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Soccer, a birthday, and muffins with mom

A couple weeks ago, (yeah, that's how far behind I am), Peyton started her first sport!! She's a little soccer player, and it's so dang fun to watch her out there!

Honestly, we thought she'd kinda be oblivious to what was going on out on the field. But, she proved us wrong, and is actually a pretty good little soccer player. She's not really aggressive, but if the ball comes to her, she knows what to do.

Not to mention, she looks ADORABLE in her uniform!

She also gets to be on the same team as her best buddy, and his dad is their coach, which Peyton loves.

The afternoon after their first game, we loaded the girls in the car and headed up to college station for my nieces first birthday part. She is one adorable little girl!

My sister-in-law did a 'spunky-monkey" party. It was so cute, and she even made these little sock monkeys that are so adorable!

Yep, Jill made lots o' monkeys for the party favors. The girls have been carrying theirs around since then. I'm just amazed that she made that many.

Then, the following tuesday, I got to head up to Peytons school for "muffins with mom". Those little kids love having their mom's come see them at school, and I love being able to go see her in her element a little bit.

I love that I'm able to spend a little more time with Peyton, and watch her grow up just a little more. It's kinda crazy how fast these kids grow up, and I absolutely love being able to watch it all happen!

The big guy's blessing

After our wonderfully fun weekend at the lake with my family, we rushed home with all the traffic heading back to Houston. It took longer than we expected, so there was only an hour before Kevin's family was going to show up at the house for Jaden's blessing.

We decided to do it at home so we would have more time to play with my family. We blessed Halli at home too when we were in Colorado. It's kinda nice doing it at home.

Kevin gave a beautiful blessing to our son. There's just something about seeing all these wonderful priesthood holders surrounding a baby, and giving them a blessing. I have been so very blessed to always have the gift of the priesthood in my home, and I truly feel even more blessed that now, Jaden will be able to learn and gain a love for this gosple through some truly amazing men.

Right after the blessing, all the girls and their cousins ran upstairs to play so we didn't get a family picture with them, and the pictures of the whole group were on my father-in-laws camera, so I'll have to steal them soon.:)

We had an fantastic weekend with our family, and wish we could live closer to everone, but for now this was pretty nice. I just wish it hadn't ended so soon!

Ten on Tuesday

1. Jaden had a rough night last night, it happens at least once a week. I'm pretty exhausted today though. I feel like it's so much harder to function on such little sleep than it was with the previous babies. But, getting up at 7 and getting three girls ready and two off to school, then taking care of JJ is really wearing on me. I miss sleep!:)

2. I got to go to muffins with mom this morning at Peytons preschool. It's so fun to get to go and spend time with that little cutie pie. I wish I could do it without the other two tagging along, and really spend some time with her, but either way, it's fun to get to go and see her as a big girl at school.

3. Soccer also started last week for Peyton, it is so much fun to watch all these little kids and their different personalities out on the field. Some are way aggressive and want to always kick the ball, and others hate the thought of being on the field. They seem so small to be there running around on that field.

4. I was cleaning out the car today, and found 7...yes, 7 sippy cups/water bottles in there. No wonder I haven't been able to find any in the house, now if only I could find all the bows that are missing.

5. One of my favorite things that Jaden does is when he almost sneezes. He takes a breath, and closes his eyes, and you think he's going to let out this big ol' sneeze, and then he just kinda makes a sweet noise as he blows the air out of his mouth. I'll have to get it on tape, it's so incredibly adorable!

6. I'm having so much fun with photography! I've been having more sessions lately with it being the fall and almost christmas card season. I feel like I'm learning so much with every session, and the more I learn, the more I realize there is so much I don't know! It's great to be able to have a creative outlet that pushes me and challenges me to improve all the time.

7. I am SO excited that it's cooling down this week a little bit. I hope this is the beginning of fall! I may even pull out all the fall/halloween decorations this week to really get in the fall mood. Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, and some yummy hot cocoa sound delish right about now!

8. We had a fun FHE yesterday that the girls just loved! Did you ever play restaurant as a kid? I loved it, as a mom not so much, but yesterday we did it for FHE. The girls came to 'Aprils Diner, where manners matter'. They had to keep their bums in their seats the whole time, say please and thank you, and there was to be no burping at the table. You wouldn't think that would be a problem with girls, but oh, it is! They did really well, and hopefully the lesson will last more than a few nights, I'm really tired of not having any peace at the dinner table.

