The Fogles

T-BALL.

2011-07-26T10:18:00.001-07:00

This was Lilly and Prestons first year at giving T-ball a shot! I really enjoyed watching them play 2 games a week and hey by the last 2 games they were really figuring out what they were actually doing!

I think by far both of them loved "pitching" the best!

that is unless they were batting!

Lilly running to 1st!

On her way to play some ball!

Kloe enjoying some freedom outside her stroller!

The 2011 Braves!

Some lunch after pictures with some of the team!

Preston.

Their last game.

Ice cream party at the Coach's house!

can we say sugar high?

Preston getting his certificate!

What a great season! I'm so glad that my kids enjoy sports so far! It may cause for a hectic schedule but I do really love every second of it!

May/June...

2011-07-19T10:46:00.001-07:00

Just "few" pictures of the last month of school and beginning of SUMMER!!

Tackling climbing and streaking for the first time..

The kids with their "Mario" mustaches.

The kids had a blast at their friend Conners Birthday! We finally got to check out the new play place "Jabbers", so cute!

Yummy Cinnamon streusel teacher treats!

Lexi on her end of the year field trip to "Deer Flats Refuge"

Lilly at her Graduation! We are so proud of our Lilly and can't get enough of her zest for life! She had a fabulous school year and is counting down the days to tackle the big 1st. grade!

Our P-man has completed his journey with Pre-school! He had a great 2 years with Mrs. Sandeen as she prepared him for his debut to Kindy but if you ask him right now he'll tell you " I hate Kindergarten and I want to stay in pre-school forever". The first day of school shall be interesting!

spending endless hours @ the park...

The kids learning about wildlife @ the refuge!

Movies @ the park with friends!

Kloe passed out at her first ever "daycare" experience.

Summer lunch @ the park with friends!

Someone may or may not have gotten sick after 20 tire swing rides...happy to report it wasn't one of mine though!

Preston lost his 1st tooth!!

enjoying another great B-day party...

Easter 2011

2011-07-19T09:49:00.001-07:00

This year it pretty much felt like we celebrated for a week straight...

Lilly @ the Farrells Easter day!

Kloe!

Preston, Lilly, Tori and Lexi

Preston and I getting ready to head to the Farrells!

Egg time with the Gigrays!

Egg hunt in Notus with the Gigrays!

Nico, Connor and Lilly!

Egg hunt at the Smith's!

Preston and his loot!

Our brave friend Erin who hosted all of us and our crazy kids!

Just another great Holiday full of memories!

March/April

2011-07-19T08:24:00.000-07:00

My favorite season these days...Lexi's Basketball season!

Lexi and her good friend Madison!

Kloe enjoying some snacks while watching her sister play!

#24

Our P-MAN turns 5!!

Star Wars B-DAY it is!

We headed up to McCall for a little weekend getaway with some friends!

Ice cream in the snow? I think so!

Fogle/Gigray kids!

Lotsa sledding!

Me and the Mr.

The annual BOY day!

ohhh look... another new pet, meet Alice!

Tiggy and her new collar...

a visit from Grandma and Papa!

The girlies with Papa before school!

Just another couple of months that flew by too quickly!

Bloggin' on my mind...

2011-07-19T07:40:00.000-07:00

Hmmmm so it's been a 7 month blog break that apparently I thought I needed to take...but really in all reality it's been on my mind the WHOLE time, like a nagging little gnat! I truly enjoy reading, doing and learning from blogs but once I fell behind for a couple months I didn't know how to jump back in ( yes I know it literally is as simple as writing a post!) but for whatever reason that just seemed like so much work and time. I got lazy with just putting pics on facebook instead of keeping this updated so for the sake of keeping events straight in my head I'm diving back in!

January/February...

Preston joined his first team...The Mini Vikes!

He did great the whole little season of Soccer!

Celebrating Preston's last game with some ice cream!

Preston had a Valentine party at school...

We went with friends to Givens Hot Springs...

We got a new pet, Shorty (R.I.P. Shorty 2/11-7/11).....and Lexi made it on her schools "Pillars of Trust". She found a wallet on the playground that was obviously very important to some adult and turned it in...landing her self portrait on the "trustworthiness" pillar!

Christmas time...

2011-01-30T07:11:00.000-08:00

This years Christmas was pretty insane since we decided to go ahead and move into our new house 2 days before Christmas....

Our tree started in the old house.....

Lexi's Christmas program!

classroom treats with Disney sprinkles!

Kloe playing at Prestons class party!

Christmas eve @ the Farrells!

So glad dad was home!

My sick boy on Christmas eve.

and also a sick baby on Christmas eve.

heading to bed so Santa can come!

and that he did... DSI, Penbo, Cars, Games, Weebles....

She loved her baby!

relaxing after the craziness!!

Feeling all better!!!

Now on to more unpacking....

2011-01-30T06:40:00.000-08:00

For Thanksgiving 2010 we went to DISNEYLAND!!!

Best choice we ever made (it was a big deal for me to give up Black Friday, lol)

Preston's highlight of the trip was Buzz Lightyear...

Kloe wasn't so excited for riding all the rides, but since we're mean like that we took her on most!

Meeting his hero and go figure he was scared!

I'm pretty sure she only liked the Nemo ride!

The infamous weights pic!

princess face painting was a must!

one on one time with their too favorite characters, priceless!!

Pluto!

We couldn't have come at a more beautiful time of year, Disneyland decorated for Christmas is amazing!!

Getting ready to enjoy our front row seats to the Christmas parade!!

We had the best time ever and I'm already counting down the time to go back!!

Halloween 2010

2011-01-30T06:22:00.000-08:00

Halloween was super fun this year, the kids thought long and hard about what they wanted to be..... There were definitely quite a few trips to the big Halloween Stores, a few worried moments from Lexi wondering if her vision of a "dead bride" was really coming together, a trip to Boo at the Zoo with friends, watched lots of Halloween Town, CANDY, candy and CaNdY and lots of spooky memories!!

Preston "Spiderman"

Our sweet little Kloe

our "dead bride" lexi

Avatar, Lilly

Fall 2010 Field Trips!

2010-10-17T12:24:00.000-07:00

I have been lucky enough to tag along on a few field trips this last week! Lilly's whole Kindergarten class got to go to Linder Farms ( click on that link and check out their corn maze, just another crazed Bronco fan for sure!!) which has been our favorite Pumpkin Patch thus far in Idaho!

Of course it decided to be windy that day...

The hay ride out to the patch...

Lilly and her 2 best buds (her words!)

getting ready to go through the corn maze!

and her perfect little pumpkin, the rules were they could only pick one that they could carry all the way back to the bus!

It was a fun day spending some time with Lilly!

Now on to Prestons trip...

Preston and the rest of his pre-school class got to take a little field trip to this mans ranch, SYMMS Fruit Ranch. We drove up to the plant where he boarded the bus and pointed the way to one little amazing spot where the kids could pick Apples to their hearts content! I could have watched the whole experience for hours, you could just see the utter joy in his eyes watching all these "youngsters" enjoying his Ranch and loving every question they had for him!

Picking away...

My favorite picture of the day!

Perfect!

Ohhh how I love this time of year!!

Happy Birthday Kloe!

2010-09-12T07:53:00.000-07:00

A year has already flown by and our baby girl is now 1!

She had a "Look Whoooos Turning 1" party!

Melanie once again helped me make our little Kloes party a perfect one!

The kids did lots of jumping in the castle!

Kloe was spoiled with gifts!

We set up a little "photo booth"

Sisters!

Kloe had her own little jump house!

Chris and Kloe, he had flown in the day before and couldn't get enough lovins from her!

My friend Katie made Kloe her own awesome cake to dig into!!

It was yet another great party and thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate our Klo-bear!

School Days Fall 2010.

2010-09-12T07:00:00.000-07:00

We started this school year with Lexi entering 2nd grade, Lilly Kindergarten and Preston Pre-school!!

Lilly has am Mrs. Rimby and absolutely loves every second of being at school!

Our girls are getting so big!

Lexi has Mrs. Connor who is so much fun and truly cares about her students! Lexi has had a few rough mornings actually getting to school without tears but she's all smiles by the end of the day and always says her day was great! She is just soooo not a morning person, which makes my mornings not so fun!

