Our Family

Here is a picture of our family from Thanksgiving. We went to California to spend time with Rod's family. It was so much. The trees behind us were only 5 ft tall when we got married. It is amazing what can happen in 15 years!!

couponing

So my life has been a little crazy lately. Blogging has taken a backseat. Our sweet RJ will be a year in July and it feels like he was just born. I haven't slept much in the past 9 months, but I am so happy to have my wonderful family.

My new thing is couponing. It is really fun. I am trying to see how far I can stretch my grocery budget and use the excess to build a stockpile of food and other household items. I am going to start blogging about my coupon adventures along with the adventures with my 6 little ones! I hope it will be fun and interesting to read! I have missed having my little place to write about my life. I have missed reading about everyone's adventures too.

Big News

Happy New Year to all of you out there! We had a wonderful Christmas in Idaho with my sister Jen and her amazing family and my mom and dad! It was a spur of the moment trip so in my haste I forgot to take the photo card out of the computer. My sister took some pics, but who knows when I will get them. Trust me the kids faces were priceless when the opened their gifts. Darren caught on really quick! It was a lot of fun! We were also able to visit our new neice who was born on the 21st of December, my big sister, and lots of old friends! It was so great to catch up with everyone!

We do have some big news to report. We are going to have a new addition to our family at the end of July! We were super shocked when we found out! Now that the news has had time to sink in we are super excited. The Lord must want us to have another baby, because we certainly weren't planning on it. We feel very blessed and overwhelmed that we are getting another beautiful soul sent to us. I have been pretty sick and very tired this time around. So if you come over you will have to excuse my house. This is also the reason that my baking this Christmas didn't really happen. Oh well...Next year I will go overboard! Rod has been very supportive and helpful! He is so wonderful! The kids are super excited. They kept it a secret for a really long time. Sam is the one who spilled the beans. He told his sunbeam teachers! It was so funny!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! I will post some new fun pics soon. Take care!

Random fun pics!

Here are some random pics from what has been going on around here. Grandpa came from Cali and helped build some shelves in the garage. Sam loved being a big helper and wanted to look just like grandpa! Sam and Grandpa working in the shop!

Sydney lost her first tooth! Very exciting. The tooth fairy brought her $1!!

Darren loves yogurt!

Sydney announced the other day that she didn't want to be a mom...she wants to be something. Nice. She wants to be a vet. So if you look close you will see that all of her animals have toilet paper bandages on! What a silly goose!

Halloween!!

Halloween was lots of fun this year!! I made my own candy...I ate it all myself because you cant hand out homemade candy to stranges. What a bummer!! Dark chocolate truffle pops. It was a tough job, but someone had to do it!

Here is Darren at the trunk or treat..in the trunk!! He was happy if he had a sucker in his mouth!

This is our little witch!

Here is everyone! 1 Nerd, 2 ninjas, a witch and a dog!!

Here I am with my little puppy! Too cute! The kids had a great time at the trunk or treat and then trick or treating in our neighborhood. I think we had around 100 trick or treaters! I love Halloween!

Pumpkin Carving!!

Today we decided to carve pumpkins. It was the only day Rod would have so we went outside and got it done. It was nice to do it outside, way less clean up. The kids had a lot of fun. Sydney still won't put her hands in the actual pumpkin...it is so funny how gross she thinks it is. Jeramy kept trying to get her too, but she was not having it. When Rod took the top of Sam's pumpkin off Sam looked it and said 'now we have to get all of that crap out"..wonder where he picked that up? Maybe his potty mouth mother?! I could not stop laughing. I guess it could have been worse. Anyway, we had fun, here are some pics of the finished product. We hope everyone has a safe and Happy Halloween!

The Curls Are Gone!

So Darren's hair has been really getting out of control, so we decided to give it a cut.

Here he is before!

Look at those beautiful curls!

Here is the pile of curls!

Here is our big boy! He loved the haircut. Even the clippers. He was laughing the whole time. Now he looks so old. I cried the whole time I was cutting it, but he had a mullet and it had to be taken care of!