My Heart Is Full

I am so grateful to be able to be a mother to my lovely kiddos!!! This week has been  long but good! I have worked Monday through tonight (Friday) so I have really only seen my older kids in the morning and for about a half hour once they get home from school. I miss them so much!!! Glad I don't work tomorrow but we have lots to do in our garage and I hope they will be really helpful! Nolan is growing like a champ! I am anxious to see how much he weighs because I do not trust our scale. He looks like he is gained a lot and his cute cheeks I just want to eat them up. He is sleeping through the night as I am feeding him when I get home. Before he woke up around three now he's waking up when I get up in the morning to get the kids going. He is such a sweet baby. Last week he rolled over from back to tummy. He doesn't like to be on his tummy's, so he usually cries. He's drooling a lot so I think teeth are coming soon can you get irritable but nothing we can't handle he's alert and less to get smiles and we're still waiting for some laughs. It truly is wonderful to have a baby in the house again, and Ashlyn is asking for a sister, let's just take a break on that and enjoy Nolan for a while. Rayle is earning his Bobcat at the Blue and Gold Banquet next week. Ashlyn will have her tumbling recital in May and we can't wait! Teagan had his science fair project due this month. He chose to do his project on electrolysis of water. He did a great job and his project looked amazing. However he was not chosen as a finalist, because he didn't do one part and that was needed. He thinks he would've been in the finals had he done that one part but he still did a great job!!! We got the kids spring pictures and I can't believe one how adorable they are and two how grown up all the kids look!!! It seriously has flown by so incredible fast! Teagan will be 11 in May! Seems like yesterday I was holding him in my arms like I am with Nolan now! Again so grateful to my Father in Heaven for the opportunity to have these four kids to love and nurture. 

20 weeks means ultra sound time

With making it to the half point mark it means getting a routine ultra sound. We were excited to find out the gender and see who is coming to join our family. My mom came over to watch the kids and we headed to the office. Candy was able to meet up with us and see her first ultra sound. Glad I could give her that opportunity. The tech asked if we wanted to know gender and since we did that was the first thing she checked. I was not at all surprised that baby is another boy. I had a feeling. I think everyone else was a little sad because they wanted another sister. The kids however are now excited and can't wait until little ... is here! 

Love this. He is yawning!!! 

So to let the kids know what the gender was we did a reveal. It was fun and I think they enjoyed it! 

Right now we have just shy of 15 weeks until our little guy is born! I am sure it will flash by once school starts up again! 

What!

Tomorrow is May 1st!!! Seriously why is this year flying by??? But then I feel it's taking forever to get to 20 weeks. Still tired and hoping my energy returns soon and maybe my patience or what little I had left comes back too! 

This girl wanting to take selfies at church and then posing with no prep from me. 

Totally let Rayle draw on a mustache. What ever makes him smile sometimes!

Yesterday she had recital pictures but 1 the sun was in her eyes 2 she was too excited mom put on some makeup for her 3 Frozen was playing =she wouldn't smile at me, whiling looking at the camera. 

Can't wait until next week!!!

Gathering activity at April Pack Meeting. Boys enjoyed it!

Some random cuties that call me mom. 

Three Little Ghouls

Here are our three little ghouls all decked out in their Halloween bleach tees I made. All three really liked their shirts, Ashlyn didn't want to take hers off after I took the pictures. The boys wore them to school yesterday. Rayle likes his but complained it was too long. The only size in youth shirts I could find at Dollar Tree was XS and Medium. There were not smalls and that would have been better for the boys, but oh well. The fit was okay on Teagan. I really liked how they all turned out after washing them. What a great and easy project, and there are endless ideas as you could make any kind of design!!!

BassPro Family Fun

Picture overload, sorry in advance!

Last weekend we took the kids to the BassPro Family Fun Day, I seriously love how they offer things through out the year for the kids. They generally enjoy! There were four different activities to complete for a prize, also hot dogs, face painting, a craft, and of course just being in Bass Pro is enough for our kids! Ashlyn again brought up Santa, seriously this girl is too funny! A few more months hon! The activities were great and the lines not so long. The longest wait was for the face painting. Teagan had a little melt down when Rayle won an extra prize at the first activity, the fishing. The kids had to net one single fish and if there was a number on the bottom they won. They had three chances and Rayle won on his last chance. Teagan started crying and getting up set. At the end the metal detector Teagan won two prizes and now it was Rayle's turn to be upset. Of course he was also hungry so I take that into account too. Ashlyn did pretty well the entire time! Just the whistle Teagan won drove us nuts! Who gives kids whistles as prizes? They blow them right into their already flustered parents ears! Not a good combo!!! They also had free hot dogs so that was cool. By the time we got over to the craft the kids were spent, so instead of doing something else we just went home. Man I thought we had fun, but this post is most about the negative time the kids had. Well the concept was fun, but my kids were just the issue I guess. I guess next time I will load them down with food before hand and not allow anyone to get a prize, then we will be all smiles...yeah right!!!

 Teagan is upset here!!!

 I wanted a picture, but oh no he can't smile even a little!

 He requested a Zombi. 

 Rayle didn't want to get his face painted, I think he was hungry and just wanted to hurry up!

 Ok we were about to leave and this is a CUTE and ALL smiling picture!!!

Can't wait for the other fun activities at BassPro! I think the cowboy ones is coming up next, and they kids LOVED that one!