Celeste Maureen

On December 29th, Bethany brought another beautiful little girl into this world! They named her Celeste Maureen Bronson. She weighed 6 lbs. 10.8 oz. and was 19 inches long. Mom and baby are doing great and got to go home today. CONGRATULATIONS BETHY!!!

Testing... Testing...

So for my Birthday I got a new camera!! Yeah!!! My old camera got dropped in a puddle over the summer and it died. I really like my new camera but haven't had too many "Photo opportunities" yet. So I made an opportunity myself. I went to my mom's house and basically forced all the kiddos to sit on her steps and look cute. So here is a picture of my cute little ones. Be ready for me to update this blog a bit more!

Turning 3!

On Friday Ezra and Landon are turning 3 but we are celebrating their birthday on Thursday so I decided to make Ezra's cake tonight and I will make Landon's in the morning. After making his firetruck cake, Ezra gained a fond attachment to it. ALL night he had to watch over it and protect it from anything that might come along (mostly Scotland). He was so cute sitting there for probably a little over an hour (which is SUPER long for him) so I had to take pictures with my phone and post them! He loved just looking at it and saying "I love firetruck cake!"

Fall Pages (no Halloween yet)

So here are some fall time scrapbook pages. I haven't done Halloween pages yet unfortunately but I SWEAR, they will come! My kiddos were SO DANG cute on Halloween so I have to show them off. I guess these pictures will have to get you by for now!

For Chelle

THE RULES:

Go to your picture files.

Pick the 4th file, and the 4th picture in it.

Tell a little about the picture.

Tag 4 friends.

This is actually the 3rd file because I don't have a 4th.

So the story of this grainy picture is this. My older (but smaller) sister was visiting from NYC and my mom had all the grandkiddos over for a fun filled evening. They sang songs, read stories, and decorated cookies. This is Ezra digging into his sugar covered, sugar frosted, sugar cookie. I am so glad he couldn't finish it!! And I am sure my mom was so glad that she did not have to keep all the kids that night!

DANG IT!!!

Ok... So I had my 1st ultrasound for this pregnancy and unfortunately I am not nearly as far along as they originally thought! I figured I was a little less progressed as anticipated by my last months period. Since I was still nursing Scotland at the time my cycle was a bit off. Instead of being due on May 17th I am now due June 9th!!!! That is a BIG difference if you ask me! I know that once May comes around I will be even more sad that I will not be going into labor in that month. Oh well. Everything looks great as far as the baby goes. They can't see much yet but it has a good heart beat and I am still puking every day!

5 YEARS OLD!!!

I still refuse to believe that my little guy is growing up so fast, but he is! Her are a couple of scrapbook pages from his Speed Racer birthday!!
First, this is the invitation tha tI designed for the event. I hate to brag too much but I think they turned out pretty dang good! If you click on it you can read it better.

The joy of puking!

Yes I did say "the joy!" And I am not being sarcastic. No I do not like puking all that much and I hate feeling nauseous BUT I am pregnant and puking, feeling nauseous and exhausted are all good signs. Yup, baby number 5 is on the way! We are SO very excited! A few months ago we had a miscarriage and felt so ready to have another baby join our family but since Scotland is still nursing (much to my dismay) it was hard to plan when we needed to try to get pregnant but now here we are expecting another little monkey!!!

My crazy boys!!!

So here is the latest picture of all my crazy boys! They are so crazy but SOOOO fun! They are such good friends and I am so happy for that! How can you NOT love these 3?

Moses Lake 2008

So, once again, I am just going to post the scrapbook pages that I did for the Moses Lake trip this year. We had so much fun seeing family, and spending LOTS of time on the lake!

I am sure more pages will come, I don't have many pictures of Gabe done yet but he was out tubing on the boat the majority of the time and I need to download those pictures soon, so hopefully I can get around to doing that in the near future!

FINALLY The 4th of July!

I am Finally posting pics from our 4th of July! We had a lot of fun and kept very busy. In the morning we went to our ward breakfast followed by the Gig Harbor Ward activity (lunch) at the Paulson's barn (for those who have not been there, you can never know how cool it is), and finally went to the Himmers' house for dinner and fireworks. Gabe LOVED the fireworks but Landon and Scotland did NOT, Ezra was indecisive. Instead of posting pictures; however, I'll just post my scrapbook pages I made for the event. Hope you all enjoy!

