Payton is 1 Month!

Somewhere in all our activities, Payton turned 1 month! She's adorable, but has had a hard time sleeping on her own, so we are starting sleep boot camp with her this week, we'll see how it goes:)

End Of School and Soccer

We've been busy, busy, with the end of the school year and the kids finishing up soccer.
Taylor had her Preschool graduation. She had a speaking part and they sang songs, it was adorable, my favorite song was, "A Mud Puddle Jumped on Me"!

Trevor's school does a dance festival every year. The first graders did "Three Little Pigs" and he was a bad wolf.
Trevor was great in soccer this year, he has improved a lot and loves playing.
Taylor played soccer for the first time, her girl's team was the "Blueberries", how fierce! She did great and was a lot more aggressive than I thought she'd be, must come from having an older brother!

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all you brave Mommies out there!:) Here is my crew, wow, we are busy and lucky! Here are the pretty flowers my sweet hubby got me, and he's in the kitchen making me dinner, yay!

Payton

1 week

We are surviving here, but my Mom leaves tomorrow, so the real test begins. Here is Payton at 1 week, and 2 weeks. She is getting big. She weighed in at 9 lbs 2 oz at 2 weeks, what a chunk. She is a lot of fun, except when she decides her fussy time is from 10 pm to 1 am. Jon and I are looking like zombies, but we try and remember that part doesn't last forever!

2 weeks

She's Here!

Payton Carolynn

A day after her due date, Payton decided to arrive! We are all home now and doing great. I think I feel so good because I'm just glad that part is over! Her delivery went really well. I started contractions around 10am that morning, went to the hospital at 3pm and was dilated to a 7. Got my epidural at 5pm (man, those things are the best invention EVER!!!) and she was born at 7:04pm. She was a whopping 8lbs 7oz (all my other 3 were 6.12 or 6.13!) and 20 in long. I couldn't believe how big she was, but I felt like she was that big! So far she is eating great and getting a lot of love from her siblings. We are so blessed!

Check out the chunky arms and fingers, that's the first thing I noticed about her.

Meeting Payton

Baily kept saying, "My Baby" when she visited.

Going Home

Chocolate Lava Cakes

I must admit my biggest craving during this pregnancy has been chocolate lava cakes. Little chocolate pieces of heaven with a fudgy center, that screams to be topped with vanilla ice cream, whip cream, strawberries, or all of the above, but I digress. I may have tried multiple recipes to find my fav and perhaps tested them on my family numerous times and with my book club last week. So here are my finalists:

#3
Pioneer Woman's

Molten Chocolate Lava Cake

Cake like and oh so good!

#2
Real Mom kitchen's
Molten Lava Cakes
The most chocolatey!

#1
Bake Space's
Chocolate and Pecan Molten Lava Cake
Loved the pecans, loved the cream cheese, skipped the fruit reduction, didn't need it. Really yummy!

So there you go all my dieting friends, good luck with that!:)

Easter Time

Happy Easter! We had a great morning looking at our baskets.
Finding eggs inside, since it looked like . . . .

. . . this outside this morning. The kids decided to play in the snow and look for bunny tracks.

Baily thought candy for breakfast was amazing!!!


We did dress up for Sunday last week since we stayed home for general conference today.

We couldn't get Baily out of her dress all day, she even napped in it!