No more germs PLEASE!!!

Well - we've been fighting off a cold at our house for awhile now... yesterday, we lost the battle. I crashed and slept almost all day (miserably failing to get ANYTHING on my long to-do list done) Eileen and Anna have been running mild fevers and Aaron and Eileen have been coughing up lungs. After two days of sleeping I think I'm mostly recovered.
I am so blessed to have made some wonderful friends here. One WONDERFUL friend noticed today when our family didn't make it to church (can you imagine Eileen up there for her primary program singing "I am a builder, building my *cough cough* family") and called and offered to bring us dinner. And not just any dinner - but an incredibly yummy dinner, with desert and all!
Now we are praying that Evie says healthy!

Pumpkin Patch

Yesterday we went out to the Pumpkin Patch! The kids really had a blast! They climbed all over everything, ran through the maze, played in all the jump houses and checked out all the pumpkins! Got their faces painted and got wagon rides.


Anna is just fearless! She loved the inflatable obstacle course and slide. She climbed right in and had a blast! Eileen after seeing Anna do them was quick to do them also. Aaron was not so enthusiastic. He went into one of the bounce houses and didn't like it and would NOT go back in! LOL He wouldn't let Grandma put him down for awhile after that! He did love climbing on the more stationary things though. He loved the tractors and trains.

Eileen and Anna got their faces painted - Eileen got Nemo and Anna got a snake. Then we played around the pumpkins for a bit before heading out. We went to lunch with Grandma and Grandpa on the way home, then collapsed exhausted at the house.

Evelyn just slept the whole time... But we're sure she had a blast too... :)

This morning we went to Grandma and Grandpa's house to celebrate my mom's birthday. Kids loved helping to open the presents. We decided to only give the kids bubble wrap and tissue paper for Christmas this year since that was their favorite part anyway... :)

One Month Old!!!

I can hardly believe my little girl is one month old! What a month!! She has grown so much. She is now up to 8 lb 9 oz. She is sleeping pretty well, nursing is going much better and all in all life is good! The kids are helpful and are only going a little stir crazy! :) We actually attempted a couple outings this week. We went to a friend's house to play and even attempted the library.

He's at 'That Age'

I had turned around for no more than 5 minutes.......


That's all I gotta say!

My kids are sooooo sweet!!!

Two quick stories....

We decided to attempt the grocery store this morning. As we walked over to the produce area, I told the kids they could each pick some fruit to take home. Eileen promptly walked over to the huge apple display. Anna shyly told me that she wanted Corn on the Cob! A minute later I told them I wanted to grab some broccoli too, and Anna goes "BROKEEE BROKEEE BROKEE!!!!!" Haha - my kids love veggies! :)

I was sitting and trying to nurse Evie and I hear the water going on in the kitchen. When I check on Eileen a few minutes later - I find her doing all the lunch dishes in the sink! What a sweet little helper!

Two Weeks already!!

We took Evie in for her 2 week check up this week. She is growing well!! She is up to 7 lb 5 oz and 20 3/4 inches long. That puts her in the 25th percentile for both. Strangely enough she is only in the 5th percentile for head size. She officially has the smallest head out of all our kids - maybe that's why she came out so fast....

I went in to see a lactation consultant this week to see if we could figure out this whole nursing thing. We were able to make it work there and then of course I had a hard time getting it to work again once I got home.... But we are making it work.
This weekend was General Conference weekend. Today was really nice. The kids were fairly well behaved and let Dan and I listen to the addresses and even paid some attention. Saturday was another story.... Dan had a competition this weekend and was gone from 4 am to 10 pm.... I told him he's not allowed to leave me again until Evie learns to nurse. Too bad he still has to go to work.... When he got home and asked how my day went i just told him "You don't want to know" It seems like kids have a knack for knowing when they can cause trouble and you are unable to do anything about it but get upset! At least my kids do!!