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We've had a great almost two weeks since Evie was born. It's so wonderful to have her be part of our family. The kids all love her so much! Diana screams with delight every time she sees her! I typed up her birth story a few days ago, it's not completely detailed, but fairly detailed. So don't read it if you don't want the nitty gritty and please excuse the typos I am sure are in there. I am sure I need to read through it.
Ariana got new glasses and they make her look a lot older.
We're very thankful for our friends and neighbors that have helped us out. My mom and Austin have been wonderful in helping take care of things so I can rest and take care of myself and Evangeline. Austin even made homemade bagels the week he was home! Thank you for all your help!!!!
Now the kids are just excitedly counting down days until school starts. I'm less enthusiastic about it because I lose my helpers, but we've also had enough summer break.
Once again, there's a ton of pictures!
Welcome Evangeline Miki to our family. She was born peacefully at home last night, August 7, at 11:32 pm. She weighs 7 pounds and 9 ounces and is so beautiful. The birth was wonderful and perfect, just like her! We're glad she finally showed up!
Today we got home from a wonderful, but way too short vacation! We went all the way to Salt Lake ! It was so relaxing and a lot of fun. We hung out at the hotel and watched movies and swam a lot. We also went to the Planetarium and Children’s Museum. The kids walked on the moon and Mars and also played with a lot of neat hands on things. We also went to The Aquarium and some of our favorite restaurants. We were even able to go to church and visit with our friends Steve and Kristin and see their new baby Eleanor, she is so cute and makes us even more excited to see our new baby soon. It was hard to decide on just a few pictures so this post has a lot!
Happy Birthday Austin! We love you Daddy! We went out to eat and then came home and had pie and fireworks for Austin’s Birthday. It was so funny how much Cole loved the fireworks. I think he was just as entertaining to watch as the fireworks. Bria and Cole had a great time dancing to the fireworks.
This is the explanation of why this is the first post of the New Year. In December we were a bit shocked to realize we were pregnant! It was a huge surprise, not only because our last two children will be 17.5 months apart, but that we're going to have a fifth child at all. We just found out today that we get to have another GIRL join our family sometime in August!!! Cole is actually very excited. And yeah, we really haven't told anyone. Though I have to laugh when I look in the mirror and see how pregnant I look that only one person has flat out asked me if I was pregnant. Anyway, we're pretty excited and I'm actually still shocked that we're having another child, but I know that Heavenly Father really meant for this little one to come to our family.
Happy Birthday Diana (well on the 23rd)! Today we celebrated Diana's birthday by going to Chuck E Cheese. Yes, it was mostly for the older kids, but they really wanted her to have a fun birthday! She had fun, she liked the rides and the games, but she loved the cake!! I can't believe my baby is one year old already. It is so fun to be Diana's mom she is so happy and full of personality.
Merry Christmas family and friends!
For our friends that live a distance away from us we hope you're getting our Christmas Card soon! For hints with the cheesy crossword (all made by Athena) you can look anywhere on our website including the kid funnies page and our news archive. It's all things that happened this year, so you won't need to go any further back than this year. They were chosen, not because of importance, but that's what I was able to get to fit in the blanks. If you didn't get one it is because I don't have you correct address, so email me. If you are one of our neighbors, I'm sorry we didn't send them out to you. We figure you get enough of us as it is, but we still love you lots! And I'll post a copy on the website.
The kids all had a lot of fun decorating the tree this year. Bria and Cole both wanted to put the star on, so we put the star on twice. I was hoping that Diana would be afraid of the "pokey" tree like Ariana was for a few years when she was little, but no chance, she helped decorate it and has undecorated it several times.
Diana is starting to stand on her own and is into more and more things every day. She still loves to get her picture taken and I almost always get a smile out of her when she sees the camera pointed at her.
Cole will be 3 in a week and I can't believe it. He's as crazy as ever and is really starting to say some rather funny things lately. He can't stand for me to drive without two hand on the wheel all the time. This includes backing up and turning, which is slightly difficult. He often yells at me "Mom two hands, two hands!" as I turn.
Bria's rather expensive jump off Cole's dresser has completely healed. Thanks to lots of family and neighbors that kept her in their prayers and a priesthood blessing. The doctor was really surprise at how much it has healed and doesn't think they'll be a scar at all. He told her "You can tell people 'I just about ripped my lip off and you can't even tell.'" She has a style all her own too, I hope when we go places people realize that some times she has dressed herself.
Ariana is getting too old and too big. I can't believe we've had her for over seven years. She loves decorating for holidays and has made sure we got all our decorations up early. She helped a lot with our Thankful Turkey for Thanksgiving too. Poor girl is gone so much we don't get as many pictures of her anymore.
This is a funny one that I forgot to mention a couple weeks ago. Maybe it belongs under kid funnies. I picked Ariana up from school and she was (as is too often after school) chopping away on a sucker. All of a sudden she yells out "Mom, I think I just swallowed my tooth." I turn around and there's a bit of blood on her chin and she's missing a tooth. I still can't help, but laugh. A couple days later she found a note under her pillow with a dollar. The which was from the Tooth Fairy reminded her to take care of her teeth and eat carefully and not too much sugar. She said that this dollar was a freebie, but she wouldn't be doing it again for swallowed teeth. Poor tooth fairy probably had to go toilet diving for that one I guess. I'm glad I'm not the tooth fairy! Too funny!!
We had a great Thanksgiving!
We had our first annual Turkey Trot 5K in the morning. We had between a doz and two dozen people run it with us. Hopefully next year is even better. I wanted to take pictures, but forgot about it until just about everyone had gone home, so we only got a few.
This year Thanksgiving was at our house. We ended up having about 30 people. In the morning my sisters stayed after the run and played with the kids. They did Thanksgiving crafts and even a thanksgiving play. It was really nice so Austin and I could cook without having too much of an interruption.
It was a really fun dinner with lots of family and good food. We all had a lot of fun. Here's our favorite pics!
I don't know if many friend read this too often, but we want to invite everyone to our Turkey Trot Thanksgiving morning(tomorrow)! It's going to be a new tradition for us! It's at 8:30 am we're doing a 5K walk or run. The more the merrier!! We'll have drinks and fruit after. Email me if you don't have our address!