We *heart* our Wilson School!

The kids have to follow a strict dress code/ uniform this year. The can wear SOLID color polos in any color besides black, red and navy blue and then their pants have to be either black, dark jean or blue! I personally don't mind the change at all, cause I love little girls uniforms with knee socks and we can still so far accessorize how ever we want!

Preston started school 2 weeks after the girls and was NOT happy to be going at all!!! (he doesn't have to completely follow the dress code rules til Kindy!) He cried and cried and cried......

I was able to at least snap a few pics before the meltdown started and of course he picked a Batman backpack!

the next day he went with no tears!

Chris taking the girls to school! I had to snap a pic since he had missed their first day! They loved having Chris here this last week to take and pick them up but Monday it'll be back to boring ol mom!!!

One great tooth...

2010-08-02T14:18:00.000-07:00

The day after we returned home, THE TOOTH finally fell out!! It was hanging by a single thread for days.....

She had been dreaming of the endless possibilities for weeks of what she was going to get with her money.

That night she fell asleep just like this on our downstairs couch, we weren't touching her :) so there she stayed!

the first thing we heard the next morning was "WOW that must have been one great tooth"

Yes, yes it was!

My sweet Lilly looking so cute toofless!

Company!

2010-08-01T10:38:00.000-07:00

The Fogle G-parents, Corey and his boys pulled in literally 5 minutes behind us as we were getting home from ND! They came for a short visit and some grandkid lovins before they had to hit the road again back to AZ and then Corey and Chris hit he road back to ND so Corey can do the flooring in the house Chris is doing.... So yes that means me and the kids are all by our lonesome getting ready for a new school year to start! I'm so proud of Chris and his extraordinary talent as a builder, the man really has an eye like no other, him having to travel sometimes has such a mix of emotions for me, it just plain sucks having him gone but it's pretty amazing to have people from 1,000's of miles away wanting HIS work, awesome!!

anyway...lots of just hanging out!

and of course wrestling

it never ended!

I took the kids to the movies!

Dylan and our kids!

lots of video game playing!

I love this pic, it was the first time Kloe had scene Papa since she was born. She wasn't to sure at first but that didn't last long!!

We put Corey to work on the grill!

The boys

Jim, Corey and the boys had an awesome first time rafting!!

Chris and Justin Kayaked...

maybe they can get Corey on a Kayak next time!!

It was a short visit but we squeezed a ton in, great laughs, Olive Garden, shopping, rafting, movies, bbq, re- packing for a trip, not too bad in 3 days! It was so great seeing the boys, it had been far too long!!

Coming home with twice as much!

2010-08-01T10:18:00.000-07:00

I love shopping while we're on the road, I know it doesn't make sense but everything just seems like a must have, even when I have to carry things on my lap for 16 hours....

Needless to say everyone enjoyed getting out of the cram packed car to stretch their legs every once in a while....( told Chris he should have brought the trailer!)

my little angel resting so good in her new big girl seat, which you know takes up more room too considering we were hauling 2 baby seats home now...

and because we're FREAKIN CRAZY we got Tiggy our Chihuahua a pal! Like I don't already have enough to deal with while Chris is out of town, why not just stick needles in my own eyeballs... I do have to say though as a not so much dog lover that these little girls are great and I barely even notice we have them!

ND 2010

2010-08-01T09:54:00.000-07:00

We had a great 2 weeks that flew by, I think I took like 600 pics so here's a tiny few of my favorites!

Celebrated my sisters Birthday!

We swam, A LOT that day!

Lexi!

Lilly!

My baby just shy of 11 mos.

Sisters!

the smell of Fish apparently make us happy!

took a drive out in the country.

lots of pics with my QT's!

We enjoyed a cute little ice cream shop.

The kids had a blast at the Fish Hatchery.

Aunt Shelby took the kids to see a movie while Nana and mom shopped!

We ate awesome food all over the place!

(pretty sure I never need to eat again!)

got to spend time with my brother!

We did so much, it was a go go go visit and had a blast every step of the way! Thanks mom for a great visit!!

On the road again...

2010-08-01T09:27:00.000-07:00

This beautiful home has been whats keeping our home quiet and lonely.... Chris had been gone 6 weeks at the beginning of summer, came home for 2, we weren't ready to be lonely again so me and the kids packed up and hit the road with him! What better way to reconnect and spend some quality time together than a 16 hour straight road trip??? Ha sarcasm people geez! Really though it wasn't bad at all, guess our kids are used to it by now! Anyway my mom only lives a few hours from where Chris is working so that's where the kids and I played for 2 weeks!

Lilly willing to get out and pose anywhere!

There were many of these....pit stops!

Lotsa driving and enjoying beautiful Montana!

Lotsa time wanting to throw "Tom-tom" out the window cause the miles seemed to never go down...

a few of these....

then we made it here!

Boom, BOOM day 2010

2010-08-01T09:00:00.000-07:00

This year we stayed home for the 4th and it was definitely our best 4th yet in Idaho! The weather was PERFECT, which makes for a happy mom! We started the weekend off Saturday morning watching the parade, which was better than previous years, when that ended we literally turned around and walked about 2 feet to the park! We usually do a quick stroll through cause its hot but like I said perfect weather which made for an afternoon of enjoying all the fun things the park had to offer!

The kids played lots of games with their cousin Riley, rode horses, snuggled on a baby Kangaroo, sodas, yummy food, bounce houses, firetrucks, water, soaked clothes...

Our friends Katie and Rob hosted a super fun BBQ at their home for everyone to enjoy! They are such awesome sports considering they were leaving for Disney WORLD the next day!

We only had one "incident" the whole weekend and of course it was one of my own.... Preston stepped on a lit sparkler. Good thing we had our own personal fireman on board, thanks Will!!

( it's been almost a month now and it's just about healed up!)

I loved every bit of our weekend, making incredible memories with our kids and being around such great people!

Rafting 2010

2010-07-07T22:57:00.000-07:00

Chris and I got to sneak off without the kids one Friday afternoon to hit the river!! It was a blast as usual and even funnier with a few of the "newbies" that had never gone before!

Here's my Uncle who was visiting from AZ, who had never been on a kayak!

My other Uncle who's the "pro" out of us all!

and our good friend Dave!

I'm pretty sure everyone laughed til they cried when they saw this pic, we all know Daves hilarious but man this was some funny stuff!!

Chris!

us girls playing it safe on the raft!

What a fun day! Can't wait to go again!

BBQ's are good for the soul!

2010-07-07T21:48:00.001-07:00

It's no secret I love me some BBQs...

the being outside...

decorating...

the food...

my babies in the water...

awesome weather...

and great company!

Dads home/ Fathers day!

2010-07-07T20:53:00.000-07:00

Chris got home the Friday evening before Fathers Day and surprised the kids when they walked through the door from swimming lessons with lots of loving and new bikes!

He was there all of 20 minutes after a 16 hour drive when he loaded everyone up and their new bikes and took them down to the school to ride around the track!

Saturday the Farrells had an "Oscar Mayer" bbq...Preston enjoying annoying everyone (I'm sure!) with his wiener mobile whistle!

I just love this picture...it's the kids' gifts to Chris for Fathers Day, they each picked out their own bag and it just speaks volumes! Lilly's is the trophy bag and she truly believes he can do anything and is the best at it, Prestons...well anything that he loves he absolutely thinks Chris will love it too and Lexi's just fits her perfect, a daddy's girl!

Fathers Day morning we got up and headed downtown to a car show, seems like a guy/dad thing to do!

Just Chris and his shadow!

Chris and Justin in Justins hot rod!

after the car show we some how headed to Toys R Us...

There's always room for another Buzz at our house!

annoying singing Barbies not so much, but that's what the Lilly wanted!

It was a great weekend and boy are we sure eating up every second of Chris being home!

these are our so happy dads home faces!

9 mos.

2010-07-07T20:41:00.000-07:00

Just marking our 9 awesome months we've had with our Kloe!

Just like all our other kids she's basically in the 95% in all her areas....growing like a weed for sure!

She hit her 22 mark which is where she outgrows her baby seat and now needs a big girls car seat :(

( she's now 10 mos., yesterday and I have yet to decided on one....bad I know!)

Sink OR Swim....

