Christmas 2009

Christmas was a wonderful day full of candy and crazy kids and a celebration of the most important day ever, the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. Well here are some great pictures of the day for all to see.

Love

Shannon

Olivia Finally Swims. It's Been A Long Journey

Here is a little view of Olivia finally stepping off of the pool steps into a new world of paddling and kicking. Hope you like it. Don't mind the fat lady in the background. I'm on vacation. Bin on vacation for a few years.

Love ya all

Shannon

Wow What a Looker

Eliza is getting big and she is beautiful. Here is a picture to prove it.

Our First Birman Blessing Amelia Was Baptized

Amelia was baptized on Saturday, May 23rd. She is the first of our beautiful blessings to enter the waters of baptism and I owe it all to my wonderful husband who made the decision a about 9 years ago to join the church. With that decision came the life we live now and I am so proud and honored to be his wife. It was so amazing to see him baptize his first of four children and to do it with such authority and integrity. Amelia is so smart and spiritually gifted and I know that she already has a testimony that is large enough for 3 people. She will make a great leader some day in the church and with spirits like her at the forefront of the church I know that the future looks bright. Congratulations Amelia for making the choice to side with the right. Here are some pictures of our family and friends. Amelia got to get baptized along with her best friend who happens to have a birthday in May as well so this made the day even more special since Gabbi's baptism was a first for her parents as well.

Feeling Sentimental

Up late tonight and feeling sentimental. Friends are moving and times are tough. Thanks Erica for being a great neighbor and friend and I hope we still get to see each other lots even more then just bingo. I know my kids will miss the heck out of your kids. They wont have anyone to throw things to over the wall. Anyway, thanks to all my friends for keeping me sane. I know I say crazy and embarrassing things all the time but you stick with me anyway. I hope all of you are well and if you every need me I am there. OK enough with the mushy stuff. Love ya all. New pictures will be coming soon.
Shannon

My TBall Man

Hayden is playing t-ball this season and he is such a stud. He already throws with a rocket and hits into the outfield. Well the whole field is the outfield but he really can throw like a rocket. Here are some of his studly pictures and a few of his wild sisters.

Eliza Update

Well I thought I would update some Eliza pictures since I haven't posted anything basically since she was a month old. Life is typical for winter around here. Jimmy blessed our offspring with the tendency for croup every time they get sick and asthma and I blessed them with a weak immune system so to make a long story short, every winter we get sick and I mean sick all winter. Since Eliza has been born 2 and 1/2 months ago she has been sick 4 times and somehow avoided the stomach flu that passed through us like a wave of poo and throw up so that makes 5 illnesses that have hit all of us. It would be easier if it all happened at once but of course one brings it home and the other get it in succession. I am the latest victim of this cold which is the worst and Eliza and Amelia are now getting over it. I am sure that life could be a lot worse but when you have children who cant breathe every time they get a cold it is paralysing when they do. I am having to control my anger which is not easy to do every time I see someone who is sick or has a sick child out in public. If they only knew that they are like a time bomb for my family. Anyway, enough of the bad attitude but I am writing while I am wiping my nose. Love you all and if you bring your sick kids out in front of me prepare for the worst. Ahhhhh new years resolution to tone down the anger. Hopefully you won't be the one to make me fail.

Love

shannon

Eliza at 1 Month

Here are some new pictures of Eliza Jane at 1 month. She is a great baby and everything we wanted and more. She is almost easy which is a little scary for us because we never have had an easy child. We are waiting for the hammer to come down. Hopefully Heavenly Father knows that we needed a sweet little angel child.

I'm Back and Have A Smaller Stomach

Hey all you strangers,

Well I am back after a much delayed 3 months. Most of you know that I had baby Birman blessing number 4 Eliza on November 15. She is a really great baby which I prayed for since the others were all kinds of trouble. She eats, poops, pees and hardly ever cries. She sleeps most of the time and doesn't demand much attention. I think she is wonderful. However, she didn't want to come out so I had to be induced which I have decided is the way to go. The doctor broke my water, I had contractions right away and only had a few really painful ones before they gave me an epidural. After that I dilated in a couple of hours and was done. We got there at 5:30, filled out paperwork until about 6:30 and I was done at 11:58 p.m. What a good deal. Anyway here are some pictures of the kids and Eliza from Halloween and her birth. Hope you like them. Oh ya, I also graduated from college in November amongst all of this craziness after 14 years. Yeah, what a relief.

Love

Shannon

Big and Beautiful in Gilbert (not really)

Hey All,
Well I have been getting a little grief from the friends about my lack of blogs lately and the truth is that I am just plain out of funny right now. But since I feel a very strong need to please and make my awsome friends and family happy I will appease and squeeze all ounces of funny that are left in this big and beautiful body of mine out so to make you all laugh. I will start by saying that I am big. Big and beautiful this is true but big is outweighing (pardon the pun) the beautiful right now. I am measuring big at the doctors (two weeks too big) and I feel it. But the everything is bigger in Texas rule does not apply to Gilbert. I was at Chick File or however you spell it the other day and you know there are always tons of pregnant women there and I was in awe of their bigness but skininess at the same time approach. They were all thin with great hair and skin and clothes with cute little big bellies. I was sweating as usual like Ruben from American Idol with my cloth to wipe and my red face and crazy eyes. How do you cute bellies throw it all together? By the way, what is it with Chik fil e and all the Mormons? It was like mormons on parade. A little strange. Is it the no open on sundays or what cause the food is good but not that good and it is a wee bit expensive. Anyway I think the problem is that I don't feel very beautiful right now and I can't stop sweating plus I can't sleep because I can't pee in my sleep or Jimmy would get mad. So I will pose a question to you all and you can give me ideas on how to get my funniness back cause all I feel like doing lately is complaining. How do you stay cute and big and beautiful and cheerfull and funny and smart and not absentminded and on top of everything and still live in heat and humidity and a constant state of big belly jiggle? If you know then you should write a book and I will give a testimonial. Love you all and sorry for the delay.
Shannon

First Day of School Beauties

Here are my first day of school beauties. Times are good when the kids go back to school. I sometimes dream about the day when all of the kids are in school all day and I have some free time again then I wake up and realize that we will be having a newborn in November and that dream is then another 5 years away. Oh well the first day of school is still a mixed emotion day for me so I guess I am still not ready for the kids to grow up. Until then I will continue to dream.

Love ya

Shannon

Amelia is ready to go
Gabbi and Amelia already tired of their Mom's pictures

Hayden looks so excited

Livvy is ready a couple of years early

My Graduate

Finally,

The day has come after 14 years of triumphs and trials that my wonderful husband has entered the world of college graduate. With little time off he has moved on to better Masters ambitions but he took a little time off to smell the roses and pose for some graduation pictures. This will likely be the only time you will see me in any pictures until my tummy and boob tuck so savor the moment.

Love ya all

Shannon