Good Day Sunshine

Sleeping isn't the most comfortable thing these days, with having to get up at least 3 times a night to use the bathroom, almost having to sleep on the air conditioning vent to stay cool, and switching position 10 to 15 times through out the night to find some comfort.......lets just say I wasn't a happy camper when I went to roll over to my other side at 5:00 in the morning and noticed I had a few extra bodies in my bed and there was no room to roll over!!

Good day Sunshine, I think not!

Summer Fun

We definitely have had a fun filled summer we were able to spend almost 3 weeks in Utah and Mike was able to be there the whole time! Then my mom came out for here annual summer visit which we are so thankful for, the 2 weeks she was here were awesome!





We have had many family BBQ's.










Lots of time to play dress up and put on plays.









Plenty of tea parties and picnic with their cousins.










A trip to the Hogle Zoo.


















A visit to an open house for a new Fire Fighter House.










Three family reunions while in Utah, one was my baby shower but I got to reunite with a lot of family and friends we hadn't seen for a while so that counts as a family reunion too.









Swimming and playing in the bouncy house.

Of course endless trips to Lake George for play dates, with friends, and while my mom and nieces and nephew were here.

The arcade.

And a trip to Still Water.

I cherish the summer months and all the fun and memories that they bring with it, I love our trips to Utah, my moms visits every summer and the time I get to spend with my girls.......if only they were as long as the winter months.

The Race

While spending the weekend in St. Cloud, Madisyn had the opportunity to run in a 1k race with her cousin Sydney.

The night before the race Madisyn and Sydney were preparing for it by running back and forth across the room with Ashtyn running the timer seeing who got the best time, after about 15 or 20 minutes of this Madisyn wondered if that was such a good idea and worried that their legs might be too sore to run the race in the morning......so they decided to stop and watch a movie.

Madisyn suggested to Sydney that they should finish the race holding hands through the finish line, but Sydney said, "Maddy it is a race!"

Sydney is in the blue shorts and Maddy is behind her in the black shorts.......I guess Sydney didn't go with Maddy's suggestion.

I think Maddy might have inspired me to start running....... I had a dream shortly after the race that my friend Kristen and I signed up to do 1/2 marathon, but when it was time to run I started to back out because I didn't think it was safe to be running while we were both pregnant......so I think I'll hold off until after I have the baby.

Maddy enjoyed the race so much that for the next week her and Sydney got up every morning put on their running gear and went for a short run.

Happy Birthday Emily

Happy Birthday Emily! Emily usually lucks out with her birthday being in the summer months and has her Grandma Armour here on her birthday.

A couple of days before Emily's birthday Grandma Armour got on the computer and showed Emily a bunch of different cakes and let her pick out one and told her she would make it for her.

Emily loves Panda Bears so she went with this one.

Emily decided to go to Chuck E. Cheese's for her birthday and then came home and had pizza and watched Nim's Island on the projector.

Happy Birthday Emily you bring so much love and excitment to our family, we all enjoyed celebrating your special day with you.

Too Far Away

Ever since we left Utah Hannah has been asking to play with her cousin Easton. Every time she asks its usually when were in the car going somewhere or getting ready to come home from somewhere that we've been, and each time we show up to whatever place it is were going to she realizes it's not Easton's house or Easton's not there, she burst into tears and cries out, " I want to play with Easton!" It is the saddest thing, I try to explain to her that Easton lives too far away to play with......




They pretty much were together the whole time we were in Utah they definitely had their good times, but definitely had their bad times too. I think the saying is, "To much of anything can be a bad thing!" Especially when your dealing with a three year older.

But in the end they were always happy to see each other and he's Hannah's new best little bud!

Sadly, I think it is finally sinking in with Hannah that Easton is too far away to play with, yesterday she told me, "Easton lives in Utah Mom, we can't play."

Crazy Nails

While in Utah we had a nail painting party with Laci, Pauline, and my girls and I. Laci had so many fun new colors that it made it hard for us to choose just one color so we decided to have them all. Laci was a good sport and painted all of our nails.....

Emily with one coat on and three more to go.......
Hannah's showing the finished project, she LOVES getting her nails done!
Ashley showing off hers.

This is one of the many things the girls love about going back to Utah they get to get all pampered up, they topped this day off with a day at Grandma Hobbs' hair salon where Grandma and Aunt Susan did their hair.

The Big Surprise

In January as most of you know we had a big surprise, after feeling physical and mentally done with my child bearing years Mike and I both decided that are little/big family was complete. At last I was able to get rid of anything that Hannah had outgrown/didn't use anymore. But to my surprise Heavenly Father had a different plan for our little/big family and blessed us with one more little baby......after letting the big news settle with me for a little while I eventually told my family of our big surprise and then asked Mike when he was going to tell his family, he then told me that he wasn't going to tell them, that they would find out when we went back to Utah in June, he thought it would be a fun surprise. This idea didn't shock me both of his older sisters did they same thing, his oldest sister Michelle thought it would be fun to surprise their sister Rayma that was on mission with her growing belly when she returned home from her mission, and his other sister Rayma surprised us a year ago when we went home for a wedding with her growing belly as well. But in the meantime that meant that I couldn't blog about our news.

So finally June got here and we were able to share our Big Surprise with everyone not only was it a big surprise that we were having another one, but in May we found out it was a BOY. After 4 girls we felt pretty confidant that we knew what we were having, but Mike and I were both blown away to find out that we had broken our pattern and were having a little boy!! Mike and I both welled up with tears in the ultra sound room, not only did we find out that it looked as though we were having a healthy baby, but also a baby boy. I laid there thinking after she told us it was a boy, " Wow this is going to be sooooo different not only do we have 4 girls, but they are all girlie girls, no more bows, cute frilly outfits, baby dolls, and dress up. Bring on cars, bugs,..... and whatever else little boys like??"

Some of Mike's family after a couple of glances at my belly and hearing a few snickers from some of us that already knew I was pregnant, finally asked, " Is there something you want to tell us?" and others that definitely noticed I was rounder but were to polite to ask found out by this invitation to the shower that my mom and little sister threw for me:

There was a couple who had four kids, And thought that they were through. Until one day the stork came by, And said, "I have a surprise for you!" You see they were quite startled by this new surprise, Everything was going fine until they realized, We have no diapers, they did say, no clothes or bottles too, Binkies, Onesies, we gave away, for we thought we were through! An "Oops" shower we will have to celebrate this baby! Please come and have lots of fun, please don't tell me maybe. Tons of goodies we will serve to keep us full of joy, So come and help us welcome this surprise baby boy!

It turned out to be a fun surprise, but I'm thankful that the little secret is out so I can blog about the rest of my pregnancy, we are are so excited to start this next chapter in our lives and to welcome this little baby boy(hopefully, or she'll be stuck in a lot of boy clothes)