More bday fun for Spencer

Some of Spence's family was gone over his birthday so we celebrated a few days later.  We went to a yummy dinner with my parents and Sky & Matt as well which was so fun!

Getting ready to open presents...who do you think was more excited? Spence or all the kids?

 Yummy cake and home-made peach ice cream from our very own tree - de-lish!

 Everyone eating - I love being all together!

Spence, our cute kiddies and Grandma Morris 

 Uncle Andrew with Kristin and Mike's kids : Ty, Brinlee and Hayden

Logan didn't get quite as messy with daddy's cake :) but he tried!

Fun at a park in the middle of nowhere!

After we had a fun filled morning at the kids preschool field trip, we headed off to the middle of nowhere near Copperton to visit a really fun park there.  My friend Roxy lives "near" there sort of and said it was super fun so we had to check it out! 

My little Logan cruisin' around thinking he is one of the big kids!

It got a little crazy with Logan so thankfully my friend Ang brought her pack n play for her little Karson and our two boys had a blast playing together

Cute friends!

This is my amazing friend Julie - she was pushing Karson and Logan in the swing and they absolutely loved it!  She is so fun

Yah boys!  They had so much fun and fit just great!

Roxy's Reese and Rio are two little monkeys - they both are super strong little girls and love climbing

We were trying to get a pic of all the kids...so of course all the moms had to help out and make sure they didn't fall off :)

My Rio was in front too so I was extra cautious she would be safe

And here you go!  All the kiddies together - we were just missing Logan and Karson.

We're so lucky to have such a great group of friends to play with

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Avery, Reese, Mason, Jax, Molly, Hannah, Hunter, Lucas, Caden, Eden, Bella, Austin, Lia and Rio



What a great group of mommies too - they are all hands on and I love it!

Pre-school field trip to Wheeler Farm

My kids absolutely love their preschool and have had so much fun so far!  They even got to do a field trip early October to Wheeler Farm and were so excited that their teacher Miss Catie got to go with them - what a treat that was!

Collecting a leaf pile while we waited for everyone to get there

 See how many I have?  Austin was so proud of himself

 Listening to our tour guide who would take us around for the day

 For some reason, my kids absolutely love the Blacksmith and were completely engaged

 Then we were ready to feed the ducks and they thought it was so cool to do this with their teacher and not just mommy

 I was really nervous that they would just be a little more clingy since I was there but they were amazing!  They listened and followed their teacher and did awesome

 This little cute boy in their class has a crush on Rio

His mom said that he came home after the 1st day and said there was a very cute girl in his class.  Then the 2nd day, he said, "mom, I'm excited to go and see Rio.  She's the prettiest girl in the city!"

I thought that was so cute!  What a sweet boy he is and it gave me a little glimpse of what is to come in the future..YIKES!

Then we played at the park there for awhile and had a great time...even this adorable guy who I found underneath the big log :)

Man, he is cute!

Happy birthday Spence! (Sept)

Happy birthday sweetie!

So cute! My sweet Spence and 3 of the 4 kiddos

 They were so happy to share gifts with daddy

 YUMMY spelling cologne!  Austin asks almost every day to smell like daddy - so sweet

 Happy birthday Spencer - cute new sweater!

 Spence could barely open his presents without his special helpers

 Aww..love you daddy!  Happy birthday

 7 candles to represent 37 years!  Didn't think 37 would fit this year :)

 Logan and daddy

And blow!!!!

Love you Spencer.  Thank you so much for all you do and all your hard work both at work and at home.  We wouldn't know what to do without you, especially little Logan - he loves you and gets so excited to see you.  Know how much we love you!

Party at Jungle Jim's!

Happy birthday to Brinlee!

We had such a fun September filled with birthdays and cousin Brinlee's was the first one to celebrate!

Aunt Kristin had us all go to Jungle Jim's Playland to play and share in fun with "B"

First stop: carousel! Jax and Brinlee

 It is funny what a difference a few months make - the kids had an absolute blast on these swings and got right in and right out all my themselves!

 Wheee!!

 Who wants to get spinning?

Austin had a great time spinning around with Hayden

 Our next stop was the bumper cars and cute Brinlee was able to go with Cole and take him around - they ended up spinning in a  circle the entire time but they didn't seem to mind.  Not one bit!

 Rio went with Hayden and was happy to let her drive her around :)

 And my boys had a great time!  They struggled a bit driving but eventually got the hang of it and had so much fun

 Here they are!  So cute kids

 Oh man!  I really didn't think the kids would have fun on this super speedy express but I was wrong once again!  They absolutely loved it.

Ty, Austin and Jax

Hayden and Rio

Ethan and Brinlee - she was so super sweet and put her arm around him the whole time - sweet cousin

 We're ready...

 I was so proud of Austin for taking Cole on the planes - he did a great job flying him high and low and all around

 It was hard for Logan to sit and watch all the kids play :(  He found a cute little boat to sit in and loved it!

 What do you think?

 Please let me go on the swings mommy?

Poor little guy was "jailed" while he watched the big kids

 And yet again, we ended up in his boat to make him happy - what a sweet boy!

 Yummy pizza and cupcakes for all!

Happy birthday B!  We love you sweetie pie!

Absolute miracle!

Well I already knew that I had miracle children and am so incredibly grateful to live in this day and age where we have incredibly talented and knowledgeable doctors and procedures that have allowed us to have children.  Our triplets were a 2% chance and yet we have incredibly amazing almost 4 year old healthy triplets!  Then our little Logan came next and we were so lucky that IVF worked for us once again!  We have been so blessed and so fortunate to have our little 4 cuties.

 

When Logan was born, Spencer and I sort of jokingly talked about maybe giving it one year to see if we could get pregnant and have one more baby.  I say jokingly, because it hasn't happened on it's own for 10 years so why would it happen now right? Well, the month before Logan turned one, I found out I was pregnant!  Yep, that's right.  Isn't that the craziest thing ever?

I was packing for girls camp that I attended in July and was looking at the packing list at the "bathroom products" and it occurred to me that I hadn't used any of those for quite a while....

I quickly did the math and remembered that it had been about 5 weeks but I figured that I was probably just stressed about camp and leaving the kids so I packed some for camp and then that whole week didn't start...and the week after I didn't start...and then I started to feel "sick" at night and Spence laughingly said, "maybe you're pregnant."  I looked at him a little puzzled and said, "um...maybe I am."

Sure enough!  + pregnancy test :)

 

I called the doctor a few weeks later and got in to verify the test I had taken and here is what we saw

Our newest miracle with a strong little heartbeat!

This was we were told during our fertility days would be a 1/10,000 chance so yah, I'd say it is a miracle!

I was in denial for about 6 weeks and some days, I still am in shock that we will have 5 children 4 and under when this one is born in March but you'll hear no complaints from me.  We are so lucky and so incredibly blessed and pray daily we will raise this miracles right.

Can't wait to meet you cutie!