Pumpkin Painting

On Saturday I was re-arranging all the cupboards in the kitchen. The boys were going nuts so I decided to let them paint there pumpkins. They love to do this. They even painted a baby one for the baby.

Ryder just woke up from his nap. And was a little unsure of painting but go the hang of it.

We love Halloween!! So excited for more festivities this week!!!

Irvine Pumpkin Patch

Literallly last week was crazy. On Saturday we were kicked out of the house all day so we could get new carpet.....YAY!!!We invited the family to Irvine Regional Park. It was CRAZY crowded. We almost didn't go in but we were glad we did.....the boys had a blast!!!!!
Well except Ryder....he is a little small still so he doesn't get to participate in the jumpy houses and all that stuff for fear that he will get trampled. Trying to get a picture of the cousins.....Kaitlyn is going to be one VERY well protected little girl.

I have to get my baby girl fix somehow.......

I forgot my camera but Rob and Shannon were nice enough to take some for us.

I LOVE this one of Noah I can't believe how big he is getting!!

And then there is Sawyer......who is all about doing whatever I tell him NOT to do!!!!

We had a great family day. Now I need to get the rest of the house put back together.....seriously getting carpet is like moving....so worth it. But WOW lots of work!!!

14 Weeks

Okay so with all the other pregnancies I never wrote things down I never took pictures. But this time because this is my last pregnancy I am feeling like I need/want to document everything.
So they say that with every pregnancy you pop out faster feel the baby earlier all that stuff.....and that is SO true with this one. I think part of it is I have never been this thin so I think I am noticing things earlier. Even with Noah I was 60 pounds heavier at the start of my pregnancy.....SO glad to not be carrying that around for the first time!!

So here I am at 14 weeks! Mind you this is after a huge salad at Cafe Rio. I don't feel like I look this pregnant every day but some days it is. Must depend on what I am wearing.

(excuse the poor quality photo taken with my phone I promise I will take a better one!)

This baby has already given me a few heart attacks and I am not even half way! We were worried this week......the baby was testing positive for Down Syndrome. But after a second ultrasound with a specialist everything looks good. But we were pretty worried for a few days. Also the good that came of seeing the specialist is that they are going to be keeping me on as a patient!! I have been so worried about finding a new dr. but this group is a specialty group that only handles high risk mothers/babies. So since I am considered high risk because of preeclampsia, it looks like I will be in great hands.

Yesterday afternoon we found out that we are indeed having boy #4. I would be lying if I said I wasn't heart broken. I know that we will love and adore this boy but it was our final chance for a girl of our own. Sawyer and Jeff were the saddest at first Sawyer kept saying why did that lady change our baby I wanted a girl! That's when I lost it I cried, got angry and sad. (which I feel totally entitled too) But now I am excited. I have spent most of the day looking at cute things online to make for the new baby.

I have never decorated a room or gone all out and with this baby we are! I am so excited I want to make bedding and decorate the room. Plus I got rid of ALL our old baby boy clothes.....after three kids the stuff was NASTY. So it will be fun to start shopping again!! Also Jeff said I get to name this ONE!! He does get some veto power. But still we are making lists!!

Go Stingers!!

Today Noah and Sawyer had there first soccer game of the season. They have been so excited all week about it and are so happy to finally be able to play!! Because we have both of them this year playing I begged Jeff to coach them. He agreed and being that he is all about baseball he did a great job. It is going to be a LONG season for me keeping track of all three when they aren't playing is going to be A LOT of work. Especially Ryder he is not fun to deal with at things like this. It is so crazy to see how much more into it Noah and his friends are this year!!!

GO STINGERS!!!!

Sawyer's BIG day

Sawyer has been waiting MONTHS to start preschool. He has been so excited. He was thrilled to go and pick up his bucket and then decorate it with his favorite stickers like he has watched Noah the last two years. Every year Mrs. Sims has them bring something special to the first day of school, this day it was a heart that they decorated with pictures and there favorite things. Sawyer was sad that he couldn't bring it home but was very excited to see it hanging up on Thursday.

Thursday they read a story and made a cute puppet he has been obsessed with it ever since then he wanted to feed it string cheese and read books to Petals the puppet. Until Ryder ripped poor Petals.....Sawyer was devasted.

Sawyer says his favorite things are playing and painting. It is so going to be a great year!!

A little of this and that

WOW having a kid in school really puts on a whole new spin to Friday's. I have always loved the weekend it is a welcome break but now it means no schedule and no school. I am starting to get why parents enjoy breaks just as much as the kids.

I feel like this whole school thing has turned me into a new mom or rather I feel like I am a real mom now. It is weird but it feels like such a rite of passage.

I made dinner twice this week......like real good yummy dinners. If you know my life the last few weeks it has been survival mode around here but it was so nice to have an appetite and a little energy.

I decided to request Later Gator for Noah which I am SO thrilled about. I wanted to put him in with the kids in our ward who will all go early because they have siblings but I just think the 10:00 time is going to be SO nice for one more year.

My favorite thing this week or for the last month..........the Bounce Dryer bar. Seriously try it. It is SO nice to not have to worry about a dryer sheet and our clothes smell better than just with the dryer sheets.

On the baby front....we are progressing....slowly. But I am 12 weeks. I sadly found out this week that I have to switch drs. which seriously has me SOOOOO upset. I LOVE my Dr. The plan is to go in two weeks for some more tests and I will hopefully get some good recommendations from him for a new dr. seriously I could cry just thinking about it. Baby is a wiggler they did an ultrasound and the little gummy bear was all over the place. The dr. is worried about my thyroid that is currently VERY overactive so he is going to check it again in two weeks and hopefully it was just all the first trimester hormones.

That's us in an extremely random post......I am behind but the camera is in the car and I am too lazy to go find it.

Getting kicked out of the nest......

The eternal summer finally ended! Monday I kicked my baby bird

out of our little nest and into the big bad world.
I can't even believe how big he is. I held it together at school.
It was a VERY surreal experience.

Due to CRAZY budget cuts this year the poor teachers weren't
even allowed into there classrooms until the morning of school.
So there was no meet and greet and no time for the teacher to
even introduce herself. Noah's school is trying something
different this year because enrollment is SO high.

There are 6 Kindergarten classes. Each class will have 35 students
the first two weeks they are all together. After the first two
weeks they will divide the class into early bird late bird half will
come from 8-11 and the other half will come10-1.

These amazing teachers have to assess all the 35 students in these next two
weeks so they can configure the classes.
So it felt like he was literally ripped from my womb.
It is still freaking me out that I haven't had a chance to talk with
the teacher. I am REALLY looking forward to back to school night
next week. I can't wait to get in there and help as MUCH as I can.

I feel SO bad for these poor teachers and all that they are having to deal with.
I don't know how Mrs. Meyers can assess and take care of 35 kids.
They are AMAZING!!!

Noah went right in without another thought. He is so good that way.

He is enjoying his new class and his teacher Mrs. Meyers.

He apparently is 1 of 3 Noah's in his class. Poor kid.

I realize I sound like a crazy control freak. I am just so used to having it done a certain

way so school is definitely going to take some getting to used to.

I just can't wait for this next week and hopefully we can get into a new schedule and routine!