Aunt Holly FINALLY came to visit

Aunt Holly finally came to visit us during Thanksgiving. It has been a long time since she has been able to hang out with the kiddos. They had a ton of fun.
Ginger Bread houses!
Every year the kids look forward to decorating their own gingebread house. Mormor and Rose were admiring the houses.

Hagen is a Reader!!

Wahoo! After a diligently working on Hagen's homework everyday, Hagen has passed everything off. He is now working on his reading books. He is so excited! I love that he is so excited as well. He is too quick to me, he wants to work on it right away and I want to sleep or am not quite able to sit down with . I am so excited for my smart little guy and so glad that he loves to read.
I have a crawler on my hands. About a week and half ago Calvin started going forward a few crawls and then would stop. Nothing adventurous but he has since realized that he can finally go places. The minute I open the fridge he bolts for it. He loves the laundry room, a lot. And he especially loves that the minute the kids put a toy down he can finally get it. Tonight Hagen put his MP3 player and and Calvin was right their all tangled in the headphone cord. It is fun to see his personality become more prominent.

I don't know what the fascination is with hotdogs! Personally I think they are kinda gross but what do I know. So on Friday night we had my little niece Olivia over for the night. The kids wanted a fire so I thought that if I just boiled up a few hotdogs for them to roast then technically I wouldn't have to make dinner! Yay for me. Well they downed 16 hotdogs within 10 minutes. I was convinced that I would four little ones puking by morning, I was lucky. So the next day we went to RcWilly for free hotdogs. Who wouldn't pass that up! More hotdogs! Too many hotdogs but it was a fun weekend.

Halloween 2011

Here is everyone ready for tricker treating and a fun party at the Millers house. Jared and my cute kiddo's and our friend Spanky and her baby, Roger. We also carved pumpkins. Sid had a smily face, Hagen wanted the Batman symbol, and Kaleigh did a pirate skull. Kaleigh carved her pumpkin all by her self. I was quite impressed.

Here we are all ready for trunk or treat on the Saturday before Halloween. The kids were so excited to get candy and play with their friends.

Kaleigh hanging out in a car trunk.

Batman

Sid and Brooklyn


Calvin was a dinosaur. Soo cute

Teeth

I have three little munchkins who have lost and acquired teeth this last month

Hagen-Calvin-Kaleigh Kaleigh lost one tooth this last month. I think she is almost done loosing teeth. The funny thing is that she wrote a little note asking the tooth fairy what she did with the teeth. The tooth fairy is taking her time answering that one?! I did look on the web to see some of the common answers, some of them were really funny.
Hagen lost his first teeth this month. Every day for two weeks we would wiggle teeth and they were being extremely stubborn, but finally they came out at the same time. The tooth fairy had to cough up two dollars. Hagen was so excited, he wanted to take his two dollars and go to the store and buy a DS game that moment. I tried to explain that DS games cost more that two dollars, I don't think he understood but at least he quit asking.

No loose teeth here. She saw everyone else getting a pix of their teeth and wanted one as well.

I have been trying for weeks to get a pix of Calvin's first little tooth, with absolutely no luck at all. We had gone to our ward trunk or treat and Calvin sucked a sucker down to the stick and was completely sticky. One good thing about this pix is that we finally got a pix of his first little tooth. Kinda hard to see but it is their.

October 2011 Happenings

It seems that it is nice and slow and then October arrives and life is sooo crazy. This last month has been busy.

My Mormor turned 93 on the 10th. She is now living in an assisted living facility. We don't see her a lot, it is pretty chaotic to visit with four little ones. This pix is taken at her birthday party at my Aunt Dorte's house. Part of our craziness this month included lots of yard work. We wanted to accomplish a few outside chores before it was too cold. One thing we did was move the kids play house, which was sitting on cinder blocks and a piece of wood. So we moved the little house and changed the cinder blocks into a fire pit. We've spent a few nights outside roasting marshmallows. This next summer is going to be fun. Never fails, Sid always falls asleep.
It is hard to accomplish anything when you have a 7 month old. Since we have been doing yard work I have been bringing Calvin out with us when it is nice. He has a blast rolling around on the blanket and touching the grass.

I posted this pix because Calvin is so stinkin cute with his Mohawk.

Another big accomplishment for the month is that Calvin can swallow almost anything with out choking. Definitely a positive but that also means that he notices the tiny little items on the floor and they go directly in his mouth. We have had to pull out tape, paper, candy.

He loves food way too much!!

My cute little boys!

So, I just had to write a little note to show how blessed I am to have two of the cutest little boys in my life. I love that they both have the cutest little personalities but I love that they are both so different.

We have had quite a week trying to get little Calvin over being sick. We have been going to the doctor on a regular basis to get Calvin's wheezing in control for the last month and half. We are on our second steriod and are slowly slowly improving. In the mist of several breathing treatments a day he cought some type of virus and broke out in a horrible rash from head to toe and had a fever and was really stuffy. I thought this pix was super cute because he actually looked content and calm for the first time in several days. He looks like a perfect angel and it made me forget how tired I was of the uncontrollable crying. Here is a cuty pix of my Hagen. He is such a smart guy. His kindergarten class had a Nursery Rhyme Parade where they walk through every classroom in the school. The minute he heard about the parade he had made up his mind that he wanted to be Wee Willy Winky so that he could wear his pajamas to school. What a smart stinker! He finally realized that he couldn't wear his pj's after a few attempts of mom trying to explain but still insisted that, that is who he wanted to be. So we made a night cap and put on one of dad's old dress shirts and it was perfect. He was a proud little guy. He even wore it to bed that night. Sooo cute!
Walking through the halls in the school.

