Family Pictures

A few weeks ago I had my sister take some pictures of us at Layton Park. I think she took about 300 pictures. By the time we got to the park to do the family ones it was almost dark and Lucas wasn't feeling to well so they were a little tricky. But overall we got some super cute pictures. I may put more on later but for now, Enjoy!

In almost every picture Preston had his hed tilted to one side. We had to keep reminding him to put it up straight. These are the best we could get with all of us together.

I think Lucas may have lost circulation in his arms from Jack and Zack holding on to him so tight to keep him from falling over.

Zack loves to pose for pictures.

If you haven't noticed, look how thick Jackson's hair is compared to all of the other kids. He got that from Dave (When he was younger).

I went to the park during the week to get pictures of all of the kids so of course I had to get in on a few of them. When Dave looked at all of them later he said it looked like I was single with 5 kids. Very funny Dave!

There's that head tilt I was talking about. I love his blonde hair.

My Rach. Loves to have her picture taken. Any time. Any where.

One of the few pictures we got of Lucas with a smile. I tried to put him on the ground for a close up in the leaves but all he wanted to do was eat the leaves.

Sick

Myself and all five of my kids have been sick for more than a week now. I hate being sick. So while I wait to see if the medicine will kick in and clear things up a bit so that I can sleep better than I did last night I thought I would share a few things.
1-I usually get depressed as I look around my house and see the lack of decorating going on but tonight I decided I am mostly ok with my decorationless house. I am not saying I wouldn't decorate if I found something I really like but for now I am ok. And here's why. I found an autumn table cloth in a drawer yesterday so I pulled it out to put on the table. When I finally got around to putting it on the table tonight it wasn't more than five minutes before the kids started fighting over it and one pulled it one way and the other pulled the other way. It wasn't until I threatened with bed time that one of them let go. I'm sure it will happen again tomorrow. I think this is why it usually stays in the drawer.
2-As I was sitting on my bed tonight watching tv I heard a little voice come over the baby moniter and it was Rachel in her bed singing Twinkle, Twinkle little Star and the ABC song. It sounds more like kinkle kinkle ittle tar. I just love her little voice.
3-One of my most favorite players got sent home from the Biggest Loser tonight. The black team sent Abby home. She was always so nice and positive.
4-As I type this I realize that I am not a very good typer. I think I hit the backspace as many times as I hit the space bar. Oh well.

Bedtime

I love my kids bedtime for two reasons. The first one is obvious-I get some quiet time. The second reason is that I love puting Rachel to bed. This is one of my favorite things to do. When we put her to bed she has to have her favorite blanket. And not only does she have her favorite blanket but she has to have it a certain way. She has to have the yellow side with polka dots and the ties down and the purple side facing up. Which to me is upside down but oh well. Most nights I put it on her the wrong way just so I can hear her say "Wa way ma." (wrong way mom) And then she laughs. Which makes me laugh. So I turn it over and give her hugs but before I can give her a kiss she gives me a kiss on each cheek and then on my forehead. And then I get to give her a kiss. No matter how the day has gone this is what I get from her at bedtime. I absolutely love it. Especially since the boys are not quite so easy to put to bed.

6 MONTHS

I can't believe Lucas is already six months old. He weighs 15 lbs 12 oz (17%) and is 25 and 3/4 in long (23%). Now I realize that might not seem very big to some of you but compared to my other kids he is actually the biggest at this age. Only by a few ounces but still bigger. I love this age. He is really starting to play with toys and anything else he can get his hands on. He is getting close to sitting up and crawling. He will get on his hands and knees and just stay there for a few seconds and then drop back down and roll around and just turn in circles. He is ticklish right up by his neck and loves to laugh when anybody tickles him there. His brothers also like to make him laugh and I just love to listen to them playing.

FINALLY!!

After two and a half weeks of not having a working dryer we finally got our new one delivered today. Yea! And since we have already fixed the washer once we thought we would just get a new washer as well. Yea! My aunt and uncle gave us our old washer and dryer almost eight years ago. We were so grateful to have them since we didn't really have alot of money at the time to buy new ones. I don't know how old they were but the dryer looked like it was from the 70's. They both served their purpose well and have now left us. And finally our new washer and dryer are here. We got front loaders and I just wish I could get them hooked up asap and start washing. I never thought I would be so excited to do laundry but since I have done as little as possible the last two weeks we have laundry everywhere. The day the dryer quit drying we started potty training Rachel. Not a good idea since she goes through three or four pairs a day. We also ran out of pull-ups for Zack and Preston to wear to bed so their sheets and blankets are all stinky. I did change their sheets once but Zack won't use any other blanket than his own so even though it has been peed on multiple times he still uses it. So hopefully today or tomorrow I will finally get everything washed and dryed and put away.

Wish I was sleeping!

It is 4:30 in the morning and I am up with Lucas. I thought we were done with this middle of the night stuff about 3 months ago. I guess one child up is better than 4 children up which is what we had yesterday about ten minutes to six. So I sent two of them back to bed and left Dave with the other two and then I went back to bed. Although I didn't sleep much after that. Oh well. It all comes with the territory of parenthood.

Really? Zackery? He wouldn't do such a thing. He never disobeys the rules! Ha Ha! So when I picked Zackery up from school today his teacher had to come and talk to me and she told me that Zack got in trouble because him and some friends were playing in line while they were waiting to go outside. When we got home I asked him what he was doing and he told me he was playing midgie and other people were wacking him in the head with their backpack strings which he was pretending were tree branches hitting him in the head. For anyone that doesn't know, midgie is when you pull your shirt down over your legs. As shown by none other than Zack himself in the above picture. Of course I thought it was funny but I couldn't laugh. I just told him not to do it next time. If this is any indication as to how the school year is going to be we are in for a fun ride!

The picture above is actually from the 4th of July when we were watching fireworks at Davis High and 4 of our 5 children fell asleep during the fireworks. Jackson who was the only one not asleep didn't want to be left out so he fell asleep on the way home.

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