Life with 5 munchkins has been so great! Everyone is helping and things (most of the time) are flowing smoothly. We all have our meltdown days, but we still make it through the day!
Kiley made a dinosaur project for school! She came up with and did everything on her own...even painting the outside of the box pink! :)
"God's hands are so strong. He eats a lot of vegetables." - Benjamin :) My babies love God so much! This was just one of the many random things Ben said last month.
Kaitlin played "Jack and the Beanstalk" on the piano in her school talent show. She played perfect! Our friends, the Roberts Family, came out to watch her perform. After the show we all went to Cici's for a couple of hours.
Noah was being sneaky one day and got a frozen waffle & syrup all by himself! No plate...syrup everywhere. He was so proud of himself!!! :) He was too precious for me to be mad!
Here's Sarah in her lil sis shirt when she was 3 weeks new!
Here's our baby girl at 3 1/2 weeks new!
The boys were playing outside one day after it had rained. I turned my back on Noah for a minute...and this is what happens!
I almost yelled...almost! Then I saw how much fun he was having, so I ran inside, got my camera and enjoyed the craziness!!
On the 8th of this month was our 9th wedding anniversary!! We didn't do anything too special this year. Just snuggled up and watched some TV together...ya know, a typical night for us! :) I love this man!
By the time Sarah was 4 weeks old, she doing so good at "tummy time"! She could lift her head up. Here she is at 6 weeks!
We took Sarah to our favorite place...the park for a hike! She slept the whole time, so I guess it was just as peaceful of a place to her as it is for us!!
Noah LOVES Sarah! He loves being a big brother. His favorite thing to do is give Sarah her binky.
He also is a big helper when it's diaper changing time!
Sarah turned 1 month!
My sister-in-law Tera makes bows/headpieces, so I got some made for the girls!
When Sarah was about 5 weeks old, she started smiling when I talked to her!!! Now she is smiling all the time. BIG precious smiles! Here is the first smile I was able to capture! (March 14th)
She smiled so big 5 days later, we found out she has dimples!
During Spring Break we went to Dinosaur Valley State Park. We took the kids fishing and they had the best time!! 
Kiley caught 2 fish!! The only fish caught that day too!!
Noah didn't fish. He played with worms, rocks and sand the entire time! He sneaked up to Kaitlin and held a worm up to her face. She turned away with a look of disgust on her face while he's in the background laughing!! I love this candid picture!!!
My sweet Sarah enjoyed the outdoors too!
We attempted kite flying too, but the wind just wasn't there!
The next day we went to Fossil Rim Wildlife Center. First thing we saw were the awesome buffalo!
Feeding the animals was so exciting! The kids also liked not having to sit in their car seats, haha!
Noah's hand is in this animal's mouth!!!
This silly giraffe stuck it's tounge out the whole time.
A baby rhino!! It was so precious.
Someone let a crazy monkey in the car! :)
The day after we got home, we went to Wichita Falls so we could meet Colin! He was born about 12 hours after Sarah. Here's Colin and Sarah at 7 weeks new.
St. Patrick's Day was the next day. We had green eggs, cinnamon rolls, and milk. The kids colored a shamrock. They all wore green too! We had ChickFilA for dinner and they had green lemonade!
I got to make a cake and cake pops for a sweet lady at our church for her baby shower. They were so fun to make. I made the pops to match the cake color.
It was delicious.
I was talking with the girls about kidnappers. I told them that smart, pretty girls like them could get kidnapped. Kiley looked at Kaitlin and said, "If the kidnapper tries to take you, tell him you're not smart". These silly kids!!
Sarah enjoying some tummy time at 7 1/2 weeks. She is getting so good at holding her head up and looking around.
Kaitlin wanted to do a jump picture! It turned out awesome!!
Their best bud Shiloh spent the night. This was her first sleepover at a friend's house and she did so good! They all had a great time.
Kaitlin is so proud to be able to stand up and hold Sarah. She's such a big girl now. And Noah thinks he can just hold her when he wants to. Haha!
Kiley lost her first tooth today! She was trying to take off a wristband from a skating party and she used her teeth. It made her tooth really loose and she pulled it out later that night! Crazy girl. They also had such a fun time at a skating party yesterday.
My sweet Kiley is getting so big! :)
I made some girl sock monkey cake pops!
