Pictures

This is Katie on her birthday, I think she likes being the center of attention

These are some of the gifts that Katie got, we let Zoe model them too

Katie got a tea set, and they decided they wanted a tea party with cookies and gummy treats

Here's Katie will all her birthday jewelry on. She's such a cute kid

Here's Hailey modeling all her jewelry, they all looked so cute!

Here's all of the girls, Zoe doesn't look very happy

Here is the snowman Hailey made, Virginia helped with the face and the crown.

Here they all are with the snowman

Katie bundled up for the cold weather, they sure love the snow!

Here's Zoe, I love her grin.

This was sometime this fall, she looked so cute, I had to take a picture

Zoe was a "fierce" lion, I love this shot because you can't see her face.

Again, our "fierce" lion! I love the binky!

Here's Katie, she wanted to be a ghost just like Hailey

Hailey climbed up in Virginia's trunk when she was done. She was content to eat and pass out candy

I love how photogenic this girl is. This was sometime this fall, Randy raked the leaves so they could play in them.

Here are all three playing

Hailey, Zoe and Eva. They had so much fun!

*HUGS*

She is so stinkin' cute!! I really wish I was this photogenic!

Still here

Wow, it's been so long since I've been able to post anything. We haven't had a computer for a couple of weeks now. Our desktop just decided to not turn on, and the cord for our laptop isn't working so it doesn't charge the laptop. So we've only had our Ipods, which wouldn't be fun to write a post on, so it's been kind of sad. Anyway, but we're still here, we're all doing well. Hailey is loving school and the boys there. Katie turns four tomorrow, we had her birthday party yesterday, it was a lot of fun. Zoe is cute and a stinker at the same time, she must be in the terrible two stage. I have learned so much through Zoe, I am so thankful to have her in our family. We've been talking a lot about the gender of this baby that's coming, and I am so grateful for the lessons I've learned from Zoe. I don't know how many know this, but when I was pregnant with Zoe I thought for sure I was having a boy, and when I found out it was a girl I had a hard time with it. I felt disappointed, and upset, and I was irrational. Then a week later once I picked out her name then I got excited. I have learned that Heavenly Father knows what he is doing. I love my little Zoe SOOO much!! I can't imagine life without her, I'm grateful for the opportunity I've had to go through this experience. If we have another little girl I am going to be so excited!! I seriously am excited for whatever we have, of course I'm hoping for a boy but it won't matter one bit if it's not! I love my kids so much, they all have a part in our family that is irreplaceable!! So I have a TON of pictures I've wanted to post, we have some fun times here. One major thing that has happened that I'm REALLY excited about, we gave our guinea pigs to a good family! Yeah!!!! I don't have to take care of them anymore! They were a lot of fun, but more work than I could handle right now. It sounds like they're going to a good family. Little Hailey was quite upset when she got home and I told her, but we are getting her a stuffed hamster that comes with a carrying case, and she's just fine now! I am so glad to have them go to a good home, where they'll play with them and give them attention.

More news, I have my ultrasound on December 22nd, but we're going to ask the technician who does it to put the picture of the gender in an envelope and then we'll open it on Christmas morning. I'm really excited! I think it will be a ton of fun to find out what the baby is with the girls sitting there. So we'll see, I think it will be fun!! Well, I'm going to put an entire post on here with pictures, I hope enjoy!

Halloween

So, Halloween turned out great this year, we went to two trunk-or-treats and then we went and visited my grandma. When we returned home my family and some friends were here and we partied for awhile. It was a lot of fun, at first I was a little worried about how Zoe would react to all the costumes. When Hailey and Katie got in their costume and we painted their face Zoe was genuinely scared of them! They couldn't come near her, it was kind of funny but frustrating at the same time. Thankfully we went with our good friend Virginia and her daughter so she took Hailey and Katie in her car. By the time we got to the first trunk or treat Zoe was finally ok with them. She was so cute saying trick or treat and then thank you. All the girls did well, Hailey was so independent it kind of drove me nuts because we had to keep calling her back and she'd get frustrated that we were going so slow. We went to a trunk or treat in Woodland hills (Virginia's in-laws live up there and invited us to go) there was a guy there who was dressed up and when Katie went up to him either he made a noise or something in his car did, but it scared Katie really bad. She dropped her candy bag, screamed and ran behind Randy. She didn't seem to care about her candy bag, she just knew she didn't want to be by him. It was HILARIOUS!! They had a lot of fun, unfortunately now they have a lot of candy. We only let them have a little bit at a time, but MAN!!! It doesn't take much sugar in their blood stream (especially Hailey) to give them a TON more energy. I'll tell ya, I'm ready to sell them for a few days! Of course, I could never do that, because even though sometimes I'm ready to, I love them, and they are cute! Hopefully I'll be able to post pictures from Halloween soon, I have to install the program on the laptop because our desk top isn't working right now. Well, until then, enjoy!!

