First day of Kindergarten!

The whole family dropped Jackson off at school, we are so lucky to have the school across the street.

How can this little boy, 

Turn into this handsome little man!!!

Jackson is my rock, he is always there when I need him, always helping point out the obvious when sometimes I just don't see it, he is such a good big brother and is always telling his brothers how much he loves them and how cute they are.  He loves to take things a part and loves to ride his bike, he is such a boy, but man is he sweet as pie!  I can't believe how fast these past 5 years went I am so proud of my Jackson and I love him so very much! Way to go Dice!

Grant was so sad that we left "his Dice" at school and that he couldn't stay with him so he buried his head in the neighbors fence and wouldn't leave.

Fun beach pictures

   HAPPY  7TH ANNIVERSARY!

Ben and I celebrated our 7th anniversary on Sunday, it was very low key but so nice!  One thing that we love to do is reflect upon our previous years of being married and look back on things that we can laugh at now but couldn't then.  So one thing  we like to do is  name our favorite year of marriage, our least favorite year of marriage and anything in between, how we have grown and changed and how fun it is to have grown up together.   We have such a great marriage and we truly are each others best friends.    

On my own

As of today all of my help has gone back home, I was so so lucky to have had almost 4 weeks of help with these crazy boys and now I guess its time I become the Presidents only mommy.  I love this picture it explains each of the boys personality.  Grant the crazy one Jackson so sweet (normally) and lincoln just as patient as can be.  Can you believe I am the mom of 3 boys!  

Photo shoot

This is really the only one that turned out that I love. Hopefully later when Linc is happy enough we will try again.

Gettin' Crafty

I heard that these covers are the newest rage in Utah, so of course I had to get in on it to!  I debated whether or not to make a girly one or a boyish one so I decided to go with brown for a boy and a girlish design and of course I had to sneak a girly color somewhere so the underneath is purple polka dots... so so cute!!!!

pictures of The Presidents

Ok so i didn't realize how big Lincoln had gotten until I put him in this bowl.  This is his first bath.  Laugh. I know it looks a bit silly but I thought he looked absolutely adorable. He is 2 1/2 weeks old here.

New Salon!

While Ben had two weeks we decided to give ourselves some projects, We totally redid the salon! Painted everything the same color, new decorations and extended out the floor! I am absolutely in love.

Jackson

I can't believe this sweet boy is starting Kindergarten in just a few weeks, he is the sweetest big brother and has been so very helpful.

The beach.

This is Lincoln's first time at the beach, he was in heaven (of course he slept the entire time)

My heart is full

Ben is at work for a couple of hours... Grant is in bed, Jackson is at the neighbors, and Lincoln is also in bed.

    I am not sure what to do with this quiet house except reflect ba

ck on the last 9 months.  With tear filled eyes and my brain about 50 % returned to normal I can actually think to express myself.  I wouldn't normally use my blog as a source to let my feelings out but there are so many people that have been so so helpful that I feel I need to say it here.  So here it goes. This pregnancy was the longest, most emotional, and guilt filled that I 

have ever experienced, I will say that I tried really hard to make it not known to most people but along the way I think I hurt some peoples feelings because I was really whats the word.... tried to hide, I am not sure why, but all I wanted to do was turn off my phone and hide. I have some really wonderful friends here in Cali who are so awesome!  I truly do think of all of you as my family since we don't have any around. I want all of my friends and family know that I so much appreciated your phone calls of concern and words of encouragement.  Although in the end I have the most beautiful and precious baby, I owe all of you a Great Big THANK YOU! 

We are in Love......

with this sweet guy.  He is such a good sleeper and only wakes up once in the middle of the night.  He has had his days and night figured out since the minute he was born.  He is very patient and rarely cries.  And he loves to snuggle!  

Boys, boys, boys

We are having the time of our life!!!! We love this little guy so so much!

He's here!!!

We are so so happy and excited to announce that our sweet little Lincoln is finally here!!! He was born on July 18th at 12:25 am he weighed 8 lbs. 9 oz. and is 20 inches long.  Jackson and Grant can't get enough of him and are the sweetest big brothers.  We are home and enjoying our family time together.

Lincoln's corner

This is what happens when you live in a 2 bedroom house and there are going to be 5 people living in it.

The baby gets a corner in your bedroom.

(thanks to Katie and Melissa for the decorations, I think it turned out adorable)

What do you do when...

Your feet look like elephant feet and it is really hot in your house???

You sit in a nice cool pool, and hope then swelling goes down.

Pamper the mommy shower

My wonderful friends Katie and Melissa threw me a "Pamper the Mommy Shower" and man O man was it fun!!!! I think everyone should have one of these, I got so spoiled by all of my cute friends everyone was so thoughtful and it was so nice to finally have a second to focus on our new addition little Lincoln.  (Katie I am so  that I didn't get a picture of us:(  Thanks again you lovely girls I had a blast!

Fathers day

We had such a nice relaxing Fathers day, I think it should have actually been Mothers day by how relaxing it was.  Ben was such a great help keeping the kids entertained, feeding them and letting me take naps, he has been such a great dad especially with this long long pregnancy. We took the kids to the park later on to get out their wiggles and got some great pictures! I hope all of you had a wonderful day to!