Mikinzie turns 10!

Miki turned 10 this week!!! She is such a sweet heart and I don't know what I would do without her. It was a fun day at home for all of us except Daddy (he had to work).  The kids had their second snowday. Miki had mixed emotions about this....kinda happy, but sad she couldn't share her treats.  We were mean and made her wait all day to open her presents. As soon as we got home from piano lessons we finally let her open her gifts.  She was/is way excited to have her scooter. It is a electric one that she can try and keep up with Jaidon in the back yard. I told Chad that we just need a track back there now:) She is so excited to be in the "double digits" and is already counting down the time left before she can drive!!! I am sooo not ready for that! Miki still LOVES to dance and her Friday nights are spent at the dance studio.  She is there from 4:30 till 8:45 pm. When I asked if she liked it or if it was to much she looked at me like I had four eyes :) I guess that means she likes it! She also started piano this fall and is doing great. I am way happy that someone is getting use out of our piano.  I am so proud of her and so greatful for all that she does for me. Miki is so thoughtful and is always helping me out. She has turned into quite the little mommy to the twins and some days she is the reason that I don't go completly crazy.  Thinking back over the past 10 years and I am amazed at how fast time has gone and want the next 10 to sloooow down. Happy Birthday Princess!!!

Happy Halloween

Miki's witch pumpkin

/Jaidon's scary face

 Mom working hard

The big kids

CHEESE!

My babies :)

Chase's pumpkin

Happy Halloween! Well we surrvived!  I have always known that I did not want to be a single parent and I still feel this way after the past week or so.  We have been running crazy around here. I don't know why I act like this is something new, but this week was a little bit crazy.  The big kids did not have school on friday so we finaly went and got our pumpkins. We had been waiting for a time that dad could come with us, but that turned out to be impossible!!! Thank goodness there is a apple orchard right outside our neighborhood that has good pumpkins (over priced, but still good). It was well worth the convience of it! I was able to take them on the way to drop Chase off at preschool.  This worked out well, babies stayed in the car and there wasn't enough time to change your mind a thousand times.  With Chad off helping some friends put a new roof on I was left to carve the pumpkins, did I mention that Chad was gone....SO in the moments that the babies where content we worked on them. I must say I am rather happy with how they turned out.  Saturday was full of excitement as we waited for the Trunk or Treat at the Church.  Chad was gone all  afternoon with the young men on the boat. They are crazy!!! They had fun and were back on time, I think Chad knew I would have killed him he he wasn't :) We had a great time at the church and then made it home to go trick or treating in our neighborhood.  I think the best part was waking up this morning and having the extra hour because of the time change. I really needed it!

Twice the fun!

So here are some new pictures of the babies. They turned 7 months yesterday! I can't believe how big they are getting. They are so much fun! I am not going to lie, it still is VERY challenging, but what do you do.  Breslynn and Daxon have started noticing each other and it is so fun to watch. They will laugh, crawl and play together. Daxon thinks it is fun to lay on top of his sister, most of the time she doesn't care. Daxon is crawling everywhere and Bres is a little slower, but she keeps up! Daxon is also pulling up and cruising along furniture. The bumps and bruises have begun :)  Breslynn is my easy going, talkative little girl. She is deffently very vocal and just babbles all day long. She laughs at me every time I try to get her to say "MAMAMAMA". I don't know why she thinks it is sooo funny. I just sit back and think of how lucky I am to have 2 babies learning and growing at the same time.  It is so fun to see their little personalities come out.  I swear Heavenly Father likes to send me babies with a little extra personality just for fun. No teeth, yet thank goodness but I am sure they are on their way.....fun for me!

-Desclaimer- Could not get spell check to work. I am horrible at spelling!!

2009 ELK HUNT

DADDY AND JAIDON WERE SUCCESSFUL IN 2009!!!!

So I logged on to update the blog and I found this lovely picture! Chad and Jaidon had a blast. They were able to go out to Southern Utah for 9 days and hunt the whole time. All the Shelley Boys were able to go have their "manly" time :) I was home with the rest of the crew! Chad was lucky that my sister was able to come out for a week. I was sure glad to see her on Tuesday when I picked her up. Chad had left the Thursday before! She helped me a TON! We had alot of fun and we both did more shopping then we had in along time. I was sure glad to have my boys home and listen to Jaidon tell me all his stories. I asked him if he heard a lot of naughty words and his eyes lit-up and said "YES":) At least this year he is old enough to know not to repeat them. He hasn't done anything yet and blamed it on Uncle Choc, but I am sure there is still time for that. I am so glad they were able to go and spend that time with family. Miki and I are starting to plan what we are going to do when ALL the boys go and it is just us girls. I can promise you it will not be somewhere on a cold mountain where we don't get to shower for days!!!

