Adler & Shea

Rocki and Shannon came over one day and Adler & Shea were both in the same outfit!=)  We hope these boys will be good friends.

The Easter Bunny Came

~Fishing is FUN~

We love to go to Hafen's little pond and fish.  It's just catch and release and you pretty much always get a bite for just the hour or so that we are there.  It's close by, so you can't get much better than that. 

The Kids Love it!

 

Ashlyn is such a good little caster.  But, that's all she does.... cast and reel it in, cast & reel it in! =)

Yeah!  He Got One!

{the Kids}

Awwww! So tired!Ammon was helping to make cookies!  Yum!

Ugh...Allergies.  Ashlyns eye had been all swolen from helping Nana pull some weeds in the grass.  Oops!  Nana forgot that Ashlyn is allergic to Grass!  =)  It swelled up pretty bad and here she is a little while later.

The last day before Spring Break was dress up week.  Alley was really excited for Fridays day because it was all about dressing for "The Ball."  I forgot to take some good pics, so here she is as we were headed out the door.

The Monsen's come to Visit

Brant, Jana, Kyler, Ryzer & Molly came to visit us for a weekend in March.  We had a blast!  All the kids had so much fun together!  We can't wait to go to Disneyand with them in October!  Yeah! 

Ammon's Funny of the Day

So, I try to remember all the funny things the kids do are say and I never do unless I write it down right then. So, whenever they happen I'm just going to have to write them down one by one.

They are always so innocent, so cute, so true!!

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Me: Hey Ammon Mr. Tooty pants

Ammon: No Mama, (with a serious look on his face) it's just the bubbles from my butt!

Me: (laughing) Ohhhh- Okay...So, that's what that was???

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I love how kids explain things and that's pretty much what it is I guess...bubbles from the butt....haha

Where do I even begin.....

So, Wow, I feel like I am so behind on blogging.... I have a bunch of pics of Easter and other things that I need to get on hear and update before I forget what we've even been up to. So, hopefully I can get that done soon. I don't know what it is, life just seems to be realy crazy! So, just a little update on everyone for now:

Artie- Has been busy working and of course he's got his Fantasy Baseball and loves Baseball Season, Studying for his Waste Water Collections II for work. He just does independent study and tests of this huge book and then will go take a big test when he is done. Just getting more knowledgable in his work. He also loves to read other books. He read all 5 of the Percy Jackson (i think that's what it is called...haha) books in a week. Has Lost 45 lbs. What? Yes, he has will power when he wants to. Now, just to try and keep it off is the hard part. He is the 1st Counselor in the Sunday School and ........here it goes, He had a Vasectomy! Yikes. Sorry...had to put that in there. I know- kinda sad, but good. We are both ready to move on and watch our kiddos grow and do more family things together. When we got married we both said we wanted 4 and that's what we stuck to!

Angela- I'm crazy as usual...haha. I always feel like I have to do a million things to feel fulfilled I guess. But, I'm working on cutting back and focusing on what's really important first. I feel out of control with 4 kids though. Like I've lost my mind or something. I can't remember things and almost can't even remember what day it is most of the time. What is the deal with that??? Anyway, I am still loving teaching "Let's Play Music." I have 19 students and we are almost finished with the whole first year of the program and they are getting so smart and knowledgeable in so many areas of music. I am loving creating little musicians and my girls are loving doing it with me. Ammon even knows a lot of the things. I'm so glad I learned piano and music when I was young so that I can have this talent and teach it to kids. I love it! "Let's Play Music" is the best program I've ever seen. The lesson plans are like genious. I will be going to my 2nd year training in June and I can't wait for all that my students will be learning in the 2nd year and I will also be taking all new 1st year students. I also have 8 private piano students that I sqeeze in there every week. Of course I love to craft and always will. My most favorite by far is Making Jewelry. I love making it for other people, I love making it for myself, I love making it for my girls. It's so much fun! My 2nd favorite is making the lotion and Body Spray. So, I'm gonna try and stick to just my favorites in my business. =) I like to do little boutiques here in town once in a while and make stuff for people. Maybe I'll be a little less crazy when I focus on just a few things. Anyway- I'm also the Enrichment Leader in our ward, I play the piano in Relief Society and for the Choir. I enjoy going to craft night every month and also meeting with my Mom's Learning Circle group. I'm so glad they invited me to join them. It is a great group of ladies that I'm just starting to know and I already feel so comfortable with and am enjoying learning so much from. It's amazing and fun! Other than that I'm trying to also fulfill my duties as wife and mother in doing all the daily things....you know...paying bills, keep the house clean, take care of the kids, help with homework, keep family night going, running kids where they need to go, be the best wife I can be, etc, etc, etc. =) I also workout 6 days a week doing Insanity (maybe you've seen the Beachbody workout) I know, I seriously am insane...haha. But, it's working. I'm feeling great and am almost back to pre-baby #4 weight and I feel much more toned this time too!! Yeah!!

