Our July

Our July was filled with kids!! The girls were off track which allowed for a ton of playdates with friends, swim lessons, movies, trips and concerts. The Houser family reunion was held at the beginning of July in Utah and even without myself in attendance, it sounds like they had a blast!! We also enjoyed a visit from Grandma and Grandpa Houser at the end of the month. My friends (I truly have the best!)also threw me a terrific baby shower! Here are some pictures to represent the month's activities in our household....



The houser family reunion In utah. Todd bravely took all three kids on the road trip and they all survived! Thanks to all who helped keep my children alive while they were away from their mom for almost a week... especially my wonderful husband!!


The kids and their "fort." The month held a lot of together time for the kids and they handled it really well with only minor disagreements.


Grandma Gloria and Claire watching the 3d version of Shark Boy and Lava Girl. The kids loved spending some one on one time with grandma.


I took Annie and Jade to the Demi Lovato/David Archuleta concert in Sacramento. They had a blast!


My boys. Caulder did a parent/tot swim class with Todd. He LOVED every minute of it!


The baby shower... Yes, that's my belly and me. Chatting with Kathy Richey.


Annie's second swim meet. She is the second one in the green swim suit.

Grandma Gloria and Grandpa's Visit

Hi, this is Savannah and I am going to tell you about My Grandma and Grandpa's visit. We had a lot of fun when our grandparents came to visit us this last week. I know my parents don't update enough so I try to update for them. We went swimming, and I had my last swim compentition this last Friday. I won two medals and two ribbons. Back to telling what I did with my Grandparents. My grandma helped me with making a body pillow and a blanket for myself. My mom didn't really enjoy it very much because the fabric sheds every once and a while. I had a wonderful time with my grandparents. Posted By: Savannah

Catching up on summer

My entire family is currently in Utah enjoying each other's company as I stay home and try to figure out what a pregnant with twins lady is supposed to do on "restricted activity" without her kids and hubby to keep her happy and hopping. Hence... the update...

My blog has been hijacked!!

Literally! The last couple of entries were not written by myself but by my wonderful daughter Savannah! Who would have known? She writes so well portraying her mother! I guess that's the beauty and (scariness) of the internet. You never know who could be pretending to be you!! It's partly my fault. She bothers me all the time to update and I always have some lame excuse as to why I don't. "Nobody wants to read about us..." "I don't write very well..." " I haven't uploaded new pictures in awhile..." whatever the excuse I am online now and willing to update while she is at school.

My friend, Julie, told me last night that the first thing I need to mention and announce on here is that for those of you who don't already know, I am pregnant. Not only am I pregnant, We are having twins. They are due in Sept and we are told they are both boys. The pregnancy has gone well so far except for the double dose of symptoms. I was doubly morning sick for the first 4 months and now am doubley big with double the movement so double the soreness and nausesness. I can't complain though, because I feel doubley blessed.

I will now attempt to catch up on some fun things through pictures since that is why we all truly log on to each others blogs right? Here are pictures:



Preschool continues to go well. Four more weeks! Here is our youngest student... Caul-J

Birth of 5 butterflies. Savannah raised them from caterpillars thanks to a birthday present from Ginny and Abby. It was awesome to see them hatch from their cocoons.


Cinco De Mayo Party at the GY's. We had a blast with great friends, although Caulder wasn't so excited about the giant water slides!


Mother's day breakfasts with the kids in their classrooms.

This Weekend

This weekend has been full of excitment and catching up with my girls because Todd and Caulder went to North Carolina and so we had some GNO (girls night out) time. We have watched movies, gone to the mall (bling bling), and loving time. My girls have this Monday off of school so we are going to go see Hannah Montana the movie with some friends and then going over for a playdate. We are going to have an awesome weekend!

Savannah's 9th Birthday

My baby is nine! I can't belive how old she is getting and much more helpful she is around the house. She actually turned nine on April 5th, but i have not updated my blog for so long.

She had her birthday at the bowling alley, no, she had a HORSE themed birthday party at the bowling alley. She invited six of her friends to her party, Hailey, Jade, Cambrie, Alexus, Paetyn, and Timea. We had a blast!

Since she is nine, she got her own bedroom but Claire has a frequency to have to have someone to snuggle so she sleeps with Claire.

Catching up on our february.

I promised myself I wouldn't read anyone else's blogs this week until I had updated mine. The scenario always goes something like this.... I get online, I pull up my blog, I start down my list of links for my friends and families blogs, I get to about Crosby family and have to make dinner and eat dinner, then I come back, and I get to the Kroutil's blog with my reading and have to stop to get the kids to bed, then I come back and finish reading blogs and remind myself I haven't checked my email or facebook recently and after reading the 40 emails and responding on facebook it's 11 and My eyes are tooo woozy to find anything interesting to write on my blog. So, today I'm trying a new schedule. I will inivitably have to stop to make dinner and put the kids to bed but I might just get through updating this by the time 11 rolls around...

Sorry, for the long diatribe of explanations... Our family has been busy living life. Here is some pictures representing some of the fun stuff that has been keeping us happy...


Bachelor nights take place every monday night at my house and they have been so much fun!! They keep me very happy!!

Kara and Mimi's xtra fun treats!

Caulder had ear tubes placed in his ears this month due to his recurrent ear infections. It was the first time we had had any of our children have surgery at the hospital since Curran, so it was very hard for me. The surgery took 15 minutes and the surgical center in Turlock did such a fantastic job handling me and my paranoias. They let me hold him all the way to the OR and then I talked to him until he fell asleep on the operating table. When the surgery was over I was able to be right by his bed as he woke up.


The beautiful center where he had his surgery.



After: Happy boy!


Caulder HATED everything about the hospital, especially the gown.

DISNEYLAND!!! I know Savannah posted a little about this earlier, but I had to add my pics and comments! It was a blast. What could be more fun than disneyland?? Well, trying going with all of your best friends (who also happen to be your sisters and your mom) and all of their cute girls! We had a such an amazing time and made a lot of eternal memories. Here are some:











My little learners preschool keeps me busy on tues and thurs mornings. Here are couple of my fav pics from feb:



My Mels...

My Kyle...



And another funny one of Melanie. They make me smile each and every school day!


Yes, the ice cream man has already hit the streets of our town and the kids are so excited! I hardly ever let them get ice cream. I try to keep it special. This day I was in a particularly good mood and decided "Oh, well."






Mara took a special trip to my house on the way to disneyland. It was so much fun spending that one on one time with her and her girls. We took a little walk to see the horses that live near our house and took some pics. She also accompanied me on the drive to so-cal to meet up with everyone else and I thoroughly enjoyed our chat amongst the interesting smells along the journey, sleeping girls and poltergist-type outbursts from Claire in the backseat. Fun memories!




Well, thanks for enduring (or at least scrolling to the end to see how long this post actually is.) Our Feb was fun.