I am thankful for KNEES!!!

SO.... On sunday we get out of church and I am standing next to the couch ready to put Jacob into his carseat and all of a sudden my knee POPS and I fall to the ground. As I am falling I throw sleeping Jacob on the couch and land in a big pile! Everyone is wondering what is wrong with me for throwing my baby and laying on the floor and I am in so much pain that I can't move, breathe, think, etc... Finally I crawl up onto the couch and tell them that my knee is hurting so bad that I am going to throw up. They run get Shawn, he takes me home and then to instacare. They do x-rays and find that I dislocated my knee and that it didn't go back into the right spot.... SO I get to wear this beautiful hip to ankle "knee immobilizer" for two weeks and then start physical therapy!!!! This is the weirdest thing that has ever happened to me!

Caleb is Potty Trained!!!

Well, we are basically done potty training Caleb! He has only had one #2 acident in the last three days! We finally found some motivation for him... We have tried EVERYTHING, but he was not interested. But, I finally got him a "BIG bakugan" like Josephs and put it on the shelf for him when he was all done. So after four days of being "big", we are potty trained! Yeah Caleb!!!

Bluebell

Our new baby - Chester
Hannah with Chester

Joe with Chester

Sarah with Chester

The Three year old - baby Rain

Hannah and Caleb Riding away...

Sarah on baby Rain

Joe on baby Rain

Spirit and Chester

Hannah with Rain

Caleb on Rain

smiley jacob

now that we have him on the right reflux medicine Jacob is much happier and smiles at all of us!

Josephs 7th birthday

Well, my little Joseph turned 7 this month! I can hardly believe it... He is growing up so fast and is so smart. Joseph is the stable one in our house and love schedules, math, rules, timers, mechanical things, and anything predictable... this year he had a pokemon ball cake and it was pretty cute (I made it of course) Anyway, I am so glad we have this handsome boy in our family!

SLEEP!!!

YEAH!!!

Last night Jacob fell asleep at around 10:00pm (which is early for him), I wasn't expecting him to go to bed yet so I didn't get in bed until around 11:00... Well, at 4:30am I woke up and looked at the clock and thought "that can't be right." I looked again and thought "oh no, he must be dead (from sids-my biggest fear)". Anyway, I get up to check him and Shawn says, " I just checked on him, he's okay" So I got back in bed and counted the hours out and thought, "FIVE hours! I just got five hours of sleep, and all consecutively!" That is more than the amount of sleep I have gotten most nights total. I'm sure that he will not do it again, since none of my kids have ever slept that long before almost a year old. But, I got some sleep for the first time in 8 weeks!!! Of course our talking woke him up, but that's okay because I was REALLY FULL... :)

me as a baby

joe with his missing front teeth, then me with mine...

Well, my sister called and wanted some pictures of me for my mom. I am not good at scanning as you can tell, but I thought since I had them I would post for all of you to see how much my boys look like me.

I am so lucky to be a mom!

As some of you know, our cute little Jacob is not a very happy baby... He cries A LOT and he sleeps very little because of his discomfort. I find myself getting about 4-5 hours of interupted seep each night only to get up to 4 other chidren in need of feeding, teaching, and loving (all while almost constantly holding Jacob). This last week I have found it so hard to be happy about motherhood... But after watching a clip from LDS clips I realized how lucky I am to be a mom and to have 5 beautiful children, a healthy body, an amazing husband, a great family, and the gospel of Jesus Christ in my life. It is such an honor that God would allow me to raise so many of his precious chidren and to let me love so deaply in this life. I decided that i need to find a way to slow down and enjoy what my Heavenly Father has blessed me with.

cute pictures of Jacob

Caleb is THREE!

Caleb had a race track cake so he could "drive his cars on it". He was very excited to get BIG BOY toys this year!

fun giveaway!

Hey, my cute cousin is doing another giveaway from her new line of wedding gifts! check it out at anaheragifts.blogspot.com she is amazing!!!

Jacob is here!!!

Jacob Lewis was born on March 28th at 8:54am. He weighed 7 lbs. 9 oz. and was 20 in. long. He looks a lot like our other two boys, and is our biggest baby so far... Mom and Jacob are doing good, just really tired. The kids all like him (mostly), and everyone has been so much help.