Reeds

Oh My Baby!

2011-07-05T16:07:00.000-07:00

Look at this little Sweetie!

I just can't believe that 12 months ago, this is what she looked liked.

Happy Birthday Lacee Lou!

"Mommy, why do I need to open my presents, my brothers and sister do everything for me."

Look everybody-a My Little Pony!

I am thinking I should just post the cake pictures without comment...lets just say that it was my first time using fondont on a cake.

I will let you guess if it was suppose to be straight or lopsided :)

Dig in Lace!

Those were pictures of her little birthday at home on her actual birthday. Now the next pictures are from July 2nd when we had a Fourth of July party/Lacee's birthday party with Reggies fam.

Here we have yet another cake...this one is specifically for Lacee.

Ready to let all the kids help her blow out her candles on a few of her cakes(I know I know...one would have been plenty)

A little bit of cake heaven...

Can someone please get me my drink...

Yummy!

We have four of the five Reed grandchildren.

Okay...so now for the highlight of the birthday party for Lacee and Mommy.

She took her first steps...for her Mommy and Daddy! Yahoo!

Can I just say that I was completely THRILLED!

I Love that Baby!

Lace found out why the kids were having so much fun...the sprinklers. Very exciting!

Well I hope everybody had a great 4th of July weekend! We sure did!

I just want to say a few things about my little chub a lub. Lacee is a snugli bugli! She loves how loved she is! She is a very sweet little girl. We are all very grateful for her. She absolutely loves her family. She is a Daddy's girl, a Mommy's girl, a brothers girl, a sister's girl and another brother's girl. She loves to be loved and give love. She is silly and fun and sensative. I am going to guess she weighs about 20lbs. and she only has two teeth on the bottom and a bunch that have been about to come in for several months now. Happy Birthday Robin Lacee, our big ONE year old!!

Happy Birthday Kira!

2011-06-22T14:58:00.000-07:00

I realize it has been a while but here goes...

My daughter had a birthday and she is now 5!

So...Kira in a nutshell:

Yes-Kira is kissing a frog. We found this frog in our backyard and Kira immediately wanted to hold it and Cooper wanted so badly to be brave but he just could not convince himself he could make it alive-holding a frog. So Kira chased him around the yard holding the frog-her older brother-it was quite a site and Cooper was laughing too. That poor frog.

Well Kira also enjoyed kissing the frog...I wonder what her prince will end up looking like? :)

Well my little sweetie turned 5 and I just can't believe it. I simply cannot imagine my life without Beejo! She is so much fun and as Reggie says

"BIG spirit LITTLE body"

Kira is so full of life and it is wonderful!

Kira wanted a pony cake with strawberries around it...I didn't have vanilla frosting and kept forgetting so it was a crazy day...my Mother-in-law ended up getting the strawberries and ice cream and frosting right before the party(it wasn't a big deal though since it was just fam) Well anyway after some fun cake making this is what we came up with...and very quickly Reggie helped me by frosting the mane and tale and placing the strawberries(which I think he enjoyed-although Kira didn't realize it-her Daddy made sure to give the pony a strawberry dropping or two) anywho here is her "pony cake with strawberries around it" and she loved it!

Kira wanted her B-day at the park...so off we were.

some pics of the sweet little baby(poor child didn't get her hair done for Kira's big day-oh well)

Cheeseball!

Kyler and all his ness...

happy one second...

MAD the next...gotta love him!

This was funny...Cooper through one of Kira's glow in the dark bracelets on the roof of the park gazeebo and so Reggie lifted Cooper up to go and get it. When I took the picture and it flashed-Reggie thought it was police lights. BUSTED!

Happy Birthday Princess!

We Love You!

My little sweetheart is going to be in kindergarten next year-holy cow how time flies!

All summed up...sort of...

2010-11-08T23:32:00.000-08:00

Feel free to skip the book and go straight to the pics on the many posts I put up tonight.

Okay, so I think I just need to get this off my chest. This last year, mostly just the last 4 months...

have been far from the best. And I really shouldn't complain because I have all my family here happy and healthy, but I just want to get this out of me. My biggest hope is that I will just cry and cry as I write this and not sleep because of all the crying. Because nothing does more good than a good ol' cry. It is already 12:41 am and I have worked my butt of today(yesterday-whatever day it is) and I am exhausted. I don't usually go to bed this late but I have got to get this done. Please don't judge me for all of my complaining, I'm just a wimp.

Well here goes nothin'. I would like to start off saying how much I HATE hunting season! HATE, HATE, HATE it. If I really were yelling, I would feel so much better right now already.

On June 29th 2010 we welcomed a new little baby into this world and into this crazy little(and by little I mean lot's of little people) family. I couldn't have been more excited about this little doll! I was not really expecting to have a girl and yet I really wanted one so my heart just soared when I saw she was a girl. Even though she looked nothing like her siblings to me(black hair?) I loved her instantly. I have wanted so badly to say that she is a good baby, and all that matters is that whenever we go out people always say what a sweet baby she is and how she never cries. She really is a good baby and gets better every single day.

Mid August Cooper started kindergarten. I am SO glad they don't have all day kinder here because, me and him couldn't handle that. It is hard enough as it is. At the same time Cooper started kinder, Kira started preschool. Just so you know I'm not a morning person. I'm not the usual non morning person though, because I really WANT to be a morning person, but I'm just NOT. It is SO hard for me to get up and out of bed in the morning. Morning is such a beautiful time and I would love to wake up about an hour before my kids do, that would be wonderful. But again-I CAN'T. I wait and wait until children are jumping on me for a while or crying for a bit. I don't just get out of bed(with the exception of a brand new baby-meaning like the first month). Well we now have schedules to keep-EVERY DAY. I realize I'm getting NO sympathy from all the moms out there with kids in school, and that's okay.

With Reggie's hunting he claims "it's only one weekend." PAH!! Sorry pal, you are NOT fooling me. First it's getting the gun ready, which means endless trips to go shoot his gun(sometimes we go, and sometimes it's exhausting, trying to keep ear muffs on everyone). And along with that he's off to his parents house making his bullets. Next he has to go scouting so he goes here and there. He's on the computer and on the phone, talking about 'hunting this and hunting that'. And then comes the week before the hunt when he has to work extra hard and long to make sure everything is taken care of while he's gone. And then there is the weekend or day before the hunt when it takes him FOREVER to pack up ALL his stuff. Doesn't this all sound so exhausting, to some of you this is just normal. It's normal to me but I still HATE it.

Reggie has gone elk hunting this Sept. and deer hunting this Oct., I just had a new baby, my 4th nonetheless. My kids started school and my poor baby is always hungry when I am hurrying like a mad woman trying to get Cooper out the door. I was doing some all day babysitting for someone who really needed it, and I think I also needed to do something for somebody else so I wasn't just having my own pity party, so it was probably a huge blessing.

With all my babies I have not been able to nurse them. I just don't have the milk supply I guess. I dang site don't go with out giving it my all though. I have tried teas and rest(that one didn't work so well ;) and different herbs and you name it. No matter what I do I have had to supplement with formula every time. (I would like to note that I am endlessly grateful to Katie and Sara who have always showed me 100% support and always made me feel good for the effort). Because no matter how many babies I have that I can't nurse, I always go into it saying I am going to nurse my babies. It seems like around 4 months they all just want to be done nursing all together and despite my stubbornness and the fact that they seem to love it, I lose every time. I really wanted to go until at least 5 mo and maybe longer and I knew I was going to. Hahaha, I fooled myself. 4th time around and I should have known better, but again dissapointment followed as almost instantly I was done. Well I made it 4 months, but that's all. But I'm glad I gave it my all. It is really sad for me sometimes, when I see people nurse their babies. And sometimes things will make me feel bad. Even though I know I can't help it, it is still really hard to know that I can't do what I am made to do as a Mother to my children and a Daughter of God. And then there is the regret I feel for carrying it on so long when part of me knew it wouldn't last. The stubborn part of me kept it going at times. Because I look back at how stressed out I was because ALL of my kids were feeling at least a small degree of neglect as I spent so much time feeding the baby. Even the baby got a certain amount of neglect because of it. But now, even though I am very sad to let that part of it go, I am starting to feel free. I feel like the chains are starting to be lifted but they were memory and a part of me. My kids, hubby and house are all feeling much more loved. It's just too bad I chose stubbornness over the feeling of love. If I were to repeat it, I would still do it all over again. My stubbornness must run really deeply.

Okay we're doing good, I am able to get out a few tears :) Let's recap, shall we...New baby, absent husband, neglected kids, crazy mommy, new never before heard of schedule ;) and to top it all off I am the WORST visiting teacher EVER! But I'm going to work on that.

It is important that I get out of bed no later than 7am (not that I do)

Feed kiddos,baby, then me(life of a Mommy, right?). Get some dishes done, everybody dressed(doesn't always happen). Cooper has to eat lunch at no later than 10:30am because he takes forever to eat. All the meanwhile Lacee is grumpy about 90% of the time during this little lunch time. We jump in the car to take him to the bus stop which was coming at 11:05-11:15 until (after we missed the bus for about a week) now it comes at 11am and takes off right away. Very frustrating for everyone involved. His school starts at 11:35am, so if I miss the bus I usually have to run home and quickly change a poopy diaper(morning seems to the magical time) or throw on some makeup(because I'm just a baby about that). On Tues. and Thurs. Kira has preschool from noon till 2pm. I p/u Kira at 2 and then p/u Cooper at 2:15pm What a day. On Wed. for a few weeks I had an extra kindergartener whom was in morning kinder and a preschooler and then a 1st grader after school. I am SO grateful that these kids are just absolute angels. Well all the meanwhile we(meaning I) have been doing an investment that has been a crazy roller coaster to say the least, and my hubby is mister busy man himself.

We have been out of town way too much with everything else going on. I really should have NOT gone anywhere for the first few months, but instead I have taken several trips w/ out a hubby, and like one and a half with him. Holy cow, this chic has no right to complain, she has brought it all on herself! I know, I'm thinking the same thing :)

I really missed Reggie's company and it doesn't help that when he is around he is a huge help most of the time. Just so you know I don't usually have such a problem with Reggie's hunt, or have the need to complain so much, but things have been much different, because he's never gone so much and I have 4 little kids one being a new baby, and now i have school. I love my family, each and everyone.

I bet you thought I was joking about the book:) Well I think it's time for me to wrap it up by counting my blessings...

All this complaining has kind of helped me realize how I just need to count my blessing because they are MANY!

