The Kingsford Family

Update

2010-11-08T09:53:00.008-07:00

Well, not much has been going on. We are all so busy right now! The girls and I sit at home all day and then as soon as Nathan gets home we are off to the gym. I hate that I don't get much time with Nathan but we both understand that I really need the gym. I feel like I am doing so good and I am terrified to give that up. In 7 months I have lost 44 pounds. I still have a long way to go but I am loving it. You can see a difference in my face. I actually have cheek bones that you can see now. Also, all of my pants are too big and my shirts aren't as tight to my stomach or my chest anymore. It is so great!! Colvert has made the swim team at the YMCA and that has been so great for him. He loves it and he belongs in the water. He does his swimming from 5-6:30 and then at 7 after my swim class, he joins me to swim a few more laps on Monday and Wednesday. He is so great! Nathan just has work right now. But after work on Tuesday's on Thursdays when the girls are at the gym with me, he has been trying really hard to run. He is doing so great. I have actually started to see a difference in the way his clothes fit too. I think Nathan is getting very frustrated with me because I don't let him eat all the time like we both used to. I am making him watch his portions just like I am. I don't let him dish his own plate anymore so there isn't as much for him to eat. Plus, I don't make as much anymore so he isn't allowed seconds because whatever is left has to be kept for him to take to work. Sounds mean but it is the only way I can get him to watch what he is eating. Most of the time he tells me thank you and is grateful for it but we all have our days that we just want to be left alone to do what we want. And for him, doing what he wants, is eating...lol...The girls are fantastic. Rianne is turning 4 on the 14th and I just can't believe it. She is growing up so fast. She really wanted to start school this year but because her birthdays are in November she misses the deadlines. She was pretty bummed out about that. Her and Bailey are stuck together like glue though. I don't know what Bailey would have done if Rianne was gone all day. They are so fun to be around! I hear Rianne saying "Bailey your my best friend". It is so unbelievably cute. Bailey is now 2 1/2 and she is so big. She is literally 3/4 inches shorter and about 1/4 pound less than Rianne. They are 17 months apart and people up her ask if they are twins because Bailey is as big as Rianne. We are having problems with Bailey talking. She says the normal "no, mine, milk, food, mama, dadda" but beyond those we cannot get her to talk. It is so frustrating not knowing what she wants. We have been working with Colvert and Rianne on not talking for her and they have been doing great at it but Bailey still just doesn't talk. Anyway...our family is doing great! I am going to post our new family and individual pictures although most of you have already seen them on face book.

Summer 2010

2010-07-20T09:10:00.018-06:00

I can't believe April was my last post. Sorry it took so long to get this one on. So I will start almost where I left off. Here is a little bit of everything that has happened since the kids' birthdays. First was Colvert's kindergarten graduation. I couldn't get very good pictures so here is the best one I got before the ceremony. Colvert is the second one in from the left in the middle row. I kept motioning for Colvert to move the hat up off his eyes but he didn't understand me.
Here he is with the principal getting his diploma.
He was so excited that they got cake and juice after wards.
Colvert and his teacher Mrs. Rohall
These next few were taken at Grandpa Ken's house, the week before we went to Colorado.
Nathan, Colvert and Rianne went fishing at Oneida with Grandpa Ken and Uncle Kasey's family.
Rianne's fish was big enough to keep but Colvert's wasn't and he wasn't too happy about daddy keeping Rianne's and not his.
Mom and dad took our kids for a week again this summer and Nathan and I got a chance to go to an archery shoot. It was the first one that I have ever done. It was such a blast until my bow broke and then I spranged my ankle. But it was so nice to have that time with Nathan.

The other couple that we were shooting with was nice enough to get a picture of us together. We haven't gotten one of those in a while.
So this is us drawing our bows back. Apparently it makes a cool picture, so Nathan says..lol..I wish we had some pictures from our 4th of July Firecracker shoot. We were able to find a babysitter to take the kids on Saturday and Sunday, the 3rd and 4th, so we could go to that shoot as well. No one got hurt and no bows broke and I came home with the 3rd place trophy in my class of women for the second day of the tournament. I was actually tied for 3 rd the first day and had to compete in a shoot off. The other lady and I were so close. She won by just about 1/8 of an inch. It was soooo close but I had so much fun. The trophy would have just been a bonus for another awesome weekend that I got with my hubby!!
When it started getting hot this summer the kids and myself got the pool all washed and cleaned up and when Nathan got home we started filling it up and the kids had a hay day in the water. We swam in it a couple days later again but unfortunately it only lasted 2 more days. It kept losing too much water. We couldn't afford to keep filling it with water so we had to throw it away. It had at least 7 little holes and one medium sized one, so it really wasn't savable. But the kids had a blast the 2 times they got to play in it.
So this last weekend Nathan came up to me at 730 at night and said let's go camping. After telling him no twice we agreed to go. We threw a bunch of stuff in the van and took off. We got up to camp at 1030, it was completely dark so we had to break out the lantern and leave the car lights on just to set up the tent that we couldn't find directions to and that we had only set up once before. It was very interesting but it was a great weekend with my family.
The kids were playing with the mitts and it was so cute. Colvert has his own and the girls use Nathan and I's (way too big of course). I think that we are going to have two south paw girls though. Rianne refused to put the mitt on her left hand because she said she had to throw the ball with that hand. Now I don't know if Bailey was just mimicking what Rianne was doing be she always had the mitt on her right hand as well.
I don't know what kid gets as dirty as Bailey. She was a mess the whole time!! But it was super cute.
Now isn't she just SOOOOO cute??

Bailey's 2nd Birthday

2010-04-22T23:07:00.004-06:00

Here is Bailey's cake with Cinderella.
Had to help Bailey blow out her candle but it was so cute to watch her try.
Bailey's loot consisted of 2 pair of pants, one skirt, one pair of shorts, 3 shirts, one pair of pajamas, 2 magnetic silly faces books, a poppin' pals toy, a sort and spin blender and a Dora backpack. She loves Dora so of course she opened the backpack last and the second she saw what it was it went right onto her back.

