Happy 4th of July!!!

The kids had a really good time at the Parade, it is getting more and more fun to do things like this with them!

Random I know! It's for my sister!

Donations Needed!!!!

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This is an auction for some dear friends of ours! If you have anything that you would like to donate to the auction or purchase anything you see it will be helping out a great cause!!

New Addition to the Crouch Family!

Look at how adorable this little guy is! Just want to let everyone know how proud I am of my sister for delivering this guy 9lbs. 2 oz 21 1/2in long!!! Way to go Kayla and Cory for making such a beautiful baby!!!

Zoo--and Fire Truck

So I haven't posted this much in a long time but I am trying to get better with all of this for my sake so I can look back at it all. Any way there are a lot of pictures in this one but we had a great morning out and it was nice to just hang out with the kids!
There was a farmers market today and I was curious to see if there was going to be any one there so as I was driving by the almost non-existent farmers market I noticed the fire truck that they were letting the kids look at so we stopped! AND IT WAS WELL WORTH IT!!!

They were so great with Joey and let him do just about everything.

This was definetly his favorite part he just jumped right in there and turned the water on. Even the firefighters thought he was awesome cause he wasn't scared of it all. It was really fun to watch. The girls on the other hand were no so great with it and Ellianna just kept freakin out cause she was so afraid of them spraying her with the water and Cambria just followed what Ellianna was doing.

We also went to the zoo and I don't normally take the camera with me because we go so often but we were hoping to see the new bears and the kids wanted to get there picture with them, but as you can see there are no bears in these pics darn things weren't out. Any way it was really fun and relaxing with them which was great!

And this is a little random I know but I was so proud of Ellianna for sitting still for so long to get her hair braided!!! She did really well hence the crazy hair in the first pictures.

This was about the thrid time that Joey was able to work with the fire hose he really did have a blast!

Quick Grandpa Visit

Monday afternoon we got a call from Grandpa and he said that he was going to be in Logan for the evening so we decided to go down and join him, Marybeth and Robbie for dinner with the Aunts and Uncles. The kids were so excited to be see Grandpa and it was so awesome because they totally were not shy with him at all! I think this is really because of the Skype and that we are able to talk and see them often!








So they are a little out of order again but I just want to get them up! The one of Joe in the tree is because he was the one that shot the Rocket up there. Grandpa gave Joey the Rocket and he LOVES it!! Ellianna got a bowling set which has been played with a ton already! Marybeth and Robbie gave them all bubbles that look like swords so Joey has been wearing it ALL the time!! I am not kidding he won't wear shorts cause they don't have a carpenter loop to hold his sword so today the kid was roasting in his long pants and t-shirt but he had his bubble sword so it didn't matter to him!! It's adorable! These bubbles were cool enough that even Bria could do it all by herself! So Thank you Grandpa and Marybeth and Robbie they love their birthday presents!!
Oh and the last picture is of the little boy that lived in Great Grandma's neighborhood he came over to show all of us that he had found a snake so Joey just had to hold it! I was proud of him, Ellianna wanted to hold it to but he left to quickly! I am so glad that my kids aren't afraid of things like this!

Ellianna's 3rd Birthday

I am way to tired to move all of these around so have at them the way they are...but all I got to say about Ellianna's birthday is spoiled!!! She also got the only thing she had asked for a Princess bike and a scooter!! She loves them both and was also excited to get other awesome presents from her aunts and Grandparents! The scooter was from Nana and Papa and they scored big with that one! She has been asking for it for months now and they had bought it all the way back a Christmas! All in all they have had some really great birthday's! Oh I almost forgot we also made ellianna close her eyes so that daddy could bring in the bike so that is what she is doing!

Birthday Highlights!

Joey was really fun for his birthday this year all he wanted was a bike! So that is what he got, we took him to the store and let him try them out to see what fit him better and decided to get the bigger one so that it will last longer! He loved it! He also got so really great gifts from the famliy! Lucky kiddo if you ask me! 4 so far is way better then 3 was for us any way I love that he is understanding more and listens better then he was I really enjoy this stage with him!





We made Joey close his eyes so daddy could bring in the bike!

Mother's Day

So I know I am way behind in my blogging and I need to catch up a little so these are from mothers day! My kids made the pictures in their preschool class and I just thought they were so fun!! The teachers put them in their paper wrapping a little to soon so one of them got stuck but it is still adorable just the same.
Then the other ones are posted because Joey wrote them all by himself! We didn't even have to help him spell out his name. Joe did write down love and mom and he copied those ones but I was one proud mama that day!

Post Register!!

