Abby lost her first tooth! She came in one night saying it felt funny after brushing, then it was loose for just 2 days. She fretted so much about getting it pulled, then ate dinner and it came out all by itself. The next thing for her to worry about was that the tooth fairy would take her tooth. So we put it in her tooth box, and I had her write a letter telling the toothfairy she wanted to keep it..... The tooth fairy gave her a dollar. We then went to the dollar store to get something, paid for it, and asked the lady for her dollar back. I explained that it doesn't work that way. She was really mad. She stomped her feet outside the store and said that next time she loses a tooth, and the fairy gives her a dollar, she is NOT NOT NOT going to to buy anythe store.

Here is just a couple pix of Abby and Garett. I need to take a portrait of Benson and Marlee and will post them later.

Well, Here is a quick update. Marlee is 2 Weeks old now and has gained a pound. She is so healthy and sweet. She has some good loud lungs when she screams, but she has not been difficult to soothe at all. I just feel so blessed, and am so happy. I am trying to lock these memories in my brain, and record the details because I know they grow so fast, and before you know it, your 2 year old isn't such a "baby" anymore!
The kids have all done well with her. They get told 10 times a day to get out of her face, they all love to talk with her and touch her - despite the "rules". Garett is probably the one that is more whiny and needy than the other two.

I am feeling wonderful. I am up and running as normal and back to routines.....except dinner and house, I haven't got that far yet. It's definately an adjustment with 4! I forget to leave time to feed Marlee before we go anywhere, or get her loaded in the carseat etc. I am used to telling the kids to get in the car and gets seatbelts on.

Life is crazy, and overwhelming. It would be much easier if I was a mom full time. I am more half a mom,like I get just the minimums done with the kids. I am always needing to get work done, and am constantly behind. Such is our life though, and we are happy. The grass is always greener on the other side.

I decided I'd rather not have our name on the blog address so I changed it to busy6.blogspot.com. I also changed my background and it deleted all my cute pictures on the side. Stupid, I don't know what I am doing! I'll update it in a bit!Brig instructed me do a new family picture, although I loved that one, we got to get Marlee in there!

Marlee Sage

New Chick in town!

We are so happy to announce that we have FINALLY had our baby!! Marlee Sage was born on Wed. Oct 1. She is beautiful, sweet, and perfectly healthy. I was induced, since I was 5 days over the due date. All went well, and fast - same as my other babies. I've been so blessed and lucky that way, and try not to take that for granted!

Abby's 6th Birthday Princess Party

Abby had her Birthday party today. We had about 10 girls come, and everyone wore their dress ups. It was a crazy and fun time.

First we painted nails, and put makeup on. Then we did cake, which was a cute barbie cake with a Cinderella dress. Then we opened presents, and as the last one was getting opened the REAL CINDERELLA stopped in! She had them gathered around her, and hanging on every word. She sang songs, read them a story, played a game like "Don't eat Pete" but princess style, and talked about how Princesses act, and they practiced how a Princess walks as well, she ended it with making them flower and butterfly balloons. They all loved it, and it was wonderful for me to sit on the couch, and let someone else entertain! She did a great job.

After the party ended at 1:00 3 of her friends stayed to play till almost 6:00! I had no problem, cause they just played and giggled and played some more. Downstairs tea party, to dolls/littlest pets, and pollypockets, playing in the bunk bed with computer games, and lastly in the bathtub with their swimsuits on, and dolls, for about an hour. They laughed so much, it was fun to hear them have fun.

Just a few Random cute Pix of my kids this summer!

Monster Baby

This is my sweet, adorable, cuddly Benson Bear. He's such an angel, and is so quiet. We just love him so much.............most of the time............Till he got close to being a 2 year old!

This lovely whitestuff would be DIAPER OINTMENT that he found in some weird hidden place. It was a brand that I thought I was out of months ago. Not one we were using currently.....no idea where he got it. If anyone has a good tip of how to get ointment out of my new carpet, I'd love to hear it!!!! I scrubbed and scrubbed, but there is still darkspots allover from ointment.

The stupid thing is, that he was smiling and looking so cute when I took the pictures of how naughtly he was.

Abby's First Day of Kindergarten

Abby started Kindergarten last week. She looked so cute, and loved it of course. It seems weird to have a child in the school system. I'm too young!!

She has Mrs. Howell (Crazy how Tolman still has the same two Kindergarten teachers that I had when I went there!)

Garett also started Preschool, with Mrs. Anderson, the same Preschool teacher I had! He can actually tell me what they did, he said "Mom, I really love my preschool and there is lots of boys that are my friends, I don't like the girls".

I'm happy and proud to see them enjoy growing up and going to school. Abby actually wants to do homework, and practice reading etc.

6 Quirky Things Tag

Thanks for tagging me Talia! I don't know if you really want to hear my quirky things....I could go on forever. I just realized that I didn't tag anyone else from my last one....I need to do that!

