Love it!

Have I ever said how much I love having 3 (well 4) girls!!!

Because I just love it!

HAHA, love it!!!

Smack upside the head!

Notice Kylie's still keeping her smile for the picture.  Cute girl!

I didn't even tell her to hug her sister... and Kylie didn't do anything to justify that "love tap" from her sister.  Kylie just truly has an unconditional love for Kadyn... (Kacey not so much, just a sisterly love there)

Mother's Day

What a lovely Mother's Day!

Beautiful flowers and a corsage to wear at church from my husband. 

I also have a dress coming in the mail, from a company that I just adore.  Their style tends to be more 40's, which I absolutely love.  A more modest style with delicate-pretty detailing, and soft accents that are just gorgeous... However, of course all that spells expensive :)  But my new dress (non-maternity) is on it's way too!  So I'm excited about that.  We have a celebratory lunch tomorrow at Famous Dave's, and we're planning on Outback for dinner very soon (just waiting for my Mom to get back into town so we can all go.)  Can't wait! :)

Matthew's also desperately trying to take me away for a long weekend, which I do admire his efforts and I'm sure it would be fun... I'm just a chicken and will miss my girls too much.  He's hopeful that he has something in the works that I'll do, but we'll see. 

Great cards!

And the neat thing is that Kylie and Kacey have school and preschool where they make these neat little projects to surprise me with :)

Love it!  I love how happy they are to finally give it to me- like it's been this huge surprise they've been holding in for weeks and they are just going to burst.

The look of excitement on their little faces as they give me their gifts is completely priceless!

So for real, here is the last picture you will see of me pregnant.  I had a request from my cousin Lisa and I love her, so just for you Lisa!  And minor celebration as this is my LAST Mother's Day that I'll ever, ever, EVER be pregnant.  So we'll honor it with a photo.  I'm nearly 7 months... sporting my lilac non-maternity dress-- honestly, just praying that the zipper didn't bust as I was sitting through church. :)

Notice Kadyn's bowl and spoon of cereal, she wouldn't let go of it.  I mean WOULD NOT put it down.  So, here she is in our special Mother's Day pictures with her breakfast bowl :)

Suffering through some stomach pain right now, not sure why, maybe the peanut butter m&m's I ate at 7:30 this morning... but hoping it goes away.  Not quite sure what it is, it's continuous so I'm not as concerned as I would be if it were intervals of pain.  It seems to be settling, so I think I'm going to spend the rest of Mother's Day lying on the couch with a Cherry Coke Zero :)

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!!!