finally!

Steven has been flying alot lately with a company called Rotorway. He has also been an apprentice learning to be an A&P mechanic for helicopters. You need 2 years of experience working as a mechanic before you can even test to become a helicopter mechanic. He wasnt planning on loving it as much as he does & he has taken out & put back engines in helicopters by himself already a few times! Of course he has, he's ridiculously good at almost everything! He had to retake his CFI (certified flight instructor) test because it expires after a couple years & before he started flying in October, he hadnt flown since 2008! Well he passed & can now be a CFI for rotorway, too! CFI's arent too busy these days because there arent a whole lot of students there. But at least it's something! And he gets to fly for them as much as he wants which gives him valuable hours. I can tell the difference in Steven when he gets to fly, he's very confident & happy!

blog goals

A few nights ago I found my journal & saw that I hadnt written anything since a few days before embry & jasper were born! I have been trying to catch up & have written 7 pages already & still i'm not even close. Then today I saw that my blogs for 2010 were half of what they were in 2009. My kids are at the cutest age where they are saying the cutest & funniest things & i'm barely documenting it! So since I cant really do my same old new years resolution until April..my goals are to journal & blog more! I dont care if I bore anyone with 100 pictures of my kids in each post. My blog is about my kids & my family..not about ugly "vintage" clothes i wore today. jussst kidding.

Embry has been thinking he's an adult. He does this thing where he waits for the other kids to fall asleep & then walks out of his room (or even dances out of his room, to make us laugh & soften us up) & sits on the couch & watches tv with us. For a few nights, he was just too cute..so we let him stay up with us. The next morning at the breakfast table I hear him bragging to Bastien & Jasper. "Wast night, mommy gave me juice...and candy...and you were sleeping Japper, and you were sleeping Bastien." Good thing bastien didnt catch on to what he was talking about. But I had to stop it before i created a monster, which made him give me the ultimate look of betrayal when i made him go back to his bed the next night. Even after he danced out of his room for us! I love that kid. He's too cute for his own good, he's gonna get away with too much.

picture by http://conniebphotography.blogspot.com/

Jasper talks alot better now, and it's turned him into the cutest thing ever. Out of the blue he said "I'm excited for the baby, mommy"

One time he said stupid & i said "uh oh" and he's all

"sowwy mommy, dont tell Santa" He is obsessed with Buzz Lightyear &

makes me sing the "Buzz song" (you got a friend in me) at least twice a day.

He was so mad at Bastien once, he started doing that hysterical temper tantrum dance that 2 year olds do. But then he just started laughing so hard & said "I was dancing mommy!!"

Its fun to make him laugh at himself when he's whining or crying for something.

This is us walking back to the hotel from Downtown disney.

I finally look pregnant, and it only took me 27 weeks! Its seems like its taken me forever to show, probably because i was showing a lot faster with the twins..and i've been comparing everything to that pregnancy. I guess I remember showing really slowly with Bastien, too. So here is Finnick's baby bump. I cant believe I only have 11 weeks left. I cant wait to see what he looks like. Steven finally felt him kick the other day, i always like it when he feels the baby kick cause it kinda feels more real to him that there is an actual baby in there that he'll love just like he does the other 3!

I know i have some time, but its nice not really having to worry about baby clothes & getting things ready really, since i have more than enough boy clothes.

Oh & in case you were wondering, cause i know you were!

-embry's pants- thrifted

embry's shirt- bastiens hand me down.

my shirt- a sweater that was too big on my mom & now fits over my fat belly

my pants- maternity pants that pull over the belly. hate those but the only thing that fits

-& no i'm not telling you where i shop!

holidays!

lots of things besides christmas happened during our holidays, steven's brother kevin & his wife kendra had a baby girl. who is like, the cutest thing ever & makes me sad (a little) that i wont get to put headbands & pink on my next kid.

Kensley Alice

we went to an ugly sweater party. im defintely at the i hate my fat pregnantself part, its a good thing my kids are pretty cute! anyways, we got these mustache bandaids in the white elephant exchange & the boys kept stealing them out of my purse after having them do this.

