born again blogger :)

ok, so it's been a month since I have posted any pictures. Yikes! I finally got my computer back and running, much thanks to my wonderful friend Jeff Knight!!! Ok, here is our complete month of November... Keagan lost his first (supposed to come out) tooth a day or two after Halloween. He was super excited for the tooth fairy to visit him again and couldn't wait to get more "cash." (that isn't blood on his hand, it is marker in case you were wondering... gross)

Colby had a big old birthday bash at his new house and the boys were very excited to go. Keagan told me that Colby had finally earned his way up to being a best friend by inviting him to his birthday. Oh how lucky Colby is :)

my men after church. I love Casen's pleasently plump expression.

Kaiden must ask me to hold Casen about 100 times a day. This is both frustrating and wonderful. He definitely loves his little brother!!

Kaitie had her 8th birthday party at Classic. Oh let me tell you, we had some fun!! We went in the middle of the week and had the entire place to ourselves. Lori and I rocked the rink!! Adam and Megan stopped by to wish Kaitie a happy birthday too.

My little mini man

This is my newest niece Julia. She belongs to Stephanie and Brandon. When I found out I was having my 4th boy and she was expecting her 3rd girl, I told her we could work out a swap.

My cute little buddies fast asleep. I love it when they play nice!

Camden and Addie are special children!! Their minds think unlike most children's! On this most special day at Lori's house Addie painted Cam's face twice with Lip Gloss, Camden dumped out an entire bottle of Caladryl lotion, a whole bottle of Ajax, and half a bottle of goo gone. Yea, so fun!! Doesn't he look so pretty!

After all the fun that I have with my creative children, I was read for a break. Heather, Lisa, Summer, Stacie, and I went to Park City for the weekend for some girl time. Casen came too, but he was really good and it was so nice to just be able to have some one on one time with the little guy. We missed Janet, but I understand that Twilight weekend was also important :)

Me and Stac chillin on the couch

How can you not build a tower of phone books and purses and take a picture on this cool stair way?? Yikes!

On the 15th my sisters and some very special friends had the oh so special opportunity to see New Kids on the Block. Ok, I know it sounds lame, but seriously it was like going back to your favorite childhood playground and reliving the fun!! I had a total blast!!! It was such a fun night!


The crowd was insane!! I can't say I had very high expectations for the show, but they sounded great and it was probably one of the most fun shows I have ever been to.
Rachel and Lori

Janet and me. I had to temporarily rock the side pony tail. So hot right?? Jordan K, I'm with you all the way!!! (Ha ha!! Love you forever Janet!)

I found this larger than life button on one of the seats behind us. We couldn't resist a picture with it. Janet, Lori, Me, Rachel, MaKell, and Christy. Thank you ladies for an unforgetable evening!! (ps, if anyone feels the urge to check out their new cd, I strongly urge you to skip the track entitled "Grown Man" that is only if you don't like throwing up in your nose!!)

We had the family over to watch the very sad and dissappointing BYU vs U of U game (the one where Hall thought he was on the red team). Camden so proficiently displayed his ability to open soup cans. I think the final total of cans was 15. Wow! We have been eating a lot of Cream of Chicken soup around here lately! Once again, so special!

During the game it got too quiet, I went looking for the kids and found them in Grandma's laundry room having a puppet show. It was hilarious!

All of my boys!! I am one lucky mom!

This is Keagan the pilgrim. Oh so handsome! I am loving that collar!

Every year we go to breakfast on Thanksgiving day. My dad started taking just the kids when we were little so that my mom could get all the food organized. He used to take us to this little restaurante and buy us gabage pail kid cards. So cool! As we got a little older and could help my mom more, she started coming too. We always go to the same place and always take a family picture after breakfast. It is so fun to see how much the family has grown.

The wild ones

Keags and Ethan enjoying their hot chocolate, a Thanksgiving day must!

After breakfast we headed over to Kelly's parent's house for the rest of the day. This is Cam getting a head start on dinner. Yummy Jell-o from Auntie Diana

This is Kelly's brother Chris and his new wife Connie. They just got married the day before Thanksgiving. She is super wonderful and I am so happy to have her as a sister-in-law!

Casen, Keagan, and Piper

I walked Keagan out to the bus stop the other day and came back in the house and found Kaid reading a story to Cam. I love to see my boys being sweet to eachother!!! I had to take a picture

Keagan and Kaiden were playing together the other day when Kaid said, "Mom, Keagan's tooth just fell out!" Ok, that was easy enough! Now he has three beautiful gaps in his mouth! I am so excited for some of them to start filling in! It's cute to see my toothless wonder. Keagan was SO excited when the tooth fairy brought him five quarters instead of one dollar bill. He thought he was so loaded! It's fun when they don't really understand the concept of counting money.

The other night we were watching the Polar Express and all the boys piled on Kelly to see the show. It is crazy to think that all these guys belong to me! I am one lucky girl!

Kelly went to check on the boys in bed last week just to make sure they were warm, but he couldn't find Kaiden. He looked all over and finally started to get nervous and started calling his name. Finally noticed that the closet door was open a little so he went in and this is what he found. That shelf that he is so soundly asleep on is about 4 ft. off the ground. When I asked him about the next day he said that he climbed up and read a story to himself and fell asleep. Of course, why not? Kelly quickly carried him back to bed. So funny!! (Sometimes I actually clean this closet, and sometimes it actually stays clean for 5 minutes, but not very often).

Lori and I took the kids to the gingerbread house on Friday. I couldn't believe this house, it was huge! They said it took over 40 hours to make it. It was completly decorated inside and out! Wow!

Keagan really liked this gingerbread house. This is my kind of house!

After we looked at all the houses, we had to decorate some gingerbread men. I love Addie's super cute cheese-a-rific smile.