Sunday Morning Pictures and Strawberry Freezer Jam

9 AM Church, and we still managed pictures! 

VICTORY!

Although Kadyn was difficult about being in a group picture...

She preferred to be the lone model :)

Peek-a-boo!!!

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Okay, last week Kylie and I made Strawberry Freezer Jam... which was delightful!  Kylie is such a huge help, sometimes Kacey gets moody and territorial... but she was playing at a friend's house so Kylie and I tackled the strawberries...

Seriously, the strawberries were enormous...

Kylie hard at work...

It's a plastic knife, no worries. 

Kylie really amazes me at this stage of her life.  I look at Kacey and remember going through those rough patches with Kylie.  But now Kylie is so wonderful.  She's an amazing helper, a great listener, follows multiple directions to the T, a hard worker, and very ready to please.  I can say to her, "Kylie, take your sisters downstairs and give them breakfast."  I'll come down about 10 minutes later, and she's done it!  Plates, food, even Kadyn's food is broken up in pieces.  AND Kadyn in strapped in her high chair.  Kylie is INCREDIBLE!  She's so wonderful, I'm so grateful for her and all the sanity she brings me :)

... and sometimes I reward her with a Cherry Coke Zero, what can you do!?! :)

Daisy Days, Soccer, and Sunday Morning Pictures!

*DAISY DAYS*

I'm trying to get back into the habit of taking pictures regularly...

they're just too cute to not be taking pictures of them.

Have I ever mentioned how much I love Gymboree?  Love that store, LOOOOVE that outlet!  Kinda getting into the little girls outfits being one way but the baby girls outfits being another, however all of it similar and matching because their from the same line... hence, DAISY DAYS!

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*SOCCER*

Team Picture

We had our first game yesterday!

It's so much fun.  I'm really excited to be starting it up again this year.  Matthew's coaching again this year with our good friend Casey (his wife is Kacey's preschool teacher- if you want to piece it together).

There's HUGE difference between last year and this year in the kids' abilities (we pretty much have the same kids as last year which is great).  It makes it fun to watch.  I will admit, it gets a little intense... well I get a little worked up.  I have to breath and look the other way and calm down, they're just 6.

Kylie loves being goalie.

Like she wants to do it all the time.

She throws a bit of a tantrum to Matthew and bugs him the whole week prior as to when she gets to be goalie.

He tries to be fair- everyone gets an equal chance.  It's just annoying to hear her start on Tuesday about her game on Saturday :)

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*Sunday Morning Pictures*

I am feeling very on the ball!

9 am church, everyone ready... Matthew already gone to his early meetings, but we did everything and we were early... AND we took pictures! I get an 'A' for the day.

Kadyn loves Kylie :)

Kadyn calls her "Dolly."  That's her version of Kylie.

Kacey is "Cici."

And the funny part of it is, both older girls know when Kadyn is calling her version of their name. 

EASTER

Of course, Easter began with us coloring many, many, many eggs.  I've got 3 dozen colored eggs in my fridge.  We haven't touched one of them... and I'm not sure if anyone else smells it, but the pregnant woman doesn't like it!  They'd be gone if they weren't so CUTE!

Us hard at work!

Somehow Kadyn went from this...

To this in only a few minutes... (?)

Let's move onto Easter morning, which began with finding our Easter baskets!

The amount of candy they got was ridiculous!  As well as presents from both sets of grandparents, and new dvds-- The Princess and the Frog and Alvin and the Chipmunks.  The girls were on candy highs and presents overload all day long.  I was really glad to put them to bed that night... although Matthew and I found candy wrappers under the beds- LOTS of them!  Little sneaks! :)

Notice their flip-flops are on.  We're prepared... they knew one of many Easter egg hunts in the backyard was coming!

Back inside actually looking through all their gifts...

And -my favorite- our meal!

Ham, ribs, mashed potatoes, corn, peas, and steaming hot butter biscuits!!!

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And fun news... Kylie can ride her bike! (no training wheels)

Matthew said she pretty much got it on her own.  I walked outside today, he was doing yardwork... (this is his happy yardwork face)

And this was Kylie.  She's good too!  She can stop and go with no problem.  I had no idea!!!

Bike's a little small, it's for her age... but she's got long legs.  I have a feeling we'll be buying her a new bike very soon.

This is what we affectionately call "Boyd Circle."

Our own little street circle in front of our house that we really don't share with anyone... makes it nice for bike riding!

