What a week

Every Sunday our bathroom ends up looking like an earthquake hit it, since we have 3 girls to get ready in a short amount of time our bathroom is where me and kids are at all morning long. The bathroom sink is Natalie's favorite place to play. She loves to pull everything out and loves getting in the pads, all of our kids loved these at this age. Is anyone kids into the bathroom sink?

Natalie has not been feeling very good these past few weeks, and i thought that it was her teeth but after many sleepless nights we took her in and finally got her on some medicine and she is doing much better. We can't wait to get her back into her own bed. When our kids are sick they usually sleep with us, it just makes it easier. Natalie just loves it, she goes to bed in her crib then around 11:00 wakes up and wants in our bed. As soon as she get into our room she smiles and takes her hand and hits Garrett's side of the bed to see if he is there. She loves sleeping between us. On Tuesday for Veterans day we took the kids to see the movie Madagascar #2, it was great your kids will love it. Then I wanted to go Christmas shopping for the grandmas and Grandpas so we got to the first store and lasted 30 minutes then we went home. I hate shopping with kids Natalie is the Worst.

This week will be one I will be glad when it is over. Our ward is having our R.S. annual dinner and program tonight. My mom and I were ask to decorate for the evening, so that was another stress added. It turned out really good. But I can't even go tonight to the dinner and enjoy cause I have 4 extra kids at my house and Garrett is at work today. I have Tia's 4 kids while they are down in Texas looking for a house(I am going to miss them so much) Lets just say I don't know how people do it with twins, right now i have 7 kids under the age of 8. CRAZY!!!!! But my kids are loving having their cousins around and in a month they will not be here anymore so the kids can stay as long as Tia needs them to.

Hope for the Best

I have been thinking alot about this election 2008, this world is a scary place to be right now, and when you have kids we all worry what it will be like for them to grow up. I have wanted to post something about the election but just didn't know how or what to say. I was reading my friends blog (Marcie Koch) and she put it the best way, so i hope Marcie you don't mind but you were thinking just as i was. Here is what she Wrote:
*COUNTRY FIRST*
I am proud to say that I voted for John McCain. He is a class act, a true American, and heck - he chose my BFF Sarah Palin as his running mate!
I thought his concession speech was wonderfully written - it brought tears to my eyes. I, like 56,434,100 Americans, will support Obama as our president and hope for the best in the next four years. I just hope people can look past his color - since our country has been working on ending racial separation and discrimination for over 50 years - and see him as a human being.
I enjoyed Senator McCain's speech so much. I especially like the part about how a person's campaign impacts their whole family. It really really does.

She did a great job. Thanks Marcie!! There so many topics that i don't agree on with obama on. Also how about his illegal aunt that is here, he can't even provide a birth certificate. I'm nervous about what is going to happen to our country and wonder at what point our nation will see the mistake that has been made. Oh well. It is going to get ugly. but i will continue to pray for our President.

pumpkin day

We LoVe CaNdY, can you say more trips to the dentist.

Happy Halloween everyone, and Happy Birthday Emily!!! We started off the day by making applesauce with my mom and Emily. Garrett taught 2 CPR and First Aid classes.

We then got ready for the Trunk and Treat that our primary puts on, it's great everyone brings candy and you go from car to car and get lots of candy. We then went to our normal every year stops to the neighbors and grandparents, then home.Saddle up CoWgIrLs!! Just Waiting for someone to get me more candy

BEWARE

This is Madalyn's preschool class, today was their Halloween Party. Madalyn has been looking forward to the party all week. They all dresses up in their costumes, they had school and then a party.

The school is small 3 boys and 3 girls, we love it!!!!!

She was excited to get her cowgirl clothes on. Morgan really wanted to go to school today. It just looked to much fun.

Her girlfriends Jill, and Kianna

This is outside the preschool teachers house, she had the yard dressed up great. The best I have ever seen. A dead bride, ghosts, witches, vampires, the kids loved it after they found out it was not real.

