A few baby pictures...

Little baby Rebekah is such a joy in our lives!! We are so blessed to have her in our home. She is such a good baby!! I absolutely love being a mom! I have all these beautiful girls that make every day an adventure...

Fun at the ranch!!

Saturday Randy went to work in Moapa, so I decided to ride down with him and go to my parent's house. Ammon and Lisa, Rachel and Richard, and Bailey and Josh were all there too! The kids all had a blast playing together.


Naomi and Bowen were best buds...

Stetsy saddled the horse and gave all the kids rides. She is such a good aunt!

Emma, Natalie, and Halle were all best buds too...

Little miss Maddie:

And Brinklee too! She had a blast with the ashes from the fire place. I guess Maddie did the same thing the day before.

We had a good time visiting with each other. I am glad we were able to go down there.

Naomi

Little Naomi is such a character! She is so full of energy, and keeps us very busy every day. She is such a joy in our lives; I don't know what we would do without her. She loves to sing and dance, and do the fun things her sisters are doing. She absolutely loves her baby sisters and can't get enough hugs and kisses from them. This is her Valentine hair-do. She loved it! I am just happy that her hair is finally long enough (again) to do something cute with it...

Aunt Lisa Comes to visit

A few days ago we were lucky enough to have Lisa and a couple of her kids come and visit us, and see baby Rebekah. It was so good to get to visit with her, and the kids had a blast playing together. Bailey and Josh came too, and brought a couple of cute Korean girls. It was a party! Lisa and Bailey also cleaned up my kitchen, which I am truly grateful for!

5 Girls!!!

After going 16 days over due, our precious baby girl is finally here!! I haven't been able to get many pictures of her, so I will have to update soon. We delivered her in the hospital this time, which was a different, but good experience. She came on January 31st. She weighed 9lbs 9.5oz, and was 21 inches long. Everything went great, and we are both doing very well. Her sisters love her SO much!! I think all we do every day is pass her around, and my turn is when she needs to nurse. She is a very good baby, and we have lots of very good little helpers.

41 1/2 weeks

Well, I am now 10 days over due!! I feel pretty good, but I am awkward (of course). Some days I just want to cry my eyes out and get it over with, but most days I am okay with it. I have always gone over due, and I should be used to it, but I let myself get my hopes up this time. I thought...."maybe this time will be different" haha, I should not do that to myself!! Anyway, here are a couple over due pictures:

Birthdays!!!

If you think we can't party enough, within a week after Christmas, we have 3 birthdays!!! So far, I can get away with having one party for them all on the same day. Briallen turned 2, Natalie turned 5, and was the same age as Emma for 2 days (they think that it is pretty fun to be "twins" for a couple days)!! And then Emma turned six. I can't believe they are growing up so fast! I can't believe I have a 6 year old...wow!
Anyway, they had a really good time. We invited over Grandma and Grandpa Hare, and Andy and Jason, and had taco soup and cake and ice cream. Later on,
Uncle Pat and Aunt Zolene showed up and visited for a while.

Randy decorates the kids' cakes every year. The kids love that Daddy made their cake, and so do I!! He does a good job. This one was a little challenging because we didn't have very good frosting to work with, but the kids loved it!!
They wanted their birthday to be a pajama party, so we all wore pajamas...(I'm glad I didn't have to change...lol).

Christmas time has come and gone!!

Extremely long post:

Christmas was wonderful! We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas day at my parents house, and then we spent the next day with Randy's family. We had a lot of gifts, and a lot of fun. I love this time of year....I want my whole year to be as good as Christmas. Everyone is so full of the spirit, and giving, and loving, and I love to reflect on the birth of our Savior.


This is the tree on Christmas Eve, right before we went to bed:
Briallen got a cute baby that blinks, cries, and makes all sorts of noises. She loves babies!!

Emma is trying out their new Bella Ballerina video

This reminds me of when I was little.....or even still now sometimes. There is nothing like curling up next to my dad and enjoying each other's company. I am glad my kids enjoy it too. They are looking at an awesome book that Ammon and Lisa gave them. It is their blog...I have been wanting to do that, so I will have to ask Lisa what she had to do!

Natalie got some dress up stuff, and she was happy as can be!

Everyone loves Aunt Bay!!

These next 2 should be at the top, they are of the kids waiting for everyone to wake up so that we could start opening presents.

And these next few are when we had our Christmas party with Randy's family.

