Random Happenings!

The last week in March was beautiful out. It kind of put us in a spring fever kind of mood. My kids LOVED it!! I was still trying to get over my bout of being sick. It took me a good two weeks. Not so fun!! I would have a burst of energy and then by afternoon I was exhausted. Anyways, on one of these afternoons the kids got a piece of board and some nails and hammers out. They decided to make something out on the grass. Richard stopped by and actually gave them all the hammers. So I decided, why not. I told them to be careful. They worked out there for at least an hour and a half. It was wonderful!! They were happy kids. They probably would of stayed out there longer, but I called them in for supper. The only down side, was I found nails all over the lawn. They were everywhere. I think I got them all picked up now! Oh the other down side, is DJ thinks he can fix anything with his hammer (it's a toy). He was pretending to fix our newly plastered wall (we made our knock down walls smooth). It was a mess. We had to have the guy come back and fix it. Good thing it was our friend, Dean, and he thought it was pretty funny! He's a funny boy!

My busy kids working away out on the grass!

DJ watching Abbi work on the board. They found our numbers that we bought to put on our house. They were nailing them onto the board! Oh well!

Lately whenever I am on my computer or phone DJ comes running up and asks me, "Me watch my bunny (meaning funny) tow (cow) dance." The first time he asked I was at a loss. I had no clue what he meant. He kept asking over and over. So I went on you tube and typed in "funny cow dance". Well up came a 2min video of dancing cows. DJ LOVES it!! Seriously he would ask at least 5 or 6 times a day. He watched it all the time. We always got a good laugh out of it. The other thing he asks now is, "Me watch my mouse." Meaning he wants to watch Mickey Mouse on my computer. He loves it. I should also mention that DJ is doing awesome with his speech. He says more and more and sometimes shocks us with what he comes up with. His favorite thing to say when he's mad at me or someone else is, "Abbi RUDE." It's hilarious to see, because he makes quite the mad face when he says it!

DJ sitting on the couch watching the "cow dance" on my computer!

I think we just got home from somewhere and this is how I kept him awake in the car, watching mickey mouse on my phone! Oh funny thing about the coat DJ is wearing. He calls it his "puppy coat", because it's really fuzzy inside and he always pets it before he puts it on!!

I watched Keaton one afternoon and this is how they all sat and ate lunch, watching Mickey Mouse!! They all ate very good and it was a quiet lunch.

My crazy boy who was suppose to be sleeping! I came to take a picture and the monster almost got me!! ha ha! Don't you love his left over tattoo on his chest. I thought I was buying my kids stickers and they were tattoos that ended up staying on them FOREVER.

Just because this is a random post here's a random picture of DJ painting with a girl apron on!! ha ha! He loves doing things like this with me when the girls are at school. It's fun times!

DJ really turning into a comedian in our family. His goal in life is to make his sisters laugh. He usually does a very good job at it too. Here, he thought it was funny to give himself a butter beard!!! Of course, his sisters thought it was hilarious. I have a hard time getting this boy to eat at supper time, because that's when he's usually all crazy and trying to get his sisters to laugh....no time to eat!!!

We had conference the first weekend in April. I talked to my kids and we had a FHE on conference. We explained the importance of listening to what the Prophet and his apostles have to say to us. We all agreed that when the Prophet talked, all the kids would come sit down and watch. I watched the first session on Saturday, while the kids were playing. Well they came in just as it started and they all sat down and watched for the first 30mins. I was pretty impressed. On Sunday they watched a bit too. I kept them busy with a conference coloring package I printed out. I love that we can watch it at our house. I get so much more out of it when I'm not wrestling with my children, trying to get them to sit down or be quiet. I really enjoyed listening to the talks and getting the spiritual boost I needed. It was wonderful.

My 3 girls (you can see 2 of their heads at the foot of my bed), watching conference and coloring.

Richard, Brianna, Cadence and Abbi watching conference. It was a good day!

On Monday, we had an Easter FHEFHE evening. Of course the kids were so excited about coloring their eggs. It was a lot of fun.