Embry has blossomed into quite the performer. its funny that his middle name is Vuna (my dad's name) because he has one BIG similar trait. He likes being the star. He even made a face that looked just like my dad the other day, it was weird! On Christmas eve, we went to Steven's sister's house & Glee was on & every time they sang he'd come to the middle of the room & start dancing for everyone. He even got to where he'd say "Guys! Guys! Look!" He definitely likes attention like someone else i know:

my dad on the set of Johnny Lingo

on christmas eve, we stayed at steven's sisters house in Queen Creek until 10pm so by the time we came home & put out Santa's cookies, everyone was a little not excited anymore.

On Christmas morning I forgot to take pictures. I only videotaped it. But they were way cute opening presents & Bastien said " I love this day!"

you know that black coal bubble gum? there mustve been some in his stocking from last year because when Bastien was looking at the stuff in his stocking he pulled out a couple of tiny coal bubble gum pieces & said, "Look, Santa gave me a little coal, i was only a little bit naughty"

Then we went to my parent's house in the morning & the kids got spoiled again. Every year my mom says "its not gonna be like this next year" ha! i'll believe that when i dont see you start shopping for christmas in June:)

Steven's family from Ogden was in town staying at his sister's house in QUeen Creek, so we spent alot of time with them during the holidays. We hadnt seen his sister Christine & Jeremiah since Kevin & Kendra's wedding in June 2008! It was just like always, lots of laughing! We love them!

playing with their Buzz & woody race track

i dont know what they're talking about here, but they look pretty dumb! ha!

my kids loved all the attention!

Their cousin Cody's bday is Dec 29th so we got together again for that!

Steven's sister Becca got married on New Year's Eve morning to Chad, she looked so pretty!

Steven & his brothers Kevin & Brian.

It was so cold this day! The jackets my mom bought the boys for polar express did really come in handy this weekend!

After this my camera battery died & I was so bummed because they took some really cute pictures of all the brothers & sisters. We had such a good time with family these last couple weeks, i'm not in withdrawls yet though cause we have another party to go to tonight.

Oh & Bastien is in CTR 5! I cant believe he's a big kid who sits almost in the back of the room during junior sharing time!

i miss this baby

My sister made Bastien a video after he was born, with footage of him in the hospital. Every time I watch it Bastien is much older than he was before & it makes me sad. I miss his chubby little face & this drooly big bottom lip. (well, I guess he still has that.) I think all my boys are the cutest, but there's just something about that first born. He's the one who won my heart first. If this next little boy looks exactly like Bastien, I wont complain.

christmassy things

we went to the north pole on the polar express! who knew the north pole was only 3 hours away? the low was only 30 degrees but grandma insisted they have proper north pole coats, so they were really warm. :) i made sure she bought like 2 sizes bigger so they can last a really long time. hopefully we'll get some more use out of them..cause they sure wont need them this "winter" here in Mesa.

in their jammies ready to board the polar express!

our train boarded at 8, so we had some time to kill before. we ate at a cute country restaraunt & walked around their little town.

picture taken by bastien

it got reallly cold outside waiting for the train. i was actually wishing i wore warm boots like everyone else & not my flip flops.

they passed out cookies & hot chocolate. . cute face japs!

they said the train was built in the 1920's, so the windows were super old looking.

once we got to the north pole (I didnt take pics of it) Santa came on the train & gave each kid a bell. (i forgot to take pics of that, too) but here's a picture of the kids with their bells still mesmerized after seeing Santa.

on the way home they had some old snow on the side of the road. our kids have never seen snowso we pulled over & played in the slushie ice. i remember being the same age as bastien when i first experienced snow in northern cali. our family pulled over & i remember my feet being frozen cause i only had sandals. i think the kids had more fun here than on the train.

my sister's family is going to Utah for Christmas, so my family had a Christmas party on Friday & Ana (the nice aunt) bought all the kids these blankets.

this is the first year we've done a gingerbread house

bastien was playing with steven's ipod & i thought this looked pretty cute.

a month or so ago we went to steven's old stomping grounds to watch helicopters & planes. oh & good news!..steven is a pilot again! he has been flying helicopters for the past while..he gets to fly switzers & rotorway helicopters a bunch, (which gives him what he needs, hours!) & we're excited he's finally getting his foot back in the door of the helicopter industry. its been a long 2 years, but he said its like riding a bike. i'm so happy he's getting to do what he loves again!