Noah turns 3!

Noah's 3rd birthday was a fun one. He has been waiting to say he is 3 for weeks. Once he finally learned how to do 3 with fingers he couldn't wait to actually say he is 3. Now that that is over he can't wait to be 5 then 8. It was a low key day for us. Just celebrated with our little family and did our traditional donut breakfast.

Oh Noah! What can I say about this kid. I love him dearly but man this kid can push my buttons like no other child can. I thought Parker was my hard toddler? Not even close. I'm hoping it's a phase and that he will grow out of it. Noah is:

-full of energy all day long
-he still takes good naps(which is the only thing that saves me)
-he knows the words to One Direction songs
-he can ride his bike really well training wheels
-he is still obsessed with motorcycles
-talk my ear off
-destroys everything he touches
-is very excited for baby sister to come
-loves to be busy
-he can eat just as much as his older siblings(this explains my grocery bill each month)
-is a bully, beats up on his older siblings all the time.
 -is finally potty trained!!!

Without Noah our family would be very quiet. We love him!

 He loved this house until 2 hours later when he ripped half of it apart.

 He loves his Buzz costume

 

It's a Girl!!

Can you believe it? I can't and think I am still in denial. It's been so long since I have had a little girl. I honestly thought it was a boy so I was so surprised that it wasn't. Look at that cute profile? I can't wait to meet her and be done with making babies! Don't believe me? Oh people it's for real this time.

10 Year Anniversary

Luke and I celebrated our 10 year on November 23rd. 10 years? We've done a lot in 10 years. Both of us have graduated from college,we have lived with both sets of parents, been through 3 jobs, and had 4 kids, almost 5! I'm not going to lie I know there are times where Luke wants to ring my neck and visa versa. But, hey I believe that's what makes our marriage so strong. We don't pretend like everything is perfect all the time. We have 4 kids who make life grand but also make it really hard to have alone time. About 5 years ago I told Luke he has to promise to take me on a long vacation for our 10 year. And guess what? We did! It was absolutely amazing! Just what we needed. We went to Cancun, which is where we went on our honeymoon 10 years ago. It was so relaxing and we did NOTHING!! All we did was lay on the beach, eat, lay by the pool, eat, and sleep in. It was the perfect getaway from our perfect little children. When we got home I was ready to jump back into motherhood. Then a day later I was ready to go back to the beach. Here are a ton of pictures from the trip. A lot of close up because it was just us. Enjoy!

In no order at all

On our way to PARTY!!

 They knew it was our anniversary, and did this for us with a bottle of Champagne. 

 Our view from our balcony.

 We went into town to get the kids some gifts and the driver was a crazy driver. We were a little scared!

 Our view from our cabana.

 A lovely self portrait

 I decided I better have a picture of me with this beautiful beach in the background. I thought, my legs won't look too bad. WRONG! Why yes I did crop my chubby legs out.

 5 full days with this hottie. Perfect!

 He loved sitting like this

 Our hotel

 My whitey trying to get some sun. He was out like this for 20 minutes and burned. He learned his lesson.

 One of our night walks. Love him.

 This guy followed me everywhere.

 He always fell asleep by the pool

 Our fancy night out.

 We were able to watch baby sea turtles hatch and let them go into the ocean. There over 100 of them. So cool!

Oh Noah

If you talk to me, follow me on Facebook, or Instagram you know that Noah is my hardest child yet. He makes me cry more than any child. He is so stubborn. This explains why potty training has been a challenge. So one day he obviously woke up on the wrong side of the bed. What's new? He really wanted me his stuffed Spider-man. It was literally 2 feet away from him. He cried and cried for 15 straight minutes because I refused to give it to him. While he was crying I took a couple pictures because I thought it was hilarious that he wouldn't budge and get it. I am hoping he grows out of some of this. Parker was hard but once he hit 4 he really matured. I am praying really hard that this is the case with my little Noah. I love him but man he drives me crazy.

Goodbye Miss Emily!!

In September I had to say goodbye to my best friend of 25 years. Emily decided to leave me and move to Texas. I guess it was better for her family. Whatever! :) We had a little going away party for her. It was sad but I know I will see her. Another fun place for me to visit! Score. Emily knows she can't get away from me. According to her I keep in touch with my old mailman. I can't wait for my Texas adventures!!

Luke's 33rd Birthday

Poor Luke had to travel during and on his birthday. We were able to go to dinner the weekend before, and then have our own little party before the kids started Trick or Treating. The kids are so lucky to have him as their dad. He's the best! One day he will have his birthday back and it just won't be Halloween.

Halloween '12

I'm not going to lie. I was not feeling Halloween this year. I didn't dress up, I hardly took any pictures, and we didn't do a lot of the Halloween traditions we normally do. Like sugar cookies. Luke traveled a lot in October and I am feeling no motivation with this pregnancy. I have no energy, and that's what I'm blaming it on :) The kids still had fun dressing up for school, our ward trunk or treat, and actual Halloween night.

Nick's costume was simple. He wanted to be a baseball player zombie. I cut up an old uniform and attempted to do zombie make up. He ended up looking more like Frankenstein, oh well.

Sammy wanted to be a pretty vampire. Those were her exact words.

Parker changed his mind like 4 times but he finally decided on the black spider-man.

 

Noah at first wanted to be the Red Power Ranger but then I found this adorable Woody costume and had to get it. I knew this was my last year of him being something cute. From now on it's going to super heroes.

They got a ton of candy, and thankfully have forgotten about it. I was also able to go to their school parade so they could show their costumes off to the whole school.

Parker our Gymnast

I put Parker in a week long tumbling summer camp. Just for something to do. I never intended on him doing after that. He loved it and his teacher actually came up to me and asked that he be put in her class because he was so good. Parker is my strong boy. Ever since he was born he just had these muscles. He can do amazing push ups and loves to show the girls. Serious about that. He has learned so much in his class and can do a back handspring. His cartwheels were better than mine ever were. He really is a natural at it. It also helps that he has no fear. He'll do anything you ask him to. In the month of October he had a little tumbling performance at the mall. I didn't have very good seats so my pictures aren't great, and everytime he did a round off or cart wheel another student would get in the way. I tired to get a good picture of Parker but he took this performance very serious and didn't want to get in trouble.