Happy New Year!

Christmas morning! How special that Christmas was celebrated on the Sabbath day.

Bryan and his very best friend!!! He is always by her even if she is trying to fall asleep. He gets her food and toys. He is very attentive to her every need.

New Years Eve tradition of wearing the crowns and hats we have had for five years! Let's see how long they will last! :)









Lilly girl! What a hoot you are!!!
















Jace trying his hand at photography. We took pictures of the entire Tibbals family. We will all be together again after Dewey gets back from his deployment next year.





Miss Haley ready for the New Year! She is completely mobile now. Crazy how fast they all grow!

What's in your Broom closet?

Three little monkeys live in mine.
What do you want for breakfast I ask.....
giggling is all I here.
One day when I pulled out the cold cereal for breakfast Jace quickly went to the pantry. Opened the door and pulled out the pancake batter saying. " I said I wanted breakfast!" Which meant mom I want pancakes and eggs. MY boys are all meat and potatoes guys.

"All done"

'All done' Says Bryan at the table.
'I'm done my princess Mommy' - Lilly every time she poops. Letting me know it is my turn to wipe her bum. 'Is it all gone, mom?' 'Yep, I say and tell her to flush and wash.' She says she will do it herself (wipe before she goes to school)and sometimes she does.
"It's OK Mom! It's OK." Jace loves to say.
Medical update - Past month
Jake - Carbon monoxide poisoning, passing five kidney stones, allergies and a head cold. Poor man of mine!
Jace and Bryan have both had ear infections.
Lilly and Jace are recovering from a summer viral thing.
Mom - still pregnant with all sorts of the symptoms but won't bore you with details. Lets just say I feel that my body is 'All DONE'.
Here's a thought for those of you that notice when you are starting to get a head cold or sore throat are anything like it. Drink a few quarts of Red raspberry leaf tea. I like mine sweetened with honey. It really does cut the time in half if not completely. I love the stuff, um Jake not so much. The kids are starting to ask to have some. Plus it is good for growing babies - which I have been doing for the last few years:)

What no pictures?

I thought I would just write a few things while I was thinking and just post them before I didn't even that much done. A friend's father of mine told me of how he knows people that print of their blog entries every year and binds them in book form to keep as their family journals. I loved the idea and so here I am. I don't have much time these days for fun scrapbooks or other forms of journals so here I am rambling on and on. I will one day catch up with the tech of things and hopefully be quick at posting the pictures. Until then reading is our update. I find myself writing on the back sheets of the child's well check forms that the doctors office hands out. This gives a short glance of what each one has been up too.
Speaking of reading we ordered a program to help us teach the kids to read. So far they love learning! We are still in our first week and already are seeing results.
I am looking forward to having them join in reading during family scripture time.

Friends

'A friend is someone who leaves you a better person than when they found you.' -Blaine Pugmire.
I love this thought! It is so true. Think of all those friends that have inspired you to become better in your life simply by just being around them and having them be themselves. They are wonderful! To those of you reading I want to say thank you!!! Thank you, you are more wonderful than you realize!
Other fun quotes.
'Be yourself! Nobody can tell you that you are doing it wrong.' - Snoopy
'Some people come into our lives & quickly go. Some stay for awhile & leave footprints on our hearts and we are never the same.'
Have a most beautiful day filled with heartfelt love and much Happiness!

Can you really become too big to fit into your maturnity clothes?

That is my question of late. I have put skirts on that I wore during other pregnancies that now show my knees. My dear husband will simply ask if I am going to change my outfit before leaving the house. I get it I do. Last night he asked if my belly was hanging out. Sure enough... it was. Sixty pounds heavier than I was on my wedding day. I look forward to losing the weight and running with the kids.
I am now at 35 weeks and the doctor is estimating that our little girl weighs approx 8 to 8 1/2 lbs already. Given my track record he doesn't expect her to come anytime soon. So we are walking every night and I am doing some serious spring cleaning - all that I can do while chasing three kids around.
Last night we set up the crib and pulled out the baby clothes out of storage. Now the kids are telling baby sister to come out. Lilly told her should could come out in five minutes. Jace told her simply to 'Get out of there now'. Bryan loves his big boy bed. We are ready now so whenever she it will be great. So if you don't see a whole lot of us maybe it is because I ran out of things to wear. :)

Random - it has been 10 months!

I could be posting another baby for all you know. Just kidding - not yet! That will be in June! It's a girl! We are so excited! Lilly says her name is 'baby sister'. Thats it baby sister. She loves to 'hug' her baby sister and gives her kisses and then tells me that she is smiling and that she loves her too. Pregnancy has been a rough one with nausea and overehaustion. Most days I could just lay around. But thats not much of an option with three little ones. I do love movie time during the day, when Bryan sleeps and the others watch so I take a little nap on the couch. I told Lilly only to wake me if it is an emergency. One day she woke me saying 'Momma, it's an emergency! Jace is taking off his own POOPY diaper." "Yes, Lilly, Thank you that is an emergency!" Fortunatly he hadn't made a mess over anything but the clothes he was in.


Bryan's loves doors! He has been crawling since he was five and half months old. And since then he loves to open and close doors. Since he didn't mind not walking until ten and half months he is very fast. Our household knows to keep all doors to bathrooms closed. One morning while I was changing the boys first diapers of the day the phone rang. It was Jake needing me to forward something to him from his office upstairs. Immediately afterwards the door rang. I ran to the laundry room to put a more descent outfit on, while Lilly ran to see who was at the door. It was my brother and mom. I ran back downstairs to check on Bry-guy (as he is called around here). He was no where to be found. We could a 10 month old possible gone in a basement? Then I remembered the doors. I asked mom if she could help me look. "What do you mean you don't know where Bryan is?" I went to the bathroom door - first down the hall. I could not get it to open. That little boy had gone inside, shut the door, and then pulled out the drawer baracading himself inside. I could hear him playing with a wrapper of some sort. Mom said we were going to have to call for the firemen because a child was invovled. I told her I could break down a door just aeasily as they could. Thats when she called for Levi and I gave him a screwdriver to create a hole he could place his hand in and close the drawer that blocked the door from opening. You could hear at first Bryan was not a bit concerned, that was until he saw the screwdriver forcing bits of the door at him. Carefully the hole was made and the door was opened. Bryan had a reese's pieces wrapper in his hand and was looking at all of us like 'hey, what's up and why are you breaking things around here?' Thank goodness for hollow 80's doors!