Ta-Da!!!!!!!!!

Glorious Day! Finally things came together for me today, and I was able to upload the rest of the kids' pictures. All these pictures have only taken up my last three posts! It still took me a while but faster then it has done this last week. Thank heaven. Well I started with Ben's first and have just gone down the line of kids.

Cute...cute

I like this one I see him make this face an aweful lot.

Blake says he looks sad in this picture but I still like it...like a lot.

Brendon is so photogenic it kills me. I love all of his pictures. But the finger on his cheek is adorable. He looks like this a lot when he's watching TV or thinking seriously about something.

This is the one I have hanging in our living room.

This one is so funny. That is not his normal smile, but it is still cute.

I love this one too. It's perfect. His eyes have turned so green, I've told Blake his eyes ought to be jealous. He gets his amazing green color from his Dad...well obviously.

Well bring a bucket of water to put out this fireball. And that is exactly what he is...man oh man. Out of all the boys he has probably had more of the terrible two's, well probably more than Ben and Brendon put together!

He would only let us take his picture if he could be playing with the light switch. I do remember two was a hard picture taking age with his older brothers as well.

His red hair is amazing though. And I do believe his eyes are turning green. I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure about it. That's okay. He's handsome either way.

Look at that face, don't let the innocence blind you to what is really behind that face.

Well here are the rest of Gracie's pictures. Her eyes are piercing in this picture, they just draw me in to her. For me any ways.

She looked so cute in her little outfit.

I love this picture. She looks so content.

This was the last tutu picture that it wouldn't let me upload last time. I love it. I probably love them so much because of the colors. Glad she looks good in red, because she may have a lot of it coming her way. Well there they are, hope you all enjoyed them.

This week is going to be crazy getting ready for her blessing next weekend which means I have company from out of town and out of state coming. So I don't know if I'll get in another post until next week. Because it's taken me so long to do all of these pictures I'm way behind. I have some fun pictures of the kids I want to share with you. We've painted pumpkins, been bike riding, and tree shaking...you'll have to wait on that one, and by the time I get around to it...Halloween too, since that is tomorrow. Well hope it was worth the time!

Gracie Adele's Newborn Pictures

I love this picture of Gracie. She is so beautiful. And those eyes are to die for.

All of these pictures are a manifestation of the labor of love. I made this tutu all by my lonesome, and yes as you can tell I'm proud of that. The hair piece that I made to match almost took as long to make as it took for me to make the whole tutu. Oh well...it was worth it cause it's stinkin adorable if I say so myself!

And of course the blessing gown. I've already talked to you about that. Labor of love again, but not just my love, that was her eAuntie Jill's love too. It did turn out exactly how I wanted it. The blanket that she's on in this picture was bought my my mother-in-law for Gracie's blessing. She had her name embroirdered on it. It's really super soft.

And of course I love this picture because it displays how long the dress is. I think that's awesome, and is it just me or is blogger doing crazy things with jouraling too. Now it's underlining everything and making it look like a huge, long, crazy, web link for something...grrrrrr...again

Well I'm trying this again I guess. I thought that my computer or blogger or whatever was working better today. I guess the jury is still out cause I'm trying to upload pictures right now and I just don't know if it's working very well...Well dang 3 pictures just popped up. Guess maybe it is working better today. Sweeeeet...maybe I can get them all done! That would be a miracle.

Okay well it's taken me like 3 days and this is as far as I've gotten. Now Blogger won't let me upload anymore pictures...soooo...here are some pictures of Gracie. I have more but can't get the done right now. I guess I'll have to try adding them later.

Grrrrr......

Why do I ever try to do anything? It always results in mw having a screaming kid...or two. Plus Billy always thinks he needs to try to climb all over the computer desk while I'l trying to do anything online. Well I finally figured out the problem, but it is still taking forever to upload the images...so this will have to do for now. I think I hate the pictures of Blake and I. But we got some good pictures of our family. There are more but now today. By the time I figured out what was going wrong and finally got the pictures to load Gracie woke up. So I uploaded these while I was trying nurse her. Well then she was done and the computer was still loading and I realized that the fireball of the house was being really quiet. I caught him in my room with my baby vaseline. He loves it, we use it on his face when he gets exzema but normally just use it on Gracie as diaper rash prevention. Well it is all over his clothes, hands, face, and the vaseline jar. Luckily it's cheap cause i think he use like 1/3 of a cup of it....grrrrrr...Well now i have to do my hair and make up, pick Ben up from school, go to scouts, come home and make dinner, drop of the kids and head to the temple. We have sealings tonight at 7:30. I guess we'll see how the rest of the day pans out. Maybe tomorrow I can get the rest of the pictures up. Enjoy these for now.

