June & July 2012 - Please bear with me

I promise, I really do have good intentions of posting all the time, but life is so crazy...or when it's quiet, I take advantage and let it be quiet.  So, it's my fault that it's been too close to a year since I last posted on here.  But, better late than never.  I figured this would be a good project while I listen and enjoy General Conference this weekend.  So, we're going to start where we left off and in the next two days, I hope to have everyone caught up, which means LOTS of posts.  :)

 

This is how we celebrated Mommy In Heaven's birthday last year.  We made cupcakes and put a candle in one for each of the kids and let them blow out her candles.  We sang Happy Birthday and we talked about her and finished by watching some home movies with her in them.  I hope the kids enjoyed it!

This is what happens when we miss naptime in our house sometimes.  Hammy went to go play, I didn't hear much for awhile, decided to go investigate and this is what I found! :)  Poor guy!



Midget's first time eating baby cereal...man we've come a long way since then! :) 

Needless to say, she LOVED it!  I never really struggled feeding her baby food.  She thought it was great...all except the meats though.  But I don't know of any baby that'll eat that stuff.



The kids we're moving Bubba's mattress into the girl's room so that they could all have a sleepover in there.  This is what happens when you ask them to accomplish things like this! :)



Midget absolutely LOVES to read.  Right now her diaper bag has a few toys, but mostly books.  She enjoys it so much.



Hammy's 3rd birthday...can't believe it!  He was so little when I joined the family and here we were enjoying his 3rd birthday.  That box he is opening up right now was FULL of all different kinds of cars.  He was so excited when he opened it up.  He dumped them all on the grass and looked at each individual car.  Then for the rest of the time, I had to convince him to come open the other gifts.  He'd open one and then run back over and play with those cars.  It was so funny!

Here's his birthday cake...totally fitting!



 Happy Birthday Hammy!

 Scab's 34th birthday...that's about what it was! :)  Love you babe!

 Funny faces in the mirror!

 She loved talking to that other baby.

 Bubba and Buggy's birthday...we try not to do too many things for them together, to let them have their own days.  But it's so hard to get all the family together twice in a 2 day period.  But this one was fun because Bubba's face says it all...their gift was so worth it!

They both got new bikes for their birthday!  They were SOOO excited!!

 Happy Birthday Bubba and Buggy!!  Sure do love you both! :)

 One day during last summer we went and played in the river at a place called "The Hog Hole."  This was a place I went swimming as a kid.  There's a rope to swing on and drop in the water and it was perfect for the kids to wade in.  Bubba found it a great time to chill and relax and soak up the sun! :)  We didn't get anymore pictures because about 5 minutes later, I realized that my wedding ring was missing!!  I had lost it in the river somewhere.  I was devastated to say the least!  We left after looking for it for about 45 minutes.

This was some deer we saw going over to Bedford one day.  Both of them still had their velvet on...it was pretty cool.  They weren't too far from the road so we got a good look at them.  The kids loved it.

 

So that's a little update.  Stay tuned...there will be more! :)

May...better late than never

Life is just too crazy!!  But here's some of our life...

 Kids riding Aunt Cassity.  She makes a fun horse.  They sure love their aunt!  Thanks for playing with my kiddos Cass.

 Midget visiting with her Daddy

So Scab and I took a trip up Greys River in May just to see if we could get clear up to Murphy Lake.  On our way out, in the camping spot that Scab's family has always camped, right off the road was an elk.  We stopped and took pictures.  There were pictures that were closer but fuzzy.

 This was Midget's first trip up there as well, we took her because we couldn't leave her behind.  She did SOOOO well.  She sat in her carseat majority of the time just looking around and enjoying the scenery!  But when we got her out to eat, afterwards she sat with her Daddy for a minute and just jabbered at the trees out the window!  It was cute.

 That's my husband...picture says enough! :)

Ok, the kids like to play dress-up a lot in our house...some more than others.  Bubba seems to be the one dressed up the most.  Dad's a little worried about that because it seems like he's dressed more like a girl than anything else.  It's still cute though.

A cute bride!

 A little girl with hair pulled to the side!  :)

Dad shouldn't be too worried because here he is as a cowboy.  They were saying "Yeehaw!"

 Buggy dressed as a princess. 

 Boo as a bride.

 I hadn't realized that I'd never got a picture of Midget in the tub so here is one.  She LOVES her baths.

