Smiley Kylee

2 month check up (at 9 weeks) 11lbs 2 oz
All smiles
(so is her mom, she started sleeping 10 hours!)

Siblings? Kylee definitely has her own look, but she sure does have some of her brother/father's features!

It's been a while

Yes, it has been awhile. I must say that having three kids, (3 and under I might add, all of which are at home with me all day)and keeping the three kids entertained all day, trying to keep up on the house work, going to school, trying to loose weight, cooking meals and doing homework, really fill up my plate everyday. It may sound like complaining, but I am not. This is how a choose my life, and it may be crazy busy day in and out but I love it. I just have to put other things such as blogging on the back burner. I think of things all the time that I would love to blog about..... in the shower, which is my only quiet time.(lol, as I am reading this I am laughing because the kids are usually pounding on the door to my bedroom the entire time I am in the shower!) Needless to say the computer is not in the shower with me, so you won't get to read all that I think about. Which may be a good thing ;)

Kylee has been such an asset to our family! Oh she is my sweetie! I bonded with her faster than my other kids because of her loving heart. She put me through heck and back during pregnancy, oh how happy I am to not be pregnant. My little girl was so worth it. Even from the start this girl would mostly do 3 hours between feedings and at 5 weeks she did 8. She is now 8 weeks (I swear time goes ten times faster with each kids) and constantly sleeps 8-9 hours at night. Not as good as her sister that was doing 12hours by this time, but I will take it. She is incredibly easy to read. She is very good at communicating with her cry's what she needs. I prep Hayden all about babies and how much they cry. Kylee did not live up to my expectations(at least not yet) she is a very calm baby. Maybe because she has a lot of people entertaining her all the time. She is a spitting image of Hayden as a baby, but as she grows older she is taking on a look of her own.

The first few weeks of recover for me was difficult. I am so thankful to have my Mother in law and sister in law come out and help with Hayden and Hadley especially over the holidays. Cindy took excellent care of my family. She is wonder woman, and would let me sleep while she took care of the house or dinner. We even got out a couple time, a couple times my body had to stay home, so Kylee and I stayed home while everyone was out partying. Of course I took hardly any pictures, even though Hadley had her 2nd birthday and we celebrated Christmas. It was sad to see them go, luckily a few weeks later my mom and my sister flew in to help. My sister Colleen actually did take pictures which I stole from her. She helped out a lot with the kids, and the kids were in love with Aunt Keen. I caught Hadley calling her mommy a couple times. We were able to take my mom and Keen out and about. It was Keens first time in Florida, and I felt bad that even though it was in the low 70's it was the coldest it had been in a while. But we still hit up the beach. Well enough chit chat, here are the pictures. You ready for this? Jamie keeps bugging me for pictures so I figure next week when she has her baby I will be the one begging for pictures, so I need to make her happy!

This was Hayden and Hadley meeting their new sister Kylee. Hayden only cared that his sister brought him a new car. Haldey was very imtimated. She wouldn't even sit with me at first. But she soon warmed up and now she will not leave "baby Kyee" alone. One day I will have to post my labor story. Worst Labor yet, and Dan has a little something he would like to share also.... if you can get it out of him ;)

Marco Island collecting seashells. Not Kylee's first trip to the beach. She made it to the beach with Grandma and the fam before she was even a week old!

Shark Valley where Keen played mom. Can you see how close we are to the alligators? There were tons of them!

Mom and Keen. Mom is practicing her moves for her Broadway tryout. (magic hands)

Keen may look like a skinny little woose, but her and Hayden got right up there with the gators.

The boat ride.... who knows what going on with keens face.

There's my baby girl!

There's my baby girl mauling my other baby girl. Yes, I have caught Hadley picking up her baby sister and I my heart stopped and I leaped across the kitchen to the living room to grab her. (We have title floors!)

Hadley showing off her birthday dolly Belle. It was her favorite for about 4 days until Aunt Jamie had to show me up with her baby for real dolly she gave Hadley for Christmas, which now can be spotted in pretty much every activity in the house.

Our project and Home depot where the kids made banks. Hayden was pretty into building it and getting all the spots painted.

Hadley was just obsessed with coloring it.

My little princess, can you see her storks bite on her forehead? She is just so unique. You can't see it in this pic but she also has a crazy baby toe that folds over her next toe.






Don't know why I can't write under Hadley, but she is my beach babe!
Not that these two young 18 year old woman aren't babes! We hit up my favorite beach and it was swarming in jellyfish so we couldn't get in the water, we just took sticks and poked the jelly fish that had washed up on the sand.

Had to add another of Kylee, so innocent.

she will never turn into a crazy two year old girl right???

I believe this one is the work of Hayden's new interest in photography.

My Justin Beiber. (sp) Actually my Justin is no more..... keep on looking

All the girls.

Dad waited a little to long to rake the leaves, so mom had to step in, which means FUN is involved!

A strawberry farm we visited. Mostly to eat strawberry shakes. Kids waiting patiently as mom is feeding Kylee in the car.

Hayden on the hunt to find the perfect strawberry to pick. He got a little impatient and in love with having scissors and would pick anything that looked good.

Miss Hadley that would take the scissors and STAB the strawberry!!! Lol, she knows what she wants.

Downing our shake. It was DElish.

Hadley showing off her sister. No I am not on drugs.

Hayden's knew dew. It was time. He's hair was too long. This picture only lasted one day and than I wacked it even more. It is short, he looks a lot older. Even though I wasn't to sad to see it go this time, I think we will grow it out again.