Colvert's Birthday

2010-04-17T09:19:00.004-06:00

So we started out Colvert's birthday with his spiderman cake. He had the choice of Kung Fu Panda and Spiderman and in a quick second he chose, as you can see, Spiderman.
Sporting this handsome shirt from Grandma Kingsford.

His loot consists of balloon rockets, a potato head, a big doodle pro, 2 pair of pants, one shirt, a scooter and his favorite $6. He loves money!
The scooter is easy fold up for storage so we had to show Colvert how to open and close it. He really loves the scooter too.
Here is a video of the balloon rockets. I have never heard of them but they are actually pretty cool.

Spring Time

2010-03-07T20:33:00.010-07:00

Spring is finally coming. Isn't it wonderful? So, a couple days ago, it was nice and warm and we decided to go to the new archery range here in Caldwell. The kids had fun with the rocks and dirt while Nathan and I shot with our bows. Here are some pictures of our day at the range.
We shot the 20 yard target first and then did some 30 and 40 yard shots. Then I pulled out the camera and took some pictures of our hits at 30 yards.
Here are our last two rounds of shots. My arrows are the orange nocks and Nathans are the green nocks. I love shooting my bow and I can't wait to do archery shoots this year.
As I said, the days are getting warmer and the kids are tired of being pent up in the house so Nathan took them outside to ride their bike after church and nap time. We started to teach Colvert how to ride his bike without training wheels. He got frustrated a little bit but he did OK. The clip isn't very long because the camera battery was dying but it is still great.

This clip is of Rianne riding her bike. She loves it. But it was so cute because when I got outside she was peddling super slow. I told her to go faster and she said, "I can't, I will fall over". I told her that I promised she wouldn't and then all of a sudden she was like a rocket going back and forth from one direction to the other on that bike. I was so precious.

Valentine's and More

2010-02-15T10:02:00.008-07:00

OK so I am a little behind in the posts. Not much has gone on since Rianne's birthday except of course Christmas. I have some pictures over Christmas at the end of this post. We have recently started going back to church and other than that we have just been going on with our lives.
So here are the pictures of our beautiful children in their new Valentine's outfits. We decided that the kids really didn't need more toys and definitely no more stuffed animals, so we got them each a small little heart shaped box of chocolates and new church outfits. Colvert's chocolates have Buzz Lightyear on the front and the girls' were Tinkerbell. So here is Colvert, looking all handsome in his new church clothes (don't you just love the shirt?) Colvert loved it. Apparently he was bragging to everyone at church about it.
And here we have Rianne in her little, very cute pink dress. She is a true girl. Pink is her favorite color. If you give her an option of clothes for her to pick between, she will go for the pink every time if it is an option.
And Bailey...Isn't she just so adorable? So, one of the biggest reasons we decided to go with church outfits is because Bailey has grown out of all her dresses since the last time we went to church. She has been having to wear Rianne's dresses which are a little too big. Well, we were able to get 2 dresses with her Valentine's money. This is just one of those dresses but I forgot to take a picture of the other one. I love this dress!!!
My three wonderful children.
This is our Christmas tree after all of the presents get put under the tree. I don't know why but I am a big fan of taking a picture of the tree with all the loot underneath it. So here it is! However, without the help of Grandma's and Grandpa's and aunt and uncles, there wouldn't be that much under the tree..lol
Bailey opened the gift from my parents and immediately wrapped the blanket around herself, She absolutely loves it, as do I. I wish I had a blanket like that.
So these next three pictures are our kids in cute little beanies that they got from Aunt Starla and and Uncle Kasey. They love them and wore them around the house all day on Christmas.
Now, here are the pictures of our children with all the presents they each got for Christmas.

Birthday Time

2009-11-15T09:13:00.012-07:00

So, Rianne turned 3 yesterday and I wanted to show you how her day went. The night before Nathan and I decorated the house with streamers and balloons and this cute little banner. She woke up the morning of her birthday so excited.
I think we are having some problems with our camera because we can't get any pictures to turn out but I got the best ones that I could find to show everyone.
We hung streamers in both archways to the hallway and had some helium ballons with string hanging all over the house.
Here was her pile of presents.
The first thing I did after I woke up was put the cute ribbon in her hair.

She yanked the boots out of the box and turned to daddy and said, "I got red boots daddy. I love my red boots."
Now this horse, as you can see was loved too. She tore off the paper and opened the box and the first thing she did was yell, I swear at the top of her lungs, "Is this my horsey? I love my horsey." Nathan got the picture just perfect with her wrapping her arms around the horse. it was so cute and I am glad he caught it so good. She named her horse "Patches"
The last present she opened was from Mom and Dad Weeks. A little baby doll that cries and sucks on a binkie and bottle (Nathan and I are already annoyed with the crying and sucking sounds). The doll also came with a sippy cup, bib, plate, fork, spoon, container for baby wipes, an extra outfit, diaper bag, little stuffed bear and a car seat carrier. She loves it and carries it around everywhere. The baby's name is "Dotty".
As soon as we got the baby and all the supplies undone from the box, she put the stuff in the diaper bag, put the bag on her shoulder, put her baby in the carrier, picked up the horse and said, "OK, I am going to go to the store. See you later!" It was the cutest thing!
She picked out her cupcake cake. She loves princesses, clearly because she is a princess. lol
I love this cake. It is really cute!
So, here is everything she got. Of course, the doll from grandma and grandpa, then we got her: princess light up shoes, the red hoodie and black and white hoodie shirts, with little black skirt, the horsey and Colvert picked out the red boots for her. She loved everything she got.
She asked if she could wear her red boots so I decided to try on her outfit. Isn't she so adorable?
Now this is a video of her opening her baby doll. The best reaction of the night!