Be Prepared

Our family now has our 1 year food storage

This is our storage room outside in our garage. For the past year I have really wanted to get all the food storage done and not have to worry about that part of BEING PREPARED. But it is really no fun buying food, there is alot funnier ways to spend your money. We decided that this would be money well spent, plus the more kids you get the more you worry about feeding them in an emergency, you can't bum off your parents anymore. So about 2 weeks ago we really started to find out what a family of 5 needed for one year. We already had our 72 hour kits done so we just went through them and made sure everything was still good and worked. I thought I already had alot of food storage done, but once you go through everything and find out what you really need we had a lot to do. Trenton and Maren gave us some great web sites to check out and that really help out alot, thanks guys. We had some buckets so we went to Costco and bought some things, order a hand wheat grinder and a few more things like powdered eggs, cheese and butter. Garrett went to the Church's Canning Store and did the rest yesterday. We as a family feel a little more prepare, and feel a little better about obeying some advice the prophets have told us to do.

FHE & Prayers really work

First Off: Monday night for FHE we decided to carve pumpkins, we had a great time. Madie wanted a scary face and Morgan wanted a fun face and Natalie just wanted to hold her little one.

We took the pumpkins outside and put candles in them, we can't wait for Halloween. The kids are going to be cow girls.
Now to the Prayers are really answered: everyday we pray for our families protection, Monday was a day that our family was truly watched over. It was after lunch, Natalie loves to go outside and it's sometimes really hard to keep her happy in the house. Garrett and I were in the kitchen talking and outside our sliding glass door we have a small porch then a large cement patio where the kids ride there bikes. We opened the door and let Natalie play with the dog on the porch, we were standing right there, and could see her. Then no more then a few seconds go by and she is not on the porch anymore, Garrett runs outside to check on her and she is in the middle of the road. She had followed the dog. Now we don't live in town where kids play in the road and the traffic is slow. The raod by our house is 55 mph and lots of trucks are going by our house because of harvest time. We could have lost her so easy that day, it makes me cry when ever i think about it. We were truly watch over that day and given a wake up call, the kids can no longer go outside by themselves. Our Heavenly Father Watches over us.

5 Year Pictures

On Thursday Madalyn had her 5 year pictures taken at Sears. She was really excited to have them done, she picked out what she wanted to wear and how she wanted her hair done. The older she gets the more control she wants to have, she knows what she likes.
She looks like a little princess, she is growing up so fast.



Madalyn is growing up so fast and can't wait to go to school. She just learned her phone number and is now learning her address. She loves friends, new clothes, riding her bike or grandpa's four wheeler, horses, make-up, cell phones, spending the night at grandmas house, and playing house with her sisters (she tells me all the time they need a brother to be the dad when they play house). Man they grow up to fast. Anyways........thought you would enjoy seeing our princess Madalyn

Family Fun

Happy Halloween Everyone!!!! We had a great time last night. Emily called and said that Brock went hunting and Garrett was at work, so she was going to come over. It's was Party Time with all the girls.



Emily's birthday is Halloween the 31st, so we always have lots of fun during this time of year with decorations and food. Emily had made cupcakes and we frosted and decorated them last night. With kids it's always really messy, but the kids loved trying to make spiders, mummies and pumpkins. We love spending time with Aunt Emmy, Morgan said this morning when she woke up" we always make fun things with emily, can she come back tonight" (last year they made a gingerbread house together)

Our trip & Being Sick

I have not posted anything in the past few days, I have been sick for the past 2 weeks with an enter ear infection. I have not been feeling very good and so I went to the Doctor and they put me on amoxicillin for 10 days and i'm still tring to fight it.

Here are a few pictures at Karena's house near Boise, the kids swam non stop. The pool was heated to 90 so it made it nice to swim. The kids were so tired at night they crashed.

Silly little Natalie, she loved wearing the swimming glasses.
Garrett returned home from his hunting trip on Monday night. They came home one day early because it was so wet and cold up there. They saw lots of deer but he didn't get one, 2 of the men up there shot 2 points. Garrett is now hunting around here as i'm writing this, today is the last day to hunt for him. Lets hope he gets one so we can end deer hunting for the season.

My day off

Today was my day to celebrate. My birthday is on Sunday the 5th and Garrett will be off hunting in kettle falls Id. The girls and i will be going to bosie to visit family for the weekend. So what did Garrett do................ Surprised me with the day off and shopping with him. He found a babysitter for the girls and told me to be ready wednesday morning at 9:00. It was great; finding a babysitter during the day is half the battle. We spent all day in tri-cities. He had not bought anything for my birthday so he told me to buy whatever i wanted to, so I did. I came home with 3 new shirts, a pair of pants, new shoes and a flower arrangment for the house. He did have to do a liitle bit of shopping for the hunting trip but other than that it was all about ME. Which is great for Garrett he is not a big shopper. Thanks alot Garrett it was great 28th birthday.