a sampler...

I have been a complete blogger slacker...Here are a few random shots of the last month. More to come soon hopefully.

loving my new camera

For an early Christmas present Zach and I got a new camera. It is the camera I have been drooling over for the last 5 years and now I got it in my hands. We are both having s

o much fun with it. These pictures have not even been edited yet!!!

Baby Carleigh today!

Brody Anthony in the back yard

Reid my sisters little boy. He is two weeks older then Carleigh

Carleigh Janers drooling

Zander boy

Lissie and Carleigh in the yard after church

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.

Reid's Birth Announcement...

Since Zach is gone I asked my sister if we could come over and play today! I got lucky and she said YES!!! When I got to her house she said, "I need your help with Reid's announcement." So I showed her what I came up with last night and we got the kids ready, took pictures and made this...

Birth Announcement

It is currently 1:05am and I should be sleeping! Instead of sleeping I decided to stay up and make this...

I took the pictures tonight and made this announcement in my photo editing program Paint Shop Pro. It was fun playing around with it!!! Carleigh is almost exactly two weeks old. It is crazy thinking that exactly two weeks ago Carleigh was still in my belly!!! I am so glad she is out!!!! We are so blessed to have her in our family! I just love her to pieces and so does everyone else!!!So far she is as PERFECT as they come. My due date is this coming Wednesday so it will be interesting to see if Carleigh livens up a bit. She still sleeps about 23 hours a day!!!

Still in love...

We are all still so in love with Baby Carleigh Jane!!! We still all fight over who get to hold her, we all want to snuggle her, and we all want her to suck on our fingers!! Well, I guess the last one only applies to the kids!!! Zander learned a cool new trick today that baby Carleigh likes to "latch on" to his nose! This little girl is going to be well loved and well exposed to germs!

This is what sweet baby Carleigh Jane does best!!!
I wanted into the bedroom to find Zander and Carleigh doing this...Carleigh is sucking on Zanders ever so CLEAN fingers!!!!

Lissie Boo loving on her new baby sister!

Different angle of the finger sucking!

Little Carleigh chillin in my lap in the tent when. We went "camping" on Sunday night!!! We set up the tent in the front yard and ate popcorn and apples with carmel and watched a movie!

First time I captured her sucking her fingers!

The Ward's brought dinner over on Sunday so the kids took turns holding her! Thea was amazed by her!

My in laws are coming in town tomorrow and I should be up cleaning the house but instead I am snuggling a baby and updating the blog!!! I sooooo wish I had a maid to follow everyone around and clean up after them. Especially when all I want to do is SLEEP!!!! If only I wasn't the very untrained maid in the house...

Always enough love...

I remember having Zander and being so in love him with and all of his little parts that when we got pregnant for the second time I was a little worried that I wouldn't love baby number two quite as much. Well now that baby number 4 Carleigh is here I am convinced that there is always enough love for each and every baby!!! I love finally being able to hold her and cuddle her. Since I had the miscarriage right before we got pregnant with Carleigh I felt like the day would never come when I would be able to hold and love on my baby! Well after about 13 months of being pregnant practically she is finally mine! I could just rub her soft little fuzz head all day!!!!

All packed up ready to go home!!!! We left the hospital Saturday around 1ish!

We went straight to my parents house from the hospital to show her off and pick up Zander and Allissa!!!!Kendra holding her for the first time!!!

My Little sister mara holding Carleigh for the first time! Carleigh is holding the lamby that Mara gave to him. Lamby was Mara's special thing and she has two of them! One was a replacement when the other got lost for awhile. She was so sweet and gave baby Reid one of them and Caraleigh the other. If you know Mara that was a huge deal for her to give the babies her special Lamby. It was so sweet I almost cried!!!!

Lissie holding Carleigh for the thousandth time!!!!!

Zach fell asleep last night and while I got ready for bed I plopped a sleeping baby in his arms for a picture!!!

The first thing Brody wanted to do this morning was hold baby Carleigh jane!!! Sorry for the scary morning shot of me!!!

Same with Zander and Lissie too!!!