Park on friday night

On Friday after dinner and before movie night we took the kids to the park!!! We let the little kids play on the playground for about 30 minutes while Zach and Zander played caught! Zander has gotten really good at throwing the ball and actually catching it with his glove. He is getting so big and grown up. There was beautiful lighting at the park so I took a few pictures of the kids. After the kids were done playing we walked Lily ( the dog) over to the dog park so she got to "play" also!!! Lily loves going to the dog park and so do I. It is fun seeing all the different breeds of dogs all interacting with each other. For Friday family movie night we watched Tin Tin per Zanders request. I think it was a bit to old for them but oh well they seemed to have a great night anyway. I made homemade peach cobbler for dessert and then we called it a night. The kids did't want to watch the movie until it was dark so we had a late night!

What appears to be my first set of fraternal twins by most people who don't know us!!!

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 My beautiful hairless Carleigh Jane!!!

 My big 7 year old Zander! On monday he fell running into school and got a bloody nose and scrapped his nose and forehead on the cement. 

 And here is famous Lily Pei!

 And last but not least Brody B as my dad likes to call him!!! See the line in the top of his hair? He cut his hair with scissors after I finished giving him a hair cut!!!

Super cute

Location:Leo Carrillo, CA

It is really me

There is why to much that has gone on since Halloween and could not possibly get caught up on this blog! On Dec 18th we found out we were pregnant with baby number five! I was super excited Zach not so much but he was obviously ok with it. on jan 20th we went in for our first ob appointment and Zach actually came with me. In the past that would have never happened. We talked with the doctor a little bit about my history and my desire to have a doula and natural birth this time around. When we were done chatting she started the ultrasound. Almost immediately Zach and I looked at the screen then looked at each other and then at the doctor. We knew right away that it was TWINS!!!! The doctor then said oh my gosh it is twins!!!!!! Zach and I pretty much laughed the rest of the appointment straight. I think it was laughter from shock, excitement, nerves, and pure giddiness for what was to come. We are now 21w2d and I am about the size I was full term with the other four kiddos. We are all super excited for this amazing blessing that is to come. Their names will be Brigham James and gabrielle Ilene we will call them Briggs and gabby for short. Briggs is currently head down on my left side and gabby is up higher and transverse with her head by my belly button and her butt on my right side. They ar moving and kicking all the time now and I love that more then most things. I am updating this fom our iPad and I am not sure how to add pictures so I will have to get on the computer to put pictures up.

Halloween just a month late...

This year for Halloween I went with the girls being peacocks, and the boys picked Ben 10 and Ginka from Beyblades. For the girls I used a tutorial from this blog http://www.shwinandshwin.blogspot.com/ for the boys I used the attached pictures and copied it to the best of my ability. We had a fabulous Halloween we went to the ward trunk or treat on Friday night, a birthday party Saturday morning, an adult party Saturday night, church on Sunday and on monday the kids had halloween parades at school and then trick or treating that night!!!! How is that for a complete run on sentence!!??!!!???!!!????

 Zander was not wearing his gloves I made for the costume because they go red hair dye on them the first night at the trunk or treat. I was too lazy to make another pair!!

 Meet Lily our new shar pei!!!! She has been a fabulous addition to our family!!! We all just love her and Zach is getting use to her I think!!!!

More posts to come...

Back to School...

Today was a big day for the Spafford Family!!!! Allissa started Kindergarten and Zander started first grade!!! Zach was an awesome Pappi and went into work late this morning so he could spend the morning with the kids and I!!! It was fabulous having him here with us!!

Racine Beach

This morning my friend Megan text and said she was going to the "beach" with her kids and that she thinks I should come because it is a really nice beach and we would have fun!!! I am sure glad we decided to go. We were only there for about 2.5 hours but it was 2.5 hours of pure awesome fun for both the kiddos and me!!! Then again anything done with Megan is always fun!!! She is great to talk with!!! Enjoy the pictures from the "beach"

(Lake Michigan)

 Lissie boo boo insisted on having hearts in her hair today. It turned out super cute. She is become such a fun little girl!!!

 (the babies "playing")  shortly after this picture carleigh got sand in Josie's eyes and after that Josie was done with the day!!!!

Sweet josie was not about to smile for me!!!!

If you look close I think you can see one of her hearts in her hair!!!

Zander and Will giving me a perfect photo opt while laying in the sand together!

This is the beach I took my maternity pictures at when I was pregnant with carleigh. The pictures were in the morning and I went into labor that night!!!! Can't believe on the 24th it will be two years!!!

All the kids digging!

Lissie and Isaac were total buddies today! It was pretty cute to watch them play!!!!

Still not going to smile for me!!! One day maybe!

My sister Kendra came with us!!!

And by far the best part of the beach was this...

Megan didn't know I took this!!!! Hopefully she doesn't kill me for it!!! She has one rockin' awesome baby bump!!!