Bodacious Bingham Bunch

Kadie's 3rd Birthday Party Dinner

2010-11-08T14:53:00.000-08:00

As a family tradition we always have a birthday dinner. We chose La Paloma for Kadies place to eat and since we had already had her party with her friends this was only family. We had dinner, opened presents and had cake. She was exstatic to open all of her presents, this age is my favorite (when they understand the concept of gifts) she tore threw them like it was Christmas morning!

Kadie's 3!

Shes got daddy wraped around her finger!

Fun Mountain Memories

2010-11-08T14:27:00.000-08:00

September 4,2010

We had not been to Grandma Rita's cabin in a long time (many years) in fact. The Alders were camping for the weekend and our kids have the best time playing so we decided to go up for the day and make a few memories. We hiked to the old saw mill and stopped a few times to let the kids do a little fishing. They caught a few fish which made their day. On our hike the kids noticed that there were rasberries on some of the plants. This created a fun game of picking rasberries to eat them. On our hike back to the cabin the older kids were awsome and never complained. The parents, well that was a different story! I always forget how steep the hike back is. Thank goodness for the men who carried most of the little ones back because they were all so tired and worn out. It was a fun filled day with great company!

Kadie and Sam

Kadie walking with Mike

Bailey's fish

Bailey, Connor and Gavin

Bailey, Connor, Gavin, Abby, Noah, and Ayden

Bailey and Connor

Hiking up hill carring Kadie

All tuckerd out

SIBILING LOVE

2010-08-28T21:28:00.000-07:00

It melts my heart how sweet my boys are to Kadie. I hoped when I was pregnant with my first girl that my boys would be protective and loving. It amazes me on a daily basis how they interact with her.

They can be so mad at her (because she got into their things) and the next minute be so loving.

Kadies cry brings all boys running to see what happened to her.

Three boys doating over her is how she learned very quickly that she can get what she wants from one of them...she keeps trying going from one to another until at last she has whatever it is she wanted!

Having three brothers she will hopefully never date and be well protected.......ok maybe that's a stretch.

Well maybe never, but hopefully boys will be less inclined to break her heart.

This picture of her and Gavin is just what I always see. She snuggles up to them and will watch whatever it is they are doing.

I love it when she randomly tells Bailey "I love you Bailey". He watches her and seems to be the most protective of her. I think this is why she has this special bond with him and adores him. Every morning they are all instructed to give her a hug and a kiss before getting out of the car to go to school. If they try to escape she screams "MY HUG AND KISS BOYS"!

With Gavin he plays anything sports related with her. This is just Gavin and this is just what he does. She will

wrangle him to play dollies every once in a while but that's a rare occasion. He will play kitchen with her but I think he secretly still loves it from when he was young. He loved playing kitchen it was his favorite thing besides sponge bob.

Ayden gets to spend the most time with her and they have an on again off again relationship. One day they will play cars, dolls, kitchen or just about anything. The next day I think wow they are going to kill each other! She is his favorite play buddie and he hers but just because she plays anything he wants. They have mastered the skill of antagonizing each other. I actually think they look forward to it on a daily basis! Now that Ayden started kindergarten this month she seems a little lost and sad without him. She has been really clingy to me and I think it's because she misses Ayden :(

Kadie always thinks of her brothers anytime she is given anything from someone, she always says "I need one for Bailey ,Gavin, and Ayden too". I love how she thinks to ask for them and never forgets about them.

What a lucky girl she is to have awesome brothers who love her so dearly and protect her, and how lucky these boys are to have Kadie who teaches them about the love of a sister.

To dance or not to dance?

2010-08-28T20:39:00.000-07:00

Kadie wanted to dance so we signed her up and last week was her first time. Unfortunatly she cried the first 30 min and so we left . She wouldn't leave my side. I decided that if she cried this week then she wasn't ready to be in dance yet. Sure enough she actually started to cry as soon as I told her that we were going to get in the car to go. Well that decided it for me shes just not ready maybe next year! She did look super cute in her dance outfit the first day!!