Cadence showing us her blue egg and blue hand! Crazy girl! She loves it when DJ insists on her wearing his clothes!! So yes, she is wearing DJ's jammies! Crazy girl!

Abbi was trying to dye as many eggs as fast as possible. She's trying to do 2 here. We had to slow her down so she could get the eggs a bit darker! Too funny!

Brianna, on the other hand, liked to take her time and make sure her egg was exactly how she wanted it!

Here's everyone at the table working hard!

DJ just thought it was great to color the eggs. He did so good this year. Was pretty careful about putting them in and taking them out. No cracked eggs this year! That's a record!! ha ha!

Tuesday morning, which was April 3rd, we found out that Justin and Tennille had their baby early that morning. She was due on the 23rd of April. So their little boy, Ethan William, came a bit early. He weighed 6lbs 8oz. He was so tiny and cute. The kids were excited to see a picture of their new cousin on the computer. On Wednesday afternoon we got a surprise visit from Justin, Tennille and Ethan. They were on their way home and stopped for a little bit. He is so cute. It was fun to hold a tiny baby. It's been a while!! The girls had fun looking at their little cousin. Cadence sat down beside me and held him very carefully. She loved it! Congratulations Justin and Tennille!

The proud parents, Tennille and Justin. One of my girls (can't remember which one) took all these pictures of the baby.

Me, with my newest nephew, Ethan, and Cadence.

Brianna with her new cousin!

Cadence loved little Ethan and just couldn't stop staring at him and wanting to hold him!

So that kind of gets us caught up till Easter time, which is my next post. Till next time!

It Snowed!!

This winter really has been weird. Not that I'm complaining or anything!! We've had the most bizarre weather ever! Hardly any snow, which is fine by me, and the kids have been complaining that they haven't made very many snowmen! So when it snowed a couple of weeks ago we made the best of it!

I picked the girls up from school and we came home and had lunch. I got a call from the girls tutor, who had to cancel for the day. Which was even better, so we were able to go spend the afternoon out in the snow. We went and picked up Renee and Keaton and Lincoln. They came and played with us at the hill by the hospital. It was a lot of fun.

Brianna, Cadence Keaton and Abbi sitting in the snow. DJ is in the background, in the red coat, playing by himself!

Brianna and Keaton.

The best part was it wasn't cold out. The kids had a blast running around and trying to slide down the hill. The sled kept getting stuck, so I pulled it down the hill to make a track. Then it seemed to work better.

Abbi going down the hill on her sled.

Abbi was going down and Cadence thought it would be funny to jump on top of her sister!!

DJ doing a belly flop in the snow! He thought that it was hilarious!

We all started making a big snowman together. The kids had a blast working together and making this snowman. That is until crazy DJ came running towards it and tackling and kicking the snowman. I had to protect the snowman till we finally got it done. Then everyone helped kick it down. It was a very fun afternoon and am so glad we did it.

Cadence was having a blast, and would fall into the snow and just laugh!

Renee, DJ and Cadence making the base for the snowman!

Cadence pushed it down the hill and it was huge by the time it got to the bottom!

Keaton, Brianna and Abbi by their snowman. DJ was trying to kick it down at this point! Crazy boy!

We told the kids to attack the snowman. They all listened very well too!! ha ha!

The girls were determined to break apart that HUGE ball of snow!!

DJ was attacking the head of the snowman. Look how happy he is!!

After we got home we cleaned up and bit and started to get supper ready. By then I was feeling absolutely terrible. I couldn't eat that night and layed down in my bed. I felt miserable. Had the chills and could NOT get warm. Plus if felt like my head was going to explode. I felt like that all Tuesday too. Luckily my husband stayed home, he's awesome, and took care of everything while I was being pathetic and laying in bed. I ended up going to the doctors and I had a bad sinus infection, plus a touch of the flu. I got on antibiotics for the infection. Yeah! I started feeling way better by Wednesday. It took forever for me to finally get over everything though. I coughed so bad on the weekend that I ended up pulling a muscle in my back which was causing stabbing pains in my left ribs. It was horrible. I ended up going back to the doctor because I thought I was dying!! So hopefully I'm all better now. Sheesh, not fun! Other then me getting sick, it was a fun day playing in the snow!