I love my family

My family loves me

My hubby is done hunting now

I have the holidays to look forward to

I can't wait to see Sara(although she will be VERY wrapped up in her hubby), and Katie's house, and Kasiah, and my Grandma's

My kiddos are healthy

My hubby is healthy

I am healthy

Reggie has a job

We have a roof over our heads

We have food on the table

I have the cutest, sweetest, funnest bunch of kids ever

My baby is a great sleeper most of the time(unlike me in the moment)

I get to stay at home with me kids all day everyday and it truly is my dream job

I am glad not to be mad and bitter at Reggie anymore for all this hunting

I really am glad the hunting is behind us right now

I am very glad to be surrounded by the best family and friends ever

I am very grateful to be a mommy

I am very grateful for my parents

I am very grateful that I will have a warm place to be during the winter months

I am very grateful for Reggie for waking up in a freezing cold house and starting a fire so that his family can be warm everyday

I am very excited that they are putting the ditch that runs along our property underground.

I love my sweet little baby and I'm glad I get to see her and touch her and hear her little voice and even smell her yucky spit up

I love to watch me kids play together so much

I love to feel the love that exists in my home

I have the knowledge of the Gospel

I know my Family can live together forever

I know my Heavenly Father is looking out for me

I know my Savior Lives and loves me

I am grateful to know there is a True and living Prophet on the earth today

I am so glad my husband is a worthy Priesthood holder and that we can look forward to someday serving a mission together for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Now that hunting is over and I have a little more time since I am not constantly feeding my baby, I really hope I can have a much better attitude, that is all I really want right now :)

Enjoy the catch up from the last few months, it is now 2:15am and it is well past my bedtime. *Goodnight*

Reg's hunt!

2010-11-08T23:20:00.000-08:00

Reggie went deer hunting in Oct.

This pic is the tarantula he saw while out and about. I'm sorry I wasn't there to hear him squeal like a school girl. He HATES spiders. When we first got married I had to kill the spiders. But I'm a mean wife and eventually told him to just get over it and he now does the job.

Although he isn't a creepy crawly lover, he does love the outdoors. He just got this deer while out hunting and he will usually just butcher it and freeze it, and it's a main source of food around here, but this time we turned a LOT of it into jerky and it is delish! He's now ready to take all our game meat out of the freezer and jerky it up! Yeah for me! I love BEEF! Not to mention our freezer is busting at the seems! Even Kira who literally takes about 10 min to chew a tiny piece of meat gobbled up a piece of jerky in no time(at least we now know it's possible).

Good job Honey! And thank heavens your done!(At least for this year)

Happy Halloween! Oct. 30th

2010-11-04T15:59:00.000-07:00

A little bit of pumpkin carving and painting that Cooper has been BEGGING us to do!

Someday Reggie and I will stop embarrassing ourselves at our ward trunk n' treat. We are of a small handfull of people who dress up, and it's not like either one of us are outgoing at all so I think we really surprise people. I actually had a wig too but it was getting in my food so I ripped it off(Reggie was VERY jealous). Every year I pretend like I know Reggie will dress up but I doubt it every year. He always surprises me!!

Cooper was all ready to be a cowboy until the day before halloween somebody told him "You don't want to be a cowboy, you're a cowboy every day." Thanks alot Nate! I'm just kidding- it is pretty funny but only because we had a back up costume (Sorry I haven't given it back yet KT) Well anyway, Cooper changed his mind Sat. afternoon :) So Cooper was Peter Pan, Kira was not just your ordinary witch, she was a Rockin' Star Witch!! Kyler was a clown(we probably should have let him dress up also ;). And my little Lacee Lou was a Bunny!

I HOPE EVERYBODY HAD A FUN HALLOWEEN!!

Happy Birthday Cooper! Oct 16th

2010-11-04T15:55:00.000-07:00

For Coopers Birthday, we gave him a choice-either we go camping or we just a little birthday at home where G & G Reed come over. And he said he wanted his party at G & G Reeds, well that was not one of the choices, but what the heck-it's not my b-day. Well he also wanted Grandma Reed to help him make his cake. Wow, talk about me getting off easy. I don't have to clean my house or make a cake!! I'm so spoiled!

Uncle Wade with Lacee.

Kyler man really wanting that thing to GO!

Wade is such an awesome uncle! My kids LOVE him!

Reggie get's the fun job...

This is our fun little water balloon fight with Reg's family...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIDDO!! I SURE LOVE YOU!

You are an awesome big brother to your siblings! You have such a BIG heart! And I love how much you look up to your Daddy, I hope you always do. Keep livin' life with that adorable -sorry-Handsome smile of yours!

And I can't believe you are 6!!!!

A little bit of Lacee...

2010-11-04T15:28:00.000-07:00

LOTS of PICS

BATH TIME! Look at all that DARK hair!

She is LOADS of fun!

My little burrito while we were out camping.

Don't worry Lacee-you will get used to Daddy. You'll probably beg for more. He'll never change or probably grow up(he is after all a boy) he will tease you for the rest of your life:)

My FAV! What a sweetie!

Only the mean mama would let a baby cry and take a picture instead of picking them up and loving them. Don't worry Lacee you get used to me too. I Love You!

That's my little Angel, my little bundle of Joy.

Feel the Baby Love!

2010-11-04T15:19:00.000-07:00

Mommy loves baby!

Kyler loves Baby!

Kira loves Baby!

Kyler loves Baby again!

and again.

Daddy loves Baby!

Getting ready for Church.

Cooper loves Baby!

Kyler still loves baby!

And these two fight like the dickens' but they love each other too.

So just in case you didn't know-Lacee is very loved, but especially by Kyler. All he EVER wants is Baby...hold babies hand, sit on baby, hug baby, snuggle with baby, sit by baby, lay by baby, kiss baby, hold baby, protect baby, put hand over babies mouth(aaahhhh!!), love baby...it goes on and on. I have never seen a little kid love on a baby so much ever! At least she is loved...

My little weed!

2010-11-03T21:21:00.000-07:00

1 month old

2 months old

3 months old

4 months old

Family Fun!

2010-11-03T20:16:00.000-07:00

One of our recent camping trips...

Just going out shooting...

What good is a puddle unless you're IN IT!!

This is a little tiny picture of Mothers and Daughters.

We don't usually hear about activities going on in town or we forget, but the firehouse was having some hot dogs and fun (which Cooper absolutely INSISTED we go to). When he learned of it at school, I honestly don't think he thought there was option involved-WE were going!

Cooper practicing putting out fires, haha it's a good thing he's learning to put them out instead of start them!;) After all it's in his genes! Sorry Brian(I guess Brendan also).

Kira too!

Kyler in the fire truck, wanting me to close the door.

The helicopter-a definite favorite for all!

Lacee has all the fun :)

Cluff family outing! Oct 19th

2010-11-03T20:06:00.000-07:00

We went on a nice little trip and stayed in Greer. We were able to spend some time with my family at different intervals. We weren't all there at the same time but it was fun for me to get to see everybody!

Eden, Cooper, Ayden, Kira, Kyler

Ayden, Cooper

Kira, Kyler

Eden caught a fish in her net and got Cooper very excited about using the net. We went back a couple days later and they both caught many, even Reggie and I did (it was really fun). Eden is growing up so fast!

Lacee's excitement was spent sleeping

Grandma and Grandpa Cluff soakin up all the fun

Charlotte Marie Cluff and Robin Lacee Reed

Brian and Marie's adorable baby girl goes by Charley but her name is Charlotte. Charley and Lacee are only 3mo. apart.

Kyler and his cousin Carsten

Poor Kira-a diamond in the rough. It's a good thing she can hold her own!

My sis-in-law Katie having way to much fun. Sorry the pic is not upright.

My very talented niece Kiley made this awesome jewelry!

School kids! Aug 10th & 11th

2010-11-03T20:02:00.000-07:00

Kira started preschool on Tuesday...

Kira has Preschool on Tues and Thurs from 12pm-2pm and she loves it!

Cooper started Kindergarten on Wednesday, the day after Kira. He rides the bus(which I wish he didn't but oh well) @ 11am, his school starts at 11:35am and he is done at 2:15pm when I pick him up.

At Kindergarten orientation Cooper was playing with the wheel on the hamster cage. He spun it until it flipped off and rolled on the ground. It scared him SO bad, and I'm sure he thought he was in so much trouble because he looked terrified(probably mostly embarrassment) and just grabbed my leg and burried his face. It broke my heart and I just wanted to cry for him. He was crying softly and said "I wanna go home!" "Let's go!" He calmed down and forgot all about it within just 5 minutes. I was sure that this school year was going to be very long, but instead he has gone to school just fine and loves it. He has had his moments and sometimes just wants to be with Mommy at home all day(that happened about 2 different times-after very long days), but he just needs a little extra sleep. He has been a little whiny lately and I have been terrible about getting him to bed early. He is such a great kid and loves his Teacher- Mrs. Tanner.

Blessing Day! Aug 1st

2010-11-03T19:55:00.000-07:00

Lacee was Blessed by her Daddy on August 1st 2010.

My niece Eden with Lacee

My niece Kiley with Lacee

My Mom with Lacee

Grandma and Grandpa Cluff with Lacee

My precious little Angel

Happy Birthday Kyler and Pioneer Day!

2010-07-25T15:44:00.000-07:00

Lucky little Kyler kid gets to have a parade and fireworks for his Birthday!

Kira was very sweet about sharing her sucker, she even went to the group of people(whom we didn't know) and offered to share her sucker with another little girl. (I did stop her:)

Kyler turned 2 yrs old on Pioneer Day and had a great B-day!

We had a little fun with sparklers! Cooper was a little scared of them(haha poor kid)!

A little about Kyler:

Kyler has always been a VERY tender hearted little guy, but lately he's been pretty tough and he really likes to SCREEEEEAAM! He is my 3rd red headed temper filled child and then some! He LOVES LOVES LOVES his little baby sister! He in fact loves his whole family very much. He carries around his little green froggy and calls it baby(good thing he has his own baby or Lacee might never be rid of him). He calls Reggie "HI" and use to call Lacee "HI". What a goof-ball. I love this little boy, he is A+Awesome! I Love You Kyler!!!

boy or girl...

2010-07-08T16:46:00.001-07:00

We had an adorable baby GIRL last week!

This is the me that I don't really miss...the big, restless, tired and uncomfortable me.

This picture was taken 5 days after my due date and 2 days before having my little sweetheart.

Well I'll TRY to sum up the story...

I was never so done being pregnant in my life. When I had my other babies I was ready-but this time around-I was beyond ready. I was starting to get OVER emotional BEFORE my due date even came around. I was trying not to be induced but knew I couldn't go on forever. The day before my due date I was really hoping for some change or progress of some kind, and when my Dr. checked and there was NOTHING, I went into a short depression and left the Dr. office in tears(what a ball baby I am ). I had to go in to do a stress test every three days after the due date (talk about stressful). Well finally, 6 days after my due date I surrendered and they put me on the schedule for the next morning at the hospital to be induced.

Monday night: drop kids off with G & G Reed

Tuesday morning: arrive at hospital at 7am (or maybe a little after)

approximate times...

