13JAN13

I thought about just starting clean on my blog instead of trying to play catch up but I really love having everything on-line in one place of everything we've gotten to do and I know if you're looking at my blog you appreciate the catch up so we're going all the way back to Halloween...

Alexis is the one that came up with the m&m idea.  She said out of the blue one day she REALLY wanted to be the red m&m... Followed by Ryan also wanting to be an m&m.  While searching on-line I found a baby m&m costume and then the adult costumes and although Travis and I are not the "dressing up types" I couldn't resist!  So the kids were m&m's and Trav and were the bags!  So fun. :)  The kids had a great Halloween!  We went trunk or treating with the ward and then on the 31st we went around the neighborhood.  We started out with Ayden, Brady, Dak, and Rishi and at one point we ended up with about double that amount of kids! :)  I truly love Halloween now that I have kids!



The M&M family.

Sweet baby's first Halloween!

I have the best kids!

The group we started with.

The group we ended up with! :)

20OCT12

I mea,n honestly, I absolutely have the CUTEST kids! :)  I always think they look like each other when I see them  and in some ways they do all look alike but in some ways not so much... I think David and Alexis look more alike than Ryan but all are adorable!  Here they all are at roughly the same age...  Ryan was such a PEANUT!

 

20OCT12

It's so fun to have friends and family (and friends who ARE family) come to visit.  I am so glad Theresa decided to come so I could meet Lincoln and she could meet David before we go to AZ next month.  We actually did pretty much nothing the whole week and it was FABULOUS!  Theresa acts like she thinks it's apalling that I love to match my kids and take pics but she didn't put up much of a fight when I said we needed to do it with all 5 kids so I could have a picture to put up on my wall in Hawaii! :)  Unfortunately, we forgot till the night before she left so it was getting late...  We got a few good ones but it was quite the adventure to get all the kids looking and smiling at the same time!!  By the end I'm fairly sure all of them except Alexis had cried! HAHA!

 

 

Linc and David.  It's amazing the difference between a couple of months in babies.  Next year we probably won't even notice the age difference but Lincoln is crawling EVERYWHERE and David is still kind of a blob (which I hope lasts for a while!)

Look at their eyes!  Both beautiful blue but totally different blue!

Love these boys!

We started with excited smiles!

Maybe a little TOO excited?

There are some pretty girls.

Now the real fun began...  Cute except David looks scared and Konnor maybe trying to squeeze Linc's head a little.

She lightened the head sqeeze here...

BAHAHAH Poor David and Konnor isn't thrilled here either...

Everyone's not looking but hey no one is crying...

And this is where we chose to stop taking pictures.  HEEHEE! I love my best friend, her husband, and her kids!

04OCT12

Lex had a vision screening at school a couple weeks ago and she suggested we get her eyes checked so I made an appointment and sure enough she needed glasses.  She was SO SUPER BEYOND THRILLED EXCITED to get glasses.  Since she has to wear them all the time now I am so glad she feels that way! :)  They said it was going to take a week to get them in but they came in a day early so off we went.  We got 2 pairs and Lex picked them both out.  I'm sorry but seriously ADORABLE! :)

 

 

Pair 1 (these are my favorite.)

Pair 2 (Trav's favorite)

Ryan trying them out.

Wearing them to school today.  She said FIVE people and her teacher told her she looked cute. :) 

12SEP12

First baby laughs are seriously the BEST!!!!  He is so adorable!! :)

 

 

 

07SEP12

 

Sweet David is growing like a weed!!!  We are really loving having a baby in the house again!  Here are some David pictures! :)

 

He LOVES bathes.  He could be screaming his head off and I put him in the tub and magically he is smiling!

I just love how sweet he looks.

Loving the lights on his playmat.

Holding that head up SOOOO big!

Playing video games with daddy. HA!

David also rolled over for the first time on August 31.  Then he did it about 100 times so I could get videos and pictures galore!  The whole family was there and the girls thought it was HILARIOUS! :)

05SEP12

I told Travis we should do something fun Labor Day weekend since he actually had 3 days off.  We decided to head up just past Atlanta to Stone Mountain which is a pretty cool theme park.  The biggest attraction is a Mountain made out of granite with a carving in the side.  There was a ton to do and the kids (and Trav and I had a blast!)  Besides all the things I have pics of there was a barn where they could run around and play and a 4-D movie that we went to.  There was actually quite a bit more to do that we didn't even have time for!  Great family day!

 

 

This was mostly what I saw while pushing David in the stroller or wearing him on me. :)

Sweet Girls getting ready for the Duck ride.

The Duck ride is a military vehicle that can drive on land and also on water.  They gave out the most ANNOYING duck whistles ever that the kids loved!

They made us put a life jacket on David which I thought was so goofy since if he fell in he wouldn't be able to really keep his head up anyways! :)  He also got in on the duck whistle.

The kids were really excited to get to drive the vehicle on the water.

Lexi's turn

Haha!

They also had this climbing area with water everywhere the girls got SOAKED but it was so hot I was glad it was there.

The skyride to the top of the mountain.

On the top of the mountain.

mini-golf.  Alexis even got a hole in one!

Teaching ry.

This is in front of the carving and also right before the laser and firework show started!