Look How much I've Grown!

Camden just minutes old. Take notice to the way he is holding his hands--

(It's the golf grip--for all you non-golfers out there!)

So as you can imagine Cecil was an extra proud papa when he saw this!

Camden just hours after being born getting loves from Grandma Debbie.

Camden 1 day old getting his beauty rest.

Camden a couple of days old with his proud papa! ( love this picture!)

Camden at his 2 week old photo shoot. Taken by Sandy Landon Photography.

Camden 3 months old and cuter than ever!

Camden showing off his adorable smile that lights up his whole face!If everyone smiled like this once a day the world would be a much happier place-- don't ya think?!

We're Back!!

It's been so long I almost forgot how to do this!! I am so behind with pictures to post but I'm telling myself ...."baby steps..." "You can do this..." With that little pep talk every day I hope to get up to date and keep up to date :)

I would like to find out whoever said "once you have 3 kids a 4th is no big deal" and let them know it's not true!! There is alot of ACTION at our House these days with a 9 year old( 4th grade) a 6 year old (1st grade) a 3 year old (preschool) and a newborn cute little one who loves to be held and held and then held some more. But I wouldn't trade all the ACTION for anything! They are all so amazing and I am really trying to enjoy each day because I know how fast they grow up and I don't even want to think about what happens after that! So with all that being said.....POST ON!

LITTLE MAN

OUR LITTLE MAN IS HERE....

I HAVE MANY MORE PICTURES TO POST BUT FOR THOSE OF YOU

THAT CAN'T WAIT ANY LONGER, HERE HE IS!

38 WEEKS AND COUNTING!!

I feel so blessed to have 3 GREAT kids and we are all very anxious for the arrival of another. Morgan is always telling me "Mom, you shouldn't be doing that" or " here, let me do that." She is very concerned for me and the baby and is such a good helper. Ashlyn has officially declared herself as "The most Excited" for baby brother to be born and I know I won't even need to ask her to help out...in fact...she will probably be telling me what the baby needs and asking for my help! I don't know if Easton fully understands what is about to happen but he has already reserved one of his golf clubs for his baby brother and for a 3 year old who doesn't share much with anyone that equals= Lots of Love!!!

This baby has received so much love already from the kiddos--- They love to hug and kiss my belly every night before bed---some (Ashlyn & Morgan) more than others :) Easton prefers the bed night wrestling match or tackle kiss (go figure)

He may not have a name yet.... but he certainly is LOVED!!!

Easter Festivities

Easter wouldn't be the same with out peanut butter chow mein birds nests with cadbury mini eggs(YUM!) and peeps....if you don't like to eat them they are just fun to look at...I enjoy doing both!

Easton and Morgan were my good helpers making colored eggs. We all had fun with this activity...maybe because they are getting older and it isn't such a disaster of a mess as it has been in the past :)

Saturday we went to the City sponsored Easter Egg Hunt. Ashlyn insisted on wearing her bunny costume and I just love this picture of her and her friend Ashley and Morgan holding hands walking to the Egg hunt

We got to see the Easter Bunny....This one is not as frightening as others I have seen but Ashlyn was still scared to stand next to it.

Then we got to decorate cookies and enjoy all of our tasty treats.

Easter Sunday...We decided to take pictures after church so we wouldn't be late :) We all enjoyed the beautiful weather and having family over for an Easter Feast. We are so blessed and We are grateful for our belief in our loving Heavenly Father and his son Jesus Christ. We are grateful for this Easter season and that we can celebrate his Ressurection and that someday we too will be ressurected.
HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!

Introducing Baby....

WILSON!

Really we are not naming the baby Wilson--it just happens to be a family joke gone BAD! One Sunday night after eating dinner with cecil's family we were discussing names for our new baby and since Easton is a sports related name we were thinking of all the other possibilities...and someone blurted out WILSON and we all thought it was so funny (one of those "you had to be there" moments) Anyways, my family is big time into volleyball and all I could think about whenever someone asked "How is baby Wilson doing" was that volleyball from the movie CASTAWAY with Tom Hanks that becomes his best friend while he is stranded on the Island all alone.....so like I said before....family joke..gone bad! I put Cecil's artistic skills to work and this is BABY WILSON! Hopefully the name doesn't stick for to long....poor kid!

(This volleyball is at 29 weeks)

Birthday Boy

Easton is such a HAPPY little boy and it is hard to believe that he is 3 years old already! We had a birthday cake with suckers for candles(minor details) and enjoyed the weekend at Zions. Here are some of the things Easton likes as a BIG 3 year old!

Favorite Foods: popcorn, apples, string cheese, juice, ham and cheese, yogurt, spagetti with meatballs, strawberry smoothies made by dad.

Loves to play: with cousin Josh, His peeps-Josh and Emily, "got you last" with grandpa, playhouse disney and webkinz (he is quite good at using the computer), his building blocks Grandma gave him for his birthday.

Favorite color: Depends on the day--today was Red

Favorite Movie: Peter Pan

Likes: Spiderman, golfing and fishing with Dad, wrestling Dad, Jumping on the Trampoline, Bike rides.

