Rosa birthday in Oklahoma

Since we were in OK in July this year Rosa got to have a birthday party for her at Aunt and Uncles house. I cannot believe my baby is 7 years old, how can it be possible that we have been parents for 7 years! And boy what changes these past 7 years have seen. She is such a sweet girl, quiet and loving, she is helpful and such a joy. We love you sweet girl

Grandpa making Bryant giggle

birthday girl

Millie and Hallee

My Grandma and Peyson. My grandma is trying to move to PV and we are so excited about being able to spend more time with her.

My Mom made homemade rootbeer for the party, The kids loved the smoke it made and that we had enough rootbeer for 2 days.

Tangled party with cookies, because my goofy girls does not like cake

PIZZA

More of OK and family!

My sister in law is amazing! She made the girls these dresses for 4th of July. She just whips them up like its nothing. Just thinking about these makes me nervous! Amazing lady I tell ya!

Peyson and Granpa nappin

Uncle Phillip is always a favorite of the kids because he loves to play too!

Phillip and Cole. Cole is my cousins son, we think he is adorable and Peyson quickly started calling him "my brother Cole".

I loved going to the fireworks in PV, it has been years since I have gone. i saw so many people I had not seen in years. The only sad part was that there were so many people to see that I didnt get to talk to anyone for more than a few minutes. I left feeling so blessed to have such great friends and family and remembering such great memories of PV. I miss that place!

I told you, he's a great Uncle!

This is Sami Jo singing for us, she is not only beautiful but sings beautifully!

I like to think of these two lovely ladies as my first kids. Arent they beautiful! I dont like to reveal my age but I started keeping Sami when she was 3 and Shi when she was only a few weeks old. I love these girls!

My kids are good, but at the 4th of July in PV they acted spectacular! They sat in their chairs, didnt argue or fight (except with Clay) they were angels!

My pretty girls in their pretty dresses

One cute boy!

Oklahoma! family and elephants!

This year the kids and I traveled to OK to see family that we had not seen in a VERY long time! This has been a pretty hard think for me over the years, raising kids that so many in my family have never seen. So this visit was long overdue and wonderful!

Is that great Granpa or what? The kids where playing in this pool that Grandpa and JuJu set up for them and Grandpa was watching and then just climbed in, the kids loved it!

And a little game of twister

My beautiful Aunt Judy and Peyson, they look like they are pondering something very important.

My family!

My cousin Clay. My kids loved clay and his girlfriend Angela, they have asked several times they are coming to our house or when we can go to Grandpa to see "that boy we hit with the sword and the pretty girl that runs!"

My Uncle Jerry helping Peyson with a puzzle

Grandpas house is full of fun things!

Peyson and Ellison playing in the water at the zoo, which was a wonderful break from the HOT HOT weather!

Halle looking for more water!

We were super excited to see the new edition to the OKC zoo, isnt it cute?

mud and tball

Well I am so far behind on this blog that I am not even going to try and catch it up, just start from what i just downloaded from my camera! I cannot believe the summer is almost over, makes me so sad to send them away for the day. Rosa will start 1st grade, Logan kindergarten, Bryant Preschool and Peyson will go 2 mornings a week with me for 3 year old school! thats a lot of school! It seems that we have spent most of the summer traveling, it has made the summer ly by. Here are some pics of what we could do the first month of our vacation, play in the mud. Sad to say because of all our southern family, but all it did the first month was rain, rain, rain!

Reah Beth enjoying the slide in our backyard.

My muddy boys

Logan decided to take tball again this year, although he was sad because he really wanted to take Baseball and ditch the tee. Not to be biased we think he has a pretty good swing!

winter fun and sledding videos

Although we truly love Iowa toward the end of the winter we are always trying very hard to remember why (but this winter has been much better than last). We are tired of being cold, wet and colder! It is so hard to be cooped up all day and it gets dark so early we feel as if we should be hibernating. But despite my many many many hours of complaining, we still have a lot of fun in the snow! Last week we were fortunate to get to go to the zoo, the sun came out and we decide to give it a whirl and it was great to get out!

Ever been to the zoo in the snow?

