Introducing Haley Suzanne!

Finally, our baby has a name! Haley was suggested by Caitlin at dinner last night, and, as we tried it out, it just seems to fit her. Suzanne is Rod's mom's middle name. Haley is so precious, sweet, and wonderful. Her sisters are excited about her and love to hold her or just watch her. Abby loves getting me diapers and "helping" change them. Rod has been a superdad as he's juggled laundry, Abby's accidents, arrangements for the kids to go to people's houses, dishes, yard stuff, and working for a few hours from home each day. I'll admit, I do have a TINY bit of satisfaction when he comes in and just crashes on the couch or bed and declares how spent he is! ...and it's not even lunchtime yet! He's taken great care of everything, though, so I can just take care of Haley and me.

We are all SO excited for mom to come tomorrow! Whoo-oo!

(by the way, go on Facebook to see more pictues of her, we just posted lots there so I'm not going to repost them all!)

Beautiful Washington/Oregon

Our waterfall hike!

We did enjoy our trip to see the Whittles.

The hike was spectacular! So fun to see

the kids - they are all growing up. Thanks

Brooke and Troy!

Whittle weekend

We had a fun Memorial weekend with mom, dad and Travis. Thanks for coming! Alex was distraught when they left. They think it was the awesome remote control car dad brought up that Alex was going to miss, but I think it was them :) I didn't take very many pictures, I am in a slump right now as far as taking pictures and putting them in albums. We went to Audrey's dance recital then for ice cream afterwards. She did a good job and loved getting all dressed up. I can't believe I didn't take any pictures of food! We had chocolate chip cookies, There's No Such Thing As Too Much Chocolate pie, and scotcheroos. I know all of my sisters would be anxious to know what we ate. :) mom- remember how delicious those maple bars were in the Safeway parking lot?! On Saturday we went up to Sunnyside so mom and dad could check on their house, and I met up with some friends at the park. Monday we went on a waterfall hike and drove dad's cool remote control car. It was a great weekend!

We've been busy busy with baseball. Almost every night we have practice or a game. I feel like we've been living out of the car. Bringing food, uniforms and entertainment for Alex & Audrey get's tiring. It's fun to watch the boys, but exhausting keeping the other 2 entertained and listening to then whine about wanting something from the consession stand every two seconds gets really old.

I Love Lemon Bars!

I just had to make some. I rationalized they
were healthy because I used lemons from
Grandma's tree and eggs from our chickens.
I did have to give a plate away, or I would've
eaten the whole pan!

Happy Anniversary Kate and Clark!

A year ago today!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!

to my AMAZING mom, and incredible sisters!

I love you all!

Em's Baby shower

Here are some pics from Em's baby shower. Wish everyone could have been there!

Of course...some pictures of the food. Brooke, we had that pasta salad...it's so good.

Twinkie Babies

One of the games we played was to make twinkie babies...like so. Mine's the one on the right, the one in the middle is Aunt Karen's.

The one pooping is Aunt Lori's. Emily got to pick which one was the cutest, or which one she would want her baby to look like.

And the winner was...Angie! (Brett's sister)

And here's a fake shower picture. I didn't get any pictures of Em opening presents during the shower, so I made her pose after. She got some really cute things. Can't wait for the little baby to come! And Carrie's too! :)