2010-06-16T07:03:00.001-07:00

So while I had this extra free time on my hands while the kids were at VBS I headed down to parks and rec and looked into swim lessons! Now this is a huge deal for me to tackle especially without Chris's help but hey were stepping out of the box this week soooooo I went for it and when they asked if I wanted the kids to start that day I said " uuummmm IIiiii GUESS soooo" yep that's pretty much how I said it. So let me just say I'm a freak around the water with the kids, so that's why it's a big deal to ME to do this with four kids (who love water)all at once with two hands...

So here they are after me threatening them about leaving those steps til their teachers came and got them! YAY FOR RULES.....I mean SWIMMING!!

Lilly and Preston walking to their first lesson!!

Kloe does so good just watching them everyday!

Lilly and her teacher!

time for jumps!

Lexi and her class!

yep those are ALL MINE! ;)

Preston and his teacher!

So as of right now they've got a week and 2 days under their belt of lessons and they're doing great and loving it! I'm also very much looking forward to them being able to swim so I can actually enjoy the water without being a spaz thinkin the kids are going to drown constantly!

V.B.S

2010-06-16T06:20:00.000-07:00

Last week I was told if I wanted a little break from the kiddos every day for a couple hours ( wanted/needed, don't judge we were on week 5 without Chris and I'm sure they appreciated the break from me!! ) that there was a VBS going on at a church down the road from us! So I got the kids up bright and early Monday morning and off we went!

This was their first day and actually quite a few kids they know were there, especially the Gigreys, we LOVE them!

Lexi!

This boy cried every.single.day. I left him but from what I hear perked up the minute I walked out the door! He would happily tell me what he did everyday and he had fun so yep I made him go back even through all the tears all week long!

Lexi had a blast all week! Everyday was a different theme for the kids, pirate day, crazy color day, crazy hair day and beach day!

Lilly on beach day and go figure it was cool that day so no actual bathing suits were used!

this was crazy hair day! Notice Lexi pouting, she thought for sure everyone would laugh at her hair, I said that's the point of crazy hair day. She ended up loving it cause she was the only one with hair sticking straight up, my drama queen!!

Will, Nicolas and Preston!

The Fogle and Gigrey kids!

Lexi, Captain Evie and Boogy beard!

So all in all a good week for them filled with fun! The joke now is that I'm just going to drive around looking for churches getting ready to start VBS or whatever they do cause we'll try anything at least once!!

2nd grade here she comes!

2010-05-29T11:40:00.000-07:00

Lexi's last week of school was filled with all sorts of fun activities, field day, cup stacking competition, 4th quarter awards,class parties, field trips and lots hugs goodbye for the summer!

Lexi and her friends at Zoo Boise!! I'm so bummed I missed it but Prestons last day of school was also that day so he needed me a little bit more :)

Lexi and all her besties!!

apparently she thought she needed to steal some poor kids hat cause her mom neglects her so bad and forgot to send her with one!

Lexi and Effie!

My future Wilson Wolverine!

Sack race!

Preston and Lilly killing time with the jump ropes!

This is Lexi's best friend holding a sign that said GO LEXI!!! for the cup stacking comp. Her whole class had signs for her and another boy that was competing from her class!

The kids had practiced for weeks in P.E. then they took the "best" girl and boy from each class and they got to be in the competition in front of the whole school! When Lexi knew she got picked for her class she went in early before school everyday to practice!

I was so proud of her for doing this, I had NO idea how intense this was going to be. The whole school cheering all the kids on, it sounded like a state football game in that gym! Here they are checking her time!

She didn't win but she's for sure a little winner to me!

Lexi brought home an EXCELLENT report card Thursday which officially wraps up another school year for her! She'll be spreading her wings into the 2nd grade come Fall!!! I can't wait to see what the next year brings, we'll have 3 kids in school, I'm now PTO secretary and Wilson has become a second home, which I absolutely love! I hope my kids never get sick of me being at their schools!!

8 months.

2010-05-16T10:53:00.001-07:00

Those blue eyes just melt me every.single.time.

she loves to pull off her socks and sucks on them, niiice...

finally a good pic of her bottom 2 teeth and she's also got 1&1/2 teeth poking through up top!

She's officially the shoe monster, no ones shoes are safe around here anymore!

7 Months.

2010-05-16T09:27:00.000-07:00

My baby girl growing too fast!

Shes ahead on everything...Shes officially in her crib and out of her bassinet cause she decided that it's fun to stand up in it, she walks along the furniture, pulls herself up on EVERYTHING

:(.............. Her Dr. was prepared to talk about not leaving her on beds anymore cause she should be rolling over real good now and so on, yeah we passed that stage months ago!

Lilly patiently waiting to get the heck out of there! If we stay too long they may want to give her some pokes too ;)

A Lexi Moment.

2010-05-16T09:03:00.001-07:00

Lexi's school had an assembly where she was awarded a certificate in reading! She was very excited that Rhett got to be there to see this!

It's been crazy seeing how much she has learned to do this year! I swear I wasn't doing the stuff their doing til the end of second grade, but just like everything else times are a changing!!

I only got to be there for half of the assembly and of course missed her getting her actual award (Kloe had a Dr. appt.) !

That's my girl!

Zoo weather!

2010-04-22T17:12:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago my brother got to visit for about a week and since it had finally warmed up we took advantage of the weather and headed to the zoo, the place we completely feel at home ;)

Lilly got these pretty scrapped up knees about 5 minutes into our visit, she just couldn't get to the monkeys fast enough!

me and Lexi!

The girls -1!

Rhett, Lexi and Lilly!

The penguins were loving the weather and put on quite a show for everyone!

Kloe was such a good girl as usual and let us pose her where ever we wanted without a fuss!

Kloe and Uncle Rhett!

Kloe got to go down her first slide and Chris got some nice elbow burns!

It was a fun visit with Rhett and a nice way to kick off the Summer!!

Lilly's gardening skillz.

2010-04-20T08:26:00.000-07:00

The weather has been amazing the last 2 weeks and my Lilly has the planting bug...

She has been asking for the last month when she was going to be able to "garden"

so she was one happy girl when she got the go ahead Wednesday morning!

I even pitched in cleaning out all the flower beds...

then it was time for lunch and a little cartoon time, she normally does not suck her thumb but I had to snatch a pic cause it was so cute!

resting....

for a few minutes anyway then Kloe was up and ready to go so.....that got Lilly in the mood for more planting!

She convinced Chris to help her garden her seeds, the seeds shes been coveting for the last 2 months.

She worked hard, planting every single seed separately in their own tiny little hole!

little does she know the minute she came inside it was like a squirrel buffet out there, I'm pretty sure there's nothing left... So I will be planting some grown flowers there in the next few weeks so she's not completely heartbroken!

The little things...

2010-04-20T07:47:00.000-07:00

Since Lexi started the 1st grade she noticed the number of kids that are "walkers" everyday and for that matter she has also noticed the number of kids who ride the bus...she's in the "group" of kids that get rides every.single.day. so of course she has asked pretty much everyday when she'll be able to be a walker. I'm pretty sure she dreams about walking home! I cringe at the thought, I see these tiny kids walking everyday and it's like nails on a chalkboard to me, I just want to follow them home to make sure they make it. Anyway I'm well aware I could walk her but lets be honest here, that sounds like no fun to me with all of the kids! So her wish finally came true when Chris surprised her at school Wednesday and walked her happy little self all the way home!

I had to be all creepy standing on the porch with my camera all the way zoomed so I could capture her first walking home experience!

needless to say she thought she was cool

and that dad was even cooler for finally letting her do it!

I like being brought back to reality and remembering it truly is the little things that matter the most and probably the best memories they'll remember when they're all grown up!

making memories

2010-04-09T08:45:00.000-07:00

A few Mondays ago Chris and Preston decided to tackle building a club house!

this boy was determined, he hauled wood, told everyone at Home Depot that he had a roof to build...

he measured measured and measured....

made lots of "checks" with his pencils all over the wood..

He literally did not leave Chris' side from 10am til 9:30pm

he wouldn't even stop for lunch, they even worked through the rain and wind!

By 10 o clock that night as he dragged his beyond dirty self to the tub he was one happy little man having completed his club house! I'm so proud of him for sticking with it ALLLL day!