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PS- Pictures of the new bedroom (aka Maggie's old bedroom) are coming.  I've been waiting 6 weeks on wallborder!!!  It's shipped from the manufacturer, it should be at Lowe's in a few days... so more pictures to come on that.  The bedroom is just gorgeous, I love it!!!

Dr. Appt

Sweet Little Kloey!

We had our official ultrasound today verifying that her heart, brain, spine, all that stuff was good... and it was!  Everything looks perfect, she's moving like crazy, growing just fine!  (And it's always nice to hear that she's still a girl, especially after the massive amounts of clothes I've bought!)

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Check out this picture... okay, OUCH!

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And here will be the 1 and only pregnancy picture of me you will see, taken this morning.  Black is very forgiving, but let's face it... appearance at this point in pregnancy- well, it's downhill from here.  I'm 19 weeks and 4 days... the next picture you see of me will be in the hospital with Kloey in my arms!

I called home during my dr's appt and talked to Kacey.  She goes: "Mommy, is Kloey out of your belly now!!??"  And I told her no.  She was quite upset and said that she wanted her to be out now.  I told her that in a few more weeks, I'm really going to want her to be out too. :)

Thursday Morning

I love this picture!

They were sharing biscotti, although sharing with Kadyn means "as soon as my bite is swallowed, I want more immediately!"
Papa understands that, so they work well together.

(taken with the cell phone, so it's a little blurry)

Birthday Girl!

Kylie turned 6!

She was super excited, she's such a big girl now!!!

We began the day by meeting her at school and bringing her and all her kinder-friends doughnuts!  They sang to her and she was delighted!

Kylie and her teacher Ms. Messerli- who by the way, I absolutely adore.  She's positively amazing... I'm trying to convince her to go up to first grade next year... then switch back down to Kindergarten to get Kacey. 

Next, we headed over to Cici's.

Notice my cake, umm I mean HER cake.  I was pleased with myself! :) 

They had her stand on the chair while the whole restuarant sang Happy Birthday to her...

Then... later that afternoon we went to SKYZONE.

It's a huge place with dozens and dozens of trampolines, even trampolines on the side of the walls so you can literally BOUNCE everywhere!  The girls were so tired out, their little cheeks were bright red!  Sweat was pouring off of them after an hour- even Matthew was laying down a few times just trying to catch his breath.  I felt like it was a job well-done! 

Our evening ended with a middle-of-now-where Las Vegas McDonalds dinner stop.  (A 50 piece nugget was 9.99... score!  Although I'd like to say we had a lot leftover, we totally didn't!)  Again, more playing... this time on a PlayLand we'd never been to before which was fabulous to the girls.... then rushing home to beat a storm brewing.  They were so ready for bedtime at the end of the day (although all I wanted to do was sanitize them down- lightening or not, they were getting in the tub!)  I think Kylie had a great day, it was definitely a day out of the ordinary... doing crazy fun stuff!  And she got a boatload of presents... and a brand new bedroom.  More to come on that, later :)

One Day Later...

One tooth less! 

Not 12 hours since she lost one bottom, she loses another!!!

You can see her excitement!

This one was all on her own.  She came running upstairs to me, kinda freaked out.  Her tooth was laying in her lip, no pulling necessary (lucky me~ Matthew was at work).

A Big Night!

Kylie lost her first tooth last night!

It was barely hanging on in there... how she ate, I have no idea!

She called me upstairs, and she was ready.  She told me she wanted me to pull it out.  Before, she's always been too scared.  So I held her hand with one hand and pulled with the other one... but I got scared.. so we called Daddy upstairs.  I held her hands, he pulled and a few seconds later... she looked like this! :)  She was pretty excited, we did the whole tooth under the pillow for the tooth fairy.  She got $5 and was so pleased with herself this morning when she woke up!

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I can't believe we're at this stage.  I've got 1 losing her teeth, 1 with a perfect little mouth (she never took the pacifier), 1 getting her molars, and 1 well who knows what type of teeth/gum/mouth development she's at in the 5th month of pregnancy! :)

Ultrasound Today

The only thing better than having 3 girls...

is having 4 !!!

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Yes, yes it's true.  Boyd Baby #4 is officially a little GIRL!

To that I will say, I knew it.  I knew it with every fiber in my being, I knew it.  Sometimes I worried that I wanted it so bad, so that's how I knew it... but in my gut, a girl felt right... and it was! 

