First day of Kidergarten!

Hailey with some of her soccer buddies on the first day of school. :) These girls are cute little friends.

Keep me busy projects!

These are my first project that I made while being up here at the hospital! It helps so much to have something to keep me busy! I enjoy sewing. It's relaxing to me. Lately I can't seem to find enough hours in the day for projects, trying to finish the book for book club which they are going to hold in my room on Friday night, and scripture study. That's scary that I can't find the time!!!

First day of school 2013!

Dave got Abby and Hailey ready for school today. I was a little sad not to be able to take them to school. :( They are excited and a little nervous at the same time! I hope they have a good time! I have been in the hospital for 4 weeks now, and it is actually getting easier and the time is moving more quickly. Just 6-7 more weeks to go and them we will have a new little one to worry about. :)

Boy or Girl????

So we are having our 4th child and we decided not to find out what it is!?! Dave really wants to be surprised and did want to be surprised with Truman, but I put my foot down then, so I decided that it might be fun this time around, especially since this could
be our last. Also, we were scheduled for the "big" ultrasound the day after Father's Day, and so I thought it might be fun to give this to Dave as a Father's Day present. So Abby said to Dave, "Happy Father's Day! Guess what, we aren't finding out if the baby is a boy or a girl!" I had been talking to them
about it the previous week leading up to Father's Day, and trying to warm up to the idea. By the end of the week I was excited! Hailey just kept saying, whatever you want to do Mama. It was really cute, and Abby was excited to wait. During the US, Dave almost caved in because we took our kids to the US with us and Abby changed her mind! She wanted to look! But then, the baby's hand was covering its parts anyway, so we were able to tell her that we couldnt look. Dave and I both think that we got a glimpse of some boy parts though. I guess we'll see!

Abby and Silver! Hi-Ho!

Hailey and Thunder!

Mama's little cowboy!

Happy 4th of July!

We had a fun time at the Highlands Ranch Carnival! Complete with pony rides and train rides. We got these fun hats. The night before we went and saw the fireworks down at Civic Center in the city. The funniest thing happened! They set off about 10 cannons in right before they began the fireworks and they were pretty loud. All of a sudden, Truman darted for the nearest "escape". We yelled for him to come back and when he was about 30 feet away he stopped dead in his tracks and came running back to us like he realized he had left us behind. The poor little guy was scared to death! He then enjoyed the fireworks though that weren't quite so loud. He does bring them up every once in a while and says, "fireworks too loud"! We love this kid!

Happy Birthday Hailey and Truman!

What a fun birthday party Hailey and Truman had with their cousins! Kristi and her family were moving from Oklahoma to Washington and needed to stop through Denver just at the right time! We loved spending time with them! We hardly get to see them!

Enjoying the sweet moments

Abby came and crawled into bed with me this morning before Hailey and Truman woke up and after Dave had left for work. We cuddled for a few minutes. It's often hard to find time for the one on one attention that each child needs. She is such a special girl. I feel so lucky to be able to raise such a beautiful soul, one of our Heavenly Father's children. I'm so grateful for my many blessings.

Soccer!

Abby and Hailey with our dear friends the Pacheco's after each of their soccer games. We consider them our third pair of grandparents. We love them!

Coach Dave!

Dave coached Hailey's little soccer team this season. Hailey LOVED it and Dave had a pretty good time too! Jordan Moats, Hailey's friend Kate's older brother was the assistant coach. They are an adorable team! They give each other hugs after each goal and they are all going to be in the same kindergarten class next year. Hailey scored four goals her last game. She loves it!!

Ballet for Truman??

Truman loves to put on skirts right now. He'll put one on and say, "bayet!" (ballet). Dave doesn't like it much, but I think it's cute that he wants to do what his older sisters are doing :). He has plenty of boy in him too, wanting to watch basketball or kick and throw balls all the time!

Two little ballerinas

This a a picture I took of Abby and Hailey as they were waiting for their class pictures. They felt so pretty in their costumes all dressed up! We'll have to see if ballet will continue in the fall. A line that often escapes Hailey's lips while getting ready for ballet is, "mom, some kids don't go every week! I don't want to go this week!" Soccer is more of her thing right now. :) Abby seems to enjoy it though.

Getting so big!!!

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> Truman cracks me up these days. He thinks he is so old and just one of the kids. If you ask him how old he is, he says "6!" He gets mad if you correct him. He is constantly saying, "watch dis mama!" As he tries some new trick. Followed by, "Did you see dat?!?" It's so much fun to raise a boy!
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> He totally surprised me the other day and counted all the way to 10, skipping only number 8. It was pretty impressive because we have never worked with him on his numbers!
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Look at these roots!!!?!!

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> Abby had her front lower teeth pulled out the other day after a few months of them being fully grown in and not getting loose at all, even after we wiggled them for 3 weeks morning and night like the dentist ordered. Now we see why!! She loved having "shark teeth" for a while though since she loves anything having to do with ocean animals right now! :)
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We planted a garden!

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It took all day and we are excited to see how it does. It is 4 times bigger than we have ever planted before. We planted tomatoes, zucchini,cucumbers, beans, corn, chives, mint, basil, cilantro, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, watermelon and cantaloupe. So excited!!!

We love it when granma and grandpa come to visit

Last weekend Mark and Laurie came to visit. Laurie spoke at our RS activity on Positive Discipline and parenting. It was awesome! Everyone loved it. Mark helped Dave fix the fence and the sprinklers and part of the railing on the deck. We enjoyed tons of good food and a hike to the red rocks! So fun! We miss them already!!!!

Lemonade anyone?

Abby and Hailey held their first lemonade stand today. It was kind of a windy day with not many passers by, but they sure had a good time!!!!