Last Ski Of The Year!

Megan and I had decided to take David snowboarding (me and Richard skiing) one time before the season was up. I booked a hotel for one night in Kalispel. We took off on Friday, March 16 and came back on Saturday, March 17. I was pretty excited to go for one last ski. Richard's parents took our kids for the night. My kids were so excited to go over to their grandparents for a sleep over. Even DJ was so excited. Usually he doesn't like me leaving him but when Shelly came to pick them up Eric was with her. DJ couldn't get rid of me fast enough!

I should back up a little before I get into our weekend. That Thursday I was trying to get all my housework done and little errands done too. DJ ended up sick on Wednesday morning. He woke up and I took him to the bathroom in the morning. I noticed that he felt really hot. He wanted to get on his top bunk and watch a movie in his room. So I helped him up and went to get him a drink of water. I walked back just in time for him to throw up all over me. It was everywhere. I ran him to the bathroom, but by then it was all over me and the floor. It was a pretty rude awakening. The poor kid felt miserable. I cleaned up his room and had Richard give him a quick bath. By that time he was exhausted and curled up on our bed with Richard and went back to sleep. DJ doesn't get that sick very often, so I know he's sick when all he does all day is sleep. He just wanted to be curled up to someone and sleep. Richard ended up staying home that day too, with a sick stomach. So I left the sick boys together and ran to Cutbank really quick. There were some packages waiting for me at the post office. I did some shopping for me and Richard at JC Penny's and got some groceries too. It was a really quick trip. I came home and the girls really wanted to go to the book fair. Their dad had promised them that I would take them and buy them one book each. So away we went. School book fairs drive me crazy though. It's always very chaotic and the girls have such a hard time choosing one book. I bought one for DJ too. We thought it would help cheer him up. We came back home in time to clean the upstairs quickly and then the Tutor Doctor showed up. I now have him coming every Monday and Wednesday afternoons from 2-3:30pm for Abbi and Cadence. They love their tutor and I feel it's been helping them a lot too.

Anyways, on Thursday I was cleaning and getting things ready to pack. DJ and I skipped Parent Pre-school, because he was still sick. We actually ran in to the doctors to get him checked out. He was so snotty that I was afraid it was going to turn into an ear infection. He was ok, and the doctor just said to keep him on tylenol, because he was still running a fever. The girls got home from school and we quickly ate some lunch and I ran Cadence back to school for her puff program. I cleaned all afternoon and was so tired by 3:10pm. I sat down on my bed and was reading a book for a little bit. I stopped and had a feeling I was forgetting something. I couldn't figure it out. I looked at the clock a little bit later and noticed it said 3:30pm. I then panicked, realizing that I totally forgot about Cadence. I'm suppose to pick her up at the school at 3:10pm. I felt terrible, I've never forgotten to get my kids before. We ran to go get her and the school was pretty much empty and she was standing their with her teacher. They had just finished phoning me. I felt so bad, but the teacher was just laughing, she thought that it was funny!

We came back home and I finished getting supper ready. We sat down and ate and then quickly cleaned up. Then we all went back to the school for Celebration of Learning. It's where the kids get to show us what they do in their classroom. It's a little crazy when you have 3 kids in the same class. So we went to each center and did the activity 3 times, so each of the girls could show us what they do. It was fun, but we were both done by the end. It's a little draining. But fun too see how excited the girls got when they were showing us what they have done. Each of my girls are so so different. Brianna absolutely loves school and learning new things. Abbi loves going to school for the whole social aspect. She loves to tell me what all her friends are up too. Cadence loves to go and do all the fun things! She loves her speech teacher too. Can't say enough good about her. So that's why Cadence and Abbi are getting a little help with a tutor. It makes a big difference when it's 1 on 1 help. They are all doing very good.

