New School Pix

Thought I would post the kid's new school pictures. Top is my oldest daughter, Morgan. Bottom is my oldest child, Walker. Growing up way too fast!!!

Moseby and Marriage Rant

We took Moseby with us to visit Grandma and Grandpa's house this past Sunday. He wore himself out having so much fun! He really loved the playhouse~

Moseby seemed to be partial to this lovely spot in the ground cover under a tree.

It is so hard these days to get a serious picture from my two big boys, so I am left with this. Cute anyway!

Having a little rest at the bottom of the steps.

Mother knitting. Aren't I a cliche from the past?

Always wants a picture taken. He even stands in front of us yelling "say cheese" and smiling!

Nick is still actually a little scared of Moseby . He wanted to have a picture taken with him and Daddy, but he kinda hid behind with this uncomfortable look on his face. Classic!

James is so happy to finally have his first dog. You should see him with Moseby. Absolutely doting! I am so thrilled to see him so content!

I love this sleepy little baby!

Cameron was posing for this one. He had just finished saying "cheese!" and then waited for me to shoot. I love it! Life is so busy and full of a million distractions. I love Sundays! I am so thankful to have a day where I can relax and see my family. I don't have to worry about anything but us. It is a wonderful blessing if we take advantage if it! I do however have a stressful Sunday coming up. I have to speak in Sacrament Meeting with James, Walker and Morgan. I have had many weeks to prepare and I still am not anywhere near finishing my preparation. Hopefully I can find time this weekend with Conference.

I am so very grateful to my amazing husband for being a very willing partner in raising our seven babies. I could never do it alone, nor would I want to. I am looking all around me at many of our friends who have decided to call it quits and go it alone. It is almost an epidemic. Everywhere you look, couples are giving up and Satan is winning. The children are losing, the family is forever broken. I find my mind constantly over burdened with sadness at this. It helps me be ever more determined to take care of my marriage above all else so I don't find myself in that situation. I know they all probably thought that they would never find themselves in that place, but none of us are exempt from trials. We have to "bother" to work at our relationships. When you are lucky enough to have found a good man, you do not take it for granted and you do not think yourself above faults. We have to "bother".

Kayli

This is my sweet little niece. Kayli. She just recently turned seven out in Portland, Or. where she lives with her Mama. I miss her so much, it kills me. I haven't actually seen her for about three years now. Terrible to be separated from family. I wish so much we could be together.


They recently took a little trip to the shore and took some great pictures. I was so excited they shared them with me.

This is one of my favorites. She really is so sweet and fun. We got to have her here for about a year and a half awhile back, and it was great to get to know her and receive her love. She is very loving and precious. Can you tell I am proud? She also has the greatest Mama and I am so comforted in knowing she is taken care of very well. So until we can come up with a way to get us all there for a visit, I'll have to just enjoy all the pictures and letters I get from them.

New Baby and Twin's Birthday!

After almost fifteen years of talking about it, we have a puppy! He is so sweet and loving! We named him Moseby Adym(Riley's spelling of Adam). The kids are having so much fun with him, and they all even jump at the chance to walk and scoop up after him! Funny the things a child is willing to do for a dog! Moseby is in heaven with seven children to run around constantly with him, and I am loving to see the kiddies all so happy about it! Good decision all around!


This is Moseby and Cameron playing. Cam loves it when Moseby chases him! Right after this shot, he actually caught hold of the diaper and tugged Cam around a bit. Baby loved it, Mom did not.



The girls turned another year older this weekend. We had a fun family dinner party on Sunday night to celebrate at our home. Here is Riley thanking Uncle Drew for her monster truck!

And, Kennedy posing in her beautiful new princess duds.

Here are my pretty twinks modeling the new shawls I knitted for them. It just about killed them to hold still this long with a rocker full of presents behind them!

I was thrilled to see how much the girls actually loved their shawls. I was afraid after Igot going on them they would be less than thrilled, but they really got excited about them. Yeah! I am especially glad because i got up at four in the morning on their birthday to finish them.

how much actually made it into his tummy?

Cameron has long been a very independent baby. He has always preferred to feed himself, even when he really wasn't capable. Last night at dinner he was especially excited to eat one of his favorites. Tomato pasta soup. He was really getting into it. Before long I realized that in his zeal to consume his yummy dinner, most of it was landing on his shirt or in his lap. If one looks closely to the top picture you can spy quite the accumulation of food in his lap! He was so happy! Very early in my mothering of children, I came to learn that boys are not truely happy unless naked or engaged in a mess of some sort. Hence the complete glee seen in the bottom picture of Cam and the resistance he gave me to a good cleaning. I could hardly get him away to the much need shower and shirt soak in the bathroom. He was none too pleased, but I won of course. He was promptly tossed into a nice warm shower and de-messed just in time to cuddle down with Mama and sleep. My favorite way to end the day. Cuddled up with a clean and sweet smelling baby! One of the simple things:)

totally unplanned

I am an organized person, to a degree. I have, however, somewhat given up on trying to control every aspect of my life because I have seven children. That is seven different personalities, needs, wants, homework assignments, degrees of health, braces maintenance, etc...

I cannot, nor should I try to, make everything happen in a given day go smoothly or perfectly. That is fine. I have learned to thrive in my world of utter chaos. Unfortunately, that doesn't leave a lot of time to plan social retreats with my good buddies. I have missed my best friend, Katie so much since my move of nearly a year ago. We almost never see each other.

Yesterday, however, through a slew of last minute and unplanned circumstances, we spent nearly the whole day together! It was great! We ran errands together with only four of our thirteen children. That was a breeze! (except of course when Cameron escaped the Tuesday Morning store through two sets of heavy outer doors!) Mild heart attack! Whew!

What fun we had! The kids all had a ball together and it was just a great and simple day!

I am so thankful for all my friends and all the simple and calm moments in life. In my hectic life, I just have learned to appreciate quiet and peace. :)

Yes, that is an emergency room with my daughter in it. She is indeed getting a cast. Just a normal day in the life of a mother of seven.

The day started out quite good. I took the twins for their first day of school. Cameron and I napped for two hours all snuggled up in the recliner together. I met the girls an hour after getting out of school because the bus driver told me the wrong stop to meet them at. Thank you so much!

We were late to the chiropractor because the next bus was a half hour late getting home. Then, at the Chiro's office, I had them look at Morgan's hand because of a little fall the previous day. It was broken. Hence the trip to the PCMC ER in the latter part of the day after taking the other six children to my parent's house.

James was still working up in Bountiful and it was dinner and homework time.(the worst time of the day)I am so tired just thinking about all this stuff yesterday.

So the ER docs could not come to a unanimous conclusion as to whether the hand was broken or not. It wasn't the wrist as previously thought. It is probably a buckle fracture in her hand. We won't know for sure until we have it x-rayed in a week and see if there are any signs of healing.

In the mean time, we act as if it is broken. OK. I would like to believe it is broken simply because it validates all the trouble we went to for it last night. I mean, if I am going to have to do all that driving and all that waiting, and all that headache-ing, it darn well better be broken. That's all I'm saying.

Now it is the next day. Cameron and I are home alone. Sigh. Life is good. I have a messy house and Yoga waiting on my DVR. I guess I will go and attend to those items before I grab the girls from school and go to lunch at Cafe Rio with my mom. This WILL be a better day.