8-9am: I get antibiotics-yeah for penicillin!-(or NOT)

9-10am: I get the pit-yeah for pitocin!-(again-or NOT)

10am-12pm: Contractions are getting more intense :) (or NOT)p.s.-I am a BIG baby with pain.

12:30pm: Waiting for my Dr. to come and break my water because THEN I get the HAPPY MEDICINE-aka the epidural.

1-1:30pm: Me really wanting the epidural and still no Dr., so-they got me my epidural.

1:30-2pm: Dr. broke my water

2:30-3pm: ME: "Nurse could you check me please, I feel some pressure"

Nurse: "I better call your Dr. and tell him that by the time he gets here we'll be having a baby"

about 3pm: Dr. comes and says something funny. I laughed. Dr. joked about laughing the baby out. I laughed more. It was time to push and my Dr. said laugh. I laughed. He said stop. I laughed more. Remember: I had HAPPY MEDICINE

3:09pm: Little baby girl is born. I laughed my daughter into this world-kinda funny.

We named her after my mom. My moms name is Robin. Reggie and I both agreed how great it would be to name her after someone she'll know, not to mention naming her after someone so great. My mother is a Saint, she is amazing. We are calling her by her middle name.

Robin Lacee

She needed a little oxygen when she was born, nothing major. That tube with the green end is just helping her out with some oxygen.

Reggie called to tell the kids if it was a boy or girl and Kira told Reggie over the phone that it was a girl! She knew it! She is very excited to have a little sister. Kyler loves the little baby but doesn't seem to concern himself too much with her. Cooper is probably the most excited little boy ever. He could hardly wait to see her in the hospital, and he just lit up. The kids can't seem to remember her name yet and I call her cutie pie or sweetie pie sometimes and today Cooper said "Where's cutie-pie?" as if it's her name. It was pretty adorable. Kira calls her "my baby sister" and Kyler says "Baby". All 3 of them think that thing on her belly is REALLY gross.

Sweet dreams sweetie-pie!

Well she was my biggest baby weighing in at 8 lbs. 2 oz. And she was the 4th baby in this family to be born at 21 inches. But she was definitely the first baby with out red hair. I don't think you can see the hair color in these pictures, but she has BLACK hair. That totally threw me for a loop, but I LOVE it! Her black hair is gorgeous, and I'm not sure if it will fall out and grow in blonde or if it will stay black, but either way I'm pretty sure she won't be a red-head. Cooper was the only one who guessed she would have black hair. Well thats the story, I said I would TRY and sum it up not that I actually would :)

Happy Birthday Kira!!

2010-06-18T12:38:00.000-07:00

Well my little girl turned 4 yrs old last Monday. Although it seems like she was already four, it's still crazy that she actually is 4 now! She has been saying Happy Birthday every night for months now (she is a VERY silly little girl) and still is.

Reggie was working in the area and swung in to take Kira out for lunch. It was really sweet to see Kira's Daddy want to do something special with her. They have a very cute relationship.

I guess this is Kira's first real date :)

This is a cute picture of Kyler chowing on some birthday cake.

We had Kira's party at the park, but Reggie got home so late that it was almost dark ( oh the poor girl was so anxious to get to the park-it was a very interesting evening to say the least-just trying to get there). But once we got there Kira had a blast with her presents and wondering around the playground in the dark.

She got a bike which she was thrilled about(and Cooper even more so). Thus far Cooper has ridden it more than Kira.

Isn't she such a cutie!

So we got a free cake from Bashas for her birthday but Kira wanted cupcakes. I tried(and half failed) making cupcakes in a cone. Should have been super cute but ended up being super cute melted ice cream cake cones. Well anyway her Bashas cake which I still got for her, fell on the park bench (you know how toast always falls to the ground butter side down-well cakes fall frosting side down ;) Okay, I have to say that it was just another thing to top it all off, but none the less, I thought it was hilarious.

She loved helping me make her cupcakes and she wanted pink yellow and blue frosting, so that is just what we did!

Well Kira, I hope you know how special you are because you really are! You really are easy to please and you love to be silly and make everyone happy! You show your affection very often by hitting people-especially Daddy. You have to be looked at when talking or you think you aren't being listened to (sorry you get that from your Mommy) You are very care free and wild at the same time. You are a great big sister and a fun little sister. We are very lucky to have you in our family.

Love Mommy

p.s. I'm glad you finally came to terms with being 4. I know how bad you want to be 5. Next year you will be, but for now-don't grow up too fast.

A trip to the valley!

2010-02-22T13:15:00.000-08:00

Last month(Feb.) we made a trip to the valley so Reggie could get his plumbing license (long story). Well we stayed with my brother and sis-in-law and had a blast. While Reggie was doing the whole study and test taking thing, me and the kids hung out at the house or went into town for some city life.

NIGHT 1:One of the nights I was there I got to catch a glimpse of their Bunco night and I actually WON-yeah, so what if it was winning the losing spot right?! :) I ended up with the least amount of points but it was lot's of fun. Reggie had to take the kids out for dinner and come back at bedtime and it was very sweet of him to not only leave the premises but to also not complain at all.

NIGHT 3: The next night we had dinner with some friends, Jake and Kristen. Then we had to race off so me, Katie and Marie(my sis-in-laws) could go to the movies which was so fun to just hang out, we ended up just chillin after the movie for a while. I love just hangin out with the girls.

DAY 1:The days were pretty busy, the first day was hangin out at Katie's and helping her prep for Bunco night since it was her turn to host. DAY 2:The second day was a shopping day, so I went into town and met Marie at Savers (one of my favorite places-now the secret is out and you all know I buy second hand clothes :) When we left the store Marie hung out to make sure this weird guy talking to me and standing a little too close to my car didn't do anything crazy and then we were off. I went to pick up Reggie for a lunch break and Marie and Ayden went to pick up Brian(my brother) and we all met up at the mall for some lunch before Brian and Marie had to race off to take Brian to school. I then took Reggie back to his class and went off the Hobby Lobby(yet another one of my FAVORITE places). Reggie calls it Happy Hobby(I think he has to rename absolutely everything in my world, just to drive me crazy-he is such a TEASE!) -What a goof, but I Love him!

DAY 3: Well on Thursday I took my kids to the dinosaur museum which was so much fun! The official name is the Arizona Museum of Natural History. I was so excited to take my kids out and do something for them. When they are older maybe we will learn a little more than the numbers on the elevator :). Friday we packed up and took Reggie to take his test(which he did GREAT on) and while he was test taking me and the kids were going to take a quick jont(so I thought) to return something to Hobby Lobby. Well I thought the Hobby Lobby was only like 10-15 min away but it ended being 30 min. So by the time me and the 3 little ones get there and then get out and return my item then make it to the restroom(oh my gosh I was so done with bathroom trips and kids in the valley-EXHAUSTING) I had almost no time to browse-although it was just enough to buy a few more little things:) NIGHT 4:Then back to get Reggie, then another store for me and one for him and we were off to eat dinner at some friends house. Justin and Ginger took good care of us and I was glad to see their new house-which is adorable. They even donated some p.j.'s to us since everything was dirty and we didn't know where in the car it was. Let me just say that Cooper is in love with his new spider-man p.j.'s and Kira now loves Hannah Montana only because that is who is on her shirt! We headed out pretty late and I of course fell asleep on the way home (which is always better when Reggie is driving and it's late-because he is NO slow driver at those times).

This is a picture of Reggie taking Kira for a ride on Brendan and Katie's goofy little go-cart thing.

And a picture with Cooper. Kyler got a ride too but I didn't get a snapshot. I also went on the very bumpy but really fun little go-cart, but I wasn't brave enough to take the kids with me.

Brendan and Katie moved not too long ago, but their place sure seems to have gotten it together really fast on the inside and outside. Although if we are comparing - our place after almost 6 years still has no fence or grass :( - But that will soon change :)

The rest of these pictures are from our dinosaur museum trip.

In this pic they are sitting in front of a real fossil(I tried to teach them the meaning of a fossil but there is just too much to see to be able to hear(at least hear Mommy anyway).

This turtle was out in the open so I am assuming it was ok for her to sit on :)

Our huge dinosaur puzzle that took Mommy quite some time to figure out how to put back together (much easier once I realized it was double sided and some of the pieces were upside down)-I know, I'm such a blonde sometimes. This is also when I let the tiger off his leash(I let Kyler run around for a bit) and he was too busy so I had to introduce some tootsie rolls to him when I forced him back to the stroller.

Nothin' like a little candy bribe.

The dark glow in the dark room where you can draw on the walls.

My kids got to star in an old Western!

Okay, so I tried getting a picture of Kira in one of these old prison cells and just as I was getting the door closed on her, Cooper went into the next cell over and started closing his door. The door made a VERY LOUD sound that startled Kira so bad she was instant tears and screams. She ran out in a panic and just wanted to hug me forever. It was really sad. Pretty much heart breaking since Kira is my little tough girl.

They are suppose to be panning for gold but instead we just played in the water for a little break outside.

Yeah! Kyler finally got in on the action-we was so happy to be free!

This here is Manny's uncle!

Please tell me you know who Manny is.

Well that's it for our trip to the museum. The kids had a blast, I have to thank Katie for letting me borrow her sit and stand stroller. The kids were really good-the museum wasn't busy at all. We just wandered around making it to the elevator like 8 times. I'm really glad I got to go share some time with the kids!

Long post...I know.

Happy Birthday Mom!

2010-02-05T10:05:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday to my Sweet and Wonderful Mother!!

This picture was from my High School days. My Mom and I took some last minute shots at the mall.

Hey Mom-this is our newcomer. These are some adorable pictures from our ultra sound 2 days ago. This little baby already looks like a little Reed baby :) I can't believe how well you can see the baby with a 3-D ultra sound. We ended up having the ultra sound but still didn't find out the gender of the baby. So it will be a Delivery room SURPRISE!!

For my Moms birthday she asked all of her children to do something special as a family or something a little different that we would normally do. So we decided to visit my Grandpa, Paul Lincoln Goodman at the Taylor cemetary.

We then went to the Snowflake Cemetary and paid a visit to Reggie's Grandpartents, Don and Thelma Brinkerhoff.

I am really glad we finally were able to go and say hello to my Grandpa. He died before I was born but I know he was a great man.

Well Happy Birthday Mom, we Love You!!

A Merry little December!

2010-01-18T13:27:00.000-08:00

This picture actually belongs at the bottom of this post but when I was typing I realized it was gone-and it just HAS to be on here.

This is a picture of Cooper and his cousin Gaige. They had a blast being pulled by the quad.

These two youngsters are gonna be some trouble makers when they are older. Hopefully sweet ones though. :)

My kids were so excited to sit on Santa's lap. Cooper was especially excited about Santa.