1) I have a horrible alter personality. Her name is Helga, and you NEVER want to mess with her....just ask Brig. hahaha! She's who I am in the mornings, before I snap to fully awake and become normal again. This is not just during pregnancy, she's just worse now. She gets really mean sometimes. I could have some important appointment, or class, or meeting etc. and set the alarm early to get up in time. I am so pathetic in the mornings that I could get out of bed 50 times and press the snooze button, then go back to sleep for 9 min. and do it again over and over. (Maybe if I learned to get my butt in bed at a decent hour....) Helga doesn't give a darn about anything. She couldn't care less if we were late, or missed what was happening, she's tired! When I finally "wake up" then I jump up freaking out, and rush rush to get ready etc! It's so stupid I know, but totally true. My sister Amanda would vouch too, since I've been like this my whole life. The scary thing is, Abby's the same way! She's such a dead head in the mornings, even if she goes to bed at 7, by 8:00 she's still laying in bed not wanting to get up....

2) I love to have a clean house, that smells good and I really don't like to do the cleaning. I wish I were someone that "Enjoyed" cleaning. Especially the "daily" jobs. Like - dishes, laundry, and sweeping, I'm especially bad at. I tend to let the sink get full, then do the dishes, or let the floor get visibly dirty, then mop it, and have all the baskets full before washing the clothes. It's a horrible stupid annoying problem that I have. I go in spurts where I do well, then fall off my train, and it takes me a while to get going agian. Thats why if you come to my house, it's probably a little safer at the front door..... Having this many little kids doesn't help me out at all. Benson has marked literally every door and wall with crayon or pen. RRR

3) I am copying one of Talia's Quirks, sorry Tal!
I love to sing. I can't follow a tune, or notes worth beans, and I sound wretched. I sing quiet in church, if I sing at all, cause people can hear me there. ( I dated a guy that said in the car one time, "babe, don't sing"....But it's so fun to sing to the radio. I like to get the radio loud in the car, and get Abby and Garett dancing and singing to the music with me. People on the outside looking in just see a weird mama bouncin her head, and shoulders in a minivan. haha I LOVE to have everyone out of my house, so I can blast my music while I'm cleaning too, then I can dance around and sing like an idiot while doing my chores. I am totally open minded with music. I love it all.....mostly. Just depends on my mood.

4) I'm a total movie junkie. If we sit down at night to watch TV, I'd much rather put a movie on, then flip through stupid channels all night. How can you have over 100 channels available and have nothing to watch? I like the Iron Chef show, CSI (although it gets a little depressing to me, and I can tell you in the first few minutes if we've seen it already), and of course, What Not to Wear!
I think two of my all time favorite movies are stupidly enough...Men in Black 1 and 2. Those worms, still crack me up, even after seeing the movie so many times! I'm also a classic sappy chic. I cry in tons of movies.

5) I like to get up in the mornings and get fully dressed and hair done, and all the kids dressed, first thing. Whether I'm leaving somewhere or not, I just feel like I can function better. And when I need to rush out the door later, I don't have to try and get ready then. I used to think it was a wasted effort, if I'm not leaving the house. Then I decided, I don't get dressed and ready for the rest of the world, I do it for me, so I feel good etc. (I'm not perfect at it though, it is nice to just hang in my men's pajama bottoms that I've had since Jr. High sometimes too).

6) I'm just now starting to "grow up" ....a little ... in some ways. There is a few foods that I have hated my whole life, or so I said, that now I love. I've just told Brig that I'm growing up, and will eat adult food now. (I don't think I will ever get to the point of eating bananas though, that one will stay X'd forever I think. I can hardly stand to buy them for my kids, I can smell them on my counter in my kitchen anywhere upstairs, ugggh). Zuchini is a good example. I've never liked it. I just started tasting it with some food from a restaraunt one day, and decided it was fine. Now that Hatch's have some in the garden, I can't get enough. I could seriously ieat it every day. I just stir fry it with Pam spray, salt and pepper on the stove. That is all I ate for dinner tonight. The pasta, did not interest me at all! Green peppers are another thing I like now, and I'm still workin on the Tomatoes. Beets are the other great find. I never tasted them before in my whole like, cause that was a werd Old person food, like Spam, or Vienana sausuage (in my mind). I tasted a fresh beet out of the garden when living at hatch's, and that is another think I could not get enough of. They are so yummy!
I do still love to color in coloring books. Isn't that dumb? I like to sit with Abby and color the pretty dresses etc.
This is kinda connected to the whole "growing up" theme. (Forgive me Brian for laughing at you on Sunday, and for sharing this, I just think it's funy!) Brigs dad told me on Sunday that I was becoming a beautiful woman and rolling into woman hood well, or something like that (it must be that "Magic Glow" you have when you are pregnant. Anyway - Instead of saying Thank you for the compliment, I just busted up laughing so hard. I said, "I've been married for 7 years, and am having my 4th kid, and you are telling me that I am just now turning into a woman?!! HAHAHAH. That cracks me up. I've just been a kid having kids all these years I guess.

I know I have a million more things I could post, but I should go to bed. Maybe I'll post more later if I think of any. Thanks Tal for tagging me, it's fun to try and think about how strange we are!

Booth Sale, Preggo Rant, Abby school ALL IN ONE POST!

