Malachi breaks His Arm!!

Malachi is feeling happier the next day!

This Picture was at 1 am rick, wasnt too happy to take it!



Well, I guess it was time we visit the e.r. with one of the boys! So sad!
The boys were playing in the backyard, and Levi was being the "fun bro" that he is, and pushing Malachi way high in the sky on the swing, which of course is only to Malachi's delight! This time, Levi pushed Malachi's back a little too hard and push Malachi on the ground, causing him to land right on his left forearm. I wasnt even home! Rick says he cried for about 15 minutes and then was ok but wasnt using his arm at all and it was limp, and began to swell! Poor guy! So, I came home and we decided to take him in. Aunt Mary thankfully, came over very fast so the boys could stay home and hit the sack! Rick and I were off at about 8:30 pm. to Phx. Childrens Hospital. There were so many sick kids in there!!! I was attempting to keep totally germless with us all, but that was hard. Malachi had a tough time getting checked out by many strangers, but finaly it was revealed that has a break in his forearm. He has a splint till we go see the orthpedic on Friday, for maybe a cast, we will see. He is managing ok, and his big bros are baby-ing him and praying for him, they all felt very bad for little mal! It is cute to see him attempt to do things that were so easy before, climbing on chairs, getting on the couch, taking a drink, playing with toys, pretty much everything. So, yes as i recover from the fracture in my foot, little malachi has to recover from his break, it will be a fun memory!
Rick tries to distract malachi with the IPOD!

Malachi wasnt too happy when ms. nurse comes in to splint it up!

A LIttle Boy Funny

With 4 little boys around, we always have funnies flying around. In a desire to remember some, I will record them, they are called, "little boy funnies"

Well all of us are excitedly anticipating our new little baby coming our way. Every day, one of the boys changes their minds on what they think "it" will be. Josiah is always giving us names for the baby; yesterday he says, "lets name the baby, "dirty jobs, come hear dirty jobs." Josiah's dimples were poppin out from side to side!

Do we have too many kids to keep track of? Smile..nah

What is wrong with this picture??? Well, yes, instead of a kid normally holding a fork to eat our kid had his toothbrush! But, whos responsible for that, well that would be US! Halfway through our meal I looked over at Malachi and realized he was taking a bite of toast and then brushing his teeth and it kept going. Rick and I just shook our head, at ourselves, and just laughed, and took the toothbrush away, or did we?? And then lastly, we have Judah piling his lasagna on his bread and feeding it to his Josiah. Our dinners are certainly NEVER dull! :)

Something Malchi, doesnt need, SUGAR!!

Well, yes, sometimes Malachi just gets into stuff when Im doing something else in the back room. well, the other day, I came upon him as happy as can be, spoon feeding himself from the sugar jar! Of course he's got that big smile on his face!

Happy Birthday my lil' Judah Rick

August 15th- Celebrating Judah's 5th Birthday!
It was such a special day.
We started with eating donuts and hanging out home. As Judah put it, "we had donuts for our cereal." For lunch he picked to go to McDonalds and play. After McDonalds we came home and opened his presents and ate his Star Wars cake. He got a skateboard, legos and tons of star wars stuff.! Later that night we took him out to Motor cross races. He loved that! Dirt bikers race and quads, that is Judah's type of fun for sure!
It is a joy to celebrate my kids' birthday. A joy, definatly better than your own now! Birthday's are important to me, it is one day to celebrate just them! The sum of Judah..man.. He is a huge smile. When I think of him I think of the most thoughtful little boy. He wanted me to go to dirt biking with them at night for his birthday, I told him I dont think I could cuase of my broken foot. He said, "then I wont go I will stay home and take care of you."
When you sit by me Judah you make sure my hair is always behind my ears so it doesnt touch my face. You dont like it when it is in my face. You even like to sit and brush my hair. You played soccer this year, and your perseverance and aggressiveness made us so proud. You were a star, never stopped. Not even in the last game when it was at least 105 degrees out at 1' o clock
and you were giving your every last steam. After we pray for you at night you are the one that says, "mom can I pray for you now?" and he goes on and on thanking God for me and asks God to protect me. You crack us up. You dance hilarious and you got moves that we dont even know where they came from. Judah you are always willing to help make food for you or anyone else. You rush to clean things up before I can get to it. On the other side., you take forever to do something when it comes to your chores in the morning. You get distracted very easily and I will find you naked playing with your legos, cause while you were getting dressed you sat on one, and then started to build something and forgot that you were supposed to be getting dressed! You like to just brush the the teeth in front of your mouth, and you have the best smile. You struggle with keeping your anger down when you get upset. BUt, we are praying for you and you are getting better at being calm when your brother does something to you you dont like. You stop and try to take a breath and then talk about it. You just told me that you learned "to love my neighbor" but you are just learning what they REALLY means. You are Levi are buds, and you and Josiah are becoming better and better friends. I am teaching you pre-school stuff at home, and you enjoy it somewhat, and get excited to do your school stuff. You want to be an astronaut or a dirt biker!! :) Pretty big differences! The combo he has is extremely thoughtful, and loyal and the most daring boy of them all. He has no fear and will try anything. He needs to stick by Levi who will balance him out. While being babysat you decided to jump over the fence and get the frisbee that was thrown over. Once you got over there, you didnt know how to get back! You have become an awesome skateboarder, and an awesome bike rider too. I am just so thankuf to have you as my little boy, judah brings so much fun to our family!