Kira wondered around and would NOT wait in line. She is just so busy that after about 30seconds of waiting in line she just can't do it any longer. I think I got her to stand in line about 10 different times (not joking) before I finally gave up and decided we would pretty much be the last ones to leave the building. So she was one of the last ones to sit on Santa's lap, but she loved every bit of it.

Kyler also wanted nothing to do with sitting still and didn't have ANY desire to sit with Santa.

This is our attempt to a family picture. The first set was all very blurry and out of the second set Cooper was sticking his tongue up in the air on every single picture except this one.

This was a practice shot by Reggie while I was still getting ready since it was right before church. I love it-very funny!

This is our Christmas Eve party at Reggie's parents house. We always do a white elephant gift exchange with the Reeds and Grandma gave the kids their gifts also. They were very excited.

Kyler is probably in love with his toy more than anybody else. I have never seen any of my children take to soft things as much as this little guy has taken to this froggy and another soft blanket we have. But this froggy has got to be his favorite thing that he takes to bed and wants it when he gets up, it's too cute!

It was love at first froggy!

Here is the start of our Christmas. This is definitely Kylers favorite toy. We couldn't even get him to hardly open anything else. We finally just took one of the toys and decided to wait until his birthday to bring it back out.

Kira loves to work with her hands and loves to be a little artist so this easel with dry erase and chalk board is perfect for her!

Cooper has been wanting a remote control truck for a very long time. He was very excited to see that Santa brought him one this Christmas.

The one awesome thing about Christmas with other siblings is that you get (in our case) 3 times the toys. They are having a blast playing with each others toys!

Kira in her new tent practicing brushing her teeth with her new Dora toothbrush.

Christmas so much fun this year and also very busy! Christmas morning after opening some presents and snacking on some yummy Christmas breads. We went to Grandma and Grandpa Reeds house for breakfast, if that is what you want to call it. We ate after 11am that morning. But it was delicious. After eating we raced home to pack and then drove to Pima to spend some Christmas time with my family. We had a really fun and exhausting weekend. I never went to sleep before 1am or later. Christmas night we opened presents from Grandma and Grandpa Cluff for the kids and the grand kids. It was very exciting!

The next day the family was going up the West end of Mt. Graham for some fun in the snow. I wasn't going to go because I figured it would be too much work with the little ones, so I told my brother that I would go if Mom and Dad went. Well I knew my parents weren't going. Hahaha-They DID go. Yeah, I couldn't believe they talked my Dad into going. He probably went because if me and my kids stayed, he wouldn't have peace :) Sorry Dad. Well I was glad I went because we were all able to go(it's not very often that the boys invite the girls along to have some fun). Cooper is a little snow junkie and we bundled Kira up so she wouldn't have a reason to be grumpy.

That night we had yet another white elephant gift exchange that was fun and I was sad to see my sister leave because I hardly got to see her while we were there. But I loved the excitement of the weekend and now we're just back to our semi-busy/dull lives ;)

This is all Kyler wanted to do while playing in the snow, was ride the quad with Daddy.

Uncle Brendan took Kira down on the tube. What a nice uncle.

Grandpa was making sure everyone was comfortable. He is showing Cooper how to warm up his hands.

My niece, Eden took good care of Kira on the tube, while they were pulled behind the quad by Reggie. Kira would just close her eyes and lay there on Eden. So cute!

My MOTHER went down on the tube with Kira. Let me just say that I am very impressed. My Mom just wanted to be a kid again. You see the leaves they are coming up on in the picture. They actually hit it and crashed. Kind of funny since nobody got hurt:) Oh my sweet fun Mother. Kira loved it.

If Kyler wasn't crying to be on the quad then he was off walking in the snow. He was a pretty happy little sport while we were out in the snow.

I tell you what-this little boy is do dang adorable!

Ok-so one of the highlights of my weekend was that I got a new hair cute and some highlights! I was in dire need of a new do. It ended up SO cute. My SIL Marie is awesome. I won a free haircut by Marie when we were playing the white elephant game. I even stole it from my Mom(sorry Mom). Well anyway-I'm sorry I have no pics, I'll have to work on that one. Anywho-Thanks again Marie!

Are we crazy?---YES!!!

2010-01-11T11:44:00.001-08:00

Well-I realize some of you know-and some of you don't, others of you probably wonder why I have gained a little extra weight in the mid-section! Well we are expecting baby #4-holy cow, how did that happen?! ;) We are only half nervous but also excited! Oh but it gets funnier-we really actually planned this! Well I just hope all goes well, so far we have had good pregnancies and child-birthing experience(I mean as good as giving birth could be). Other than being sick-and let's just say I am EXTREMELY happy to be beyond the first few months. I was a little hesitant to tell anyone right away-and basically didn't tell hardly anyone up to this point(unless you guessed it). I am still just a tad bit sick on and off which never happens to me past three months, but all in all I feel grateful to be feeling MUCH better. Other than peeing TONZ and being tired(I'm not sure if that is from being pregnant or just being a mother of 3 and maker of 1). I am due around the 22nd of June. We are planning and hoping on not having any ultrasound so we probably won't be finding out what the baby is until it comes on out! Kind of bummed and also pretty excited not to find out. I am growing like a balloon! Well-that's my news for the day!

Halloween, snow & hunting

2009-11-13T11:38:00.000-08:00

This post is kind of in backwards order but oh well!

The night before halloween we ate some weird food.

Booberry brew with a hand.

We invited Reggies brother and his wife and baby over and I am pretty sure that the halloween food scared them into never wanting to eat at our house again ;)

We went to the trunk n treat. And then went trick or treating to a few houses. It was actually our kids' first time to knock on doors, even if it was only like 3 or 4. But it was freezing and they were tired. All in all we had a great time for halloween!

Cooper was a police officer.

Kira was a kitty cat.

Kyler was a bear.

We actually had snow BEFORE halloween this year which was lot's of fun.

Poor Kyler got one little touch of the snow and then I brought him back inside. He was NOT happy about leaving the cool white world.

Some time at the pumpkin patch. I love taking the kids to pick out a pumpkin at the pumpkin patch.

Reggie is having a fun hunting year. He started out with a bear hunt,

And then had a deer hunt. Reggie had a great time and I look forward to hunting season being closed, this time around. Usually I am very productive and we skip cooking dinner for the most part and all in all it's no so bad even enjoyable at times, but this time around I was just a grouch!(before, during and after)

Well that's about it for October.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY COWBOY!

2009-10-21T22:36:00.000-07:00

Cooper is now a BIG 5 year old!

Coopers birthday was last weekend and on Saturday he got to experience his first birthday PARTY! I went threw a list of themes with him: cars, batman, spiderman, robots, monters, halloween, etc. He chose COWBOY. He was extatic about it.

The kids each took a turn on the horse!

Reggie showed em how to rope the tricycle! That was funny and cute!

This is our birthday crowd! I went WAY overboard(but it was his 1st birthday party) O.K. so I went overboard more for me than Cooper. The kids each went away with their own dollar store cowboy/cowgirl hat, a bandana, and few other little party favors. Next year I will try to keep it cheap. (I would totally be happy if we just had the birthday party like always(just with the family) but it was a blast with the kids. All the kids were great and I hope they had fun. I know Cooper and Kira did.

I found this online-it was fairly easy except I had to improvise (it was suppose to be an 8-inch round and a 9inch square). I only had a 9inch round and 8inch square. But all in all. I made Reggie sit there and babysit me while I cut the cake because I was so scared of messing it up. His patience was very short at 10pm-poor guy. Well the horse is suppose to be brown but Cooper really wanted a blue cake because "blue is my favorite color" he says. Aaah cute kid!

Dear Cooper,

You are one heck of a kid! You are a big helper and love to work with Mom and Dad(as long as you don't have to clean your toys up). Daddy loves to know your always right there behind him. You want to be your Daddy, look like your Daddy, sit like your Daddy, put your boots by Daddy's boots! Yet you still LOVE your Mommy! You tell her she is beautiful, and on Sunday you always call Kira and Mommy princesses. You are a charmer and a very smart kid. You can be very serious and straight forward having a hard time with Daddy's teasing but once we tell you he's teasing you are a good sport. You love Kira and Kyler. Kyler looks up to you so much already and thinks you are awesome. You love to love Kyler. You love to play with Kira and it takes up about 90% of your day. You live to wrestle with Daddy. You want to be obedient when you want to be obedient. You love to run. You are a happy positive boy who wants everybody to be happy. You always want to play games(I'm sorry we don't play more). Life or as you call it "the car game" is the game you always beg to play. You like to get dinosaur books from the library, and everywhere you go everybody wants to know you better. Even though you like to be a stinker at times I am glad you are my son and that I get to spend so much time with you. Please don't ever stop flashing your cute cheesy smile at me, and don't stop randomly telling me in such a cute voice "I love you Mommy."
I love you Cooper Lon!!

You are a GREAT kid!!!

I realize I have been a huge slacker about blogging-I'll try to do better :)

Nice people and Guardian Angel

2009-08-14T22:51:00.000-07:00

Guardian Angels

So last Sunday...just a few minutes after I get out of the shower, and while Reggie is laying on the bed reading his missionary journal, we hear this really loud CRASH and the sound of glass SHATTERING. So we run to the scene and the kids are crying. We found Kira and Kyler under this (I don't even know what to call it) hutch(is what we call it) that is actually is suppose to go on the sides of the entertainment center but we chose to put it somewhere else instead. Anywho...over on the left hand side Kylers legs were under it and Kira's entire body had been landed on. Cooper...let's see where was Cooper...oh yeah he ran away as soon as it happened...he didn't want to get in trouble. Well after talking to Cooper we found out that he was trying to open the top door and that was when it fell over-on TOP of my babies. Well when we went to get the kids, I picked it up to pull them out and ended up rolling it on top of them, before actually getting it off of them. Well guess what, other than a few tears and a scary experience-NOTHING happened to any of them. Not a single scratch, or cut or bruise. We are very lucky and thank our Guardian Angels. Kyler just hugged me and didn't want to let go. I felt extremely foolish for never bolting the darn thing-because I KNEW it was NOT stable.

NICE OR MEAN?

So are people in the world mean or nice? Think about it-do you think people are nice? Well I think that over all, people are very nice!

Reggie and I took the kids bowling tonight and on the way home I ran in to Walmart really quick. I just needed milk, but a few things got forgotten at our last grocery trip so I decided to get a few things. Reggie jokingly warned me that if I wasn't back in 20 min. he was going to leave me. I have no watch and no cell phone-so therefore have NO time.