Halloween

2009-10-31T20:50:00.005-06:00

Happy Halloween everyone! Just wanted to let you all know how Halloween went, so here are our pictures.
Bailey was wondering what was going on but she still had fun running around. And she loved carrying her pumpkin.
Here is our 50's girl. Rianne saw the poodle skirt in the store and started yelling, "I want to be this for Halloween, mommy".
Bailey is our happy little clown. I loved this outfit. It is sooooo cute.
Here is our motocross racer. Colvert loved his costume this year.

Who are these kids?

2009-10-13T12:41:00.011-06:00

I need help figuring out who's kids these are? Just Kidding!! I don't like to clean and I sure CAN'T cook but they all love to. I just thought it was so cute. Colvert and Rianne ask us everyday if they can wash the table and sweep the floor. More power to 'em! LOL So I just had to get a picture of them cleaning the table and chairs.
And here they are again being big helpers. They love helping daddy cook dinner! But you can't just do one at a time, they all have to help together.
And here they are eating the dinner they helped cook. The reason I got these pictures was because it was so cute to watch Bailey eat corn on the cob for the first time. She loved it!!
With moving, you find all sorts of stuff that you haven't seen in a very long time. Here are my beautiful girls trying on mommy's tiara that I wore at my wedding. It was so precious!
The kids were so excited when the came to the door with their new friends. Colvert and Rianne both had some worms that they were so proud of.
This is Colvert playing in this little escalade, with the neighbor boy Juan . We tried to get pictures of Rianne and Colvert both driving but the batteries on our camera died. However, Colvert was so excited when Juan told him he could drive.
These are just some videos of our kids being fun and silly. This first one is priceless! Rianne is just jamming out on the guitar. The second, all the kids are just dancing their hearts out. The third, We taught Colvert how to do a back summer sault and ending by lifting himself up with his hands. This was the first shot I got on video and he did it perfectly.

Our House

2009-09-11T20:11:00.034-06:00

OK, so you have seen our house as empty as can be so here are some pictures of our house actually looking like a home.
The Kitchen from the Dining Room

The Kitchen from the Front Room

Colvert's Room (10x10)

The Hall from Colvert's Room (coat closet to the immediate left, then the bathroom at the next door and then the linen closet, last door on the left).

The Bathroom

The Girls' Room (10x10)

The Family Wall in the Front Room

The View from the Front Door

The Front Room from the Dining Room

The Toy Room from the Front Room

The Toy Room to the Laundry Room

The Kids Picking up the Toys (or at least they are supposed to be)

Master Bedroom (13x13)

Master Closet (looks like we have some laundry to fold)

Master Bath

Backyard from the Dining Room

Our Home

2009-09-01T22:21:00.006-06:00

So, we have finally moved into our house. We are so excited. We got everything moved out of the trailer and into the house on the 22nd. We had the help of my mother in law and her boyfriend and Nathan's brother and his family as well as a couple people from our ward in Eagle to help us. We have the most interested moving story though. While everyone was moving things into the truck and the kids were playing on the deck in the front of the trailer, the deck collapsed under all of our feet. The middle of the deck completely caved in in the middle and we all went for a small ride. Anyway...that was the fun of the day then we got to the new house and had to unpack. As everyone knows that isn't exactly the funnest of times. So here are some pictures of our house before we moved in and hopefully soon we will have pictures of our house put together.
Kitchen

One of the 10x10 bedrooms

The kids' bathroom

The hallway from one bedroom to the other with a coat closet, the bathroom and a linen closet all off to the left.

The other 10x10 bedroom

Master bedroom

Master walk-in closet (it is bigger than it looks)

Master bath (not too big but much better to have 2 bathrooms instead of one)

The bonus room showing the laundry access to the 2 car garage

Bonus room from hall

Front room

Dining room

Kitchen from front room

Summer has only just begun!

2009-07-26T09:43:00.009-06:00

Long time overdue but here is a post. We went camping for Memorial Weekend. So here are the pictures that we got before I ruined our vactaion with a trip the the emergency room. The kids love camping. Bailey loved it as soon as she figured out how to walk on the rough terrain. Also, like Austin, she liked to eat the dirt. The van came in handy when it came to changing the kids' dirty clothes. We changed them in the van and avoided the dirt in the tent. Not only did we camp but we also were there for a archery shoot that nathan and his friends competed in. Plus, it was fun for me to practice. When I got hurt Nathan had to bring me home but we had fun for the time we were there.

Well, it has been getting too hot around here so we set up our pool last week. The kids love it and have been in it everyday since we put it up. Colvert has really impressed us. For the first two days we struggled with getting Colvert to remember how to swim. No he is all over in the water. Diving for things at the bottom of the pool, doing twist jumps and flips off the ladder into the water and yesterday he even did a backward flip all the way around in the water WITHOUT plugging his nose. Not plugging my nose is hard for me. We are so proud of him. He also opens his eyes under the water. He starts swimming lessons on the 3rd and he is so excited.

Our yard is not level so part of the pool is deeper than the other so Rianne can touch without a problem on one end and on the other the water is all the way up to her chin. However, we have a really hard time getting her to stay in her floatie. She wants to be like Colvert and walk and splash around but we still cannot get her to put her face under the water. Yesterday, she slipped off the ladder and fell all the way under but she held her breath the whole time. I told her how good she did and how proud I was that she held her breath under the water but she didn't care. She was still upset.

He is Colvert floating on his belly. I love how his head is under the water and he is not plugging it.

Colvert's Birthday

2009-04-17T07:20:00.006-06:00

Here are Colvert's Birthday decorations. I am definitely not a party planner as you can tell.

And these are all of his presents......I tried to get a video of him opeing his presents but I couldn't get it to download.

