I LOVE SPRING!!

The past few days the weather has been so nice, and so beautiful outside. I just love the feeling Spring time gives me. I am so grateful for this beautiful earth that the Lord has created for us. We are so blessed!!

Rebekah

Rebekah is such a sweet baby! She is always so happy, and SO patient!!

I just love her so much!!

She was in a deep conversation in this picture:

Trouble....

Izzy and Nomi....need I say more?? This is one of the many adventures they have together!

Tinkerbell all tuckered out...

Natalie loves to wear dress up. She will wear it every day if she can. The other day she layed down by the fireplace and fell asleep....she looked so comfy!

Spring Break

Let's just say that it wasn't what we were expecting, but the kids still loved it!!

Happy Birthday Randy!!!

On March 6th it was Randy's birthday. His family all came over, and his mom made him his favorite "cake". It was a lot of fun! I have a bunch of number candles, but I don't have any 3's. I just picked the ones that were closest to his age. He is actually 33, but we got a good laugh out of it anyway.

These are pies that Randy's mom makes, and they are absolutely divine!! :)

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.