Now they're spewing with ideas of add ons, decks, bridges to a girls "castle" and I'm loving every second of it. Isn't this what every little boy dreams of?

{guess I need to get a finished pic!}

2010-04-09T08:01:00.000-07:00

{ a month late}

It's amazing what 4 years will do to ya....

a tiny 6lbs. 9oz.

now a strapping 44.4 lbs and 41 3/4 in. tall.

His favorite color is: BLUE

favorite toy is: BatMAN

favorite tv show is: Ben 10

favorite movie: Toy Story

Favorite food: Mac & cheese

favorite take out: Mc Donald's chicken nugget Happy meal with Chocolate milk

favorite song: Who let the Dogs out/ Ima be IMA BE ima ima ima be...

favorite friend: Connor G.

favorite bus driver: RON

favorite thing at school: playing on the slide

favorite person: hands down DAD

2010-03-30T09:52:00.000-07:00

Time is seriously flying and it's just not fair!

It really is amazing that this one little happy girl has added so much to our family! Every.single.day. one of us says aloud how happy we are that little Kloe is here!

A Sunday morning walk.

2010-03-30T09:05:00.000-07:00

Sunday morning we got up and took the kids to ride their scooters. Seemed like an awesome idea til we walked out the door and it was windy and cold but since we had already told them what we were doing we all sucked it up and went on our way!

Kloe hangin on the dock, poor baby had to stay bundled in her cave the whole time.

We stopped on a few of the docks along the way...

Preston had a hard time keeping up with the girls towards the end so he wanted Chris to "ride him"

trying so hard to keep up with the girls!

The girls

eatin a little sugar filled breakfast along the way!

picking the perfect donut!

Even though it was colder than expected the kids had a blast scootering all around the trail and got all giddy in talks of coming back on a warmer day for a little fishing... I'll probably be sitting that one out!! Then it was off to home to get cleaned up for the big BBQ and go figure it completely warmed up!!

Quality time...

2010-03-27T19:44:00.000-07:00

We don't get to take the kids on individual outings as much as we'd like so when we do they definitely think it's special!

Today Chris took Lilly to the movies...

and to Claire's...

nice to see he doesn't hold her hand in the parking lot, lol!

of all the movies she wanted to see Alvin and The Chipmunks, I said wow she's a cheap date picking a movie at the cheap theater, Chris says she made up for it shopping!

Last night my friend Amanda and I took our 2 oldest kiddos to go see " Diary of a Wimpy Kid"

These two were too funny all night, I'm pretty sure they talked non stop all through dinner at Red Robin!
(stole a pic of them in the photo booth!)

me and my Lexi

We had time to kill before the movie so we went to Target and Lexi got the first Wimpy kid book and Liams already on to #2!

hehehehe

They had to get the "cheese touch" so they can go to school after break and spread it around!

Chris and Preston actually kicked off the one on one time about 2 weeks ago when they headed to the Monster Truck show!

Preston and Connor

Chris said he barely blinked through the whole show...

he absolutely loved having a late night out with dad!

So now we're all caught up with the one on ones, now it's time for our fun Spring Break plans!!!

Is it Green day yet?!?!

2010-03-18T08:41:00.000-07:00

Our St. Pattys day went something like this...

Got Preston all greened up for school, flashing shamrock necklace in all

Lexi as well.... although she came home a little disappointed in some kids' lack of being festive, that's my girl

After we got the kids off to school me and this little green cutie...

and my cute little lucky clover got busy in the kitchen...

makin these little lucky treats

Lilly thought we made these for a special day, little did she know I just wanted to try out my awesome new cupcake holder :)

Lexi came home from school with no homework, apparently a Leprechaun snuck into the class and stole all the kids' " B.E.E." books which houses their homework. How lucky were they!

Then Chris walked through the door and I walked out....one more day til Wilson Elementary gets to indulge in the most awesome Carnival eva!! A select number of kids will now understand why they haven't seen or ate dinner with their moms in the last week when they walk into the school Friday evening and see how their 5 moms have transformed the school to a "Big Top Carnival"!!!!

Our bOy is 4!

2010-03-09T17:21:00.000-08:00

Preston turned 4 on March 2nd, we had his little party this last weekend and boy was it fun!

I decided to try somewhere new, so we ended up at the Discovery Center!!

Preston welding 2 little washers together, he could have stayed on that machine forever! He came home with a whole pocket full welded goodies!

Lilly and Preston...

Chris' height...

with Preston on his favorite spot!

He did a little grocery shoppin!

The girls blew some big bubbles.

on a bed of nails...

the girls made the news...

then we partied in the park!

that's one happy little boy!

to infinity and beyond...

my first Birthday cake I've ever made!

Lexi, Connor and Nicolas

Lilly and bubbles

my boys!

some of the kiddos!

my Birthday boy!

I'm pretty sure he was ready to pass out here, loooong day!

It was a perfect day celebrating with friends and family!

Jazz...

2010-03-08T07:01:00.000-08:00

It's now city league basketball time and Lexi wanted to give it a shot! I'm so dang happy that she wants to try everything, so far the only thing she doesn't want to do again next year is football, she loved practicing it but when it came to game day she said it just wasn't fun... Anyway basketball is a whole other story, she loves it! She says she wants to play it forever!

Arriving at Sacajawea school for her first game!

She's #8

for a short time in the game Lexi had to block this little girl in the blue, the poor thing was scared to death and just stood there with Lexi jumping like a monkey all around her.

Lexi with the ball!

Kloe loved all the noise!

never realised how short Lexi was till this game

She said her new shoes made her run so fast!

it was a great game, they don't keep score when they're this young but I'm sure it was pretty dang close! Lexi's best friend from school made 5 hoops alone, she was like a little shark out there, guess having 2 older brothers gives you a little advantage!

they were so excited to go give Lexi a great big hug after the game! So this will be our life the next couple months, practice and Saturday games!!!

For the love of Chocolate!

2010-02-25T08:39:00.000-08:00

She has yet to eat baby food but man did this girl love her some chocolate! Tuesday Kloe spotted Lexi with her chocolate cone, she then rolled her little self on over to where Lexi was sitting and just stared at her. Lexi asked if she could give her a little on her lips and lets just say the rest is history!

scoping out the yumminess her sister is holding!

It's like she was a natural.

some good stuff!

She really just liked to rub her lips on it.

just a little more...

oh Miss Kloe, mommy feels like that too when you kids steal my chocolate!

oh so mad

We're so mean to torture our little Klo-bear!

Awww Lexi got rid of her cone and then gave her some lovins and all was better!

The Pied Piper.

2010-02-22T08:46:00.000-08:00

Last Monday Lexi had the opportunity to audition for the Pied Piper play put on by the Missoula Children's theater! I can even say how proud of her I am about this, not that she got a part but that she put her self out there and auditioned! I would have never done that, would have been way too embarrassed, so one of my number 1 things as being a mom is to encourage my kiddos to at least try everything once, hence football last season! All the children in this play amaze me so much, auditions were Monday and their first performance was Friday, talk about a LOONGGGG busy week for these kids, some of the kids practiced for 5 hours every day AFTER school, Lexi practiced for 2 hours a day, but when school doesn't even get out til 3:50 here it makes for some hungry tired kids!!

waiting to audition for the Pied Piper!!

She got the part of one of the rats!!!

We got there way early for good seats at the 3:00 performance Saturday, good thing!

Kloe waiting for the big show to start!

ohhh she's so cute!

doing their little dance {Lexi middle}

The whole Pied Piper cast

Lexi and Ariel!

All the RATS! {Lexi top row 1st on the left!}

Amy doing Lexi's makeup!

coming out of the dressing room! I would have loved to record all the girls from the play singing while they were getting ready (their voices, not them!) they had the most beautiful voices, the were singing "a whole new world", "hakuna matata" and then they stepped up the beat with "All the single ladies", they were all so much fun and I'm so stinkin happy Lexi got to experience all this!

my cute little rat!

They did 3 performances in all, each 1 1/2 hours!

the councilors

The Mayor, looking for the children...

Amy and Andy were the two actors that taught the kids the play, as well as Amy being the "Mayor" of Hamelin, she also had an amazing voice!

Lexi and her favorite "Baker"

Lexi and Ariel, they were both shocked to see each other at the audition, they danced together for 2 years and then this year we didn't do dance cause their dance studio didn't have enough little ones to teach, but now that we're back in contact we have some happy little girls!!

