Waiting for baby

Warning: This post is sort of Lindi overload.

BUT, who can blame me.

She was at any point not going to be the baby anymore (insert crazy, sad, crying emoji face)!

This big girl started PRESCHOOL!

Holy Moly, I remember her being in the infant car seat at 5 months old dropping Rusty off at HIS

first day of preschool!

I was worried she would be a basket case and not let go of my side.

She is off and on when it comes to new things.

Luckily she was fine and all smiles when I picked her up!

I knew the time was coming to transition her to the guest bedroom.

And spoiled princess gets a queen size bed!

Cha, I didn't get a queen size bed until I was 20!

Even then it was my PARENTS bed from 20 years ago when they were newly-weds!!

I was procrastinating the process because she slept so well in her crib.

Why change a good thing?!

We were at Target and randomly I wandered down the bedding isle.

Out of the blue I asked her if she wanted to choose a bedspread for her new big girl bed.

They had so many cute selections, and ended up with this super adorable comforter.

Of course we needed an accent pillow to match:)

I figured we would just buy it and switch beds in a month.

NOPE!

She was persistent to sleep in the bed that night!

I was secretly dying inside.

My. baby. no. longer.

I was having a harder time than her!

I checked on her a bazillion times that night.

Every time I would peek in to make sure she hadn't  fallen off the

bed she looked as sound as a bug on rug.

She sure is a sassy thang.

Always carting a baby or purse or pushing a stroller where ever she goes.

She has a fierce imagination.

All day, every day I turn to see her setting up her toys for a trip to the grocery store

or what have you.

This particular day she was on a picnic with her baby.

We have lots of cousin play dates on the days she does not have preschool.

One night while we were waiting for take-out (we had lots of that while waiting for baby to come:/),

Lindi sat and watched through the big glass window a class of girls dancing in the studio next door.

She was mesmerized.

I thought it would be a couple of years until I embraced the whole dance mom world.
I guess not.
The very next week she was enrolled in the cutest little princess dance class.

When dad is in charge of assembling dinner, you get personalized chicken pillows!

We had just finished parent teacher conference with Lanes teacher. 

While walking over to Rusty classroom, I glanced down and noticed Lindi

had mismatched sandals on!

Rock on girl.

I got a little crazy with Lindi's hair one day.

Lily decided she wanted the same do.

So they twinned it for a couple of hours.

We got a sneak peek at baby sister at my 36 week ultra sound!

I have never had a 3d picture of any of my kids.

So when the tech switched it over I was so excited to see my sweet girl

as close to real life as possible.

She was adorable, squished nose and all:)

WHY do suffering pregnant women get to have fat, swollen feet to

round up the end of their pregnancy?!

This is what my feet looked like from the time I woke up to the time I went to bed.

Goo, just goo.

What do you know, the boys do get a spotlight in this post!:)

This was to document the first day of Fall...by SWIMMING!!!

You can see a storm brewing in the background.

Instead of a nice cool breeze it brought hot humid mugginess.

Thanks Arizona.

These 2...

Rusty has been leaving Lily to play with the older boys lately.

But when they do play they are a crack up!

They spent a good 30 minutes playing with that hose.

Rusty's PE teacher at school is my cousin, so his 2nd cousisn.

Which means I get texts with pictures of him conquering the rope!

I guess this was his 2nd attempt, but he got the highest out of his whole class!

That's my boy!

Progression pics, gotta love/embrace em';)

Last half of Summer

Obviously I am grateful Lindi doesn't need to wear glasses.

But if she ever does, I wouldn't  be too sad about it!

I love when she wears her fake ones.

The bump grew tremendously over the summer!

Boy did it make it more hot and uncomfortable this year.

Both the boys were born at the end of  November.

What a difference a month can make you feel!

I never was phased by the summer heat while pregnant with them.

I was (and still are) counting down the days until either the weather cools off or I pop this kid out!!

Cant come soon enough!!

Olive was over to play and when I looked over had to chuckle.

They might as well have been born twins!

The boys did a couple of weeks at Boredom Busters.

This program is heaven sent!

For 4.5  hours every day but Friday they went to Johnson elementary.

They would do arts and crafts and play games and such.

They went with the neighborhood kids and some cousins.

Every Thursday they would bus them to Stapley to swim.

I would take Lindi and her bud Lily and meet up with them.

They thought it was the best thing ever.

I enjoyed laying in the kiddie beach entry while they entertained each other:)

The highlight was to get an orange crush soda from the vending machine to

drink while we waited for the safety check to end.

I was certainly surprised this year for my birthday!

Sunni and I have birthdays 3 days apart from each other.

Our hubs bought us tickets to see Rascal Flatts!

But these were no ordinary tickets, they were VIP tickets.

Meaning we got great seats at the concert PLUS a special pre show with Gary, Jay and Joe!

Oh, and a sweet swag bag with Rascal Flatt tumblers and ear buds:)

They were literally 10 feet away, it was crazy awesome!

They had papers for people to write questions on.

They would answer the questions then sing portions of their songs.

You got to see their different personalities that way.

Gary, the head singer is pretty funny.

Joe, on the right has a potty mouth.

Jay mentioned his wife a lot.

In fact she was there.

Makes you realize what a different life style they have.

You could see their million dollar RV's in the parking lot.

It would be fun for a month but after that, no thank you!

After our private show we slipped in to see Kelsi Ballerini perform.

I already loved her songs, but now I love them even more!

She is super cute in person.

Then the big show started!

Can we say amazing?!

I would go to their concert 10 more times.

It honestly was so cool.

All the cell phone lights swaying when they sang My Wish.

We went family camping at the end of July.

Luckily Casey came with us this year!

This girl loves but hates camping.

She hardly left my side.

 I think if she had somebody to play with she would have been more content.

But her pig tails when she woke up killed me!

I wish I had a picture of the army we had down at the shooting range!

We are definitely a gun loving family!

It was Casey's favorite time of the year again, SCHOOL SHOPPING!!:)

I told him it will only get worse when the girls start going to school.

We won't be able to get it all done at Target!

For one last Summer fling I took the kids and their friends to the LEGOLAND

Discovery Center.

I was nervous they wouldn't last long and it would be a waste of money.

The tickets weren't cheap so I warned them before we left that we were not leaving until

we had been there at least 3 hours!

Low and behold, 5 hours whizzed by and they were still having a grand ol' time!

Even Lindi loved it!

I kept getting startled by the life sized humans made out of Legos, lol!

I took the kids to Cracker Barrel for breakfast on the last day of Summer.

Then we walked around Bass Pro.

See their sad faces:(

It's always hard knowing your lazy days are over.

1st and 4th grade studs!

 I was nervous on how Rusty would be.

He did half day Kindergarten last year, so it was his first big

day of ALL day school.

It was a breeze for him!

He came home all smiles, phew!

It started pouring rain one evening.

Here is the neighborhood crew enjoying the wetness.

The best was when the bishops wife came in her suburban and would drive down the gutter spraying them with water!

It was comical.

It was my parents wedding anniversary the beginning of August.

Of course they invited all of US to Big Surf to celebrate.

It was a wonderful Saturday of fun in the sun!