My sweet littlest boy

This morning I come downstairs in an effort to convice Jake we should probably eat breakfast before we watched Lightning McQueen. AGAIN. And this was our conversation....

Jake-Can I have a bowl?

Mom-Yes, here...

Jake struggling to rip open a bag of cereal.

Jake-I waaaannnnnaaaa spill it!

Mom(still making my coffee)-What?

Jake-I waaaannnnnaaaa SPILL IT!

Mom-Spill what?

Jake-My cereal...I wanna spill it in my bowl!

Yeah some mornings I don't quite have my brain on by the time Jake needs my help. Good thing he's so patient! I need to document these sweet things in blog world or befor I know it he will be all grown up and I won't remember them anymore.

THANK YOU!!!!

I can't even express the extent of my thanks to all of you that have kept me and my family in your prayers. And to my family... I love you all so much and I am so proud of you!!!

I stole this from my sisters facebook status, but I don't know if I could have said it any better....so thank you all who have kept us in your prayers, we needed it, we felt it and I'm not sure I could have got through it with out them.

THANK YOU!

Before....and after!

Ok so there are pictures that get taken that should never be seen, and this is one of them. But I couldn't find any good recent pictures that showed the out.of.control.hair that I had going on! So this is me Christmas morning letting someone under the age of 5 take my picture. Andy is one LUCKY man!

My fresh new very short do. I love it though. I think it is going to take me like 5 minutes to do.

Jocee thinks I look just like Cloe's mom, especially since I am wearing our matching sweatshirts.

PS-Londa. Sunday red sweatshirt:) We can totally be twins now. HAHA!

I've been payed back...

in a good way:) I've been wiping bottoms for 11 years now, wow that's a loooong time! Anyway...today I was going potty myself and low and behold noooo toilet paper. none. (I know TMI, but just stick with me!)Not even a tiny scrap. So the call went out, Jocee.pause. pause. Jooooocceeeeeeee. pause. pause. JOOOOCEEEEEEEEEEE, finally a response, can you bring mommmy some tp. Her she comes, in record time I must say (curious george was apparently on commercial), with tp in hand. And not just on little square either. Not too much, not too little. Enough to get the job done. Yeah!!!! I can not tell you the amount of times I've asked for tp in this matter or even just enough so I can blow my nose, and I get like one.little.square, sometimes not even a whole square. It's like they become tp rationers when it needs to be used for something practical, other than wrapping the dog up like a mummy or seeing how much square footage one.brand.new.roll can cover on the upper level of our home:) So today it all payed off! Thanks Jocee:) You put a smile on mommies face.

Not to leave anyone out!

My sweet Ariel

Christian rockin' out at rockband!

Jeffery and Caleb-these guys are almost 6 months apart to the day.

Taylor and Ashleigh-are also 6 months apart.

Noah and Jocee-somehow we didn't put our order in for a new baby soon enough, because these guys are 9 months apart, but still good friends:)

Jacob and Ryleigh-these two cuties are exactly 30 days apart, Ryleigh is the older of the two, let me tell you that was a hard last thirty days of pregnancy.

I dearly love all these sweet ones too!

Amy's wedding!

Brent and Amy's wedding Jan 2, 2010


Jake wasn't going to pose for any pictures, then he decided he would...kinda. He wouldn't move away from the wall at all. Luckily Amy was super sweet and just posed with him anyway, she was way more gracious then I wanted to be.

Amy and her girls!

Amy with my girls, two of her flower girls:)

This was the best I could do for a picture of all the kids together. Once again Jake has his own agenda...and I'm not on it:)
By the time we got through pictures Jake had fallen asleep and I totally forgot to have someone take a family picture of us:( It's not that often that we are all in one place with nice hair and clothes....EVER! So who is going to get married so I can drag my family to the wedding to get a nice family picture? Or I guess I could call a real photographer and get them that way....but that sounds like too much work!

These are the people I love the most!!!!!! Minus of course my family at home!

Me and my only sis! I am sooooo grateful for the gift God has given me in the form of Jessica!

Jack didn't make it to Christmas this year so he was stolen from his facebook page! (hey it's my blog!)

Jeff and Farah they volunteered their home for this crazy bash!

Joel and Kate

Jared and Crystal

Jason and Bethany if all goes well and she doesn't come to her senses soon, she will be the next newest member in the fam!

Will he is single!!!!!

Jonny is not so secretly my fav!!!!

Justin and Dianna somehow I didn't get them pictured together and so you just got another pic of me, it is my blog after all!

I can't believe that all these boys have grown into such men! I'm so proud of them all and love them dearly!

By the way I can grow mad facial hair too! Apparently it is the family theme. I just didn't want to show up the guys!!!!