And to save your questions/comments, I'll confirm that WE ARE DONE!  We have 4 girls (I love saying it!!!) and we are happy, content, and complete.

We're still here

Yes, we are still alive and functioning.

I'm feeling quite lousy, and it's all I can do to survive the day to day.  In fact, I broke my 3 year long resolution of writing in the girls' journals every month.  The month slipped by me, not sure how... I was certainly miserable every long day... but I'll have to make up for it this month with my entries.

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The girls are well!  I did take a gender test, but I took a different one than I took with Kadyn.  I liked that the results were immediate so I wouldn't have to wait for the call from the lab like I did with Kadyn.  However, I just found out that they have a class-action lawsuit against them.  Their claim of being 93% effective is really only a 50% effective rate.... which is about as good as me just guessing.  Long story short, if I ordered the test (I took with Kadyn), by the time it got here, I took it, sent it back, got it processed by the labs, and got the results... my real ultrasound would be only 2 weeks away... so it doesn't seem worth the $400 for me just to find out 2 weeks later.  So that's where we're at with that...

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Here's a quick picture I took of Kadyn the other day, lunchtime I think.  Spaghetti takes alot out of you!

And here's a cute one of Little Miss Kacey.

Do you notice anything different about her?

Hmmm?  Look for it...

Straight hair. 

Yes, it may take 25 minutes because I have to do little sections at a time... and a whole lot of styling product with a straightening iron, but it tickles her to pieces to see herself in straight hair!  So we occasionally do it.  Of course she always tells me she wants straight hair on days that I do the morning car pool, and we're in a super rush anyways to get out the door.... but the things we do for beauty!!!  And would you figure, it's raining today.  All that hardwork and it's all I can do to protect her little head... a couple of raindrops and it curls right back up :)

Primary Activity

I love this picture, thanks for sending it to me Erin.  Apparently, the Primary Presidency was taking some photos of their activity this past Saturday.  And Kylie asked if they could take one of her and her sister together... it turned out really cute :)

Family of 6

I can hardly believe we're going to be a family of 6. 

The fact that I'm going to have 4 kids age 6 and under... is insane.  A 6 year old, 4 year old, 2 year old, and newborn... I must be crazy! :)

A few nights ago, we went out to dinner.  The hostess put us at this huge table in the middle of the restuarant, and I was looking around like what the heck... why such a big table.  Then we all sat down, and filled all but 1 chair.  And I realized, oh... we fill all the seats (or at least will soon enough) that's why she gave us such a big table.

Baby is due August 16th, my crazy gender test is Jan. 23rd... so stay tuned.  We have a fast heartbeat, 180 beats per minute if Matthew and I remember correctly... which according to old wives' tales indicates a girl.  Kacey and Kadyn were both quite fast, Kylie was alot less.  Quite honestly, another little baby girl would just be heaven for me! :)  Although Kylie's infant hand-me-downs have seen better days!  hehe.

Two Sundays Pictures

New Year, new church time... welcome 9 am church!  I gotta say, I like it.

Don't get me wrong, it's all "Hurry up.  I'm tired.  Get dressed.  I'm hungry.  You're in my way.  I'm tired.  Hurry up.  Get dressed.  Where are your shoes?  I 'm tired.  Hurry.  I'm hungry.  Brush your teeth.  Hurry.  Get DRESSED!!!!"  It's that from 7 am to 8:45 am, straight... but it's awesome.  Naptime is all systems go in the afternoon.  All 4 ladies with full tummies and sound asleep in their beds by 2 pm.  Right on!

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Kacey became a Sunbeam today!  She was so excited to go where Kylie goes in the Primary room.  I can't believe it's her time now, we did this for the first time 2 years ago with Kylie.  Time goes by so fast.  Kacey was pretty proud of herself today that she's a Sunbeam, she's been saying it all day!  Kylie also got a new teacher today, she seems really happy in her class.  She's like that though, she'd be happy no matter what.  She's a good sport.

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Last Sunday's Picture

And I've gotta say, I've got the life.  Just got called into Nursery, and released from my other 2 callings, and I don't think I could love Nursery more!  Nursery is so awesome, and I'm going to bask in my glory right now because I think I'll always look back and wish I was still in Nursery.  Because, as I said, Nursery is awesome!!!!  There's playtime and snacktime, I'm with Kadyn and it rocks!!!