After that we stopped at soccer registration and I registered all my kids into soccer. DJ was beyond excited. He couldn't stop talking about him kicking the ball. It will be fun to see how he does. Abbi decided that she wanted to play soccer this year. Hopefully it will go better then the last time. We will find out, I'm sure!

DJ's neck . We've been doing it lately and it's really been helping his u station tubes drain better. We've had no ear infections since. It's been nice!

We were coming home and I got a call from Richard. He was taking his van into Lethbridge to get fixed. He was just going to drop it off. So we headed into Lethbridge to pick him up. DJ was starving because he didn't get anything to eat. I stopped at Tim Hortons to get everyone a donut, but the line up was insane. So I ran into Fas Gas and got them all some chocolate milk and a snack. We ran and got Richard and then came flying back home. I called Shelly to see if they could come pick up the kids at our house. I was running out of time. I got there and finished packing everyone up and picking up the house. The kids left with their grandparents and they were all happy to go.

I finished packing us up and had time to have a quick lunch. I was so tired by this point. Sheesh what a crazy couple of days. Megan and David came and picked us up at 1pm. We were on the road shortly after. We got into Kalispell and checked into our hotel, Red Lion. I did it on priceline and paid a whole $60 for a night. So nice! We decided to get our shopping in before we went skiing the next day. So a shopping we went!! I really didn't buy much though. We basically went for David. He needed some work clothes and a few other things. We had supper at Famous Daves and then came back to the hotel. It was nice to relax and chat. It was a fun drive down with us getting David talking about his mission. He had some pretty funny stories too. The best was him in a trunk...ha ha ha!! So funny!

We had decided to get up early the next morning so we could be on the hill by 9:30am. I woke up just before 7am (my internal clock), because my back was killing me! I really miss my bed! We went and ate a really yummy breakfast that the hotel provides. The best hotel breakfast I've ever had. They had a chef there that made you a custom made omelet. Loved it! Then we headed to the hill.

We got our rentals and were on the hill by 9:30am. It was perfect. They had a lot of new snowfall too. We did a quick green run (mom told us we weren't allowed to take David on any blue runs!!)! It was a bit icy. So we decided to go to the top and ski on the back side. So away we went. Sorry mom, but there were only blue runs up there!! ha ha! We got up there and the snow was a 100% better. We basically stayed up there all day. It was super nice!

David showing us that he didn't forget how to snowboard!!

Megan heading down. This is when it just started to lightly snow.

Richard and I on top of the mountain!

The boys were getting brave and flying through the trees. Megan and I would watch but stay on the hill. It started snowing really hard after lunch. It was getting a little crazy out with the huge snowflakes, because they were sticking to our goggles and it was hard to see.

Megan and David halfway down the backside of the mountain. It was really starting to snow now!

Megan and David snapping on their boards at the top of the mountain. It was really snowing and getting a little foggy up top too. The visibility up top wasn't the greatest!

We had lunch and then followed Richard on a different run, which he accidentally took us down the front side. It was a killer run (it was a green run), because it was so flat and hard to keep going. We couldn't turn around either. So we finally made it down. It wore Megan right out. She ended up staying on the front side and David, Richard and I went back up to the top to ski the back side.

Richard and David at the bottom of the hill. We were waiting for Megan to come down. We kind of lost her on the way down. So sorry Megan!

Richard is as bad as my kids, he refused to look at the camera! Oh well, got a picture of him anyways!!

I decided to be brave and follow the boys through the trees. It was actually kind of fun and exhilarating. I did it quite a few times. I even followed them down into this little gully that you had to ski around trees and keep your speed up so you could fly back out. It was awesome!! After a few times I was feeling like I was getting the hang of it. Wrong! I ended up flying into the trees and not turning sharp enough. I realized that I was going to crash into these HUGE tree limbs, so I put my head down so my helmet would hit them. It worked but I still went flying and did a belly flop, which caused snow going up my shirt, down my pants....everywhere. I was a little wet!! I just laid there and David came flying out and almost hit me. We had a good laugh. But I was done with the trees after that. I was exhausted and went and warmed up in the lodge up top, while the boys did a run without me. Then I went and did another run with them. By then it was after 3pm and I was ready to start heading down to the bottom. My legs were like jello. I was so tired. It was a fun day.

