Birthday times two

Well as some of you may know, Karlee and I share a birthday December 29. I must admit it was not the most pleasant way of celebrating the beginning of my 29th, golden birthday. I was induced on the 28th and she took forever!! At around 11:30 pm hard labor started and I knew at that point she would be born on my birthday, something I was kind of trying to avoid I'm not sure why. Ask any man and they would be glad to share their birthday with one of their children, but ask most women and they would prefer to keep their one special day to themselves. We are more selfish I guess. As Midnight came upon, Wynden knowing that I had wanted to keep my birthday to myself and couldn't figure out why, looked over at me (in pain of course), smirked and said "Happy Birthday!" Half hour later Karlee graced us with her presence for the first time. Now I actually enjoy sharing a birthday with her. She turned one when I turned 30, I tried to focus more on that than my departure out of my twenties. It is so cute too when she tells people when they ask her when her birthday is that it is on mommy's birthday. She seems to think that this is really cool and so do her siblings. One would think that this would be the one child that Wynden could remember what date she was born, but I still get phone calls when booking trips or opening a bank account inquiring of her birth date. Anyway our birthday was ok. We spent the night out at a condo in Birch Bay, the weather was not that great so we stayed inside all day. The pictures are of the party with my family. Karlee was so cute when it was time to blow out the candle. She barely breathed on it. She did this a couple of times while the rest of us were like BLOW! She never did get that candle out, her cousin Sarah did it for her. It was very cute though.

Hey Baby Let's Go To Vegas

ok, ok I am not the blogger I imagined that I would be. With my obsessive compulsive personality, I did think that I would update every day, but I guess that my life is not that exciting after all. I actually don' t have much to say about myself and the kids are only funny every once in a while. Otherwise I guess I could complain about how big I feel with this baby and I am very nervous for the birth (although my doctor promised no 12 pounder). My body feels like I am 82 instead of 32 :) Other than that my life is way too simple.

We did go to Vegas though. I have no pictures to post. I took the camera, but Wynden and I are not cute like the kids so picture opportunities are rare. We left on Thursday and came back on Sunday. We had a lot of fun. I ate way too much and the five pounds that I gained probably went straight to the baby. When Wynden's secretaries found out we were in Vegas they were surprised and said that they thought we were more of a Harrison Hot Springs type of people. I guess we are boring and not quite the party types that go to Vegas. They would probably all laugh if they knew that we never even made it to the strip this trip. We layed out by the pool, which was very relaxing and I caught up on my sleep. We went to a huge outlet mall and found a KB Toys that was going out of business. The kids sure lucked out with our gifts that we brought home this time because of that sale. We spent some time with a friend of Wynden's from his mission and his family. Overall it was a nice relaxing get away.

Is it January already?

Wow the last few weeks have flow by! We had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year. Three of our family members are one year older I'm not sure if they are wiser too...Anyway I hope that everyone had a great Christmas and hope that your new is year has started out with a bang!

Lexi's Birthday

On Lexi's Birthday, school was cancelled because of the snow, but we decided to go ahead with her party anyway. She had a great party with friends and family. My sister Heidi did her hair, it reminded me of the blond on That 70's Show. For dinner we went to Red Robin (which seems to be a tradition). And then to Build a Bear where Lexi picked a reindeer to stuff. Not a bad day for a 7 year old :)

Last, but not least...well for now anyway

Hallie, still the baby, she loves to cuddle only of course if she has her blankie and can suck her thumb. She is really picking up on her vocabulary though. She is talking sooner than any of her siblings I think. She definitely is a mommas girl. Pictures of her this past year I'm afraid boil down to 4Th child syndrome. There aren't a ton of them and she starts to walk towards you when you are taking her picture or she stops doing the cute thing that you were going to take the picture of in the first place. She can be a stinker, but I love her all the more :)

Karlee's year in review

Karlee is sure a character. She is probably my funniest child. She says things everyday that crack me up. She has grown a lot this year and her hair has finally filled in. She is sure a sweet girl and loves to be held. She struggles sometimes to fit in with the big kids, but holds her own most the time. She loves to play house with Lexi and Hunter. When she was a baby Lexi and Hunter nicknamed her Sofa, while playing house I thought it was kind of a different name, but you never know with kids. That is what they call her still today. A few months ago, I realized that they thought they were calling her Sophia after a girl in Lexi's preschool. Lexi was just pronouncing it wrong all this time. So after figuring that out Karlee is still Sofa.

A year full of Hunter

So after doing an entry just for Lexi I thought it would be fun to look back at pictures of the kids and post some favorites. Hunter poor guy, is the only boy. He does quite well with the girls. Hallie wrestles everyone because of his great example :) He says the funniest things sometimes. My favorite this last year was once when ARC came to pick up some used household goods (they come all the time I like to clean things out once a month for them so I never tell them no) Hunter asked if ARC's first name is Noah. I guess he thought the guy driving the truck was Arc because I would always say "oh Arc's here" Such a cute kid!