15 Wonderful Years

15 Years ago on April 29th, 1997 Chad and 

I jumped into a fantastic life.  

Full of so many ups and downs, laughter and tears, blessings           

and so many kids!!!  

I swore that I would never drive one of these.  

Ha ha, never say never!!!  

I never knew that having so many crazy kids could make my life so happy and so full filled.  So grateful to share this life with Chad.  What a wonderful, crazy, dream filled life it has been.  

I am so blessed. We are so blessed.

Happy 15th Anniversary

 Our little Max went into surgery for a hernia repair.  He was a trooper.  The surgery was scheduled for 11:30 which meant no food or drink after midnight the night before.  Well the hospital was running late and he didn't get into surgery until 2:00!  That is a long time for a little guy to go without eating or drinking.  He was awesome.  Never once complained.  He did react pretty crazy to the medicine they gave him before they put him "out".  He was searching everywhere for an "invisible mouse".  

After the hour long surgery he was tired.  We couldn't get him to wake up.  He only woke up to take a couple sips of Apple juice and then went right back to sleep.  

What a sweet little guy!

The next day Max was supposed to "rest".  We were told that he would possibly be down for about a week. Well telling Max to rest is a pretty funny quest.  He is super active and has TONS of energy!  This is how we found him the next morning.  What a trooper.  No pain meds needed for this guy.  

Easter FUN!!!

Easter 2012

This picture was taken just minutes before we headed off to Church.  And oh what a meeting it was.  The babies and Nicholas were very naughty, I must have got up and down out of my seat at least 6 times.  But with a smile on my face because it was Easter Sunday after all.

 (way too many chocolate eggs before church for all of us!)

 On Saturday we dyed Easter Eggs for the very first time EVER!  Not sure how we didn't get out of it this year but it wasn't too bad.  The kids loved it!

 On Easter Sunday after church we headed over to Grandma's house for a lovely Easter dinner and then the Easter Egg hunt.

 Me and Stacey

 Chandler and Chayce

 The big kids got to have a hunt all of their own.  They hunt for bags of chips.  Ha ha it's pretty funny, they love it and since they are a little "too cool" for an egg hunt this works out perfectly!

 Jake and Chandler

 Grandma and Chayce

 Stacey and Kirk

Happy Happy Easter!

Happy Birthday to Mom!!

 My birthday was fantastic!  

I got to go out to lunch, take a long nap, eat pizza and then partake of this fabulous cake my kids made for me.  (notice the #3, that was the only candle we could find) luckily I have a great husband and he bought me a piece of cake from Magleby's (my favorite) and hid it in the refrigerator.  Then we ended the night by watching the Smurfs movie ( I am very ok if I never see it again)

 Then the next night we went to Toy Story Disney on Ice!  Chad was given 9 tickets to it. We were so excited!!  We ate at In N Out Burger first.

 Max enjoying his burger and fries.  He ate the entire thing!!  I am going to be in trouble in the grocery bill dept with all of these boys!!

 Anxiously awaiting the show

 Grandma, Tyler and Raegan 

 (Next three pics are from my phone, not great quality)

We had a fantastic time and I had a great birthday!!

February=Birthdays!!!

We get to celebrate TWO birthdays in February.  Tyler turned 11 and Raegan turned 14.  These two kids are awesome, great kids.  They are so much help, so much fun and so full of life.  What a HUGE blessing they are to our family!!!

Tyler LOVES Baseball.  So this year he scored with a new helmet, bat and batting gloves.

He had a party with 10 of his friends.  Chad took them to Trafalga to play Laser Tag and Goofy Golf and then they came home for Pizzas (SEVEN PIZZAS!) and Cake.

Raegan had a party and invited 20 girls!!  They ate mini sandwiches, chocolate dipped strawberries, nachos, candy and cookies.  Then the girls played 007.  It was a blast!!!  Raegan's team was pro, they never got caught.  

My kids have great friends!!!

My kids really do like each other...I love that!  There is rarely fighting and lots of laughing.  Ty and Rae love their twin brothers.  

Chayce and Tyler

Raegan and Chandler

Pretty pathetic that we didn't have 14 candles but we had a #4 and one candle...Can you tell our family likes Chocolate???  YUM!