Kadie's 3rd Birthday

2010-08-28T20:24:00.000-07:00

For her 3rd Birthday she wanted a princess party. So that is what she got especially since she is the princess in our family. She has her daddy wraped around her finger so she get petty much what ever she wants. One night she came into our room and wanted to sleep with us and daddy let her in with her sad face. I asked her do you have your daddy wrapped around your finger. She replied "yes, I do" it was the sweetest thing and she melted his heart right then and there. Kadie wanted a dollie cake so I decided once again to make her cake. It turned out really good she was very happy when she awoke from her nap! All the little girls wore their favorite princess costumes and they all dressed up with tiaras, rings, bracelets, and lip gloss. When it came time to open presents she couldn't wait. I have never heard so much screaming and excitement at a birthday party. She couldn't get them open fast enough and every girl there was screaming with delight over every new gift! The party was a hit, we have one happy 3 year old!!

Kaitlyn, Eva, Kadie, Belle, and Roxie hidding in the corner

With his eyes filled with excitement.......

2010-08-15T21:11:00.000-07:00

I took my kids fishing at Dankworth pond and both Ayden and Bailey caught a fish! Bailey has caught quite a few before but for Ayden this was his first. The look in his face was so cute. He jumped up and down screaming "I caught a fish I caught a fish". I took eight kids with me so it was quite the adventure. I made Bailey's friend Brennon hold the fish so I could pull it's hook out of it's mouth. The last time this happened I screamed every time it moved and this time was no different. Poor Brennon got cut by its fin cause I made him hold it I felt really bad. All of the little kids kept saying "It's bleeding poor thing" they were all amazed that a fish could bleed. It is so interesting how compassionate kids are toward animals. They felt really bad for this fish and on two different occasions two different kids said "I feel really bad for the worms cause they gotta die too". It about broke my heart! It was an awesome day even in 104 degree weather ;-)

Bailey's 12th Birthday Party

2010-08-01T00:33:00.000-07:00

For Baileys Birthday we had dinner and cake at Mary's house and then we took all of the kids to night bowling. We had a great time and were so glad the cousins could make it.

What silly boys!

Playing football

Bailey getting ready to blow out his candles

Jeremy thought it would be funny to push his face in the cake its a good thing Bailey thought it was funny too!

Litle miss Kadie being a little tom boy

me and Kadie

me and Ayden

Rita, Mitzi, Mary, and Marcie

David and grandma Rita being silly

Alec

Carlos

How Cute is He!

Dom,Carlos,Bailey,Alec,Gavin,Carsson,Connor

Brianna, Ayden, and Brendon at the bowling Alley

Ayden and Brendon

They were favored to win at our bowling game but Me and Jer made a big comeback and beat everyone!

Opening presents

Connor getting ready to bowl

Bailey's cake I made for him

One proud mom.....I love him so much he is such an amazing young man!

I couldn't be prouder.

The Tuscon Zoo

2010-07-31T16:51:00.000-07:00

The Tucson zoo is my absolute favorite zoo to visit! It is small enough that little kids can enjoy it and not get to tired. The flamingos are kadies favorite animals, she always says "this is how a flamingo stands" she stands with one leg up and one leg down just like a flamingo does. This time she also really enjoyed the snake exhibit. She couldn't pull herself away from the boa that was there to pet. The boys enjoyed the caymen and the ant eater. Most of the big animals were hiding but we got to enjoy all the little ones this time.

Feeding the Giraffe

kadie watching the otters

Kadies first broken nose

2010-07-09T15:49:00.000-07:00

So Kadie seems to be the one child that always gets hurt in our family. I think it's because she is the only girl and has to fight for what she wants. Trying to get away with what ever she took from one of her brothers she doesn't pay attention to where shes going and she thinks shes invinceable at this age. Well she was at grandmas while I was out to dinner with a friend. She loves to swing on her belly and before Mary knew it Kadie had slid off the swing face first and her hands didn't catch her it was her nose. She landed nose first and then to top it all of the swing came back and hit her in the head :(. Mary put her in the bath to clean her up and noticed that it wasn't getting better so she called me right away. When I got there she was still screaming histerically and her little nose was huge! Black and blue and red where all of the skin was taken off. I felt so bad it had to hurt like crazy. I had Kailee our family nurse come look at it for me and put ice on it to help the swelling. Today it looks not as bad as I thought it would I took some pictures of it. The pictures arn't great it is a little hard to see but you can see the swelling. I hope that it heals ok because no girl should have a bump on her nose.

