May???

I can't believe it's already May. The days are getting longer, the weather is getting warmer and it just seems to feel better. I love the summer. I can't wait for it to be nice all the time. This time of year is so hectic though, school is going to be out soon and the kids have tons of time consuming homework. I just want to be done with it all. I'm so tired of school projects, homework, lunches and remembering to sign 10,000 papers every day.



Kyler is so excited for 7th grade... me not so much. Sometimes I can't wait for them to grow up and then I think of all the things that come with growing up and I just want them to stay little forever.



Sam is 16 months and a big trouble maker. For months he kept talking about bob oh. We've been trying to figure out who this Bob Oh was. Then one day I kept telling him he was going to be in big trouble... he said bob oh. So now we know one of his first words was "trouble".

I wanted to get Sam a little bike that he could scoot around with his feet. I couldn't find anything except this stupid car, that he LOVES. This was the hardest and most annoying toy I have ever put together. I think that says a lot after putting stupid toys together for the past 12 years.Katie and Abbi, being good children/sisters, entertaining Sammy and Kaisey.
I had to take this picture fast, so it's kind of fuzzy. It was so cute that they were holding hands. Sam likes it when he hears Kaisey. He always looks for her. I think he enjoys her company.

This is Sam eating his first ice cream cone all by himself. He thought it was so yummy. He kept saying mmmmmm. I think he just liked it because he got to hold it.

We had a nice Mother's Day. My mom and I got a bunch of outside projects going. Myke got to actually do the projects... under the deck and planting trees. It was a very productive day for him. My brothers and sister came over to hang out with my mom, that was nice of them, she had a really nice day because of that. I actually mowed the lawn the other day. That totally sucked, but it was probably because it hadn't been mowed in three weeks. I think next time it will be way easier. I never thought my yard was that big until I had to mow it. I did it in sections, and kept thinking to myself... what if my yard was only this big, that would be way easy to mow.

Our bathroom is finally getting done. I'm so excited. I think it will end up being the coolest room in the house. I put Myke on a schedule to get all of our ridiculous do it yourself projects done by the middle of July. I can't have my house looking all crazy and out of control when my super cool friend comes to visit from Vermont. She can't know how we really live. (he he just kidding Nicole) I am so excited to see her. I haven't seen her since Jonas was a baby. We are all looking forward to seeing her and her family again.

This post kind of sounds like a random journal entry.

Oh Yeah... Easter

So... Easter was a couple of weeks ago. I have had no uninterrupted time until today. I love Easter. It is one of my favorite holidays, mostly because there are never any expectations. It seems to be a little different every year and nobody tends to mind. This year we had our usual Easter morning... Peeps for breakfast. Not really but that's the first thing they ate as usual. We were hosting the Easter lunch at our house, so in order to keep the house from smelling like breakfast pork, I came up with the best idea for Easter breakfast... McDonald's. They were totally open on Easter. IT WAS AWESOME! and the easiest clean up ever!

This is Katie... she walked from her room, to the couch, grabbed the peeps, and ate away.
Here is Sammy... realizing the eggs have stuff inside them. How cool is that? He got a big blue bouncy ball. Baby's are so easy to please.

Kyler... probably thinking the whole Easter thing is lame, but participating anyway.
And little Jonas... he was so excited. He was very determined to find all the Easter eggs, especially the camouflaged eggs, because those are the ones with the money in them. (Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me, I totally forgot about that)
This is all the kids... Jackson, Jonas, Parker Kade, Tim, Sam, Katie, Izabel, Eliza, and KylerSam was so cute trying to find the eggs. After he found them, he would dump them out, walk away and then go back and put them in his basket. It was a never ending Easter egg hunt for him.

It was a good Easter. Everyone came (well except for Steph) even Grandma. It was a fun day. We also got some exciting news that my little brother Patrick and his girlfriend Jackie are expecting a baby. A little surprising but very exciting. We can always use another cousin.

Baby Bum Crack

The cutest baby bum crack ever. It was such a nice day... that ONE day... nice enough for a bum crack... and a cracker

Jonas' Birthday

Happy Birthday to Jonas! Jonas turned 7 a couple of weeks ago, I've been a little slow at the blogging thing lately.
He loved his present he got from Grandma... a 50 dollar bill. He thought it was the coolest thing ever!

He had lots of fun at his Mario-Dinosaur party? All his cousins came and his super favorite friends Alex, Kaleb, Gracie (his little girlfriend, he adores), Faith and Austin. Kids at birthdays are the cutest. I love their excitement.
We opted for ice cream cakes from Baskin Robbins this year, to save me the work. A dinosaur cake for Jonas and a Grasshopper Pie for St. Patrick's Day. They were both super tasty.
I got the best present ever.... getting my STUPID braces off. I was so excited. It was the best. I probably should have left them on a little longer but it was so good getting them off. Besides who needs super straight teeth anyway? Okay straight teeth will work for me.

Jonas Gabe

Where to start....?

There are so many things to say about Jonas. AKA: Jonsie, Bones, Donut, Jonsie a Bonsie, Jonah (to people who just don't understand) and my personal favorite... my little smoochy poochy.

