It's been a while :)

So here I am trying to get back into the blogging game. It has been a very long time. With 4 kids now, who has time for blogging? I guess I must because I am attempting once more. I really want my kids to have something to look back on and see how much they were loved and cared about and truthfully I don't have a lot of time to write in baby books. So here is a quick update on each child.

Emmaleigh:
She is in the first grade this year at Creative Connections Arts Academy, which is a charter school through the Twin Rivers Unified School District. Her teacher is Mrs. Smith and she has been teaching for over 18 years. Dane and I love Mrs. Smith because she sees Emmaleigh's potential and has been pushing her, primarily in her reading, to do her very best in all things.

At this time Emmaleigh is obsessed with The Powerpuff Girls, her favourite being Bubbles. She loves anything "Rockstar" and all of her clothing must be "Rockstar". She has finally joined the "Sillybandz" craze and wears them to school all the time so she can be popular. No amount of talking to can convince her that she is popular without the sillybandz. She has also recently joined the iCarly and Suite Life phase. I am not ready for all this growing up but it was bound to happen sooner or later. Also, she is playing basketball with Upward Basketball. She loves AWANA and is working steadily on her Sparks book. She is appx: 49" tall and weighs about 48 lbs.

Koen:

He is being homeschooled for preschool. He knows all of his shapes and can identify most of his letters. I should really be working with him more but life is crazy around here :)! His favourite things are playing with his cars and trio's. Koen loves to go Cubbies at church right now but he is struggling with structure. I know I need to work with him on having scheduled time. Right now he is perfectly content in just wandering around the house. He likes to play his games on the computer and is quite literate. His favourite TV show right now is Batman. He has really become a boy as where 3 months ago he was perfectly content playing with the girls. Now he gets upset if I give him anything girly. He still hates meat but will eat it in some situations. He mostly is sustaining life on Peanut Butter Sandwiches. He is a good boy overall, just sneaky :)! He is approximately 38" and 30 lbs.

Elizabeth:

Ellie is into all things princess. She is the sweetest little thing and is always aiming to please. However, she is also my most defiant and difficult girl because she just wants what she wants. My favourite thing about Ellie right now is when she doesn't get what she wants she tips her head to the side and says "pease, pease" completely adorable. She loves the colour pink and hates vegetables and beans. Elizabeth's favourite shows are Dora the Explorer, Sesame Street, and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. I can't believe how fast she is growing and changing. Ellie is approximately 36" tall and 29 lbs.

Keagan:

CAN YOU BELIEVE HE IS 3 MONTHS? I know I can't. My baby is growing fast. Keagan has been smiling since about 8weeks and had his first baby food 12/29/2010. He had bananas and seemed to like them okay. He makes good eye contact and likes to babble when I talk to him. He has started to get some stranger anxiety when he hasn't seen me or daddy for a little while. He is a good boy but does have some problems with fussiness and gas. Right now we have been blessed with expensive formula from some really good friends, it seems to help a little bit and so we continue giving it to him. I think he is just around the corner to start laughing. He seems to be a smiler and when you tickle him he starts to wiggle and smile. Keagan's last check up was when he was just 2 months and he weighed 10.6 lbs and was 24"

Overall, we are doing well. The kids are growing and changing and so are Dane and I. We have settled in nicely at Antelope Springs and are starting up a small group for Married Couples with kids. We also are heading up a Family Fun Night program with another couple at the church. Our hope is that we will be able to build a program to meet the majourity of young couples in our church. This will hopefully lead to authentic relationships and lasting friendships. God must have a hand in it all because it is coming together :)! We know that this will be a great year!

Emmaleigh's Performance

Our precious 5 year old performed this morning for Morning Assembly at her school, Creative Connections Arts Academy. I thought the school did a fantastic job in teaching all of these little ones to not only sing but to follow direction while singing, especially in such a short amount of time. I love watching Emmaleigh get to experience more in her education than just reading, writing, and arithmetic. We are so blessed to have this school in our community and for Emmaleigh to be enrolled there. Below are videos of her performance. (The beautiful blonde girl to the right in the pink top and brown pants and pink ribbon in her hair is one of her best buddies, Carly! Next to Carly in the tan pants and Pink sweatshirt with headband is her other best buddy, Laine)!

Field Study Day

Emmaleigh had to do a Field Study Day for school as she didn't have school on Friday. So we did her report while we were up at ASC family camp trip. Below is the video of her practicing her report. She created the pictures and captions below herself and I did help her do the pasting but other than that it was done all by her. I am so proud of our girl!

Ellie's Birthday Video

I am sorry

I am so sorry that it has been so long since I have posted. I am determined to begin doing better. So here is the update on our life.
Emmaleigh just entered Kindergarten and she cried and I cried. It was very emotional but all in all turned out to be a really good day. I really enjoyed the time away from her as I was able to work with the other kids and she really enjoys learning. Now she is a big girl.

Koen is growing so fast. He is my little explorer and my little artist. He is so much fun and right now is obsessed with bugs and frogs.

Little Ellie just turned one. She had a great birthday and has been walking for a little over a month now. I am so happy for her. She has been a great blessing and edition to our lives.

Snow Day with the Piorun's

Okay so Dane, I, and the kids love our good friends Mike, Ashley, and Andrew Piorun. They are the sweetest family you could ever meet and we all decided to go up to the snow. We left about 7:00 in the morning and we had to stop for breakfast and gas and then of course I held everyone up while i got a STARBUCKS!!! (I AM SO SORRY, STILL! I really didn't think it would take that long) Anywhoo....we went up to Boreal! The snow was ice because it is melting so it is hard as a rock! So since there wasn't any good snow we decided to go up the freeway to a rest area and play there. It really was a lot of fun. Koen however did not like the snow. He whined and complained since we stepped out of the car. In fact as soon as we got out he pointed to the car and say "car, bye bye" it was truly pathetic. His best buddy Andrew liked the snow a whole lot more. Although they both mostly enjoyed eating it together. Emmaleigh on the other hand loved it, unfortunately that only lasted for about 30 minutes and she was done. I would totally do it again but maybe next time go earlier in the season and also have good snow clothes and boots for the kids because I really think that was half of the reason they didn't like it too much. The best part of the day was on the way home we stopped in Colfax and had lunch at The Pizza Factory. It was a really fun time and I am glad we went. Ellie of course stayed behind with Auntie Tina. Enjoy the pics.

OUCH!

I know I am way behind and most of you have heard about Emmaleigh's arm. Here is what happened.......Emmaleigh fell off one of her really good friends back while playing horsey and she injured her elbow. We thought it wasn't a big deal so I threatened to spank her if she didn't stop crying and over reacting but that didn't work so I knew she was really hurt. I took her to Sutter Roseville Medical Center where I got to sit in the ER, with neither of us having eaten since breakfast, from 1:30 until almost 5:00 while they "fixed" her arm. They started by saying they thought she had a buckle fracture. After 4 sets of x-rays with a very nasty technician they said she broker her elbow and that was the problem but what was worse was it looked like there may be osme injury to her growth plate. So she was put in a splint until she could see the orthpaedic surgeon. She saw Dr. Gotham and he put her in a hot pink cast and she will have that taken off on April 7th. If her arm has not healed by then she may still have to have surgery. Below are some pics of our experience.