Well, there I am checking out-all I have in my pocket is $70 and I'm pretty sure all I have is $50 worth of food so I wait and then see the total- $110! I was like REALLY embarrassed and was frantically looking in my bags trying to take things out so the people behind me don't get irritated. They asked myself and the cashier how short I was and I mumbled while searching my bags-"like $30 or $40" So now I am really worried about upsetting the people behind me because I mean come on, what would you be thinking? "Yeah good luck getting rid of $30-$40 worth of food" Okay so in the quick second that I was judging the people behind me and after I got the bill down to $83 they asked again "How much are you short?" They then told the cashier that they would take care of the rest! OH MY HEAVENS! Are people really that nice. You know they never even ONCE seemed grumpy or irritated at me taking FOREVER. I tell them "You don't need to do this, really! I have the money it's just not with me, really it's fine! That is very kind of you but REALLY I'm fine."(So do you think I said really enough :)) They absolutely insisted! This couple was so amazing! They even told the cashier to put all my groceries back and they were going to cover all the extra-which ended up being 30 bucks! WOW People REALLY are nice. And was in absolute tears and I hugged the lady and everything. Oh man...well in the meantime Reggie is parked outside with very sleepy kids and 9:30pm and he is waiting for me with the lights on. Some guy pulls up and yells over to Reggie with not very nice language telling Reggie to turn his lights off. Okay-so Reggie has a bit of a Temper, and I don't think think this man was very wise. Then he goes over to the car and Reggie rolls the window down and this guy is yelling at Reg again with not very nice things to say ;) Well do ya think Reggie turned his lights off?-NOPE. He would have been more than happy to turn them off if the guy wasn't so rude, well the guy left which was good, and then Reggie turned his lights off :).(I'm pretty sure I would have wanted to do the same thing, if somebody yelled at me like that) I am just glad because Reggie said the kids probably didn't hear him and I'm glad Reggie stayed in the car and kept his cool.

So...do people yell and swear, or do people see someone in need and offer to help.

Those people were SO nice!

Granted I yell sometimes-at my sweet poor hubby and a little at my innocent kids(I know I'm a terrible mother sometimes) but I hope that for the most part I can be NICE!

Reggie's birthday camping trip!

2009-08-12T11:49:00.000-07:00

I got Reggie a camp stove for his birthday!

(of coarse it is so HE can cook me delicious food when we go camping)

Kyler REALLY wanted to sit on it-hhmmm, fried Kyler-I bet it's sweet ;)

This is our wildlife for the weekend. I don't think I have ever seen wild turkeys.

Our exciting camp!

Mommy and Kyler chillin' on our nature walk.

WOW-what a cool rock :)

Cooper and Kira had fun sitting on this tree. Reggie was bouncing it a bunch. Cooper actually fell off and Kira was holding on for her life. Cooper totally face planted.

What a cool sideways growing tree! Cooper was terrified going up as high as he did in this picture, yet he can jump off my kitchen counter!

Kira is such an actress! And very brave! She climbed higher than Reggie until I finally told her to come down. She (pretended) to get stuck and guess who she wanted to rescue her...Cooper. That's right Cooper is her prince charming I guess. While waiting for Cooper to go two feet up the tree she slipped and got pretty scraped up, but she hung on for life again and didn't fall down. She just hung on until Daddy came to her rescue.

CELL PHONE on a camping trip?! WHAT?! Ever since Reggie's Dad had a stroke about 1 or 2 months ago, Reggie has been super busy. The phone is always on his ear(I have got to get this guy a blue tooth) His Dad is doing good but we don't think he'll ever return to work or even be able to drive for that matter, he is a lot different now. So the business has been in much need of Reggie since he is basically the replacement for his Dad. We were lucky to even get a little time off for this trip.

We were at the very end of a long dirt road and camped in a spot with cell service-what luck ;)

I love this picture-Reggie and the kids were getting ready to shoot. The kids were having a blast putting ear muffs on Kyler.

We love DADDY!

Dinner AND a show!

Kira was about to perform and needed Daddy to take care of her bear. Daddy is a great bearsitter.

Here is the show...

After breakfast we(the kids) decided to have an on the spot talent show!

Cooper did his infamous cowboy dance-whoa!

My adorable little Kira doing a little dance and jumping jacks.

Happy 29th Birthday Reggie!

I am a bad wife and didn't come prepared with a cake so when we made pancakes I made Reggie pancakes in the shape of a 2 and a 9 and I was prepared with candles so he blew out the candle on his pan CAKE!

We love to eat good when we go camping!

Happy 1st Birthday!

2009-07-24T22:39:00.000-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY BOY!!!

He started out so small! He was my smallest baby(by 4 ounces).

I had to call the hospital after we left because I still wasn't sure about his middle name.

I don't think he cried more than one time the entire hospital stay.

My little Kyler Leo...

He looked so skinny and small...

he grew to be one of my chubbier babies
...and now
here he is in all his sweetness

...still wearing cloth diapers

...and SO DANG CUTE!

I can't get the pictures off of my new memory card(I am not so skilled at the computer)

So Kylers birthday pictures will remain in my camera until I figure it out.

I can't believe my little boy is ONE today.

Kyler said his first word a few weeks ago-it was 'bye' and so cute. He would say 'baa' and then start waving all by himself.

Today he started clapping for the first time, and I swear he said amen after the prayer.

He is so funny.

He can be screaming mad and waiting on his food but when we bless it-EVERY time we say the blessing he is completely quiet and still until the prayer is over.

He is the biggest tease ever!

and he is such a flirt-At the rodeo last weekend for Pioneer Days, this girl sat behind us and she kept talking to Kyler and Kyler would get super goofy and smile and talk and then he would bury his face in my chest and hide and be shy and then he would do it all over again.

Kyler has made everyone around him very glad to know him and we are very special to be a part of his family.

Happy Birthday Kyler-I Love You!!

Home again, home again, jiggity-jig

2009-07-10T13:46:00.000-07:00

I am so happy to be home I could probably DO a little jig!

The life of this...

and this...

is finally over! I am so happy! We have been here for a week and I don't think we will be leaving any time soon. Poor Reggie had leave for a couple days this last week, but is now also happy to be at home.

Over the past 3 months, I would pack up the kids and follow Reggie to work or be a single parent while he goes off to work for about 5 days. That has been our lives about 90 percent of the last 3 months. I will say that when we would tag along it was like a little work vacation, but now...aahhh to be home again. The traveling circus has retired to Snowflake once again. We have been to Colorado, New Mexico, and we were able to stay at my parents house in Pima a few different times.

After being gone for 3 months and home one week this is what I realized...

1. I am very tired

2. um, where is the maid? "towels in room 311 please" :)

3. my kids were only sick once in the past 3 months

4. we have been home a week and every body has either allergies or colds

5. our house is HOT(good ol' swamp coolers when it's humid-they do NOTHING)

6. I LOVE and appreciate my home way more than ever before

7. I enjoy cooking-however dislike cleaning up

8. I am glad to be home and buy healthy food-and EAT it.

9. I love my ward

10. We live in a great community

11. We are very blessed

12. I REALLY need to appreciate Reggie and his job more

13. my kids have been playing none stop with each other since we've been back

-HAPPILY playing! :)

Well I hope to be posting a little more frequently now...many stories of the last few months to come soon...

Kirana Manea!

2009-06-13T15:51:00.001-07:00

HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY KIRA!!!

Kira turned 3 yrs old last Sunday. I can't believe my little B is already 3!

Kira is

sweet

loaded with personality

RED HEADED(with the red headed attitude and all)

strong minded

smart

dancer

singer

princess

wild

loud

quiet

funny

big tease

fun

beautiful

green eyes

sensitive

tough

actress

stinker

attitudicidal(did ya get that)

tender

rambunctious

active

girly

strong

spunky

My mom always said Kira was like a little pixie and she reminds us all that she is just a little Tinkerbell *sweet with attitude.

Kira's name is Kirana(Hello) Manea(Beautiful). Reggie served a mission in the Cook Islands and spoke Mauri there and so she is Hello Beautiful!

Ok so Kira was potty trained almost completely-she finally went like a week with out having an accident. One hour before her birthday party-she pees. So there went her cute little Birthday outfit and bows. Right at 6:30 when Reg's family was going to be there - she pees again. There went another outfit. Oh my goodness I was running out of clothes for her. I guess it was too much excitement. We went to see my parents because of work Reggie had in Safford and the entire weekend I was cleaning up pee! Oh my gosh am I exhausted from that. We will be going again and I really hope I can remember to remind her so she doesn't have an accident on my parent new carpet again!

So my parents have recently acquired some really nice statues and their living room is filled with them-in the last year the room has been painted, re-carpeted, re-furnished and then some. Well leave it to B to now have all the grandkids banned from that room. She doesn't mean to do harm, she is just always going never stopping. She can't even sit still to eat. But I love her for it. I love my little energizer bunny! Without her energy it just wouldn't be B!

Just so everyone knows(she got the nickname B when she was born. Cooper couldn't say Kira or Baby-but B is short for baby. Well B just stuck and we call her that all the time even still)

More Tea please!-oh I mean Hot cocoa!

Kira loved her Tea set and the little table and chairs!
Wade is Reggie's brother and the kids' favorite person ever!

Kira was so sweet to let Cooper help her open all her presents!

She really is a sweetheart!

Lately she says "my name princess"

Kira's birthday party was the night before her birthday, but on her birthday we went to Pima so my parents got to see her on her birthday.

Kira-blowing out the candles on her Tinkerbell cake!

I love you Kira-every moment I think of you! You add so much sweetness to our family and just enough spunk! Life would be very dull without you! Happy Birthday my little princess!

Our Happy little trip! (long post)

2009-05-14T09:25:00.000-07:00

Reggie works as a plumber for his Dads company. They got some work for a bunch of McDonald's. All the McDonald's restaurants are adding smoothie/coffee machines.

They got a job in Durango, CO at McDonald's. We tagged along and it was a blast. I think my favorite part of the trip was that we just hung out with each other. It was just our little family.

On these jobs-they begin at 8pm, so Reggie has to work nights, so trying to keep quiet the next morning in a hotel room with 3 kids was very interesting.

When we got to our hotel we asked how much it would be to upgrade from a one bed to two beds. It was a corporate rate so it stayed the same. Boy am I glad we got the bigger room, I saw the other room and it was tiny-we would have gone crazy in there. After being there a few days and Reggie didn't get something he needed delivered to the McDonald's. So we needed to extend our stay a couple more days. Then we found out that Reggie got another job in Cortez which is only 45 min away from Durango so in the long run our trip ended up being almost 2 weeks instead of 5 days. We could stay in our room into the weekend because they were booked but they bumped us to a family suite where the kids had their own room and we had two beds in ours!

Cooper is my little frisbee man!

Reggie is just another kid!

The kids loved to play especially with Reggie.

After a couple days we decided on a trip to Silverton. One of the most beautiful drives in my life. It took about an hour to get there and Reggie and I just loved the drive. It snowed the night before and we didn't get much in Durango, but our drive was packed with snow all around. It was Amazing! This picture doesn't give an ounce of justice.

