we have been busy

We have been busy this summer, we had a family reunion, at bear Lake, with my dads siblings,

these are all my siblings kids... mine are the cute ones...

we then went to washington for a week to see my parents cousins, grandparents etc. we went to jetty Island which is a man made island that you take a farry to, and the beach is very shallow forever- this time when we went the tide was out so basically there was no water. hailey loved it.

Colter was a truper. My dad was on baby duty since it was recovering from back surgury.
In our absence Mike poured a patio which a love... surprised me with a patio set which you kinda cant see right now, and then began work on a shed.. I am so lucky that he is so handy.

kade has been a great helper also. it will be nice to have the extra space.

any how we are doing great.

ah mothers

I apologiz that there are no pictures, camera on the fritz again. I wanted to share a sad/funny story.
yesterday was a particular rough day for me and kayden. we were butting heads all day! I'd ask him to stop hurting his sister he would do it more, I would ask him to help me he would ignore or even say no! needless to say we were not getting along. I was running out of toys and privaledgs to take away. (it was a bad day) you could tell we were both RAW. to add to my frustration I didn't get dinner made in time for kades soccer game. it took us 20 min to get in the car and then 1/2 hour to get to the game ( that part was normal, but we were late so it feels worse). mike calls cause he is meeting us there and i was trying in code to tell him how frustrated i was. all of a sudden I look back and kade is out cold. panick goes through my body, kade like soccer just not infront of people so getting him to play is already a sticky situation... add ontop of that waking him up? this was a bad combination. we get there he doesn't go in until the second half- while holding mikes had- I am still in a bad mood but keeping it to myself. (kade actually played awesome -when he played) mike was sweet and said I should take the car home (no kids) and he took the van home. I went straight to the church for enrichment (I know it's not called that but I don't know what to call it). anyway it was a great lesson and many messages but basically the entire time I was thinking about my Kayden at home. I felt bad that I wasn't more patient with him. I rushed home, hopeing he wasn't in bed yet. I opened the garage, out came Kayden runny to greet me. I opened my car door and he hopped in on my lap. I said " kayden I need to say sorry, i wasn't a very good mom today" and then kayden said " sorry mom I wasn't a very good boy today" I almost burst into tears. we hugged and then everything seemed better. today was much better. the break last night was what I need to be recharged. It is amazing to me how much he is growing up. I love you Kayden.

spring is here

With Spring comes alot more work outside. Mike was working on the sprinklers outside, most of our neighbors were, and kade and neighbor friends Payton, go get there suits on and begin running through them. it wasn't particularly a warm night, but there was water- I thought it was nice that he thought to put it on. oh and by the way this is like 9:00 at night. it was DARK OUT!

Kade had a birthday, april 30, HE is now 4 years old. he was pretty excited for his birthday. I thought I was pretty organized that day, he got a new bike (thanks cousin Jace) and Lincoln logs, a slip n slide, water gun, and another dart gun. it was a great birthday. I will have to admit I slacked on the cake. he wanted a soccer cake- happy too, but just ran out of time... so I added blue coloring to a store baught icing, and did my best free hand... not so good. HE didn't mind and we ate it -3 min later.
Ah Hailey- she has such a sweet tooth- I don't know where she gets it. ..

for kades birthday we went swimming, and it was so much fun. Kade loves the water- we just need to get him in swimming lessons now so he doesn't drowned.

Robert, Amber and family came- it was very fun.


Last weekend- it was a nice weekend, thus it was jammed packed with fun things. Among which we went on a hike, to some hot springs in spanish fork canyon. it was very fun. the hike it's self wasn't bad... but when you have a double jogging stroller filled to the brim with kids and everything you need for an over night stay in guam- you have a little bit of a problem. the kids were troopers, mike developed 10 new muscle he didn't have before just pushing/carring the kids and I learned why I have always watched my feet when hiking- so I don't fall down. this whole balance issue isn't quite what that exciting.

these were the falls we hiked up to, and the water was very warm- in some places really hot! we decided that we are going to do it without kids and no time constraints - it's hard to enjoy a hike when you are running the last mile of it so you can get home for another commitment- thats the last time I will believe spencer and his "2 hours tops" I think it was 2 hours to get up there for us. ... WE HAD KIDS

and this is a picture I just took today- very up todate- Colter Bruce Kinghorn is still such a sweet baby. I love holding him, all my kids, he is really smiley, I wanted to take a picture of him smiling but he had already fallen asleep.

I love my kids.

three weeks and counting

I just need to say that I really do have an amazing husband. He made pink heart shaped pancakes for breakfast, surprised me with roses (when I thought we weren't doing that this year) and bought me new blinds for our bedroom windows. what more could a girl ask for? he also made dinner, got the kids ready himself and took them to church while I took a nap. thank you mike for a wonderful valentines day. I love you

ya she's eating butter- there is nothing else to say...

Kade needed to get in on the action.

OK here are some pictures we have been taking the last 3 weeks. Colter has been such a fun baby. we can't imagine live without him. the strangest thing is ever since we brought him home Hailey has taken it upon herself to be WAY more ambitious, and maybe that isn't the right word. I hate to say terrible twos... but she never climbed on the table before.... anyway we are great and having fun.

He is finally here!

I am one proud big brother. Ya, I have three now, holy cow.

He is well on his way to a good mullit, I wonder if they make tank tops that small?

Hailey finally warmed up to the idea of having the little guy around.

Colter Bruce was born at 4:43 and Jan 25th, 2010. He was 6 lbs 12 oz and 19 1/2 inches long (I would say tall, but since he can't stand up I would think that "long" is more appropriate.)

Hailey didn't take to kindly to him at first, but quickly realized that he wasn't too bad. Kade just thinks that it is cool to have a brother.

Em is doing quite well and is glad to be home. I am just glad that her mom is here!

christmas and New Years!!

Hailey got a piano for Christmas and has really enjoyed it. she is really sweet and doesn't bang on the keyboard. that aside thank goodness for a volume button.
the kids also got a sled, which we were able to try out on new years. they loved it. mike being mike, reliving his favorite movie. Oh don't worry Hailey did it too. luckily no stick this time. can't say that for the next time though.
one of our Christmas presents was a family outing to snowmobile races. it was in an outside stadium, cold but it was fun. I even caught- a DVD they were throwing into the crowd. OK, I didn't catch it, I used my body to my advantage- if you've got it... use it right?

Going Private

Well I have put allot of thought into this, and though I totally understand that it is more convenient to be Public, I think I too am going to make the transition, and go private.

My sister shared a story about bad people using the faces of little kids and putting them on naked body's and selling them, I think My kids faces are pretty cute and feel that I do need to protect them.

I might have been a little hasty is switching to private so quickly, and since I probably don't have all the emails I need, if you are interested in being invited to my blog would you please leave a comment with you email address and over the next little bit I will compile them.

thanks,

By the way all is well, we had a great Christmas and hopefully those post Christmas pictures of coming. hope you all had a great Christmas and a happy new year.