Birth & Baby Works

I just wanted to say that I finished my Doula training! It was so fun to go back to "school" and learn about something I love:) I already have a couple clients!!! I hope 2011 is a good year for pregnant woman that want support on their special delivery day!
If you have questions or just want to talk to someone that loves talking about labor and delivery please call me or comment on here! I also started a "Doula" blog! It is still under constructon but I have a name for my business! Under favorite sites you can link to it. Have a wonderful hoilday season!

Maggie and Dallin

I took my mom out to dinner last night as a thank you for staying up til 4:30am to make me a skirt for family pictures. We had a great time at Texas Road House and then I took her to Sub 0 icecream (very yummy)! After that we went to visit with my mom's cousin and her daughter that just moved here. It was fun getting to know then and chatting for a while!

When I came home I went to give my kiddos a kiss good night and tuck them in. I found Dallin sleeping in bed with Maggie. Abram said that Dallin got out of bed a couple times but he didn't know Dallin had gone into the girls room. Abram then said this is why we need another boy in the family so that Dallin has a roommate too!  I thought this was such a sweet picture I just had to share!

Thank you Abram for getting the kids to bed while I went out and got a little break!

I love My Family!!!



Strawberry!!!

We have such a great time at Fossil Creek! It has changed a bit but still great! The water was even a tad bit warmer than it usually is! Both my girls did a little cliff jumping and so did our friends girls! I'm so grateful to Abrams Gma Carrie for letting us use her cabin and making this little day trip possible for our family!

Amalee acting like Gma Carrie with her glasses and trying to do a cross word puzzle! So silly!!!

This was our first time going to the Strawberry School House. It is the oldest School in AZ. The kids had so much fun sitting in the desks writing on the chalk boards!

Amalee thought it was funny to sit in the corner with the Dunce cap on.

 I just love her fake grumpy face!

The totem poll on fossil creek road. The kids think this is so cool every time we drive by it!

Random Cuteness

So while we were waiting for Abram to get back to watch a movie our kids decided to curl up on our bed and wait. Well it wasn't long before they all fell asleep! What an easy way to put kids to bed!!!

I just love when the kiddos are nice to eachother! Here is Maggie and Dallin coloring together~ So sweet:)

My cute little lovebugs!

Amalee Graduated Preschool!!!

I am so proud of my little Amalee! She graduated from Preschool and is so excited to start kindergarden! She has learned so much! She can write her name, knows all her abc's along with the sounds, knows her #'s to 100, is reading, and of course knows her colors and shapes!

In this first picture she is showing off her fly costume! At the graduation they all did a skit "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly." She had so much fun!

Here she just recieved her little diploma! She even got to keep her tassel!

My sweet little 5 year old! I can't believe she is growing so fast! I'm amazed and so pround of her and all she want to do and learn!

Dallin the bunny

So the other day I was cleaning out Foo Foo's cage. When I came back inside this is what I found...

He thought he was so funny! Every time I would take him out to out Foo Foo back in he would just climb back in laughing.

Gymnastics!!!

Maggie is doing a flip over the bar. They teach the little ones how to by having them walk up the mat then push off and flip over. Maggie loved doing it!

Amalee is stretching into the splits and standing on her tip toes on the balance beam!

So Abram and I have been talking about what we should put Amalee in since she is so petite. We decided that she is the perfece fit for gymnastics! Maggie of course wants to be just like her big sister so we put her in it too. Ms. Chelsea (Maggie's teacher) said that Maggie is a natural at it and will move up quickly. Right now she is in the pre-school class. Amalee was also good at what she was doing as long as she wasn't looking for me. She is in the level 1 class with Summer Jo her cousin! When Amalee was on the trampoline the owner of the gym was watching her and amazed at how springy she was and still able to keep her legs and arms together! Amalee is so excited to be doing this. She asks every day if she gets to go again today? Her classes are on Wed. and Sat.

Just a cute funny story....

Two Little Boys

After a hardy rainstorm filled all the potholes in the streets and alleys, a young mother watched her two little boys playing in the puddles through her kitchen window. The older of the two, a five year old lad, grabbed his sibling by the back of his head and shoved his face into the water hole.

As the boy recovered and stood laughing and dripping, the mother ran to the yard in a panic.

"Why on earth did you do that to your little brother?!" she asked as she shook the older boy in anger.