His cake...Again nothing fancy!

Bailey Being Cute

2009-03-29T14:28:00.003-06:00

This is the first time I have been able to catch Bailey doing anything cute so I had to post it. Any other time that I try to get her on camera she gets shy and stops whatever she is doing so I am happy we got this.

2009-03-17T18:41:00.003-06:00

We went outside to play with the kids and to shoot a couple arrows with Nathan's new bow and arrow that Nathan got for his birthday (a little early). Bailey climbed up the stairs by herself and sat down.

Here she is climbing away. She just kept going up and down and then she stopped at the top and started playing. She got a little too confident and started dancing around and fell down. Now she has a fat lip.

So, I am pretty impressed with myself on this one. I was shooting Nathan's bow and arrow. My hits on the target were very consistant and then all of the sudden I here Nathan go "HUH". I thought that I missed the target or something and then he said, "You robin hooded an arrow". So, here are the pictures to show it off. Not very good pictures but you get the picture.

Odds and Ends

2009-02-15T22:07:00.005-07:00

OK, so here are some pictures between Christmas and now. This is the kids on Valentine's Day. We decided to get them all their own piggy banks and when they get full we are going to roll up all their change and open them each their own savings account that only they can access when they turn 18. I am really excited about this. This is something great for our kids! Anyway, here they all are with their piggy banks.
We had a family movie night! As you saw in an earlier post we got new couches from someone in our ward and we wanted to try out the Hide-a-bed. We opened it up turned on the movie and chowed down on some popcorn. This kids loved it!

This is Rianne's Christmas outfit from Santa!

This is Colvert's outfit from Santa (minus the hat, we couldn't get him to take it off).

This is Bailey's outfit from Santa. We had the hardest time getting Baily to stand up for this picture but man isn't that a great smile?!

Now, Colvert brought this home from school a while ago and he was very proud of it so I got a video of it and I thought that it would be great to show it to everyone.

2009-02-08T13:03:00.007-07:00

I don't have any pictures to post this time but I do have exciting news. Some of my family have been asking me how Payton is doing. Well, Joquel and I have been trying to get in contact with each other through email for a few months but for some reason she wasn't getting my emails. Well, we finally got in contact and she filled me in on what has been going on. In short, Payton is doing great. He is now taking aderall for his aspergers but overall he is doing so good with all the changes they have had in the last 2 years. They moved to Vegas but only for a year and then moved back to Utah. They just bought their first house and Payton is loving it. He is doing OK in school with a few problems but I just say that happens with all kids (just look at Colvert LOL). He loves baseball and basketball just like his brother. All in all, he is growing up fast and doing wonderful. Joquel asked me to let everyone know how he is doing and to tell everyone "HI", so HELLO everyone from Joquel, Jason, Parker and Payton.

Merry Christmas

2008-12-25T13:44:00.011-07:00

Here are all of our Christmas Jammies.

Rianne's new favorite cartoon. DORA

Colvert picked out Batman for his jammies.

All of us in our jammies.

I forgot to take pictures while everyone was unwrapping but here is what everyone got. Let's start with Bailey. She got a my little pony, the jean and shirt outfit and the toddler sensory blocks from Santa. From everyone else she got an activity table, ocean sounds music box for her crib, tie-die onsie, flowery dress, crinkle book and toy and pink sweatsuit.

Now Rianne got a Dirt Devil vaccuum, jeans and shirt outfit and a My little horse with barrettes and comb (we put the barrettes away for now, she is not quite old enough for them) from Santa. From everyone else she got a baby stroller, baby diapers and bibs, a Dora sleeping bag, big pillow teddy bear, pink pant and shirt outfit, 52 states puzzle, light blue sweatsuit, tie-die onsie, pink long sleeve shirt, bubble bath dispenser, pelican ball popper, barbie tea set, froggy doodle pro, and books galore including barbie Rapunzel, barbie, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, regular Sleeping Beauty and Ride Along With Thomas music book.

Colvert got 2 tonka trucks, jean and iron man shirt outfit, and a monster truck from Santa. Everyone else got him a learning time cuckoo clock, a Wall-E sleeping bag, a very noisy ambulance, Kung Fu Panda movie, Cooties, a ton of hot wheels cars, a toy guitar, a double shirt and short outfit, reading chart and books, disney activity and coloring books with a read along CD, my friends tigger and pooh busy books and a baseball mitt.

Nathan got a bunch of tools from Santa and from everyone else he got a remote control Dodge Charger, a new lunch box, hunting unlimited 2009 computer game, Iron Man movie, Resident Evil trilogy and an AC/DC cd.

I got an electrical leg shaver and a glue gun from Santa and from everybody else I got a tigger sweatshirt, a 10K sterling silver tow ring, a diamond dial watch, a book titled JOY and Zuma, Peggle, and 100,000 games for the computer.

The family gifts include Elefun, The Kingsford plaque (which we completely love, thank you so much mom and dad), Operation, Curious George Dictionary book, On This Special Night book, Noah's Big Book, Birth of Baby Jesus book, Big Book of Colors with Magnifying Glass, Corduroy's Sleepover book, and Oceans Thirteen movie.

Thank you so much to everyone for all of the wonderful gifts for Christmas and would like to wish you all a very glorious New Year. We love you all so much and wish you all the best.

Fun in the Snow

2008-12-21T14:25:00.004-07:00

We couldn't resist going out in the snow today. It was beautiful and the kids had a blast. We just took a walk around the block and enjoyed the wonderful snow falling down. It was a wonderful family outing for us. Daisy enjoyed the running and playing too.

New dog, beautiful & funny kids, new couches

2008-12-14T09:25:00.011-07:00

This blog is going to be all jumbled together with odd pictures but these first two pictures are mostly for my Kya. She wanted to see our puppy and I told her that I would post some pictures of her on the blog. So here you go Kya! Her name is Daisy Mae and she is half black lab half golden retreiver. The kids love her! Me not so much. LOL

Here is Bailey eating her first table food meal and it just happened to be spaghetti. She loved it and we didn't even have to teach her to suck it up.