So...I decided to put a booth in the What a Woman Wants show coming up. Friday and Saturday Sept 12-13. I need another person to run the booth with me though, so if anyone is available or interested, let me know please! (I'll pay of course).

I know I'm a whiner, but isn't that what a blog is for...to rant? I NEED to have this baby. I'm done. I would like to return to normal. Everything I do hurts in one way or another....I'm incredibly emothional, moody, and freaky. My sister asked me tonight at dinner how I was feeling. (This is probably the third or fourth time I've been asked that today). I just shrugged and said "I'm 8 mo. pregnant, how do you think? Then told her it was a dumb question". She kinda said, "um, okay....I guess she's a little moody...."

Don't get me wrong, I truly do love to be preggo, well at least I always have loved it. This one, seems to be more uncomfortable. I'm sure it is the basics of what all other pregnant women go through, and I'm just experiencing any of it for the first time, and I don't like it. I also said when I first got pregnant, that one of the things that made it more OK for me in my brain is because Benson was so freaking cute and sweet, and melts my heart, that I could deal with one more. I told Brig yesterday, that I take that all back. He turned into a 2 year old all of a sudden, and I don't like that. Now I'm a little unsure about this baby thing again. I still have no where to put her!! (after she's too big for the bassinet of course). Hmmmm, this might be a problem. Also the fact that we have ZERO names on hold for her is a little stressful...

Ok. I'm done with my rant. Now moving on.

So, Abby starts kindergaren tomorrow. We are both excited. She's been asking me to help her practice her letters, and her math so she can be ready for Kindergarten, and for doing homework. She's ready to take on the big world of school and it does bring me joy to see her excitement. I'm so glad I'm done with school, and don't have to deal with all that drama.
I'm a little shaky about dealing with her GIRL drama....that seems to have started at age 3, which is way way way too young. I't amazing to hear all the snotty things her and her friends can say to eachother, I don't know where they get it, I don't talk like that. "Well if you're not going to play it this way...then you're not invited to my birthday party!" (which is like a year away..)
Crazy girl crap. I never really liked girls growing up. I had more fun with the boys......my teenage years at least....... :)

Tagged...

My friend tagged me - so here it is....

Attached or Single: Attached forever! Love every minute of it too.
Best Friend: Brigham....then Stacey
Cake or Pie: Wonderful yummy chocolate cake
Day of Choice: used to be Sunday, till I started taking 4 hr naps each week with this baby! Ruined my day cause between church and nap - the day is gone! Now its Saturday.
Essential Item: My Blackberry Phone
Favorite Color: Dark Red, and black
Greatest Accomplishment: Still being in business, from such a young age - and trials. This is our 6th year with the Awards shop.
Hometown: Bountiful
Indulgences: I love tin roof ice cream (from Albertsons...they have the chocolate covered almonds) with A&W Rootbeer.
January or July: July, I love summer evenings, and I hate being cold
Kids: Nearly 4
Life is incomplete without: My family, my church and Food...mmmm
Marriage Date: July 19, 2001
Number of Siblings: 5 - 2 Brothers and 3 sisters - I'm the youngest
Oranges or Apples: mmm....not sure. I love to eat Granny smith appes with PB, but I really love a good orange too. It's sixes I think.
Phobias or Fears: My biggest fear of my life is losing my husband, or a child.
Quotes: There is a ton that I love, but don't know it off the top of my head!
Reason to Smile: Hearing my kids how much they love to play with mom and dad. They ask nearly every day if "we can do something fun?" Not just with eachother, they want us too!
Season: Spring,I get soooo ancy to plant flowers, and have the weather get warm, and get leaves on the trees. Such a refreshing time over the dreary winter that takes up most of the year!!!!
Unknown Fact About Me: I spend half my life in LA LA Land (as Brig puts it...) You all thought I was home!
Very Favorite Store: Ross...I guess. I don't have anything specific. I just love to browse, and find great deals! I love to shop in general, but rather at places that don't depress me, cause of the price.
Worst Habit: Biting my nails, not cleaning up often enough, yelling too much, and staying up way too late messing around on the computer, doing stupid thinks like this. I have so many really horrible habits, I can't just list one!
Your Favorite Food: Anything grilled, Asparagus, Twice baked potatoes, French Toast, and Salmon, brownies with nuts, and amazingly enough zuchini!

Being Lazy

Today is Sunday and I stayed home from church because I woke up in the middle of the night sick, again. All the kids have been coughing and runny noses etc. I was a little excited to have a whole day to be home. I wanted to scrapbook, and update my blog, and do some other things. I ended up spending half the day sleeping, and cleaning up. The other parts of my day have been spent hangin out with Brig. I'm like a sad puppy dog. I never get work done when he's home. All I want to do is be where he is, I can't figure out why.....:) I didn't sit down to do what I wanted to do till 10 tonight.....sheesh.

Brig's family had a dinner tonight, which we always go to, free food ya know! I have been in Brig's T shirt and bball shorts all day, and was not in the mood at all to get dressed, and I refuse to show up looking scary as I do. He ended up taking all the kids up there and I stayed home to watch the Jane Austen book club. I cried of course. It was a cute show!