4th of July Weekend in Pinetop

2010-07-09T15:30:00.000-07:00

Our family went to Pinetop for the weekend to enjoy some friends who play in the Renegades and to have some fun family time. We watched the parade then went go cart racing on Saturday. That night we drove 45 min to Sunrise to watch the fireworks over the lake. We didn't expect it to be so cold (50 degrees) we were very unprepared. After 45 min of waiting, everyone was done so we packed up and left. We didn't get to see any fireworks but no one seemed to mind. Warmth took over wanting to see fireworks. We made it in time for my lil Ayden to dance with all the girls. He became quite the ladies man. He loved asking all of the older ladies to dance. I think they loved it as much as he did. Kadie also thought she was the center of attention. Dancing in the middle of the dance floor and shakin her tooshie. Everyone had an amazing time.

At the parade in Showlow

Kadie and her Daddy

Gavin showing off the hat he got at the parade.

Bailey

This semi was in the parade and Ayden went crazy for it! He said "I want one of those".

Kailee and Brandon Saturday night at Charlie Clarks

Me and Bailey

Me and Ayden

Jer dancin with his baby girl!

The boys waiting for the fireworks with there glow hats on.

Kadie didn't have a glow hat so we made her one and it made her sooo happy!

Bailey and kadie at our hotel.

Ayden's semi truck made of legos

2010-06-29T18:49:00.000-07:00

Ayden was so proud that he made this semi out of legos. If anyone knows him very well he has a love for semi trucks and so when he was done with this he could not wait to show me! He wanted me to take a picture of it and send it to his dad right away! I thought it was sweet.....he is going to be just like his dad!

Biggie the hampster

2010-06-18T12:41:00.000-07:00

Gavin had a hampster named Hammy and well after much saddness trying to save him from dying he died and the whole family was sad. Gavin trained him to sit on his shoulder and he would walk around with him and he would never fall off or move he was the cutest thing and the cat and he had an amazing relationship. Our cat slick and hammy loved each other. normally a cat would try to eat a hampster but slick was deathly scared of him and after getting used to him they played and the few times hammy got out slick never ate him they just played like friends. Today we decided to get another hampster and so we went to the pet store. It is really funny how animals just love Gavin and all of the ones he has had they all have picked him out. We pulled our the hampsters that were short haired ones and he played with them for a minute and none of them really stood out. We then looked at the german and black bear hampsters and the only one that was left of the german hampsters crawled right into Gavin's hands. It was like that one was saying please take me home and he imediatly liked that one. It was the sweetest one and so he picked him. I don't know much about german hampsters but when we got it home I held it and oh my gosh! I'm not sure if its his balls or what it would be but they are huge. Me and the kids laughed about it for a while and Gavin said "I need to research that" I think he was a little disterbed. lol! Gavin decided to name him biggie. No, not because of his big balls or what ever it is but it is a little ironic. I now chuckle everytime I call him that name. So now we have a hampster again and I hope our luck is better with this one. For now everyone in the Bingham household is very happy campers.

Swimming

2010-06-18T12:19:00.000-07:00

We went swimming and here are some of the fun pictures that I took. The one of kadie wearing my sunglasses is very sweet on my heart.

What to do when someone forgets to put on panties!