Dress up with Rianne is always fun. We were trying on her birthday dresses to see which one would fit the best for grandpas funeral. This one is from us but it is still a little big.

This one was from Great Grandma Joan. It came with the matching doll dress. As soon as we got the dress on Rianne she immediately got down and went to find June her doll. She came back in and said "icture icture". It was too cute!

Bailey is now standing up all over the house. She is growing up way too fast.

Here is Colvert hanging from his pants. Colvert was doing something he wasn't supposed to be doing, of course. All of a sudden, he started yelling for me. I went in and this is what he looked like. His pants got stuck on the spring of his tramp. We just had to take a picture.

We got a call from one of our bishopric members that a family was moving and had a nice hide-a-bed couch and love seat that they wanted to give to someone in the ward and they thought about us. We are so grateful because our last couch was horribly broken and uncomfortable. So here are our new but used and very comfortable couches.

This is just a video of the kids playing with Daisy Mae. You can also see our new couches a little bit. I am just so excited that I figured out how to download a video on my blog.

Halloween

2008-11-08T08:31:00.011-07:00

My kids were so excited for Halloween. Last year, however, we could not get Colvert to help carve the pumpkin and this year he just dug right in. Rianne reached in a couple of time and only brought out a seed or two and then decided she was done.

Rianne was our little princess. It took me so long to get her hair up and styled to work with that crown. He hair is getting very long but it is so thin and fine that I couldn't get it to stay in place. But it turned out great. She looks so cute.

Colvert was supposed to be a ninja but after looking at that mask, Nathan and I both thought he look more like Hannibal Lecter. He now wears that mask everywhere.

Bailey was snow white. She was to young to care but she looked so cute.

We went to our trunk or treat this year. These are just a couple of ladies from the ward. I really like both of their costumes.

Now this is the most origianl costume I have ever seen. Elmer's Glue. I loved it.

These decorations were my kids' favorites. Rianne liked watching the little skeleton in the cage dance. Colvert went to walk by the hanging skeleton and it started dancing and scared Colvert to death. He jumped so high I about died laughing.

I like this chicken costume, too.

The second cutest baby at the trunk or treat (besides Bailey, of course).

All 3 of our kids at the trunk or treat getting anxious to go get some candy.

Trunk or treating fun.

After we did the trunk or treat we went to a nicer neighborhood by our house (because ours isn't very comforting after dark). We hit about 20 houses. Well, this is like a richer community so they got handfuls of candy at a time plus full size candy bars from quite a few of them. The kids had a blast though.

We're back!

2008-10-29T09:43:00.019-06:00

It has been so long since our last post and I am so sorry but our computer crashed and we lost everything including our pictures. Well, our computer is working now and this time I am saving my pictures on a disc instead of just my computer. So, since our last post quite a bit has been going on. Nathan and I went to Las Vegas for our 6th anniversary. It was a blast. We stayed in the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino for 4 days. It was definitely something we needed. When we arrived at our hotel they offered us two free shows and a free meal if we spent 2 hours of our time to look at a time share so of course we did it. We got free stuff, who wouldn't. So while we were there we got to see a comedy show, a magic show and a impersonation show. They were all great. We also did a little bit of the slot machines but didn't have much luck so we tried out hands at blackjack and a couple other games. We ended up coming home with about 45 dollars more than we went with. It was great fun!
So here are some pictures. These 2 pictures are of the view from our floor.

These next two pictures are from the top of the Stratosphere Tower.

Not a very good picture but that is the Stratosphere Tower view from just down the street.

Well, I am pretty sure you can all read but that is the sign for Circus Circus. We went in for a few minutes before one of our shows and saw a guy doing a unicycle act. The pictures didn't turn our because he was constantly moving but I got one that turned out OK. He did a regular unicycle along with the world's smallest and the world's tallest and everything in between. It was very cool.

Our room was not spectacular but it was perfect for us. We weren't in it much anyway.

Now, here are some pictures of our beautiful kids. They are growing up so fast but expecially Bailey. She already has four teeth poking through her gums and she is crawling and sitting up all by herself. I just can't believe it. But she is so fun. She is developing her personality and it is completely different from the other kids' when they wre that age. She loves to make a lot of noises and talks a lot. But she is only 6 months old she shouldn't be crawling yet.

She is also trying to pull herself up to furniture too.

And her playing with the kids is so fun to watch.

Look at that beautiful girl.

Rianne was digging toys out of the bottom of her toy box while Colvert was at school and she came out of the room like this. Very cute!

Colvert and Rianne are always climbing in the toy box to play.

Rianne also came out of her room one day with Colvert's pants on. She loves to dress and undress herself a lot. Rianne cannot be parted with her dolly "June". She absolutely loves her. She would take her to the store if we would let her.

I loved Colvert's hairdo so I have to take this picture.

Bailey's first spoon fed eating. I was very impressed with how good she did.

My two girls together.

My wonderful family.

Colvert and Rianne playing in the girls' room after we put Colvert in his own room.

My wonderful kids.

That is how we are all doing. Aren't my kids just beautiful though?

Update on our Vacation

2008-08-20T10:05:00.013-06:00

It has been a very long time since I posted last. So here is what has been going on. We finally got to go on our vacation back home for the fair and family reunion. It was so great! It is what we needed. It was great so see all of those who could make it. Also, we finally got to see the family wagon go out in style but my kids also got to go hucklederry picking, fishing, swimming and ski doing. They had a blast. And when it comes to swimming Colvert is a fish. I am so proud of him but unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of him swimming. (That is a little disappointing.) So here are a bunch of pictures from our vaction. We will start with the before and after pictures of the car.

