Pinewood Derby

Payton had his first Pinewood Derby-- and boy did he have a blast!!

Dad and him worked on his "flame" car together. I helped paint it a red that took forever to dry and lost them an evening of working on it-- after that I refused to touch those complicated little suckers :)

Newborns always seem to throw a little kink into family life and so they were seriously painting and putting on the wheels and finishing it the evening right before the race. 

It needed a few modifications there at the track :)

{Payton always does this to me when I want to get a picture of him and exciting stuff is happening-- I get the ya ya I'm looking at you I'm smiling--not really-- now take the stupid picture so I can get back to this :) I think he learned it from his daddy} 

The boys all would get to put their cars on the track

 and than wait for them down at the end-- Payton won the first race and than got second and third in most the others-- Total for the night he scored third place- which he was pretty excited about!

 They also did some loopdee loops for the boys-- the first time through Payters car crashed at the very end 

but the second time it made it through. He was excited about that!

It was such a fun night-- he can't wait to do it again next year!

Fresh From Heaven {Amelia}

 Sweet little Amelia K 

After wanting to come early there for a bit, she decided those last few weeks that she wanted to stay in there :)

But she finally decided to come a little over the two week early mark.

It was a really relaxing delivery :) I ended up getting an epidural earlier than I usually have with my others {usually I wait till I feel like I can't literally stand the pain anymore} So other than Dave almost passing out during my epidural {I was a bit stressed, quiet and not acting like myself and he was worried about me he said :) } it was by far the most relaxed least painful delivery I've had :) 

{Fresh from Heaven}

She did come though during a super busy time for our family---

My Grandma was scheduled for heart surgery so my parents were heading down to Salt Lake for that,

and also in Utah that weekend they had a niece's wedding and ones farewell and my other grandparents were leaving for their mission in Navoo. 

Thankfully my little brother decided to stay home and become a "dad" for a few days while we were at the hospital.

They might not have been the cleanest or the house clean anymore or their hair done great :) but they were fed, alive and happy and I was thankful for the help and sacrifice on his part.

The kids were also very excited to meet their new little sister--

Ellie has been wonderful with her so far and a huge little helper!

{Brynley ended up having Dance Pictures that day too --Thank you Jenni for curling her hair and Lindsey for helping Dave at the photo place - he was a bit out of his comfort zone :) }

Payter boy was in heaven again with having a newborn to hold-- he definitely takes after his daddy and loves and loves on those babies-- he'll make an amazing Dad one day!

Heading home she looked so little and small in her carseat! 

We've really just been enjoying her-- it's hard to think she might be my last little newborn-- not so hard to think that I might never have to breastfeed again {not a huge fan of that/biggest stresser in my life right now}

but we have just been loving her little sweetness

Her little pouty lips and blonde eyelashes and little sweet cry 

We are blessed to have a such a  beautiful healthy new little one in our family. Love you Millie!

Treasuring the Season

Things I know........

I won't always have beautiful my little pony decorations on my piano

 I won't always see cute little "playing house" set ups

  I won't always have a girl obsessed with Rock collections

Or see awesome Lego play houses and guys built {or get to step on a forgotten lego :) }

I won't always have a enthusiastic laundry helper

 

or hear phrases like "Oopsie daisy" and "Okey dokey" and constantly get the I love you  hand sign

I won't always see her watch the bus out the window- she'll soon get on it

and I won't always find her asleep in weird places every night

 I won't always find crayons and paper scraps from Brynley's art projects strewn around the house

Or find apple cores in crazy places and see them so thrilled over a little game

I won't always see hugs and joyful smiles so easily given.

and working and hanging out with us won't always be the coolest thing.  

I know I will dearly miss these times and that I am so thankful to get to have them.

I treasure and enjoy them all that I can!

{ The best advice I have:  :) Make sure and slow down and enjoy the treasures that you've been given at whatever season of life you are in-- It all passes so quickly}

Life when mom is pretty much stuck in bed.

Computer games with Daddy all Saturday 

Many much free kindle games for the little one to play

Brother and sister helping dress the little one to go out to feed the chickens with them. 

 My Little Pony videos and games

And many great hairstyles :) 

Happy Easter {2013}

Easter this year was a lot of fun!

The kids had a blast and were really into it this year-- they ended up getting to do three little egg hunts.

{They also watched Rise of the Guardians the night before so they thought that was really cool}

We of course painted eggs-- The kids at first wanted to paint our chicken eggs I had to informed them that we would have lovely brown easter eggs and that they wouldn't dye very well :) but they ended up picking a kit that would do speckles like the chicken eggs have

Dave said never again on that kit -- Here he is being so handsome and crafty :)

 Easter Morning before Church the kids hunted around our house

 

Usually the weather is always yucky around Easter but since it was so nice this year we actually hid a lot of the eggs outside- we played hot and cold to try to get them to look out the window and figure out that more was out there {It took awhile for them to figure it out- but when they finally did they ran outside so excited}

 Lulu kitty wanted to get in on the action :) She is pretty much ready to pop with her kitties at this time :)

We also were able to go hang out with our nephew Reily and his kids for a quick hunt

 Lots of cute girl cousins to play with 

We also were included in the super fun candy throw tradition over at Dave's sisters this year

 It probably shouldn't be as funny as it is but the kids are all excited for all the candy but also are...

... very scared of that Candy :)  

 They got so much Candy!!

 And if you can't tell were very happy with their Easter goods!