Alley- I can't believe she is almost done with 1st grade. She is such a smart girl and does really well in school. She is an excellent reader and loves chapter books. She always get's 100% on her spelling tests. She just started trying to take on Artie's 1st percy Jackson book that is like 300 pages. Not sure she understands it all, but she likes it. She is a bit of drama and attitude sometimes and is starting the little girl drama of friends... "she's not my friend, she's my friend now, she wasn't being very nice" You know, that sort of thing...haha. The Drama begins! But she is also a very sweet girl and caring and tries her best to be good in everyway. She is good at getting the chores done that she needs to do. Loves making lists of everything and making up things, making her own restaurant and menu and things like that. She loves music and playing the piano and singing. She loves family night and likes to teach the lesson sometimes. She likes to play sports and swim, dance and exercise... for only about 5 minutes with me. =)

Ashlyn- She will be graduating from preschool soon. I can't believe she will be going to Kindergarten. She is excited for Kindergarten round-up soon, but not excited to get her shots. =( She enjoys Preschool with Miss Kim and She loves music class with mom and sometimes comes 2 times a week and not just once. She does excercise with mom a lot. She is great at doing her little homework, she always wants to do it right when she gets home. She is getting really good at writing her name and can also write everybody elses names in our family, including the dog...haha. She is a little shorty. Ammon and Alley has both grown over the last couple months and Ashlyn has stayed the same height. She is a good helper. She'll usually do what we ask the first time and is responsible in doing her chores and when she really needs to be.

Ammon- He is terrible a lot of the time...=) and just the best and funnest kid the other part of the time. He LOVES to be outside and wants to play in the Garage and outside all day everyday. He loves to water the flowers (or hopefully soon to be flowers I should say) and loves to "go to work" as he says, trying to fix things in the garage. He has a great imagination and pretends he fixes us food and tells us to eat it, pretends he's playing with his pretend puppy and pretends he's putting his work boots on...he unties them, kicks them off, puts them away and everything. All pretend stuff that nobody can see. =) He's so funny to watch and talks a lot. He's so cute when he says, "I sorry mama" even though he's being a little stinker. =) He loves his star wars toys and playing baseball. He can hit pretty good and when you don't pitch it right to him he'll take the ball and bat and throw it and hit it himself and say, "see...like that" like that's how we are suppose to pitch it so he can hit it....haha. I love how boys are so different than girls. He is always making shooting sounds, airplane sounds, car sounds, saying he's getting the bad guy with his sword and things like that. I love it, It's just the best to watch him.

Adler- He is now 6 months. He started rolling over the day he turned 5 months. He just started trying rice cereal and isn't so sure yet. He still doesn't sleep throught the night. Ugh! Only nurses, doesn't take a bottle or binky. So, stubborn as we can already tell. He laughs and smiles a lot. He loves to bite on his toes and loves to Jump in his Jumperoo. He is very impatient and wants to eat right when he wakes up from his naps. He loves his brothers and sisters even though they attack him every second. He is very ticklish. He has no teeth yet. He hates the Bumbo chair. He can't sit up on his own yet. He is a pretty good baby for the most part. Lately he loves to sleep on his tummy. Right when you lay him down to go to sleep he'll usually roll over and fall asleep on his tummy.

Well, I'm sure there are more things that I forgot to write. But, I just felt like I needed to put some sort of update on all of us before I forget all these moments in our life.

Just Random

Ashlyn loves Hat's. She had Hat Day at her little Preschool class. Doesn't she look cute! Ammon was so funny. He fell asleep with a little paint brush in his mouth one night.

Ammon & Ashlyn decided to have a little slumber party during the day Alley got straight A's for the second time in a row. She is a great student & such a great girl! She is becoming a great reader and writer. She now reads above a first grade level. Way to go Alley! We are so proud of you, keep up the good work

Adler at 4 Months

Adler at 4 months weighed 14 lbs 11 oz. 50% in Height & Weight.

Adler is such a Sweet Boy. He has the least hair of all of our kids, we are just waiting for it to grow...haha. He is happy Most of the time and so easy going! He is at a fun stage and just loves to play and laugh all of the time. He is starting to grab for toys & He is almost rolling over, but not yet. We are working on that. =) He doesn't take a binky or a bottle. Stubborn just like the rest of them....I guess he just loves mama too much and wants her 24/7 in his sight...haha.

He started not wanting to be rocked anymore and so I would just lay him down in bed and he would go too sleep right away. But, come to find out, he was doing this to Fall asleep:Sucking his thumb! Aaaaahhhh!

Not sure I wanna go through this again. We already went through the whole thumb sucking thing with Alley and it lasted soooo long. But, we can't keep it away from him. I guess we just deal with it as it comes! Theres nothing more we can really do. Look at this look, "You caught me!" =)

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Now if we could just keep this little guy healthy.......

After having RSV about a month or so ago, his lungs are so supseptable to every little thing he gets. So, he got ear infections again and then everything went straight to his lungs and got so gunked up again. So, more antibiotics and breathing treatments every 4 hours for 2 weeks. They used the cool snot sucking machine at the doctor and got soooo much junk out. It helped for a little while. At least this time we didn't have to drive to the Hospital everyday to get the tube suctioning thing done.

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Artie thought we would just strap the thing to his head.....uh, NO!

He's fine with the breathing treatment for the first half and then he just starts getting mad.

Hopefully we can keep him feeling good now and get out of this sickly season!

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We love this little guy so much. He has a cute little smile and laugh and is such a good baby, even when he is so sick he tries to be good and happy! Poor little guy!

We love you Adler and Can't wait to see how you grow and what you learn to do next!!

~Friends~

Sleepover on the Hide-a-bed Ashlyn, Sydnee, Ammon Brooklin & Ashlyn

Ashlyn, Degan & Ammon