Crazy 8's Tag- Thanks Jamie

8 TV SHOWS I LIKE TO WATCH:

1. One Tree Hill
2. The Hills ( I know, dumb)
3. Desperate Housewives
4. Dr. 90210
5. Chelsea Lately
6. Jay Leno
7. any lifetime movie
8. Jon and Kate plus 8

8 FAVORITE RESTARAUNTS:

1. Happy Sumo/Ninja (good sushi)
2. Chilis
3. Applebee's
4. Macaroni Grill
5. Olive Garden
6. Lefty's Hideout
7. Red Robin
8. Teminyaki...how do you spell that...hahaha

8 THINGS THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY:

1. Took Khaliah to school
2. Deep cleaned the house
3. Made a fun lunch for the girls
4. Did some paperwork for the closing of the house
5. Talked to my sister and brother on the phone
6. Picked up the CD with our pictures
7. Wrote a bunch of emails
8. Got all the kids ready for bed

8 THINGS I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO:

1. Moving into our own house!!
2. Thanksgiving with my siblings
3. Christmas of course
4. Decorating the new house
5. Having our new baby
6. Meeting my new neice in April
7. Going up to Provo in December for the Heber Train
8. My hunny to get home and give me smooches

8 THINGS ON MY WISHLIST:

1. A happy and healthy family
2. That my kids will love their Christmas
3. Mahlayah wont be upset when she finds out she's not the baby anymore
4. A very healthy new baby
5. Dustin will love me forever
6. Nathan will make 50 million dollars and support us :) (that was for you brother)
7. A happy happy new year
8. That we'll get to see Jaysen a little more

8 PEOPLE I'M TAGGING:

1. Ari
2 Sarah
3. Ciara
4. Lindsey
5. Adrienne
6. Melinda
7. Kim
8. Michelle

Picures are here!!!!!!!!!!

I'll just go ahead and say it for you, my family is beautifu...yeah, I know!!!

Oh and you think this is a lot of pics, I have like 100 more. She gave me a HUGE cd with pictures!!

Weekend Craziness!

Besides being honery the last few days this weekend has been a pretty good one. On Saturday we got our family pictures taken and I can't wait to see them. I think they should be pretty good except for it was super windy so we'll see how 4 girls turned out hair wise. Everyone had their hair down so that was bad planning on my part. -Which actually reminds me, email me or leave me a comment with your name and address so we can send you our holiday cards-
On Saturday I also received my sewing maching and craft/sewing table my mom got me for my birthday. I'm totally loving it so thanks a ton mom!! I now need to find a sewing class I can attend so I can make a million cute things! A little bummed because we're not in our house yet so I wasn't able to see what the craft/sewing tabel really looks like cuz we're not going to set it up at Craigs house for a week...so it's storage shed bound with all the rest of our belongings :( But on the bright side I will get to set it up soon!
I've been totally busy all weekend just getting our things together and cleaning, cleaning, cleaning. We move in less than 2 weeks and I don't want to spend that time fixing Craigs house I wanna be busy making mine look gorgous, so I figured while I'm waiting in anticipation I'll do my best to get everything ready ahead of time.
As far as new baby goes...I look like a blimp now. My belly is so big it looks like I'm like 5 months pregnant...I'm not even 4 months yet. YIKES!! I guess after 3 babies my body just knows how to flex to fit. I feel like a cow and even though I'm not even unbuttoning the top button to my pants and I've gained weight no where else yet, I feel crappy. I find this very ironic considering that a week ago you couldn't even tell I was expecting. Shoot. And I thought this one was gonna be my good weight pregnancy.
Not so much going on just been getting ready for all the new things that will be happening in the next week and a half all the way to the next 6 months. Everyone is doing well and Khaliah is excelling in school. She loves it. I'll keep updates about the move and such!

ITS A GIRL!!

Last night I got the privilage of companying Melinda to her 19 week ultrasound to find out how the baby was and if she was having a girl or boy. The whole family except for Khaliah was convinced she was having a boy. I really wanted to her to just for my own selfish reasons of needing a nephew or some baby boy in my life....Khaliah of course the whole time was saying she was having a girl. It was the cutest thing because after the doc does all the measurments he goes to show the privates to reveal the mystery. Of course because Melinda has the worst luck the baby was spread eagle with it's hand over it's privates. The doc suggested she walk for about 5 to 10 minutes. At that point we knew it was a girl just cuz you could not even see a hint of boy part in there. Sure enough we went back in a few minutes later and the perfect shot of the girl part. 100% says the doc. Here's another psycic moment for my little girl. And I can't wait to welcome yet another neice into this world. YAY, congrats Melinda!!

Crazy kids!

So last night Khaliah and Taysiah were playing with their babies on the couch. Eveything seemed normal then I look over again and Taysiah is laying down with a blanket over the lower half of her body with her legs up and Khaliah is saying something to the effect of "Push Taysiah it's almost out, just one more push." She then takes the baby out from under the blanket. HOLY CRAP! Now, I know all 3 were there when I was spread eagle with the doctor (lack of babysitter) but nothing like that went down. My kids are too funny and too smart for their own good!