Grandma gave all of my girls these matching little outfits, they all look so cute in them. People can't tell if I have twins, triplets, or what's going on!

Uncle Jason gave all of the girls colored hair pieces, and they had a blast with them.

Another baby!! I don't think she could have too many...hehe

We all watched the kids open their gifts, and then they went upstairs and played while the adults played the funnest white elephant gift exchange game I have ever played. It was so much fun spending time with family. We are so blessed that we live close enough to be able to do that.

Emma's dance recital

Emma has been in a tap dance class for the last few months, and we just had her first dance recital. She did so awesome!!! She had all the dance moves memorized, and she was right on beat the whole time. It was so adorable seeing all those little girls on stage dancing.
This is her on the big stage:
And these next few are from the previous night on a smaller stage:

Just like Daddy!

The other day I looked over, and Briallen had propped herself right next to randy in the same position he was in. I love it when they do things like this! It was so cute. When I got out the camera and told her to say "cheese", this is what I got! Her new smile in front of a camera. lol.

34 weeks

This post is a little over a week late, but this is me at 34 weeks. The pictures are horrible, but I like to show my kids how big I get when they are in my tummy. :) I am now 35 weeks; only 5 more weeks till my due date!! Which means most likely I will have her in 7 weeks! The time has actually flown by for me this time. I am glad I still have a little while, because I have a lot to do before she gets here.

From Fall to Winter...

One day we are all playing in the leaves, and the next day we have a thin coat of snow covering everything. The kids are having a blast in this cold weather! Randy gathered up leaves so they could jump in them, and they loved it! The next day when it snowed they all ran out and made snow angels and ate the fresh snow. I love this time of year!

Santa's bad list

Emma gave me this list that she made last night while she was supposed to be sleeping. She said that it is a list of bad things that she wants to give to Santa so he can add it to his bad list. I LOVE this stage when kids spell out words how they sound! It is definitely a stinkin' cute bad list!!

Starting from the top, this is what the list says, and what she explained to me:

Baby: a bad, mean baby doll. one that pushes

spiders

lions

tigers

bad guys

wolves

ghosts

coyotes

no one knows what this one says

bumble bees

mosquitoes

wasps

owes (how do you spell that?) owee? hmm

poison

poison spiders

jumping spiders

My little performer

Every year Lins grocery store has a holiday event with entertainment, games, and prizes. Usually every year Randy's sister, Bea puts together some dances and musical numbers and I sing with them. This year my girls wanted to sing Jingle Bells, which surprised me because they are SO shy! But they practiced over and over again with the karaoke tape. Especially Emma. She had it perfected. Naomi, however would only practice a couple times, and said that she didn't want to sing. When we got to Lins, Emma refused to even go up to the mic, and when Natalie got up there and realized that Emma wasn't going to sing, she wouldn't either. Naomi was excited to get her own microphone, and stood there and sang the whole song by herself! It was so adorable! This picture isn't very good, but Randy only took one, so it's my only option. I was so proud of my little singer, and happy that at least one of them sang so we didn't make too big of a scene.

Some cute moments...

I am sure that most of you will not think these are funny, or they wont make any sense to you, but I had to journal them so that I would remember, so you can skip this post if you want.

The other day Emma and Natalie decided they wanted to make a Christmas list. They were asking me for help on how to spell things. When they got to the end of their list, they both decided to ask for $100! Man, I hope they get it, and maybe I will ask for money too!

A few days later, Katie's kids came to play while she ran some errands in St.George. She had bought her kids some donuts to eat on the way because they left so early, but Daniel is the only one who will eat donuts, so they had a bunch left over. Katie brought them in to share with my kids. Emma decided that she had wanted one, but Leah had warned her that they were "NOT good". I told her that she could try one and decide if she liked them or not. She took it outside where they were playing, and not long after, came in and said "mom, Leah said that if I eat this then I am not American"..... I was trying so hard not to laugh, but where do kids come up with these things?? lol

Today Briallen was climbing all over me and moving all around, and I was trying to pay a few bills, so I told her to play with my hair. She started playing with it, left the room, and then came back to play with it some more. It wasn't long before I realized that she had caked the top of my head with conditioner! I guess that is her way of telling me that I need to shower or something!

I love doing Temple work!!

A couple weeks ago, some of us in Randy's family were able to go to the temple and do some family sealings. It was such and awesome experience! The spirit was so strong there. Both Randy's Mom and Dad were able to be sealed to thier parents. I am so glad I was able to be there.