Favorite word: "Poop" (he laughs everytime he says it or hears it?!?)

Other intersting Facts: He loves putting underwear on his head and socks on his hands and chases the girls around the house( be afraid, be very afraid!), He has a SELF APPOINTED "spot" on the couch and a special bar stool and trust me you don't want to mess with him when it comes to either one of these things!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EASTON! We love you xoxoxox

Zions National Park Adventure

Easton turned 3 years old the 28th of March and we thought it would be fun to go on a little adventure for the weekend. So we packed up the RV and headed for Zions National Park. It was the perfect birthday getaway---perfect warm weather and somewhere none of us had been before! Cecil's parents joined us for the fun and the kids had a lot of fun hiking, fishing, and exploring the outdoors. We had a great time and have decided to take a little road trip every year for Easton's birthday.

Leppercons

There is never a holiday that goes unnoticed around here....Thanks to our cute, cute Morgan. She is very intense about holidays and usually doesn't get much sleep the night before because she is so excited for the big HOORAY!! So all last week she has been busy at work building her

"Leprechaun trap" out of an old box and a cup full of peanut butter with shiny gold coins inside...(the idea being that the leprechauns would go in the cup for the coins and get stuck in the peanut butter.) She set it all up last night before bed and left a note that said

Dear Leppercon,

First of all, Please leave 7 dollars and I will leave my coines. Please right a note.

Morgan


Well those naughty little leprechauns jumped in the peanut butter and knocked over the box house and took the coins and jumped on top of the box house and left foot prints all over and left a note that said Shiney Coins!---but did not leave 7 dollars!?!? I guess peanut butter isn't sticky enough so they got away...... Better luck next year Morgan!

Happy St. Patricks Day from our little leprechauns to yours!

Lucky #4--You Look Marvelous!

So, I was tagged by my friend Cheree---this is how it works: open your 4th picture file and post the 4th picture and then explain what the picture is about. I had a good laugh when I saw that this was the 4th picture---this is Cecil's brother Isaac (who is one of the funniest guys you will ever meet.) We took this picture of Isaac when we RV'ed it to Oregon for Thanksgiving---

side note: Ironically we just rented and watched the movie The RV with Robbin Williams, tonight which is a hilllarious movie---at least for us---(may have been the time 0f night we watched it!) So rent it if you haven't seen it yet!

Any Whoo! We went to the outlet mall in Oregon and Isaac saw this hat and fell in love---He really wanted to buy it and wear it to the OSU vs. U of O game a.k.a. the civil war game. We talked him into not buying it but rather just possing for a few "blackmail" pictures instead. Maybe he should have worn it to the game---then maybe the beavers would have won ---There's always next year---Go BEAV'S

Now I get to tag 4 lucky friends to do the same thing and the winners are: Jen, Kelly, Nicole and Janae! Don't disappoint :)

DRUM ROLL PLEASE....

For all of you that voted Girl.......You're wrong.......and for all of you that voted TWINS....I'll find out who you are:) ..... and for all of you that voted a Boy.......

Well you are right!This is me and the BELLY at 20 weeks (thank you Ashie for being my photographer)---- I Really Really don't like photo's of me when I'm pregnant but my sister-in-law has been begging me to post a picture of my belly.... so this one's for you Camilla ( I guess you do get what you want...most of the time:) We are very excited about having another little boy---- Easton can't stop talking about his "baby brudder." Now for the hard part---a name. We are open to suggestions but it must end with an "N" We can't let the little guy feel left out. (and I'm a little OCD---but who isn't?!?)

BABY VOTE

I am very excited for next week! We get to find out the sex of our baby. I thought it would be fun to take a poll to see what you think. So check out the sidebar to the right and VOTE. Poll will be open until Monday February 2nd.

Dirty laundry

I'm feeling the need to air some dirty laundry......because there seems to be so much of it these days. I am TRYING to potty train E-Man and it's just been another poopie day. For the record, I really really really do not like potty training other than the cute little biscuits you get to see running from one end of the house to the other looking for a clean pair of underwear. Also, the end result is quite nice, but for the LOVE...... for the love of your Mother and her sanity pleeeeeeease just go on the toilet! I have bribed him with every cool toy or tasty treat any little boy could possibly want but he still does not want to do the DEED where it belongs. I know I just need to be patient... it will happen when he is ready Right?!?

Whew! I feel much better and all the laundry in the house is clean---at the moment.

Any tricks that have worked for you?

Cooking up some fun!

Santa brought Morgan this Easy Bake Oven for Christmas and she has had a lot of fun making delicious HOCKEY PUCKS....I mean cookies! She gave one to Easton and then asked "Who's a better cook? ME? ore MOM?" His reply... " YOU are!" She was so excited and said " Yes! finally I am better than Mom!" No hurt feelings here----Considering the source! In all fairness....her second attempt at the cookies turned out much better.... we added more water and cooked it for way less time! Watch out Kelly---You've got some competition in the neighborhood! Thanks SANTA for the fun present!