2010-06-17T18:45:00.000-07:00

Well this evening I needed to go to Bashas and usually I only take Kadie because the boys HATE to go shopping (I think this is something boys are born with). Today though Gavin and Ayden decided they wanted to go with me. We all piled in the car and off to Bashas we go. As I pulled out Kadie when we got there I notice she has a little bare bottom, she has no panties on underneeth her skirt! I somehow missed this as I put her in the car. Quickly thought to myself, do I want to go home and get some and I think no way. I also don't want to have her stay in the cart with me because as any mom knows it is awsome when they are old enough to go into the play center and shopping in peace is AMAZING! Then I think I will just make one of the boys give her theirs. So I tell tell Gavin to quickly take off his underware and give them to me. After a quick "mom what will I wear" I say you have pants so you will be fine just give them to me. If anyone knows Gavin very well he has been my most modest son since he was very young. This is huge for him to give me his underware. I put his long underware on Kadie and off we go inside. As I am signing the kids in I think I should probably tell the lady why my daughter is wearing boys long underware (since they are sticking out from under her skirt). As I procede to tell her she starts to laugh so loud. I was a little startled and asked is that ok? She just keeps laughing and says ya its fine I have never had that happen in here before and I just feel bad for the son who had to give them up. Gavin wouldn't go in because his pants now wouldn't stay up so he said "mom I am going to walk around with you".Needless to say all ended up well for all. I got peace from a 2 year old and 6 year old, Gavin got a candy for giving up his underware (mom guilt) and Ayden didn't know any different.

Fun with cornstartch!

2010-06-17T11:36:00.000-07:00

The kids have been wanting to try out this experiment ever since I showed them this on you tube. You take corn starch and add water. It is amazing what it does. You can hit it and your hand will not go through it. It becomes a sold when it has pressure put on it. They also made it into balls and as soon as you stop rolling it, it becomes a liquid again. The kids played for hours with it and we made a huge mess but it was worth all of the fun that they had!

The picture is a little fuzzy but it is a ball in his hand as he is rolling it.

This picture is right after he stops rolling it it turns into a liquid again

Aydens Transition Kidergarten Graduation

2010-06-17T10:53:00.000-07:00

Ayden graduated from transition kindergarten this year and was very excited. This year was a great year for him at Pima. He learned so much and we are so glad we decided to put him Brighter Day. He made lots of friends but one that was particularly special to him was a girl named Matty. He always talked about her and said she was so nice. He also played with Austin, Luke, and Hunter and had many races with the tricycles around the pathway. I am so glad we decided to wait to put him in kindergaten he seems more ready now than last year. I can't believe I will have 3 children in school this year. This makes me sad because it seems they grow up so fast!

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MANY GIFTS OF THANKS

To thank all of the teachers and people that help within the schools I made them these. Thanks to my friend Becky letting me borrow a book for a few ideas (Thank You!). I think they turned out really good. I made a total of 12, there were a few teachers who were retiring so we wanted to thank them for there amazing dedication. We had 4 teachers and 8 helpers to surprise and I think they were pretty surprised. Gavin also gave his Ravens football jersey to his teacher. She was moving to Baltimore and we had the whole class sign it and we put it in a picture box. I didn't get a picture of that but he was very excited to give it to her. Thank you to all the teachers out there for all that you do for our kids we appreciate all of your dedication and hard work!

One Year Older!

2010-05-22T10:35:00.000-07:00

I think I am starting to embrace getting older. I don't like it but there is not much I can do, fighting it won't make me younger! This year I decided I wanted to go out of town for my birthday. I had not been out of town for 6 months because school didn't allow. I needed a break and relaxation. Me and Jer went to a resort and did nothing but eat, sleep and lay by the pool. Just what I needed a weekend of nothing! These pictures are a few that we took to remind us that we really need to do this more. The breakfast picture had a funny story to go with it. We got a $75 credit each night we stayed at this resort and planned on using it at the pool bar and the resturant Saturday evening. Well the pool bar closed early and the restaurant was only open for breakfast. Long story short we had $100 to spent on Sunday before noon. So we decided to eat a really big breakfast. As we ordered the lady said "wow thats going to be a big breakfast" and that time we were sitting at a small table for two. Jer then asked do we need to move to a bigger table and I laughed so hard! We never planned on eating all of the breakfast but we wanted to try and use some of the credit we still had. We both had an amazing time.