We went down and took our stuff back to the rental shop. We found Megan and we all headed back to the car. It was a fun day on the hill. So glad we decided to do it. We stopped at Safeways and all got some yummy Starbucks hot chocolate and then we headed for home. We had all decided to play a trick on mom on the way home. She was so worried that David was going to hurt himself, that she talked to David, Megan and me about it separately. So we decided to doctor him up at my house before they headed home. I know so mean, but funny too! We love you mom!! I put his arm in a sling and gave him a black eye with my make up. It was perfect. We tried it out on my FIL, Eric and he totally thought David did it on the ski hill! Perfect! I wasn't there when they did it to my mom, but I heard that her reaction was just as we thought it would be. She looked at him and gasped and said, "David." He then threw his hands up in the air and yelled, "JOKES!" Sorry mom, hope you will forgive us!!

On Sunday it was David's homecoming. So we went to my mom and dad's ward for church. He gave an excellent talk. My girls did awesome in their primary class, with Aunt Megan as their teacher. We then went to the Seniors Center afterwards for dinner. It was fun to visit with family. It was a fun weekend!

Moonlight Run 2012!

So I decided to try the Moonlight run again. If you remember last time I did it was in 2009, after I had DJ. I didn't run, but walked the whole thing. This time I was determined to run it, or I should say jog it! Renee agreed to do it with me. We have been working out together twice a week. We go to zumba on Tues and Thurs and MAN is it a good work out. We dance our butts off for an hour. So much fun, but a really good work out too! I love my zumba days!! ha ha!

I didn't prepare for the run at all, not counting my zumba workouts! So Saturday came along and I was ready to go. Renee and Theron came and picked me up. Theron had decided to do it with us too! We got there and got ready to go. It was so packed, so many people. I was supposed to find my sister, Shelley there. But I looked around and had no clue how to even start. Then all of the sudden some one hit me on my back, and there was Shelley! It was fun to see her. When we started she was in front of us. We tried to squeeze our way up beside her but it was so crowded. I didn't see it at all the rest of the run. But later she told me she saw me a few times.

Me, Renee and Theron ready to go run our race!

Oh yeah we are ready to do this!! ha ha!

Anyways, the gun went off and away we went. It was so packed that it took a minute for us to be able to start running. Then we were off. I had went through my MP3 player and cleaned it up. Got rid of a bunch of songs, and added some more good ones. So I had that going. Renee and I decided to stick together. Theron went ahead of us at first, but we passed him later on. We had a good pace going and just kept it up. I was shocked at how much fun I was having! We grabbed some water and had a quick drink and then kept going. We got to the BIG hill and the song, "Breaking Dishes", came on. If you do zumba you know what that means. It's an awesome song that we do a major arm work out. So it was perfect timing with the hill. I was determined to run up the hill. Away I went. I assumed that Renee was right beside me. But when I looked it wasn't her. I turned around and she was way back, waving me on. So I kept on going. I stopped once to tie up my shoe, but then kept slowing running up the hill. That's the only part of the 6kms that about killed me. But I made it to the top and there was my mom and dad standing there cheering! That gave me the extra boost I needed and I took off running to the end. I sprinted and passed like 10 people!! It was a great run! I ran it in 45mins and 55seconds. I was pretty proud of that time.

It was a lot of fun! I guess I came in about a minute or two after Shelley. I walked back towards where I saw mom and dad and ran into Shelley. We walked back to them together. I felt like I was on such a high after finishing the race! It was a great feeling. Oh yeah, and we couldn't of asked for better weather. It was so nice out. Just a little chilly but not bad and the crazy wind we had earlier that day had died down. So it was perfect!

We've decided to do another race soon. We are looking at the different ones coming up and we'll decide which on we will do. I am excited. It makes me realize that these zumba workouts are really working. So I will keep it up!

What's Up With My Kids!!