Awww!
Well, little Calvin loves cheese and crackers. I was doing laundry and Sidney had gone to get a snack. I came upstairs to see her piling cheese onto the little red stick to spread the cheese. She then walked over to Calvin and carefully helped him put it in his mouth and then she goes back and gets more for him. The whole time he is patiently watching for her with his mouth wide open with anticipation. When she finally notices that I am watching her she proudly announced "He likes it mom!" It was super cute.

So, we have had to move Calvin to a bigger car seat since he is such a chunk he doesn't fit so well in an infant car seat. At his 6 month appointment on September 10th he weighed 19 pounds 7 ounces. It must be the cheese and crackers.

It is funny, in the past three weeks it seems like Calvin has gone from being a stationary baby to being completely mobile. He is all about going after toys and then sticking them staight in his mouth. He rolls all over the house and sometimes he gets stuck under the couch. He loves to roll to the shoe basket and then eat the shoes. He is starting to push up on his knee's, so he should be crawling soon. Not something I am looking forward to. I don't think I am quite ready for that.

LaGoOn

Nuskin Lagoon Party here we come. This is the party of all parties that we anxiously wait for. The kids asked every day for almost an entire week "Are we going to Lagoon today?"

The day finally came and we had a blast. Sheree and her family came with us and we had fun riding all the kiddie rides. Sidney and Kaleigh
Hagen

Sheree, Jordan, and Jacob. They were soaked!

September Madness

I was talking to my brother a few days ago and he complained that I hadn't updated my blog in a month. So I figured that I had better do it soon.

My cute little calvin is way too little to leave with a sitter at the house so Jared and I and little Calvin all went on a much needed date a few weekends ago. We ate at JDawgs, this place has amazing hotdogs. If you haven't tried one, I definately recommend it. Then we watched the Green Lantern. Good movie, I am excited to see the other movies as well. He did awesome in the movie. It is so exciting to see the changes that happen between five an six months. Little Calvin is sitting up. He still falls back every once in a while. But each day he gets better and better. He can reach for stuff and grab it and then sticks it straight in his mouth. He likes to eat whatever we are eating (as long as it is safe and in very small pieces). He smiles at people especially cute girls, he is learning to be a flirt early.

Here is little Sidney playing with Calvin.

Calvin is also eating jar food! Maybe we won't go through so much formula now. He is patiently sitting in his seat waiting for a bib and food.

Another fun thing that we are working on is riding without training wheels, except for Sidney she get three.

Hagen is still having a hard time mastering it. He'll get it with a little practice.

Kaleigh was ready last summer but we didn't take the training wheels off until this August. She didn't need any practice, she rode away immediately after a 30 second training session. She is everywhere on her bike.

School is FINALLY here!!

Yay Yay!! First day of school for Kaleigh. This year she is in 2nd grade and her teacher is Miss Gardner. She is liking school a little more than she did last year but she still tells me how much she dislikes doing homework. I think we've somewhat established a homework routine from last year so it is just getting back into the routine. Notice her cute shoes "twinkle toes", she had to wait to wear them until school started and she loves them. Hagen started Kindergarten a week after Kaleigh did. His teacher is Mrs. Williams and he is in the AM class. He thinks it's pretty cool to walk to school with Kaleigh. The first three days of school he was a little emotional but I think he is finally getting into the groove and is doing a lot better with his schedule. He is a handsome little guy!
Sid had to have a picture since everyone else did. I wish I could afford to put her in preschool this year but we can't so we are doing a playgroup once a week, starting this week. Hopefully she will be satisfied with that.

Here is little Calvin just hanging out playing with out anyone else bugging him or trying to pick him up (except for Sid). I think he enjoys the break from Kaleigh and Hagen as much as I do.

The past two weekends have been a little crazy. The last weekend of July we were supposed to go camping with the Smith family. Thanks to the rain we were not able to camp overnight so we went to where Mark and Jenny were camping to hang out for the day. When we arrived we went swimming, which was nice since it was so hot. After we finished swimming we got dressed and then went for a ride. Jared and I rode on the 4-wheeler and Mark and Jenny drove the Rhino with all the kids in the back. They had fun except for Sid who said she didn't like it because she was squished. After dinner we helped pack everything up and drove off just in time for some black storm clouds to roll in over us.

Hagen-Reed-Sidney-Kaleigh Kaleigh and Hagen ended going home with Fred and Michelle so it was we just had Sidney and Calvin by themselves for a few days. On Sunday we went to Park City. It was so much easier to look around with only two kids. Sidney saw a horse that she loved and had a blast riding on it.
On Tuesday we drove to Riverdale to pick up Kaleigh and Hagen from Fred and Michelle's. They didn't want to go home and Hagen even cried because he already missed Boston but I could tell that they were ready to come home. We met the Riverdale Smith's at a swimming pool in Riverdale and had a great time hanging out until it was time to go home.

This last saturday the 6th of August. We had a crazy day! We had a yard sale in the morning. I sold almost everything except one box of maternity clothes and 1 box of misc. stuff. I was so proud of myself. Jared went to his parents house and helped split wood with his dad and brothers. I didn't get any cute pictures of the kids selling cookies. I am a little sad about that. By the time Jared came home and I finished cleaning up we had about 2 hours to take a shower and take a little snooze before we needed to go to a birthday party.

I think this is one the funnest birthday parties we have ever been to. Little Amandah Berson turned two and had a party at Hee Haws. I had no idea that they did parties. They had a hay ride, tractor ride, horse ride. They were able to pet the animals and had fun slides and play areas for the kids. It was sooo fun and Kaliegh informed me that she wanted her birthday party at Hee Haws when she turns eight.

Kaleigh and Amelyah

Amandah and Sidney

Little Sidney on the horse. She wasn't so sure of it but did awesome.

Hagen and Sammy

My cute little Sid. This picture was too cute to not post.