My bread

2010-05-22T09:57:00.000-07:00

Let me say that I love making bread! Well actually I love cooking!! Through out the years I have learned people either love to cook or absolutly hate it. Theres not alot of in between that I have seen. It brings me such happiness and joy and it's very relaxing for me. I have learned so much about baking and cooking since I started and obviously I am still learning. I decided to try a new recipie for a honey white bread. I found out a little trick to yeast and decided to try it to see if it would make a difference in how my bread would rise and boy did it! It turned out HUGE, I have never had bread rise so big! I chuckled to myself as Bailey walked by he said "wow, thats really big bread". My kids love homemade bread and I havn't had time to make it, so this made my kids really excited and they could hardly wait for it to cool.

Ayden's 6th birthday

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This is the face of one excited kid! Ayden asked me to make him a semi truck for his birthday cake. Being the mother I am, I love a good challenge. I looked at a few pictures to get an idea of how to pull this task off and decided that I could do it. I had a friend Missy Windsor help me with the fondant. I had never made it before and so I called her to help and I am so glad she did. It wasn't hard but it could have been a little tricky figuring it out on my own. I used a poster board to put the cake on that way I could make it a really BIG one like Ayden requested. Cuting out the cake was not to bad but with this particular cake mix I used getting the icing to stick to the cake was not an easy task! FYI, milk chocolate cake mix is not the best kind to use. Missy had the same experience it turns out very crumbly. Rolling out the fondant was really easy and I think it turned out really good for my first time making a cake like this. As you can see in the picture Ayden was stoked. His face is priceless hopefully this memory is one that lasts. We played a games having the kids wrap the older kids in tiolet paper like a mummy. I think the younger ones thought this was quite funny! The party turned out really good. I can't believe Ayden is 6 time has flown by and he has gotten so big. He is still the same sweet caring and crazy boy and we just love him!

Easter

2010-04-26T10:13:00.000-07:00

We had a big family reunion the day before Easter in Mesa so the kids had such a fun Easter weekend. We all enjoyed visiting with family and watching the kids play. On Easter we hung out at the house and the kids hunted eggs. They had money and candy in them again this year. It seems to be the best for both ages the little ones love the candy and the bigger ones love the money. There were over 250 eggs and it still amazes me how quick they find all of the eggs! Well I guess if I were finding eggs with money or candy in them I would be fast to!! It was such a beautiful day and everyone had a blast.

Childrens Museum

2010-04-26T09:45:00.000-07:00

On the kids spring break we took them to Phoenix to have a little fun. We took them to the Childrens Museum. We had never been before and it was alot of fun for the little kids. For Bailey and Gavin it wasn't as fun. It was geared more for little kids. They all did have fun in the noodle maze!

Playing with play-dough

Bingham family Reunion

2010-04-05T00:38:00.000-07:00

What an amazing time we all had! It was Jeremy's family reunion held at Dan and Michelle Dahl's home in Mesa Az. The kids all enjoyed playing together and what a beautiful day! Their home is amazing every kids dream.....Pool, basketball court, swing set, trampoline, I could go on and on! We had a nice time visiting and seeing people we had not seen in a long time. Jeremy is very lucky to have such a big extended family. Mine is small and so it is nice to see what my kids will have compared to how it was for me growing up. I hope all of the cousins remain close throught the many years, what fun they all have together. I know my kids just adore everyone and can't wait to play everytime we all have a chance to get together.

Boys will Be boys

Kids had a blast in the pool!

What seem like good ideas!

2010-03-09T21:26:00.000-08:00

I thought I would share a funny story about my daughter and what she thought were good ideas today. As I was fixing dinner I noticed that Kadie was quiet, and anyone who has been around her for more than a day knows that is BAD! So I went looking for her and found her in her room. What I saw when entering was hilarious, she had found the vicks mentholatum rub and decided that it would be a good idea to rub this all over her body!!! As I found her I said " Kadie what are you doing?" and she replied "look I slippery!" indeed she was. I would have thought that it would burn but apparantly not, so off to the tub we went to get cleaned up. Shortly after eating dinner...the same night. I was cleaning up and again she was quiet and not chatting at my leg. So I again went looking for her and found her in Baileys room. She had found a water cup that he keeps next to his bed. It was empty thank goodness, because what I saw made me chuckle. She was naked still because of the prior episode and so she decided that she would stick this cup between her legs and pee in it! I was impressed, she did not spill but two little drops and any girl knows that is talent! I just didn't know that was hers until tonight. She looked up at me as I said why did you pee in this cup? She said "What" like she did nothing wrong. I guess if a girl gotta pee then pee in the closest thing to ya and for her that was an empty cup.

