Maybe I'll work on making this a yearly thing... I know I have a pic of Taylor and Cameron with me at my birthday when I was pregnant with Ella, but I can't recall doing it again after that? Look how beautiful all my kids are, but so big? Why do they grow so fast?
So here is me at 33, Taylor is almost 13, Cameron is almost 9, Ella is 2 1/2, and Jack at a big 9 months!

Anyone in need of a fashion coordinator? Ella is looking for a part time position to revolve around her nap and crabby time schedule.

Some days are better then others!!
Generally Ella is a good big sister and takes good care of her baby brother. Like today, he was crying, she went and gave him a hug, I told her that was so sweet, she told me he feels better now. I love these days....
Of course there are the days when she pushes him over for no reason, takes everything away from him, stuff like that as well.....

I was straightening out all of the kids' toys last week and put together a basketful of Ella's dress up clothes. She found them today and put almost everything on all by herself and told me to come look! Isn't she sweet? Note the 3 purses!!! What a princess!

I love my little, ok, so people say he isn't so little, Jack! He lights up every day of my life, and everyone' s around him. He is such a good baby, that is all there is to it! Content to play by himself, but even happier when he has someone to play with, laughing all the time, full of giggles and smiles, not complaining too much when the teeth pop through, he is every mommy's dream. And how can you resist them rolls! Hope next week the doc doesn't say he is too fluffy? We'll see....

Ok, so we are Wii crazy! The whole family is addicted! Cam creates tons of Cam's to play with, trying to build each one up to pro. Ella digs boxing (look at the pic) and cracks me up! Jack crawls around all day with controllers in his hands. Jamie keeps playing to try to beat me, to no avail, HAHA!
Ella kept yelling at me not to take her pictures, and telling me to take some of Jack instead, but hey, you know me, I don't listen hehe!

Geeez I look at these and he looks so old! I see him every day though, how did I miss it? He is such a fun loving kid!!! Gotta love him, he is always up for his picture taken, no complaints! Even got all dressed up for me in his fav shirt and sweater hehe!
He'll be the big 9 next month!!!

Well it is wednesday and I'm just not getting to an about my weekend post!! Didn't know if plans were going to fall through or work out, but it ended up working out in my favor! Got to visit EVERYONE! We all got together for an early 88th celebration for Gramp's bday, and had an awesome turkey dinner thanks to mom! Man can that woman cook, I drool just thinking about it hehe!
So first stop on saturday was Krisser's, for more pictures of the sweet Addison. She decided she really didn't want to curl up like I wanted her to, or sleep any, but I got some cute ones!
Then to mom's for dinner, and some late night shopping with Taylor. I sure miss having Lakeside mall around, so big and so many stores to choose from, oooh the good ole days....
Sunday we spent all day cooking and getting ready for Gramp's bday, that big turkey dinner! Kris, Mic, Cole, Aubrey and Addison, Jay, Sheila, and Jase, Gramps and Mary, of course Mom and Tony, and all whole brood were all there! The big family get together, crazy, loud, super busy, but I enjoyed every minute of it! I got a picture of Gramps and Ella, Ella didn't get to help blow out the candles, so Gramps lifted her up, relit one, and let her try! Ella couldn't figure out how to get it to blow out and needed some assistance though, hehe! Of course I can't load it, no idea why I have such a hard time getting this to work!
We went down also to get a new minivan, but that fell through, going to do it next month instead. I can't believe we get a better deal on getting a brand new one than keeping the old one, but hey, who doesn't want a brand new, fresh smelling vehicle???

Wii are the proud owners of a Wii! Cameron's Christmas gift was finally found, was really hard to get ahold of, but he got one now! I'll have to take some pictures of them all playing it, Jamie is the funniest, the faces he makes!!! I did video tape it for awhile though lol!

Well Jack figured out how to pull himself up onto everything, nothing is stopping that little guy now! He figured this out on January 14th, and has worked on perfecting it all week! The 21st he even tried taking a step holding onto the furniture, but fell down shortly after! His poor little forehead is all bruised up from learning this new feat!

The new windows are in!!! Well not all the way in, Jamie still has some drywall to put up, and painting to do. They look so awesome, and CLEAN! You can see through them, wahooo! I can't wait to see my gas bill drop!

Baby Addison is here! Ha, faster than a speeding bullet... She is so sweet, I can't wait to see the little peanut again! She was born Friday at 1:56, just 11 minutes after my sis got to the hospital!!!


