Fun Family Weekend

On Saturday, Brian helped my Dad put in a wood floor in the living room. It was my plan to help as well, but I'm just a girl, what do I know rigth?! Amazing how that happens even after you've given birth to 4 kids and raise them 90% of the day by yourself, taking care of illnesses, school projects, bills, cooking, cleaning and a billion other things, still, we know so little. Okay, they didn't really say anything, but it seemed like that was how it was. Anyway, after 3 hours and about 5 pices of wood down, we took a break and went up to Snowbird for the free tram ride. The kids loved it and the views were awesome. It's amazing that I've lived around mountains all my life and are just now really starting to see how amazing they are. So here are a few pics from the outting.

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I'm not ready!!!

Who wants to wake up to this?!!! Well, just about everyone in our family but me!

Gardner Village

So a couple of weeks ago my sisters and I met up with my Mom to feed the fish and ducks at Gardner Village. Mom had been wanting to do that for a while and we finally got all together. The kids had fun of course. The witches were out so that was fun to see. It was fun to get out and do something different. We had to stop at the candy store of course, 'cause what's a day at Gardner Village without a trip into the candy store?!

WeeMama and the chillin'


Michelle and Caroline


Caroline and Elizabeth


The Fam


Who Michelle turns into when she has to get the house ready for a showing!


The Boys... Cooper and Will


Baby Girl


WeeMama and Cooper

So sad

So yesterday I took Caroline and Cooper down to the basement 'cause Caroline wanted to play a computer game. I turned the computer on and then ran upstairs to find some packing tape so I could tape up some boxes while they were down there playing. Well, I was upstairs for maybe 3 minutes looking for the tape "gun", decided to just use scissors and started downstairs when I heard Cooper scream. It was the same scream as when Caroline is teasing him, so that's what I figured it was. When I got to the bottom of the stairs he was spitting and wipping his face and then I smelled it. Wood stripper! Some how Caroline had gotten the bottle open and poured it in a bowl in those few minutes I was upstairs. We think Cooper dipped his hands in it and tried to taste it, but realized it was nasty and was spitting it out and rubbing it off. I ran him upstairs and washed his hands and face off then tried dabbing it with a towel. All this white stuff was coming off. I thought it looked like wet paper towels coming off, but I was using a cloth towel. It was his face! I called poison control and they said I needed to get him into the ER because if he swallowed any it could be burning through his throat and stomach. It didn't look like anything had happened in his mouth, from what I could see. He wouldn't open his mouth very far, so I couldn't be sure. I called around and was saved AGAIN by Melinda who watched Caroline and Liz for me while I took Cooper and Isabelle to the ER. Well, already long story short, he seemed to be fine except for the burns on his face. He swallowed fine and didn't seem to have ingested any of it THANK GOODNESS! Well, it looks a lot worse today and he's having a hard time closing his mouth. I put up a before and after shot. We're getting family pictures done in about 9 days, so I hope it heals by then!

Before



Now

Girls Night

So on Saturday I got together with all my sisters (and usually my Mom, but she's out of town :() and went to the Women's Broadcast. First we had to get together to have a sister's picture 'cause Caroline wanted one, which is great. I guess it's been about 3 years. Then we went to the church for dinner, watched the broadcast and then came back to our house to watch Penelope. It was cute. It was a fun night with the sista's. Love ya girlies.

September 21st 2008

I have a bunch of random pics to put on to catch up over the past week. I had my camera out, well, it's always out, but took it outside and got this one of Caroline. I love her in this color.


Thought this one was so boy of cooper. My Mom and I were talking about how it's so funny that boys are just so boy. They just have things programed in their heads before they come I guess.


I love this pic of Isabelle 'cause you can see her little dimple.


Brian was outside playing duck duck goose or some other chasing game with the girls and I thought they looked so cute playing together, so I had to capture the moment. Bri's been really good about playing with them lately. They love it of course.


Elizabeth started violin lessons last week from her great aunt Lisa. Boy that makes Lisa sound old, but she's not at all. How funny. Elizabeth has taken to the violin really well from what I know about violins, which is ... well, nothing, but I think she's doing good. She loves it and we've all had fun taking turns trying to play it.


Cooper has been my best little buddy the last few days. He's been all sweet and snuggly and we are starting to "connect" in a different way. He's just so cute and I love kissin' on him all day!


I put curlers in Elizabeth's hair tonight and Caroline wanted them too, so then I figured we couldn't leave Isa out, so we stuck one in her hair and took a pic.

The new me....

So here are a few "glamour" shots I had to take of myself. I was going to wait until I lost 10 pounds to get my hair cut, but I just got impatient and cut it anyway. On the weight loss thingy though, Brian said that once I lose my weigh he'll take me to Hawaii. He said he has to lose 20 pounds too, but we know how guys are. I'm sure he'll lose it all in like 1 month. Anyway.... anxious for that!

2 months old

Well Miss Isabelle just turned 2 months yesterday. Amazing how fast it goes, yet I can't imagine not having her as part of our family. Too bad pregnancy doesn't go that fast! Am I right or am I right. Arrrraaaarrrararar (That's from What About Bob by the way. :)) Anyway, here are a few pics of the precious baby.

Brother and Sister

Well, I got a few of Cooper smiling, but not great "photo look", but they were cute, and then same with 2 of Isabelle. I got a few good ones of her, but they're on the photo blog if you want to see them. :)

Babies

Just working on some pictures tonight. Thought I'd throw up a few of my babies, mostly of Coop though since he just hit the 18 month mark.