Happy Birthday Camilley!

I forgot to post on Camille's birthday, it was on the 20th. She is such a cute and funny girl. As you can see from the picture she can be devilish. She is a non-stop talker when she's with people she knows and never says anything around people she doesn't. She is so smart and sweet. We love our little Camilley!

Happy Birthday Abby! Today she is eight. We spent the day at Trafalga having a great time together. She will be baptized on saturday. We are so proud of her for choosing to be baptized. She is such a sweet, smart girl. She is kind and helpful we are so glad we have her!

Logg Dogg

Happy Birthday to the Logan Boy. He is the funniest kid, as you can see from our many quotes. He's so smart and knows it. He loves to build stuff with anything and loves to play his Dad's ipad. We love him and are so glad he came to our family.

Madelyn

Today is Madelyn's 10th birthday. She is such a good kid. She helps me tons. She is sweet and helpful and kind. She is respectful and loves to learn. I was so excited when I found out that we were having a girl 10 years ago. I thought I would only have boys, go figure. I love her hair and her laugh. I'm glad we have her. Love you kiddo!

Madelyn the Queen

Madelyn's 3rd grade class did biography's this year. She chose Queen Elizabeth I. I borrowed the fabulous dress and pearls from a neighbor(who has all things fabulous). I think she looks very queenly. She did a good job and we all learned stuff about Queen Elizabeth. As stressful as projects are, I like doing them with the kids. After they're done of course. She also played Basketball this year and she had a good time. The picture is blurry, but that's because she was running so fast...

I know...I know...

I think...I think I'll do a new post. I'm not even going to try to catch up. We had a great Christmas and great birthdays. Camille is looking less and less like a baby and more like a little girl. Mike looks more and more like he belongs in Spanish Fork. Don't worry that was shaved immediately. Elyse is cute and big and soooooo happy. She smiles constantly. Shockingly enough the picture of her she's not, but I'm going to upload some more later. More to come about the other 3 kids...

moments

Tonight was one of those nights where the kids pulled together and helped out. It was rare, but wonderful. Abby at one point could not stop crying because she said she felt so happy about all the help she was giving. I wanted to write this because I remember in conference one year, Elder Ballard talked about the joys of parenting coming in moments. This was one of those moments. It was short, but sweet. That way when we return to the norm of fighting and messes and sassiness, I can read this and then wait for the next moment. Hopefully it's not too far off. 5 kids is killing me. Meanwhile here's a pic of the newest one getting big.