5th Birthday!

I can't believe my baby is 5!

Seriously, when did this happen?

(this is crazy madness pictures, but we've got family far away who'll enjoy the pictures so instead of choosing, I posted all of them)
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I think this has been her best birthday of all, because she's been anticipating not being 4 anymore... and she's been so excited and waiting for her birthday to come! We did a little decorating downstairs so she'd have something special when she woke up.

They've got different Princess rings on each one... so cute! "How old are you?" For lunch, we went to Peter Piper Pizza What's a party w/o balloons, thanks Yaya and Papa.

Had to get one of the curls!Kacey's thinking, "but I came here to play, I can eat later!" The presents lineup:These are the coolest, Mom approved little girl nails ever. So adorable.Pink baseballs with bats... 2 so Kacey got one also... that way she can defend herself! Disney songs CD I know I'm biased, but she's adorable! Trying to decide which one...

Okay, I'm tired... let's go home. We have no pictures of Matthew, he was behind the camera the entire time.

Back at home... still more presents.

Princess bathrobe and slippers.

She's learning about money, she likes money. She's got a little wallet and everything.

We got her Polly Pocket like crazy, she made out with a whole bunch of fun new things. Thank you to everyone who sent gifts, money, cards, and called today. She's relishing in every moment of her special day. Kylie's ready to play with all ner new things! (so is Kacey... personally, I'm ready for another cupcake!)

Sunday Afternoon Pictures

Picture Overload... it's been a while since we had everyone in Sunday Pictures.

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The girls all have matching sunflower dresses, so precious (thank you Aunt Chiarina, love them). The weather is gorgeous, it's going to hit the 80's this week... time to break out the capris... we've already painted our toes!
I can't believe how blue her eyes are.

Little Miss Personality, or should I say screamer... did you all hear her in Sacrament? She wouldn't do a morning nap.
Sweetness!

Pretty red toes!

Such cute dresses!

With matching white cardigans, love it!!!

Two peas in a pod, too bad you can't tell but Kylie's got a matching hair clip to Kacey's headband.

The funny thing about this one (Matthew took it) he didn't even tell her to pose, she just crossed her little legs and put her arms like that... she can be so darling!

6 Months

Kadyn is 6 months old today, I can't believe how fast the time flies! It was one year ago this month that I was frantically waiting my blood test results to find out her gender :) So Fun!

She is just the sweetest thing ever, so content with life around her. She smiles all the time, she's got the biggest happiest smile. She's holding her bottle, not perfectly but she gets it where it needs to be. She's grabbing toys- picking it up with one hand and transferring it to the other, then obviously sticking it in her mouth. Everything goes in her mouth. She's almost sitting up. We can hold onto her legs when she sits, and you can feel her working her stomach muscles keeping herself up. Sitting up on her own is right around the corner. She's always so amused by her older sisters, they entertain her all day long... makes my job just slightly easier. She loves peas and green beans, by those chubba monka cheekies you can tell she's a good eater. She makes noises when she sees her bottle coming... and I swear it, she says, "I want Momma" when she's screaming her head off. Seriously, it sounds like it. Happy half birthday baby girl, Momma loves you!!!

The Morning After...

Enrichment --that is.

Thank you to everyone who pitched in to help yesterday. Thank you to those, who it's not even your calling and you were helping out because you are just some of my most awesomest friends! And it was my responsibility so it became yours too... Totally love ya!

Huge thank you to Nicole Bell, who gave me probably the best compliment that I will be relishing in for the next few months. Oh and your musical number was fabulous, I expected nothing less than the best from you!

And thanks to everyone who showed up for a fun dinner, evening... and to offer support. All in all, huge success... and no pictures to show for it :) From 3:15 pm yesterday until about 10 pm, I felt like my head was spinning and I was just trying to keep up. While I thought to bring my camera, I lost that thought somewhere between "oh crap, all the hams aren't fitting in my enormous roaster oven and slow cooker" and "oh crap, i drove 15 mph so nothing would spill in my car to get to church and i forgot my husband's church keys at home to open the doors and get in." Yeah, camera was forgotten. :)

Thanks ladies! You're all awesome.

Enrichment!

Ladies Thursday night is our Enrichment, Celebrate Sisterhood!

6:30- you'll wanna get there on time... we're eating first!

Full Dinner (and fabulous, if I do say so myself) and Dessert

*Children Class Available Also*

Sunday Pictures

Confusing Morning: time change= 1 hour less sleep.

