Carving Pumpkins and Family pictures!

 We tried to fit Carson in to get a cool picture, but he was too big.  Darn!

Emree lost a tooth, she was the bravest of any of the kids thus far, didn't even flinch or cry!  She is a tough cookie!

Our basement is coming along, albeit slowly!  It will be so nice once it is finished and the kids can actually come down and play in it!

We got some great family pictures taken!

Sweet Sleeper

Here is our sweet little boy sleeping away.  Why do you just want to hold them while they are sleeping and kiss their sweet little cheeks!?

My wonderful, wonderful sister took my kiddos for a whole week after Carson was born, it was such a blessing for me to have some time with just him. He came 11 days early and 9 days after moving, so I was ready for a little break. Thank you forever Kayla!

Well there is a lot to write about but not a lot of time, so I thought I would post some pictures so you all could see what a handsome little guy Carson is.  Sorry its taken so long.

 Don't mind the glasses...

 Love Beckett's face in this one,

 Emree is such a little Mom, she is in LOVE!

 Brady is excited to have a twin!! Their baby pictures are almost identical.

 I can't believe how blessed I am and all of these kiddos belong to me, and of course my WONDERFUL husband, couldn't have asked for better!

1 week and 4 days old, hanging out on the couch.

Moved

Well most of your already know that we have moved. YAY!! We are loving the quiet life of living out of town, especially the kids who are outside all. day. long.  I have been trying to get things in here organized and get ready for the baby, and keep everything under control.  Needless to say there is little time to sit and put up my poor swollen feet, but oh well.  I would way rather have lots to do than not enough and spend my time sitting around.  Our house is coming along and I will have to post some before and after pictures of all the work we have already done.  I am always amazed at what a transformation some paint and carpet will do.   Chas laid the dining room laminate Saturday and it looks oh so good,  much better than the concrete that has been there since moving in, (after taking the carpet out.)  The kids have been so good to help doing whatever I need them to do.  They are now experienced wallpaper scrapers!
Every night we enjoy going out for a walk, last night we walked up to Beckett's stream (he always has to check if there is water in it, but probably not until springtime.)  On the way home we stopped by one of the neighbors, (Chas has worked with him before) and they invited us to come back and visit on their patio.  We had a great visit and enjoyed getting to know them. We kept hearing a thunderstorm approaching, but were a little late in our departure time.  The younger two kids were crying while we were walking/running/waddling home among the lightening, thunder and pouring rain.  The kids kept yelling at me to hurry up and kept yelling  "run, Mom, Run!"  Ya Right!!! Would have been hilarious to watch me trying to run to the house in the rain!  Anyway fun times!!!
Today is much cooler out, so far anyway, so I think the kids and I will head out to the orchard to start thinning the fruit.  I think they will enjoy  climbing in the trees and picking the extra fruit. Also on our agenda for the day is to take down the old pig pen so Chas can use the wood to make a chicken coop.
I would really like to add, have the baby to this list, oh wouldn't that be grand?!!! I am ready to be done!  We got the crib set up last night, carseat out and now we are ready.  Well, I do still need to pack my bag, but I will eventually....

Here we are at our new house, Ruby loves all the open space as much as the kiddos do.

 Every Sunday we go for a walk up the hill and to the trails, here is one of the boys.

And the girls!

So here are a couple pictures of our work crew that came and helped us when we first moved in.  We are so blessed to have such good friends.  There was a bunch of things we wanted to get done before moving in, so there was a lot of people over all the time helping.  We will be forever grateful to them, since I was VERY pregnant. 

 Scraping wallpaper has to be one of the worst jobs EVER!! amd we had a lot to scrape, Sis. Rogers was the wallpaper scraper champ!!

 Here Brooklyn is trying to clean the shower door, she is such a good little worker!

And Bro. Rogers brushing up paint around the window.

And of course there has to be some play right?    Beckett playing swords with his friend Kaylee.

 We decided to take a break on the 4th for the parade and a little bbq after that.  It was a much needed break, although it didn't last long enough!

The kids spent a couple of hours down at Bedards in their fun Bonzai!! The kids love that thing!  It was a nice distraction for me too, I went and just sat there for a couple of hours.