Mr Brook dug a hole in the HUGE pile of snow that was outside our house. Peyson and Quaylen are having fun in the hideout!

This is the first time Reah has spent any time in the snow. Last year she was still too little and she had some asthma problems that had be keeping her nice and toasty at all times. This year my little daredevil loved the snow!

snow art, the kids like taking spray bottles to color and decorate the snow. just a fun way to add a little color to the all white days! lol

3 stooges!!!

birthday blessing season

At our house after Christmas we have birthday season. we have 4 birthdays before mid February. So we eat our feel of cake and count our blessings!

First to have a birthday is Peyson. He turned 3 this year and is such a cute little thing. He has such a funny personality. He LOVES to cuddle and love. He has hit his horrific 3s and throws great tantrums and his new favorite thing to tel l me is "No". but luckily he is cute and we forgive him! He is starting to talk a lot more and seems to do so all the time, if he is not talking he is singing. One sunday while Colby was preaching he lays in the pew and starts singing in his loud but cute voice "lets go to the hop!" If he wants something he is extremely talented that he can say "momma" for hours until I answer him! He also likes to mix songs up and sing them to his own tune. He loves Diego and already wants to go to school and thinks he is going to play tee ball and basket ball this summer. He checked out healthy at his 3 year checkup, his heart murmur is still very clear but as long as he stays healthy they are not going to check it again until he is 5.

Celebrating his birthday in Ok with friends and cousins.

When I was pregnant with Peyson I prayed for one that looked like his daddy and I got him! He looks so much like his daddy and those sweet brown eyes make me so happy!

Next in the line up is baby Reah. And technically I gues she is not a baby in more because she turned 2! But she is my baby and so I will continue to call her baby reah. Having our youngest turn 2 has blessed us with some milestones. We no longer have to buy infant and childrens tylenol, sometime this year I may have 0 kids in diapers (for the first time in 6 1/2 years), and before I know it I will no longer need diaper bags, sippy cups, or even strollers! Reah is definetly our baby. Her siblings love her and let her get away with way to much. She is the happiest thing and loves to laugh and make us laugh (even though she can give the naughtiest looks ever.) She also loves to dance, which causes us great laughter! She can be a bit of a bully and knows that Peyson is the easiest to pick on. If he is sitting on the floor she can easily walk up behind him and get him in a headlock and take him to the ground. where he stays, screaming until one of us pulls her off. She takes great pleasure in doing this over and over. Her 2 year check up showed her to be in great health, she is the smallest of our kids, only in the 17th percentile in height and 23rd in weight. But she is small and mighty! She is a bit delayed in some areas, such as speech but she meets with a speech therapist and we are blessed to have helpers come into our home to work with her. I am not really too concerned about this, she understands everything I say and follows directions well. I think she is just taking her time, soaking it all in!

This is our friend brianna sharing in some cake with us

Friends and siblings!

My bubbly, happy baby girl

Bryant is the 3rd birthday of the month and he turned 4. For some reason Bryants birthday is always a bit difficult or bittersweet for me. He is the only one of my kids that I have absolutely no idea what I was doing on the day he was born. The others I have a vivid memory of the day they were born. It is such a simple thing, but for some reason drives me crazy. which is a little funny because most of the time I really do forget that I did not give birth to all of them. When I was telling Colby about how I felt he said "I know what you where doing the day he was born, we were at the hospital." lol which just goes to show that he forgets too!

Bryant is a such a joy, he has such a funny personality. His little brain just works all the time. He is constantly on the go (which unfortunately means that he gets in trouble a bit more), and the only time he sits still is if he can curl up in your lap. He loves his brothers and sisters and his favorite thing to do is play with them. he really does not have a favorite toy, his favorite is just whatever he can do with someone else. He does really love Orcas after visiting Sea world this summer. He get so excited that when i plan fun things my favorite part and the part I look forward to most is usually his reaction. His new favorite saying is "I think we have a problem here" and he says it about everything. I believe I have mentioned many times his talent for making water jump to the floor, which has been a talent for about 3 years now! He makes me laugh daily and we are so blessed that he is our boy!

Bryant and his smore cake

My perfect prince charming!