9. Lexie, lexie, Lexie, I don't know what we're going to do about that girl, but she is hilarious, and quite exhausting. I've said it before, but she is one stubborn girl that is really giving me a run for my money right now. If anyone knows any tricks let me know. She hates holding my hand in the parking lot when we're headed into Peytons school, or the store. She has no volume control and is constantly screaming, she LOVES to say no to me, and she is the worst listener ever. But she loves me, and is completely adorable when she wants to snuggle. She wanted to play with the mole on my neck the other day after I finished insanity, and when she put her hand on my neck, said "ewe, is all wet!" so dang cute!

10. And now, I'm off to make-out with this hotty I know...heheh;)

Our weekend at the lake

my inlaw's were gracious enough to let my family come in and take over the lakehoue for labor day weekend. It was beautiful weather, quality time spent with my family, and some very spoiled little girls!

The day we got up there was my dad's birthday, but there had been three summer birthdays and a couple other birthdays coming up later in the month so we did a big ol' birthday celebration for all of them. My mom made yummy giant cupcakes, and they all dug in, some of them literally dug in!

This littl girl started it all. She made a mess of her cupcake, and everyone else thought it looked like fun!

THAT'S how you eat a cupcake!

When you can't make a big enough mess just eating...use you fingers!

After being pregnant, and not having gone wakeboarding for a few years, I finally got a chance. It was so much fun, until I looked at the pictures later, sorry if my massive white legs blind you!:) I was incredibly sore the next day, I hadn't used those muscles in YEARS! But it was totally worth it, so much fun!

The boat is the best, always putting kids to sleep, I love that!

Then everyone took turns on the jetskies

We were able to sit around and relax, enjoying the great weather we had, and time with family

Jaden enjoyed his first trip to the lakehouse. Next time I need to remember to bring a bouncer or something for him.

I love getting to see my girls enjoying everything up there. These are some lucky kids!

Jaden got to take one trip on the boat, when we went to the pier for dinner. He slept the whole time, so adorable!

We had a wonderful weekend, and I've learned that I'm not very good at getting pictures of everyone when we're all together. My mom, my sister and her little girl, and my brother, his wife and their daughter were there as well. I need to be better about that, maybe when I'm not carrying a baby with me everywhere I go!:)

Miss Peyton turns 4!

A couple weeks ago (yeah, that's how good I am!), our little sneaky girl turned 4!

I wasn't doing birthday parties this year, and the girls all knew it. With a new baby being born right in the middle of all the other kids birthdays, it just wasn't gonna happen.

But, Peyton got lucky. We were going to bless Jaden the first weekend of September, which is when her birthday is. So she was able to spend her birthday at the lake house with her aunts and uncles and grandma Shauna and Grandpa Logan. She was SO excited to get to go to the lake house for her birthday, these kids LOVE it up there!

Halli, being the wonderful (most of the time anyway) big sis she is, decided to help Peyton ride her bike that morning. I wasn't going to put on training wheels at all, and just teach her how to ride it from the get go. But then Kevin reminded me that she can't even pedal yet, so the training wheels were put on as soon as we got home.

What do you do at a lakehouse on your birthday? Spend the day on the lake of course!

Love that awesome hairdo.:)

She doesn't love to ride the tubes, but she loves to hold the flag, obviously.

After heading to dinner at the pier, where they get to feed their leftovers to the catfish, (I'm assuming that's why she choose to go there for her birthday dinner), it was home for cake and ice cream. It was a little rushed due to an incident with the dog when we got back, and it was already really late. But she loved it, and is lucky for me, a very easy girl to please!

We love this little munchkin and her happy little attitude. There's just something about her that's quiet, yet a little bit sneaky, that makes me just adore who she is. She is a truly beautiful little girl and I can't wait to see just who she'll become when she grows up!

Happy Birthday LaNea

My super cute niece is one today! I'd been wanting/dying to do a cake smash session for quite awhile, and she gave me the perfect opportunity! It was tons of fun for both of us, and I think she may have gotten the better end of the bargain, that cake was yummy!

Happy birthday cute girl!