January

I know Its now March and I am barely posting about January. Wow I am behind. Life just seems so incredibly busy these days. Here are a few pictures from our January.Ridge went to the dentist for his third time. He was perfect as always. Ridge has the sweetest heart. He ALWAYS puts others before himself. He is always smiling or making silly faces at me. He asks me almost daily if he is my peacemaker. I can always say yes. He loves life and we love having him in our family. If you ask him who's boy are you he will always say mommas boy. Man I love this happy easy going kid. My 3 babes. It is so hard to get any pictures of all 3 of my kids together. They aren't lookin their best but at least all 3 are looking at the camera. I heard Ridge yelling for me so I ran down the stairs to find him in the Thomas game box. He said mom look I cleaned up the game all by myself. Man I love this kid. He keeps me laughing every day. My big Ridge turned 3 at the end of January. We of course had to have a Thomas the train party. instead of doing one big cake I gave each of the 8 boys their own train cake and then had them decorate it themselves. Most of the boys ate all the candy and frosting and barely touched the cake. Next year just frosting and candy. All the boys at the party. Left to right... Hunter, Tytan, Coehn, Sterling, Ridge, Josh, Tate, and Crew. How cute are all of these boys! Ridge holding his new Thomas. I think we have about 100 Thomas things in our house now. Seriously he loves every single one. Ridge opening up presents. My handsome Ridge boy. Surprised he wanted to wear his Thomas shirt for his B-day party? Ridge at the dentist... Please admire his outfit. Thomas snow boots, Thomas shirt, Thomas in his hand. Man this kid is an adict. Ridge is getting so big. He loves going to my parents and riding this quad. He begs me to let him go ride it. Having fun jumping on the tramp. Tytan Ridge Tytan and Ridge.. Tytan is so hard to take pictures of. He always makes a goofy face or looks away right when I go to take the picture. Tytan loves & adores his sister. He wants to be next to her all day long. Tytan has become such a great helper now that he is a little older. He will do anything I ask him to if it pertains to his sister. He has quite a few jobs he has to do now. He knows which jobs are his and he usually stays on top of them without being asked. Tytan has always been and I think will always be my snuggliest kid. He loves to have "holding time" every day. A few of his favorite things are Scooby Doo, sharks , and dinosaurs. We all love you our Tytan boy! Brothers Tytan snuggling his sister again. Sidenote: Tytan is getting his lazy eye fixed. Surgery is set for the beginning of April. I have known for years he would eventually need surgery but now the time has finally come. My silly boys. Of course we can't just walk past the bike rack we have to go through it. I cannot believe my baby will be one in April. She has grown up way too fast. She started walking at 10 months. My boys both walked right at 12 months. She surprised all of us when she got up and walked at 10 months. Paisley brings such a sweet spirit into our home. We love her deeply. All of my babes love our dog. The dog really is quite chill most of the time. All of them love to ride on her back. Here is Paisley enjoyong her nightly ride. It seems like overnight Paisley has gotten more busy. She climbs into everything and pulls everything out. Enjoying some holding from her brother. Maybe one of these days Pais will actually grow hair. My little girl loves to eat Toilet paper. She will sneak into the bathroom the second someone leaves the door open. She is so fast and sneaky. More mischeif Tytan took this picture of her. Paisley has the whitest white hair and the lightest blue eyes..

Family Pictures 2010

A few weeks ago we had our family pictures taken by Amanda Crookston. She did a great job and kept the kids entertained the entire time. That does not mean the kids were always happy and cooperating but I can't complain if they are all looking at the camera. Here are a few shots from our photo shoot. Pete and I laugh at this picture because his lazy eye is making an apperance here. Tytan has been such a big helper with Paisley. He absolutely adores her and is always asking to hold her. Finally getting him to give the smile that I love. Paisley's bathroom is bright pink and zebra so I had her dress accordingly for some of the pictures. I now have "art" to hang in her bathroom. Ridge... Mr. Mellow of course cooperated the entire time and would do anything we asked him to do. Ridge is not the biggest fan of Paisley but he is still always nice and happy. Paisley... She is a mamas girl through and through. If anyone else holds her/looks at her the wrong way she cries and immediately wants me to hold her. This even rings true for dad too. No dada just mama. Check out her gold shoes....Man little girl clothes are so much fun The classic goofy face family picture. Tried to erase this one but for some reason I couldn't...just ignore and keep scrolling. True colors coming out. Tytan starting to throw a fit and Paisley already in one. Ridge on the end happy as can be. Paisley's toothless grin. Since these pictures were taken she has gotten 2 teeth. Her eyes are still as blue as ever. We took pictures next to this MASSIVE tree. Of course it would not be right if my boys didn't climb it. Love the coloring on this picture. Only picture we could get of all 3 kids sitting still. I love the light coming through the branches.

PAISLEY

Paisley wanted to tell everyone.... Over a week ago we decided Paisley was big enough to get her ears pierced. We took her to Claire's at San Tan mall and did the deed. She did extremely well. I was really worried about hurting her but I realized there was no need to worry. She mad a sad face after the first ear and she cried for about 15 seconds after the second ear. The lady handed her a lollipop and all was well. No more tears. It was soooo much easier than I thought it would be. I know it has only been a week and a half but so far no problems. She never touches them and acts as if they aren't there at all. The funny thing is that Pete was the one that was urging me to get them pierced. He was even the one that picked out the pink earrings. The way guys change when they have a little girl.

I was trying to get a good picture of Paisley's newly pierced ears and Tytan had to jump in the picture and pose. I was shocked since he never wants his picture taken and he never will look at the camera.