WE HAD A BLAST IN CALIFORNIA! PICS COMING SOON! 

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

So I have to blog about the BEST mothers day i have ever had! 

Although it would be nice if  mothers day could  be on any other day than sunday so it would feel a little more relaxing, but matt made it sooo awesome! 

He woke up at 6:30 (normally it is 8) and made the kids breakfast then of course me too! all the kids came in and were each carrying something for me. This is one of the reasons i LOVE having so many children! it is so fun to have so many people loving and depending on you! 

  Matt took the kids the day before to the dollar store and let them pic out whatever they wanted for me! let me just tell ya...I LOVE THE DOLLAR STORE, so many GREAT deals lol! 

it brought back memories for when i would buy my mom these cute little ceramic figurines to put on her dresser and how they would end up in my room haha! 

anyway i got a few of those, a pizza cutter from parker and of course a stuffed animal from haven:) i LOVED it! 

then matthew whipped out something for me that is my mothers day/birthday/anniversary present...a quad with my REAL name on it! I am soo thrilled to finally have some scriptures with Ballard on it and not Sorensen. 

anyway we were actually 10 minutes early to our 9am church!! woot woot thanks honey!! 

we came home and I  just sat down and was given lunch, did not have to feed the kids and was able to take a nap then of course wake up to some baked potatoes and grilled chicken!

It was the BEST day ever! I really felt like my whole family really did appreciate all that i do....It was enough to fuel me for 1 more year!! 

My little beautician, Aubrey

So this is what you get when you leave a 4 year old alone for 30 minutes!! LOL! Aubrey even cut the little lambs hair you see in the picture too!  
At least this one was left some pigtails!
This is what aubs got for christmas and it had the longest curliest Belle hair:(
Sorry Jessica this was your doll that rode on a skateboard:(   I guess thats what happens when you leave toys at my house!
AND last but NOT least my doll that I got from Santa when I was 9 years old! man it made it almost 19 years!! dang she was so cute:)

Parker came home with his first sour war head so i had to video it! HAHA!

The Incredible Edible Rice Crispie Egg!

My sister saw this rice crispie recipe on t.v and wanted to try it out. So she brought her kids over to my house and we decided to try it...and let me just tell ya they are AWESOME! We used white chocolate and butterscotch instead of regular chocolate. I dipped them then gave them to the kids to roll in sprinkles they had a blast making them AND eating them:)

Here are the kids patiently waiting to start! 

                                                                           Don't these look DELICIOUS!!

Sleep-over!

Dont you just LOVE LOVE LOVE little boys!! Parker had a sleep over with his cousin Joe for the first time and they had a BLAST!! They played with legos for hours! they built some pretty cool stuff :).  It drove sammantha CRAZY that she was not the one having the sleep over. its funny how much girls can wine FOORREEVVEERR! haha
I wanted to make pancakes but Mr.Joe REALLY wanted fruit loops LOL! so we had cereal yet again:) I love these boys! 

I officially feel old....WHY.... you might ask???? well to start I have never I mean NEVER been this sick with ANY of my pregnancies! I have always been able to work full time while being prego, I can barely do 10 hours now! I have NO energy, not even to decorate for the holidays(and for anyone that knows me that is crazy!) I have always been able to work out if i want and eat WHATEVER i wantwhile I am prego, but OH NO not now! for those people that start having babies at 30 you ROCK! seriously!! 

  I have never had a miscarriage either and last night was the first scare of one! I was totally cramping all night and thinking that this is how it starts but by morning no blood just aches. I went to the doctor to hear the heartbeat. She could not find it so she whipped out her handy ultrasound on wheels and found the baby just beboppin around heartbeat was great! 

   I have never really thought much about what I would do if I lost a baby by miscarriage, but it REALLY hit me! HARD! I am thankful to my Heavenly Father for the children that I do have and the opportunities to teach children in our ward as well! It is such a precious fragile gift that we can ever receive! 

  I hope that this baby comes to us full term, but if not I do know that I would be able to raise it in the millennium! 

( I have started this AWESOME medicine for my nausea and the doctor said if the cramping happens again take some Tylenol or a hot bath, so we are still good:)

I hope everyone is having a HAPPY SPRING!!