Button got her ears pierced!!!

I took her to get her ears pierced and Darcy learned to crochet, too! Carliegh Jane is as cute as a button.

ARE THEY WEARING THE SAME SHIRT?!?!

Zach's dad was looking through some old photo's of ours when I was still living with roommates at college. He came across this photo....

This is completely unremarkable until you see what he is wearing...

At Carleigh Doctors about last week she was a whooping 9.7!!!! I know that some babies are born bigger then that and she is now 7 weeks old but I am so proud of her growth!!! She pretty much sleeps through the night about 10ish- 6ish. Zaznder and Lissie started preschool last we and they are loving it, especially Lissie!

They are such good little helpers! I had to pump in the morning because she slept through the night so I let the kids help give her a bottle before preschool.

This is baby Carleigh with Great Grandma Josko!

I was trying to do a photo shoot but she wasn't having it...

Carleigh modeling the first little dress and headband I made her. She looked so adorable in it!!! I just love creating things out of fabric.


She almost looks like she is smiling in that picture!!!

Miss Carleigh hard at work doing tummy time...she falls asleep after lifting her head once...

6 weeks old...

Look who's 6 weeks old already!!!!

Carleigh is sporting here new shoes I made. They are super fun and easy to make! I am sure she will end up with a FEW pairs... When I got on the scale with her this morning I gained 8.8 pounds! She is so tiny still yet so big to me.

Who do you think she looks like???

and we're off...

So we are about ready to hit the road!! I am so excited to have some quality and quantity time as a family!!! We are leaving in a few hours and driving to Sandusky, OH tonight! Zach has enough reward points with Hilton so tonight we are going to stay in a hotel for FREEE!!!! We didn't think setting up camp at 11pm would be very fun! Then tomorrow we will drive to Niagra Falls and go camping there for a day! On Sunday we will wake up and drive to Palmyra NY to tour the church history sites. Sunday night we will most likely drive to CT to stay with my bestest Aunt Betty and her girls and their kids! I am soooooooo excited to see everyone and meet my cousins three kids. They are all about the same age besides Carleigh. When we leave CT we will drive to Columbus OH and hopefully get to meet up with my old roommate Sheena and her family! Then back home!!! It will be about 33 hours worth of driving so we will have tons of bonding time as a family! I really am so excited to leave I wish Zach was home right now and didn't have to work today. Carleigh has been sleeping all day so hopefully she decides to continue to sleep all night! Brody is doing awesome with his potty training. Lissie is turning into a little girl and Zander is crazy full of energy and would be in heaven if I let him eat otter pops all day. But since I don't he is quite a handful!

Our precious babies...

California dreamin'

So, I am out in California and thought I would be board out of my mind. So I called up my brother (from another mother) Morgan and we are down here in Temecula having a good time. I saw their little girl Molly, she is a chunky monkey!

Riding Dirt bikes. These are little 50 cc jobs that are really squirrelly, they can get out from under you pretty easy, but are not too dangerous.

This is the coyote that I shot this morning.

Morgan and I got this little guy at about 7 am Cali time. Darcy called me at about 8 am Darcy called me and asked what we were doing. After telling her she said, "You already killed a coyote, it's only 8 o'clock there." She was still in bed at 10 am in Wis.

So, everything that is worth it requires a price. Today the price was a bloody eyebrow. I got hit by the scope when I shot the coyote, earning the mark of the modern hunter.

This is back at Ken and Sandi's house. Sandi came down and fed Morgan and I breakfast and wasn't paying any attention to my face as we were talking. Finally, she turned and looked at me and gasped as though I were a troll.