Doesn't it look great now? LOL

I love Rianne's little cowboy hat. She looks so cute!
Kya and grandpa with Rianne's baby doll "June". Kya is very lucky that Rianne even let her touch that doll. There are days that I can't even touch that doll.

Bailey at Oneida just a smiling away.
Colvert loves roastin marshmellows so he was happy to do it for the camera.
Don't you love how dirty kids can get.

The kids in the tube for the ski-doing.
Another very cute Bailey pose.
Colvert and Nathan's friend Jeff on the Ski Doo
Rianne just getting ready to step in the water. Don't you just love that hat?

Unbelievably, Bailey loves laying on the grass.
Kya is giving Bailey a kiss! How cute!
Again with the cowboy hat. LOVE IT!

Up huckleberry picking. I don't think it is that fun but the kids seem to love it.

"Mommy look at my muscles"
Rianne was trying to tie her daddy's shoes onto her feet.
Just playing the backyard with my best friend's son Zakery.

This was before we went on vacation. Bailey was showing how good she could sit up with just a little bit of support.
Had to show off Rianne's natural curl. I love the ringlets.

My three adorable kids just chilling together.

Memories

2008-07-16T23:24:00.000-06:00

1. Add a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments. I can't wait to see what people remember.

4th of July

2008-07-08T16:50:00.006-06:00

Alright, we had a blast for the 4th. My friend Kaci and her fiancee, Jason, invited us to his parents house for a 4th of July BBQ. Dummies that we are, we forgot our camera but Kaci got some good pictures of the kids for us. We had hamburgers with all the fixins, hotdogs and watermelon for dinner, chocloate chip cookies and reese's peanut butter brownies for desert, badminton and volleyball for games and of course, the main event, fireworks. Jason spent a lot of money on fireworks. (All illegal I'm sure). We had an awesome firework show and by the end of the night the whole neighborhood was cheering on our fireworks. It was so much fun. I don't think we could have had a better 4th of July. It was great to just hang with our friends and get to know new people. So, here are the pictures.
Here is Jason with some of the stack of fireworks. Unfortunately, that is the only picture of the stack Kaci got.

Kaci tried to get pictures of the fireworks in the sky but her camera was giving her difficulties. But this was one of the coolest fireworks I have ever seen. It was like a machine gun. It would set of 5 quick bangs as the fireworks flew in the air and then it would shoot of 5 more in the opposite direction. It did this a total of about 6 times. So there were lights and fireworks all over the sky it was awesome.
By the end of the night, Rianne was getting really grumpy and tired so she laid down. Most of the time she was screaming but as soon as Kaci brought out the camera she was all smiles.

This is, of course, me and Kaci.
OK, Rianne is so cute here. That piece of watermelon that she is eating was Kaci's. Kaci was sharing with Rianne but she was eating more that Kaci was so Kaci gave it to her and got a picture of Rianne eating that huge piece of watermelon. She went on to eat 1 1/2 more pieces (that same size) of watermelon.
Colvert loved the badminton set. He spent most of the night playing it. But he would get frustrated when he missed the birdie.

And, of course, we have a very cute baby, Bailey. She laid on this blanket for most of the night as content as could be. She was a very good baby the whole afternoon.
This is Bailey and Layla. Layla is that ten month old daughter of another of Kaci's friends.
Colvert again with the badminton rackets.
Rianne refused to let the net go. Nathan and I kept asking her not to touch it but she wouldn't listen. Kaci thought it was funny because Rianne was getting a kick out of pulling it down and then wacthing it bounce back up.

Busy Summer

2008-06-17T23:53:00.003-06:00

Well, I don't have any picture this time because we are very forgetful but we have had a lot going on. We went to Roaring Springs on the 13th. It was a blast. The kids played in the kiddie pool for about an hour and then we all went floating in the never ending river. Even Bailey floated with us. She did not, however, like the water too much. It was rather cold at first but she got used to it. Next, we went into the wave pool. Rianne loved the water as long as the waves weren't going. If you are shorter than 48" they make you put a life jacket on, which is great, and Rianne loved the jacket. When the waves weren't going she would go out in the water until she couldn't touch any more and then she would lean back and float or kick her feet. She thought that was a blast. When the waves started she would get out of the water as fast as she could but she would still sit just at the edge of the water to where the water still hit her legs and there was just enough that she could still splash and play in the water. Colvert would float on his stomach when the waves weren't going. He did his best to swim with the bulky life jacket on. When the waves came, he would go out just far enough that the waves wouldn't knock him over. He saw a bunch of bigger kids jumping everytime the wave would hit them. Naturally, he had to do that too and he got a big kick out of it. He loved it. I am very fortunate to have children that love the water. After the wave pool that was about all that we could handle so we went home. Nathan helped Debbie and Jeremy take a load of stuff to thier new house that night and the next morning we discovered that Nathan had burnt himself to a crisp at Roaring Springs. It was so bad that he could barely stand to have clothes on. Well, he endured a parade that Saturday anyway. It was Eagle fun days last weekend. It is basically like the Caribou County Fair but slightly bigger. They have car shows, a rodeo, booths to buy overpriced items, a parade, the whole shabang. Anyway, we wanted to take the kids to the parade and theme was "Wet and Wild Parade." We just assumed that the wet part was water guns and stuff. Well, we were wrong. The first part of the parade was just a regular old parade with horses and candy and all that but the second half was nothing but water. They had gathered every fire truck, army water truck and anything that could spray water, just for the end of the parade. We found out later that this is how they end every parade for the Eagle Fun Days. The crowd had even participated. There were buckets and coolers full of water for the crowd to throw at the people in the parade along with water balloons and water guns. It was definately Wet and Wild. People got absolutely drenched and it was the perfect day for it. Among all of this going on, we now have a membership to a gym for our whole family and we are trying to go at least 4 times a week, so we are extremely busy, tired and sore all the time. Well, that is how our summer is starting out so far.