One of our Secret Santa gifts we got was this "Fudd" hat for Midget. So of course we had to get a picture of her in it while it still fit!! :)

 Pretty rainbow we had after a crazy rainstorm.  The pictures are pretty cool though.  You can see the dark gray behind the rainbow and then you can see the sunshine coming from the other side.  It was beautiful to say that least! :)

 Midget playing in her crib.  She loves to sit up and see what's going on.

 Check out the black eye I gave her.  Went to get her out of her bouncer and hit her toy and it popped her in the eye.  I felt so horrible.

 Cheesy kids!

Enjoying a picnic.

I'll try and get June posted here in the next day or two!  Thanks for keeping up with our family.  We're constantly on the move!

Easter...and the rest of April

Yep, that's me again...behind!! I get caught up just to fall behind again. Well, Easter at our house was enjoyable. The Easter bunny brought all sorts, including eggs hidden outside (because there wasn't snow this year.)  But then we think we had a skunk get into some of the eggs.  Scab is positive that the skunk was a girl because she only ate the chocolate and let the rest.  Wrappers were everywhere!  :)  Too funny.  But anyway, the kids had a lot of fun.

Finding eggs in the house...

And outside.

Easter baskets were full!!

Midget...slept thru most of the festivities!

We hope everyone had a great Easter as well.  We sure are grateful for our Savior Jesus Christ and the sacrafice he made for each of us.  We are so grateful for the opportunity we have to be resurrected and to live with Him and our family again one day.  We are especially grateful for that in our home as some of our family is not here with us.  One day we will get to be with "Mommy in Heaven" again.  (That is what she is known as in our home.)  We are SOOO grateful for that knowledge!  Sure do love the gospel!

So other things happening at our house, many of you know how much Buggy loves cats.  She is crazy about them...to say the least.  Well, our cat Princess died this winter and our friend gave us another one.  His name is Pumba and he's a nice little critter.  Buggy LOVES him.  Well, it shows because this is what I had found her doing one day.  (He was her baby if you can't tell.  She was doing things we do with Midget!)

She loves her kitty!

Then, one night we were all just chilling in the livingroom and Hammy started acting weird, so Bubba had to join.  So, Daddy was instructing them to flex their muscles. 

Then he joined in.  Hammy was struggling understanding the concept of kneeling and flexing at the same time.  He was struggling. 

But then Daddy couldn't leave out Buggy, and she wanted to be a ballerina...so here are my cute "girls!"  Boo was off to the side holding Midget.

As for Midget, here are a few pictures throughout April, showing how much that girl is growing.

She loves to visit now.

She LOVES her swing.

I don't know who all knew for sure, but she had RSV in March.  She was in the hospital for a couple days because she couldn't keep her oxygen levels up very well.  That was where I got to spend my birthday, but that was ok with me, as long as she was ok!  But anyway, when she got out we had to have oxygen on her, especially while she slept.  Well, here's a picture of her and her Daddy snoozing!  If you can't tell, she's a fan of her Daddy! 

It's fun watching her personality show.  The is how she sleeps, spread out!!!  Makes it hard to sleep sometimes, but sure is cute too.

This is normally the little girl we have in our home.  Happy, giggling, visiting little Midget.  She has brightened our home so much.  It's funny how much she loves her siblings too.  She loves to watch them playing, she loves to visit with them.  Boo sure can get her going.  She is such a blessing in our home.  We sure are glad she's here!

Blessing Day

Well, I finally got the pictures from my mom of Midget's blessing day. Her nick-name is Midget so I've changed it on here. Anyway, she was so darn beautiful in her blessing dress. Almost all of what she wore was homemade. My mom made her dress, it turned out SOOO pretty. Her Aunt Rachael made the bracelet she's wearing. Her Daddy made the white moccasins she wore. Then the blanket she used was made by someone I knew in Salt Lake and given to me by my sister Cassity a few years ago. Well, the pictures speak for themselves of just how beautiful she was.

Sad face, but me and Midget.
Our lovely family!

Close up of her and her dress in Mom's lap.

Daddy and Midget

The next few are just of her in her dress laying on my mom's bed. Like I said, it's the dress awesome!

My cute little bug!

Happy girl!

Thanks to all of you that were able to be there with us! We appreciate all of you so much and we are so grateful for you in our lives.

A special thanks to the priesthood holders that were there and were able to be in the circle to blessing Midget. I got all sorts of teary eyed as I watched Grandpa's and brother's follow my hubby up there! I'm so grateful for the priesthood in my life!

Love you all, The Wolfpack!