Easter Egg Hunt

We hosted ladies night for conference at our place. We had great food and lots of fun. The kids had an awesome easter egg hunt and they each went home with a ton of easter goodies!!!!

Thanks ladies for all your help!!!

Have a Happy Easter everyone :)

Mom & Dad Starnes

My parents at my aunts wedding...Great looking couple :)

I love the dresses back then!

(It's getting pictures like this that make me love FB!)

Arthur&Esther

My cousin sent me this picture on FB, isn't it amazing. It's my Grandma & Grandaddy Vaughan and my great aunt Suzie. This has got to be one of my favorite pictures ever! Grandma was gorgeous :)

Catching a Leprechaun

Savannah set up a trap to catch a leprechaun tonight, she even put some fake coins inside to lure one in. Clever little girl :)

Portraits

Chunky Cheeks Sassy Pants Savannah Smiles

I was having fun taking some pics of my kids with our new camera...love these smiles.

Playing in the snow... they had a blast!

Silly hat day at school! She put this together by herself, pretty creative:)

Super Bowl 2012

Sunday dinner was a competition to make the best super bowl or valentines food. So I made 7-layer football dip with the beans on top decorated with sour cream in my oval cake pans. Janet made an awesome sara-salad football field with asparagus speared football goals and white cheese lines... pretty awesome. Jeff made some very cute valentine bull-winkies (twinkies wrapped in bologna decorated with heart eyes) cute.... yes, tastey.....? Barb made a delicious fruit salsa with cinnamon chips.

I don't know if anyone actually won, but we had a scrumptious time trying.

:)

This picture just makes me smile:)

halloween 2011

The witches breakfast at Gardner Village.
Janet's awesome Halloween dinner.

Spooky eats.

Awesome punkins'!

The artists at work.

My cute butterflies for Halloween, I had a monkey too, but those pics are on my new camera. I'll get those on soon enough :)
Pickin' pumpkins at Jays, where the heck was everyone this year?

Gettin' ready for bed.

Could he be anymore handsome (and chunky ;) ?

We've already started wearing the camo, just like daddy!

Mallows up the canyon

We went up the canyon to enjoy the nice fall weather before it was too late.

We had such a great time the food was great, the company, and the fire, thanks for coming with us Janet & Steve!

Grandma & Grandaddy came to visit this summer!!!! We had a blast. This is granddaddy at our float preview, our stakes float did awesome!!
Grandaddy & Ben hangin' out in the camper.

Grandma & Caroline walking home from church.

All of us on Ben's blessing day.

Our last day with grandma & grandaddy :(

We had such a great time together, my girls miss them sooooo much!

Hopefully it won't be another 2 years before we see each other again:)

LOVE YOU!

My senior high school trip was to Time Square in NY, while there I was able to enjoy the big city and see the beautiful skyline of the tall buildings across the Hudson river. I took a picture of it. On September 11, 2001 the skyline changed. I was helping some family friends pack up their house. The man of the house happened to be in the military and was supposed to be working in the Pentagon that day. We walked in the kitchen and heard the news on the radio. I remember him turning to me and saying "I should've been there today" the Lord was definitely watching over him that day. I truly am proud to be an American and can only think of sadness when I remember all those that lost their lives that day. We celebrate the 4th of July with BBQ's and fireworks along with many other patriotic days and one day 9-11 will probably be the same way. I do know that I will never forget how I felt that day and how greatful I am for the men that fight for our freedom!!!!
I know the 10 year anniversary is coming up, and I hope you will share your thoughts/stories.

A little gift from heaven

Finally he's here!

Benjamin Steven

Proud papa

Two of the happiest big sisters ever!

8 lbs 12 oz

21 3/4 in long

6-15-2011

I woke up about 2:30 in the morning feeling contractions, got spencer up about 3:30 to time me. There were about 3 within 10 minutes, but they weren't regular. We called Janet to come over about 4 am. We hurried to the hospital this time knowing how fast Caroline came. When we got there (about 4:20am) the nurses took my name and info, as soon as they saw I had my last baby within 15 min after arriving they were quick to get the delivery room ready for me. I was at 7cm, knowing I had a little while before go time I started pacing the room. After about 30 min of hard contractions it was time. The doctor had been called out to deliver another baby, and finished up just in time for me to start pushing. I had to keep reminding myself I had done this before and I could do it again! With a few hard pushes the little guy was out about 5am, cord around his neck and blue as can be. They let me hold him a few seconds before quickly taking him to clean out his lungs and measure, weigh and check him. His head was still a little blue but he was doing well. The whites of his eyes were pretty bruised, hence the dark eyes. The nurses kept commenting on how big his feet were, he gets that from his dad:) He is absolutely adorable! There is a new excitement in having a little boy. He is home now and we are all completely enjoying him.

He is my sweet little angel!

Spencer's 29th Birthday

For Spencer's 29th Birthday the girls made a pinata for their Daddy. We didn't really have a way of hanging it in our house, so the girls kicked it around like a soccer ball until they got all of the candy out :)

The girls also wanted to help make his cake too. Since he likes to fish we decided to make his cake pretty fishy. I got lazy and bought the frosting and some ocean swedish fish. The girls had a great time putting fish all over the cake. How can you go wrong with rainbow chip frosting?

Happy Birthday Babe!

Baby update

Here's me and my very large belly around 35/36 weeks, quite swollen all over I might say!

My husband likes to take pictures of me when I'm looking my best ;-)

What I love about being pregnant:

~feeling those sweet little movements~

~waiting for the big day~

~washing clothes in baby detergent, the smell...sigh~

What I don't love:

~feeling huge~

~sore hips~

~waiting for the big day~

ps. I'm already at 2 1/2 & 70%

I don't think I'll last till the 21st, we'll see

A day at the park

This is a high tech playground! Makes you dizzy:)