Uppidy Date

Adam: Has a new calling as of this past August as Elder's Quorum Secretary. He was a Sunday School teacher for 16/17 years olds.  Ever since he got released from his 6 year stint in the YM's they have really been moving him around.
He has been working from for the past couple of months.  t is nice to have him home and catch glimpses of him throughout the day.  I even get to leave the kids at home when I do school pickups.  Its been nice.

Erin: Just recovering from pushing a watermelon out...well, you know.  Getting used to having 4 kiddies but really loving it and enjoying it.

Kyle: Has become a book worm.  He is reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid and reads it in bed, walking around the house, in the car...everywhere!  He is also loving Calvin and Hobbs.  Adam has a bunch from when he was a kid and gave them to Kyle, much to his delight.
We went to SEP's last week where we got a glowing report from his teacher.  He is doing very well and his teacher wants to test him for the gifted program for next year. That's my boy!

Noah: He also got a glowing report from his teacher at SEP's.  He is a good boy that likes to take his time... When his teacher told us that we just nodded and Mmmmhmmmm'ed. That's our Noah.
We are discovering that Noah is our musical boy.  He loves music in the car and is constantly asking us to "turn it UP!" We love hearing his voice from the very back seat.  Some of his favorites right now are "Dynomite" by Taio Cruz, "Some Nights" by Fun, "Kung Fu Fighting" from Kung Fu Panda, "Animal" by Neon Trees, just to name a few.

Megan: Has become quite the girly girl.  She wants to wear a dress EVERY day and the more sparkly and poofy the better.  She loves dolls but she is also happy playing Legos with the boys.

Ella: What a sweet baby.  She is smiling more and more every day.  She is also sleeping fairly well. I think she's my best so far.  She has been sleeping from about 10:30 or 11 to 4ish for the past three nights. And last night she slept from 11:00pm-7:00am. Wooooooo! I won't hold my breath but I'll enjoy it while it lasts.  She is also happy to sleep with out her car-seat unlike my other kids.

Tommy: Has enjoyed going on runs with Master Adam but during the run likes to put on the breaks to keep things exciting.

Uppity Date

...Kyle finally lost one of his teeth on the bottom (LL2) and he couldn't have been more excited. It was driving him nuts just hanging by a thread. Finally Sunday evening (last night) he told me he wanted to try the floss and door knob trick. I was surprised because I would have thought that would scare him too much.  I convinced him to just let Daddy do it.  Adam just bent the tooth forward and it popped right out.  Not even any pulling involved.  Kyle was ecstatic to have it out.  Quoting one his friends from church he said "Benny's right. It does feel like paradise." LOL

...We got to hang out with out of town cousins a few weekends ago.  Not only did BOTH Will, Taylor and Samuel get to come to Kyle's birthday party but we also went downtown to celebrate Taylor's bday.  We went to Chick-Fil-A at the City Creek Mall and then we went to the Church museum and hung out at the children's display.

Megan (and Daddy) LOVES to dance. Wearing a dress is definitely a bonus!

...Adam did Wasatch Back Ragnar again this past month but this time Von joined him.  They had a great ime. He also ran one of the hardest legs of the race up Gaurdsman Pass.  Proud of my man.

...We saw the first fireworks of the season on Saturday.  We watched the WestFest fireworks from Hunter Park. (No crowds!)  Noah has been talking about fireworks for a few weeks now so we jumped at this easy opportunity.  Megan ended up loving them as well. They were a distance away so the noise wasn't bad at all.  She was full of exclamations but some favorites are "Oh booful!" and "I yove it!" I wonder how she'll react when the fireworks are just above her...

...Pregnancy is going well.  So far the 100 degree weather isn't getting to me much. Yay for AC.
 I think this little girl is going to be big. I just feel it.  I've been measuring right on until my appointment last week. I'm now measuring a week big.  Having said that though, I think I measured right on the entire time with my 10 pounder, Meggie.  Two more months to see if I'm right!

