Briggs is 4

My little boy just turned 4 on Saturday. I can hardly believe how fast they grow. I am so proud of the little man he is becoming and the love he has! I love you Briggsie!!! Here is some pics from his birthday. He is so proud of his new baby that his daddy gave him!!

I made him a Longhorn Cake....in about 30 minutes....

Here he is loving on his baby, her name is Tickle!!

Watch out she's gonna kiss you!!!

Teresa's Wedding...

And a picture of them just coming out of the temple!!!

Teresa and Ryan after they were sealed.

This is of Teresa and all of the Brothers....

This is a pic of Ryan and all the big sisters.....

Milkshakes and Caterpillars!!!

Summer must be here if I feel the need to go get cold drinks all the time. Milkshakes are the thing to get lately too...Can you tell my kids agree!!!!

Well on Saturday we had a long, but lovely day. We had cooking group and that was quick but I had a horrible headache that wouldn't go away. So I told the kids that we would go to the Cheese Factory to get ice cream.....well memorial day weekend and the cheese factory just don't mix very well when you live here. Needless to say we didn't stand in the mile long lines just to get some ice cream that we can eat year round anyway. I took the kids to Lindsey's and we got milkshakes instead. They were just as happy. So I took some pictures of how cute they are drinking their milkshakes.

And of course this is Briggs with his little caterpitllar he found. This kid LOVES bugs!!!

Madsen....

Okay I love, love, love this bike. I want to win one so bad!!! Wouldn't this be so much fun?....okay here is where you can enter the contest.... http://www.madsencycles.com/contest/

Sock Monkey Time....

Well I am so excited to say that I have finished making my diaper bag. I found this adorable fabric at fabric.com and decided that I wanted a diaper bag so look here it is!!!

This is a picture of the changing pad, three burp rags and the taggie blanket that I made.

What Big kids I have now....

Well I am ever amazed yet again by my two beautiful children. I am so proud of the beautiful little people that they are becoming and I can not believe how fast it is happening! On Wednesday they went out to the field and chased all the cows back to the barn for their daddy. I couldn't believe that they mustered up enough courage to do that, but lately they have done all sorts of things that I never imagined they could do. I love that they are finding a love for our beautiful Jersey cows, like their father and I have. What wonderful children we have started to raise!!!

Here are some pictures taken off our back deck as they were waking the cows up and heading them to the barn....

Names.....names.....names......

Anyone have any great original BOY names that they would want to offer up for our use??? We are having the hardest time trying to come up with names. I don't understand. I finally asked my children to help.


Allysen's List

1. Rylen (cute)

2. Bailey (no)

3. Bennet (umm...no)

4. Rainray (what??)

5. Poolepa (and again...what??)

Okay thanks sis but I don't know that we will use any of these...LOL


Briggs' List.

1. Maks ( the womb nickname for our baby)

2. Michol ( my brother's name)

3. Brick ( way to close to his name)

So now you see what I have to work with, so PLEASE lend some help!!!

Great Friends...

Well I just have to say I am grateful to have such great friends...I Mean all of them too. But in particular today I am talking about Jaclyn. At last notice Jaclyn came and picked up some kids for me to go to MOPS today. I was so glad that she did that for me and I wanted to give her a public Thank you, cause it meant so much!! I feel like I have to rely on the world to do anything and sometimes it really bothers me that I just can't get up and go wherever whenever. This morning I just really wanted to get out. 4 months pregnant, continuous rain and 7 small children running around.....does this not sound like a great reason to get out for a while???? Well Thank you so much for taking the time to run clear over to my house and back for me and to drive us all in!! I owe you BIG TIME!!!

What a Wonderful day...

On Thursday we all went to Portland for some appointments. We had such a good time together. We went to see our baby on TV. The Ultrasound Tech was awesome. I have never had such an enjoyable ultrasound before. It was so neat watching Briggs and Allysen see their little tiny "brother" on the screen. Yes I did say BROTHER. We are having another boy. I am so excited, even though I wasn't set on either sex, just a healthy baby! Allysen has been saying that it is a boy and Briggs has been saying that we were having a girl. So when Briggs found out that we were having a boy his exact words were, "Gosh Dang it another stinkin' boy"! All we could do was laugh.
We thought it was so hillarious that it came out of his mouth!!! LOL

Valentines Day Weekend

On Valentines Weekend, Ben and I went to Newport and spent the night just the 2 of us. We went to the Aquarium there and also walked on Yaquina Bay. We had a great time together and enjoyed the beauty that is so close to us. Here are some pictures of the things we saw.

I love the top picture of Ben and the huge shark teeth, I thought it was great!!

Above is Spider Crabs, they live in the bottom of the ocean near China and can live to be 100 years old with a 13 foot leg span...Crazy huh??

Above again is a picture of a horned cow fish...Briggs loved the picture of this crazy thing.

These pictures are taken from the sights of Yaquina Bay. The top one is one of the rock quarries out to the ocean. It was beautiful. We walked out on the one on the right until it got to close to the ocean then we turned back. It was such a gorgeous day.

And the bottom one is of the bridge we drove over to go to the aquarium. It is amazing. We had such a wonderful weekend!! I love my husband.