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Axel turned 1! I do have more recent pics of him but not on the computer! He is such a fun boy. He has been walking since 10 months. Which means he loves to get try to sneak outside every chance he can. I used to let him just look out the screen door and watch people outside but not he tries to walk outside which has started my love of using rubber bands to secure the lock even more. He doesn't say too many words yet but says uh oh and is starting to call for ma ma. He does like to yell if people are talking he tries to be a part of the conversation but just be louder. Its pretty funny to play with him and try to go louder then him. He loves to chase around the house. He still hasn't completely slept through the night but that is on my part that I have never really made him but he is a lot better then he used to be.  He wants to be a big boy but then wants me to cuddle with him. He loves to play with Daddy and sometimes just follows Jason around the house. How can you not love this boy?

year 2010 in review PAUSE

I am going to finish however life is busy with homework a TON of homework should I mention, housework, being a mom, being a classroom mom to two classes, being a cool mom (added by Gunnar), distraction of new games, playing with cute boys all day, not to mention this house feels like it is shrinking by the day.

June 2010

June was a fun month. Jason started his new job. They have a playground there. Lots of fun. We also were "lucky" enough for the kids to have swimming lessons 2 times! Bonny came and played. We loved it. It is getting harder and harder every year to entertain the kids over the summer in this house.

May 2010

The first few days of May were beyond hectic. On April 30 we drove to Mesa, we stayed there for a birthday party for my Granddad, then we left on May 2. It was so fast up and down and we were so tired when we got home. I love love love going to Mesa. We stayed with my Aunt Laura and my Uncle David. It was the first time my kids have ever been to Mesa and it was the first time since I have been down since my Grandma died. It was different but we had fun. My Granddad got married 2 days after I had Axel so it was nice to see him and his wife (we already loved her though). Also Jason got a new job at the end of the month it was a lot of ups and downs but it was such a blessing to us and we love it.

April 2010

This month Jason and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary. We had gone out to our now favorite restaurant the night before since he forgot to take the night off on our real anniversary and the next day I had roses and I forgot why I got them for a minute. I love my family!

March 2010

We spent most of March playing with Axel. He had spent the first two weeks of his life in his bed since he had to have a bili blanket and then every other day we had to go to the hospital for the poke on his heel to test the levels. It was so hard to do. Luckily while I was in the hospital Jason got this wonderful card for Sonic. It was a discount card that was given to everybody who worked in the school district and great thing for us there are 2 Sonics close by. One just down the street from the hospital too.  We ate there almost every day those two weeks that he had to go get checked.  I always have a hard time the first few weeks after I have a baby but this time I had a hard time since I also had a tubal ligation. My stomach hurt. I of course was emotional and I was tired.  I was also going to school and Jason was busy with his jobs. I couldn't just lay at home and put a movie on for the other kids so I could rest like I had done before. They are older and in school and need more. Luckily we have great people around us that would take the kids to school, and when we started letting the girls walk to school on their own, they would watch for them for us too. It is only across the street but it was a big step for us to do that. I had a great teacher that semester too. I took one class but the few weeks I couldn't think I was able to miss stuff and she would let me make it up later. It was hard but honestly making myself do things taking one step at a time and thinking, that I needed to get through this one thing say get the kids ready for school. I would do what I needed to and got them ready and then I could focus on something else.

February 2010

For some reason I can only post so many pictures on here at once and I have wasted enough time trying to get it. However February was a VERY eventful month. All weekend, we went to Chuck E Cheese, Jason baptized his nephew, had 2 valentines parties and had a BABY! Axel was born on Feb 16 and we are so lucky to have him  The picture of Gunnar is him with a toy from Lord of the RIngs that he is dethly afraid of.

2010 in Review - January

January

January was a fun month. Harley turned 7!! We also spent a lot of time preparing for Axel. I was so tired of shopping I was amazed at myself. Yes those are fake nails on Harley Jason took both girls there as a Daddy daughter thing. They loved it. I also had to throw in the picture of me being humongous. They were singing to her at the skating rink and she wanted me out there with her. Slightly embarrassing since my jacket didn't fit well (kind of pregnant and all). Later on she was sitting in the middle of the rink crying because she fell avoiding some older kids and wouldn't get up so instead of bending down to talk to her, I sat down in the middle of the floor and then next thing I know, there are people running up to me thinking I fell.
Also Gunnar started sleeping in his own bed. We spent alot of time playing card games as a family that Santa brought to us. A lot of fun!

Coming Soon

updated blog

Our Family

 

Our family has changed so much since I have posted anything real. Here is a quick update on all of us.

Jason is now the Head Custodian at a local elementary school. Over the summer the girls decided they wanted to go to the school also so we transfered them over and they love being able to see Daddy at work. WIth his new job he decided to take some time off school so that he can get things settled at the school but that is okay I get to see him more. He loves guns and shooting. He actually has free time now that he doesn't work 3 jobs so he has had time to spend with us lately and we love it! He loves to read and watch Star Trek but not more then his family. 