Jeremy and the kids

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We wanted a fun picture of the kids and Jer. Its so hard to have everyone look at the same time!

It's a little fuzzy but thats ok we had a good laugh trying to get a good one.

Snow

2010-01-07T13:32:00.000-08:00

On January 3rd we decided to take all of the kids and go to Mt. Graham to see how much snow was left that we could play in. Suprisingly there was a lot left. We had a good time we all went sledding then the boys had a snow ball fight! Ayden and Gavin did find out that you don't wear tennies and ankle socks to play in snow! There feet were frozen and we had to use plastic bags to cover there feet to keep the snow out. It was a good lesson learned for them!

A New Year

2010-01-07T13:06:00.000-08:00

With this being a New Year I am going to try and be better about blogging. My life has become so crazy I had to pick and choose the things that were most important and so my blogg suffered. I love doing it so much, so I have decided that this year I am going to make this one of my important things to do! In our first family picture of the New Year as you can see Ayden is not quite awake. He didn't make it to the new year before falling asleep on the couch. It was a little rough waking up to everyone crowding around you to take a picture. The 2009 year was a very big year for our family that held a lot of changes. We made it through all of them and now are looking forward to this year. Our kids are growing up so fast, right before our eyes. Hopefully this year we will be able to continue to have all of the happiness we have found in 2009.

A little family get together for Baileys Birthday.

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Ayden and Brenden

All of the adults decided to play football and have a little fun.

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Kadie so cute!

Boys still trying to get Aydens water balloons.

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Ayden running from the kids because he is the only one with water balloons left!

I filled an entire icechest with water balloons for them to throw and get cooled off.

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Kadie

Kadie and her cousin Brianna

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Bailey just turned eleven and wow has time flown by! We can't believe he is already this old. Seven more years until he graduates! That is scary, it makes me feel that time has flown by and how did it happen so fast. I am so thankful he was our first child he has always been the most loving and genuinely caring. He is a great big brother and role model to all of his siblings. We asked him what he wanted to do for his birthday and he decided go carts would be a fun idea. He invited Walker and away we went to the F 1 Race Factory in Phoenix for the day! We had never been to this one but it was a blast!! The go carts were really fast for the adult about 45 mph and kids were 25 mph I believe. It doesn't seem fast but on a curvy inside track it is. We raced, ate and played arcade games. As you can see in the pictures everyone had such a good time. I would suggest this to anyone that has kids about this age you can't go wrong when its 120 degrees out side and you can race in an air conditioned building.

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Bailey and walker racing for first!

Bailey

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Bailey and walker it must be the age they are both to cool to smile!

The 24th of July

2009-08-01T15:14:00.000-07:00

In the photo Bailey Dallas, Gavin, Tammy(in the back),Kadie and Ayden. Jeremy's cousins Rick and Tammy pierce let us stay with them for the weekend. We took the truck up to St. Johns for there 24th of July parade our cousin Kent asked Jeremy if he would put the truck in the parade. It is tradition that there is usually water on floats to get the crowd wet and the people in the crowd get the people on the floats wet. All of the kids on the float had such a good time. Everyone was soaked by the end and the kids enjoyed throwing water balloons into the crowds of people. We also ran into Jeremy's uncle Dick, what a surprise. He was just as surprised to see us, expected to see us up north in a parade. I am sure we will be back next year.

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Kadie

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Tammy and Kadie.

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Gavin squirtin people!

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My beautiful daughter! Some girls wake up the same as they went to sleep, hair not messed up. Not my daughter, every morning and after every nap we are in wonder of how crazy her hair will be! This day was one of the Craziest! I had to take a picture, she has just woken up as you can guess by the confused look on her face. I hope that it gets better the older she gets. This might limit the future boyfriends......but then again Jer will be ok with that.

