Berry Fun!

** I'm back tracking a little to get caught up.**
We went and picked berries in Greenbluff, just so I could make homemade jam. I know that it's probably the same price to just go buy the silly berries from the store, but it's all about making memories right?!?!?

The kids had a great time, and I think we made great memories


The final product.....

One happy pregnant woman, with lots of jam!!!

Look who made it!!

SYDNEE LORRAINE PRINCE
AUGUST 1, 2008
6 LBS 14 OZ
18 INCHES

After a pretty hard labor and delivery we were so happy to finally get Sydnee here! I'm not sure why I decided not to have an epidural, I think I must have been crazy!! Bill said I did let one "dag-nabit" slip out! I think if that's the worse that came out then I did pretty good!

The kids can't get enough of Sydnee! They love her to pieces. Breggan had a hard time figuring out who she was the first day she came home. He kept asking me where the babies mom was. When we tried to tell him that I was her mom he would say "NO". I wrapped Sydnee up in a blanket and Breggan got so mad that I was letting the "baby" use Sydnee's blanket! Oh the poor boy was so confused! But I think he's finally realized that I'm her mom and she's here to stay!

We were so lucky to have such great friends that would take care of the other kiddos while I was at the hospital! It was one less thing for me to worry about. Thank you, Amanda and Emmylou!!! You guys are the best! My kids loved spending time at your houses!

I think I must be nesting..........

So it all started with me wanting to change the girls' room. What better time to do it than right before a new baby! I've known for sometime that I wanted the girls to have a pink and brown room, so I went and picked the paint and then hoped that I would find the bedding to go with it!! A little backwards I know!! Luckily Bill has been a very willing helper. I get the ideas, and he does the work!! It works out really nice!! I did paint the brown stripes though. (Luckily my friend Jessica was nice enough to come over and make some straight lines for me, because when I tried to make straight lines it looked like I was trying to make waves!!) Amazingly enough I found the perfect comforter for the room, now the girls' and I are both very pleased with the room!!(I still need to hang pictures on the wall, and get curtains up, but hey the big stuff is done!!)














These are the pictures of the girls' I took to match their room, I was quite pleased with how they turned out!!

Just another night at the library....

The library here had a fear factor night with lots of bugs for the kids to enjoy!! Here's a few pictures to document the night! (Ok it's actually a lot of pictures!)


Round #1 Gummy, and then sour gummy worms! Of course my kids all participated in this round. (sorry no pictures of this easy round)




Round #2 White chocolate covered ants!





Round #3 "Potato chip flavored larvettes". By this round Dallin was smart and decided he no longer wanted to play!! Breggan thought these were great, he would have eaten a whole bag if I would have let him!!


Round #4 White chocolate covered bugs, Madellyn got a cricket! Luckily by this point the rest of my kids had all backed out of the competition! Breggan only backed out because I made him. All he saw was chocolate, and couldn't figure out why I wouldn't let him eat it!!


Round #5 Dead crickets! Ok I was really grossed out with this one, and didn't get a picture of Madellyn chomping on that crispy cricket!!






Final Round!!

The kids still in the competition got to choose between a live cricket or a live mealworm. Madellyn chose the mealworm. She had a bit of a hard time getting this one down, but she did it!!






In the end all the kids left as winners! I guess if that's what you want to call them!! (I sure didn't ask for any bedtime kisses after this lovely evening!)

Watch me Grow!!!

So I really hate these kind of pictures. But when my kids look in their scrapbooks some of their favorite pictures are of me with them still inside!! So I guess you could say I'm doing it for the children!! :)



26ish weeks (I know I should have been holding a nifty little sign!)






Stay tuned because I keep growing and growing and growing!! ( I know you can hardly wait!!)

Summer Vacation 2008

Grandma Theo

My dad and his wife Cheryl

My Mom

Great Grandma and Grandpa Christensen

Madellyn was the only one that had ever met these Grandparents. As you can see Aubree wasn't too happy to be meeting them!!!

Had to get a picture of me with Bill's Grandma. Because this is who Sydnee will get her middle name "Lorraine" from!

Bill's Mom and Dad


Aubree got her ears pierced while we were in Ogden. Madellyn talked her into getting them done, and she didn't even cry!!


Thanks to a wonderful husband I got the anniversary band I wanted for our 10 year anniversary! Somehow I talked him into letting me wear it before our actual anniversary!!!

So we visited 6 different grandparents, stayed in 4 different hotels, attended 2 family reunions, saw 2 movies, ate at Cafe Rio once, drove a million miles, (ok maybe not a million, but when your 8 months pregnant it feels that way!! ) only had someone get carsick twice, so all in all I think we had a pretty good vacation!!!

Showtime....

Madellyn's class put on a darling play called "Save the Plants". Madellyn played the part of "Mary" in the play. We were so proud of her, she did an awesome job, especially since she had so many lines to memorize!!