Memorial Weekend

2008-05-31T19:07:00.004-06:00

So, we went camping up in Idaho City over memorial weekend. Of course, it was Bailey's first camping trip and I am positive that it won't be her last. She slept wonderfully and the kids were great so we can't complain. But here are some pictures of our kids and Debbie's kids and even grandma and grandpa.
Cute she get any cuter?
Climb Austin climb?

There was no way that Bailey was going to get cold. We had that poor girl wrapped in so many layers.

Dinner Time!
Rianne wanted to wear mommy's hot. Doesn't she look cute?

Our THREE Kids

2008-05-15T14:32:00.002-06:00

Just wanted to give everyone an update on how we are doing with three kids now and we are doing as good as is expected. Bailey is getting bigger and being smothered and the other two are doing the smothering. That is about all that is going on in our house so here are some picture of our kids.

Couldn't resist taking this picture. Isn't she just so cute?!

I don't know where Colvert learned to pose for pictures but when I took this picture he would not look right at the camera he wanted to look over his shoulder. I asked him what he was doing and he told me that he wanted to pose. I really have no idea where he heard that from because I hate getting my picture taken so I don't pose. He definately did not learn it from me.
Colvert decided that he wanted to wear two hats for this picture. Luckily you can't really tell anyway.
Heere they are again, all together. Rianne went a little over board with the "cheese".

Bailey McKade

2008-04-27T00:00:00.009-06:00

OK, so we got Colvert's birthday over with just in time to celebrate a brand new birthday in our house. I am sorry that it has taken me so long but as all mother's know, when you have a newborn in the house things can get hectic. So, our daughter Bailey McKade was born on April 22nd at 7:13 pm. She was 8 lbs 2 oz and 20 inches long. She is a very gorgeous baby but unlike her siblings she looks like her mom when she was a baby. The nurses had a very hard time getting Bailey to cry to give an apgar score. Even her shots didn't get a squeal. Even hear at home she doesn't cry much (yet) but the two things she hates most are diaper changes and baths. She screamed like the dickens when the nurse gave her her first bath and she did the same thing when we got her home and gave her a bath. It has now been almost 3 days since we brought her home and she is eating very well and sleeping even better. She lets me sleep at least 3 hours at a time, sometimes even 4. Now, the labor was not that great but what labors are great!? They induced me at 8 am on the 22nd and I just sat there waiting for something to happen other than tiny contractions that get you nowhere. The doctor came in and broke my water at 1 or so. There was a little bit of progress but not much. Then came the epideral and bigger contractions whick I couldn't feel and then, the epideral stopped working and oh boy could I feel those contractions but it was still nowhere near time to deliver. It was horrible. So, they gave me another dose of the epideral and when it kicked in I was great until about another 2 1\2 hours later when it wore off again. After the third dose of the epideral I was already in delivery mode but I was in so much pain that I couldn't push. That is why they gave me the last dose. 30 minutes after hard pushing Bailey McKade was brought into the world. The only complication was that she was born posterior which is no big deal. So, now everyone knows how the day went for myself and Bailey, here are some pictures of our beautiful girl.

Colvert and Rianne love Bailey. They love her so much they won't stay off of her. Giving her kisses every second they can sneak one in. Colvert doesn't like the fact that he can't feed Bailey. Rianne will drop everything when Bailey makes any kind of sound or moves at all. Rianne however is a little sensitive about there being another baby in the house. Colvert just loves being able to help as long as it is on his terms.

Isn't she cute? I don't think they come any cuter.

So, I think she has really cute feet and toes so I had to get a shot of them.
This is the day that we brought Bailey home. Nathan picked out the outfit with a little bit of help from mom. Because we didn't know if the baby was a boy or a girl Nathan had to go shopping, while I was still in the hospital, to pick out an outfit for her to be discharged in. He did a darn good job I think!
So there is our beautiful new baby girl. We are still trying to adjust to having 3 kids instead of 2 and I tell you, it is a little difficult but we are doing our best.

Colvert's Birthday

2008-04-19T11:16:00.004-06:00

Alright so it was Colvert's birthday on the 16th so we decided to take him to Chuck E. Cheese's. But we forgot our camera so this is the best we got. I had to scan them in and brighten and contrast and do all that good stuff but it worked out pretty well, I think. However, Rianne was a little confused about where the camera was even though it was a big black bulky thing but she is still cute. The kid's had a blast at Chuck E.'s. There wasn't much for Rianne to do but she was happy just pushing buttons on some of the games there and riding in the cars that just rock back and forth. Colvert's was so excited and he loved Chuck E.'s so all in all I think it is safe to say that Colvert had a great 4th birthday. I can't believe his is four but what can you do. Life goes by fast and you can't stop your kids from growing up.

So, before we went to Chuck E. Cheese's we did Colvert's presents. He didn't get very much because we spent so much on the bike but he loves the bike and the rest of the presents. We got him the bike and the cars and great grandma and grandpa Vera and Frank got him the little chargers figurine thing.

Pictures of our beautiful kids

2008-04-19T10:44:00.007-06:00

Hello Everyone it has been a long time since our last post so here is an update and pictures of our children. Nothing has changed in our house hold except that the kids are getting bigger and more dependent. So, here is a picture of Rianne swinging all by herself for the first time. She will not allow us to hold onto her anymore but we still keep a really close eye on her so she doesn't fall.

This is Colvert just having fun outside on the swing set. Moving here with the swing set already in the yard was the best thing we could have done for our kids. They love the swing set however, it is a cheaper swingset so the slide is not sturdy at all. Colvert and Rianne were both going down the slide (unfortunately we didn't get pictures) and the next thing we know Colvert is on the ground. The slide tipped over just as he got to the top of it. So, now we have to figure out a way to secure the slide so the kids can still play with it.

