So cute

Jayci is growing more and more everyday. It is amazing the love one can have for their kids. My girls amaze me. I love them so much and yet they can drive me crazy in an instant. : ) They are all getting so big and are so dang cute. Ali, Bri, and Hailey love Jayci so much. They are always kissing and hugging her.

Chandra came over the other day and brought a cute little tutu. We put it on Jayci and had to take pictures. They turned out pretty cute and she looks like such a princess.

I will miss them when I go back to work. I know they will be fine but I have gotten spoiled being able to spend every day with them. I hope they enjoy their summer and have fun in dance. They are going to dance camp and then get to take dance next year. They are all so excited. We love you girls.

Happy Birthday Hailey

Hailey is 7!! Holy Cow. I can not believe Hailey is 7 already. She was so excited for her birthday and it is finally here. She got a cute new bedset and a keyboard. She opened the bedset on Sunday and the keyboard today. We gave her the choice of which present she wanted to open first and she chose the little one which ended up being the bed set. What little kid opens the smallest one first? Shes so funny that way. She is one of a kind and a very special little girl. Hailey has been playing music all day for everyone. She is so funny. We love you Hailey and hope you have a great birthday. Keep being your silly self.

Alicia is 11!!!

Holy cow. Time flies. Alicia turned 11 on the 24th of May. She was so excited for her birthday and her parties. We had cake and ice cream at home with her Grandma and Grandpa Sievers and Gorringe and her aunt Terra and aunt Judy and their kids. Then we went to Grandma and Grandpa Searles house and had cake and ice cream with all her cousins. It was a good day. Ali loved her presents. She got a new comforter that is blue and purple, a new purple shag rug, and a purple fluffy pillow. Purple is her favorite color. Her bed looks great with all this stuff. I made her a cake and bought her a cake. The one I made was too sad looking to post on here and embarrass myself. I actually didn't even take a picture of it. I am slacking on the picture taking right now. She loved the cake but that is because she didn't want me to feel bad. It was a 3 layer round cake. The problem was that even though it sat for a while a cooled off completely, it still crumbled when I frosted it. Obviously I am no Cake Boss. Haha. I frosted it with blue and purple so she was thrilled with the colors even if the cake as a whole was very sad looking.

Ali was excited because she did get money from everyone else for her birthday. She had like $70 that she has spent already. Justice got half her money and the rest has been spent here and there on little things. She loves to spend money. Anyway, We love you Ali and look forward to seeing how you continue to grow over the years. I can not believe that in 7 more years you will be 18. What is even scarier is the fact that you will have a drivers license in a few more years. Heaven help us all! Good luck in the future and keep being a great kid. You always help mom out and rarely complain about doing it. You have been a big help the last 2 months. Love ya lots.

She is getting so big.

The picture of Jayci in her pink jammies was from this morning. She fell asleep in my lap.

Oh they grow so fast. It is so bittersweet. We love to watch them grow but they do it far too quickly. We love our little Jayci. She is getting chunky already. She will definitely have an attitude like the others. She is so sweet. Jayci will lay up against her daddy's arm at night and sit there and just smile for him. It is the cutest thing. She is definitely gonna be one of daddys girls. Last night she was being so cranky while me and the girls were at Chandras. Brandon was working but had made it home before me. She was fussing a lot at Chandras and kept spitting up. When we got home I gave Jayci a little bit of mylicon and then gave her to her dad. She was much better after that. She just sat there smiling at Brandon. It was so funny. She was just ready to be home with her daddy. What a spoiled little girl. We will have fun spoiling this one like we have the other 3. They all love their Daddy and can't wait to spend time with him.

It is going to be so hard to go back to work. If only someone would give me good insurance and a nice paycheck to stay home and raise my children. Unfortunately no one wants to do that so I will be going back to work here soon. Oh well, if I didn't go back to work Chandra would enjoy a summer without my kids. Haha. Hopefully Jayci is good for her. Thanks Chan, you are always here when we need you.