Katrina loves her babies! I get to stay home with my kids but since 3 out of the 4 are in school I get to have more quiet time to myself which is really weird. I am in school full time and at times I hate it because I just want to play, I know I need to do it. I am a great procrastinator.  I am so excited for the holiday season and excited even more to get more sleep as Axel gets older.

Novalee is in 4th grade and loves it. She loves her new school and loves her new teacher. Novalee comes home excited all the time about the new things that she is learning in school.  She is at a really fun age where she isn't a little kid anymore but not a teenager and not quite a preteen. She loves to do her hair and anything with fashion. She loves to write in her diary and loves to help out with the little boys. Novalee recently discovered the Fablehaven series which is one of my favorites and I can't wait to read those with her. She loves math and is really good at it. She likes to read to her brothers and sister.

Harley is a little mommy. I worry sometimes that Axel prefers her to me. She also loves her new school and LOVES her teacher. She is currently the student of the week at her school and we got to go to McDonalds yesterday to celebrate (her choice) she loves to read also and loves to take turns reading with me. Harley loves to play on the monkey bars at school. She loves to rock Axel to sleep and can do it magically fast.

Gunnar is now in preschool 4 days a week and a bus picks him up.He loves it too!  How lucky am I? I am trying to get him back to napping but its hard since I am apparently so much fun, he can't sleep. He loves superheroes. He loves to sword fight and shoot guns (most fun to shoot is at dad, with nerf guns of course). He still loves to dress up everyday and Jason has started buying replacement costumes for all the ones he has worn out. He has slept in his own big boy bed which is  a fort bed since a little before Axel was born.  He is finally starting to want to play with other kids and its great!

Axel is getting so big! Last Thursday (9/23) he started crawling and doesn 't want to stop. Ever since he was born he wants to see what is going on and as soon as he wakes up he wants to go. Luckily now he can crawl and go pretty fast. He is still having skin problems and the worse is around his neck which constantly itches but we are going back to the dr for that tomorrow. He pulled himself up to standing yesterday which was really cute! He loves to play outside and is just a happy baby.

Test Post

This is just a test post, let me know if you can read this in your email!!

I work for the Devil

Gunnar told me I work for the Devil. Does he realize what a mommy does?

Not busy just tired

Okay I am setting my blog back to private in a few days so let me know if you even read this anymore since I haven't had much time to blog. I am also on a new computer now so I have will have to redownload the Gunnar movie since that is why I made it open in the first place. I don't know where any of the pictures are or if they are all back on my computer but I just have to find time to go through what Jason put on the computer. When our computer crashed I was so nervous that we lost all of our pictures but we were able to get most off the hard drive.
In case you didn't know having 4 kids is harder work then I thought. I can't seem to keep up with what they are all doing at once and Axel who  did so great the first few months has now decided to wake up every 2 hours. Our dr told us to let him cry it out and it will take 3 nights but because of other reasons Jason and I have gotten little sleep the last few nights. We were so tired that we weren't making sense to each other. I woke up Wednesday night when I heard Jason come in from football and I couldn't remember who he was for a minute. We finally put on a cartoon series on for the older kids and we went to bed last night at 7:30 so even with Axel waking up I got pretty good sleep. He only wakes up for about 10 minutes. Maybe next weekend with Labor Day off we will let him cry it out since he sleeps in our room.
The girls are back in school and they love it! They go to school where Jason works and they are in heaven. It is a great school. Its weird because Jason will tell me to wait in the Teachers Lounge but I feel like I shouldn't wait in there because I am a parent too not just waiting for my husband to get off work. Yesterday I felt dumb because I brought Jason lunch after I had run a bunch of errands and I was so tired. The roads were blocked off by my house from an accident that knocked the power out, school was going to be out in 45 minutes so it would have been a huge waste of time to go home sit for 15 minutes then come back. So I stayed there. Luckily everyone is really nice. Anyways I know this is boring but the camera is on the couch like 10 feet away from me and I don't want to go get it.

This Summer

Alot has happened and I should put the many pictures that I took up, but that involves being on blogger instead of netflix, hulu or what I should be doing, homework. So for now imagine that you are looking at pictures from the 2 sessions of swimming lessons, the video that we made when Aunt Bonny came over, or even pictures from Novalee's baptism/Axels blessing. I will get to that someday because those are actually really cute. For now I am going to go back and help the kids count down the days until school starts because while they are excited to go to school and that is the reason for the countdown to them, I will be counting down the days until I have some sanity back.

News Flash

Gunnar just woke up and told me that I am boring because I clean and he wants to do something fun like watch a movie. Sorry Gunnar.

Also in case you wanted to know, when Gunnar takes his clothes off, he looks like a werewolf.

Oh I'm not pregnant! I just thought a ultrasound of Axel was fun to put up.

Dear Jason

The house is unbelievably hot tonight, please come home from work early and hook up the AC. Otherwise we are getting a hotel for the night.
Love
your extremely HOT wife

Pictures of Arizona

Here are some pictures of our trip. We had so much fun for such a quick trip. My Aunt Laura and Uncle David were so nice to let us stay at their house. The kids loved it and miss them already (mostly their dog).