Rease's Testimony

Rease is such a special girl and a good example to all of us.  She has a few friends at school that are not members of the church and she is constantly talking about things she can do to teach them about the church.  One night she was working on something for a couple of hours.  I asked what she was writing down and she said she wanted to write down what she could say to her friends to tell them about the church - basically her sweet testimony.  I was so proud of her and the willingness she has to share the gospel at such a young age.  Her testimony is so sweet and strong.  

Keep it up Rease.  That testimony will be so important to you as you continue to grow!

Rhen's School Pictures

Rhen is in the best preschool.  It's called Kinder Cottage and she has learned so much and had such a fun year!  Miss Melanie, her teacher, had someone come in and take pictures of the kids and we got a copy of all the photos.  I love seeing all the pictures - good and bad.  It totally shows Rhen's personality!

 Her preschool class and all the cute kids in it!

Messy Faces

We have lots of messy faces around here at lunch time.  Especially when we have the drink yogurts that my kids LOVE.  These boys are the best!

Easter 2014

Easter is always fun at Grammie and Papa's house!  There is nothing like an Easter Egg Hunt with money and candy inside the eggs.  The kids had a blast and there were plenty of eggs to go around!  I forgot to bring clothes other than church clothes for my kids, so the boys borrowed some pjs from Canyon - they were a tiny bit too small for Liev, but he made it work.  All these kids have such a fun time together! 

And don't think that egg hunts are just for kids.  After the kids were done with theirs, we had an adult egg hunt just for mommies and daddies.  It was super fun.  Although I will say that I definitely overdid it as a pregnant mommy.  I got a major contraction while I was climbing on the jungle gym in search of eggs.  It took me a good 2-3 minutes to be able to get back to the hunt.  Hayley and Caleb were the big winners this year - I swear they won last year too.  But we all had a fun time and came home with some good cash.  Caleb came home with ripped britches so I guess all the money they found will go to buying him some new pants.

Easter Sunday the kids woke up to find their easter baskets.  The Easter Bunny always leaves their baskets hidden and they have to go on a little hunt to find them.  Here they are, excited to have found their baskets filled with goodies.  They each got a pair of goggles for swimming this summer and the kids didn't want to take them off.  Even Keen got in on the goggle action.

Days later, Liev still has his on!

Most of all, we are so grateful to be able to celebrate our Savior this Easter and his atonement and resurrection.  We love knowing that we will be able to live as a family for eternity because of Him.  Easter is a great day to remember all of our blessings!

Car time

My kids probably feel like they spend a lot of time in the car and strapped into their car seats.  We drive to the gym everyday, which unfortunately is 25 minutes from our house.  Plus, we're usually dropping Rhen off to school, going to the store, running errands and everything else while we are out and about.  So they are probably right to feel like they get trapped in their seats for hours a day.  We do try and make it fun while we're all in the car together - the kids take turns choosing songs from the iPod or we sing songs together.  Sometimes when I want it to be quiet I put my audio book in to listen to (the kids hate that!)  But for the most part our car time is some good time we get to spend together in the mornings.  I snapped these pictures the other day while the kids were happy and being good.  I love these little ones that I get to spend all day with!

My Pink Slippers

Keen loves trying on shoes.  He's always trying on his dad's shoes or taking off with Liev's boots.  Pink sequin shoes don't get passed up either apparently.  Even if they are too small, they go great with the diaper!

Getting ready

Do you remember doing this as a kid?  My girls do this almost every night to prepare for the next day.  My favorites?  The underwear over the pants and the necklace in just the place it will be tomorrow!  Love these girls of mine!

Keen's rash

One night Josh was changing Keen's diaper and noticed he had a rash starting on his legs.   I didn't think much of it and just thought his skin was irritated from his diaper.  But then I looked and noticed he had it on the back of his legs and a few starting on his face.  I decided to see how it looked in the morning and would call the Dr. if it was much worse.

This is what it looked like the next morning.  It was much worse and looked like little blisters all over.  

By the time I got in to the Dr. that afternoon it was continuing to get worse and spread.  Dr. Erikson said it's Impetigo and was pretty contagious.  He put Keen on amoxicillin to get rid of it but told me to keep him away from the other kids as much as possible so they didn't get it.  

Poor kid looked like he had chicken pox on his face.  Anyway, turns out the antibiotics took the impetigo away but gave him another rash all over his body.  So we went back to see Dr. Erikson 2 days later and it turns out the new rash was an allergy rash from the amoxicillin.  So he put Keen on cephalexin to take care of that rash.  Poor Keen has an allergy to penicillin which is not a big deal, just a pain to have to worry about his whole life.  In the end though both rashes are gone and Keen is a happy boy once again.  

We love the triplets

We have LOVED having the triplets here finally.  My girls are in heaven having a baby to hold every time they are around and Keen can't figure out where all the babies keep coming from.  They are the sweetest things and are little by little getting bigger.  Norah is still on her oxygen but the doctor says she is getting close to being done with that.  Overall these triplets have been amazing and so is Hayley!  We can't get enough of these babies!

Another one bites the dust

Another baby tooth gone.  Rease has been working on this one for weeks and it finally gave in.  She's up to a total of six now and loves that she is keeping the tooth fairy coming to our house!  

Yard Work

It has been beautiful weather here these past few days.  I told the kids that daddy was coming home to work on the yard, so the boys wanted to get a good start on it first.  

Liev mowing the lawn...

 Keen found the biggest rock he could carry and threw it on top of the green box.  Very helpful.

 And they helped weed the flower beds.  What more could we ask of our boys?  Such good helpers!  And so excited for spring and summer to be here!