Sad Day

I've been trying to upload some pictures of our family picture day forever...but something is going wrong. When I first tried to do it the files were so big I could only do one at a time. So I decided to wait until I had more time to do the post. Well now it's not letting me upload any pictures into a post at all. I think blogger is mad at me or something. It got irritated about an hour ago because when I first tried this afternoon I decided to see if today it would let me do more than one at a time, and of course that made it have a hernia, and now nothing happens when I press the "Add Image" button...who knows. Tried to give it an hour and thought I'd try again, must still be mad at me. Maybe later... :(

Passing time

Truly time is passing me, I can't believe that Gracie's 6 weeks old. Well I wanted to put up a few pictures...well that was the starting idea, and then I ended up with like 1,000 that I wanted to post. So I'll try to keep my writing to a minimum. However, I've promised a few people some pictures in a post so here they are.

First I realized with everything going on I never posted some pictures of Billy Bob's birthday. He was kind of cranky because he just wanted his train off of his cake. He seriously could not wait to blow out the candles so he could get the dang train to play with.

And he kept trying to stick his finger in the frosting instead of smiling for the camera. He only succeeded once in getting some frosting.

See the train is in his hand and his fussing has stopped...one happy camper!
This is my nephew Landon, he's only about 9 months older than Billy and we hope that someday they will be best buds. I bought these little train hats, and I'm sorry, but the kids looked super cute in them. Have to give myself props, that was a great idea I had.
Here's Woody with his best bud Stetson. The dagger that he has Stetson got him for his birthday. Woody loves to play with it.
Boy oh boy, those are some good looking kids!
Billy is obsessed with balloons, but what 2 year old isn't.
Here's Ben with his cousin Adam, they are the betest best buds the world has ever had. Ben is a little jealous right now though, 'cause Adam has started loosing his teeth and Ben's aren't even loose yet.
Ben, Adam, and our niece Hailey. She got roped into the picture by Ben. He just grabbed her as she was headed down the hall.
Well at night sometimes we will do anything for piece and quiet. Wouldn't any parent? Billy was literally falling asleep eating these. Not anything new for him lately. Seems like he can fall asleep eating almost anything these days.

Okay my Grandmother sent me this dress right after I had Brendon in a package that said "open in two years". Yeah right, I opened it right when I got it...so needless to say Billy wasn't a girl and we've had this dress hanging up for about 4 and a half years! It finally got a chance to get off the hanger on Gracie's first church outing. She does look pretty cute.
Man I look old in this picture.
Like I said falling asleep eating averything. Snacks, lunch, dinner...it doesn't matter. But he is cute.
She looks so cute in this outfit. I had it on her again the other day, and I can't believe how good she looks in the bright yellow and green. Thank you Matise for buying it! And of course she has three proud brothers always wanting to hold her.

My wedding dress. I made Jill take one last picture of it before we cut it all up. Never mind my face I don't even think I had showered yet. I would have liked to put it on one last time, but I was scared it wouldn't fit me since I had just had the baby, and I didn't want to cry, so holding it up had to be good enough.
Cutting it up...
All the parts laid out, Gracie is just a peanut compared to them.
Well now it is all done. Those beads I had to sew on by hand. Wasn't really hard, just time consuming and frustrating trying to get the angle and spacing consistent. The hair flower...have to have one of those. I know my sister-in-law Aubrey is going to die with laughter when she sees this picture, but I promise it is a little bigger than what I wanted but...it was already sewn together I wasn't taking it apart!
Full over view...
I bought these shoes off etsy.Well he had our kids picture taken on Saturday and I snapped a few shots of her in her blessing dress.
I think the dress turned out beautiful. Which is just what we needed to go with that pretty girl that's in it.
This is THE outfit. I have never done this before but I actually bought these clothes around the accessories. The boots were my niece Clara's and the hair bow Aubrey bought for me. After that I knew I had to find the perfect little dress for her to wear with them. This is what her other pictures were taken in.
Right after pictures he crashed which lets you know he was the biggest stink while we were trying to take them. Besides the fact he woke up with an ear infection.

Woody is a character for sure. He says the craziest things and does the craziest things. And he's so dang cute I know he gets away with too much.
And what can I say about that. Boy is he handsome. I die looking at his pictures. He is such a great boy. He like's to drive his brothers' crazy but other than that...he's such a good kid. I just know that some day he's going to drive the girls crazy too...what I'm I talking about he is already driving the girls crazy. I am blessed with awesomely good looking kids. Love them all and the husband that gave them to me! I think this is the lonest, biggest post I've ever had. Smiles all around!