4th of July in Springerville and Luna.

2009-08-01T14:25:00.001-07:00

So, I am the worst at keeping up with pictures and stories but I am trying, it feels as though there is not enough time in the day to do all the things I need to do! With Jeremy working in St. Johns I am a single mother during the week and boy is it exhausting! We did get to spend the weekend of July 4th in Springerville with some friends of ours and we had so much fun. The parade there is awesome we loved it! The kids couldn't get enough candy, there pockets were bulging and in Safford they don't allow you to throw candy so our kids thought it was the best. There was a float that was the statue of liberty and it was HUGE, they made it so that it would fold down when it went over the power lines. It was the hit of the parade the crowd loved it. Our friends Wayne and Roxanne Clifford have land in Luna so we were able to camp for the weekend. The only thing I didn't plan for was getting sun burned. Who thinks of sunscreen when you go camping? I guess I should have as we all got really sunburned. We brought our kids four wheelers and they were able to ride around during the day. Jerry and Julie Rojas came with us and there kids. Jobi had not ridden one alone before and I think we all had a heart attack every time he rode! He was so tiny on this four wheeler and I think it was a little hard to get the hang of it. I think all we said to the poor kid was STOP and SLOW DOWN! He eventually got it so it was a little easier for him to ride.

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Kadie watching the parade

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What cute kids!

Fishing at Roper Lake

2009-05-28T13:52:00.000-07:00

Both of Bailey fish that he caught. He was the only one to catch fish that day only because it takes you leaving your pole out long enough to catch anything! Ayden and Gavin were more interested in casting it into the lake and then reeling it back in as fast as you can to throw it back out again. This was a new experience for me to take all four kids fishing with no guy around. I have never had to take a hook out of a fishes mouth before. Ewwwwwwww it was horable! Those things are slippery little suckers! Bailey held the fish as i tried to get the hook out and every time it moved i screamed. Bailey kept saying "oh come on mom seriously". I know its only a fish but it is still slimy and it could eat me, or at least bit me! After we got the hook out of the first fishes mouth Bailey accidentally dropped it and it almost landed on me, so of course i screamed and kadie was on the ground behind Bailey clueless as to what was going on it flopped over next to her foot and the look on her face trying to get out of the way well lets just say it was priceless! She didn't know why i was screaming and then all of a sudden something she had never seen before was coming at her i thought I was going to pee my pants. Like mother like daughter i guess. Hopefully i will get better at this or even better I think I will take Jeremy with me to help or take someone else with me.

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Bailey and Kadie

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Ayden

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Gavin

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All of the kids taking pictures even though they didn't want to. As you can see Gavin will not smile in any picture no matter what i do. This time i told him that if he didn't smile i would throw him in and to no surprise he got thrown in!

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All of us at Roper lake.

Ayden's preschool graduation

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These are the best teachers ever! Mrs. Bryce and Mrs. Crocket he loved them and couldn't wait to see them everyday. He misses them and still talks about them every week.

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Ayden with his friend Maddox.

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Aydens preschool graduation he was very excited! I think he is sad to leave all of his friends there, he keeps saying do i have school today?

Angels must be watching at all times.

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We caught her after she had climbed into her baby walker I don't know how she didn't fall. She is always climbing onto everything now she has figured out how to move thing to get onto things that she can't reach on her own! I have a feeling we are into trouble.

Ayden's 5th Birthday

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We had a small party for Aydens 5th birthday and rented a jumping castle for all of the kids to play in. The night before at about 8:30 we got a call saying that the people who had the jumpy castle canceled! There was a 20% chance for rain and supposedly strong gusts of wind. We were in a panic what were we going to do with a ton of boys! Luckily we have an enclosed back yard so with a lot of sweet talking and promising to take it down if it got really windy they came. We were really excited, to try and fing something to do for kids at the last minute. I thought i was going to have to pull every kid game from my memory bank yikes!

The Gigantic Pool!!

