The Circus

Who would have thought this is where I would be at this age in my life, at the circus with Cassie and Hannah and our 9 kids! Yes NINE!!! People always ask us if were in a race.

I have survived the first two weeks....

Steeler is now 2 weeks old. It has gone by so fast yet it's been so slow! The first week and a half were pretty rough at night but now that I finally made it to the store to buy the gas drops he has been sleeping much better at night. Burping him is the biggest chore, he will take 10 minutes to eat but then 45 to get a burp out. I'll try to just lay him down without the burp and he will be quite just long enough for me to fall asleep then he will start screaming. So if having a new baby in the house isn't hard enough Kelly has had croup and a fever for the last week. She keeps asking me what time she will be done coughing. Oh and don't worry if that's not enough Kai has an ear infection and is handling not being the baby very well. Just another day in the life of a crazy mom I guess.....

At Kai's 2 year check up
37 inches long, 98%
28lbs, 49%

Kelly just lays around all day and wants to sleep.

Steeler's 2 week check up
21.5 inches long, 81%
9.04lbs, 61%

What we have been doing the last 2 weeks.....

The last two weeks have been a couple of busy ones! Here are some pictures...

I was busy getting really fat! ( And don't try the you were pregnant thing, I took 7th grade health and they didn't mention anything about the baby growing in your arms or thighs!)

We got lots of snow and the kids love it!

Mayzie had a birthday so we went to Kangaroo Zoo.

Tika also had a birthday he is the big 25!

We met Santa and Mrs Clause. Kelly was being such a bum when I took her then when Tika got there she just loved them! She thinks that Santa is Santa and his wife's name is Clause. I keep trying to explain it but I gave up.

Tika's family from Hawaii stayed with us for a couple of weeks over Christmas so needless to say they got WAY to many presents.

I got Kelly a picture book from when we went to Disneyland.

Steeler was born on 12/30/2009. He weighed 8lbs 13oz, 20.5 inches long.

With every kid so far my mom picks up the baby and walks directly over to the curtain to use it as a back drop for her picture.... oh Juli.

Thats the best family picture we could get!

Kai had a birthday! He is now my 2 year old!

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween! This year the kids got to dress up three times. Kelly had a little program at preschool and she did so good! They all memorized 5 or 6 little poem/songs. It was fun to see her at preschool because I always wondered how she acted but she just sat in her chair silent the whole time. On Halloween night we went over to the Fords and she fed us all and we went trick or treating in her neighborhood. I really appreciate how Lisa treats my kids like they are her grandkids too! Then we went out to my Grandma's to eat way to much and visit with family. Whats a holiday without family.... (P.S. Kelly is Fire and and Kai is a Fireman)

So much to talk about.

Well I don't even know where to start! So lets just make it a picture post instead of words! This is what we have been doing lately!

First is Disneyland. Me, Kelly and Kai went to Disneyland for 3 days with D'Laina and her family. The Kids had so much fun! Kelly loves seeing the Princesses but her favorite was the Finding Nemo Ride which of coarse was the 2 longest lines in the park! They also loved riding the horses on the carousel.

The splash park was a nice way to cool down on such a hot day!

They were long exhausting days!

The First time we have been able to get all 7 grand kids in one picture! As you can see it's a challenge!

Kelly loves riding Hallie's bike whenever she can. Kelly just had a Birthday, we celebrated by going to Chuck E Cheese's

We got all 7 grand kids together again and went to the Scera Pool. It was alot of fun and Kelly loves spending time with her Grandma and Grandpa and Tialei.

I don't think Grandma could have got her anything else! This girl was spoiled this year!!!

She loved the crown and jewels from her Aunt Carrie and Russ.

The 4Th of July we went to the Provo Parade in the morning and then home for a BBQ with the family, and a few fireworks. Kelly's Mickey Mouse cake I made her....


Tika had a weird Schedule this week and it turned out he got 5 days off in a row so we weren't sure what to do so we went on a Camping adventure. What an adventure it is with 2 young kids! They did great, they loved the canoe and Kai loved the dirt! The hardest part was sleeping Kai would not go to sleep because we were all in there with him but it turned out fine and we survived!

( I don't know who that fat lady is, she just wanted a picture with Tika :))

We cooked eggs on the fire they turned out pretty good.

This is our Campground all set up. I don't know how we ended up with so much random stuff we just took everything we found. (Not sure why we have 6 chairs set up it was just the 4 of us)

Tika is obsessed with Fishing lately. If he has a spare moment that's what he is doing.

Kelly with her new fishing poll Tika got her for her birthday.

We got the Canoe all fixed and it worked great!
Mom and Wendy came up and joined us for a few hours on Saturday. The kids loved the rides on the four wheelers.



We were ready to go and with no sleep that night and no nap this is what happened about the same time I got it all the way buckled.