St. Patrick's Day

I've always really liked St. Patrick's Day. When I was a teenager, I used to wear green mascara and dress up in green and wear green troll earrings. It was fun. I don't do that anymore. I like to get my kids involved though. I don't know much about St. Patrick's Day traditions but here's one we started. A little leprachaun snuck into our house last night and must have been looking for gold in our fridge because this morning our milk was green. So our french toast turned green and our milk was green. We talked about what we can do about that next year. We are going to set a trap. Katelyn said we need to get "Big Ol nets" and Kirah said we need to use boxes and move the couches. We will have to get creative. Tonight for dinner we are having corned beef and cabbage. I really do like that once a year. I would love to know your traditions and ideas so please leave a comment and let me know what you do to celebrate. Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Kymbree in her green.

Kate in her green.

Kirah in her green

Green milk

Green french toast.

Disneyland

Another trip to Disneyland. We can't get enough.
We went to Phoenix to see the house we put an
offer on and to see Mike and Meg. Of course I forgot
to get the camera out at their house again. We had
alot of fun with them. Thanks Mike and Meg for feeding
us and letting us crash with you and taking the girls
to the park when I crashed on your couch in the middle
of the day. Let me tell ya, It's easier to drive when the
kids are sleeping at night but it sure catches up to ya the
next day. I don't think I'll ever get used to the drive but
Disneyland was worth it for sure. Thanks too, to Andy
and Jenae for feeding us dinner on our way home in Vegas.
It was really yummy and so good to see you guys and let
the kids play.

What cute girls!!! Here we are eating at The
Orleans Cafe. Kymbree loves to feel likes she's
as big as her sisters.

We love to visit Mickey Mouse in his house.

Kymbree and Mom on the Zephyr's in California

Adventure. She loved all of the rides. If they were
moving she was smiling and dancing on her little
bum but if they stopped she was yelling for them
to go. It was so cute.

Here we are watching the High School Musical
parade. They both got to go dance with the kids
but of course Katelyn had to go to the bathroom
while it was Kirah's turn and then my camera
card was full when it was Kate's turn. This picture
was after I deleted picture so that I could take this
one of Kate feeling so special that she got to go dance
with the high school kids.

What cute girls! They had so much fun together
this trip. They went on lots of rides together instead
of splitting up mom and dad. I love their personalities.
So cute and soooo different.

Kirah wanted to take pictures of us all of the time.
She did a great job! Now if we could just get Kate to
cooperate. How would that be?

You can now go into Sleeping Beauty's
Castle! Here the girls are in side in one
of the corridors. This was one of Kate's
favorite things to do. It is really cool!

Why won't the sword in the stone come out?!

In California Adventure, there's this place called

the Animation Academy where they teach you how to

draw Disney characters. It's great for any age and we

loved it so much we went back 4 times. Kirah is quite

the little artist! Katelyn's not bad herself.

Gotta love how Disneyland just wipes the kids out!

Happy Anniversary! Nine Years!!!

So we are going to be out of town for our anniversary on Tuesday so I'm posting this now. Rob and I have been married for nine years! And it seems like...just kidding. It's been amazing! Rob is no help with what to say on this post. It's not G rated so I won't put what he has to say. We've accomplished alot together and we are very blessed to have eachother. I love you babe! Happy Anniversary!

Our engagement picture.

He's still in the palm of my hand.

Dress up!

So I've been cleaning everything out since we are moving.
I found my wedding dress and of course tried it on. It fits!
Yay! It's just a little outdated but whatever. So the girls
wanted to try it on. They looked so cute and had alot of fun.

Fun Valentine's Hair

I love to find new ways to do the girls hair. Today they
have hearts and curls.

Emergency Room

So Rob was watching the kids yesterday while I was running some errands. I was gone maybe 20 minutes when he called me freaking out (to put it lightly). He didn't tell me what was going on because I was too far away to come home quick enough. What happened was Rob was fixing a hole in the wall in the basement and put a standing fan up to dry the wall. He went down to check on the wall after I left and he had Kymbree in his arms. Well as you know how curious 7 month olds are, she lunged for the fan and Rob wasn't able to pull her away in time. Her finger went right through the grates. Rob only heard a thump and knew that she would be in pain so he held her close. He didn't know that it had almost severed her finger until he was up the stairs and pulled her back to look at her and there was blood everywhere. He was trying to keep her from grabbing her finger with her other hand and trying to call a neighbor at the same time. He finally got ahold of our friend Emily to come and drive him to the instacare-meanwhile the other kids are traumatized and I'm trying to call him back wondering what the heck was going on. Emily got there and was very calm and got everyone loaded in the car and then called me because in the chaos-Rob lost his phone. She told me she had my family and was taking them to the instacare. So I was hurrying to get to them. When Rob walked into Instacare, they didn't even get his name or anything they just sent him back-he found out later that it was because he had blood all over his face and clothes. They looked at her finger and told Rob that he would have to take Kymbree up to Primary's because she might have to have surgery. So I met them along the way and thank goodness for Emily-she took the older girls for me until my mom got off work. We rushed up to Primary's only to wait 2 1/2 hours in the waiting room because "she wasn't top priority". When we finally got back to a room, they took x-rays and after another 4 hours they finally were able to clean it up and stitch her finger back together. They had to partially sedate her to do it. She broke the tip of her bone all the way through and her finger was 3/4 they way off. It was horrible. Thank goodness Grandpa LeRoy was there to give sweet little Kymbree a blessing and then she was able fall asleep for about 1/2 an hour. They say her nail will fall off and it may or may not grow back. She has to be in a splint for the next week and then we have to take her back up to the Orthopedic surgeon in 3 weeks for them to check the bone. She did pretty well considering everything. My poor sweet baby! I felt so bad for Rob. He felt horrible and he was having a hard time composing himself all day. So we left the ER after being there for 7 1/2 hours at 10:30 and then we went to get the two older girls and we finally got home at 11:00. Kymbree didn't like the aftereffects of the medicine and had a hard time sleeping. She finally went to sleep around 2 and woke up again around 4 and then again at 7. But today she is relatively happy. The only curse/blessing is that she's a thumb sucker and they had to wrap her whole hand so she isn't able to put herself to sleep anymore. All in all it was a crazy day but she is doing fine and just as sweet as can be. Thank you sooooo much Emily for taking Rob and then taking the girls and taking their minds off Kymbree by making cookies with them. You are such an amazing friend. We love you!!!!

Kymbree trying to eat her bandage from Instacare.

Drugged up, life is good!


Sutured up

Comin off the drugs. I have to cut this cute shirt off. Dang it!

Kymbree's 7 month pictures

Kymbree at 7 months. What a sweet baby. She is so happy and loves life.