2009-05-09T14:21:00.000-07:00

Ok, so i went to the store to buy a pool for the kids and all i wanted was one that was not to fancy but good enough for a couple of weeks or so.I opened this pool and blew it up and couldn't help but laugh. It was not going to be big enough for four kids it was barley big enough for one! Jeremy called it a bird bath and that was about right it was funny seeing all of these kids try to fit in this tiny pool, boy do they make the pictures on the box seem bigger than they really are!

Brandon and Kailee's Wedding

2009-05-09T13:56:00.000-07:00

So the day has come that we have all been waiting for!Brandon and Kailee to get married. The day couldn't have been more beautiful, the weather was fantastic. Kailee looked so beautiful and (Brandon looked handsome too!) They were married on the 24th of April and it turned out great.

Here are a few pictures of me, Jer and the kids.
We all had such a great time and are really happy for
the both of them.

Aydens surgery

2009-03-28T22:38:00.000-07:00

Ayden had surgery on the 16th of March to have his tonsils taken out. He was such a trooper and didn't even cry when he had to be taken back to the operating room without mom and dad. When he came out of surgery was a different story. By the time we were able to go back and see him our first sight of him was him screaming and flailing about at the nurses trying to hold him down. All he would say was that he couldn't breath and that he wanted to go outside. He must have felt scared especially when everything is swollen and hurting. He kept rubbing his nose and at first we thought there was something wrong with him but the nurse assured us that it is a side effect from the anesthesia. What we found interesting is about 15 min after Ayden came out another boy had just been wheeled out of surgery from having his tonsils removed doing all of the exact same things except it took 5 nurses to hold him down. After about 5000 Popsicles and lots of medicine hes jumping around and being himself. His demeanor is so different and he has a different voice its a little crazy we didn't expect his voice to change but we were hoping for him to be a little nicer and no so tired and cranky all day. This change is a nice one and he seems much happier and well rested every morning.

Sedona

2009-03-28T21:26:00.000-07:00

While in Cottonwood we decided to go to Sedona and check it out since we havn't ever been. It was a nice trip we decided to go to a look out and then we grabbed some lunch and headed out for a park. It was a nice park with a streem that our kids wanted to get into. Way to cold and it was sprinkling off and on so we wouldn't let them. We walked the trail that was there while the kids gathered every walking stick available. We wern't able to see much of the town so we plan to go back and see more.

Out of Africa

2009-03-28T20:57:00.000-07:00

During spring break we took the kids and headed to cottonwood to go to the Out Of Africa Zoo. We tried to meet Becky and Justin Cluff but the schedules didn't work out they ended up going a day before us. The kids loved feeding the giraffe Kimo and we spent a lot of time with the rhino (Boom Boom). He seemed to like Gavin's whistle and came to us when Gavin whistled at him. He was the coolest animal! His head weighed 1000 pounds :-0. We did not realize that until my good friend Becky Cluff told us (we must have missed the memo). He kept resting his head on things and we just thought it was funny and that he must have been tired. If i had a head that weighed that much i would rest it to. There tiger show was awesome for the kids they enjoyed watching them run around and jump in the pool. We all had a great time.

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What must she be thinking?

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If there was anything that I could have it would be a pair of eyes in every room. My daughter is a tornado. I try to keep up with her but some days I am exhausted and just want to lay down for a moment! We have had the opportunity to experience the exciting exploration with our daughter. From powdered sugar to corn starch to markers and so on you probably get the point. I just wonder what she thinks, it has to be fun to be able to explore so many new things because your parents are exhausted and can't keep you out of everything. She had a blast with corn starch and found out that it doesn't taste as good as it is fun to play with. Our cat slick was even a victim apparantly he got a little to close. Before Kadie was born i think I had a crazy idea that girls were nice, gentle, and played so quietly with toys. Not my daughter, having three brothers has helped her be the complete opposite. She can scrap with the best of them and can take down her 10 year old brother in a heartbeat. The other two don't have much of a chance either she has learned how to get what she wants from all of them. I think she knows that shes the princess and she will find someone to give her what she wants out of six people one of us will give in.