Dale's Wedding

I went to Utah without my little family to attend my brother's wedding.  It was sad to not have them there but it was soooo nice to have a break from all things mom.  This is the first time I have been without kids for more than a few hours since Mesha was born!
The trip was a lot of fun and a whole lot of crazy.  I miss my siblings like crazy.

Me and Amy.

Sisters!

Touring the conference center.

Jefferson's baptism.

Snap Chat at it's finest!  Sorry Mitch...

The newest Mr. and Mrs. Schvaneveldt!

I may or may not have had something to do with the "decorations" on the newlywed's car...

Dipping my toe into the Great Salt Lake.

Daddy Daughter Dance

Mesha and Sterling went to a Daddy Daughter dance hosted by her school.  It was fun for me to help her do a special hairdo and even put on a little makeup to make the occasion fancy.  It just about broke Anya's heart to not be able to go.  Soon Sterling will have a 3 little girls competing for his attention.  Lucky boy.

Easter 2014

We had a good Easter.  I love these little chicks!

Angry Postman?

My brother's wedding announcement came in the mail a while ago.  Well most of it anyway...

The craziest part about this is it happened AGAIN not to long ago with a check Sterling's mom sent us.  Why doesn't the post office shread some junk mail or a bill or something?  Strange.

And on an unrelated matter, we celebrated Sterling's birthday earlier this month!

It's A Girl!

I think the 10 people that look at this blog already know this.  In case you don't...

 

It's a girl!

Art Show

Mesha had a piece of her art selected by her school's art teacher to represent the 1st grade of her school in a school district art show.  We went to uptown Charlotte and she got to take a bow on stage and we got to see her art in the gallery!  It was pretty cute and we are very proud of our little artist.

Mesha's picture is the penguin one above her head. 

Mesha's Seventh Birthday!

Mesha had a parrot party for her birthday this year.  She also had her first friend party.  She had 4 friends come over after school.  They did a parrot craft, ate pizza and fruit, and played.  Mesha later said it was her best birthday ever (I think she also said it was her worst at one point too, can you say dramatic?).  Happy birthday to my biggest!

Silly Anya

Silly Girl.

Griffin's 5th Birthday!

Griffin had an Angry Birds Space birthday party.  We had a lot of fun.  Half of me is excited for him to be five and to go to kindergarten.  The other half of me is in panic mode that I only have a few more months with him until I send him out into the world.  Either way, we sure love our boy and are glad to have him in our family!

It was a nice day so we even got to go to the park!

MIA

It's been a while since I have blogged, I've been MIA. That can only mean one thing right? That's right, I'm pregnant!

I'm 14 weeks along, I've been incredibly sick, we don't know if it is a boy or girl yet but we will find out, and baby is due mid August. So other than me laying on the couch wondering why I've done this to myself again, here is what we've been up to.

Christmas was great!

I took a total of 4 pictures on Christmas Day.  That's how awesome I felt.

The kids loved their presents and the vacation from school.

Mesha loves her new rainbow loom.

Griffin is into Star Wars, Angry Birds, Star Wars Angry Birds, and Angry Birds Space.  Just in case you wanted to keep up with all that!

The level of cleanliness got so bad at our house that Sterling decided it was high time Mesha learned how to vacuum.

My mini baby bump. It doesn't look so impressive in this picture but it really is starting to come along nicely.

Snow day!  We have had 5 days off from school from two different snow storms here in Charlotte.  Make up days are no fun but I like this kind of snow that only lasts a few days before it melts.  Oh yes and it gets warm in March here.  Yay for the south!

Happy Valentines Day!

Mesha had her first sleep over.  I may have cried a little bit when she left.  I blame pregnancy.  Good thing it was at her friends house one street over.  Baby steps.  She had blast!

I am beginning to feel better and hope to be back to "normal" in a few weeks.  I'm kind of excited to clean my dirty, dirty house.  I'm not so excited to cook again.  I have to give Sterling a huge shout out.  He has been working full time at home (which is hard enough as is) as well as making us lunch and dinner and doing all things kid related including bed time, baths, diapers, fights, etc.  He has been superman the last 10 weeks.  He deserves an award!  Thanks love!