Heading home at 10:00 Sat. night, she was on a performance high!

her flowers we got our little star!

We can't wait for next year when MCT comes to town again! They are truly amazing, traveling to every state and 16 countries to reach over 65,000 kids a year to give them the opportunity to experience theater, AWESOME!! If they come near your city I'd definitely recommend getting your little ones to try out or even go check out the show with the family, you won't be disappointed!!

Oh and am I the only person who didn't know the story of the Pied Piper?!?

Just another day full of L-O-V-E

2010-02-16T15:27:00.000-08:00

Chris and I were able to sneak off for a bit Saturday night for dinner then we met up with the Farrells for bowling and then dessert! We had our little accessory in tow, our little Kloe! She still sleeps the whole time in her seat while everyone gawks over our little cutie, so its just like I'm carrying an extra purse!!

I truly feel speechless when I try to describe an inkling of how lucky I feel to have Chris, he's my everything and I honestly don't know how I got so lucky! He treats me like a queen, goes above and beyond for our family always and would literally give a stranger the shirt off his back, he's such a hard worker and then comes home at the end of the day and works twice as hard here, he makes me laugh every. single. day of my life, he constantly makes me feel like I'm the only girl in the world, he's my rock. I believe this was our 11th Valentines Day together and he gave me my most special gift yet, a hand written card/letter noting special times we've shared and.....well just things that completely melted my heart, what a great memory he has!! There's nothing better than the feeling of being truly loved!

The kids of course had class parties, both of which I had to miss because of Lilly and her lovely vomit :)

my Lexi love!

P-man getting ready for his party!

Sunday night we had a little special yummy dinner at home!

We had this !!

then Chocolate ice cream and strawberry shortcake for dessert!

Valentines treats!

2010-02-09T09:56:00.000-08:00

Just thought I'd post a couple of cute and EASY Valentine goodie ideas! I made these for a little craft sale I did last Saturday {with Mel}, so fun!

Cake Balls anyone?? These are absolutely to die for and what a cute little gift a bouquet of these would make! Here's the recipe!

and these I just made up I guess, large mellows dipped in some Wilton melts, add some festive sprinkles and pop in a sucker stick and walla total cuteness!!

I also made these and they were quite the hit, forgot to take a pic of my own...

Happy Valentines!

some Super Bowl bonding

2010-02-09T07:53:00.000-08:00

This here is one little girl who L-O-V-E-S her daddy, from the minute he walks through the door her eyes are all about him!

So it was only natural that they watched the Super Bowl together!

Eventually she got a little heavy!

must have been an interesting point in the game!

us girls agree and think big guys in spandex is funny!

then the rest of the game pretty much played out like this...

lots of razzberries

getting so excited

and excited again

lots of lovins

getting a little tired

and then finishing the game like this!

Hmmm...

2010-02-01T12:42:00.000-08:00

Carrot soup anyone?

Sometimes I'd really love to be in my Lilly's head! She's always thinkin up the funniest things she wants to do! On this particular day last week she took it upon herself to make Lexi some carrot soup for when she got home from school.

So yucky, yet sweet!

(carrots, tomato and an apple)

Kloe's roll over play by play.

2010-01-30T17:01:00.000-08:00

today I think I'm going to try this rolling over stuff...

got a great hip swing to work with!

how easy is that!

hmmmm over but where's my other arm?!?

mom says it doesn't count unless I figure out how to get my arm out!

this is not so fun anymore!

getting tired!

starting to really get mad at this arm in my way!!

seriously get that camera out of my face!

holy crap! I did it!

yeah I'm cool

I'm hip!

Who's the baby?!?

So excited I can hardly contain my drool!!

Maybe next time...

2010-01-27T08:48:00.000-08:00

Well Miss Kloe is pushing 5 mos. (really?!?) and it was time to give some cereal a try...

She wanted it real bad...

She loved her colorful spoon!

but it just really wasn't happening.

We tried for about 30 minutes to get 1 bite down, but she just didn't know how to swallow it!

So we'll give it ago in another couple weeks!

Catching up!

2010-01-24T15:50:00.000-08:00

Can't believe how long it's been since I've blogged! Unfortunately my blog has taken the same road as my diet and exercise, just stopped one day and and haven't done it since. So I'm ready to take the blogging plunge again and yes the "healthy" plunge as well, seriously summers right around the corner! What am I going to do when I have no hoodie to hide under?!? Better fix that stat!!! So here's to catching up on our busy yet not so exciting life!

here's us celebrating lexi's actual Birthday!

Miss Kloe's first trip to Build A Bear! I always cringe at the thought of taking all the kids to the mall, not sure why, never had a bad experience it just always sounds soo exhausting, but once again we had a fantastic trip and left with some happy kids!!

lovin her bear!

Kloe's first time in her crib! She's such an awesome baby and I'm sure she'd sleep in her big bed all the time but I'm nowhere near ready for her to leave her bassinet and my bedside!

Preston decorated Kloe's bottle for her!

She found her feet and she LOVES them!

The kids were playing outside the other day which turned into the evening in which turned into wanting to eat dinner out there. They are crazy, it was so cold and dark but they insisted on putting a tarp over two chairs and hanging out under it!

my little rock star!

My sweet Lilly is just changing by the day, she loves her one on one time with Kloe while the other two are at school!

Preston watching for his bus!

Chris always lovin on his chubby girl!

Lexi getting ready to go see Avatar!

A daily scene around here!

Bath time!

all I can say is she's definitely her fathers child, makin people laugh 24/7!

Lexi and her award that I missed her getting :(

Bake Day

2009-12-31T12:44:00.000-08:00

Of course we had bake day right before Christmas as usual! We ended up with all sorts of delish goodies!

how beautiful are these peanut butter balls?!?

miss Kloe got in on the fun for a bit!

she only wishes she could dive into all those yummy babies!

the finished goods!

all boxed and wrapped up for friends and neighbors!!

2009-12-31T11:49:00.000-08:00

We had lots of fun with Elfie this year! He stayed for 10 fun nights and the kids were sad when he headed home with Santa on Christmas Eve!

1. He appeared for his first night with books!

2. He took down all the stocking and replaced them with real socks and then decided to hang out in one!

3. He was very bad one night and tipped over the couch and wrapped it!

4. He hung out with all the girls stuffed animals one night, he was hard to spot wearing a Hannah Montanna build a bear wig!

5. He moved Lexi and Lilly's tree into Kloes room and hung himself up on her wall in a stocking!

6. He dressed up in a Christmas tree build a bear costume and moved lots of presents under himself!

7. He made himself a little tent out of wrapping paper and camped out with some Captain Crunch and some Dr. Pepper!

8. He turned the dining room table and chairs over, wrapped them with lights and hung bowls and pans off all the legs. He got too carried away with the lights and wrapped himself up too!

9. He put a bunch of presents on the ceiling fan and then decided to hang out up there too!

10. On his last night he strung lights through the whole living room, gathered Cinderella, a Care Bear and Superman covered them with blankies and read a Christmas story to them while enjoying cookies and milk under all the lights!!

Til next year Elfie...

Class parties!

2009-12-31T08:36:00.000-08:00

I was in charge of Lexi's class party again so another mom and I decided decorating sugar cookies would be fun for all the kids! Goodies plus an activity, win/win!

22 kids plus mounds of frosting, sprinkles and candies, you'd think disaster....

but it wasn't at all!!! They did great and some of their cookies actually looked way cute!
(Lilly loved coming to hang out with her sister for the day!)

Preston also had a little party for Christmas at school!

they got lots of "free" time...

all the kids loved the baby but Preston was very protective over her!

yummy snacks!

and only at school would he get away with playing in a mess of birdseed!!

He's bAAAaaack.....

2009-12-17T18:17:00.000-08:00

Elfie!

as usual before he starts his mischief he comes bearing little gifts, books for the older ones and a rattle for Kloe!

she likes...

1st stop, The NORTH POLE!

2009-12-17T13:45:00.000-08:00

Last Saturday night we took the kids on a train ride to go see Santa at the North Pole! They had such a blast and you could just see the magic in their eyes, they're true believers! I was a little worried having such a late ride but they did awesome and when we rolled home that night a bit after 11:00 they were already asking when we get to go back!