Matthew gone for Priesthood by 7 am. (again really 6)

Stake Conference at 10 (really 9 am), needing to sit for 2 hours in one spot= need extra snacks and things to keep them busy...

**** MEANING, it's ALL me ALL morning and get 4 women ready (and survival bags packed up) by what really seems like 9 am****

~~~~Pictures are random due to the circumstances~~~~

Matthew came home after Priesthood for 3.5 seconds to take this one (only one child ready yet) to go save us seats at church.

So that's why Kacey's not in this picture... and that's why we don't have a family picture this week. Matthew never made it into a picture, sorry dear.

Kylie did however get one of me and Kadyn... shhh, don't tell Daddy. He'll flip if he knew Kylie was holding, let alone using, the camera :P

A close up, she was so excited... I let her wear one of my necklaces. She's such a big girl!

Manrichment

Pictures from the big event!

Friday night, my house was turned into Guy Heaven- due to a minor building scheduling conflict/situation. HOWEVER, when I woke up Saturday morning my house was perfectly back to normal... so I was happy.

Now question, I'm Enrichment Leader... when we plan Enrichments, they're uplifting and spiritual... however the Elders Quorum activites are hmmm... well, there was a prayer on the food, so I guess that can be considered spiritual :) There was a great turn-out and from the noise I heard upstairs, everyone was having a blast... so I guess that's really all that mattered.

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Gaming Madness! There were even awards given out at the end... Matthew got gold glitter all over himself making them (real men sparkle!)

They set up a projecter having dual screens in my living room and my dining room... I think allowing 8 people to play at a time.

The Wii was in my family room.

I think PS3 was in the toy room.

This was the sight all evening....

Plenty of man food, I sampled everything :) *nice perk to it being at my house

(nothing sweet though, you can tell women didn't plan it)

The only downside with all the MAN food, was all night while I was trying to sleep there were too many smells... too many overpowering greasy smells all mixing together... ugh, made me sick. I had to air out the downstairs in the morning. My garage got turned into a game room. Every now and again I would hear PING from a ball hitting my cabinets :) I was just glad that wasn't in my house!

*Next Manrichment is the Pinewood Derby ~for men. Should be exciting. Let's hope that one's not at my house too!!!! :)

Manrichment

Ladies please remind your husbands that it's tonight at 6:30. There is a change, it's not at the church but at our house. There's gonna be gaming systems, ping pong, man food, etc etc.

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Brothers, just a quick e-mail to remind you that Manrichment is Friday night, 6:30pm (6:00 for set-up), March 6 until ?????????????????????

So, if you like

And maybe a little

Maybe you're into

You can try to beat Jon Berkible in

Or Aaron Harris in

So come for the(Not necessarily pizza, but manfood!!! :-)

And be a

(*I can't take credit for that, I'm not creative... that's all Steve)

Thankful Thursday

1. When Kacey says, "Mommy, I love you." Or "Mommy, you're so pretty." She says it with such heart. Not sure if it's the sweetness of her words or her angelic little voice, but I love it.
2. When Kadyn looks at me like I'm the only person in the whole wide world that she wanted to see.
3. When I yell for Kylie to come and help because I'm in the shower and Kadyn's falling to the side (soon to be off) of her little bouncy seat.... and Kylie saves the day!
4. I got the smell out of my carpet -my house is 80% tile downstairs... where does Kylie throw up??? The carpet. Smell's out, it was driving me crazy... however it still doesn't look right. I cleaned it so well that the carpet that wasn't stained now looks bad. Never ending.
5. I got a 30 ... (30% off Kohls that is!) Spring dresses for everyone... well not Daddio.

Little things

It's the little things that really make my day! I guess this can be considered my new little hobby- check out this deal... SWEET!

http://thefinancelady.blogspot.com/

Monday Monday

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The weather today was absolutely divine! Right now it's 73... Earlier, I sat out in jeans and a short sleeve shirt and let the girls play, it was lovely.

I love the speed of this camera.

Yes, that's a baby gate on the playground... that way I can be sure Kacey doesn't fall out. Knowing her, she would.

Moo Moos got a workout too! She slept the rest of the afternoon.

Seriously, this camera is up close and personal... I need to shape my eyebrows a little more.

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I found them this way the other evening, title it: "a man and his dog." (not great quality, it was still on the "plant" feature... the prior user should have changed it back, new camera rule) Maggie's on my chair by the way, she wasn't moving.

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Sunday Pictures, good guy- he had to teach my Sunday School lesson (since I was home with little miss stomach bug) and then he had to teach Elders Quorum.