One and Possibly Only Boat Trip of '09

Ok so Chad and I needed to take the boat in to get fixed. Last year we had it out twice and we had trouble both times....I broke the starter the last time trying to start it over and over while Chad pulled us along the shore line. Opps! Well with the Twins and us being afraid that it was going to cost a fortune to fix we put it off all summer. Well we finally decided that we should take it in....What is the point of having a boat if you are not going to use it. So they had it forever, finally they call and let us know that it is done. Ok here come the big question.....How much? Oh that will be $138.00 please. What that is it! Your kidding! We wasted an entire summer on the boat because of 138 dollars! Needless to say we weren't to thrilled, but oh well. We took it out for a few hours and had fun. We were still a little jaded from last year so we were afraid to turn it off, so we cruised! Daxon and Breslynn liked it ok, but next year should be fun :)We were going to go last weekend but it rained and was cold. Chad thinks he will go out one more time with the YM. They are crazy!
Things are going well here. Daxon crawls EVERYWHERE! Breslynn loves playing Peek-a-Boo. Jaidon just finished his first season of machine pitch baseball, and loved it! Miki is taking piano and I can't believe how quick she is learning! Chase is my big preschool boy! He loves it and tells me that I can't come with him :(! He loves being a big kid. He cracks me up so much! I have pictures of him on my cell that I need to download. I always forget my camera! These days I am lucky to make it out the door with all the kids. It takes me forever to load everyone up!

Happy Birthday Jaidon!

This is Jaidon with his stuff, wearing the mask Miki made him :)

The awesome cake

His cool 4 wheeler!
Eating his Favorite RIBS!!!

I can't believe my Jaidon Tucker is 7!! He had a great day and got spoiled as always!

Babies and update

Just thought I would add a new picture of Breslynn and Daxon. They are getting so big! Daxon is almost crawling and Breslynn is not far off, I am not sure that I am ready for this next stage! We are adjusting being back in school....kids are loving it. Life is as crazy as ever and it doesn't seem to be slowing down anytime soon! Mikinzie tried out for a part in the Ballet Cinderella and is a Blossom :)We are way excited for her. Jaidon is playing Machine pitch baseball and is now a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do. He should be a black belt this time next year :) Chase starts preschool next week, he can't wait.

Summer Time

I have been slacking on my Blogging, but what can you do?! All our visitors have left us so now we just have to make it through the next week till school starts. We had Grandma Shelley visit for about a week and had a blast! We went down to Crown Center and saw a Lego exhibit that was way cool and then we went over to kaleidoscope and let the kids play. It was sure fun to have her all to ourselves! not that we don't like sharing but this has never happened before :) Let's see...then we were able to go to Great Wolf Lodge which is an indoor water park and stay the night. We had so much fun. The twins went swimming for the first time. Breslynn wasn't to sure about it, Daxon splashed all over the place. It was a fun little get away for us. They had a Dance party in the lobby the night we stayed and the kids were dancin' machines. They have got some pretty sweet moves :) Then Grandma and Grandpa Richardson came to hang out. Daxon decided that he needed Grandpas' shoulder to sleep on, Grandpa agreed. It was sure nice to have the extra hands. Mikinzie and grandma spent hours in the craft room sewing and making Miki's first quilt. I don't know who is more excited Grandma or Miki. They sure loved having someone else to play with, and get ice cream almost everyday. Can we say spoiled! I think we are ready for school to start. I am having mixed emotions about them going back. Mikinzie and Jaidon have been such great helpers I think that I will have a hard time without them here. Oh well they are way excited to start back. Oh yeah in the midst of all this Chad and I had our 11th anniversary! Crazy! We sure have made it through a lot! Love ya babe!
Ok I think that is enough babbling and a baby calls so there is a update :)

Oh and the pic of Bres and Dax are of them eating rice cereal....they love it now!