...Adam and I celebrated our 10th engagement anniversary this past Thursday {June21st}.  Adam even took the whole day off.  It was fabulous and so needed particularly by me.  We tried a new restaurant at the City Creek mall called "The Blue Lemon", did a little shopping- maternity clothes and Apple TV- and just absorbed each others company.  We don't get out as much these days since Adam is busy with school at night. Thank you, Adam for planning this. I'm so glad I said yes "20,000 times, yes." :)

Uppidy Date

...Kyle has 4 loose teeth and they are taking forever to come out.
...Kyle will be in the advanced learning class next year based on his test scores. I'm proud of him and grateful that he has this opportunity.
...I got to go with Kyle to the zoo for his 1st grade field trip. It was great to hang out with him and see him interact with his friends. He is a friendly, out going boy. I'm glad he doesn't have my shyness.

Kyle and his cool teacher, Miss Farley

...I had a nice Mothers Day with my husband and kids presenting me with this sweet gift. (Kyle's idea :) Adam took care of the grandmother gifts too and lunch with his Mom and the salad for my Mom's dinner. I have wonderful children and husband. Too bad a was so darn hormonal that day! :) Oh and I also got to lead the primary kids in "Mother, I Love You" during sacrament. I love my calling.

...We celebrates Adi's first birthday with her this week. She did a great job decorating herself with chocolate frosting.

...I had my monthly appointment with my OB, Dr. Froerer. Everything is looking beautiful. Baby girl is active and growing well. Now if we could just settle on a name...

Uppity Date

....The weather has been spectacular this week. I love me some 80 degree heat.

....Kyle is diligently watering an apple seed out in the planter boxes. What a sweet boy he is.  He has been off track for the last week and a half and I've loved it.

....The kiddies got their pictures taken last week. Here's a sneak peek.

....I, apparently, am finally looking pregnant.  I am 22 weeks and people are finally willing to admit that I look pregnant.  It's funny because I am on my 4th kid and it's taken me longer to look pregnant with this baby girl than the last.  With Megan I was looking the part at more like 19 weeks.

....I hosted Bunco at my house last night. I have a lot of fun hanging out with these girls.  It was a little weirded out when I thought about the fact I'd been in this Bunco group for about 3 1/2 years!! Wow. That was quick.

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Uppidy Date

...Despite the yucky weather, Mother's Day was lovely this year. I got my favorite breakfast in bed {bacon, egg and cheese sandwich}, new porch furniture from the hubby {still waiting for some nice weather to enjoy it}, Noah and Kyle sang to me in sacrament meeting {my favorite}, and felt how truly blessed I am. {Oh and Adam did the pots and pans. WOW!!}

...I ran in the "Race For the Cure" 5K race on Saturday with some good friends. My friend's mom has been battling breast cancer for years so it felt good to do something to support her and this cause.

...Still no walking for the Meggie but she LOVES to walk around while holding on to your hands.  Hopefully she'll get a clue and realize how much better it would be on her own.  She's also been doing some standing on her own.  I hope she's not trying to beat Kyle as my oldest walker. :/

...Record wet Spring in Utah. Ugh. Me no happy.

...I have a new niece!! Its been since Megan was born that we had a baby in the family. I'm not sure it has really registered to me that my baby brother is now a father. Crazy! Adelaide Jane is beautiful and looks just like her mommy.

 ...Adam took the boys to the Father and Son's outing. It was the first camping trip of the year so the boys were of course super excited AND it was beautiful weather this year. Lucky!

Uppidy Date

...The boys went to a friends birthday party (James H.) this past weekend. It was pirate inspired and the boys were in heaven.  They love anything pirate.  We were going to do a pirate bday party for Noah in a month but now that seems anticlimactic so its back to the drawing board...

...Adam and I went and saw a play ("A Monster in My Closet") with Anna, Rachel and Olivia.  It was a cute and fun to watch especially since Olivia had a lead roll.  She was totally typed cast as a tom boy.