On Father's Day we had a fabulous dinner at my mom and dad's house. We enjoyed it with my Grandma and Grandpa Holmes as well as all of Ben and Suzanne's family. My mom took this picture of my Dad with all his local grandkids. Landon obviously was not too fond of the idea and Scotland is mostly hidden but it still is pretty cute!

1st Birthday!

Scotland had such a wonderful first Birthday! We celebrated with Quincy who was having her 4th Birthday. Lots of family came to enjoy this princess party and we all had a great time!

She is such a beautiful princess!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOTLAND!!!
I have to show off the cakes I made. It took a long time to make these so I want EVERYONE to see them!! The castle was for Princess Quincy and the crown was for Princess Scotland.

She was a little confused by the candle. She had no idea what it was doing there in her cake.

Her two favorite presents! A glow worm from Grandma and Grandpa Holmes and a purple bear that can also be used as a pillow from Grandma Bobbi and Grandpa Jerry.

MMMMMM!! Cake!

At the park

We had a little bit of good weather recently so we spent a bit of time at the park. Scotland LOVED being out side and even tried a wood chip or two. I love taking the kids to the park and hope that the weather will clear up again soon!

I have such a pretty girl I had to take pictures of her while the boys ran around as boys do.

She is not eating wood chips here, just a pizza crust (mmmm).

Pachelbel Rant

This guy really is quite funny. Any person that has played any instrument can totally empathize.

Children's Song

I LOVE this, it makes me laugh so much!!!

Maxwell's Birthday Present

On April 11th Max had a Birthday and we bought him a really cool Transformers mask that changes your voice when you wear it. My boys loved playing with it while it was in the box. Ezra especially loved it. When the time came to wrap it before the party Ezra was devastated! He laid his head on the gift and just sobbed. In stead of comforting him as a good mother would do, I ran for my phone to take pictures of the pitiful sight. By the time I started taking picture he had lifted his head but was not about to leave the side of this treasure.

I really don't think anyone could look more sad if they tried!!

I just couldn't resist

Scotland is so precious, especially when she is sleeping. Here she is in the car after an awfully rough day. It made me almost forget about her temper tantrum not even 5 min. before. She really does not like being tired and in the car. I think she knows that she is going to fall asleep if she is not screaming loud enough for people in Africa to hear.

Bath Time Fun!

I love when my little ones are all happy and one of the times you are guaranteed to get all 4 of them happy is to throw them all in a nice warm bubble bath! I don't do it all THAT often, mainly because we end up with a lake on our bathroom floor when all is said and done. Tonight they all had PB&Js for dinner (yeah, I was a bit lazy this evening) and had sticky jelly all over themselves so I gave in and let them all splash their cares away!Here is Ezra just happy as a clam! What a love!

Landon loves the bubbles, as you can tell!

Scotland and Ezra checking out the bubbles.

What fun!!!

The whole crew! I love them all SO much!!

NO FUN!!!

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Equals a sprained foot and 2 days of absolutely NO walking or standing.

Yup, poor Landon was at a birthday party and got hurt in the bouncy castle thing. Gabe reports that "he got kicked over" but I didn't see what happened other wise the kid that did it would no longer be around! He was in a bit of pain for 2 days but is now starting to try out walking again. His Uncle Ben was nice enough to see us the night it happened and wrapped it all up. I just feel so awful when my kiddos get hurt.

Hide and Seek

Immediately after I finished unloading the dishes from the dishwasher, Scotland found a new place to hide. She pulled out all the dishes that I had just put away and climbed on into the cupboard. She was so proud of herself but was not such a fan of the cupboard after Ezra shut the doors. She is such a cutie, even when she is getting into trouble!

I have such cute kids!

I know that this is no real news to anyone, but, MAN, my kids are SO cute!
These are just a few recent pictures that I thought were pretty adorable.Gabe being so serious, he was not feeling especially well.

Ezra, on a very important business call, obviously.

This is the best anyone can get of Landon, he does not like the camera.

This I just thought was beautiful. I love my kiddos. They are each so amazing to me!