little things that make you smile

so i am finally going to put a picture of nixon on here. he is such a good baby. and mike helps out as much as posible he is only home in the evenigs for about an hour and a half before the kids have to go to bed but the first thing he dose when he walks in the door is take the baby so that he either stops screaming ( cuz no one is holding him) or takes him from me so that i can get something done. and at night him and nixon go to bed together and he puts nixon to sleep almost every night. i feel so lucky to have such a good guy for a husband.



I have a six week old baby boy named Nixon he is the third child to the family. with 3 kids seems to come alot more work aswell as a lot more smiles laughs and tears. but we love every minute of it. the other day nixon made eye contact with me and actually smiled not just one of those gas bubble smiles but a real smile and since then we try every thing in our power to get a smile from him, we have gotten a couple more. isen't funny how hard you try to get those smiles out of newborns we sure make a fool of our selves.

strecthy arms

mike and i and the kids went to calgary for a little vacation and for support to my brother dylan as he was made an elder. we stayed in a hotel and went swimming and shopping and just relaxed it was really fun the kids did not want to leave. drew could not understand how come we werent going back to the hotel instead of going home. while we were in calgary driving around we had drew sitting next to nixon in the bucket seats and nixon started to fuss and he was getting really mad so drew tried to reach over to get his soo soo (soother) and calm him down and then he says to us i can't do it i don't have strecthy arms. we thought that was pretty funny.

summer days

i was just looking through some of my pictures of things that we had done this summer and ran across these. we had so much fun on this hot hot hot day in august ( ok so it was a sunday but what was i supposed to do i was 8.5 months pregant and the weather was something like 37 degrees and every one was meserable and this was really nice) we went to one of the better spray parks in lethbridge with some friends of ours and there kids and we had a blast running through the water and visiting with the cool mist hitting us with just the right amount of water to cool of.

what i love about fall

the things that i love the most about fall
~leaves crunching under my feet
~raking the leaves and jumping in them(ok i don't really like the raking part)
~cool mornings and cool nights
~school starting again
~routine again after a fun filled no routine summer
~the beautiful colors that fall from the trees they are probably my favortite colors of all (brown, orange, green and red)
~and the thing that i love the very most is sweaters i love to wear hoodies ( i think it is cuz they hide all the imperfections)
the only thing i don't love about fall is that next comes the bitter cold months and the high bill that go along with it

sorry i can't figure out how to post a picture so i will try again

i had to add this just for you andy this is so precious

never say never

I said that i would never have a blog cuz that is what every one is doing but never say never. so here i go i guess i will try this out and mostly for journaling reasons. I am hoping that i write on this blog more than i have writen in my journal in the past or everyone that looks at this will be really bored. ok this is confession time the last time i wrote in my journal was just after Madison was born and for those who don't know my family Madison is six and a half know. that is pretty bad.