Four Months Old

My Eyes are Still Blue

I have this much blonde hair.

My feet are getting is long.

I am

14lbs. 4ozs.

23 " long

I smile alot, am starting to laugh, and love to play with the kids. I love sleeping in my bed. I love having a Binky and my small silk blanket. I am possibly the happiest and easiest baby in the world.

Canning in the Air

Vine Ripe Grapes. . .

Delicious Chilli Sauce . . .

Waiting in a beautiful red bowl . . .

Yummy white grape juice - - did I mention Super Yummy :)

Gorgious red chilli sauce

Beautiful green grapes all washed and stem free . . .

and my favorite measuring spoons...

School Starts

3rd. Grade - 2011 Willow Spring Elementary

August 22, 2011

Beau has gotten so big. He is getting so tall and I see more and more of his dad each year in him. Beau is a great big brother! watching after the girl and helping me each day. I know he will do great this year in school. He loves reading and is great with math and spelling - if we can just master the b's and d's remember which way they go. I just love Beau so much I love his sense of humor with a little sarcasm.

Preschool - 2011 - Miss. Debbie's

September 7, 2011

Oh little Bear. You are such a model. Bear loves to strike a pose every time the camera comes out. She is such a sweet and loving little girl. I love watching her play with her little horses and loves playing puppy. She has a great imagination and listen to her little conversations are just a blast. I often hear them while driving. I was not going to send her to preschool this year but she is so social and just loves to learn. It is a good thing for her.

Happy 9th Birthday. . .

 It is so hard to believe that Beau is 9 years old this year. We always hear the phrase "time flies" - I do not think I fully understood what that meant until I started having children... I am in amazement each and everyday - watching my children grow so fast and change so fast in front of my very eyes...

Beau had a great birthday! He received a wonderful new RC Car from us. It is super fast and he has a blast driving it :) - thank goodness it was a bit spendie silly little thing...

We had all of the family attend along with 4 of Beaus good friends...

We had

train rides

sored making

and

airplanes

I went to tons of work getting the outside ready...and of course it rained, not just a little rain but tons - I mean tons of dumping flooding back patio rain. So we packed all the guests -  all 40 guests into the little house... not what I wanted but still had lots of fun :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEAU . . .

You are a wonderful, wonderful boy! I am very proud of you and just love you so much! We are very blessed to have you here in our family.

Love: MOM

Blessing Day :)

We blessed little peanut on August 28, 2011

It was a hot day! We had a all of the family attend. It was a great morning. We had a breakfast bar after. Serving Belgian waffles, eggs, beacon, and juices. We rented a large inflatable slide for the children to play on. I only wished we had shade in our backyard in the early morning...Overall it was a good day. Lots of work but a good day :)

Our family looks so cute and happy! In general we are a happy family...(except when it comes to bed time) then we turn into a circus with theme song and all.

Oh look at this face...Those beautiful eyes...I could eat you all up you are just yummy :)

I love Peanuts dress...Very Heirloom...I have had my children all wear Feltman Brother dresses. Fletman dresses are the same handmade dresses since 1915. They are very delicate and so sweet on the babies.

Two Months and Growing Fast

2 Months

11 lbs. 7 oz's.

23 Inches Long

Chubby Cheeks

Double Chin

70%

Recipe for a happy, healthy baby girl. I am so in LOVE :)

If she was cake I would eat her all gone.

Freezer Jam = Yummy

I am really grateful for a food processor. It makes cooking, and canning a snap! I could find myself cutting up everything very pretty and fine... but with pulse of a button... tada all done for me.

I wish I could say I grew these strawberries...but sorry a good deal at the Winco though. They are so pretty in my little machine, they look like happy fat fruit singing to me, and me singing to them I can't wait for you to be on my ice cream, toast or a spoon and in my belly.

All mixed and chopped pretty in a row. I LOVE putting up food. I LOVE to can. I find it very peaceful to sit at the kitchen counter cutting up and cooking up and bottling up this yummy food. I find the colors cheerful and happy with a great feeling of self sufficientness -- i am thinking this my not be a real word but i will add it to my list of made up words--

all ready to be frozen and consumed = yum yum...