Slacker

Wow, I've been such a slacker lately, I'm sorry. We worked on our computer for a couple of days and for the past few the monitor has been our tv so I haven't felt like using the wireless keyboard and I haven't had time to sit down and type. Anyway, I have so much to blog about, Zoe had her 2nd birthday, it was a lot of fun! I love her so much, our family wouldn't be the same without her, she is such a cutie!! I do have some pictures, I'll post some hopefully soon. So I set up my doctor appointment today, I'll go in for blood work and the insurance talk on November 3rd and then I'll actually see my doctor on the 6th. It's crazy that they're that far out! I went to Baby Your Baby and got on that, and now I am in the process of applying for Medicaid. I hate getting stuff like this, but it helps SOO much! I guess if we qualify why not, right?

So I'm finishing this post finally, it's a few days later but better late than never right? So our computer isn't working, it won't turn on so I am using our laptop (thank Heaven we didn't give it away) we erased everything on it and it works so much better now. It's nice to have a back up, hopefully PC laptops can fix it, if not, we're in trouble. So anyway, life is going ok I guess, we're hanging in there. This month has been a hard one, I've had really great ups but really bad lows. Do you ever just want someone to talk to who won't say anything back but the occasional ya uh-huh or nod of the head? Someone who will focus on JUST you for maybe five or ten minutes? Lately I feel really alone in that arena, it's great that I have Randy who listens to me, but being a guy he wants to fix it when I just want someone to listen. I know I used to be the kind that just talked and talked about myself (Heather can attest to this), but I've really tried to be better about that and listen to others and be there for them. I feel like I've really improved in this area (I could be wrong, but I'm hoping I'm not), but every once in a while, it would be really nice to be the one focused on and venting frustrations. Perhaps the answer I'm looking for is as simple as prayer, maybe I just need to learn to pray with ALL my heart and learn to meditate and feel His spirit. Maybe then I'll receive the spiritual nods, uh-huh's and yups I'm seeking. How come the simplest answers always seem to be the hardest things to do? Oh well.

So, on a more positive note, this week is Red Ribbon Week at Hailey's school, they have a few fun activities going on, like tomorrow! It's crazy hair and sock day and CAN"T wait!! I am going to do Hailey's hair crazy and let her borrow some of my toe socks, I'm going to put them on over her pants. I think it will be so much fun! Then on Friday it's their Halloween party and I volunteered to help, I'm excited to be able to be there for that. They also have a parade at 10 that morning, how fun! Then of course Halloween is on Saturday, and it will be fun to take the girls around to get some treats (parents are allowed to share right?) I'm way excited to see them all dressed up. Hailey and Katie are going to be ghosts and Zoe will be the Lion, the same one that the other two girls have been. My sweet mom sewed Hailey and Katie's costumes, she was here until 3:40 the other morning sewing, and then she had to come back the next day to finish. I love that woman!! Wow, this post is really long, if you made it to the end of this post you're a real trooper! I'm sure I'll have more later, and hopefully I'll be able to post pictures soon! Until next time, talk to you later!!

Fall

I am absolutely LOVING this weather right now! It's fun to be able to wear scarves and hats and not be so blasted hot!! I walked to go get Hailey today ( I got to go by myself which was nice too) and it was such a nice walk! Yesterday I was a little down and stressed out and I decided I wanted to change my attitude so I bundled up the girls and we went outside for some excercise. We raced up and down our parking lot, it was really nice to get out and spend some real time with them. I think they all enjoyed it, after a few minutes Eva and Virginia (our neighbor and her little girl) joined us as well. We all had a lot of fun!

