousin)  Violet and brand new Taythen (second cousin)

Violet loved the little babies... it was a little bit shocking, she rubbed and rubbed Taythens head.

Mak was really really excited and proud of his daddy!  He kepts saying "No more school for daddy boy!"  This is all Mak has known... the other two won't likely remember our school days!

Have you ever seen a happier family... I think NOT!

Fun in the Sun

Once again we are up to nothing but enjoying this beautiful weather.  We are just loving what still seems like a new life for us.  David had a basketball tournament, so Mak and Emmett were so excited to have some of their favorite basketball dads for a sleep over and then we finished the weekend off with a great bbq with friends we are really going to miss!

 It got up to 83 degrees yesterday and so what did we do???  Got out our water slide.  This is truly unheard of for an Idaho April, but we are anticipating our true spring weather to return soon... so in the mean time we soaked up some serious sun!!!

 Violet enjoyed this even less than it appears haha!!!

On another note.  Violet had another checkup and hearing screening.  The good news is she is growing like crazy and as healthy as they come, she is up to 14 lbs and in the 8th percentile.  Her screening test didn't go great.  She didn't quite pass, which makes me nervous considering this is around the same age Emmett started having problems, but she had a cold which can really make a difference with your hearing so we will try again next week and hope for better!!!!!!

EASTER!!!

We went to Burley Saturday morning for our annual picnic and hot dog roast. We started out by dying eggs... the boys didn't have a lot of patience for letting them sit in the dye.. so this years eggs were a fabulous array of pastels. They did them all by themselves though.. so i was very proud.


We went to Walcott Park for our picnic and really lucked out, the weather was WONDERFUL and no one was really there. So we threw rocks in the lake, and fed geese, and ran around!
All my boys bringing in the firewood!
The beautiful lake! Papa, Makray, and Emmett all being chased by the dog!!!
Mak eyed these monster sized Marshmallows at the store! He was very proud to cook them up all by himself!

Violet found a new best friend!

HUNTING EGGS!!!


Mak was so fast this is seriously the only picture I got of him looking for eggs. It was serious business!
Time for CAKE!!!
Violet didn't know what was going on and slept through most of the activities.... but she was really happy about the cake haha!
This is the best picture I could get of the kids in their cute clothes... you work so hard to have everything ironed and sewn and perfect and then you get home from church and all they can do is rip off their clothes and beg for candy HAHAHA. At least their "look" happy!!
Happy Easter everyone!!!

Looking Good!!!

David surprised the boys last week by sneaking home from work and taking them to a little building class at Lowes! Really the treat was all mine... (a little free time). But the boys had a blast with daddy. They made little black boards and came home sporting these awesome aprons and goggles!!!
I had to throw this one in because lets face it... little boys loving each other is both adorable and rare!
Emmett will some day hate me for this... however i can't resist. One day I walked past my closet and could here Emmett singing. I peaked in to find him wearing my favorite red heals... singing "I LOVE MY RED SHOES, I LOVE MY RED SHOES!" I hadn't realized anyone had caught me doing that... hahaha just kidding. The superman cape is something he sports constantly and the HULK underwear really topped off the outfit!!!
And last but not least is miss violet!!! Enjoying a little licorice!!! She is just so pretty!

You will have to tilt your head to watch this... but it is pretty cute!