Now, this is a picture of our wonderful kids helping us vaccuum. Both of our kids have always loved to help clean. Expecially Colvert but here Rianne had to vaccuum too because Colvert was doing it. It was very cute so we wanted to share it with you.

Outside Fun

2008-03-11T09:28:00.011-06:00

These first three pictures are of the kids outside helping Daddy fix the car. Both of the belts broke or shattered. Thankfully it was a Thursday night because didn't have to work the next day and was able to fix it so I would have a car for the following week.

It has finally been warm enough to let the kids go out and play for a little while in the afternoon. It has been so exciting. They have been loving it after being pent up all the time. Nathan comes home after work and goes to run on the treadmill, which is on our back porch, and lets the kids run around and play. Fortunately, Kevin, the guy we are renting from, left a swing set in the backyard and the kids love it.

We also pulled out the golf set. Colvert has always loved golf and we wanted to try it out with Rianne. She seemed to take to it pretty well also. When it was time to come in she wasn't happy at all.

This was a very good picture opportunity. Rianne had her hands on Colvert's head and was leaning forward when I wanted to take the picture but as soon as she realized what I was doing she quit to give me a smile.PHOTO OP! Very cute!!

Cute Kids

2008-03-07T14:14:00.000-07:00

OK, so the kids were all dressed and pressed and ready for church and they decided that it was time to wrestle around on the floor. I couldn't resist getting a picture but as soon as I pulled out the camera they were both ready to pose.
Colvert thinks that he always has to be in the way and in charge of everything. Well, he wouldn't move so Rianne could get by him. She in not quite good enough at walking over or across anything so she decided to just climb over Colvert. Then she just decided to plop her but right down on top of him and not move. Colvert was screaming and crying until I saw it and started laughing. The minute I brought out the camera he was done crying and ready for a picture.
I couldn't resist putting this on the blog. Rianne wanted Nathan's hat on her. She was having the hardest time trying to figure out how to put it on. Nathan put it on for her a couple of times until she figured it out on her own. She looked so cute. Who could resist that picture?

Update on Colvert

2008-03-07T13:41:00.001-07:00

Colvert's wound has been healed for quite a while now so here are pictures of his new lip.

Update on Colvert

2008-02-06T09:59:00.000-07:00

It has been two days for Colvert and his stitches and it looks worse than ever. The side of his face looks like a baseball. I feel so bad for the poor guy but he is loving fruit smoothies and yogurt. I even got him to eat some tuna casserole because the noodles are so soft. He seems to be handling it OK though. Here are some pictures of his baseball face. Plus, Rianne wanted a picture so here is the cute little girl, too.

Packing our kids

2008-02-05T12:41:00.001-07:00

We are in the process of moving to Eagle into a 3 bedroom trailer and our kids decided to play in the boxes. It was just very cute so we wanted to take some pictures and show everyone.

Colvert and Rianne; PRICELESS

2008-02-05T11:40:00.000-07:00

Paula I told you that I would send you pictures of Rianne's wonderful morning hair. Well, off to the

left is mild compared to what we've seen before. Below is mainly what we get everymorning Rianne wakes up.

This was Rianne's very first time feeding herself lasagne. She loved it. She ate it faster than Colvert and she wanted more. I just couldn't resist taking a picture of this cute face.

Colvert got a little to close the camera but he really wanted a picture taken so this is what came out. I tried to get him to take another one and he said no and that he liked this one.

This is one of my favorite outfits for Rianne

and she decided to flash a smile so I dug out

the camera.

Picture perfect moment. The little girl in the middle is our neighbors little girl. She is 4 1\2 and she and Colvert and Rianne love playing together. They all decided they wanted to sit together to watch a movie while we parents were playing games that evening.

Colvert's Mishap

2008-02-05T11:08:00.000-07:00

Just though everyone should see what happened to Colvert. Here's what happened. Colvert was running through the house as usual, Rianne was playing in the room and Nathan and I were watching TV, all of a sudden Colvert tripped (I think over his own feet but I am not sure) and hit his face on the coffee table. Nathan has never moved so fast in his life as he did to pick Colvert up. He was bleeding so bad and I noticed that his lip was torn apart. It looked so horrible. We put a cold rag on his lip and took him to the ER. He ended up getting six stitches (two inside his mouth and 4 outside his mouth). Here is what the final product looks like.

Christmas Church Outfits

2008-01-14T20:57:00.001-07:00

These are every one's Christmas church outfits.
Unfortunately, Michelle didn't get one but here is the rest of the family.

Our First Complete Blog

2008-01-12T22:24:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! We just want to start our blog by saying HI and showing pictures of our growing family. First, we will start with the very first picture of our unborn baby. There were no signs of the baby being a boy so we think that it is a girl but we aren't getting too excited either way. Neutral is the best way to go just to be safe. So, here he/she is. This baby has already been a slight hassle. I have been on bed rest for almost a month already. I am so tired of it but what can I do. We still love him/her and are very excited for it to come. And on we go. Here is Nathan, Colvert and Rianne dressed and pressed and ready for church. Aren't they cute?

Here is Rianne eating a banana for the first
by herself. How much cuter can you get?! Can't help but brag can we?

Now here is our first good snowfall in Caldwell. The kids had so much fun outside; especially Rianne. She would cry anytime she fell but she loved hearing the snow crunch under her feet. She would look down to see what the sound was and then she just started laughing everytime she heard the sound. It was so cute.

Colvert was having just as much fun. He and daddy built a snowman and, of course, once the snowman was made they had to tackle it like a football game but Colvert loved it. He made snow angels and helped Rianne walk on the uneven snow. We all had a lot of fun even though all I got to do was watch.

Well thank you for looking at our blog and all of our photos. We will keep the blog updated as much as possible.