I always love to record some of the things my kids have been up too and saying. Sometimes they just crack me up the things they come up with! A couple of weeks ago we were eating and talking about Uncle David coming home from his mission. The girls were all excited and were talking at once. Richard then said, "I bet you guys don't even remember what Uncle David looks like." Well Brianna looked right at her dad and said, " I remember dad, he's black and white with a tag on." Richard then replied, "No I mean his face." Brianna said right back, "Well it's skin color dad." It was hilarious! So funny, what made it even funnier was she was totally serious!

After church one Sunday we were all sitting down eating dinner. DJ was being very grumpy and didn't want his sister sitting beside him. So he pushed his chair as far away from Brianna as possible. Then he decided it wasn't far enough, so he got up and it looked like he was going to spit on her. Richard was quick and put his hand out so DJ walked right into Richard's hand. Well that made DJ so mad. I told DJ that we don't spit. He plopped down on his chair with his arms folded and his famous mad face, with his lip sticking out. He was huffing away too. He looked over and me and glared and then looked over to his dad and glared and looked back at me. Then he sat there and stuck his tongue out just a tiny bit and blew a raspberry and then looked at me again. I seriously had to bite my tongue so I wouldn't laugh. It was so funny. I put him in time out, just to follow through with what we said, but oh was he mad. It was pretty funny! Crazy boy, pushing the limits already! He was just grumpy and tired and probably hungry too, but refusing to eat! Sheesh, love Sunday evenings! We always have to fight to keep him awake so he goes to bed at a decent time!

DJ is getting better and better at using his words and talking to us. I was doing Abbi's hair at the table while she was eating breakfast one morning (we were late for school). DJ looked at her and started laughing and pointed at Abbi and said, "Abbi a horse! Abbi funny (sounds like he says bunny though)!" We all laughed it was so funny. I was doing Abbi's hair in two pig tails. Another funny thing about DJ is lately whenever anything is dirty, like his pants, coat or blankets he blames it on Macy. He'll look at the thing that is dirty and tell me, "Yuck, Mace poop!" Everything is Macy's poop! It makes me laugh!

Abbi came running to me one day laughing. She told me that they were watching a cooking show with dad on the computer, when Cadence said, "That man looks like our tutor." Then Abbi said, really loud, "It crapped dad up!" Ha ha ha ha! So funny. She meant to say cracked. Too funny. We were having FHE one Monday night and Richard asked the kids what charity is. Abbi replied, "They are grapes." When Richard said no, she replied, "Oh it is a chair." Ha ha ha. She cracks me up! Hopefully they know what charity is now.

Cadence has been working on her S sound at school for speech. So she has been kind of obsessed with snakes. Because they call the S sound the snake sound. I hear her playing and she always is making her snake sound and saying a snake is going to get them (her sisters). I didn't pay any attention to it till she woke up at 2:30am one morning freaking out that the snakes were getting her. She was terrified. I had her lay between Richard and I and all of the sudden she was almost sitting on my head with her legs pulled up to her chest and she was swiping my bed with her hand. I looked at her and asked what was wrong. She had a terrified look on her face and she kept saying there's snakes everywhere. The poor girl was dreaming that everything was snakes. My hair touched her face and it freaked her out. We tried everything to get her to snap out of it but nothing was working. Richard gave her a blessing which helped calm her down and she finally went back to sleep. By then it was 4am. I layed backed down when I heard stomping feet coming down the hallway. It was DJ. Anyways I tucked him back in bed and layed down with him and we both must of zonked because the next thing I remember is waking up in his bed and it was 8:15am. Oooppps!! Everyone was still sleeping and we were suppose to be out the door by 8:25am for school. Well that wasn't happening. I swear this daylight savings is killing us! We had the hardest time getting to school on time this past week! Oh well. I called and excused the girls. It was a Friday anyways, which they only go for 2hrs. So that was our exciting thing with Cadence. I still hear her talking about snakes and have to remind her that they aren't real. She has a hard time winding down at night and going to sleep. Her brain just keeps her thinking of everything. Poor girl. Hopefully it will get better.

Well there are a few random things that my kids have been up too. I like writing things down, because it's fun to come back and read them and remember.

