She's my BABY and I'll cry if I want to!!!

So anyone who knows me even semi-well knows what a hard time I have with my babies turning 1, well Paizly is NO acception! After we had her I was CERTAIN she was my last baby. So even more than the others I have held her more and stayed up with her in the night just to sit alone with her and try to burn her sweet baby smell and the way she feels in my arms in my memory. I cry for days when the first tooth starts to manifest. The other day I was in Target buying her last can of formula and I was balling!! Seriously people, I clearly have issues!!! I love my babies, I have always loved babies ever since I was little. I ither had a doll or someones baby in my arms. It is hard for me to imagine my life without a baby in it. My family and Erick's too strongly think we should be done having children. In my heart, I just don't know. I do know that my body needs a break from baby making! What I don't know is if the factory is closed for good!!! In all honesty if it were at all possible, I would freeze my babies at around 6/7 months of age for the rest of my life and truely not feel guilty about messing with the "big plan." So horrible, I know but still true!! So if you see me in the next week or two please hold off on the comments of "how big Paizly is" or "isin't she almost 1?" That is unless you have the time to shoulder my tear filled heart and face with how I can't believe it happened so fast!!! I will post some pictures of Paiz on her birthday.....
but for now...as I said...she is MY BABY AND I WILL CRY ALL I WANT TOO!!! :)

Sorry I have not posted in a while....no excuses, I will do better!1 :)

Claira and "Papa Laddin" Once again a name given by my kids! She Loves her Papa Laddin and tried to get him to hold her and love her pretty much the whole time we were there. We had a super fun time visiting our second family!! LOVE YOU GUYS!!

Me and my girl!

The kids playing at ShowLow lake.

Derick and "Papa Lane" This is Amy's mom, my second Mom growing up. Derick gave her the name Papa Lane when he was little. My kids are so lucky they have so many people that love them like their own.

Amy & I....We have been best friends for 17 YEARS!!!

We went to ShowLow for my BFF Amy's 30th Bday!! We hung out at the Hotel and swam in their indoor pool pretty much the whole weekend. It was a lot of fun and a well needed little break for the whole family!

The best shot I could get of all the kiddos swimming!

Me and "Ra" in the "hot cuzzie" She is such a beautiful little girl!

This baby cradle was made for me when I was born. It was designed after the cradle on Cinderella! We decided to make a "flower bed" out of it!

These are a FEW of the neighborhood kids that come over pretty much every afternoon and hangout at our house. They helped Claira and I plant the flowers.

NKOTB Review

This was after the last song.....HANGIN' TOUGH!!! It was AWESOME!!!

They did a tribute to Pat Tillman. It was really cool.

Amber, Joe and ME!!
Me and Ashley So I really was not sure what to expect from the concert. I was hoping they would not dissapoint. When we got there we were surrounded by hundreds of middle aged women dressed like hoochie mammas!! It was pretty funny. The concert opener was Natasha Bedingfield who other than her horrible half mullet hair-cut was awesome!!! She really got the crowd going and hiped up for the boys to come out! When they came out my ears rang...seriously the screaming was crazy loud! They did a lot of their old songs which was great and a fair share of their new stuff. Needless to say I soon will be adding a NKOTB folder on my IPOD! Their new stuff is great! I think the best part of it was watching them sing and dance and when they would catch eye contact with oneanother they would smile or laugh a little, like "are we really doing this again?" All in all it was probably the best concert I have ever been too!! It even beat American Idol if you can believe that? It was so much fun dancing and singing and screaming at Donnie....who is just as cute as I remembered and he can dance!!! So thanks #1 to my wonderful hubby for staying home with all the kiddos so I could go and dance all night!! & #2 to Amber for a SUPER FUN NIGHT!!!

Sorry the pics are not better, my little camera was working double time to get those!!!

NKOTB!!!!

I am going tonight!!!! I am so excited!!! My sister in law Amber got us tickets!! I am so excited!! I will post pictures later!! Did I say I am excited??? Sorry, but I am looking foward to feeling 15 again if only for a moment! :)

(For those of you that may not know what NKOTB stands for..... NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK!)

4 U CREW!! Breast Cancer Walk!

Derick & his FAVORITE Auntie April!!

The big kids!!

So yesterday was a really fun day! First of all it was my Mother in Law Barb's birthday!!! Secondly, it was the Breast Cancer Walk. Some of you may not know but my Mother in Law is actually a breast cancer SURVIVOR! This is the second year in a row that our whole family went to this walk in support of her and the many other brave women who have been affected by this terrible disease. It is amazing to me to see all the people at this event there for support and comfort and fun. It really is a fun event. I remember when I was younger one of my Aunts was diagnosed with breast cancer, thankfully, she also is a survivor. I am so greatful that Dr's have been able to help to make both of these very important women in my life better again. My Mother in Law Barb, raised a wonderful son that has strong values and morales. He is a hard worker and an amazing hubby. I am so greatful to her for that.

My sister in laws Amber and April did a lot of work to make yesterday really special for Barb. It really was a great day spent with our whole family. Here are a couple of pictures from the walk. These were taken right after we were done. It is a 5 mile walk!! All the kids did great, Kash & Paizly even took a little nap during the walk. Derick was great! He walked the whole way without one complaint! Claira.....well, she walked....sat in the stroller....got a shoulder ride from PaPa....stroller.....walked......shoulder ride from Daddy....I think you get the picture!! She did great!

Zoo!! Start at the bottom of the post! I goofed up!

After our fun day at the Zoo Brinlee, Keylee and Claira and I decided to make their own Zoo in the living room for their Barbies to visit!

This baby orangutang was darling!! She was the highlight of the trip!

This is 8 of the 14 children we had there!!!! From the left: Kenzie, Taylor, Brinlee, Claira, Keylee, Derick, Ryan and Kash!

So his sweet big brother without me asking him too ran back to the worm farm and found a worm and brought it back to Kash. Derick is seriously such a thoughtful little boy. I am so greatful he is mine and their older brother!

His little battle wound!

If you look closely on Kash's right shoulder you can see the bee. He is actually starting the fatal swat at the very moment I took this shot! Poor baby, it got him right in the hand! He was so dang sad!!!

Claira found a little tiny worm that is on the tip of her finger!

Kenzie found a couple grapes!! She was just as pleased with that!

The girls digging for worms!! Kash was on the other side!

My sister in law Ashley called and invited us to go to the Zoo. The Zoo is really honestly not my favorite place to take the kids. They love it though so I thought what the heck!! So my sister Chloe' and 3 of her 4 kids, Ashley & her 3 kids, our friend Sarah and her 3 kids and myself and my 4 kids all piled into our cars and off to the zoo we went. The kids all did pretty well. We had a few falls and splashed and 1 bee sting. So all in all SUCCESS!!! I love doing things with my kids so thanks Auntie Ashley for the get away!!!

And I posted the photos backwards!! SORRY! :)

100% = Ice Cream for EVERYONE!!!

His 1st spelling test of first grade!!

This is Paizlys 1st taste of icecream!! She was not so sure at first but then we could not get it away from her!!

We made a deal with Derick last year that if he would study hard and get 100% on his spelling test, the whole family would go out for ice cream. This was a lot of fun last year so we were ALL excited when his first test came home and he had 100% Great job Bubba!!! And just a little side note....these words are no dang joke!! They are hard words for a 1st grader for example...change, charge etc.