Just an update...

I don't really have a whole lot to report, life has been pretty simple since the halloween craze calmed down...but I did want to stop by as share a little bit of good news.
We close on our house Dec. 4th!! We decided to buy a house instead of renting, which was our original plan, because the deals are sooo good and renting is getting expensive with our massive family. Our house is older, so a definate fixer upper, but after spending 2 hours at home depot with Dustin looking at all the possibilities we are so excited to get our hands dirty. We'll be installing new carpet, bamboo flooring in the kitchen, new paint everywhere, lots of finish carpentry upgrades and eventually new windows. We will be doing as much eco friendly things we can, so that will include new light bulbs, new faucet fixtures that use 1/2 the water, better insulation, bamboo, recycled products and so forth. Hopefully we'll be able to fund this big adventure but we're too excited!
I do have to mention that I am enjoying watching people vote on my baby poll determining whether it will be a boy or girl. It's hilarious how the majority of people think we're having another girl...I agree, but Dustin and Khaliah would argue. I do not feel pregnant at all yet. It's so weird but I'm not showing, just still getting a little chunk around my belly area and I'm back to feeling 100% so I tend to forget we're even expecting again. I still fit in my 28 jeans and my shirts still look the same...hmmm, maybe false ultrasound...lol. It will be interesting when my belly starts to look big and I see a person on the ultrasound machine. Maybe I'm just not noticing the being pregnant part because I honestly don't even have time to dwell on it.
The girls are doing really well. Khaliah is just excelling in school and loves every minute of it. Taysiah is just being little 'ol sweet, cute Taysiah. She's been learning a lot too while I help work on stuff with Khaliah. And Mahlayah is just blossoming into such a fun little person. I'm having so much fun learning who she is and her personality. She's my little fire ball.
Dustin is doing great at work. He just got a promotion so he thinks he's super cool now. And he is, so that's ok.
I am doing really well. I'm feeling good and I'm already getting ready for christmas...hahaha. I just bought a bunch of outside christmas decorations yesterday and of course Dustin thinks I'm crazy. My birthday is this weekend so I can't wait to get presents :) I really want a sewing machine...my mom said she'll get it for me, so mom when you read this I'm looking forward to recieving that present :)
Well, it looks like this post was really a bunch of blabber, but I hope it gave you some info about whats going on lately!

HALLOWEEN!!!

This last week has been so busy with halloween and dressing up, pumpkins, birthday parties, the works. I feel a litte relieved that I don't have to put the girls in their costumes any more. I felt like day after day I had to paint faces, put stockings on, make sure hair was perfect...etc. But on the other hand the girls have had such a blast celebrating a holiday. I swear every year gets more fun because as they get older they look forward to the festivities.

Last Wednesday Khaliah had her first birthday party she was invited to. It was for her friend from school named Ellie. She had a halloween themed party so Khaliah got all dressed up in her kitty costume and went to Ellie's house. They had fun doing halloween crafts and playing. She was so excited to get the little halloween gift bag at the end. Meanwhile Taysiah, Mahlayah and I went to Discovery park down the street and played. They had so much fun swinging and sliding down the slide. It's so awesome to finally be able to just chill when I take the kids to the park. I don't have a little baby I have to carry around. I have toddlers that just say bye mom or push me.

Thursday Khaliah and Taysiah got all dressed up for dance. Khaliah in her kitty costume and Taysiah in her devil costume. They danced and exchanged candy. Real cute. Later that night we did pumpkins. Dustin and I didn't want to carve out a million faces so we decided to get the girls face pieces they could just stick in the pumpkin themselves. They had fun playing with that. I carved out a gobblin which didn't turn out fantastic because I broke like every carving tool we had. Dustin just did a simple smiley face...wuss...hahaha.

Friday was a little bit crazy for me. My pregnancy sickness kinda went away around week 8 so I was very surprised when I woke up friday to find that I was more nausous than I've probably ever felt before. I ended up throwing up in the morning while trying to get kids fed, Khaliah dressed in her costume for school and driving. I have never thrown up in pregnancy history so I was a little shocked. The feeling finally went away by the time I had to pick Khaliah up from school, but yuck, I hope I never have to go through that again. Dustin only worked a half day on Friday so it was nice spending the day with the whole fam getting ready to go out trick or treating. We probably spent 3 hours out hitting the doors. It was the most fun year so far. Mahlayah was a total hoot. She wanted to walk the whole time and the first door we went to she saw she got candy and just sat on the porch to eat it. She didn't care about anything else in the word...other than Dustin picking her up so we could move to the next house. She was a pirate which if you know her is totally her personality. I couldn't imagine putting a fairy dress on her she would just look really off.

Overall it was a great week, although I am glad it's over and we can focus on Thanksgiving now! YAY! Here are like a million pictures for people to enjoy. Sorry my camera is broken so all were taken on the phone.