Jedi Karter turns 4

If you know me, you know I'm not a crafty person. I like things that are easy and low maintenance. But this year for Karter's birthday I decided I would give being creative and crafty a try, thank goodness for Etsy and people that are actually creative, and make things I can buy!I found some cute printables for the decorations and the cupcake toppers. I made his invitation using some scanned images. And searched the internet for some cute ideas.When the kids arrived they all got a lightsaber (made out of pool noodles and shiny duct tape) and either a Darth Vader or a clone trooper mask. Then all the kids went outside and dueled.After playing the kids came in for some "Han" sandwiches, "space puffs", "Chewbacca chips", "light sabers" (grape kabobs), Wookie cookies", and "Yoda soda" (Sprite & lime sherbet)

Then we opened presentsThen we had a Darth Vader pinata. Unfortunately it broke on Karter's 3rd hit, so none of the other kids got a whack at it, but luckily they didn't seem to mind.

We then sang "Happy Birthday" and had cupcakes
And lastly we played Lego Star Wars bingo. All the kids got a treat bag with a Star Wars cup, some Blox candy and Lego Star Wars Stickers. We had such a blast, and even though it was a lot of hard work, I may consider doing something like this again for one of the other kids...we'll see how long it takes me to clean up he house first!

Welcome to the crazy life!

People always say life gets really hard after the 3rd baby, boy is that true! There is barely time to post updates on this blog, in fact, at this moment I'm typing while feeding the baby!

So, lets see, what's happened since my last post? Kurt went back to work after his 5 weeks on paternity. Its been nearly 2 months, and I'm just feeling like I'm starting to get the hang of 3 kids; although I still haven't taken all 3 anywhere by myself yet...baby steps! I started back to work last week, pretty glad to be back. Its nice only working 1 or 2 days a week, but its hard having less days in the week to keep up with all the laundry, dishes and other messes.

Keaton lost his first baby teeth. That's right I said TEETH! On Sunday my mom noticed that one of his permanent teeth had just broken through, behind the baby tooth. The baby tooth wasn't even kind of loose. So Monday I called to dentist to ask about it. We ended up having to take him in that afternoon to have the two bottom front teeth pulled! Luckily he did awesome, not a whole lot phases that kid. He's pretty excited he got a visit from the tooth fairy and got $2!
In February Kurt and Keaton went out to California to visit Kurt's parents for the weekend. So Karter and I got to go have a mommy and Karter day, while my mom watched Kamryn. We went to incredible pizza and played mini bowling and went miniature golfing. It made my day, when he said that he wasn't even sad he didn't get to go to California because he got to have "such a special day"!Kamryn is now 3 months, its had to believe she's that old already, it seems like I just had her. At her 2 month check-up she weighed 9lbs 8oz and was 23 inches long. She's been sleeping through the night for nearly the last 2 months. She smiles all the time, and loves to blow spit bubbles and coo.

My Christmas Present

For Christmas this year I wanted to have the kids pictures taken by Skye Johansen. All the girls in the photo lab rant and rave over her work, and ever since I saw her blog a few years ago, I've been a huge fan. I just barely got the pictures from her. And I have to say I'm in love with them. I think they are one of the best Christmas presents I've gotten. So here they are...

2 weeks and chubby cheeks

I can't believe Kamryn is already 2 weeks old. She is already starting to grow out of a few of her newborn outfits. She has the sweetest chubby cheeks and is starting to get some rolls on her legs, she has even started trying to hold her head up. She is such a good baby, despite a few tummy problems, that seem to have resolved with a formula change, she rarely cries. The boys are SO in love with her, Karter rarely leaves her alone, he always wants to kiss and hug her, and she totally lets him, even though he is pretty much smothering her most of the time. But I guess a little too much love is better than jealousy.

Coming Home

We've been home for nearly a week, so I thought I would finally post some pictures of Kamryn in her "going home"outfit.

Baby Kamryn is Here!

Our sweet baby girl was born yesterday at 8:03 am she weighed 7lbs 1oz and was 19 in long. So far she has been a little angel. She's been sleeping a ton, and so far she only cries when you unwrap her from her warm blankets. The boys are totally smitten with her, Keaton loves to hold and feed her and made up the nickname "love bug" for her. Karter likes to hold her too, for about 30 seconds then he's done.

Trying to Pass the Time

We officially now have less than a week till our baby gets here. October went so fast we were really hoping November would too, but honestly the last two week have really dragged. I've tried staying busy cleaning the house, (but the boys mess it up just as fast as I can clean it) and going to lots of doctor appointments, every week to the OB and now every week to the Physical therapist.

On Friday my parents took the boys so Kurt and I could go to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and dinner. Then Saturday night and early Sunday morning we got hit hard with a pretty big snow storm. We nearly got a foot of snow. (I guess that's one good thing about being pregnant, I didn't have to shovel!) Kurt took the boys out to build a snowman, Keaton helped a little, and Karter mostly ate the snow.

Karter eating snow