Diapercake

Im not sure if I have ever posted on here some of the different diaper cakes I have made, but here is my latest one.... I decided to do a hairbow cake instead of toys and knickknacks on it....I think it turned out sooooo flippen cute!! And my friend LOVED it!
Anyway I just found all the hairclip bows at walmart and then the flowers on top are headband bows. I then had a bag of pink confetti stuff downstairs that I threw on it to give it some pizazz! This picture definitely does not do it justice! And of course here is a picture of Izzy and I.

Baby

Today I had my first "check" check up with my O.B....blee! The good news was that the baby turned on its own so its finally head down! YEAH! (my prayers were answered!) The bad news (for me) I am only dilated to a 1plus..and only 55% effaced..what the!! I am always at least a 3 and 70% by now!! I just think this baby wants to see how fat I can get haha!!I scheduled my induction for Feb 5th so at least I will be 1 week early...I dont have as much FMLA at work to use so I have to be induced and it would be nice to not have matt miss any school or work for the birth. Anyway I am really excited to meet our little one soon! woot!! and of course excited to not have swollen legs, feet and face! This age thing is really taking a toll on me! I do NOT see how woman can have babies in their fortys! NO WAY!! My kids are all getting REALLY excited to find out what we are having! Parker just KNOWS its a girl..(poor guy has stopped hoping for a brother) and all the girls just KNOW its a boy!! haha! it will be so fun to see!
Isabelle had her ear surgery yesterday and did sooo well!! I couldnt believe it! ALL my girls when they have woken up from surgery just cry...but NOT izzy! The nurses couldnt believe how good she was...all until we were about to leave and I had to put the hospital toy down that she had been playing with. Then the screaming and craziness began!! Oh man I have never seen her so out of control...I felt so bad! :( ...she bit Matt on the face on the way out of the hospital and drew blood...she scratched him and was just screaming...It was for sure the anesthesia that was making her act this way...on the way home she screamed at the top of her lungs, bit herself 4 times and was spitting (seemed like foaming at the mouth) and trying to get out of her carseat...It was the longest drive home ever!! Once we got home she immediately calmed down when we got her a sippy cup of milk and has been AWESOME ever since!! Phew!!

Journal Jars

So my awesome Mother In Law has started something new with my children this past week..She bought them each a binder filled with some lined paper, a cool mechanical pencil and a little container filled with little strips of paper with a question on them. What some of you call a journal jar most of you have probably done something like this as a kid or even a family night lesson. Anyway, she told them that she wants them to glue the question on the top of a page and then fill the whole sheet of paper with the answer to that question! They can add pictures if they want on the back side of the page too.. When they are done with the questions then they get to call her and come over to refill their jars and get more paper to fill out..AND they get to pick from this jar that has different things they get to do with Grandma, like go out for an icecream or have a sleep over or a simple grandma treat!! HOW FUN is that! And then what she is going to do with the papers they fill out is put them in a separate binder and give that to the kids as a wedding gift!!! How Awesome!! I personally think its WAY to much work, but she is really into family history stuff and wants us to all preserve our memories! And Im thinking it will get the kids into the habit of keeping a journal.
So of course we came home and it only took the kids 1 whole day to fill out each one of their questions lol! they LOVE doing things with Grandma so of course they are going to fill out as many as they can haha! I told her she should probably just let them pick out of her jar maybe once a week! she is CRAZY! So she will be coming over to our house tomorrow to refill the kids questions..they are stoked! I will have to try to get some pictures of them and post...I think its a great idea and I think it will be sooo fun to get a big book of stories that you wrote when you were a kid to share with your own children! Im very surprised at how much each one of them wrote! It was fun for me to read them too to get to know my kids more! Love ya mom!

Shout out to the Husband

I also want to update on how my fabulous Husband is doing with school..
He has recently decided to apply for the Pharmacy program at the UofU (gag I know, but if Byu had a program we would go there!) anyway that means 1 more year to add on of prereq classes and then of course it is a 4 year program instead of the 3 year that we were going to go to...so all in all he will have about 6 more years of school before he graduates...yeah...right...
He is doing AMAZING though,,,,he some how manages to get A's and B's in all his classes, take care of 5 kids (soon 6) while he is doing homework (while I am at work), works at the pharmacy and is the Young Mens President in our ward...he is truly amazing! I am so proud of him and thankful for him!
He has recently started working more at the pharmacy as well so I can cut my hours back at work to just 30 a week..it has been real hard to do the full time thing with this pregnancy and all the other household responsibilities and the kids...So again what an amazing guy! Thanks sweety!
At the end of every semester we have been taking the kids to a resturant to celebrate Matts progress! This last semester we took them to Ihop,So fun! The kids love it and I think its really good for them to see how important we think school is. Hopefully each one of them will go to college right out of Highschool!...

More ear troubles

I think it would be fair to now say that there is something WRONG with my girls ears...Isabelle is scheduled to go into surgery for ear tubes this Monday the 16th...I was hoping I would be in the clear with her but of course she had to start getting ear infections the month she turned 2! ugh! So if this next baby comes out a girl it will be real interesting to see if she will need tubes too haha!
Sammantha got tubes when she was 6 months old, Aubrey got them at 6 months and 2 years and Haven got them at almost 3 years old...and of course my ONLY son has never had an ear infection haha! Dang explain that one to me please! Anyway, I am really excited to have Big baby get them cause she has been so unhappy since October...
I am getting really excited to meet our new little one...it has only takin me 8 months to finally get super excited! My little sister Jessica had her baby a few weeks ago and I think that just REALLY made me baby hungry, and not just any baby hungry but hungry for a baby boy...her little guy is sooo stinkin CUTE!! oh AND my sister in law had a little boy a couple months ago too! DANG I sure hope I get another little man! wouldnt that be so fun to see what another boy would look like in my family! :) ...And it would be soo nice for Parker to have a brother..even though they will be almost 9 years apart lol....anyway im not holding my breath though cause im sure Heavenly Father is going to give me another girl...This pregnancy has been quit the roller coaster! I was soooo super sick for about 6 weeks at the beginning and now I am so large that I feel like my whole body is going to break...I am so glad this will be my last pregnancy! I am super thrilled that I have my 6 kids before I turn 31!~ the goal was to be done at 30 woot!!! I feel so blessed to have all my kids in my life! Each one has such a unique spirit and brings so many different things into my family, I couldnt imagine life without them!