David Is Home!!

Last Wednesday on March 7, David came home from his mission. To say that my kids were excited is an understatement. The girls were so excited. They woke up Wednesday morning so excited. When I told them to get ready for school all their faces fell! It was so funny! They thought they were skipping school. I explained to them that he wasn't flying in until after supper time.

We took off for Calgary around 3pm. Richard got off work early and came too. We got to Cody and Em's house just in time for supper. Yeah! We all ate and the kids ran around like crazy and had fun. Mom checked the Internet for his flight number. They kept pushing it back. It was suppose to land at 8pm. But got pushed back to 9:15pm. We got to the airport around 8:45pm. The kids were so excited and they were all running around like crazy. We let them explore and check different things out. They were a LITTLE crazy!! We got a few looks. Especially when Cody and I were watching all our kids. Someone asked us if they were all ours!! Ha ha!! I guess it would look crazy, six kids 6 and under. Too fun!

So here is DJ, Brianna, Mary, Ali, Cadence and Abbi by the horses in the airport!

I thought this picture was hilarious, because Mary was trying to put her arm around DJ like the older girls were doing and DJ was having nothing to do with it!! He is definitely out numbered!!

Aunt Emily gave everyone a penny to throw into the fountain. They all thought that it was the greatest thing ever!

Abbi and Brianna showing us their climbing skills!

Cadence climbed to the top and was showing me how she can balance!

DJ climbed up too but wasn't too sure about standing there, but he did it!

We got all the kids rounded up and sat them on the ledge in front of the doors that David would be coming out. They all sat up their and were all holding or helping to hold signs. Again, they got lots of looks and lots of people saying hi to them. The girls would yell, "Oh there's a missionary (any random guy in a suite), oh that's not uncle David!" It was pretty funny. But then David came walking through the doors. It was so fun to see him again.

Cute kids all ready for their Uncle David to come home!

Here's my four kids with the sign that they colored all by themselves! They did a great job!

All the kids ran up to hug him and say hi. Then we all got a turn to give him a big hug. It was exciting to see David. He still David, but looks older! We always teased him that he looked like a 16 year old when he left on him mission. But he definitely looks his age now! ha ha!

Elder Paxman made it home! The four girls wanted to be right there beside him!

We had to get a brother picture. So there's (l-r) Brent, Cody, David and Cam!

It was fun to visit and see him. Even though we weren't at the airport that long once he got there. It was cold outside, with the wind, so Brent and Richard ran and got the vehicles. Then we gave him another hug goodbye and got our family into the suburban. By this time it was 10pm. Way pass everyones bed time. So as Richard is slowly getting out of the airport parking lot, I was in the back getting all the kids into their jammies. Then I got them in their seat belts and made each of them a comfy bed to lean up against, so they could go to sleep. Luckily it didn't take them very long to all fall asleep. I fell asleep too, I was exhausted! Once we got to Claresholm, we all stopped and then I drove the rest of the way home. We got home just before 1am. It was a late night, but well worth it!

I had decided the day before that I wouldn't wake up my girls for school. I would take them once they woke up by themselves. I already talked to their teachers so they knew. They all woke up around 8:30am. By the time I got them to the school it was around 9:15am. Oh I should say I got to the school and got everyone out and Cadence was like, "Where's my back pack." So we all got back in and went and got it. It had her snack in it, so she needed it. I walked them in and realized it was Thursday and they needed to take their library books back. So me and DJ ran home to get their books. I was looking everywhere and finally found them under the bunk beds. I slithered on my tummy all the way to the back to get them. I was pushing myself back and went to stand up and whacked my head so hard, I saw stars! I wasn't quite out yet. Ouch! What I don't do for my kids! So we then ran the books back to the school. Then DJ and I went to Parent Pre

Wow, I kind of went off there. Anyways Thursday afternoon we went over to my parents and visited with David for a bit. It sure is fun to have him home. The girls love it! That night as they were saying prayers one of them blessed Uncle David on his mission and the other girls giggled about it! It was very cute! WELCOME HOME DAVID!!!