Interview with Judah
Mommy: what do you like about being 5
Judah: uh..uh..that it makes me feel older.
Mommy: What was your favorite thing we did for your birthday?
Judah: uh, dirt biking
Mommy: What are you thankful for
Judah: my birthday presents, and my cards...wait...and my cake
Mommy: What do you like to do with your brothers?
Judah: Play star wars
Mommy: What is your favorite thing you do with Daddy?
Judah: Hide and Seek
Mommy: what is your favorite thing you do with Mommy?
Judah: play everything!
Mommy: what do you think our baby is going to be?
Judah: Uh..a geerl.



Judah posing with the 1st place winner of the quad race!

August 12th- I Fractured my Foot!! My cute lil' (or large) feet!

Being the sweet bro he is, Micah ask if we can go to the Diamond Backs game together the day before my birthday, I reply, why sure! Little did I know, i am getting old and will crack my bone walking down the stairs to our seats!!!!! I just stepped on it wrong and sure enough I heard a crack and Micah pretty much had to carry me out of the ball park. Rick was trying to make me go to the emergency room that night, but I thought Id be fine. By the next day, we were at urgent care, finding out I broke it! 6 weeks with crutches and a boot cast!! Not really fun with my job here at home. But, thanks to my many many friends and aunts, who have made us meals ordered us pizza (smile) and continue to do so, to take the load off the maintaining of the household! And, of course to Rick who has stepped it up A TON to help me just lay on the couch. Ive never laid on the couch as much in my whole life, as I had the past 10 days. It is soo hard to do, but Id like it to get better the right way! My boys pray for my foot several times a day, being that they know how it has made it hard for me to be the regular mom I am. They are diligent in asking God to heal "her broken foot" And they have helped so much. From the laundry, to Judah fixing us all peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches for lunch to, levi mopping up spills on the floor and changing Malachi's diaper, Josiah has laid by me so that I wasnt alone. They have all pitched in. I am so appreciative of that.! This is a time that I know God will teach me a lot. So far it has been, realizng the little things that I do take for granted like my strong bones and body that works amazingly, to spending more time on the floor with the boys playing and less time running around. TO most amazingly realizing God has control over my days. Amen!

Our Summer Trip To California

Way on top of Squaw Valley, a ski resort in tahoe. We had to take a tram up this cord for like 10 minutes, and it was way scarier then I had remembered it! We had a blast up at the top while we let the kids ice skate, and play on the mountain. My mom and dad couldnt join us cause Mom had hurt the cornea of her eye. It was too bad they werent at Squaw with us.

The boys were having a blast at Donner Lake, a beautiful day out there, perfect water, clear and a beautiful scenery to look at! Our first day with Granne and Papa we had a picnice and spent the day at Donner Lake. The boys fished a little, didnt catch anything!

Enjoy the slide show of our whole trip!



At the beginning of our trip we went to South Mission Beach. We got there early and had a bon fire at night. Levi and Judah must of caught 100 sand crabs, and Josiah enjoyed jumping the waves. Malachi didnt care what he was doing, he took his nap in the pack in play out on the sand. The sound of the waves always puts our boys to sleep! It was perfect weather out there.

Me and The Jude Building and hanging out

Rick and Pastor Jason getting excited for the ropes course at Family Camp in California!

Our trip this summer was a little different. On Saturday we headed to Alpine for For Family Camp for 3 days. We had fun, playing games and Rick enjoyed a good 'ole fashiones ropes course! The boys could do a rock climbing wall, and did archery. At night we had church and a camp fire. It was fun to hang out with our church friends. On Tuesday we started our first "road trip." I was a little nervous a road trip 4 active boys seemed a little crazy, it was 6 hours to our first destination, bishop, ca. where'd we stay the night before finshing the next 4 hours of trip the next day. The boys enjoyed swimming in the hotel with Rick that night. IT was good to see Granne and Papa and the boys had a great time with them. Rick and I enjoyed a date in Reno the first night we got there., We went to the casinos and ate yummy buffet food. We enjoyed a walk along the Truckee River in the middle of downtown Reno. That was crazy to us, a river in the middle of downtown! My dad got up every morning and made the boys breakfast usually before I woke up, that was awesome! My mom had torn her cornea just before we got there, so that was pretty hard for her, she was in a lot of pain. We were glad to see her though. WE enjoyed their nice house and deer in the neighborhood and their neighborhood donkey! On Thursday we went to Donner lake to swim and picnic, on Friday we went to Squw Valley and Lake Tahoe. The boys caught craw dads at lake tahoe with Dad. I usually stay out of that and just take pictures. And, on saturday it was time to do the 14 15 hour drive back. We did stay in Beaumont, Ca. Saturday night to cut the trip up a little bit. We were thankful we got to spend time with my parents and we had a nice safe time! Till next summer!!