Tonight we did bluebonnet pictures! I got some great ones, but I can't wait to go back again and take more. I've got so many ideas.
Ben made cookies all by himself one day! He got all of the ingredients out, poured & mixed and placed the dough on the cookie sheet all on his own!! I was so proud of him and he was so excited to tell everyone he did it by himself!!!
August 22nd - the girls started school! Kiley is in kindergarten. She really did not like school at first. She would sit in the hall and scream! Parents were not allowed to walk kids to their classroom, and she just wasn't ready to be without her Mommy. :( Kaitlin started 2nd grade and loves it!!
September 15th '11 - We had a sonogram to find out the sex of the baby, but we had the sonographer put the picture in an envelope and not tell us what we were having! I took the envelope to a friend, and she made a cake so we could cut it open and see what we would be having! We had rented a room at Spring Creek BBQ and the next day we gathered with family and friends, ate dinner and cut the cake! We totally were convinced it was going to be a boy....so, when we cut the cake and saw PINK frosting, we couldn't believe it!!!! Everyone was so excited!! 
September '11 - Ben had a pirate party and turned 4!! He LOVED his party and loved that everyone came over to celebrate him!
The very important food table! My favorite part of parties is the food! I love preparing a yummy menu! 
Ben's pirate ship cupcakes!
We've gone to the zoo a few times...once on Ben's birthday
and again a few days later when Neil and Aiden came to town! (That is a cow LICKING Noah's hand!!)
A few weeks later I took the girls to the zoo too!
October '11 - Neil, Tiffany, and Aiden came to town and we all went to the State Fair! We ate some great food and the kids rode a few rides. While the experience was fun, I think we'll just go to Six Flags next time! :) 
October was so much fun around here!! We went to MainStay Farm again this year, and it was just as much fun as last year! This time the Roberts family joined us. The kids each picked a pumpkin and painted it (Noah, however, slept through the painting fun after being so worn out from the day.)
We went to the Fall Festival at our church and it was fun as usual! I made a cute little costume for Sarah to wear as well! My shirt says, "I'm dressed up as my Mom!" :)
Late October Kevin started taking flying lesssons!!! He is having so much fun! And the kids LOVE going up with him!
The day before Halloween we went to Boo At The Zoo with Kevin's brothers family and the Roberts family.
November '11 - Kevin was working in Refugio for a few weeks and we missed him! So, we drove down for the weekend and spent a day in Corpus Christi and a day in San Antonio. We went the Texas State Aquarium, the Riverwalk and Children's Museum in San Antonio. It was a fun quick weekend!
The kids had their Thanksgiving feasts at school and then we had Thanksgiving dinner at our house! Lee and Kevin deep fried a turkey and it was so good! I love having it at our house every year because we have all of the yummy leftovers for days!!
We started our add-on also! We also remodeled the rest of the house with hardwood floors, texture and paint!! Here's a picture of the before: 
I found some time to make some delicious Christmas cookies!! 
December 16th - Noah turned 2! Oh how quickly my baby has grown! He keeps us laughing all the time! I asked my friend to take some maternity pictures of me. She did pretty darn good! I set the camera settings and told her the angles I wanted the pictures done...I was so happy with the end result!!! Here's one with the birthday boy!
The next day we were rearended. Ugh! Second time in a year. And all our babies were in the car...again! :( 
We had all of Kevin's family over for Christmas Eve. It was such a fun night! We didn't get to bake special cookies for Santa this year, so we gave him some premade ones, white and chocolate milk and apples and water for the reindeer!! Taking care of the reindeer was Ben's idea...too cute!! It was late and Ben wasn't too thrilled to be taking a picture.
January '12- Kaitlin turned 8!!! This sweet girl continues to amaze me everyday! Her heart is filled with love and she is so smart. She has definitely made Kevin and me proud!! She had a painting party and it was so much fun! I made her a painters pallette cake!
At 39 weeks I was induced. :)
Kevin and me after Sarah was born! 5th time we have been this happy!! :)
Our family of 7 together for the first time!!
The girls came with Kevin to the hospital to take Sarah and me home!
My mom kept the boys for a day and a half after we came home. So, we got to ease into being home with Sarah. And the girls got extra snuggle time with their sister!
When Sarah cries, Noah will come up and kiss her head and say "awwww". So precious!!!!