When we got off at the North Pole Kloe had to snuggle in dads jacket!

our girls with Santa!

What a fun night we had!

Some excited kids!

2009-12-02T13:14:00.000-08:00

This was on the porch when we came home yesterday!

he must of liked us last year!

there was an Advent calendar for each of the kids and a note from Elfie letting us know that he'd be making his appearance in about two weeks!

Just what we need in this house...more mischief!

Some Visitors.

2009-12-02T11:53:00.000-08:00

Monday night we got a great surprise phone call from my brother Rhett and his cute little family letting us know they'll be joining us for Thanksgiving!!

Then there was a double surprise....

my brother Robby showed up with them, YaY!!!

Kloe and Aunt Charlotte bonded a lot, mostly cuddling and clothes changing is what they did best!

and the itty bitty Bryce, poor boy had three kids coming at him at all times!

We had a great dinner at my Aunts for Thanksgiving!

Me and Rhett.

cousins.

and as usual we hit up Black Friday!!! Up and at em at 3am, Target was our first stop this year, I was all about the flat screen there and I got it,woot woot! As a matter of fact I got everything I had planned and then some except 1 thing at Walmart! There was 4 of us this year and it was a blast! Nothing better than laughing, shopping and eating yummy food from the weee morning til night!

Saturday night we went down town and did our "Christmas walk"

then came home and had us some Los Betos, Rhett had been dieing to have it since they got here!

It was a great visit, lots of chatting, hanging out, loud kids, playing ps3 til 4am, food, pics, shopping, a birthday party, hanging lights, present wrapping, sneaking off to see New Moon (3rd time for me!), watching Four Christmases at home, football, football and football, not too shabby for a 4 day visit! Thanks guys it was fun!

a little catch-up!

2009-11-18T17:12:00.000-08:00

The days seem to just run into each other lately as do the months for that matter. There's been PTO meetings, dentist appts, Dr. appt, grocery shopping, parent teacher conferences, Chuck E. Cheese, movie night, sleep overs, play dates and so on! Just everyday things yet some days they seem soooo overwhelming! We haven't seen much of Chris as he leaves before the kids get up in the morning and doesn't get home til way after bedtime! He's building a house in Idaho City which is about a 2 hour drive from home so needless to say his days are loooong especially when your commuting 4 hours! Time is of the essence though as the house needs to be framed in or whatever before they get their big snow which could be any day now! So for now we'll just be thankful that he's got plenty of work and then some and I'll try to be patient and look forward to him having a day off some day...

this is what miss Kloe thinks about having the camera in her face 24/7!

always having someone lovin all over her!

showin off her new beanie!

and her adorable jammies!

Tuesday morning me, Lilly and Kloe went shopping while the others were at school and Lilly insisted on this adorable purple tree for their room!

who could resist this cute thing?!?

it was a long day for Lilly since I made her wait til Lexi got home to set it up!

and Klo bears just hung out on Lexi's bed watching them decorate!

starting to get cold enough for some winter gear!

our sweet, sweet girl.

the kids' cousin Riley slept over for the first time, 6 years old and he's finally warming up to us, lol!

they thought I was pretty neat for making mac and cheese and pizza rolls AND letting them eat it in the girls' room while watching the new Christmas Dora!

these pics crack me up, one night I let the kids stay up and wait for Chris. I had went and got him some new hats earlier that day, so the minute he walked through the door preston insisted on him trying them all on and digging out his old one so they could match. Then Preston wanted a pic so he could say cheese in his matching hat, Chris started making these "serious" faces and we were dieing watching Preston try to copy him. I'm sure it was one of those "had to be there" moments!

last Wednesday we went to a birthday party at Chuck E Cheese

Chris surprised the kids by meeting us there! They were getting their grove on with "the band", Preston was dancing all over the place!

and I think the 10 minutes Kloe was awake she enjoyed herself with all the bright lights!

So there's some of our highlights, now next to come is girls night out tomorrow, then I'll make my way home sometime in weeee hours Friday morning after indulging in some Edward on the big screen!!!

Veterans's Day!

2009-11-13T07:04:00.000-08:00

Wednesday Lexi's school had a Veteran's Day Assembly! I've been hearing patriotic songs out of her mouth for weeks as they practiced, so it was fun to get to watch the finished product! The whole school did amazing and it was a little emotional seeing how proud they all were and witnessing the whole school do the pledge, I'm so grateful they haven't taken that away from my kids!!

(she just told me she was trying to find me, so she was distracted,lol)

They had such an awesome turn out the gym was packed!

Grades K-5 and the High School Choir even came to sing!

I'm so glad I got to come and watch you Lexi (and Riley!) Great job!

Such cute faces!

2009-11-08T08:08:00.000-08:00

Klo-bear if you only knew right now how much we all adore you...

Your smile melts each and every one of us...

We sit and gawk at you for hours, then burst with excitement, like kids in candy shops when you finally let out one of these smiles!

Your tiny little self brings such happiness to our little family.

we all wish you could stay this small forever...

you make our home so cozy!

there's nothing like having a sweet baby sleeping all warm and cozy in her swing!

even your ten tiny, cute little toes make us smile.

Halloween 2009!

2009-11-04T16:37:00.000-08:00

Halloween, Halloween, Halloween...

Since this year it fell on a Saturday it meant no laying around being lazy all day(for me!), then spending hours getting all the kids make-up, hair and costumes all ready for the BIG night, because this year we were Super smart and had Lilly's Birthday party that same day! I started my lovely Saturday morning at 6am, decorated til 11:30, got kids and self ready, partied from 12:30 til 4:30ish, then rushed home to throw costumes on to get to the D.A.R.E Halloween thing by 5:45! I seriously can't believe how well everyone did considering it had been a LONG exciting non stop day! I'm so glad Chris was home this year, 2 extra hands were definitely appreciated! He's great a making sure everyone has what they need to have, go where we need to go, get where we need to get, have what we need to have (yes I'm being repetitive cause that's what it's like on a crazy day with 4 kids!)... he does great under pressure! Anyway all in all a super fun day/night and the kids made out with quite the candy stash!

Our scary witch Lexi, we LoVeD her costume this year, so happy she "stepped out of her box" and was something besides a princess!

and our beautiful little flower, Kloe

Our Witch, Flower, Batman and Snow White!

Our darling Snow White!

this was the last house we hit, when the kids willing said we're DONE!! Woohoo, that has never happened before!

Sweet little Kloe just stayed nice and warm all snuggled in her seat!

Here's to already discussing costumes for 2010, seriously children?!?

Our Lilly pie is 5!!

2009-11-02T13:05:00.000-08:00

Lilly celebrated her 5th birthday this year by having a carnival party!! Everything turned out fantastic, all the kids "ran" for hours!

it was everything I had envisioned!

Fun, colorful, candy and games!

totally speechless!

girl talk!

we had a ring toss, ping pong gold fish game, bean bag toss, knock the cans, darts, pin the tail on the donkey and because we were all having too much fun we forgot to play the sack race and throwing pies trying to hit the face game!

also face painting!

Balloon balls, so fun!!

my Birthday girl!

good friends and food!

this is Lilly's plate of "food" she made for herself!

some of the kiddos!

he had a complete blast!

We even had darts!

Lexi at the ring toss!

Games!

jumping fun!

Yay! Cotton Candy!!!

enjoying some sugar and the tramp!

Sooo many presents!

Kloe woke up just in time for some cotton candy :)

makin her Birthday wish!

WoW what a party!! Total bast but glad it's over, it consumed my every thought for the last month!

Baking and classroom party!

2009-11-02T12:47:00.000-08:00

This was my outcome for baking all day Wednesday! I'm Lexi's classes "class mom" so I was in charge of throwing the kiddos a Halloween party! They were all so sweet and so appreciative of all the goodies and games!

My Lexi!

The Goodie table, how fun!

I also spent 3 hours that morning with Prestons class for his party, but just realised I haven't downloaded his pics yet!

Pumpkin carving 2009.

2009-11-02T12:06:00.000-08:00

The Farrells had their annual pumpkin carving party! It's always a fun night of laughing and seeing what everyone comes up with!

Lexi wore a glove,lol

Lilly was all over cleaning her own pumpkin!

