Some Gardening and Canning

My favorite time of year! Canning salsa, spending long hours outdoors gardening, weeding, mowing, growing, smelling flowers:)

Country Girl

My little country pumpkin BryleeAnne learning to walk:) Go baby Go!

Revamping Space

As a large family we are always finding ways to make our smallish house fit us all nicely. So last week, we had one of the largest kid rooms converted to two smaller kids rooms to give the kids more separation. Here is Everett and Jaxxons new room:) I think it turned out super cute, small, but exactly the right amount of space for them! I will post Kaylas new room pics soon

Poor Kenna

          The last week of school, my little Kindergartner Kenna woke up to a not so ordinary day. She was screaming that she couldn't get out of bed. Kayla(my oldest daughter) heard her and carried her to the couch unbeknownst to my sleeping self. I woke up and saw her in some pain and starting asking her if she had fallen the day before or what she thought it was. She kept saying she hadn't fallen and was hurting so bad that when I tried to pull her PJ bottoms down to check for bruises she screamed in writhing pain. I wasn't too concerned and thought maybe it was terrible growing pains. An hour later she needed to use the bathroom and couldn't even lift her own body up to get there and was begging me to carry her. When I picked her up, I knew this was NOT growing pains and something much worse. She screamed so loudly and tears immediately sprung up. I felt the warmth of her body and knew a fever had set in. I called her pediatrician who thankfully was able to see her pretty quickly. When I got there and he saw how stiff her hip was and the amount of pain along with fever, he told me to rush her to our closest children's hospital ER. I was very frightened at this point because they were concerned about a septic hip(never knew this existed). They took us in right away at the children's hospital despite the ER being completely overloaded. Xray confirmed it was not broken.  In an ultrasound, you could just see the huge pocket of fluid in her hip. They rushed her in to the OR to aspirate fluid. At this point the Dr. let me know that if there fluid was even slightly infected looking that she would undergo emergency surgery to clean out her whole hip joint. By the grace of God, it was the proper color and that didn't happen. We weren't in the clear yet though as they said surgery would still be possible, but we were to wait for lab results which took several hours to come back. Thankfully they were clear and it was deemed a virus that settled in the hip joint. After aspirating the fluid though she was feeling much better and able to gently hobble within an hour of the procedure as she was barely coming to. I am so grateful my baby girl is okay:) She wasn't able to run the last few days of school, but she had fun anyhow!

        

              And the summer fun is in full swing! We thought school would never end, but it did, it did! Though, we only get a short summer this year so we are squeezing it dry for every last drop of fun. The creek is a local fun hangout that we all enjoy. We plan this several times each summer with different friends and family. This time all their cousins happened to come so that was way fun:) BryleeAnne is loving the water and getting a little scary with her bravery for it! We are definitely keeping a close eye on that girl;)

First Some Current Pics

So these are our "lil" family on vacation a week ago and current pics of our garden, etc.

Although I Wanted to Catch You All Up Through Pictures

Its just not gonna be possible! I may get off my lazy bones one of these days and save a ton of pics from the past year off my facebook so I can post them to you all here. These were our November 2012 Family photos. So much has happened this past year. Babies are turned toddler, pre teens are turning teen, toddlers turning kid, kids turning pre teen. That sort of thing :)

I think I May Have Forgotten How to Blog

        I know the title sounds hilarious, but seriously. Its been like 1 post in the last year. I realized the other day that I need to get back at it. Time is still precious and occupied with raising so many babes, but I love having a record of our day to day and a journal of my thoughts. Its always fun to look back through the years at feelings I was having, seeing where I have grown and where I am still standing there in the exact same place. Blogging is such a great way to reflect. I am hoping to get busy and dive back in!

SoRrY tO LeAvE YoU HaNgInG!!! Catching you all up through pics cause its faster and tells more

All my babies at the park

  Sweet BryleeAnne almost 3 months already!!!
Our vacation last week to Welk Resort San Diego!
Been getting a few new peircings including my nose as you can barely see in this photoBeen tending to our Garden :)

Reading this trashy deliciousness, just finished and book 2 will be here any day! Ohhh yea
been fishing!


been swimming lots
My lil men at the creek
My Divas at the creek
been diggin in the dirt LOTSHe's sexy and he knows it bwahahaha!
Been BBQing and making smores:)Been taking pics pics pics, enjying every last ounce of baby and toddler as the big kids head nearly into teen years :OBeen cooking lots of amazing food, especially from our garden, still eating Paleo and loving it. So healthy!
Love the 4th of July:)
Been busy taking all these photos and feeling complete gratitude for the vasectomy and freedom and world of possibilities its bringing to our lives with our perfect family of 4 and 4 :) Lucky.Blessed.Happy.Free.Healthy.Growing.Nurturing........most of all BUSY :)tata for now, will update more when I can:) Til then, know that I havent dropped off the planet, quite the opposite, I have dropped off the net a lot and into life!