holidays

so thanksgiving was at our house this year. 2 of my sisters, and my parents came over. with nathan's parents too, that made for a full house! 3 babies under 1, 2 3 year olds, and all of us. yahoo. it went smoothly though, nathan is an amazing cook, so between him, and his parents, i didn't really do anything! my kind of deal. i did have to clean up the house, and put the extra leaves in the table though. that is hard work! it was delicious, and everything was perfect.

then, black friday just happened to be nathan's birthday. so after getting up at a horrid 3:45 to feed rachel, i decided to get shopping with my family. sandy came too, and we were at kohl's around 5. yes, we are one of the crazy families! the silly is that i didn't really have anything i needed to get, and only got little things that looked fun. so after going to a late breakfast, we came home, and poor nathan, who was suffering from playing in a turkey bowl, finally got to open his birthday presents. doesn't he look enthused? i can't keep secrets from him very well, so he actually got a lot before this. he had a few surprises though. happy bday!

rachel discovered the joys of finding a half eaten breakfast bar on the floor, and chomping it! she had a death grip on that thing, and wouldn't drop it for anything. until....nathan came home with a hot fudge chocolate ice cream (my favorite) sundae. then she was all for bites of that instead. a girl after my own heart!! :) and on a side note, we live just around the corner from the temple, so if anyone is coming down to see the lights, they could stop in and see us!!

yay for mobility!!

ok for some reason these pics loaded in a backwards order, but here it is. rachel sitting up!! she rolls all over now, and squiggles and squirms until she can get anything she wants. she gets up on all fours, and rocks back and forth. and just today she started getting up on her feet, with her butt in the air. that's how colby used to crawl! it was hilarious when he did it. i don't know if she will actually move like that or not, but she is sure happier now that she can get around a little bit! yay for mobility!! it makes mom's life that much easier.....
and on a side not, i registered colby, caleb and rebekah for soccer this season. caleb wears his shirt at some point everyday. he is very excited to be a big enough boy this year to play! it will be fun to watch them all in action!

kids say the darndest things

ok, so the kids and i were driving around saturday, and i remembered that we have this meeting sunday to talk about what to expect the next year to prepare for colby's baptism. we are talking about different things, and i said that in a few years, he would be going on a mission. i told him that daddy, and his 2 aunts, tattie and monica, both served missions. he sat there contemplating for a while, then he goes, how come they're not still missionaries? did they get FIRED? from the tone of his voice, you could just tell he was asking, what bad thing did they do that they're not on missions anymore? it was so funny!! i explained that they were not fired, and that you only serve a mission for 2 years, and only 18 months for girls. and what age you go, and all the details. it was quite the conversation!!
and tonight, we were sitting at the meeting, and colby leans over to whisper in my ear, i can't wait until i'm old enough to be a dad. then i can BOSS MY KIDS AROUND!! i laughed, but i don't think nathan appreciated how funny that was! :)
aren't kids the best? kids truly do say the darndest things!!

poor sick kids

we got rachel a jumperoo from my friend, allison. she loves hopping in it, every day she gets a little better at it. it's hilarious to watch her giggling as she bounces. but the past few weeks, the poor girl has had a nasty cough and runny nose. i finally called the doc, cuz it's been 2 months for caleb and rebekah. after talking to him, he said they most likely need the breathing machine. i felt rather dumb for not thinking of that, since we do this every year. so i made an appt for later in the day. (they had dentist appts in the morning already). we all go down there, and after waiting for over an hour(a kid had a piece of GLASS in his ear, at 6 months!!), we finally got to see the doc. everyone has bronchitis and all the fun that goes along with it. so 10 perscriptions later, we are home, trying to deal with all the meds that caleb just LOVES to take. at the moment, i am sitting here with red medicine staining all over my pajamas! the breathing machine is fun too, 10 minutes for each kid. the medicine routine is something like an hour to get everything down all the kids!! don't we just love the sick kids??

crazy dressed up kids

ok, sorry i have a lot of pics on 1 post, but i couldn't help it. there is a lot of cool stuff this time!! the pics are backwards from how i downloaded them, so bear with me. first, is caleb, and cousin andrew. they are best buds, and have so much fun together. andrew barely stopped hopping long enough to get this pic! and here's rebekah with his sister, abigail. they were both angels, so we thought it was fitting to take a pic together. then the kids are sitting by some crazy lady. oh wait, that's my DAD!!!! yes folks, my father has dressed as a woman for halloween as long as i can remember. he secretly enjoys wearing my mom's hats and clothes. it's great, with the high pitched voice and everything. this year he wore pants under the dress, so you couldn't see his hairy legs. that is the best part, but alas, this year it was missing.

all the kids together, aren't they adorable!!??
rebekah loves holding her sister, and here she is in the ladybug costume rebekah wore when she was just a few weeks old. time flies!!!












and here is the best pictures..... my friend allison brought her twin girls over, katelyn and danielle, and tat brought her twins and andrew over, sam and abby, we thought it would be great to get pics of the 5 babies altogether. i thought it was awesome, and mighty scary to think of someone having all these babies at once!! rachel smooching danielle, and the girls together. i couldn't tell them apart, can you?