Everyone discussing their pumpkin "plans"!

Preston was very intrigued by Chris' carving skills!

working on Edward and Bella, he has quite the tricky hair ;)

We ended up with a bit of everything!

Mummy,Transformers ?, Edward, Bats, Jack, Edward and Bella, Batman, Obama and just a scary face!

Kloes first carving party!

Her tiny own pumpkin that Lexi colored for her!

Linder Farm!

2009-11-02T11:23:00.000-08:00

The Saturday before Halloween we made our annual trip to Linder Farms! They have the best set up with lots of things for the kids, but hey who are we kidding we go there cause they have the best fried donut holes EVA!! It was a fun day, of course we chose the only windy day but still fun!

petting the baby Alpaca.

Lilly loved this little goat.

they finally found our perfect pumpkins!

waiting for the tractor!

just his size!

If they couldn't lift it, they couldn't have it :)

Miss Kloe enjoying the ride!

playing paper rock scissors, waiting for our fried donut holes!!

rebel P breaking the rulz in the maze!

Lexi and Riley were hiding from Preston and Lilly in the maze.

3 years ago...

2009-10-23T18:49:00.000-07:00

I was loving on this chunky love!!

this was our first Fall in Idaho.

We propped the P. man right in front of the slide while we started the never ending raking!

Now here he is 3 years later! I didn't realize how much he had grown til Kloe came. He's definitely a little boy now, ALL boy (besides when his sisters make him play dress up,lol), rough, rough and more rough! Although baby Kloe tames this lion like no other!

Anyway I just had to post these pics when I realised I had got the same shot of him the other day as when he was 8 months old!

and the cute shoes start already!

2009-10-15T14:38:00.000-07:00

Our little cutie getting ready to head out for the day!

could her shoes be any more adorable??

Tuesday evening I walked in and found Lexi drawing pictures for Kloe.

she's such a good big sister to "her little Kloe"

then she started to get fussy, so I went in search for the binx...

and came back to find this, all under control!

Stats.

2009-10-07T19:35:00.000-07:00

This here is...

9lbs. 9 oz.

21 inches

of adorable Kloe.

1 month & 1 day old

Tonight after getting Kloe ready for bed we had a mini photo shoot so I could post her 1 month stats! She's as healthy as can be and growing perfectly at the 50% range in weight and height! She's such a little sweetie and we seriously can't get enough of her!

A Sunday Drive.

2009-10-07T07:28:00.000-07:00

Sunday morning we all packed up and headed out in search of some beautiful Fall foliage. The mountains seemed to be the perfect place to head to, the river runs along the whole drive, it's only an hour and a half from home...

beautiful...

but still mostly green...

the clouds just hoovered right above our heads

perfect time for an impromptu family pic!

Preston was scared of the river, go figure the kid who usually wants to spend 24/7 in the water.

then next thing you know it looks like this! So much for the beautiful shades of orange and yellow we were in search of! Still pretty, but it made me want to go home and decorate for Christmas, yes I'm crazy!

Then we headed to THIS cozy little Pizza joint in McCall, so yummy!

Where Kloe enjoyed some nice warm formula.

Lexi warmed up and colored.

then of course we had to spend a small fortune in the arcade, finally someone who's a bigger sucker than Chris for handing out never ending quarters, Papa!

Good to know we still have 13 years before this crazy driver is out on the streets!

then it was time for a much needed change for Miss Kloe! She was so good, she slept the entire day besides, her feeding and being changed at the restaurant. I'm sure those days will be over soon enough though and then the real work starts!

then we said goodbye to beautiful McCall and headed home! What a nice relaxing day!

You'll sleep through it all, promise!

2009-10-04T06:49:00.000-07:00

Friday was Lexi's big day to get her mounds of dental work done. We checked into the hospital at 10:30 and I believe left somewhere around 3:30

she got to pick out that little bear to keep he safe while she was sleeping.

checking her band one last time.

got her cute hat on and off she went. Nothing like seeing your kid go off through the double doors on a hospital bed, even if it is only for dental work, anesthetics are scary!

so back in the waiting room, I did lots of this (yes girls I still hadn't read New Moon)...

Chris did this...

then finally we got to go back once they brought her in to stage 2 recovery. Glad they don't let you see them at stage one cause seeing her like this was hard enough! Her mouth was already starting to swell, she had little bloody nostrils and she would not wake up for us. She must have really liked that sleepy concoction! We waited waited and waited then finally when the hour of stage 2 watching was over and they started to take out her IV she woke up, barely. We dressed her, carried her to the wheelchair and wheeled our groggy Lexi to the car.

Dr. Whitt said ohh most kids just take a little nap and wake up good to go.

not our girl, she was out the rest of the day!

pearly whites.

2009-10-04T06:08:00.000-07:00

Last week it was Lilly and Prestons turn with Dr. Whitt, Lilly of course loved him and had no problem letting them do whatever they needed, Preston not so much...

She got her special "superstar photo shoot", Preston held on to my shirt for dear life when it was his turn for some snapshots.

he won, no x-rays for him that day! He then enjoyed all the young pretty girls that worked there swooning over him, cause of course that's more fun anyways right???

Such a difference from when I was a kid, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have caught me with a smile like that while sitting in a dentist chair! and seriously did I just say "when I was a kid"?? I'm getting old...

open wide!

So in the end Lilly did great in the chair, Preston wouldn't sit in the dental chair but did open wide to at least let Dr. Whitt count and do a quick look at his teeth. We'll try again in six months and I'm afraid he'll be wanting to keep his "hawk" til then so all the assistants will still rave how awesome it is and run their hands over it,lol.

UFC bonding.

2009-10-04T05:59:00.000-07:00

UFC has become the sport of choice around the Fogle home over the last couple of years, so of course no time like the present to start breaking little Kloe in!

too bad she slept through the whole thing.

You can bet by the look on that face it must have been very intense, hahaha

Kloe's first bath.

2009-10-02T06:28:00.000-07:00

Kloe had her first real bath at 6 days old! She wasn't too thrilled, but maybe it was cause she had quite the audience! She whimpered til she found something to suck on...

this time her little thumb was the victim.

a little more relaxed, maybe even starting to like it!

our cute little duckie all nice and clean.

now down for a good nights sleep!

(she now loves the bath and I love having an extra good smelling baby, there's nothing better!)

Go Tigers!

2009-09-28T07:27:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago a paper was sent home from school about flag football. I threw it away at first then thought hmmmm sportsmanship.... It's something that our Lexi lacks in so I asked her if she wanted to play and to my surprise she said yes! I'm pretty sure she still doesn't know what all the "plays" mean but I just tell her "you find the guy with the ball and you chase him til you can steal his flag"! I'm pretty sure we won't play again next season so I don't feel bad for cutting corners right now, it's better than her standing around looking lost when the whistle blows!

Tori came out to cheer on Riley and Lexi for their first game!!

Chris is their defence coach!

the only girl amongst all those boys... She was very happy when one little boy sought her out after their first game to tell her she did great! His mama should be proud!

Go Tigers!!!

So to sum up our thoughts so far on flag football it would be : Practice is the best, games not so much, Lexi has a mean arm, 8am team pictures suck, snacks are good and playing in the park after the games/practice is great!

Rose Gardens.

2009-09-27T07:30:00.000-07:00

After our day at the zoo we walked over to the Rose Gardens and enjoyed us some beautiful scenery!

Shelby!

I'd like to think he was in deep thought about something world changing but I'm sure it was just about how he could manage to jump in that water without getting in trouble!

Nana and Miss Kloe

Shelby and Lexi

taking a rest after a long day!

Zoo Boise.

2009-09-27T06:36:00.000-07:00

Last Friday before my mom headed home we took the kids to the Zoo! We had to get one last trip in to end the summer and it worked out perfectly with the kids being able to enjoy it with their Nana and Aunt Shelby!

My girls!

Preston

Lexi

Lilly

Lunch break!

Kloe of course did amazing for her first trip to the zoo...she slept the whole time!

Nana and the kiddos

I'm pretty sure we need this Giraffe!

What a great day making great memories!

2 Weeks of Kloe.

2009-09-20T19:25:00.000-07:00

Kloe is two weeks old today and I can't say it enough, she's awesome!

