Message to our Papa's

To our wonderful Papa's. We love you so much!!! Have a great Father's day!!!

Beautiful Butterflies for Grandma

I wanted to take some pictures of the kids for our walls. I have only edited the girls so far but they turned out better then I hoped, so for Grandma Buttons birthday I am sharing them before they are even on my walls. We love you grandma!!!

 

The poor girl was freezing to death. And so was I since my jacket was on Makay!

Ok, so this is actually my favorite black and white. There's something about her eyes!!

I love this expression. She uses it all the time and I'm so happy I got it in a picture!

Sisters! It was hard getting Parker to sit next to Makay let alone act like they were bff's!

It took some time to loosen them up but it worked. Then one of mom's crazy stories and the giggles came out. Oh ya!

More Butterfly Pictures

Just a few more...

 

It was freezing on the day I took these. Makays' teeth were chattering almost the whole time so that's my jacket around her shoulders.

Normally it's all sand and weeds behind our house but it's the rainy season so it's nice and  green out there.

When I was editing the pictures there was a comic book setting . I liked how it made the butterfly on the girls faces look hand drawn onto the picture.

Parker picked out my longest and most dangely earings for this little photo shoot. She was in heaven wearing them!

I love the colors on some of these but the black and white ones are amazing.

This one is Parkers favorite!

I think this one is my favorite!

This is the comic book setting again.

This is my favorite black and white of Makay.

Teeth and Tanks

I forgot to post pictures of Tuesdays blessing! Papa and Calvin came up to pick up my mom after being here for a month. Luckily we were able to bless Tuesday that weekend so my dad and Calvin could stand in for the blessing. It was really cool.

 

L.A. traffic on a Sunday is crazy so my parents and Calvin were going to leave after sacrament meeting and try to make it home to San Diego in a reasonable amount of time.  We went out to the back of our church building and took a few pictures just before they left. How in the world could we get all the kids smiling and looking nice in an impromptu photo shoot!?!  We decided that maybe we should do that with our family pictures next time.

 

 Makay has been dying to lose some teeth. She has watched as her older siblings get rich off the Tooth Fairy while she sits with a mouth full of potential dough.  Finally it happened.  She lost a tooth and the money flowed in, two whole dollars (the Tooth Fairy pays more for the first tooth and then gets cheap)!! She can join her siblings in the lap of luxury!



 

Tuesday has started to smile!!  The great pay off for all those sleepless nights and fussy days. The kids love it! Today we were eating lunch after church and Ryan was making her smile.  He turned Tuesday so the kids could see her smile and they would clap and cheere every time she smiled.

 

I can't help but take pictures every time I can. "Look she's holding her head up! Let me get the camera." "Look she's smiling, let me get the camera."  "Look, she moved her pinky, let me get the camera!" I can't help myself.

Ryan took the older five to see some ancient Indian pictographs that are a little south from here. The kids loved it. Anything to do with Indians, they love!

 

They have this tank sitting in a lot across from the Burger King here on base. 

 



Look, Tuesday is breathing, let me get the camera!!!



One Month of "The Eight of Us"

Tuesday is 5 weeks old! It's so crazy how the time goes by so quickly and then again, so not. I would post more pictures but it's really hard to get good pictures of Tuesday. Every time we put her down to take a picture she cries or spits up all over herself.  Sadly I have passed on my "burpy-jo" spit-uping habits to my babies.

 

This is the amazing baby quilt my mom made for Tuesday while she was here. I have had so many comments on it mom; people love it!

 

Some friends gave us a swing that Tuesday loves. It's a life saver!

With 4 kids in school now there was a lot of back-to-school paper work. Tuesday chilled and watched me work, until she started spitting up. Hence the burp cloth under her head.

The kids have been great with helping out with Tuesday and around the house. Beckham feels very big when he gets to give the baby a bottle. He forgets the baby's name sometimes and calls her Sunday. I think it's the day of the week he knows the best.

Makay was so stinkin' excited for the first day of school.  She has waited five long years for this! On her first day of school she got to make a crown and that sealed her love affair with school!

All the kids on the first day of school. Beckham keeps me company so I don't have to walk back home alone. At first he was pretty upset that he didn't get to stay at school with Makay but then he realized he gets to come home and be with me and Ryan and the baby all by himself. 

Ryan was able to take paternity leave after my mom left for 10 days. Today is his last day of being home.  I have been very spoiled with this baby, first with my mom stay a whole month and then with Ryan being home too. But I must say, it's still going to be really hard when he is back at work and I'm wrangling six kids by myself.

 

 

This is just a funny picture of Creed pretending to be baby with a water bottle. You don't think he is needing some attention do you?