Our Goat had Triplets

 

Not the clearest pictures, but our goat Sheeba had three babies today. I went outside to get packed in the car to leave and realized, "There are three little goats walking around." Then I went and looked and saw that it had JUST happened and then the placenta came out, so I knew that was it. (sorry if TMI)

I got the girls and they ran right in to see the cute little things. We talked about it almost daily since we knew Sheeba was close to giving birth. There are two boys and one girl. Mommy doing well:)

After that fun and exciting surprise, we headed over to cousin Weston's 2nd birthday party. He is the first of the three cousins to be born within six weeks of each other.

Amazing

My girls LOVE the song "Just the Way You Are," by Bruno Mars. Lucky us, we were able to hear it on the radio FIVE times on our way home from my sister's house. Marlee said, its amazing! We keep finding the song on the radio! Sooooo glad we kept finding it, because it made the half hour drive go by way fast! Marlee knows most of the words and Josie knows the chorus. Its so fun to see them sing along to a song on the radio!
Here is the YouTube link to the song.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjhCEhWiKXk

Had an enjoyable day hanging out with my sisters while the kids napped! And had fun watching the cousins play together. That pretty much sums up our day today. 1.03.10

1.2.11 Found a picture!

I  found a pictures of our family-on my parents computer-from our Christmas Eve get together. We made sugar cookies and the kids decorated them.

Today: Marlee went to Primary for the first time and really did not want to be a "Sunbeam." When we got to church, come to find out many other of her nursery friends did not want to be Sunbeams either, so it was cute to see how apprehensive they all were. Marlee and one of her friends held hands while the other mom and I left them. When it was time for pick up, she was super happy and told me she liked her new Sunbeam teachers! :) Josie is still in nursery and loves it. We had a great gospel lesson/discussion in Sunday School. And truly felt the spirit there. YW's lesson was about "What makes someone truly beautiful?" and of course it's the Holy Ghost dwelling in us that radiates the Love of our Savior!Good Sunday!

After church, we headed to my parents house for a family dinner. Michala was still in town with her girls and Nat came over and we had a very nice dinner together. We're headed to the Mack family for another dinner here soon. Its nice to be able to see both sides of the family when we "come into town."

1.1.11

Well, I decided I should start the year off by journaling. Whether its in my journal, blog or facebook, I am going to "journal" for not only the sake of my memory, but for genelogy for future generations:)
Although I can't figure out the new layout, etc of the blog, and I can't find my camera cord,  I am still going to post!

Today we had an enjoyable, day. Ivan had the day off so we had some good quality family time. We went for a drive, stopped and got some good Mexican food from a little carniceria, ate lunch at the park (the girls loved the park,) took naps, read books and played a memory/matching game with Marlee, folded and put away laundry, cleaned out part of the garage, listened to Josie sing along to "The Little Mermaid" songs, and then we to the store to buy  ice-cream as a family at nine o clock at night (even thought it's one of the coldest nights AZ has had in a while.)

Life is Good! 

Looking forward and back

It seems like May always a busy month! I am excited for Gavin and Mary's wedding, our family cruise, dance recitals... And great things happened the past couple of months too. My brother in law Casey received his mission call and he will be going to Florida! We're so excited for him! We had the Easter Bunny visit, General Conference, swimming with family and friends (brrr...a little cold), keeping busy with work, I think I forgot to post about the track meet we did at the end of February, Ivan bull riding, lots of playing at the park, etc.

Here are some pictures during those fun times!

We ran in the Grand Canyon State Games open track meet.
Our team took first in our 4 x 100 relay! And had a lot of fun training for it.
Ivan and his brothers/in- law ran too.

Looking nervous....but then excited!

All of us girls at Casey's opening of his mission call!

EASTER:
We had a great family breakfast at my mom and dads house with Natalie's family.
Then the kids went on an egg hunt!

Josie and Papa


One of the Mack family friends' dressed up as the Easter Bunny (hope Marlee doesn't read this)
And came over to visit the kids. Marlee was probably the least scared. The night before Easter, Marlee was praying that the the Sun will wake up and the Easter Bunny will come. She was ecstatic when she arrived (I think the Easter Bunny is a girl, right?)

Josie was a little scared, but Marlee was helping her feel better :)

At the park with Amanda and her kids.
The kids would stay in the swing all day if we let them.

Here is the cute, soon to be married cute couple! We are so excited to have Mary in the family!

Fun Filled February

Wow, February just flew right on by. I know it's the month with the least number of days in it but, I seriously can't believe it's March already! It is a crazy month for Birthday's for my side of the Family. Shawn, Mike, Ivan, Evie and my mom all have February birthday's. My sister's and their families came down for the birthday celebrations and so we were all able to hang out for a week or so. Ivan and I enjoyed a date night for his birthday. We went an saw a movie in a theater! We realized we hadn't done that in so long. We are use to getting a red box, putting the kids down and that is out typical date night. So it was a real treat to go and watch a movie on "the big screen!" I snapped a quick shot before we headed out the door...I think my huge, cheesy smile shows my true emotion of excitement to be KID FREE that night!

We attempted a "grand kids" photo but since five of the seven grand kids are two and younger, it wasn't as successful as we had hoped for. Here are a few photos from our photo shoot attempt! (The two older boys were very cooperative and would say, "Man, these babies sure cry a lot!")


Evie turned ONE!!! She enjoyed the biggest personal cupcake I have ever seen. (You will notice Marlee is in NONE of the pictures because she was so tired she slept through the whole party)


And... my mom turned 50! So we had a little birthday party for her. Let's just say we have way too much fun when we all get together and leave the kids with babysitters!!!

I apologize for all of the collages, but I had 300 photos from my camera for February and I just couldn't pick which ones to post :)

January in a nut shell

We decided to try and get Marlee off of her pacifier at the beginning of the month. One day Marlee wanted to go on the "alligator" which is an escalator... So we decided that girls who don't have a pacifier for a whole week will get to go the mall and go on the "alligator." This was quite the reward for Marlee. We never thought she would brake the habit, but she has been pacifier free for a month! While we were at the mall, we decided to go on the carousel, elevator, indoor playground and visit the pet store. Who knew you could have so much fun can be had at the mall?!
Josie turned ONE!!! And she's walking!! It's so much fun to watch Marlee and Josie play together. They feed off of each other and love to laugh and play dress up. (Marlee even enjoys dressing up her babies and stuffed animals.)


Ivan rode a couple of bulls last month and it's been fun to watch him. The girls enjoy watching and looking at the bulls and horses. He rode the first bull for the whole 8 seconds! I'm not great at photography and didn't get a good picture, but this was the best I got.

Well, that pretty much summed up our month of January. We are all healthy and enjoying life! Looking forward to some fun events this month! :)