I'm Pregnant...Again

Most of you already know this, but I am indeed pregnant with my FOURTH child! It is quite a shock but looking at the other three sweet children running around, I can't be upset. Brock and I really do make great kids! I'm a little stressed about everything else surrounding it like money, patience, energy, and the list goes on and on....

It really all comes down to the fact the God promised that he won't give me anything that I can't handle, so I really have nothing to worry about...Well, I'm trying not to worry... Also, while I feel like I fall very short most of the time when it comes to being the best mom, wife, and teacher...I know again that I have to be doing something right for God to keep giving me these kids!

I am really excited to see what kind of personality we'll get this time because all three of my boys are wonderful but very different.

Connor is calm, quiet, thoughtful, very intelligent, and happy. He wants to know about everything, why things happen. He is not very affectionate, but very sweet.

Jaxson is rambucious, loving, happy, and a little wild. He is busy, busy, busy. He likes to wrestle and karate chop people, but he is very affectionate.

Kaden is sweet, happy and precious. He is a little young, but I can tell that he is his own little person.

Will I get a Jax, a Connor, another Kaden? What about a girl?

We'll see!

Connor and Jaz are really excited! In fact, Jax has two babies in his belly also and I get to here them talking and kicking all the time!

End of Summer Update

At the beginning of the summer, I listed several things that I wanted to accomplish before the end of the summer. Let's see how I did.....

1.) Catch up on scrapbooking
- Well, I did spend a whole weekend with good friends working on my many books and then another Friday night...but no I am not caught up...I need to do much more to be caught up.

2.) Thoroughly clean my house
- Well, I did but since then my sweet little tornadoes have again destroyed it.

3.) Organize closets and drawers
-Some I have, but not all

4.) Potty train Jax
-YES!!!!!

5.) Lose weight
-Well, I started, but as most of you know, instead of losing, I will be gaining....again....

I hate that I am starting school next week and leaving my babies during the day, but I do love my job! I work at a great school with wonderful teachers! I can't wait to see which wonderful teacher Connor gets next year!!!

Hawaiian Falls

Thursday, I took Connor and Jaxson to Hawaiian Falls in Garland with Jaime and Maddie. We had a great time!!! We got there about noon and the boys were very upset when we left at 6. We spent most of the day at the Lazy River and the Kid Part. Sorry, I don't know the names of the sections.

I hate that we went so late in the summer. We had so much fun and I wish there was more time to go again.

We only have one more week of summer left! I 've got to find some fun things to do, to make the most of it!

VBS at Eastridge

So, it has been over a week since VBS ended, but for some reason I can't post without a picture and I couldn't find where I put my camera.

We had a great time at VBS this year! Debbie and I were in charge of the 3rd and 4th graders and we had a lot of fun with those kids. Connor and Jaxson had blast each night and they were excited to go each night!

Brock stayed home with Kaden on Sunday and Tuesday night since it was past his bed time, but Kaden loved being there on Monday and Wednesday.

We can't wait until next year!

The Last Week...

So, I have been without the internet for over a week!! My household can not do without the internet. It really is sad! Anyways, here is what the boys have been up to...

Jaime asked us to come over and play in the sprinkler, so I took just a few pictures.












































Kaden loves Simba and Simba loves Kaden just as much. He always let's Kaden lay on him but I am never quiet enough to get a picture before they move. It was so cute...Kaden laid down next to him, Simba looked at him and then laid his head down also...


















"All I want is my two front teeth...". Connor lost the other front tooth.




















This is hilarious!!! Connor saw on some cartoon where a character's underwear or pants got caught on something and couldn't move. So, he decided he would try it...


Once he got up there, the chair moved and he couldn't get down. His underwear was digging into his leg and he was screaming for me to help him down. I was laughing so hard that I had a hard time getting him down.


So, this week I am teaching RACE in the mornings and Connor begins football practice tonight.

Kaden is one year old…

So the day that I dreaded is here and gone. Kaden turned one today. We had his party yesterday. My baby is not a baby any more. I don’t know where the time went. I feel like I was in the hospital last month giving birth.

Kaden is such a sweet little boy and I just can’t believe that he is so old. He is walking and drinking out of a cup. He will be going to Mother’s Day Out 4 days a week starting in September. How can I stop time? I want to pause everything. I want to slow this down.

I am really struggling with this. I don’t want my little boys to grow up, but also I don’t want to close this chapter of my life. We’re not going to have any more kids and it is so hard knowing that part of my life is over. I will never get to hold my newborn baby in my arms and on my stomach and wonder how in the world he fit in there! I had a hard time at the hospital with Chris and McKenlie because I thought, “Wow, I’ll never do this again”. I looked at that sweet baby girl and thought, “I’ll never have another one of those again”. I went to a baby shower today and remembered the feeling of excitement knowing that soon I was going to see the alien growing in me.

The weird thing is that I don’t want to have another baby. I can’t afford another one and I don’t have the time and energy to have another one…but I still feel sad. So, I guess if I had 10 children I would still feel this way after the 10th.

I guess part of my problem is that I feel like everything is going so fast and I can’t slow it down. Brock keeps saying that Connor is 1/3 of the way to college!!! Are you kidding me? I don’t want to hear that! That really scares me!!

Anyways, we had a really good day and then we went to the Barineau’s this evening for dinner and fellowship. We had a good time with the Barineau’s and the Perkins’. They are some of the best friends we could ever ask for!

Moral of the story is…cherish your families every day because life goes by TOO fast!!!

Kaden’s Birthday Party

Kaden’s 1st birthday party went great!!! He had a wonderful time and loved all of his presents. We had all of our family and close friends over to celebrate with Kaden. We missed Papa, Aunt Chris and McKenlie because they were still in the hospital and Uncle Beau and Amanda were still on vacation. Uncle Blake was in summer school and the Barineau’s were still in Florida…but other than that all of his favorite people were there.

This was his invitation.



We ate pizza for lunch and Kaden ate a whole piece!!! Then we began opening presents. Kaden got a Bounce and Spin Zebra, a ride-on firetruck, a dumptruck, books, bath toys and clothes. Connor and Jaxson enjoyed playing with his toys as much as Kaden did.

Then Kaden dug into his cake. Kaden doesn’t like to be dirty, so he didn’t like the icing on his hands after he stuck them in the cake. He ended up with icing all over his face and then I would lift the cake to his face and he would take a bite. He did really well.

(I will put a picture later...I have to get one. I was busy with Kaden and couldn't take any pictures)

After that we served cake to everyone else and then just visited with our friends and family. It was great to see everyone and have so many people that we love in the same place.

Kaden is a very lucky boy to have such a great family and have such great friends surrounding him! God has really blessed us!