Park and Party

Rare family time together:)

We would rather have Daddy with us and on the phone than not with us at all! ;)

He loves his Daddy!

Aiden's "Thomas" Birthday Party!

These two are so dang cute together! They could totally be twins!

I love his laugh!!

Something of everything

These are all very random. I just had a bunch of pictures on my phone camera and needed to delete them for more space (which will explain the super blurry pics!)

Love this kid!

Quoi just getting the car started and ready to go.

Kashlyn's awesome hair...

These two girls have the cutest love/hate relationship going on. They get along so well one minute, then the next they are jumping on each other and screaming. Girls:)

I took Sequoia in to Franki's class (one of my yw) for Toddler Day.

She had so much fun being the center of attention.

And got to go fishing:)

It freaks me out when they shut the door all the way, but this is their favorite hiding place. Under the kitchen table.

Extra pics of Annie's house "body painting"

They all love their Grandpa!

These two are so darling together. We're so happy Quoi has an older brother who loves her and is always taking care of her.

Ring around the Rosie with Inara:)

And they all fall down...

Kimi Visiting! And sick and sick and sick...

Kim came out and visited probably a month ago now. Time is flying and I'm way behind on writing things down. Wow. Hopefully as soon as things calm down I will be better. She went out with a guy here in my ward, I had to have some kind of reason to get her bum out here to visit:) It was a lot of fun, the kids loved it.

We also had Koban here playing with us for almost a week too, so Kimi took him home for us. It was really fun having the little guy here. The kids got to play and get to know each other very well. It was actually a smooth week too, I was surprised. He just fit right in our lives and was pretty mellow (until someone touched his baseball, mitt, and helmet!)

Saying Goodbye to Kiki

Lincoln just loves Koban. In fact, Lincoln loves everyone!

The twin cousins:)

This little girl is always running around without something on... a shirt, pants, diaper...

I got so many "pity" looks from people when we went out in public. It was funny!

Little posers:)

He was so happy to see Kimi and go home with her!

Their favorite game.

This girl just smelts my heart:) She is beautiful and funny and has such an attitude. We love her!

Ok, ok... It was all fun and games. I had to pictures. 3 children crying at once.

We were watching Inara too and she was crying for some reason too.

And then there was Quoi. I'm sure by the way she was smiling she was partly the reason Inara was crying. What fun little moments we have as mothers:)

I walked away from the dinner table for just a couple minutes and this is what I come back to!

They had dumped the WHOLE can of Parmesan cheese out onto their plates. Gr!!!

But with faces like these, how can you really yell? You just take a picture and give them a bath.

She is into dressing herself lately. And loves wearing "Bubba's" clothes. (Lincoln's shirt on top, Lincoln shirt on bottom. Perfect.)

Mommy and Linc. This guy is our cuddly, loving little one. He is so tender hearted:)

One of our sick moments on Mommy's bed.

We actually have been sick, not even exaggerating, since the beginning of May till now. It has been absolutely ridiculous! I am hardly ever sick (when do moms really have the time!), but it even got me. That's probably why I haven't been able to write much down.

Just skip the next paragraph, just complaining about sickness.... :)

We started with a yucky stomach bug. I got it, then the kids did one after the other. They were puking and just felt awful for a few days. Awesome. Then came pink eye of all things. All 3 of us, and of course one after the other. We got to go do some visiting right in between there for a couple days, then as soon as we got back, we finally got to play with their friends for the first time in a while and then we got bad colds. Quoi first. Her first night she was coughing so hard she starting throwing up mucous. Yucky nose, ear infections (both kids), fevers. I could go on. I ended up having to go to a doctor for the first time since we've lived here (other than the OB). I had a sinus infection and yucky cough. So... to conclude, I think Quoia is good now as of 2 days, and Linc and I still have coughs after 2 weeks. I'm really hoping Mike doesn't get anything! I've been washing bedding and everything like mad the last month so he wont catch anything.

On the bright side, Mike hasn't been home much at all over the past month and a half so he didn't get any of it! When he came home it would be the in between sickness. He works so hard for us. I know its a bummer to not live with your spouse much, but I am so grateful for him. He is seriously a good guy and works hard. He doesn't sleep much at all, esp while on the job. Maybe a couple hours here or there. He is always on-call and on the phone quite a bit. It never ends. But I can say he doesn't complain about it. He doesn't wake up and say he "didn't have to go to work today." He just does it, because that's what he does. He is good at what he does and a dang good boss. And one of the rare nights he was home with us, he stayed up with me at the dinner table for 3 hours and helped me finalize my talk I was giving the next morning in sacrament meeting. I couldn't have done it without him. I sure love ya darling:)

Just an example of her cute voice. I need to take more videos of her. I have so many of Linc. I'll do better!