New windows are coming! Finally! After getting Nov/Dec bill we decided instead of throwing money out the window, literally, we would put that money into new windows! So how suprised was I when they asked if they could come today? Ok, more like overwhelmed! But 3 are almost in, lots more to go. Hey those are some big window holes to fill!

Jack is starting to pull himself up onto everything (pictures to come soon with his latest accomplishment)! Of course that means lots of falling down. It was so sweet today, I was cleaning with some Clorox wipes, and he fell backwards (ok, that isn't the cute part), well I couldn't just grab him with that stuff on my hands, so I was rinsing them, well apparently I was taking too long, so Ella went and started hugging him, rubbing his head, telling him he was ok!!! How sweet!

Everyone went sledding today! We finally got snow in Michigan yesterday! We couldn't get Ella out of it! She started begging me to go outside the minute she saw all that snow! Lucky for her Cam was home from school because of teacher in service, so she was out before 10 am, and for quite awhile! There were snow angels to be made, a slide to go down fast, and snow to eat! She was so cute out there!

I'm sooo bad, I know it has been too long, the holidays were crazy and so am I hehe!!!
But I'm back now and plan to be updating regularly!!! So stay tuned hehe!
I'll start with Jack cause he has been the busiest! Around 7 months he... get this... learned to army crawl, learned to sit up, and popped out 2 teeth, all in less then a week!!!! I didn't even know he was getting teeth, he didn't get all crabby like Ella always did. He was on a roll! Right before Christmas he figured out how to sit himself up, so now he crawls everywhere and when he finds something he wants to get into, he sits up and plays with it! Smart kid! He is also starting to crawl on all 4's, but gets frustrated and drops back down for his army crawl! And what a temper on the little guy, don't even try to take something away from him, he kicks his chubby legs, pounds his hands on the ground and buries his head on the floor! Very amusing!
Ella is her usual trouble making self. She had quite the Christmas, got everything she wanted, she asked Santa for 3 presents, so she got that and more! She is having fun playing with it all every day! And has become a Game Boy addict as Taylor got a new one and handed hers down!
Cameron got a Game Boy DS, so he can't take his hands off that! He used all his gift cards from Christmas on games for it! When school starts we'll have to limit his time on it, but for now I'm letting him wear out his thumbs! He also got Guitar Hero that he has been asking for forever and has to fight with daddy for turns! And the Fast Action Football he wanted gets played even, but takes up a lot of his room! Fun game!
Taylor ended up with over $600 in gift cards this year! And a bunch of clothes on top of that from her fav American Eagle. She had a blast shopping, woulnd't that be nice?? A whole new wardrobe! She also invested in a DS and doesn't have to fight with her brother over it anymore!
The whole family got a nice Lionel train for Christmas as well. Everyone takes turns checking it out, even Jack, who always seems to derail the train. Sometimes I wonder if daddy got it more for himself then the kids though...

MY BOYS

I took a shower today and put Cam in charge of Jack and when I was done this is what I came down to! Them all cuddled up on the couch! How sweet are they? Jack just gets the biggest kick out of Cam and laughs at everything he does. Of course then Cam had to do some silly pictures to!

Taylor won her first volleyball game today!!!! They took all 3 sets, well out of 3, hehe!! Sooo proud! I get to see her first game on Wednesday and I can't wait. I'll be there with my camera!

I took Cam and Ella to the docs today to find out they have a virus! UGH! How many weeks of being sick and there is still nothing they can do for them. But of course you never can tell...
So they weighed Jack today cause I asked if they could. I wanted to see if it was time to move him out of his 22 pound weight limit car seat, I figured he had to be about that by now. Boy was I wrong, he was 23 pounds 8 ounces! So way past the weight limit. He'll be in a big car seat now, which brings on my question, where do I set him? He can't sit up yet! UGH!!! Chubby baby!

Jack is 6 months old!!! I can't believe it! He is rolling all over now, won't stay on the blanket I put down for him, so he spits up all over the carpet now! There is no stopping him!
He figured out how to shake a rattle to, it is so funny to watch him, well not so funny when he smacks himself in the head and tries to figure out what just happened!
Still a super happy guy, he laughs like crazy and smiles all the time!
His new favorite toy is his toes!!! He loves watching them, chewing on them and having them tickled!

