Happy Birthday Miki!!!

Miki in her cute new outfit that Grandma "Jackson" made for her.

Jaidon and Chase gave her a blanket that has a picture of Troy(High School Musical) on it and she LOVES it! What a nut!

I can't believe my baby girl is 9!!! We had a quite family party after all the normal craziness of our Tuesday nights. Miki had Ballet(which explains the crazy bun hair and jammies) and then we came home and opened presents and had cake. Chad made her happy by making her a "Cow Girl" cake, she is so funny! She is such a sweet girl. It is so fun to watch her grow up. We are so proud of her and she is our sweet heart! I am a little fearful what the next nine years will bring, she has already been told that she not aloud to date or even think about boys :)

Christmas lights

OK I know it is not anything spectacular, but I am so excited to have lights on my house!!!! Thank you so much Chad for scaling the roof and making it work :) I think next year we will look into having someone do it for us.....I value Chad's life more then having lights on the house. My trees on my front porch that I was so excited to have when we moved in actually look OK with lights on them (one is almost dead, but I have to wait till spring to replace it again....I am thinking I should of just bought the fake ones, I can't kill it if it is not alive :)) Chad wanted lights on the peaks but we were short on lights, time, and my nerves where going crazy having him up on the wet roof, not the smartest time to be climbing on a slanted surface!!! He wanted to get them finished tonight because tomorrow it is supposed to snow and the rest of the week it is going to be sooooooooo freezing. Thanks again for keeping your pregnant, hormonal wife happy! I am sure it is not an easy job!!!

Poor Doggie!

Poor Cookie lost his manhood on Friday:( He has to wear the cone thing for 2 weeks!! It is pretty sad because he doesn't realize that his head is wider now. Fudge is loving it because Cookie can't bite his legs with it on. The poor dog can't climb up the stairs so if he makes it down he sits and whines when he wants to come back up.....so sad!

Surprise!!!

We got the shock of our life on Friday morning. Chad, Chase, and I went in for my routine ultrasound at 20 weeks and found out that we are having TWINS! We are blessed to be having one girl and one boy.....also very surprised! As the ultrasound tec was going to start I told her that we wanted to know the sex of "the baby" if it was possible. She put the monitor on my stomach and then took it off and look at us and said "You DO know there is two!?!? Right?" Chad and I where shocked to say the least! Chad came the closest he has ever come to fainting at that moment, I couldn't stop laughing, crying, and smiling. Thank goodness I was laying down :) Everything looks good so far and they seem to be developing well. My doctor was just as surprised as we where to find out. Apparently I did not have any of the clues that make them suspect twins. I was measuring just fine, hormone levels were not way high, and I haven't had any complications. I have been reading and reading about twins all weekend and have a long journey ahead, but it will be worth it! I am hoping I don't have to go on bed rest and can carry them till 38 weeks. I am feeling a little bit of pressure to get things done because there are so many unanswered questions and we don't know what to expect in the weeks to come. Knowing that I am having twins sure makes me understand why this pregnancy has been much harder then the other three!
The picture above is when we told Miki and Jaidon. We wrapped up a girl and a boy outfit with their sonogram picture and had each open one. Miki and Jaidon both looked really confused. Miki said "You don't know do you!!" We had warned that there was a chance that we might not be able to find out that day. We told them that we did know and Jaidon yells out "It's a BOY!" We told him that he was right and Miki looked at us really confused. We asked her why she was confused and she told us it was because she had a girl outfit and then she yelled "your having TWINS!!!!" It was so fun to see how excited they were and still are. I can't believe I will be a mom of 5! Wow, I never thought I would say that! So keep us in your prayers! Heavenly Father sure has more faith in me then I do!

Happy Halloween!

Well we had a very fun and busy Halloween. I had a million things to do for church....I am on the Activities Committee and we had a activity that night. The kids did not have school so we had a fun day of getting ready! Grandma "Jackson" sent a Halloween package that had a Gingerbread Haunted House that we built. The kids did great and had alot of fun decorating it. Chase was a big help....eating the candy before Miki and Jaidon could get it put on the house. The kids had a blast running around at the church playing games and getting candy. After the ward party we were able to do a little trick or treating around the neighborhood. Chase loved that he got candy. He was in charge of telling us which house was next. He would get his treats and then turn and point and say "this one" Miki and Jaidon were great sports and let him be in charge. I don't think that they cared because they were getting candy. I think that I have ate far more then they have....at least I know I have ate more then Miki! My boys love candy, but my Miki doesn't seem to want to much. She says "no thank you" far more then a kid usually does! She is my little health nut already! We were lucky too this year to have beautiful weather. It was in the 70's, which is soooo not normal for this time of year! It made it very nice to be outside.