We have had such a great month! We did so many fun things and we are going to have a blast this weekend! Not to mention Jason and I both have math tests today to take but we will forget about that small bump today while we have fun! I will put the pictures up of our fun month hopefully tomorrow but for now know that today wi th the school parties, we will be eating lots of junk food!

We are having another....

BOY!

Sisters!!

I am so excited right now! I feel like such a proud mommy! My kids have been getting along so good today. I know it might change tomorrow or in the next 5 minutes but I am so proud of my girlies. Novalee has been reading to the Harley and Gunnar, I went in to my room and Novalee is reading her home reading book to Harley. They have been working as a team and I am loving it. I know they won't always get along but I am so loving things with my kids right now. My girls are becoming awesome people and I feel so excited for them as they are learning new things and learning how to work together as a team. They love to hear stories from when I was younger with my sisters and the silly things we used to do.
I should mention though how awesome my sisters are. Crystal is AMAZING! She is so strong and I know that I would never be able to do half of what she does. She works full time, goes to school, and still has time to be an awesome mommy to her 2 great kids who may I mention are so awesome. She is always willing to help others with what time she has and does it with a smile! I wish I had at least half of her strength.
Bonny is an awesome sister too. While she lives in Canada she is always willing to listen to me vent online and is such an open person. She knows how dorky I am and still listens. She loves my kids and I know she misses all her neices and nephews. She is creative and bright and loving.
I only wish right now I was closer to my sisters but I know that we are all either far away or incredibly busy. I do wish I had a better picture of us three together but that will have to wait until "Jaws" is born.

Gunnar had a birthday!! Lots of Pictures of my Boy!

Well my little big boy turned 4! WOW! He had an Ice Age cake and got some fun toys and books. Can you believe he is 4! He is my little friend and its just Gunnar and Mommy all day. I learn so much about having fun with him. We play hide and seek which doesn't work too well since he tells me where to hide and then pretends to look for me. He told me that when he is big like Daddy he will carry me since I am really heavy. He is my little boy and I love him!

I will download the pictures of the party off my camera later. I can't figure out how to download videos to full screen but maybe if I read the instructions more I can.

Our baby

I am pretty much at the half way point and yet I still am not able to tell you boy or girl. You might just have to be suprised. Thats okay though. I'm fine with it.

You have to see this one!

Jason hates this video but I think it is so adorable. I have stopped letting Gunnar act like a girl since he has started wanting to use the girly cootie bug eyes. He starts laughing so hard but still......

How to Get Your Kids to School

I had this terrible dream last night and so I wasn't going to send the girls to school and we were all going to stay safe at home. However after I got up more this morning I decided to let the girls go to school. They don't have to be there until 8:30 so I got them up at 7:30 which is a lot later then I usually get them up.
Novalee came out on the couch and told me that she wasn't going to school until I got a job and Gunnar went to preschool since it wasn't fair that we got to stay home all day and she didn't. I told her that wasn't going to happen and that she needed to go to school or I would call the principal to come and get her. He might even have to call the police to come and make her go to school.
She tried telling me that they couldn't make her go to school because she was in charge of herself and that no one can make her do anything. After a few minutes of listening to her tell me why she wasn't going to school. I got up and pretended like I was going to grab the cell phone and call the school. Quicker then you could do anything BOTH girls got up and got dressed and we were out the door only 3 minutes late for school.

Maybe I Will Post Something Real One Day,

I haven't posted a real post in a long time, actually has anything I said ever really made sense? Anyways here are some pictures of the kids on the first day of school suprisingly Novalee didn't want her picture taken. As I am sure most of you know she is such a poser for the camera. Let me explain something first about the girl's hair. I have been so tired this entire pregnancy I had let the girls do their own hair all summer. The first day of school comes around and

I have no hair ties or bobby pins at all to do their hair. So we searched in the couch cushions and found like 5 bobby pins for Harley's hair and 4 rubber bands for Novalee's haird. It wouldn't have been a big deal at all but they also needed their hair cut. Harley's hair when it needs to be cut is out of control and in her face. I felt really bad and that night I went and bought some hair ties then that weekend we did hair cuts. Such a slacker mom! Now that I finally posted that maybe I should make sure that the girls are ready to go to school now.

Going Private September 19

Way too many weirdos out there. Leave me your email.

My blogging friends

We have had a busy week this week with the kids starting school and Jason back to work. However I took really cute pictures of all the kids and I can't figure out the reason my camera is not uploading them to my computer. Its all Jason's fault probably.
I have been thinking about making my blog private again. Its a pain to log in but sometimes I say more then I want and I don't want anyone to know too much.
In case you haven't noticed the list of people whose blogs I read, there are some amazing people who I am lucky enough to know. Some of them have the greatest strength and overcome so much with faith and a positive outlook. Some of them are just great people and have accomplished so much.
For example: (I know you all want to know this)
One blogging friend used to live next door to us. They have had our kids walk in without knocking on the front door to show them their new bikes. The wife worked with LDS adoptions and the husband made a movie that was shown at Sundance I think a year ago. They have since moved but we loved having them next door. They are a great couple.
Another blogging friend is a friend from high school. She dances with a dance company in Salt Lake and has traveled all over dancing. She has an adorable little girl and has always made me laugh.
There is a family that recently lost their infant daughter. They are such an example because they are always talking about the eternal perspective of things. They are raising their kids who are incredibly cute to be great people and I always love to read their posts and then cry because they have such a love of life.
I have a friend whose son had a heart transplant less then a month after the baby was born and he is now 2 years old still in and out of the hospital but this family is so strong and doing all they can for their little boy.
One of my friends I knew in high school but didn't become good friends with her until I moved in my ward that I am in now. Even though I don't see her much now that she has moved, I think she is absolutely wonderful and is always so sweet. She has 2 little boys one of them is autistic and is always willing to help others and look gorgeous while she does it!
There are so many more examples of other people who are wonderful and are always examples to me. I could go on for days about some of my friends but my messy house calls my name.........

I never knew

We went to the dr today for a baby checkup. Everything was good. We don't know the boy/girl yet but after the ultrasound Novalee was so excited because we are having a black baby!! This is the 8 week ultrasound.

What did you do over summer vacation?

What did you do over summer break? Our family
had a little bit of fun. The kids took swimming lessons and learned alot.

Gunnar actually put his head under the water! Novalee swam in the deep end.

Harley wore herself out trying to use her arms and turn her head to breathe not to mention she had to kick her legs too!

Our Novalee turned 8 in a quiet way. Playing wii bowling is a great way to entertain kids when you are too tired to go outside and play.

We did fireworks with our grandparents.

This is the first year we went to the parade when we only live 2 blocks away. We also ate lots of

donuts.

We went to the childrens museum in Salt Lake and made kids cry by bringing spiderman with us. I think we left Gunnar at home.

We met Ronald McDonald who thought Novalee was Miley Cyrus! The highlight of the day for her.

Instead of playing in the hot sun, we chose to be inside and sleep. It was so fun.

Oh yeah, we also found out we are having another baby this summer! Maybe that is why we also took lots of naps.