This is a very cloudy/foggy picture of Silverton. Absolutely gorgeous and surrounded by mountains. There is a little town way down in there.

We drove past Silverton to Urray.

Why is there a door in the wall of a mountain?

I want to live THERE!?!

Silvertons very old jailhouse! I wonder why Reggie brought me there?;)

Oh wait it's not a loony bin-just jail :)

Another trip to the park.

So Funny! Reggie actually got stuck in the slide. I guess it turns tighter than it looks like it would. It really was funny-at least to me.

How Sweet!

My fishermen! One of Reggie's highlights of the trip besides working of course :)

It's a good thing we didn't put a hook on hers, instead it just has a little rubber crown. She kept fishing with it though-very cute!

Poor Kyler is stuck in the play pen while everybody is fishing.

Reggie and Cooper just wanted to fish, Kyler fell asleep, and Kira was freezing. I was just busy being a Mommy, trying to steal a few casts-only to get nothing, but we still had fun.

Our hotel in Durango(The Palmer Hotel) was right next to the train depot. The train leaves for Silverton twice a day. The kids loved to see and hear the train while we enjoyed our delicious breakfast.

This is a picture taken at our hotel. It seemed more like a bed & breakfast. It was awesome and beautiful. They had an old fashioned elevator which was both cool and tiny. I had to hold the gate open with one hand and fit the kids and stroller inside-whoa! That was quite the adventure-it's too bad I didn't get a picture. The elevator was barely(and I mean barely) big enough for the stroller with me and the kids on the side-no room for Reggie. It was super cool and the kids enjoyed taking the elevator!

Cooper and Kira just started to dance! Too Cute!

Cooper kept getting upset because Kira just wanted to dance and twirl around the room be herself.

Definitely a high point. The swimming pool! I love love love to swim and our pool was heated thank goodness. We didn't get the pool until our second hotel when Reggie was working in Cortez.

Adorable!

Poor Kyler was stuck in his stroller!

While we were swimming the hotel got loaded with like 100 kids about 5th or 6th grade-and they were headed...to the pool, We didn't swim long before the entire swimming pool area was filled with kids. The next morning at breakfast some ladies who worked there mentioned that MOST of the kids had coffee that morning. I could not believe it. COFFEE?! Almost all of them?!

Well that was our trip. The highlight being Kira getting a high fever and Reggie going to get some Tylenol. A few days later Cooper threw up IN our hotel room right when Reggie was off to work(Bye Hun:) Cooper threw up 3 times each being every other day-in the hotel room every time(I finally lined the floor with towels but by then Cooper mastered making it to the toilet). Poor kid. And having to do laundry twice was exciting too. All in all the drive wasn't long, and the kids were sweethearts.

It was SO nice to come home!

7 of the BEST years!

2009-05-03T21:20:00.000-07:00

25 things I love about Reggie:

1. He loves me

2. He loves to play with his kids

3. He is a VERY hard worker

4. He CLAIMS he hunts to provide food for his family :)

5. He loves animals especially horses and loves the outdoors

6. He is always singing something

7. He is just as stubborn as I am

8. He is the best Dad

9. Cooper wants to be just like him

10. Kira brings out his softer side

11. Kyler pulls on Reggie's heartstrings because Kyler is so tender

12. He has an amazing Testimony

13. He is so cute

14. He is such a smart man

15. He does the right things even when it's hard

16. He can make me laugh when I'm feeling blue

17. Reggie would live off a generator in the middle of nowhere if it weren't for his wife

18. He has a very quick temper

19. Reggie flirts with me all the time-even if in my old mommy age I don't take it quite as well as I use to-I still love to flirt with him, and he makes me smile and laugh.

20. He just another kid in our house

21. He is funny

22. He loves me for me

23. He is becoming a better person as the years go on

24. He has to ask me how to check the email every time he gets on-and he isn't aloud to turn the computer off although he is getting the hang of it.

25. I love to watch him work-he makes me feel safe

Reggie-you are the best especially for putting up with me. I mean we have had 3 kids in 4 years and a person can only imagine what that can do to the emotional state of a woman.

Happy 7th year Anniversary Love.

I love you Babe!

Things have been a little crazy so I hope to post again soon about all the things we have been up to lately. We have been in Colorado for 2 weeks and Reggie has been gone a lot with work-but the work came at the best time-and we are very greatful for the work-it has been a great blessing.

All about Kyler!

2009-03-29T23:30:00.001-07:00

Kyler is my little sweetheart! He is so tender and sweet!

Feb. 27th

Kyler is happy wherever he is!

Feb 28

Kyler loves to drool.
Feb 28

Kyler is trying to climb right on out of his bouncy seat-which he thinks is funny.
March 7

Kyler loves to be loved. Kyler loves to love you. He loves to hug you and kiss you.

March 10

Kyler is a tease. When Mommy changes his diaper-he always rolls over, giggles and tries to get away-he thinks it is so funny.

March 10

I realize this hat may be a little small-I didn't realize it until I took a few pics.

March 10

Kyler love to be happy. Kyler makes everybody around him happy.

-unless he's grumpy :(

march 10

Kyler started army crawling a couple weeks ago. He drags himself around everywhere. A couple days ago he started going from laying on the floor to sitting up all be himself (He learned that one in the middle of the night-lucky for me, he only did it once)

March 10

Kyler is a snuggle bug. Kyler is sensative.

March 10

I seriously think that Kyler has had a cold about 50% of his life. Two weeks on-two weeks off-on-off...

March 10

Kyler is a giggle box. Kyler loves everybody in his family very very much! Mommy, Daddy, Cooper & Kira are very special to get Kylers love.

March 10

Kyler has two teeth. Kyler is 8 months old. I love Kyler.

March 10

There is nothing amazing or more precious than the miracle of life in us all!

Need Help!!

2009-03-25T17:12:00.000-07:00

Please give me some ideas about allergy med. Reggie has Allergies really bad and every year he gets an allergy shot. He got his shot just less than two months ago and when I called to get him another one they said he can't have it until 3 months after his last shot. (but they said if he is really bad in the next week to go in next week until he is at least two months past. Well he is so miserable with his allergies and I swear he uses one box of kleenex in like two days. Please give me some ideas. He is taking something simalar to Claritin and thinks it is giving him spots and he takes allergy 10. We recently heard of somebody taking 1 tablespoon of local honey twice a day, but I can't seem to find local honey. Please give me some ideas for poor Reggie.

Thanks bunches!!

Picture overload!

2009-03-07T23:00:00.000-08:00

A couple months ago: Cooper dumped this ENTIR bottle of shampoo over Kira while standing in the bathroom.

After slipping and hitting her head and then much sreaming until all soap was out of her little eyes she was smiling again.

OK-ya think my daughter needed a haircut?!

Well she wasn't so sure-but it looks WAY better!

This was a couple months ago when we went to the valley(I know I'm slow)

These next 3 pictures were while we were watching my brother Brendan playing like a little boy with his rocket. They loved it!

This is how Reggie usually looks when feeding Kyler-out cold!

Kyler thought it was funny!

I hope she didn't learn how to do her makeup from her mommy!

This slide in the back of parents house has many childhood memories...

Cooper had a blast

My brother and his friends would have pecan wars with me and my friends. Since we were girls we always thought we deserved the upper ground-not to mention we were younger. So we would get on the tree fort-which is at the top of this slide and the boys would be down on the ground and the pecan throwing would commence!

This is the reason we were in Pima-Reggie was javelina hunting. This is a picture of him butchering it. YUM! Aren't you lucky you don't live at my house to eat such yummy food!

This picture of my Mom and Kyler is so cute-I LOVE my MOM-she is the BEST!

Well there it is - all these pictures don't even include the last month so I'll probably be posting again soon if I actually have time:)

Secret Something!

2009-03-07T22:28:00.000-08:00

Here's how it works: The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me!
My choice. For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make! But I'll try really hard.
2- It'll be done this year.
3- You have no clue what it's going to be, and neither do I, but I'm sure it'll be great :o)
The catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win an awesome homemade gift by me!

WIFE-gone crazy!

2009-02-16T13:32:00.000-08:00

Well this is Kylers 6 mo. picture-taken about 3 weeks ago-I'm a little slow about posting lately! He weighed 14 lbs and I don't remember how long he was at his 6 mo. appointment.

Well things have been crazy-as always. We were in the valley a couple of weeks ago and we're getting ready to again.

LIFE:

We went to Walmart a couple of Saturday's ago, I had Kira and Kyler while Cooper was working with his Daddy. Reggie and Cooper showed up to help finish up (I didn't have enough room in the cart-a baby in a carseat and a squirmy little girl who wants to climb out doesn't leave much room for diapers, baby food and all the other stuff) I was a little out of control all morning so when we're checking out and the Cashier says to my children "You need to sit down ok" My childrens reply -nothing! Again the cashier says "You need to sit down - store policy" My kids still don't care and continue whinning at me and standing there becase they wanted out. Well the lady tells them again(never once to me -only to the kids) "You need to sit down or get out of the cart, I'm sorry." OH MY GOSH- I am getting upset thinking about it. I grabbed my kids ( making a small scene) and said "Did you hear the lady-she said you could get out!" I put them both down and said loudly-"I hope you don't get lost!!" I think she realized I was a little upset because she started talking really nice after that. Well Reggie grabbed the kids and put them right back in the cart-not caring a single bit what this lady said. (just for the record-I realize she was just doing her job and I probably shouldn't have been so bratty-but to a mother of small children-I was ON ONE!) Please don't tell MY children they need to out-especially when I said NO you can't get out! Well now comes me being me-emotional as always! I had forgotten about the dogfood on the bottom of the cart and the pants Reggie needed so I thought my cash was enough-but it wasn't I was so embarrassed when the lady told me the total and I was about $20 short! We are trying out a budget-it really stinks! I couldn't help it -the tears started to come-I was embarrassed and upset. I gave a couple things back to the lady - then she started talking REALLY NICE! We made it back out to the truck and I wanted to explode yet all I could do was let the tears fall.

OK-this is where you see what a terrible wife I am. My sweet husband spent the weekend cleaning the house and all I did was get upset. I appreciated it but when he cleans the house it makes me feel like a terrible wife for not having it done already. He will do laundry all the time-and everytime I just grit my teeth and think-'well if I had done that already he wouldn't have to.'

On a good note my family is great-and last week was a blast-making bows with the girls. And Our kids went to bed so early Thursday night we made it our date night and I made Reggie watch The Holiday with me. Then Friday as a bonus I babysat for someone who then had her daughter babysit so we could go to our Stake Valentines party. It was awesome. $10 a couple to get on board the cruise ship-they decorated the church like a cruise ship-they even took pics to email to us. Well the food was delicious, the entertainment was great, and the dancing (always my favorite part) was a blast with my sweet hubby! I can't believe we had 2 dates in two night-that's enough to last us 2 years!-j/k but pretty close!

