My baby is 1

My beautiful little girl is one today. (I guess it's today, It's 1:15am) She let go of the couch and walked across the room to me yesterday. That's the farthest she's gone so far. I can't believe how big she is. I just want to tell her how much I love her, and how special she is to all of her family. She always has a smile for us, and she truly makes us all so happy. We love you sweet baby girl! Happy Birthday! I wanted to update a little on the house as well. We have got the electrical and heating and air ready for insulation. Tomorrow the plumber is suppose to finish up and Friday we get the insulation going. I guess after that it's on to sheet rock!

This is Tyce posing with one of our new tubs. We're so excited to see some of these things start to come in. Yesterday we got all of our outside doors hung. If we could just get the last three windows to get here, we would be all closed in.

Our brick is also going up. They should have it done today I think. I love the way it looks. It's a little hard to see from this picture all the colorings in it, but I'm very excited about it. My builder told me yesterday that our siding should be here by the end of the week as well. It's coming right along.

The boys soccer games have been fun. They both won their games last Saturday. I would post pictures, but just to get the 3 pictures on here takes me computer an eternity, so we might save that for the next post. However, we are still very proud of them both.

How Much Can a Mother Take?

I feel like everything always happens at once. Danica turns one this month, and she has just started to take her first steps. Tyce started preschool the other day, and it hit me a little harder than I thought it would. And last, but certainly not the least, Kaden has a GIRLFRIEND! He had only been in school about 8 days when the new girl at school asked him if he'd be her boyfriend. He seems like he even likes her too!
I just don't know if this is okay with me. It's too much on this old mom anyway!

So this picture below is my 3 oldest ready for school. I didn't get their pictures on the first day because my camera batteries were dead, and it took me until this week to remember to get a picture. Danica is looking so cute too isn't she??? She had 2 pigtails the day before, and this is what that looks like the morning after. It doesn't matter though because she's still soooo cute.
This was Wednesday. Tyce's first day of preschool. He had a lot of fun and is so excited to be going to school. Tonight is his first soccer game which he is equally excited about. I will try to be more diligent in posting pictures of it sooner than later.

Tonight would also be Kaden's first game, but he has scout camp so he has to miss it. We'll get pictures of him next week. Guess that's the update for now.

Catch Up Time

I can't believe how busy life can be sometimes. Now that the kids have started school, hopefully I can keep up on the blog a little better. I have had mixed emotions about school starting. I was NOT ready to go back to home work and early bedtimes. It just seems like it shouldn't be here already. I do have to admit though, having the kids back in school has made the days a little less hectic. (Evenings are another story, with soccer, cheer, and clogging.)

Before the kids went back to school we did take them on a weekend get away to SLC. We had a lot of fun. We did Lagoon on Friday, Miller motor race track on Saturday morning, and Temple Square Saturday afternoon. We also enjoyed some good eating, and swimming at the hotel.

This first picture is Jody and the kids at Temple Square. We took them on a tour of the Beehive House and they thought that was pretty neat. We also went to the Joseph Smith movie, and they all really loved it. Paige is a little like her mother, and we both cried. She's told me several times that that is her favorite movie EVER! This next picture is of the crew taking a break from the heat with some shade, water, and flavored ice. It was sooo hot at Lagoon that the kids drug their feet most of the the day. By the time Jody and I were ready to go, it had cooled down, and the kids no longer had bricks for feet. They wanted to go on lots of rides. We all had a good time, and I think the favorite ride over all was the good old white roller coaster! Gotta love it!

Now a little house update as well. We now have a roof and are very excited about it. I guess now the changes won't seem as obvious to everyone, because they will mostly be inside. Although we will still have the shingles, siding, and brick to do outside. The other thing we got a while back that I got pictures of but did not post was our staircase. We were all very excited to have them in, especially since our builder almost fell through the hole in the floor where they were suppose to go. Much safer now for everyone.

Well, I guess that does it for catch up now. I can't believe it is already September. Time flies. Especially when you just had a baby, and all of a sudden she's going to be one! I don't know how it happens, but I do know it makes me sad!