Pictures... Again!

So you know how I said we only received 1 picture in my last entry? Well here are the rest of them and if you know us pretty well, you might get our Christmas card with a few of the pictures on it. I have not updated about my kids in a while so I thought that I might in this journal entry...

Savannah Ashley Pace...

She is such a sweetheart and a big help around the house. Yesterday we were working on who's chores were who's and she volunteered to do the downstairs bathroom, her bedroom, the laundry room, and the downstairs hallway. And not just pick up the toys and clothes all around the floor, no, cleaning with the cleaners and dusting and vacuuming. And she got it all done in the morning! She is a fast-learner, great student, and pianist. You are awesome sweetheart!

Claire Rebecca Pace...

Claire is a great help with Caulder even though they fight sometimes, she still does not give up hope on being his bud. Now that she and Savannah are on winter beak, I will have a lot more help around the house. Yesterday, she volunteered to do her bedroom and bathroom. It took her from morning untill noon but at least is happened! She is a warm-hearted girl, great student, and star performer. Great work, sis!

Caulder Joesph Pace...

Caulder is a nice and sweet but can sometimes be a little jazzed up and sassy. He is getting used to being a big brother and will sometimes help me with them! He is going to try to be good and earn his " Big Boy bed" by new years. He is so funny!

New Pictures Taken

A few weeks ago, we had our pictures taken by Liz. ( Thanks so much, Liz! ) We have not yet recieved all of then but we have one of them to show to you. I know what you are going to say, How did you do all of that in one morning. Well, Savannah's hair took about, ten minutes, Claire's took about five minutes and Caulder's, to twenty seconds so recording all that I had to do took, thirty minutes and twenty seconds. And Todd helped put the twins clothes and he could pretty much take care of himself. And here is our reward,

Random November

Hi, this is Savannah, and I am going to tell you about what we did since I have been off-track. Claire and I had our Halloween parties on the last day of school and had a lot of sweets. We had a couple of people from our family come out to visit us for the twins baby blessings such as, Katelyn, Tami, Mara, and Grandma and Grandpa Houser.

Trick or Treat!

Hi, Savannah here, and I am going to tell you all about what we did last night for Halloween. We went to about 15 houses shouting for treats and went through 2 haunted mansions. It was pretty scary! There were strobe lights and freaky CDs and discs with screams and cackles being played! I was the brave one and went through as many of them as I could find. At the end, I ended up with 61 pieces of candy and Claire with 69 (although I did get a whole Crunch bar).

Trunk Or Treat?

Hi, this is Savannah,(again) and I am here to tell you about our Trunk or treat ward party we had last night! We had mountains of candy and got at least 20 peices of candy/mini toys! We were all dressed in our costumes and here was the results...
Family...
Savannah = Susan Pevensie
Claire = Wonderful Witch
Caulder = Sharkboy
Todd = Grown Golfer Pro
Becca = Stressed-out mom
twins = peas in pods

We had a blast!

you probably guessed

I just needed to clarify that Savannah has been hijacking my blog again. She is really a sweetheart to keep everyone up to date when mom is soooo busy. The blog is just such a priority for her. I love readingwhat she writes and getting that little sneak peek into her brain. Way to go, sis!

I will update as soon as I can with new pics and stats on the boys...

Twins!!!!!!

I am editing to tell you what two presents we got last Friday. Their names are Treyton and Sutter. They are sooo cute. My kids didn't get to see them until Thursday because they wouldn't let anyone see them except mom and dad. They didn't even get to see me!!!!!!

Sorry we haven't updated in a while but our lives are really busy right now with twins, Savannah having jazz, Claire having play practices, and Caulder being more and more needy now as he is getting older.

Savannah has been a great help around the house and trying to straighten out fights between Claire and Caulder and even with her herself. She just barely started doing jazz and has been talking about it ever since. She is becoming more and more mature every day. She is also becoming more and more like me. I am blessed to hear that she is not going to be married unitl she is 25. I can use all the help I can get!

Claire has also been a great help and she is growing more beautiful every day such as Savannah. She has recently tried out for a Sleeping Beauty play and made it. She is a star performer.

Caulder has loved being a big brother and is learning about being gentle to them. He is also learning how to hold them. He can't hold them while he is standing up but I imagine it won't be long until he will. He is growing up so fast!

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.