Jonas Gabe was born on my 26th birthday. March 17, 2002. He was the best birthday present I ever got. He was my biggest baby, weighing a whopping 7lbs 10oz. And the light of my life. To me Jonas was my last baby (I guess fate had something else in mind) I wasn't even suppose to be able to get pregnant again after having an ectopic pregnancy that almost did me in. He was some kind of miracle baby, my doctor told me... little did she know... I got an extra miracle out of the deal.

Before Jonas was born we knew he suppose to be with us. He made himself known. There's a little spooky story and it goes like this... My sister was at my house with her two kids, Jackson who was about 2 1/2 and Eliza who was still a little baby. Kyler was 4 and Katie was 3. My sister was getting her kids ready to go and she said Kyler was in his room playing. I said, "no he's not, he's outside." She said she just saw a little boy wearing a red shirt playing in Kyler's room, but none of the kids were wearing a red shirt or playing in Kyler's room. Later that day I had put my kids to bed. My mom came over and we were sitting on the front porch talking. She said,"Kyler's awake, I just saw him run into the front room." I said, "No he isn't, he's already asleep." She said," yeah he is, he's wearing a red shirt." He wasn't wearing a red shirt and he was still asleep. It was so spooky but so cool. I know it was Jonas visiting us.

The morning I had Jonas I woke up to a little pop. It was my water breaking. I totally felt it. It was 8:00 a.m. exactly on a Sunday. I went to tell Myke and my mom (for some strange reason I made my mom stay the night that night) and it had snowed a ton. Myke hurried and took a shower and I actually went into real labor (all the rest were induced). We lived in Sandy at the time and it being Sunday the roads were not plowed at all. We had to get all the way to the University hospital without dying on the way. That was the scariest drive of my life. When we finally got to the hospital I was dilated to a 4. We had Jonas at 12:28 p.m. 4 1/2 hours after my water broke.

Jonas? If you don't know where we got that name and you're guessing from the Weezer song "My Name is Jonas".... your right. Myke and I both loved that name from that song. He was always Jonas from the second I found out I was having a boy.

Gabe??? His middle name. This is the only name I have a hard time with... still. Myke liked the name Gabriel. To me, it was a scary name. I liked Kaleb, but Myke would not agree. I also liked Gage but it reminded my of the little boy on Pet Cemetery, so that kind of scared me too. So we settled on Gabe? Oh well, one name out of eight isn't bad.

Jonas is a very special boy to me. I think I understand him the most out of all my kids. I think we have a special connection. He's my Pisces baby (and everyone knows about the special place in my heart for fellow pisceans). Jonas has a very tender heart. He is often shy and doesn't like people to see him cry. Everything has to be a certain way, and he likes to do things the way they're suppose to be done. He doesn't want to stand out or draw attention to himself and he likes to get things right the first time. He is a super great kid. I can't believe he is already turning 7. When Kyler turned 7 I thought he was so old, but now I think 7 is still so little.

Jonas said the funniest thing a few months ago... "mom, why don't people give me money for my birthday? They give Kyler money." I said, "It's probably because Kyler is older and people don't know what to get older kids, but when you're younger people just assume you want toys and stuff." He said,"Well, if people gave me money I could just buy what ever I wanted." "Yeah, I guess. Why don't you just ask for money than?" I told him. He said he was going to ask people for $5.00. That would be a good present. I thought it was so funny. But when I asked him what he wanted for his birthday the other day, he said he wanted a video game and a Sponge Bob movie and a gift card to Target to get another video game that comes out after his birthday. He didn't want me to give him money. (Isn't a gift card the same thing?)

Anyway, we are looking forward to Jonas' seventh birthday and my 28th birthday. he he

p.s. I wanted to put the slide show as the first post, but it didn't work out. So all Jonas' baby pictures are before this one.

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Samuel's update

Sam is pretty much walking around these days. He falls a lot but it doesn't stop him. He has the cutest little smile. I love it!
Today he wanted to play this strange game called "put all the bibs on?" He really wanted me to keep putting them on him. So of course I did. I took a ton of pictures, but I'll just post two.

This is what Sammy looks like when he wants me to pick him up and I don't do it right that second. He can go from smiling to screaming in less than one second.
I think his crying pictures are funny. Myke thinks it's mean that I let him cry, take his picture and then laugh at it later.
He's also going through a phase where he doesn't like to be in his highchair. But he sure does look cute when he's eating.

O.k. this is my favorite face he makes. He gets this little distressed look on his face and says,"Ooooooooh". He's not really mad, he's just pretending. Sooooo funny!
This kid is so funny. I love to watch him. Everyone thinks he looks like Jonas the most, but I think he looks like Katie with blond hair. The first picture looks a lot like Kyler though. He is super cute and cracks me up almost all day... well except for when he's driving me crazy. He misses his brothers and sister so much during the day. He gets so bored with me. He is so excited to see them when they come home from school. Sometimes he yells, starts bouncing up and down and attacks them with lovies and kisses when they walk in the door. It's adorable.