So I made a couple of suggestions to Hailey for her Halloween costume and I think she wants to be a Ghost now, which makes me happy because that won't be too hard to make and it won't cost very much. I haven't talked to Katie yet, and I think I'll either have Zoe be a Lion (the same costume the other two have worn for a few years) or an M&M, I'm not sure yet. I am not a huge fan of Halloween, I don't mind it, but I don't get extremely excited for it. It just seems to cost a lot of money. Oh well, then Christmas is right around the corner, now that's a scary thought!! I can't believe we're almost to the end of another year, it's crazy!! Another thing that's crazy, my baby is going to be 2!!! Zoe's birthday is next Monday the 12th, I can't believe it's already been two years!! It seems to have gone by so fast! She has been so much fun to have around, I love them all so much, I can't imagine what life would be like without them. Ok, so I could...quiet! It wouldn't be near as much fun though! I am very excited for the future though, I'm really excited to see how these next 90 days play out, Randy's made some goals that I'm excited to see him meet, I love watching him change and grow and become a better man (I wouldn't have thought it possible, but believe me, it just keeps getting better!!) I love him so much, there are some days I don't know why he ever picked me, I'm just grateful he did!! Well, this has been sappy enough so I guess I'll end it, but I thought I'd share some pictures of the girls all bundled up to go outside because they look SO stinkin' cute!! Enjoy, I have one of Hailey that I was going to post, but for some reason it didn't transfer over from our camera and now the battery is dead. So, I will add her picture later! For now enjoy these.

Katie wanted to wear the ski mask, except that she said they were to go under water.

Here she is with her Santa hat on, and my scarf.

Cute little Zoe!! I love this kid so much!!

Pictures

Ok, so I've been promising pictures for awhile now and haven't gotten around to it so now I am. These are just a few that I thought I'd share, including pictures of Hailey's first day of school.

Katie bein cute!!

My neighbor made this skirt for Zoe, it is so cute!!

Hailey and Katie got themselves dressed so I decided to put Zoe in a dress too

They love spinning in this chair

Hailey's first day of school, she was so stinking cute!! I gave her a necklace to wear so that if she got scared she would have something of mine. I doubt she needed it, but it was a nice thought right?

Crazy, weddings, life, babies

Ok, so that title doesn't really make sense, but it seemed like fun to me! So last Saturday my mother-in-law got married, it is so nice to finally have it over with. It's such an odd thing to have her be married, I'm excited for her and am so glad that she's not alone anymore, but it's very different. Hopefully everyone will adjust quickly. We're all doing good, I'm excited for the cooler temperatures, it makes it nicer to walk Hailey to and from school. I wish I could say that I was losing weight because of it, but I'm not. Oh well, that will come soon enough. Hailey is LOVING school, I'm so glad, it makes things so much easier. Katie has been doing pretty well, but she's been having some melt downs that last for 30 to 45 minutes depending on the melt down. It's very hard to deal with, but once she's done with it, she goes back to being sweet kind cute Katie. We don't really understand what's going on with her, hopefully we'll be able to figure it out soon enough. Zoe is also having some problems, lately she doesn't like getting dressed. It's very frustrating, today she walked around in just a pull up for about an hour because I didn't want to fight her to get her dressed, it was a big enough fight just to get the pull up on her (I used a pull up because it's easier then a diaper). Then she tripped in the hall upstairs and she smacked her head in to the door frame, and now she has a goose bump and bruise on the side of her forehead. After that, I was holding her while she was playing with a toy and it pinched her hand. Poor thing didn't have a very good 10 or 15 minutes. Randy is doing well, I'm so excited for his business, he's really doing it this time and it's exciting and fun to see him get excited over it. I'm glad he's finally doing something he can really get behind. We're contemplating looking for another job for him, RC Willey has been good, but it's not providing enough income for us. So, we'll see how that goes in the next while or so. I'm doing alright, things are going along normal so far. I'm tired of feeling naseous, I don't remember if I felt this sick with the other ones or not. I never throw up, I just feel like I need to, sometimes all day long. I've had a couple of days where I have been sick at all, those were glorious!! Other than that, I'm tired a lot and unmotivated which has wreaked havoc on our house. I am so overwhelmed with all that I need to get done it's depressing. Oh well, you do what you've gotta do. Anyway, sorry this post is so long, it's been a while and there's a few things to say I guess. Well, I'll have to post pictures from the wedding soon, it was a lot of fun and we have some great pictures from the night. Anyway, until then, adios!!