Mom's Group

Thursday mornings, I attend a Mom's group with Myles & Adalyn.
Here are a few pictures from today!

Sara & Myles

Leo, Sara & Myles

Julie, Lucy and Julie's Mom who was visiting from out of town!

Katie & Wil

More Mom's hanging out! Love that newborn!

Just the three of us!

With school back in session, I just have Myles & Adalyn at home with me during the day. It's been quite the change. I miss the older kids and it is a lot quieter at home these days. Here are just some random pictures of the last week and a half with just the three of us at home!

Adalyn loves her rocking chair!


Myles plays with the blocks and the cars on a regular basis.

Showing me his ramp and trucks!


Recently, Adalyn is very into her dolls and carries them around the house quit often.


My Monkey Girl! She LOVES to climb!

Playing in the truck!


She is always carrying something around.


Cooper is never far away. I trip over him multiple times a day.

Playing dress up with her necklace!

What a doll!



I Love this girl!


Making music:-)


And Cooper again!

Shoes for Sale!

Just ignore this post! I needed a place to upload some pictures of some shoes I'm listing online and it won't let me copy/paste them unless I actually publish the post:-) The whole post will be deleted after I sell the shoes!!!

Tired!

Yesterday Chris texted me at work and wanted to know if Adalyn had napped at all. I texted him back, Yeah why?. He sent me this picture!

The 1st day of School!

School started today! I can't believe that I have two in school all day, every day right now! Time goes by so quickly when you are raising kids, it's unreal.

This is Chris's 3rd year of teaching already. That is hard to believe at times too. Broedy started 3rd grade today and Raelyn started Kindergarten. She was so excited. She was the 1st one up this morning and couldn't wait to get out the door and off to school.


The whole clan! Notice that Myles has his lunch bag. When I was packing lunches for the older two, he brought me his lunch bag and insisted I pack a bag for him too. He was all worried when we were getting ready to leave that we would forget his bag. He thought he was going to school today!

Walking to school this morning!


Eating Breakfast in the cafeteria. Our school got a grant this year so breakfast is free for all students! Makes it nice for me:-)

She's already in love with the phone!

She walks around daily with my phone.

And this is what happens when I tell her to give it back!

She turns.....

and RUNS!

Family Fun Friday at our House!

Tonight we hosted "Family Fun Friday" at our house! It was a fun time of just hanging out, eating good food and staying cool in this hot Arizona weather! Here are a few pictures from tonight!

My little helper!

Today I was cleaning the house and getting ready to host "Family Fun Friday" at our house! Adalyn has been pretty clingy lately and so she followed me around most of the day "helping" me!

I was unloading the dishwasher, turned around to put something away and when I turned back around, this is what I found:

She is such a little monkey these days!


Then I started to wash the sliding glass door and the next thing I knew, she had a wash cloth and was helping me!

I think she qualifies as the cutest window washer there is!

Binky Love

Some kids have blankets, some kids have pillows they carry around (like my nieces and nephews), some of them have bottles, some have books, stuffed animals or other various "lovey" things they get attached too. My children love binkies. If you know me and my kids, you know they love their binkies!

I used to let what others think about binkies bother me and I took Broedy's away at 2 1/2 years of age. It was a total nightmare and something I promised myself I would never repeat.

Now, binkies don't bother me at all, if my kids want them until they are 10 well, go for it! I've never met a High School Student with a binky and I'm pretty sure if you walk through the mall you won't be able to tell who had a binky at age three and who didn't.

In other words, as a mom with four wonderful kids, I have bigger fish to fry and in all honesty, if a binky makes them happy, well having a happy kid means I'm a happy Mommy!

This morning I was in the kitchen and Adalyn came in on the ride on toy. She was so cute sitting there so I got my camera out and took a picture of her. After I snapped this picture:


I decided to pull her binky out of her mouth to see if I could get her to smile and this is the reaction I got from her:

She started throwing a fit!


So I put the binky back in her mouth and life was good again! (can you see my other munkin in the background with his beloved binky?)


What can I say, we have lots of binky love around our house!

Meet our Newest Kindergartener!

This morning I took the kids to "meet the teacher". Raelyn starts Kindergarten this year. She has been really excited about starting, yet today she acted really shy when meeting her teacher. Here is a picture of her at her desk! She'll start on Monday.

My sweet, sleeping little girl!

She was having a fit when I tried to put her in her crib tonight. She ended up in our bed and within minutes was fast asleep! She's not spoiled or anything:-)

Monsoon Season!

We have had a lot of storms come though! I love monsoon season because we get such pretty skies at night!