Anywho-I hope everyone had a great heart-filled Valentines Day!

I'll hopefully post some pics pretty soon!

More FUN in the snow!

2009-01-13T10:56:00.000-08:00

Sunday after church

2009-01-09T09:57:00.001-08:00

Our Christmas

2009-01-09T08:32:00.000-08:00

Almost 2 weeks later and I feel like I am still trying to recover from this Christmas season. I loved spending Christmas with the little ones-they make everything so bright.

We had a good Christmas at home & went to Pima the day after. It was a very short trip and parents were really busy but I was glad I got to see them-and as much as I love them - I really wanted to see my cousin Sara and my Aunt Cindy and her family(The two people I speak of are on different sides of the family). It was so much fun to visit with everyone. My parents ended up with a new dining room set that weekend and it must have been fate because we went to Pima with an empty truck(that never happens-Reggie ALWAYS brings his quad) and so we got my parents table. Ok so the table is older than me-it is still in way better condition than our wobbly table that was donated to the thrift store last week. We only had room for 4 chairs-so our next trip will be for the other two chairs and the two leafs.

My FAVORITE Christmas tradition is that we wait to open our stockings until Christmas night-it is very fun to have something to still look forward to after all the opening of gifts is over in the morning.

Reggie got me a sewing machine-actually I got it for myself from Reggie. It's not exactly the one I wanted but it wasn't very expensive and I am excited - although my first attempt at using it was pretty amusing :)

Kira loves loves loves this little stroller

We had this bike given to us almost a year ago so for Christmas we decided to put pedals and training wheels on it for Coop. It will be fun once the mud clears up so we can practice outside.

Our kids got tons of stuff and were way too spoiled but it was fun!

What does mother do to keep busy?

2008-12-22T21:49:00.000-08:00

We have had quite the last day, week, month, several months! I thought life was busy before kids then there was one, then two, now three.

Late Congrats to Brendan & Katie who had a baby a couple of weeks ago. Little Carsten sure look like a cutie, I can't wait to meet him. The plan was to go the weekend after he was born-but Kira got croup-what a nightmare-especially with Reggie gone hunting. But we got through it. Cooper completely lost his voice two weekends ago all the while Reggie, his dad and a guy from work were working on our air ducts. Kira's room gets no heat-so she has/had a space heater in her room and our bathroom was always freezing - but not anymore-thanks to the Christmas present from Reggie's Dad, we can now start our fires with the intent to heat our whole house-no more space heaters!

The Pictures began like this...wild!

And got wilder...

and wilder!

Doesn't Reggie look excited to be taking pictures=)

It's a miracle - we took 40 pics and got 1 good one!

Kira doesn't have her hand in her mouth and everybody is smiling.

Thank you camera & tripod for taking our pictures-whew!

Cooper was sad that Santa didn't give him the truck he asked for-I had to explain that it was coming on Christmas-this is just when we tell Santa what we want. He was cool with that.

Poor Kira-her mommy was busy taking pictures that the camera died when it was time to sit on Santas lap-my camera gave no warning-just died. She wouldn't sit on his lap but somebody did talk her into sitting next to Santa so Mommy could get a picture only to have mommy so mad at herself for not having more batteries-ok-breathe.

Kyler had his first bite of little big boy food last two Fridays ago.

oooohh gross Mommy!

Concentrate-bring the spoon to the mouth.

It's not that bad.

Oh yeah, I like this stuff!

Kyler in a box-what a wonderful Christmas present!

Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas!

Lookin pretty for the camera.

Say cheese!

Good job! One more time! Man it's easier to get my kids to smile than my hubby=)

Hey there cutie pie. Chillin' on his cowboy blanket made by his Aunt Katie. His Aunt Katie adn Aunt Marie have quite the talent with sewing-one day I sure hope to learn some of their tricks.

Cooper had his 1st visit to the Dentist in November and my cousin Pat is our Dentist in Show Low. We had quite the dental month. On Halloween I got my wisdom teeth pulled-holy cow! Then Cooper had his appointment and that same day just a couple weeks after getting my wisdom teeth pulled I go my first ever cavities filled-TWO CAVITIES-but it wasn't too bad. Just glad that's over with. I thought Cooper would be terrified but the Hygienist(spelling?) was amazing, and he loved her!

You see the white corner where somebody already painted-yeah it wasn't white for long once Kira got to it. I knew that would happen-Reggie didn't so much plan on it.

Isn't this adorable!

Reggie did the top and I did the bottom-with Coopers help of course.

Playing dress up and looking at pictures

I knew they were being too quiet. I round the corner to the kitchen and this shredded paper was everywhere!! The bad in Coopers hand should be full but instead is all over my kitchen and the mud room. Reggie brought them home from work for a good fire starter. I actually had to try not to laugh when I saw this mess - I mean who can blame them-doesn't that look like it would be fun! They were very good at cleaning it up.

We let Cooper use the clippers a little bit with his last haircut-he hates haircuts-so it was a little incentive.

I am very excited about Christmas and to see what Santa will bring my kids-it's all very exciting. This is by far my busiest Christmas season ever-but I'm keeping the holiday cheer!
Well I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas-it's almost 1am and I still have much to do before bed-goodnight.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Tagged by request!

2008-12-03T10:39:00.000-08:00

So I had a request to add to the other tag

7 things in life you dream about doing eventually. (most of these have to do with money-go figure?!)

1. I dream about helping people-like I literally get sick thinking of all the people I should be helping-especially little children. I dream of opening orphanages in other countries-if it weren't for my sanity and my own little children/husbands need for attention I would probably be a foster parent.

2. I dream about becoming rich so I can buy a ranch for Reggie and buy him hunts and a building apart from my house to keep them =)

3. I dream about becoming an interior decorator and/or an architect. (I would have a problem-
since I worry WAY too much about what people think of me-I always feel like people are judging me and so I would always be worried people didn't like me or what I do.)

4. I dream about becoming a childrens book author and a songwriter(maybe when I have more time)

5. I dream about being more patient - like my mother.

6. I dream about being proud of my children when they all live away from home and happy that I raised amazing children.

7. I dream about traveling.

This was a fun one-I tag everybody who wants to do this-Please do this. Especially Aunt Cindy!

Tagged-7 THINGS

2008-11-17T22:23:00.000-08:00

7 THINGS I CAN DO...
1. Change my baby with a cloth diaper.
2. The alphabet in sign language.
3. Body board in the ocean.(using your body as a board)
4. Stress/Worry
5. Make fun shapes with pancakes.
6. Clean up the same toy 5 times a day.
7. Cut my sons hair.

7 THINGS I CAN'T DO...
1. Remember
2. Play basketball(I wish I could)
3. Drive a stick (pathetic I know)
4. Keep dust out of my house!
5. Do more than one thing-EVER-at a time. (like when I talk on the phone-it's very difficult to do anything else)
6. Watch Reggie and the kids wrestle wildly (it really stresses me out-I just wait for someone to get hurt)
7. Be on time.

7 THINGS THAT ATTRACTED ME TO REGGIE...
1. His Smile.
2. He was funny.
3. I thought he was very sweet.
4. He was a good dancer (although he doesn't agree)
5. He was a Hottie.
6. His name-I never knew a Reggie before.
7. Last but definately not least-He's a COWBOY-I think that says a lot. (I say was but that's definately now as well)

7 THINGS THAT I SAY MOST OFTEN...
1. Have Fun!
2. Be Safe!
3. Anyways!
4. How Funny!
5. Cooper Be Nice!
6. Kira calm down - it's ok.
7. Whatever.

7 PEOPLE I ADMIRE THE MOST...
1. Reggie
2. My Mom
3. President Thomas S. Monson
4. Pam Jones(my merry miss teacher/drama teacher)
5. Aunt Julie & Aunt Cindy ( using two isn't cheating is it? )
6. My Grandma Goodman, & My Grandma Cluff (two again what can I say)
7. Pioneers

7 FAVORITE FOODS...
1. Carne Machaca from Eva's
2. Fettucine Alfredo
3. My chicken casserole
4. Brownies Brownies Brownies
5. French Toast
6. Crepes
7. Peaches, strawberies, & bananas & cream (oh yeah don't forget the sugar =))

7 PEOPLE I TAG...
1. Stephanie
2. Jaci
3. Katie
4. Katie
5. Marie
6. Hartley
7. Hillary

KYLERS BLESSING

2008-11-10T10:57:00.000-08:00

Kyler was blessed yesterday. It went great. Our church is @ 11am and Kyler usually naps from 10am-3:30pm so we took some pics that morning. My parents came over the night before to hang out and help out. I am so glad my mom was there to give me a hand, I love to hang out with my mom-she is amazing.

All my family came, and Reggie's grandparents came. It really was great. We fed everybody lunch before they had to go home and were sad to see them go - but at least Thanksgiving is only a few weeks away.

Kyler was a good sport the whole day. Cooper and Kira both had a blast with cousins.

Sweetie~

I don't know which of the next 2 pics I like better=)

Our family of FIVE!

Just the three of us-poor Reggie was a good sport-he doesn't much like picture time.

My 3 little ones-oh my gosh trying to take a good picture of three kids is work!

This was my favorite picture taken!

My parents with my kids-Cooper looks so big in this picture.

It is my sisters B-day tomorrow, so we sang Happy Birthday - I don't imagine she was to thrilled-but hopefully she knows I love her. Happy Birthday Karen.

Cooper is posing with Kyler-he was being so sweet and cute-as he normally is with Kyler.

Reggie bore his Testimony for the first time EVER in Sacrament Meeting-it was awesome. I am so proud of him. I also bore my Testimony - but not for the first time. It was great to see him up there and hear his Testimony in church.I love Reggie so much-he is a great guy-maybe I should be nicer to him. I am always so quick to tell him what he is doing wrong and never pointing out all the great things he does. I am so glad he is a worthy priesthood holder. Reggie is different than anyone I have ever met. He is rock solid-never sheds a tear yet his feelings are so strong and tender and even his parents and I are always amazed at him. I don't think his parents even have a clue what Reggie is actually like, they just think he's so headstrong and stubborn with a wildly short fuse (which isn't entirely false). It's a good thing Reggie is around to teach me things. He is so smart and his knowledge of the scriptures and the church are absolutely amazing. I am the luckiest little lady with three crazy but very sweet kids and asuch a good husband.

Halloween!

2008-11-03T21:05:00.000-08:00

A very giggly pumpkin!

Our family of trick of treaters.
SOME PICS AT OUR TRUNK N' TREAT
(they do it inside)
Inmate stealing a pumpkin!

Peter Pan!

TinkerBell!

Peter Pan showing off his candy and Tinker Bell (my candy queen) is thinking she's going to eat it all by midnight.

