Baby Mylee's baby shower

My best friend Amanda just had her fourth, yes I said FOURTH baby. Her name is Mylee Barron and she is seriously the smallest thing I have ever seen. When she was here I just kept starring at her because she doesn't even look real. I threw a baby shower for her since she was coming out for another event and this is her home town. It was so much fun and I am so glad I was able to do it for her.

Little Mylee. She weights a whooping 5 pounds and was due the same day her older brother was born.......you heard me right. Amanda got prego 3 months after she gave birth to her Aiden. I told you Mom of the year!

Some of the cute stuff she got.

Opening all the presents.

I have known Amanda since 7th grade and we have been best friends since then. She is one of those friends that you don't have to talk to every day and the next time you talk you can talk for hours, pick up where you left off. I love her!!!

Amanda's Mom Barbara Lamb. She made the car seat cover by the way....amazing!!!!

Trying to get a pick of the kids together.

Another attempt at getting the kids together. From left to right: Emma, Cooper, Kael, Aiden, and Carter.

So handsome at church

Ugliest funny faces ever!!

I miss you guys come back to me soon!!!! I love your stinkin' guts!!!!!!!!

I am so excited!!!!!

My sister moves down in 10 days and I am soooooooooooo excited. this pic was taken a LONG time ago....ahhh memories and I am excited to make a TON more now that she will be so close.

Lunch with my cousins

It was sooooo much fun to see my cousins. They are tons of fun to be around. My cousin Robert was sealed to his son Rex after a long wait. I guess it takes 6 months or so to finalize adoptions, so they had to wait for that. They also got to bless him the next day. What an amazing experience for him and his sweet wife Heather. We are all so happy for them. My cousin Melanie is his sister and she flew from back east to come and be here for it. Before Mel had to leave we went to Benihana......I would eat there EVERY DAY if I could.......no really!!!!!!

My sweet girl all messy from the ice cream.

Oh....Oh...Oh....give me more of that sweet stuff!!

My special buddy.






Random cute pics.....Carter is such a good big bro!

So True!!

Amber Carlson posted this on her blog and I HAD to as well. Just a little reminder...

M. Russell Ballard
"...the biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make...I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of the three of [my children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages 6, 4 and 1. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less."

Bag Tag....a little embarassing....

I AM NOT a woman who lost my a baby weight in two weeks,
Lets fashion dictate my style,
and is never tired.
But I am strong.
I am invincible.
I AM MOM!!!!

......and here is my bag packed with everything but the kitchen sink. To my defense it was on a Sunday that I took this picture and to get through sacrament with out setting the church on fire, something crashing down in the middle of the meeting (like a big plastic 15 foot tree...yes that happened last month), killing myself by the end of the meeting, my kids running wild...ALL of it is necessary. Oh and this is only one of the bags I bring to church...this bag is only for Reagan. So I guess I cheated a little....the other bag is full of toys, pipe cleaners, markers, crayons, paper, stickers, books on CD, CD players, books, snacks (to stuff their pie holes), and what ever else Heavenly Father inspires me to bring to keep me sane. I even included some trash that was at the bottom of my bag....enjoy! Oh and the reason I have so many lipsticks is because I only put some on when I am in the car.

I tag: Kendra, Amanda B & A, Amber Carlson, Amber Lowry, Kathryn, Kristy Burns, Tracy Ratcliff, Summer Davis.

Park fun!

If you look closely at this picture you can see Reagan's teethies! Yes, you heard me right, Reagan has two teethies. All it took was a runny nose, two ear aches, and endless buckets of drool. Carter picked out his rad outfit. Christmas socks in March, oh yeah baby!!!!








I just love to squish this girl!

Grandma Scott called when we at the park, she loves her Grammie.

SPEECHLESS I tell you SPEECHLESS!!!!

Cooper was the perfect boy today. He was helpful, happy, sweet and just awesome. He played well with his brother and friends, didn't complain about baseball practice, ate tons of dinner with out complaining etc.... So tonight when he was done with dinner he got up and started walking out to the back yard. Cade asked him where he was going and he said, "To pick up all of the toys." Cade and I turned and looked at each other...SPEECHLESS I tell you SPEECHLESS!!! When we got home from baseball practice Cade had told the boys that after dinner they needed to pick up the back yard and we didn't even have to remind or nag him once......he just did it. I think we both were shocked and amazed. These are the times that make you proud to be a parent. You get a glimpse of the person you are trying so hard to mold into greatness.

This morning Coop was upset because some of his batman pj's got moved into Carter's drawer because they are to small for him. (He has been struggling with this a little with his favorite clothing.) I said, "Well then stop growing and stay my little boy forever." He replied, "I can't Mom!!" So in light of Cooper's best day ever, Cade took Cooper on a special Daddy-Son date to pick out new pj's. Shark pj's....priceless!!