emotions!

i need one of these!


a picture like this can only mean one thing for my family! yes we have outgrown our car......and yes that means only one more thing. we're going to have ANOTHER added to our family.....we're pregnant (again!) i haven't known really how to approach telling this to everyone. alot of you already know, but i have got some awesome looks from people when i tell them that yes i'm pregnant with number 4! i'm going to be done having kids by the time i'm 27! crazy. this baby (like 2 of our others) was not really planned, and is coming a couple months sooner that i thought i would be doing this. and i feel horrible to say that i'm excited to NEVER be pregnant again! i'm looking forward to having all my children here and growing up with our family. dax is praying REALLY REALLY hard for a baby brother and although i don't care i'm hoping he gets his wish. the new addition will be coming somewhere around nov.9


so many other emotions have happened for me lately. last night we had an overwhelming experience as we heard our doorbell ring and found something sitting on our steps that we haven't been able to afford to get. i'm so overwhelmed by the fact that someone cares about us so much that they would do this for us. i don't know how to know who it is or how in the world to thank them! i can't even open the box (the very large box) because i feel inadequate to have received such a blessing. so if it is by chance one of our blogger friends i want to say thank you ..... and i don't know how in the world to thank you. i wish i knew, although i know they don't want me to know seeing how they rang the doorbell and ran (very quickly too!) but i wish i could thank them.

fAnCy nANcY

Miss Tysie is turning 3! her birthday is tomorrow the 14th....but since daddy is so busy at nights we had an early party. do you think fancy nancy would approve? i didn't really know what i wanted but the cake turned out cute! she loves the fancy nancy books and she was thrilled to have her little party. thanks for all who came :)

my cute girls!

i had to get cute easter pictures before church last week, since it' confrence this week. dax wouldn't cooperate and this is the best i could get from my girls. tysie found a quarter and it was more exciting than me but she kept showing me, that's what's over her eye. she is such a goofy kid she makes me laugh all day! thanks to my mom for the dresses, she made tysie's! it turned out soooo cute! happy easter everyone!

treehouse museum

if you haven't seen the new part at the treehouse, you have to! it's way fun. my kids love it! getting to milk a cow is like the coolest thing ever right! we had fun!

dinosaur park...

we had to make a trip to the dinosaur park last week. with sick kids we've been locked up so much, but at least it's been nice enough to go outside. we had a blast. it's funny how the park is growing up with us. the little ones just love running around and seeing everything, but dax is fascinated with dinosaurs and knows all their names and whether they are herbivores or carnivores or whatever. it's funny.

what mothers can learn from the savior

Have any of you read the ensign article "What mothers can learn from the savior?" It was such a good reminder for me. I think we need the uplift sometimes as mothers and we definetely have the saviors hand in raising them in our homes. I think the most motivating part was how much we need to teach them about the gospel and not worry about some of the temporal aspects of being a mother in the world today. I know for me I try to remember that the reason I stay home is not for free day care, I stay home so my kids will grow up being taught by me and not someone else. I was so blessed to have the mother I did that taught us so well, and continues to teach me. I am so grateful for her example to me and the lessons I've learned from her, and my grandma. My house may not be spotless all the time (although it is clean underneath:) we might have toys surrounding the house and markers and construction paper always on the table, but I hope that my kids learn something more from me than to learn to clean! I hope they learn love,and that they love their siblings, and the gospel. Here is a quote from the article....

"Quality {time} is a direct function of quantity {time}- and mothers, to nurture their children properly, must provide both." Elder Ballard also taught that, "a mothers nurturing love arouses in children from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness they experienced in their premortal existence."

"Mothers, teach your children the gospel in your own home, at your own fireside, This is the most effective teaching that your children will ever receive. This is the Lord's way of teaching."

I hope that may have helped inspire all you wonderful mothers out there. I know it inspired me. In our world today I feel like the role of mothers as we new it is rapidly changing. Our children need us more than ever, and they need the our savior too. In our stake confrence this year one of the speakers gave an amazing talk on grandparents too. How grateful I am for grandparents. Our area authority told a story about his grandfather when he was little, and he had him come to his garage and build a cabinet. He told the boy he needed it made, and taught him how to make it.When it was finished the grandfather gave it to the boy, he didn't need it it made, he just felt the need to have an experience with his grandchild. I remember so many things of my grandparents growing up. I was so blessed to live next door! My grandpa let me think I was driving the old white truck when we went to feed the cows (it was always on cruise control.) and my grandma always letting us come help her get ready for parties or helping cook or just visiting with us. and doing corn! I loved husking the corn with grandpa and grandma.
My kids have grandparents who are doing the same with them, and I am so grateful for that. I think it's so neat the relationships that they have with their great-grandparents, grandparents and aunts and uncles. so thank you to all of you who help my childrens lives better:) I'm grateful for you.

....A COUNTRY BOY....

oh renner! i can't believe i atually caught the shot right at this moment! this is one of the cows at my moms house, and they have become quite tame to the grandkids. the cow kept licking renner and he loved it! no fear at all. i guess living with a bunch of animals, pigs, the dogs, cows and longhorns have gotten renner quite used to the country life! what a cute boy! don't worry we sterilized him after!

so funny!

i saw this on a friends blog and just had to pass it on again! funny funny.

HOW MANY OF YOU LOVE THE DINOSAUR TRAIN!!! I FOUND THIS CUTE THING TODAY OF THE "ABC" SONG OF THE DINSOSAUR NAMES. WE PRINTED ONE TO TAKE TO THE DINOSAUR PARK WITH US. DAX WANTS TO MAKE SURE WE SEE EVERY NAME ON THE LIST! HOPE THEY HAVE THEM ALL THERE!
GO HERE TO FIND THE PAGE.http://pbskids.org/dinosaurtrain/print/index.html

riding horses! gotta love friends. dennis was so nice to let my kids come ride horses. his grandsons were so nice to even help the kids ride. my kids loved it! they even loved watching dennis rope with his grandsons after...he told everyone he got to watch a rodeo! although i think mckenna didn't end up too well the following night we all had a good time!