My Little Gooberhead!!!

Gooberhead!!! That is the way my poor baby brother has been known for years by me. It is truly a term of endearment though and only used with the utmost love and respect. He was born while I was still 17 and just heading off to college. So there is a pretty big span between our ages.......... However, as you can tell by this picture our maturity levels were about the same. He is a great kid and we have some great memories. This was when I was pregnant with Hunter (kiddo # 2) in my favorite place, Disneyland!!!!

This was taken Sunday (a few years later), at his missionary farewell. To say I am so proud is really an understatement!!! He truly one of the most generous and compassionate people I know. (He got these traits from my parents, I only wish I could take the credit!) Not only did he help me a lot when I was pregnant(with the quads) and on bed rest and in the hospital, he helped take care of our grandmother and for the last two years has been helping my other sister and her daughters after the suicide of her husband. We are so proud of him for taking this step and I suppose we can share him with Halifax, Canada!!!!

So my little gooberhead!!! We will miss you but we will write to you every week and keep an eye on each other until you make it home to help us out again!!! We love you!!!

See you soon!!!!!

Favorite Things

One of my absolute favorite things about school starting ............ is that when I have appointments with the kids I get some really good and fun face time with them in smaller groups or individually. I just love, love, love it!!! So yesterday was our first adventure to the dentist of this school year.

They decided they wanted to eat at Chili's for lunch after the appointment. So off we went!!!!

And , of course, after getting our teeth cleaned and getting a great report of no cavities we have to celebrate with something horribly delicious and not nutritious. I promise they did eat some macaroni and cheese with salad before we dug into the wonderful mound of chocolate. LOL!!!

Then we were off to the school to pick up their brothers. It has been so hot here 107 the last couple of days. It is horrible!! I am not really sure how it is that we survived the AZ heat for two years when I cannot even begin to survive a week of it here. Bryan got this from the "dentist prize box" and had to pull it out to make us laugh and forget that we were actually melting away!!! Great kids, great times!! Have a fantastic day my friends!!!

1st Day

Happy 1st day of school!!!! My kids love school. I only hope that we are this lucky for the rest of our lives!!!! **** Important Notice******We have made it two weeks and no detentions!!! This is a record for us. Last year by this point we had all spent at least one recess or lunch period there and some of us were even on our second round. :>

However, trying to get them to all look at the camera and smile nicely when they are nervous and excited all wrapped up in one was not in the cards on this particular morning.

Hunter- 3rd grade genius

Cassie- 1st grade princess

Jayson- 1st grade clown

Tanner- 4th grade charmer

Bryan-1st grade ladies man
Nathan- 1st grade teacher favorite

Have a great night and rest well my friends. And here is to another successful week!!!!

Night Before School

Twas the night before the 1st day of school!! All the school supplies purchased, all the bags laid out. Lunches are made and nerves are high. :> Seriously, it is incredible to me the amount of stuff you need for six kids to just start the year of school. This is just a sneak peak at it..... as naturally after they attend the 1st day there are more things that need to be bought.




The kids were very nervous but also very tired. Which proved to be very beneficial to me!!! I was a little nervous that they would not sleep well. Luckily, they were out pretty fast.

There was also a peace about starting school this year. If you remember last year we ended up moving (which was a huge surprise) and there had been problems closing on our house........ So we were living on base, (45 minute commute), Jay was in AZ wrapping up some things, the van would not start on the morning of school and the kids were stressed because it was a new school. Needless to say this year was a lot better!!!




Tanner did not like the flash on the camera even though he was totally zonked out. I have to say they are so cute and peaceful when they sleep. I remember watching them sleep when they were babies. Where does the time go? Rest well my little ones, for tomorrow is the start of a whole new adventure!!!

Part 3 and Final Random

Well tomorrow we head off for our three week adventure. I would use the word vacation but I have found it is still work and a lot of it, just in a different place. Kids are so excited they do not know what to do. It is after midnight and I am just about finished packing. 3 weeks of for a trip for seven people is not an easy task. But we did it!!!

This is a picture of Bryan at Disney getting to play drums in the afternoon parade. He got to dance with all the characters and had a great time doing it. He really thought he had died and gone straight to heaven. Seeing Disney through your little ones eyes is truly a blessing and a blast. Thanks Bryan for making me remember what it felt like to only be six and there. AWESOME!!!

Jayson..... prepping to make our world famous Toy Story 3 Alien cupcakes. Move over Martha Stewart. We are on to something here!!! So cute and delicious. However a word to the wise...... extremely messy!!! Have a great weekend, my friends.

Part 2

Here are two more of the kiddos. Having fun and being kids. And in this case messing with the camera when she and is supposed to be in the shower. Little sneak.... she is usually the one that minds and never does anything wrong. Too bad for her I have photo evidence she was being naughty!!!! :>


We got season passes for Disneyland this year and I have loved it. I have so much fun at Disneyland. Besides there is something about knowing you can go and experience different things each time. No rushing to hurry and get on all the great rides that everyone else if waiting for. Instead, just knowing you can go back again is awesome. I am seeing parts of Disney I never knew existed. So this particular day we watched a High School Musical street performance. (my older boys love this, odd ) Tanner got picked to go and perform with them. By the look on his face it does it appears he loves Disney as much as I do!!!

So fun!!!! Back tomorrow with the final 2 kiddos!!

Random

We are having so much fun this summer and staying so busy I am doing a horrible job at keeping up with the blog. So today I thought I would just add a couple of random pictures of two of the kids and then add some more tomorrow. This is Nathan. I had made a fudge cake and it was so yummy he wanted to make sure he got all of the chocolate off his plate. Now that is MY SON!!!!

This was Hunter at the dentist. He had an infection under his silver tooth so they had to pull it. He had been numbed up and we were just waiting for the deed to be done. I have to give kudos to that kid. He is one strong little kid. I thought they would have to give him some laughing gas but no. He just sat there and let them work their magic. Gotta love it!!! Made me proud.

Have a great night my friends. More pics tomorrow!!!