A trip to the store....

Sorry, no pics today. Today I took all the kids to the store to do some grocery shopping and I was having a hard time getting Austin to stay sitting in the cart! He kept wanting to stand up, sit on the edge, try to climb out, etc.........so I thought I'd give him something to hold! I gave him a can a green beans.....big mistake! He actually held it for a long time, but over in the produce section where I was looking for some good celery......he dropped it on my toe!!! Now maybe I sound like a big baby, but it was all I could do not to cry! So I'm crouched down in front of my cart full of children (7 months pregnant no less) and holding my toe, trying to breathe and focus so I wouldn't cry......it hurt that bad, it really did, I thought he may have broken it! Anyway, can ya picture this? I'm thinking.....to any onlookers I must look like I'm going into labor! People just looked at me kinda funny, but didn't say anything....so I decided I better at least stand up and pretend to be Ok! So then I hobble away with my throbbing toe and get thru the checkout without any problems, thank goodness! But as we're loading the groceries in the parking lot, the kids see my toe all purple and starting to bleed! Tyler's like....."Eewwww, gross.....your toe is bleeding, I can't be by you 'cause you're bleeding!" Then Mikelle is like "Eewwwwww, I want to see!" And Tyler is like "C'mon Mikelle, we can't be by Mommy, 'cause she's bleeding and it might get on us!" Silly kids!!!
So after all that drama, I was just exhausted and decided to pick up Wendy's for lunch since Daniel is in Cedar City for meetings and wouldn't be home for lunch anyway! So we're waiting in the Drive-thru at Wendy's with cars full of high school kids in front of and behind us waving to each other and I'm thinking back about going out for lunch when I was in high school...fun times...then one of the kids in front of me just drops a mountain dew can out his window! I'm going.....did he seriously just throw trash out the window in the Wendy's driveway? I mean you see trash along roads all the time, but I figured it was mostly stuff that blew away on accident or something! I don't think I've ever seen anyone deliberately just throw trash on the ground (I'm sure it happens all the time, just not right in front of me). That just irritated me....and I'm like....I should be a good citizen and go pick that up....but then I thought....but I'm pregnant and I just smashed my toe and I don't want to get out of the car in the Wendy's Drive-thru in front of all these people, etc......then I thought.....if I can't do this simple little thing, then how will I be able to stand up for something that's really important (plus, I thought this would be a great teaching moment with my kids about littering)! So, I got out and walked around my car and picked it up and put it in a trash bag in my car.....and explained to my kids why we shouldn't litter and why we should clean up after people that do and so on! Well, the kids who threw it out saw me.....and hopefully they will think twice before doing it again, but even if they don't, I still felt better that there was one less mountain dew can on the ground! :0) Sorry I was so long-winded today!!! I guess I just needed to vent!

Tag! If you're reading this then you are it!

You're supposed to go to the 4th folder or file or whatever and then the 4th picture and post it!
I thought it looked like a fun tag! I decided to post pictures 5 & 6 as well cause they just went with #4!
Daniel & I were mixing concrete for a cement pad we were laying for our shed (since we had no garage when we moved to Kanab)! The water was running and creating a big mud puddle where the 2 hoses connected in our big back yard full of dirt!
Tyler and Mikelle thought this was a great activity! Mikelle's pants were so muddy I had to just throw them away.....they wouldn't come clean at all! I wonder why it is that when I find they've been into something, Mikelle always gets the worst of it.....I should go find the pictures of her face covered in Peanut butter, and the one when Tyler was making her look like "Princess Jasmine" with my make-up, and when her hair was plastered to her head with vaseline! Does anybody else have kids as mischevious as mine?

Mikelle is finally getting her own room!

Mikelle showing off her new/old Strawberry shortcake Bed! (It was actually Mica's bedset as a little girl) Funny, huh?
Trying to make room for another child in a 3 bedroom house with no garage......is not easy! Up till now Mikelle and Tyler shared a room, Austin, Daniel, and I shared a room, and the other room was a guest room slash storage, sewing, scrapbook, and whatever other junk we needed to throw somewhere room! It was hard to clean out, but we've almost done it! We are just waiting for Mikelle's new dresser to get here and some other things to be picked up and we'll be set! Tyler got moved to the top bunk and Austin is now in the bottom bunk, Mikelle has the nice queen size bed in her room (but she will get kicked out when company comes to stay), and Daniel and I have about 10 weeks till we get another little room mate!

Mikelle is excited to have a girly room.....and she thinks the baby will be moving in with her after she's born......little does she know, it will be a few months (like 12)! :)

Pumpkins on the way....

Christy & Mica at 7 months pregnant!!!
We found these orange shirts at Wal-mart for $3, so we decided to get them and do prego pictures together since we are only 2 wks apart! Cute, huh? Daniel calls them "Pumpkin Bellies", ha, ha! :)

It's a.......well, I'll just let you look at the pics and guess!

Ever since we thought we were having a girl I've been working on hairbows and things......here are a few of the fun things I've been making!
Our ultrasound on Friday confirmed that we are indeed having a little girl! I'm soooooo excited! I bought this little pink & brown jacket that day (my new favorite colors), and my mom bought these shoes when we found it was girl (mom got shanan the same shoes in blue and brown when she found out she was having a boy!) We are so excited to have lots of babies the same age! My sister Shanan is due Dec. 3rd, Daniel's sister Christy is due Dec. 12th (a girl as well), and our sister-in-law Ana just had her adorable little girl, Ashtynn, on Oct. 2nd (check out Jake & Ana's blog for pics)!

Halloweens past....ok, just 2007 and 2005, that's all I could find pics for!

I just thought it would be fun to see Halloweens thru the years, but I couldn't find very many pictures!!! Oh, well, here's what I found!
Last year Austin was the cutest little bat I've ever seen.....also the pic above this is all the kids!
This is 2005....a good year for pumpkin carving for us.....back when we live in Cedar City!
Batman (Tyler), Catwoman (Genevieve), and Princess (Mikelle)! It doesn't look like it, but they had fun trick or treating! :) Aren't they adorable....sometimes I forget that they were ever that little!

It's October....time to get ready for Halloween!

These are my new Halloween blocks that I got for free at a yard sale.....because they were missing the "O"..... so my new project is to get my brother to cut out a matching piece of wood so I can paint it and have a full set!
This is my favorite Halloween frame.....the picture is old....but also one of my favorites!
These are my Halloween helpers.....they were so excited to decorate for Halloween since it's finally October! Tyler and Mikelle found their new Halloween shirts and had to try them on....and Austin was too funny to watch as he got so excited about the decorations......especially the spiders.....he tries to say spider and points to them and sqeals!