Our Halloween day!!!
It was so busy! First I took Ella to her school and they had a Halloween party, they were all so cute passing out treats to each other, and wanting to tear into them. We got to play toys, sing songs and they did a Halloween parade! Home for a nap for Ella and Jack then off to the mall for some trick or treating, which is so nice and warm! The kids got a lot of candy, more then I thought they would there! Then home for a quick dinner, then out from 6 till 7:30 for more trick or treating, it was sooo cold out though! Jack screamed for the first part of the trip, but then crashed in the stroller. Ella walked up to a few houses but then chose to sit in the wagon and munch on candy over doing more trick or treating, fine by us, easier that way! Taylor and Cam ran ahead so they could hit more houses, old people are slow you know!!!
Here's Cam's costume, it took close to 3 hours and 3 stores but we found him Darth Vader! Tay's nanny made her the belly dancing costume, of course she had to bundle up and there is no way I would let her show off belly anyways, such a strict mom I know!!!
Pictures will be posted soon,not working tonight!

Taylor made the volleyball team!!! Wahoooo!!! My little athlete, she rocks!

Betty needed some pics for her photog class, so I helped her out with the cute subjects!!! Ella was quite a stink in the beginning, but she warmed up. She had a lot of fun with Jack in the basket.
I was trying a challenge for a scrap board, and this is the cute pic I got of Cam. I can't believe how handsome he is, and his eyes, WOW!!!
I must say I have some good lookin kids hehe!

MVP!!!
That's right, you heard it here first!!! Taylor made MVP for her 7th grade basketball team! I swear I had tears in my eyes when she told me, I'm so proud of my little girl! She also got an award for coach's pick! My Taylor rocks!!! I'm going to take pics of her and her awards today then hang them up in her room!
Now comes volleyball, woohoo! I love that sport. Taylor is trying out for the team. I have a good feeling she will make it, she just tries so hard!

My little angel!!!
First off, thanks to Jen for helping me out with this!!! I took the super cute picture of Jack as part of his 5 month shoot, she added the wings and crooked halo, hehe! I need this printed really big, somewhere, gotta figure out where before I order, even though I am super excited to do it!!!!

I took the kids outside for awhile yesterday, cold or not Jack was fussing and we were in all day. I'm working on getting Jack to fall asleep on his own, he cries, I feel bad, it sucks. But he is doing way better then Ella at it, he only made it to the 15 minute mark. I go in after 5 minutes, calm him down, then after 10 minutes, calm him down, and then after 15, went in, calmed him down, walked out, he was out!!! Ella could go an hour like this, in hysterics, broke my heart! I know it will work in the long run and it has to be done. Besides, he can cry in his crib, or cry on my lap cause he is tired, so guess it is less stressful for both of us.
Oh back to going outside... there is ivy on our brick wall in the back, and it is changing color, way too pretty to not have pics in front of. Even if Ella won't cooperate, the stinker!!! Look at the look she gives me when I have the camera out and I'm talking to her, soooo sassy. I did get a cute one later that day after some leaf crunching. Oh and everyone was in better spirits after our 20 minutes outside!

Ok, so it has been forever since I have done anything on here, bad me!!! Life seems to slip right by. But I'm back now!
Jack was sick last week, scary sick. Guess he had a virus, that is what the ped said. But not eating, sleeping all day, and running a high fever scared the crap out of me. I was so worried we would end up in the ER, no thanks! His fever spiked to 103, scary for a baby that age. 2 days of him not letting me put him down and constant battles trying to get him to eat wore on me. No giggles and smiles from happy Jack, so sad. He is back to his old self now, all laughs (yes I am typing this as he is whining at daddy hehe).
Taylor just got over a sinus infection to, but I think we have her all better now!!!! Had to be hard playing basketball like that. I went to a couple of her home games, she does really good! One of the better ones out there I might add!!!
Ella is always into trouble as usual! She just amazes me the way she figures things out. Today Taylor asked her to get something for her, and Ella told her, I can't Taylor, I'm too sick. What a nut!!!!
My mom came for a few days to stay, yipppeee! I love having her here, we talk and talk! Not to mention the extra help with the babies, I love being able to shower and not worry about coming out to someone screaming because I was in there too long. We did lots of shopping, Tay and Ella both got winter coats! 2 down, 2 to go.
That is good for today!!! I promise I won't be a stranger!

Big Babies!!!

Well the young 'ens had their check ups yesterday, we'll start with Ella. She weighed 27 1/2 pounds and is 35 3/4 inches, so just shy of 3 feet! The 75% for both height and weight, she is perfect and doing everything she is supposed to right now!

Now on to Big Baby Jack! Yes very big baby! He weighed 20 1/2 pounds, which is off the charts, but only by a half inch hehe! I couldn't believe it! And he is 27 inches long, which is 95%. Where oh where do I get these big babies? He is also doing everything he is supposed to and the doc was impressed by his strength, oh yes, and by his size!!! Poor little guy got 3 shots again, he was pretty crabby yesterday but seems a bit happier today.