...I got to go volunteer in Kyle's class for their Spring party. Its always fun to see Kyle do his thing and see what he's up to when I'm not around. (I discovered that Kyle was sitting by himself for talking too much. It made me feel bad but it didn't seem to bother him!)

...After a record wet spring and too much snow, we are finally getting some beautiful sunshine. I am just praying it sticks around for a while!

...Megan turned 14 months on the 26th of April and is still crawling. It looks like she will following in her lazy brothers footsteps. ;) (Kyle didn't walk until 16 months. Noah was 15 months.)

...Lots of interesting things in the news this past weekend.  First and my favorite: Prince William and Kate Middleton were married.  Obviously since I have connections to England through my mission, I was very interested to watch. But there is also the romantic side of me that just loved seeing this commoner girl become a princess and the Duchess of Cambridge and one day the Queen of England! While I couldn't pull myself out of bed at 4AM to watch it all I was glued to the highlights all day long.  I'm a sucker for weddings and this one was no exception.

...After almost 10 years since 9-11, Osama Bin Laden was killed by a US missile. Wow. There is a lot celebrating going on around the US.  I am relieved that he is gone and dead. I think I'll leave it at that.

Uppidy Date

...Kyle recently participated as an "Azurette Mini". My neice, Morgan, is an Azurette (drill team) at Copper Hills High School. For a fund raiser they did a two day dance class teaching 5-11 years olds dances.  Anyhoo, I asked Kyle if he wanted to dance and he said sure. His cousins Ellie and Julia were also participating which he liked.  Not surprisingly,  Kyle was the only boy to sign up, at first. I helped convince another little boy to do it so they divided him and Kyle up to do their own dance. I was little worried Kyle wouldn't like being separated from Ellie but he did great and actually loved it and even told me he "really liked dance class". (Adam did not like this statement.) He got to perform during Morgan's end of year show case.  Him and the other boy "danced" (chest bumps, kissing their biceps, marching) to the song "I'll Make a Man Out of You" from Mulan.  It was pretty freakin' cute. Kyle said he wasn't at all nervous and it showed.  When I asked if he wanted to take a dance class he simply relied "No thanks". Ah well, there's always Megan.

Before his BIG performance with Ellie and Julia.
 Kyle was the only one not wearing the proper shirt...

...As part of our Kitchen remodel,  we had our living room and kitchen painted, an event I was much anticipating. Well, to make a long story short, the painter we hired wasn't much of painter. After shedding a great many tears, I finally called her and told her to get her hiney over here and fix her supposed paint job. Including in my rant that I could have done a better job. She came. She fixed...sort of. I'm glad to move on.

...Noah went to Coleman's Mickey Mouse party. Noah loved having his own invitation to a party.  It was very hard for Kyle not to be invited.  These boys are used to and just expect to do everything together.  Noah expects to go where ever Kyle goes.

...General Conference was relaxing and lovely as usual.  Temples in Colorado, Idaho and Canada were announced.

Just some some super cute tootsies.

Uppidy Date

...Valentine's Day was fun especially since we surprised the boys with a trip to fly to Disneyland. We were all excited to have our Disneyland reveal moment but alas, the boys were more excited about their Micky Mouse Pez dispensers...

...Kyle has seemed to overcome (mostly) his night time fear phase, thank goodness. Every night he'd call me into his room crying (tears and all) that he was imagining this or that scary thing. It all started with the "electric monster" from Scooby Doo 2. You'd think after the hundreds of monsters he's seen watching other Scooby Doo episodes that he'd be immune. Guess not.

...Megan is saying "Mama" and seems to actually mean it this time. YAY!

...Megan loves to climb stairs and give her mother a heart attack.

...Adam went out of town a lot this month. He is becoming quite the globe trotter: Indiana and San Fran. I whiled away the time lying in bed or on the toilet with an upset stomach. I'm looking forward to a nice long stretch of having my man at home.

...Megan keeps getting more teeth but the funny thing is the majority are on the right side of her mouth...