so what if it's been 3 years, right?

Wow! I'm a slacker and have not even been to my blog in 3 years.  Oh yes tat's right my "new baby" Kaia is getting ready to turn 3 in a few weeks and since her birth I have popped out 2 more children who you would clearly not know about via my blog.  :) In fact you might think I had died were it not for the occasional posts on facebook.  So let me get started by saying we are still in Arizona and there is something strange in the water down here because in the 3 years we have lived here I have had 3 babies.  Now in my defense we were about to pop with our 2nd child when we moved here but still...  We have three beautiful girls, Alexis who just turned five a few days ago, Kaia who will turn three in a few weeks and Hannah who is 19 months. Then I just gave birth a few weeks ago to the most handsome little man, Austin.  We also got a dog, Max, a few months after Hannah joined our family so we are complete with our little man Austin.  James and I got our boy and decided that since Hannah and Austin were unplanned and when Austin was born we had 4 children 4 and under, plus a one year old dog, that we were done. So I figure that now that I have come to this huge change in phases as a parent from the birthing stage to the raising stage I can get back into the habit of writing on my blog.

So basically I figured out that I have been pregnant every year of my six year marriage and I am pretty excited to not be pregnant and experience being a mother with out morning sickness or back pains or constant weariness (due to growing a baby in my belly, I'm sure I'll still be constantly weary) or hormones going crazy.  I'm sure James is excited for this too, especially the last symptom; which has in the past turned me into a crazy emotional jealous wife.  Just ask for the stories and I'll fill you in. :)

James is hard at work at a dental lab and even harder at work in school.  He will be finished at the college down here at the end of the this summer and our plans so far are to head north to Utah and finish his bachelors up there and then hopefully get accepted to UofU for the graduate program he wants.   I am a busy stay at home mom and love almost every minute of it.  There are those occasional few minutes that make me want to scream but those come and go pretty quickly most of the time and I have a fantastic husband that helps as soon as he gets home.  This is possibly our last summer in AZ and while I will NOT miss the absolutely horrid heat of this state I have made some really good friends here and this is the longest we have ever stayed in one state since getting married and I love the preschool my girls go to and the wards we have been in and it will be hard to leave the good friends my daughters have and that I have made.  The winter weather is my favorite.  While the heat may be wretched for 5 months it is wonderful 7 months and up north I despise the cold and do NOT look forward to the never ending winters.  I'm sure we will make good friends up there and we will be there for about as long as we've been down here and then we will be off again so I should be used to this but I sure look forward to the day when my husband graduates and gets a job and we get to settle down somewhere for at least a little while.

Here are some updated pictures of us all...Hannah shopping at old navy, oh how I love this sweet girl.

 Austin sleeping, his favorite pastime.

 Alexis and Kaia playing in the sprinklers on this hot May day.

 Alexis looking beautiful while we went on an Easter egg hunt at a friends.

 Kaia in a rare pose for the camera with a smile.

 Me and my handsome boy enjoying some alone time at home.

 Daddy, who is hardly ever in pictures, at the hospital proudly holding his boy minutes after delivery!

So hello blog again it's been a long time but lets keep in better touch.  Until next time there's a bit of an update on us.  :)