Dutch Oven, Fire, and Lights

I grew up camping...spending my summer with the Girl Scouts. I enjoyed belonging to this organization from the age of seven and volunteering at my last camp at the age of twenty. In the summer months while camping I learned how to dutch oven pretty well, along with also learning to cook with fire. One summer we even made solar ovens and cooked pizza in them with success. I learned to cook meatloaf in onions, muffins in oranges, scrambled eggs in a bag and hand churn butter and homemade ice cream. 

**these are just a few of my favorite**

I find fire very pretty,

the way it dances in the wind

and cracks as if it is

talking to you in the cool night...

With my little family now we do not find ourselves camping that much. It is not the camping part that I find hard. Though I do admit it is alot of work and I am a lazy person... so packing I do not enjoy :( The hard part I find with camping is watching the children. I have a great fear of them running away from me, wondering off from me, falling in a river, or falling in the fire. (this i have seem done) I do worry to much that I do know. But I find it much more comforting to cook with fire in my back yard. Roast marshmallows and eat some really yummy food in the back yard. There will be a time when the children are a little bigger that we become a camping family again. **or better yet a motor home family**



13 Years - I Do!

July 16, 1998

Happy Anniversary Mr. Frank... Thirteen Years - WOW

I meet Mr. Frank in my 2nd year in collage. We dated for a year and were engaged for almost a year before we married. We were married in the Salt Lake Temple. It was a very hot day and very busy. Looking back it went well and was a very beautiful day.

I am very glad to have meet Mr. Frank we are great together. Like sweet and sour chicken :) He is a mild tempered man while I am a hot headed women. He is a wonderful father, works very hard for our family, and is my best friend in the world.

I LOVE YOU.

p.s. I was little -- what I would kill for a body like that again :)

Blonde Hair

I often get asked where my kids get their blonde hair. Well --- I did at one time have blonde hair. This picture was taken my senior year of high school .

*(Bingham High class of 1995)

With each child my hair has progressively got darker and darker, and at this point in life.. blonde would feel to young.

I also had long hair my entire life...I didn't start cutting my hair short until my first year into college. I have very thick hair -- like horse tail thick hair. I did enjoy long hair it is very pretty. But the again the older I get the shorter it gets and I enjoy the speed that short hair provides.

2 Week Pictures...

Peanuts -- 2 week pictures. I LOVE them! I used FotoFly in Draper. You get a 45 min. session. They will shoot all the photo's they can in that time. You will receive all the photos on a CD with the rights to print them. All for a great price of $79.00. I really enjoyed them. They have different back grounds and were really great to work with. I usually get a little nervous with other handling the baby but it went really well. You should give them a try.



Family Picture . . .

Our little family picture. I really like how the kids turned out. I love how it shows the different stages... Beau - 8 Bear - 4 Peanut - 2 weeks. I used FotoFly in Draper for Peanuts 2 week pictures and had them snap this of all the kids. They were very nice my photographer was fun to work with and willing to listen to my idea's, along with having some great ones of his own.

She Is Here

7lbs. 8ozs. 19 Inches

May 25, 2011

Peanuts pregnancy was good. My ribs we on fire, the heart burn was horrible (but look how much hair we got - well worth it), We controlled the diabetes well. I do have to admit that it did see to be a long 9 months. But I am an impatient person...so 9 months will always feel long. But I did enjoy her in my tummy. Her strong kicks and rolls we just amazing to feel. I could tell that she was a strong baby this was nothing but constant reassurance that it was going well.

Proud mom and baby... Peanuts delivery was just text book. Fast and easy 5 hours start to finish.. not my fastest but not my longest.. I had her drug free and do admit I enjoyed the entire experience. I think was partly because I new what to expect and I had a great nurse and Mr. Frank did really well. This picture was taken just after delivery... I think I look pretty good for having a baby 10 Min's. ago :) I was really glad to have peanut on this day... All of the kids have a number birthday

Beau -- 8/18

Mae's -- 7/7

Bears -- 9/29

Peanuts --  5/25

Funny that all of there dates have turned out to be this way being that we haven't chosen any of their dates... Silly I know but fun.

Just waiting for dad to take us home.  I did enjoy my Hospital stay.. I have minimal visitors...Which was good. It was quite and baby and I slept alot. I figured before we came home to our little circus I would enjoy two days of quite life.