"We were just playing 'church' mommy," he said. "I was just baptizing him...in the name of the Father, the Son and in...the hole-he-goes. "

More bunny pics!

The three babies! So cute!

This baby is Black Otter.

This one is Chestnut brown.

This one is Pretty and White!

Having a blast!

It's finally nice enough outside! I let the kids out to play.

Maggie is getting chased my Abram with the camera and this was the best shot he could get of her!

Dallin playing with the hose!
Dallin getting ready to dig in the dirt!

My beautiful Amalee playing in the dirt in her pjs!

Don't they look like they are having fun?! Amalee came running in the house saying "Dallin is eating rocks!" I said "ok" Amalee: "He can't eat rocks...thats gross. Me:"I will give him a shower when he is done playing." Ama:"ok he spit it out!"

Foo Foo had babies!

We are so excited that Foo Foo had babies! My little sister has a holland lop bunny. I thought it would be a good experience for my girls to see and take care of baby bunnies. I didn't know for sure if Foo Foo was pregnant or not. Abram and I made the nest box and put it in her cage. I filled it will paper and hay and for about 3 days she would just take everything out of it. Then on Thursday morning when I went in to give her food and check the nest box she was in it and hadn't taken all the paper and hay out! I was finally about to get her out of the box and found 4 babies!!! Sad to say tho that one of the babies died:(

So here they are! 2 I think will look like the dad! And the little pink one I think will look like the mom!
My girls love they little babies and can't wait til they can hold and play with them!
Some people have asked what I'm going to do with them and I'm going to sell them! They will be ready for Christmas! I can't wait to see what they look like with their eyes open and fur all over!

Dallin 1st Birthday Pictures!

My little Dallin Abram the morning he was born!

We celebrated his first birthday with our whole family!

He had so much fun with his boy toys. These are the first boy toys in our home!

He had a blast making a mess with his cake!

I don't know if he really ate any of it. But he had fun playing in it!

Getting cleaned up after making a mess with his cake.

Happy 3rd Birthday Magdalene!

I really can't believe how fast time flies. My little Maggie in now 3 years old! Here are just a couple pics of all her Birthdays!

3 years ago she was a round faced dark haired little baby!

By her first birthday she was a cute little blondie. She was already walking. So was such a sweet little 1 year old!

2 years old and still has her round little face! She just has the sweetest little personality. I can't help but love her so so much.

So today was her birthday again. Now Maggie is 3 years old. I have started a new tradition. On my girls birthday's they get to go out with just their mommy! Yes a nice little break for me too. So today I took Maggie the the mall and she wanted pizza for dinner then we had ice cream. She also got to pick out her costume for halloween, get her hair curled, pictures taken in the picture booth, then she got to pick a little present. She got little nail polishes to share with Amalee.

Maggie is so good at sharing with her sister. If Amalee asks for anything Maggie is more then happy to give it to her.

I am so blessed to have such sweet children. I just loved having my one on one time with my sweet Magdalene Julie!

Happy Birthday I love you!

Sleeping in a toy

I was trying to get things ready for Amalee's birthday party tonight so I put Dallin in his bouncy toy. He sits in it while I don't want him to get into whatever I'm doing. I was sewing up the rips in the girls princess dresses. One second he was fussing and the next when I looked at his this is how he was!

This is the first time he has fallen asleep in a toy or by himself without me helping him fall asleep. He is so cute!

He is even using his hand as a pillow. So funny!!!

5 years ago today! Amalee

I am such a lucky mom to have Amalee for a daughter! She is such a sweet girl and I just love her. She is my little peanut! From the day she was born she has been such a tiny little girl! And since Abram has been away working she has been such a great helper without complaining (well most of the time.) I really can't believe I have a 5 year old. I'm also lucky to have a little girl that everyone says looks just like me!

Amalee is sensitive, sweet, always wanting to help, great big sister, loves Jesus, Her Heavenly Father, going to church, and learning new things.

So here is a couple of pics. One for every year she has been in our home!

The day she was born! 5 years ago!

Her first birthday cake/party!

2 years old

3 years old

4 years old

And this year Amalee got to go out with just her mommy! So today when I asked her what she wanted to do she said eat pizza and take pictures together. She has been wanting to take picture in the photo booth at the mall so that is just what we did! It was so nice to be with just her. We got to talk and have fun together. I think she enjoyed it a lot too cause I don't know the last time it was just me and her. She didn't want the night to end.