8 is GRREAT!

Noah is EVERYWHERE! He has completely mastered crawling and knows exactly where to look for food and where it could be hiding! He goes from couch to couch to the entertainment stand to the kitchen and back then to the tables and looks under all of them just scrounging. He is doing really well with eating basics of baby foods and is still on his special formula. We will start trying more as he gets older. He pulls himself on to his knees on everything and is working on getting to his feet. He will get up on to his feet about half of the time and he just loves it! Noah is just so happy and active, but can also be sweet and sit and cuddle with you. He still loves watching Benjamin and Emma. If he hears them playing in a different room he will start crawling to find them and babble and yell the whole way there talking to them. It is the most adorable thing! Giggles have been pretty sparse from this baby, but we have been able to get more and more out of them and our loving it! He just loves nursery rhymes, peek a boo, books, games, toys, anything and everything! He weighed 20 lbs at his last check up a couple weeks ago so he is growing just fine! His little thighs are just chunkers and so cute! Still has the bottom two teeth and we watch for more every day. We are loving watching him explore this new world and sharing his joy.

Party and Family for Emma!

 My parents, grandparents, Taliah, Charlotte, and Kylee all were going to Disneyland so they stopped on the way there for one really short night. They were here for Father's Day morning so I got to spend the morning with my husband and the father of my babies, with my daddy and with my grandpa! That night we went to Jake's dads house and all four boys were there so they all loved spending that time together! It was a pretty good fathers day for our family! 

My family stopped on the way back for 2 nights and we got to have another party for Emma! Yay for lots of partys!!!!! Emma got so spoiled with lots of presents and all of our family. We were just missing madi :( We had lots of pool time. Benjamin had a blast splashing around and goofing off with grandpa! Grandpa built legos with him and they played games. Benjamin sure looks up to him so much. Emma got Dr stuff and hair stuff for her birthday. She took turns playing Dr on everyone and finding out what was wrong with them. She was so cute she would Charlotte had boo-boo-itis and Taliah had bones... Great Grandpa Jack was such a good sport and let Emma play hair salon on him and she did his hair and make up multiple times. She was so proud and I was proud she sure watches me because she knew just how to cut hair! We will just watch out for those real scissors! The kids had so much fun with their aunts and grandparents here and got so spoiled in such a short time period. I was pretty happy to get some parent time in also! I always love getting hugs from my dad. I talk to my mom on the phone every day, but being able to talk to her and be with her in person is so much better. It was just what I needed for a little uplift! We sure love them and can't wait to see them again!

Emma is FOUR!

I can not believe my baby girl is four years old! She is the sweetest little thing ever! She seriously has the biggest heart and is always thinking of others and making sure everyone is happy. I love her and am so glad she is in our little family. She always says we are best friends because we are the girls in the family. She is just the best! For her birthday we had a Disney Frozen party. We all had a blast. Monday we had a party with our friends and family from Las Vegas and went swimming! We played pin the nose on Olaf, had a pinata and of course ice cream cake! Emma had so much fun playing with all of her cousins! She is so lucky to have one cousin Penny just one month younger then her and they are so close and to also have two more cousins nine months older then them! So we have four little girls that get to all play together. All of Jake's siblings were there and parents and step parents so it was great being able to have everyone around for the night.

Foam Glow 5K

For date night we went to a 5k. This wasn't the average 5k. They shot colored foam at us, along with neon paint. Everyone had glow sticks, necklaces, rings, hats, glasses, mo-hawks, etc. We went with Kelsey and Bryan. We started the night by going to the pre party where we got covered in color and jumped and danced around to loud music! After that we went and got in line for the race. There was so many people there! It was a mad house, but it was so much fun! I can't wait to do another one!

Emma's Pre school Graduation

This last year Emma has been going to Ms. Andrea's pre school class. She is in our ward and Emma just loves her. She has had so much fun learning and exploring with her and her classmates. They have gone on multiple field trips and had a blast. Ms. Andrea has two turtles in her backyard that Emma has loved watching. Emma learned using the Joyriffic learning system and applies it at home. I love seeing how much she has grown over the school year. They had a little program where they sang songs and everyone got handed their work books. I loved seeing all of the activities Emma did through out the year. It is so great to be able to look back at how much Emma has grown and how much she has learned by looking at all of her hard work. We had such a great year!

My little fishies

We have sure been enjoying the pool! We have been outside almost everyday. We all love it! most days we will go out during Noah's nap time, but when he is outside he loves the water too and watching Benjamin and Emma. He just splashes and kicks over and over. Emma is learning how to swim without any floaties and is doing really well. She still needs help and doesn't go for very long, but we will get there. Benjamin is diving and doing canon balls and anything else that splashes! He is pretty excited that he knows how to go to the very bottom of the pool now. We are swimming at our house and at Grandpa Jeff's and Grammy's house so we are getting lots of sunshine! We are all so excited it is summer time!