San Deigo

Last weekend we got to go to San Diego for my brothers wedding. We had so much fun! It was a very, very busy trip with the wedding and all the other stuff we had to squeeze in. We flew out on Thursday, we actually made it to the airport 1 hour early for our 7:45 flight! It was funny to hear all the comments from the people on the plane at the end of the flight on how well our 5 children did and how they were nervous. My Bro picked us up and off we went! The kids where way excited to see the beach for the first time. We went to a place where there are a bunch of seals. They thought it was awesome-there were squirrels and birds all around also and they were totally entertained. I told Chad that we could have saved some cash and not worried about the Zoo the squirrels were exciting enough :) After a quick change it was off to play in the water real quick before the rehearsal for the wedding. Miki and Jaidon thought it was like a big swimming pool and where giving me heart attacks while I sat up higher with the twins. I have been informed that it only looked like they where far out....I was told to RELAX:) Chase didn't think to much of the ocean but there were Rocks! He was in heaven collecting rocks and digging in the sand. Then it was on to the rehearsal, which we were late too:( sorry Phil, and dinner. On Friday we went to the San Diego Zoo and had a blast. On Saturday I sent everyone off to the beach while I went to get a massage courtesy of one of the sales reps that come into Chad's office-sooooo nice! It was then time for the wedding, which was absolutely beautiful! They had it at a ranch that has peacocks roaming everywhere. We had alot of fun dancing and just hanging out. I do have to say that Chad and my brother in law Peter have some mean dance moves! At this point we are almost exhausted but we still have Sea World to hit on Sunday! Sea World was way fun and my favorite. We played there all day. Monday came and it was time to say good bye to Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Amber, and Uncle Peter which was sad. The kids loved spending time with them. It was a great trip full of memories and maybe by next year I will have recovered and we can take another family vacation.

Talent Show and Baseball

Well it's that time of year again! Summer Time!!! Miki was in the Talent Show on the last day of school with her friend. She did a great job! I guess 57 kids tried out and they only pick 10 to preform! :) Michelle and Miki sang Silent Night :) She is such a ham too! I almost didn't let her stay after to try out because we found out at the last minute and we had a million things going on that day, sure glad I let her stay. Miki loved being in front of the entire school.

Jaidon is loving that it is time for baseball. He is now playing coaches pitch, which is "way cool" in the words of Jaidon. He is quite the little player too. We have fun loading the troops up and heading to the games.

update
Breslynn now weighs 10.4 lbs and Daxon is 11 lbs. They are growing way to fast!

Kindergarten Graduation!

Looking like his Uncle Phil!

All 3 kindergarten classes

Jaidon and Mrs Coon
My sweet Jaidon had graduation on Friday. It was so cute! He was embarrassed singing the songs and kept giving us funny faces. Mrs Coon his teacher sure had some very nice things to say about him too!She teared up saying she was going to have a hard time letting him go. He has done such a great job and we are so proud of him. At the beginning of the school year we made a deal with him that if he got only 5 yellow lights and no red (the behavior system they use) he could get a gun (love dad for that one)Well looks like Dad is making a purchase! He has never got a yellow! We have talked to Mrs Coon about this and she thought we were crazy...."it would just devastate him to get a yellow, he is way to good!" I am glad my stinker is good at school ;)(I guess that is what you hope for- that your kids will behave well when your not around)

Blessing

This is me and my Girls!! I was so glad that they could all make it!

Chad's sister Amy and the kids-notice Breslynn is spitting up big time!!!

My Mom and Dad.

Mom Shelley





We blessed the babies on May 3. We were lucky enough to have alot of family, biological and adopted, here to support us. Chad's Mom and three of his sisters came in on Tuesday before the blessing and kicked the week off. After they got here we had someone flying in every day until Saturday! My brother, Father in law, and brother in law were the only ones who did not make it-that's alot of plane tickets! We had so much fun having everyone here. It was a little crazy but a lot of fun. We just all hung out for the most part, except on Saturday we went swimming at the hotel where Chads mom was staying. Yes I was even brave enough to get into a swimsuit-wasn't too pretty! I would add pics but I think I have added enough :) While we were all swimming Chad and my Dad built our new swing set! I am so excited to have it! It came in handy on Sunday with all the kids. There are 19 kids between me and my friends, plus add 2 more to include my to nephews that were here! I was so glad that my girls all were able to make it, they truly are my Missouri family! It was such a neat day to be surround by loved ones. I know that alot was sacrificed to be here and we really appreciate it!