My morning surprise!

NO LIE!! This is my story--I came down stairs this morning and saw this HUGE scorpion on the floor and thought to myself--silly Devin trying to scare me with a fake scorpion; so I kicked it with my foot and thought, "did that just move?" so I threw a box at it to see if it was real or not, and OH MY GOODNESS it moved!! I almost had a heart attack! For a split second I thought to myself, "can I leave that there until Devin gets home?" So what is a mother to do when there is a Ginormous creature in her house threatening the well being of her small children? She calls her sister in law that lives next door and asks her to come and kill it! :) I cannot do scorpions so thank goodness my sister in law Camille is braver than me and rushed right over to save the day! Thanks Camille!!!

My young photographer

Several years ago we finally got a digital camera because I can't tell you how many times I went to develop a roll of film and ended up paying for a whole roll of snap shots that my wonderful children had taken! Thank goodness for a digital world and now I can look through the pictures before I have to spend money on them. They have actually gotten quite good at it as you can see from Emmys run with the camera yesterday!

Two of my sweet boys

How cute are my boys?? I knew it was bound to happen--after 9 years of having kids, one of my babies wanted to go to someonelse in their time of need! Brigham was a sad little boy today when I was changing his diaper and when I was trying to console him after I was done he was into that; until Austin came by. Then he lunged for him and just laid his head down on his shoulder and sobbed. It was so adorable!! The smiley picture was when he realized I had the camera and instantly stopped crying and flashed me his sweet smile! What a doll!

Emberlyns 1st dance recital!

So, I was probably THE proudest Mom ever @ Emmys first dance recital on Saturday June 9th. I felt so silly b/c I was actually tearing up when she was on stage! What a goofy Mom!! She did such a wonderful job and not to mention how adorable she looked in her costume. I am really lucky that she isn't a "clingy" child. I was a "Stage Mom" and took care of all the girls in her class during the show and it made me grateful for the sweet, happy girl she is!

Brinley & Piper

Brinley loves babies!! It is so funny to watch her b/c she would rather play--ok attack--a baby than just about anything else. Brigham looks at babies like, oh cool, then walks off. The last picture you can't see Brynns face very well, but she is sobbing b/c I took Piper out of the car seat. It was way too cute! Someone said to me once, "I think that's why you are supposed to have so many babies, cuz your kids just adore them." It is really fun watching all my kids swoon over a new baby! :)

(photos taken May 28th Brinley is 1 year old and Piper is 6 weeks old)

The "cutest couple"

I just love to brag about my new "soon to be" sister--aren't they just the cutest!! I loved all their engagement pictures! My nephew Christopher did their photo shoot as well as all the ones for my sisters wedding (which I can't wait to see!) If you ever need a photographer--OR videographer; he's your man. He is so talented and I love looking at his pictures! It helps too when the couple is so stinkin cute!! Love ya!

Amandas shower of gifts!

We had so much fun at Amandas bridal shower on
Saturday June 2nd. She got a lot of great stuff and it was so fun to get to spend time with family......again. :) We really do love getting together. The picture under me and my sisters is my mom and her sisters and their mom.

Baby Pipers blessing day

Ok, so it is going to take me all week to get this blog up to date!! Finally all of my Crazies are out of the way for now, girls camp is over, Amanda finally got hitched so now life can somewhat get back to normal--although I'm not quite sure what normal is anymore!! :) Here are some beautiful pictures from Pipers blessing on June 10th. What a beautiful baby! We love her so much and are so blessed to have her in our family.

Happy Wedding Day Jessica!!

My niece Jessica got married this Friday! Isn't she beautiful! Her family is the reason I met Devin--her mom is Devins sister and they moved across the street from our family when I was 11 (Jessica was only 18 mo. old!) She has grown up so fast--I feel like my first baby got married! I was their live in babysitter basically for 5 years! We had a wonderful day and the reception was fantastic!

Masons graduation

Mason was so excited to graduate Kindergarten. He might actually be repeating; we aren't sure yet, because he is the youngest in his class and it wouldn't hurt to do it over again--but we did the graduation thing anyways. He was so funny cuz when we went to take pictures of him he said, "wait, wait, we have to go to the picture wall" so we are thinking that maybe they did some cute thing on the wall for the Kindergartners to get their pictures taken.....nope--it was just a wall next to the custodians closet! So I'm not sure where he got that, but we usually don't know where he comes up with his stuff. He is such a great boy, we love having him in our family and keeping us laughing! Liberty got her own shoes and I didn't see them until we got there--I guess next time I will check BEFORE we leave. :)