Sorry I didn't get anything up here yesterday about this picture. My computer is dying a slow and painful death at this point! But any way this was in The Post Register on Wed. so proud of my little man and soccer! He will listen to anything that the coach says as you can see from him looking straight at him! It was a fun little article about the kiddos playing soccer at a young age!

I know I know...a little behind!

Don't forget to look at the other post below!

Few Random

Ellianna fell asleep literally standing up watching a movie and that is how she fell on the floor! And the one of Bria is just of her being adorable when we were waiting for Joey and Ellianna at preschool. It has been really weird for her to be by herself even though it is only an hour! And it has been really weird as a mom to only have one a lot of the time. There are still some days I am babysitting and have one more which she enjoys alot!

These two on the step are from Ellianna and Joey's first day of Preschool! Joey cracks me up cause when he got to school and they gave him a name tag it said Joseph, "That is not my name, my name is spelled J_o_e_y" I had taught him how to spell his name and he wouldn't settle with the fact that it was his full name on the name tag they changed it for him!

Our little Soccer Man.

Joey had his first soccer practice last night. It didn't go as well as we had hoped but pray that over the next few weeks he will be more involved! It is kinda a rough time 5:30 at night which is really late for him to be doing stuff, but any way he loved that there was a coach and that he got to dress up like his dad! But it is parents involvment because of the age so every child has to have a parent to be their partner for the exercises. They are learning some drills and things like that right now I am not sure if they will actually get into a game or not but at least it is getting him started! I can't believe he is old enough to be doing stuff like this but we was really excited that he could get out and do something different!

Working out his stretches. So cute to watch this! Sorry about the sound in the background...Ellianna was watching a movie in the car cause she has had a fever of 103+ for almost a week now and I was just letting her rest in the car.

Announcing....BABY #4!

Our little family is excited to announce for those of you who do not know that we are expecting a baby Sept 1oth!!!! We are so excited and the kids have been really fun this time getting it more now that they are older! We had our ultrasound today and I am not going to tell you what we are having you all get to guess!!! And I will post it in a week what we are having!

Easter Egg Hunt for the 6th Time!

It was really funny to see how excited they still were after having already done it 5 times before!

I haven't posted much latley but thought I would post the cute pics from Easter Sunday we had a beautiful day and the kids had a blast hunting for ages on Sat. over and over and over!
Joey was to busy to wait 5 seconds his sister would have beat him to the eggs.

Elli was also to busy looking for eggs to let me take her picture! She is busy looking around me to try and see some more by the door.

Such a little cheese ball!!

Loss....

One of my dear friends lost her husband a couple of days ago in Afghanistan, I have not been able to deal with this very well. It has been a long time since i have seen either one of the regretfully but it has really hit home for me that this war is not over and that there are still people real people losing their lives so that we can be safe here on our own soil. I want to just tell all of you how greatful I am for their service and all that they do for us. Over the past couple of days I have tried very hard to cherish every moment that I have with my family...even with all the messes and the what seem to be unimportant conversations, they are important to me and that is what matters I can still have the silly conversation about nothing with my husband and there are so many military husbands and wifes that can't, and will never be able to have that again with their spouse or a mother who can't talk to her child again in this life.Every litte thing such as calling Joe from the grocery store, just to see if there was anything else he need has seemed so very important to me, even when the kids were blowing bubbles in their milk and it was spilling over to the floor I just tried to enjoy it because you never know how short this earthly life is. I am so very greatful to know that we are an eternal family and we will be together forever and wish that I could bring that to all of the people who have lost loved ones and share with them the joy it brings into your life to know that you will be with them again! I am kinda of rambling but I just wanted to put it in writing how greatful I am for the ultimate sacrfice that FRANKIE TONER has made with his life and for the sacrifice Brooke made when she sent her husband off to war. My prayers are with you and may God be with you in this time of need!
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/mar/29/westlake-football-champ-killed/

New hair cuts!!

I got a little bug in my butt the other night after bath-time and decided to take a chance at cutting the girls hair. Last time we did that with Joey it was a disaster, I didn't touch his this time I am waiting to take him in to the salon to get his done. Elli loved it and wanted her hair cute again the next morning too. So funny.

I cut about 3 inchs off the back of Elli's hair and LOVE how cute it looks on her! It looks so so much better then it did!

Bria I cut some bangs and think it looks so much better, but she does have a calic that I didn't know was there until after I was done so one side looks shorter, but isn't.

My 3 have arrived!

It may have taken a little while but all 3 of my craft it forwards have spoken. Please send me your address in the comments section and I will delate it before it gets posted but I want it to be a surprise when you get it so pass it along and sometime in the next year(lol) you will get a surprise gift made by me...guess I better figure out how to make something crafty. Thanks for playing!!!!!

Birthday Bash!

So everyone needs to check out the birthday bash that is happening this week!