Welcome Home Jayci

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Wow, it's amazing how long it has been since I have gotten on here. Many things have happened since I last updated. I wasn't even pregnant then and, well, now I am almost 36 weeks pregnant and confined to my bed. When you are running around completely exhausted bed rest doesn't sound so bad. Once you get there you realize that you have been kidding yourself all along. I have been on bed rest before so I actually knew what to expect but do you know how hard it is to have three children (even older children) running around destroying the house while you lay there and look at the mess?! They have been pretty good about picking up after themselves but the mess is inevitable. Brandon has been great. He will get up and make me food and do other things that I ask him to do. He even made me cookies the other night. It is great to know that I have help. I am very blessed to have Brandon in my life. Hopefully he feels the same at times. We also have a very generous Relief Society that is bringing in dinner so that has been great. It is hard to be useless. I can be up long enough to go to the bathroom (which at this point is once an hour) and then I get a 5 minute shower. Do you realize what is actually possible with a 5 minute shower?! By the time you get to the bathroom start the water and get a towel and get undressed your 5 minutes is practically up. Then you still have to find the time to shampoo, condition, and wash yourself. I did manage to steal a few extra minutes yesterday to shave my nasty legs but I hurried so fast by the time I was done I had razor burn so bad and left half the hair there. Oh well I tried anyway.

It is quite comical though because I now have 4 wardens at my house. I get up for a minute and have Brandon, Alicia, Briana, and Hailey telling me to go back to bed. It makes me laugh because this is the one time my kids can get away with telling me what to do. They are so funny.

Also in the last few months I have finally finished school. I am so glad to be done. I just hope I can stay done for a while. I now have my Bachelors in Business. Now if only I could find a job and use it. That's the trick at this point.

Not much else has really gone on here. Just working and trying to get things ready for the newest addition to our family. By the way, it is another girl. We are excited for her arrival. The girls think it is great. Hailey is still a little unsure at times. She has been the baby for almost 7 years now so it will be a little different for her. It's is going to be different for all of us though so we will adjust together. As long as things keep going right we will be able to handle it.

Another great thing that has come about in the last 7 months is that Brandon and I were able to find the gospel together. This has been a great blessing to us both. A year ago I never really would have expected to be where I am today. A bachelors degree, a baby almost here, and a new member of the LDS church. People who have known me or my family for very long probably would not have guessed that I would be baptized but when you know something is right you know it is right. I have had some conflicts since then but I am trying. I just need to get to where I can go to church every Sunday. Working has made it hard and then all the contractions have made it even harder. Now that I am confined to my bed I will just have to make sure and study the scriptures so I am still involved. That is another thing that I really need to do. I need to be a better example for my girls and read the scriptures more. When I first got baptized and was going to church every Sunday I really felt the spirit. Now there are times that I worry that I am drifting too far away. Life gets too hectic but it really shouldn't. Work should not be the most important things but when you are trying to make ends meet it is really hard to not make it first priority. Everyone knows this feeling well I think. They just know how to juggle it better than I do.

Well anyway, I am sure if you are still reading this you are going "Holy cow, now she has too much time on her hands". I guess that is why you update these things more than once in 9 months : )

I will post some pictures later. They will just be a mixture of things that have happened over the last 9 months. You will not see a picture of my baptism on my blog. I know it was on someone elses but if you haven't seen it I will not tell you who. Those clothes are definitely not slimming. I looked huge. Well actually I am huge anyway but was hoping not to look quite so big. I will just put up pictures of my cute girls. They look better in pictures than I do.

I do just want to say thanks again to everyone that is helping out right now. It really means a lot to us. Chandra has been wonderful. She took the girls while I was in the hospital for a couple of days. This could not have been easy for her. Adding my three to the mix can be crazy sometimes but she is always great to help and we want her to know that she is a great blessing to us and the rest of the family. Hopefully things continue to go well and eventually you will all see the newest addition to our family.