July 4th...and 5th

One of my favorite holidays is the 4th of July because it usually means swimming, bbqs, family/friends, out to eat, fireworks, and warm summer nights. Here's how my

4th went down...

Camping with my BFF, staying up late eating junk food. 

sleeping in tents

Breakfast at Jeremiah's.

The kids LOVED their tent they slept in all by them selves.

Swimming

Then we had a BBQ w/my family on my mom's side.

The kids loved the little kiddy pool and running in the sprinklers.  

Then realizing great minds dress a like... and sit a like. lol  

The kids watching fireworks...

After fireworks I got to bed about 12Am and at 3Am I got a call from my sister Kaycee that she was in labor. I got to her house about 4:15 with my mom, my brother Dallin (the babysitter) and all my kids.

 Kaycee wanted to stay at home as long as she could. About 5 we made our way to the hospital.

In the room was My mom, myself, Hannah,Kaycee's daughter Abbey, Kaycee's husband Robby, my cousin Ashlie (Kaycee's doula) and Kaycee's other doula Michelle.

 

 Kaycee went natural (for her second time). She did really good. I'm proud of her.

At about 8:45 Kaycee got her water broke and was dilated to a 6. at 9 (15 minutes later) Kaycee felt like the baby was coming. Michelle, her doula kept trying to push the call button on Kaycee's bed to get a nurse in. (not knowing until later that it doesnt work) The nurse never came.

Then Michelle said "The head is out" I ran to the hall and called out to the nurse to tell them the head was out. When me and the nurses ran in the room Eliza was already born.

She is so cute! weighing 8 lbs 1 oz.

Proud sister Abbey holding baby Eliza Anne and cousin Hannah.

 Kaycee's delivery team/ doulas. Ashlie (left) Michelle (right)

Robby and his baby girl.

Isn't she so sweet!?!

Father's Day Weekend

I don't know about Hemi but I sure had a blast spending time with him on Father's day weekend. We were able to go out on a date and the funny thing was, out date (dinner and miniature golf) only lasted two hours and we still had two hours to kill before we told our babysitter we'd be bake so we just killed time going to stores and hanging out together.

(sorry I can't get my pictures to turn.)

Hemi LOVES wings so we went to Winger's.

Hemi likes to golf and I dont know how so this was meeting in the middle... Miniature golfing. :)

It was such a hot day so jamba juice hit the spot.

Then we remembered Kneader's has their desserts half off on Saturday nights after 8pm so we went there  too. :)

Father's day I wanted something a little better then just cereal for breakfast so we had hard boiled eggs, Cinnamon rolls w/chocolate frosting, apple juice, and grapes.

Hemi asked for clothes and he told me to pick out something that was my style. :)  This shirt was one of the things he got. He wasn't sure about it at first but I think it grew on him, he has warn it twice this week. :)

I am one lucky lady to have married this guy. He is the BEST and such a great father.

Love you Hems!!

NOW, What would life be if I didn't have my own father. He is really such a great guy and is always trying to teach his children. He is so knowledgeable and such a great example.

I was lucky to be able to spend the evening with him and have a Father's day dinner.

LOVE YOU DADDY-O!

(this picture was a few months ago, on our daddy/daughter date at the jazz game)

The Fun We've Been Having

Every year Hemi takes the kids to go sledding. TheyLOVE it!

Then it warmed up and Houston has been asking to go fishing for months, so Hemi took him to do that. (if you cant tell Hemi is such a fun parents)

I really needed a get away, so when our friends asked us to come with them to St. George and to stay in a condo for 3 nights there was no turning them down. Right outside our sliding glass door was a park for the kids. I LOVED THAT!

One of my favorite parts of St. George is the temple. Its my favorite, that's why Hemi and I drove 4 1/2 hours to get married there. 7 years later, now look at us.

                                                                                       
                                                                                      And then came Easter... Houston and Adelaide went on a Easter egg hunt at the swimming pool.

Then the two older kids colored eggs.

Adelaide LOVED finding the eggs. She was more in to that than her basket.

And I'm  happy to say now that is warming up this is just the start of good times of 2012.

 LET THE FUN BEGIN!!

Surprise!!

I can't believe it!!

This wasn't expected at all, but we are getting really excited.

I can't believe I will be having 4 kids. I don't know how I'm going to do it?

Heavenly Father must know better then we do, and really want us to have this little baby here.

Those of you that know my sister Kaycee know we have all our kids close in age. Even this time with out even planning it. :) That makes me even more excited to have her and my sister in law to be pregnant with again.

Happy 7 Year Anniversary

Saturday was Hemi's and My 7 year Anniversary. We had plans but with my kids being sick all week it was best that we cancelled them and save it for an other time, but that evening we did go to Chuck-a-Rama with my family.

Here are most of them who were there.

Here are a couple more who were there.

Hemi and I felt a little bummed that we waisted a special day doing nothing so on our way home from dinner he decided we'd play at Planet Play. I wasn't thrilled but once we got in there and were playing it was a lot of fun and I was glad we went.

Even though it wasn't how we would had liked to spent the day it was still nice to had spent the whole day being with Hemi. My sister helped us out and took the two oldest kids to her house to give us a little bit of a break. I thought that was really nice.