This is how we spend her burping time, on facebook and blogs of course!

Looking so cute in her first Ed Hardy apparel.

Lexi giving her never ending loves before school.

doing a little pose after getting her little butt nice and dry!

first trip to Old Navy!

doing a little posing with her first tutu

Aunt Charlotte loved on her a ton, we're so glad her and baby Bryce came to see us!

Lexi's first stop when getting home from school!

Preston held her a good half hour that morning, he hearts baby Kloe.

Do you see a trend here?? Lexi spends a good 15 minutes with her every morning before school.

Nana lovins.

Her first night home in her bassinet, which she sleeps like a champ in it!!

Couldn't feed her fast enough, so she found her thumb.

Kloe has had a very busy first two weeks, seems like we've been running non stop, lots of visitors, mall trips, restaurants, Zoo, Dr. apt., games, good thing shes a great baby and has slept through pretty much all of it :)

She's the best OOOOOPS ever!!!

NO! DON'T LEAVE ME!!!

2009-09-17T08:05:00.000-07:00

Yep those are the screaming words you could hear through the halls at Lincoln Elementary Tuesday morning. The morning started off great, yAy school or so we all thought! The minute we stepped foot inside the classroom and I said are you going to have a great day Preston with your teacher, the alligator tears started to form and a look of horror overwhelmed his face. Mrs. Sandeen said I think you better leave cause he's going to have a melt down and the longer you stay the worse it'll get. So I turned around and walked out the door as my little P man started to melt and scream bloody murder for me and I just kept walking...man that sucked!!

This is before school when he was so excited about his new backpack!

He ran to us so fast when we came to get him!

very excited to show us his painting.

and after me leaving him in a ball of tears he still gave me big 'ol kisses when I came back to get him!

About an hour before school was out I was checking out at walmart when my cell rang... it was the school, you can imagine what was going through my head. "Mrs. Fogle can you please come pick up your son?" "He's been screaming for hours and telling us he hates us" or "Preston took off through the double doors and he's outta here"... Seriously I was afraid to answer the phone, but to my surprise it was just Mrs. Sandeen letting me know he calmed down after about 5 minutes and he's currently having fun on the playground, AWESOME news!!

Then morning two came along and we decided to meet the teacher in front of the school so he couldn't attach himself to us as much as he would if we were to have walked him in. Chris took him alone that morning thinkin he does better for dad, well once again not so much! As Chris was getting him out of the car Preston was screaming for Lexi, he wanted to stay with Lexi (she was getting dropped off next) but all in all he only cried for about a minute, so we're hoping for no crying on Monday! Wishful thinking I'm sure!

I thought a boy would be easier for sure but geez my girls wanted me to leave on their first day, such a difference!

1st Dr. Apt.

2009-09-14T10:26:00.000-07:00

Wow Kloes already a week old and I'm so far behind on my blog and to be honest I'll be behind til my family leaves cause I don't want to waste precious time on here!! Although I felt a little guilty so here's a short update on Kloes first outing!!

Getting ready to head to the Dr.

Her little pants would fall right off her when you picked her up!

here she is with the Dr. to confirm what a healthy little cutie she is!

She weighed in at 7lbs 6oz!

Carrying her little naked butt to get weighed!

A great first visit, no pokes, just lovins from Dr Loomis!

We then followed that up with Kloes first day of girl bonding, shopping and lunch!

Worth every ounce of pain!

2009-09-07T17:56:00.000-07:00

Was it the Spicy Mexican food I had for lunch Friday? The 2 Castor Oil cocktails? The Eggplant Parmesan? The full moon? The stars being aligned just right? Or maybe it was just the perfect day for our little Miss Kloe to bless us with her appearance at exactly 38 weeks!!!

I'll try to keep this short and sweet because it was exactly that, short and sweet!! I'll leave it at I was the girl I hated when I heard how easy "their" birth stories were, but YAY it was my turn finally! 4th time the charm?? Going from a 3 to pushing in 30 minutes ain't to shabby to deal with! I'll take that any day over a 16 hour non medicated birth...

I was so nervous to have a Dr. that I had never met deliver my baby, but man he was great! So nice and he made me feel so comfortable considering we met with my legs already up in the stir-ups, hahaha.

Such a relief 10 fingers, 10 toes, breathing and still a girl!!!

Chris was seriously on cloud nine, you would have thought it was his first!

Awww another sweet baby girl...

Here she is Miss Kloe Lane Fogle 7lbs 10oz 20 1/2 inches long, born at 1:21 am

September 6, 2009

So lucky!

another girl that'll have Chris wrapped around her fingers!

Sunday morning Chris brought the kids in to finally meet Kloe!

They're in LOVE and definitely want to keep her!

I always get a few preemie outfits for the first week and they're usually even a little big even though we don't necessarily have peemies, but I think she broke the mold a little with her tallness so we'll be lucky if she gets in a few wears before we move on to newborns...

I think this is my favorite picture so far, I was burping her and had all her chubbyness pushed forward, so stinkin cute!

How obnoxious is that flower?? Don't worry I was only mean and tortured her just long enough for a pic!

Getting ready to head home!

So here we are approaching our first night home, I should definitely be sleeping instead of blogging but I think I'm still on an adrenalin high, I'll be paying for it later I'm sure!

What a great way to spend Labor Day Weekend!!

Huge thanks to the Farrells for taking care of our monsters, feeding us and being our paparazzi!!!

Because every baby is a reason to celebrate!!

2009-09-03T08:59:00.000-07:00

For our little cupcake Kloe!!

I was a very lucky girl last Saturday to have the most adorable little shower to celebrate our little Kloe!!

My Aunt made ALL the decorations, they all turned out unbelievable, plus she made them to match Kloe's room! How fun is that??

Sooo yummy and cute!

Ohhh the pin wheels...

and the tiny paper shoes...

Big fluffs of pink everywhere, I love it!

The favors!

and all Miss Kloe's goods!! I feel so grateful to have had such generous friends and family, let alone a shower to begin with!!

Thanks Everyone!!!

It was a very *sweet* evening!

Skool Dayz...

2009-08-30T08:10:00.000-07:00

Last Thursday kicked off a new year of School for Lexi!

She's a big 1st grader now! She was quite nervous that nobody would recognize her, cause ya know those bangs were so life changing for her,lol! When I picked her up at the end of the day she was one happy little girl! She loves her new teacher, saw all her old friends and better yet they all remembered her!
Her new desk, 1st in the second row.
outside lining up with her class!
and here she is on day 2!

She's very proud of her first two school days outfits. These are the 2 that she completely picked out all by herself, what a little rock star! (man we were at macy's forever that day!!)

The last week around here.

2009-08-27T09:27:00.000-07:00

I can't believe I'm posting these pictures, but I guess it is what it is...or should I say I am what I am, right now anyways... huge and miserable! I'll take it though, cause we can't wait to add a new little sweetie to the bunch!

I told lexi I was going to have her stand on a chair cause like I need any help on my double chin looking down,lol!

Isn't this the cutest car seat ever???

Sneak peak of the baby's room!

I really don't have too much going on in her room yet, the bedding was on back order forever so I'm just now able to match things with the color of her bedding!

Last Sunday we snuck off to Fuddruckers for Melanie's Birthday! It was great food, great company and the kids and Chris had a great time playing all the games, he's such a sucker!!

Riley and Lexi.

P-man

Last Saturday I took Lexi out shopping for her "perfect" first day outfit, shoes and accessories. We had lots of fun, but man it's already started, she wanted everything!! Here she is starting her morning with a nice chocolate milk!

She seriously wanted these hot shutter shades! Since when are shades a must for 1st grade?? She didn't get them or any for that matter but she did do a little fashion show and wanted me to take a picture of her in every pair she tried on, the girl working thought she was hilarious.

Then we were off to get her those bangs that's she's been driving my crazy about

Slushies at Target!

and last but not least Lilly lost her first tooth!!

She'd really like to take her money now and go to Chuck E Cheese!

Baby update is: dilated to 2, frequent contractions, in the process of testing for Pre Eclampsia (don't drink from the orange contain in my fridge, just saying...), crazy swelling, gained 4 lbs last week alone, she said my water retention is nuts (it better be water,lol) So we'll know more tomorrow and maybe just maybe we'll have our little Kloe within the next week!