Yes even out of focus she is adorable.

Her eyes are hypothesizing you! I am a princess, I am a princess!

Another Pic by Hayden. My cutie, firecraker! We started potty training this week. Apparently M&M's weren't doing it for her. As soon as mom offered gum as a potty reward, things have been a lot better.

Just thought this was silly looking. She doesn't quiet fit into all her three month clothes yet, but momma still tries!

Well Jam, I hope you are happy. I now have NO homework done, Dan is on way home and I have no dinner on the table and I still don't have time to go through and prof read my post! Take what you can get!

Introducting..........

Kylee Alexis born 12/14/11 @ 6lbs 7 oz and 19 inches.

So lets start with Thanksgiving. Oh what a good night. We had a special dinner with a couple families at a friends home. We were totally overloaded with good food and crazy kids. It was actually a really relaxed night and I enjoyed myself quite well. After ward all the girls decided to hit up the black Friday sales! That was a story in its own. We pretty much all got what we wanted but waited in line to check out for an hour and a half. Even one than ditched out and me and Amy went hard core and hit up Target and Walmart together. We were a little bit smarter about the line at target and it worked out great. Fun night!

Our family has had the camping bug lately. We have a had blast packing up the tent and the marshmallows and hitting the big out doors.

We couldn't find any camp sites on the beach but we were close enough.

The second time we went we hit up the rain. We spent most of the time hanging out in the back of cars, but the kids had an absolute blast. Soaking wet running from car to car. I was grateful that we had good company and fun story tellers when we could finally sit around the camp fire.

This was our camping spot, in case you were wondering what it looks like camping in Florida.

One day we rented canoes. Dan and I were quite the team. We kept running into people and looked like a bunch of goof balls. Poor Dan, he keep telling me which way to paddle, but my slow pregnancy reflexes and big belly to get around didn't help my paddling skills. Pretty much we were just laughing at ourselves the whole time, while the other families looked like total pros!

Kiddos chugging yogurt before church! My little man is going to be in primary soon! He is having mixed feelings, but I think he will really like it.

We hit up this park over the weekend up north and it was a total blast for the kids. They had a robot exhibit, and a fun little area for the little ones and a outdoor play ground. Our kids went wild and loved it.

Hads was a little bit over obsessed with RTD2(is that his name?) She would laugh like crazy and run around him.

Hayden played with all the robot controls. You could control an arm and have it pick up blocks, or drive a car and all sorts of cool stuff.

Just my little sweety with her acquired pig tails, ready with her "black shoes" for church.//////

M&M's

What a blast! Halloween was such fun this year! We took the kiddos to a pumpkin patch and let them roam around for a while and play all over the pumpkins, which we never purchased! I thought pumpkin patch pumpkins are suppose to be cheaper than the store? Apparently not here. $14 bucks for a squash, no thank you! But we had fun just chillin.

Just some random photos of the kids goofing around.


We got our non pumpkin patch pumpkins, Haldey was more than ecstatic. Both kids were going nuts picking every pumpkin they could get there hands on and trying to put them in the grocery cart. After we got them home, Hads was pretty much making out with them the first half hour they were home.

My mom growing up did such a great job at making the holidays special for us. I loved it, it made so great memories. I wanted to try a little magic potion like mom did for us. We mixed up some Kool-Aid, and hit up the dry ice store. Hadley picked a purple potion and Hayden did red.

The kids helped me make some jello with eye balls and worms in it. We also made "mummy dogs" hot dogs wrapped in stripped crescent rolls. It was super simple and they had a blast putting it together and their buddies that came over thought it was pretty cool. Hadley totally freaked out when the magic potion starting bubbling, but when it came close to her she flipped and started screaming "Hot, Hot!" Hilarious. Funny thing is... my kids(and I think most of their friends) have never had Kool-Aid before and only had jello a couple times. So pretty much no one ate or drank anything besides the hot dogs! But the reaction from the kiddos was priceless. By the end of the night the dry ice had carbonated the Kool-Aid and Dan and I were downing the grape potion because it tasted like a divine grape soda! So good!

Hayden wanted to be Frankenstein at story time. I must say he pulled it off pretty well!

On to the trick or treating. Hayden got the option of being an M&M or an M&M. I am was not feeling motivated to go all out this year with costumes, but they were more than happy to dress up as candy. They got to go to the store and pick out there favorite colors. And even though these costumes were beyond easy, I think they turned out just fine!

We went to a big strip mall and hit up the trick or treating. Both did a great job and made out with plenty of loot. They also had a fire truck to check out, so the kiddos blast driving and playing around.

My mischief maker!

Kiddos with their buddies. Later that night we had the ward trunk or treat. Which got rained out and we headed indoors. Can I just say that people are so talented! So many moms made awesome costumes for their kids, and they were so creative! We were surrounded by cute kids all day!

The weather is so warm here you have to wait to carve your pumpkin or it will go bad with in a day or two. Hayden and Hadley picked out Mickey and Minnie for their pumpkins. Hayden was interested for a while, Hadley was a little too interested! Mom and Dad did most of the work.

I think we carved pumpkins in record time this year! Dan was very proud of his Mickey, I claim he has an unfair advantage of a steady hand and many years of dental work under his wing. My Minnie was okay, but you can tell I don't have the skills of a pumpkin carving master!

On actual Halloween we have a few more activities, but I have class at night so we probably won't do too much.