Painting Pumpkins

2008-11-03T20:50:00.000-08:00

Kira got a lot of comments about her hair like this - I thought it was pretty cute on her!

Kyler loves his Daddy and loves to smile!

Kira was excited about painting pumpkins!

I was very impressed by Coopers painting of his pumpkin!

PUMPKIN PATCH

2008-11-03T20:39:00.000-08:00

A couple of weeks ago for Coopers preschool class they went to the corn maze and the pumpkin patch. It was a blast for them and Kira loved feeling a part of the preschool.

Cooper didn't take long to find his pumpkin. Kira on the other hand picked up several pumpkins large and small-she finally settled on a SQUASH=) Silly girl!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY COOPER!

2008-10-17T16:13:00.000-07:00

Coopers blessing picture.

Cooper at about 16 mo old.

Coopers birthday was yesterday on Oct 16th

Cooper w/ his preschool friends(there is one more boy who wasn't there today) He loves preschool. We switch houses every week and we each take a letter, shape, social lesson, etc. We weren't suppose to meet at my house this week but things came up for others so I did it and we sang Happy Birthday and had some cupcakes for Coopers birthday. In this picture the numbers are even - 3 blondes and 3 redheads

Me and my sweet little ones.

I am glad I got a HAPPY picture of Cooper - he is so often closing his eyes when he smiles for pictures nowadays.

See- eyes closed-big cheesy grin.

Cooper has been so excited for a long time about turning 4. Now that it's here, this is what he tells me birthday morning: "Mommy I just want to be 3" Mommy says "but 4 is big and 3 is little" Cooper in a sad voice: "I just want to be little and be 3" Poor kid-he's just like everybody else-wants what he can't have.

Happy Birthday to my little Man.

ROCKET - PEANUT BUTTER - AND CLOTH

2008-09-30T14:42:00.000-07:00

The last few months Cooper has complained about headaches and within a 2-3 week period he got two migraines. I felt horrible. I get tonz of headaches but never migraines, but since my brother and my sister both get migraines really bad I figured he was just getting them at an early age. His doctor was VERY shocked when I told him and had me bring him in, he wanted to get a cat scan of his head. At first I thought no big deal but then I got worried thinking Cooper would flip out being strapped. At the advice of my sister I asked him if he wanted to ride a rocket. He was extatic! He could hardly sit still in the waiting room, the whole time grinning from ear to ear like this:

They told me if they found anything then they would let me know the next day other wise we wouldn't hear anything. Well two days later I got a phone call from his Dr. office, and boy did that scare me. They said he has Severe Sinusitus - yeah so we paid BIG $$$ to find out he has a really bad sinus infection. BUT I truly am grateful and know my prayers were answered because migraines would be REALLY bad. And something like a tumor which the Dr. said it could be, would be REALLY bad. So with some antibiodics we should have no more throwing up with torturous headaches.

Cooper and Kira found their new jungle gym atop the horse trailer. Kira does not have the best balance and with those boots - she really made me nervous.

Typical picture of Kira: making a mess with her food instead of eating it.

My handsome little Kyler-man.

Yes, that is a cloth diaper and yes he does wear them regularly. I first heard about cloth diapers from Melinda Shelley and my thought was "People still do that?!" Well I wanted to try it out on Kira because she was young, but that never happened. When I was young I would copy my cousin Sara in whatever she did and so now that she has her kids in cloth I just had to be like her=) I love cloth yet it drives me crazy all at the same time. I love that I am putting something pure on my babys bottom and that I -in a small way am not contributing to the land fills and it saves me money. The laundry part is not so fun, but cloth diapers aren't what they use to be. They have cloth diapers that go on just like a disposable and they are SUPER CUTE!

This picture is a regular cloth-nothing fancy, and it has no cover on, but I love the Blue snappi-instead of using pins.

My happy BABY!

Labor Day Weekend

2008-09-19T09:39:00.001-07:00

Every Labor Day and 4th of July there is a huge gathering on Mt Graham. They have a pot luck dinner on Saturday night and on Sunday they have permission to do church. It is held outside and we are even able to take the Sacrament. It is an amazing experience. It seems like every year the clouds will threat with rain and occationally we will see some and this year the rain started immediately after church. It is an amazing place to be. I love Mt. Graham. My parents have a cabin up there, but this year we borrowed my Aunts cabin since there were too many of us to fit. We had a blast playing games. Kira got a little bit lost once and scared me really bad. Thank-you Katie for finding her. She was following Reggie after he left to go ride his horse.

On the way to Mt. Graham the kids were being really sweet with each other and I just had to get this picture of them holding hands.

Reggie has to bring his horse to Mt. Graham.

What a cuite pie.

The kids found a fort close by the cabin and decided to have a pine cone war with Reggie.

Kira and Landon on the propane tank. As a kid I have many memories of this tank-some of them being that I was too small to get on it.

Grandma with my kids it was fun to have my mom up there. My dad dropped her off and then he went back down the Mt.

Cooper LOVES his baby brother!

Our first family picture with Kyler.

BUNCHES OF PICTURES!

2008-09-19T09:39:00.000-07:00

The kids both had a blast shooting the gun last week.

I just loved this picture of Cooper and Kira.

3 Kids in the Backseat! Whoa!

It seems like Kira's hair is finally long enough to play with.

What a big boy!

COMPLETELY USELESS

2008-09-12T15:21:00.000-07:00

I have never worked my butt off so much in my life only to get more and more behind everyday. I have kept a pretty good attitude and I am trying to live by my new motto: LET IT GO - AND - GO WITH THE FLOW. I went visiting teaching right before I had Kyler and the two ladies there who each have many children were talking about how they used to fold socks and you just can't do that, the one lady said you have to have one box of boy socks and one box of girl socks and you just throw them in. Pretty funny huh! Yeah that is what I am thinking now-funny. I am trying to think of every way possible to get things done quicker, and be more organized. I have never NOT cooked so much in my married life. I never cleaned more in my life-and I never had such a messy house in my life. My whole life whether I like it or not is my Family-Thank heavens I like it. I feel like my poor husband and all three of my kids are each hanging by ropes tied onto me while I in the meantime am hanging by a thread from nothing. But the truth of the matter is that I have been getting a little off coarse and need to direct myself back to: LET IT GO - AND - GO WITH THE FLOW. There are little things that are important in life and little things that are not and I MUST stop paying so much attention to the silly things and just enjoy life. For those of you out there that stress over the little things-don't-that way I don't feel like the only crazy one. After all you have to be crazy to be a mother right?=)

No Time With Three Kids

2008-08-21T11:41:00.000-07:00

My Kids keep me extremely busy so I am just posting a few pics, not to mention my computer is going super slow. I'll try to post later, but right now I have a very hungry baby and two attention needing kids.

My three little Angels.

My little thumb sucker.

We were trying to tickle the side of his face and make him smile and this is what we got.

"Put em up"

Our new little baby!!!

2008-07-30T09:27:00.000-07:00

* Kyler Leo Reed * 7lbs 1oz * 21 1/2 inches long * Adorable baby boy * July 24,2008 * 1:47pm * Happy Baby *

Happy 4th of July!!!

2008-07-08T08:48:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple pics we got before the camera batteries died at the parade.

We had a fun 4th weekend. It took a LOT of convincing Reggie to do the whole 4th of July stuff. We went to the Parade then to the park to eat lunch and then to a movie: Walle. It was Cooper's second movie in the theatre ever and Kiras first-what a nightmare.
She kicked the chair in front of her repeatedly and one time when I told her to stop(and I was pretty friendly about it) she started balling - very loudly. I bribed her with candy and had to do so the ENTIRE length of the movie except for the last 10 min when Reggie took her out. Oh well-the movie wasn't that good anyway - in our opinion.
After the movie we were going to stick around until the Show Low rodeo-but we were exhausted and went home for a rest then drove back to Show Low just so Jenny could show her fam the fireworks. Saturday evening we went to the Taylor rodeo and we had a blast. Poor Reggie has a hard time watching the rodeo because he wants SO bad to be in it. I on the other hand was so grateful he wasn't. Taylor has the best firework show ever! I don't think we'll go back to see Show Low's anymore.

I am counting down the days - let's hear your bets - when do you think I will have my baby. My due date is the 20th of July-less than 2 weeks. If your right I'll buy you your favorite candybar=)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY GIRL!

2008-06-19T13:52:00.000-07:00

Every time Kira would open a present she would try and give it to someone else (normally who ever she was saying 'Thank you' to) it was kind of sad but very sweet and cute.

The little princess had tonz of fun once she realized these presents were actually hers.

POSE!!

BLOW!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!

So Kira had her birthday last week. She is two and although she is a real emotional replica of her mother she is the sweetest most sensative little sweetie. I can't believe she is already two but I'm also greatful since we've got number 3 headed our way-very soon. She is very spoiled by her parents and she has her Daddy locked around her little self.

California pics - Finally!

2008-06-11T13:25:00.000-07:00

Please ignore the randomness-I have had it with my computer=) ~smile with lot's of sarcasm.

Riding on the

train around the

park was a
blast for us all.

It took some effort

to climb on

that horse!

Cooper and Daddy on the Matterhorn

Get em' Daddy! Ok, my turn.

Kira is happy as long as she can get dirty!

Oh Happy Day!

Wow!

He is so excited to

Finally be playing

in the ocean.

He finally decides he loves the ocean!

Cooper is my Pro

frisbee player!

Reggie is trying to convince Cooper that it's
fun to ride the boogie board. I don't think it worked.

CALIFORNIA!!!

2008-06-09T08:10:00.000-07:00

So I am finally updating my blog in like a month. We went to California for a whole week starting Memorial Day weekend. We had such a blast just hanging out with the family. It was the first time the whole Cluff family was able to be there for the whole week. Friday late morning we left and boy was that funny to drive through the snow on my way to the beach. We didn't arrive in Oceanside until around 10pm. It was altogether about a 12 hour trip to get there, but the kids were great between sleeping and being occupied by their great babysitter - The DVD Player. We made sure to stop several times for the kids and pregnant mommy.

The week flew by so fast and I was pretty exhausted the whole time but hangin out with every one at our beach house was a blast. Going down to play in the sand and ocean, or taking a dip in the spa, going out to eat all the time...we really tried to live it up. We have gone to Oceanside every year for several years and are really getting to know it. We know where to see a movie or out to eat, and this year we even found a mall. I love Steve and Barry's.

Normally I am like a fish in the water, but having a couple kids and feeling VERY pregnant and tired I only made it in the water once and my attempt at boogie boarding with my huge belly was pretty funny and didn't last long. My kids were both scared of the ocean and spent their time close to the rocks, playing in the sand. We went to a different beach one day to look for sand dollars and star fish and Cooper finally got in water - the time he is actually dressed in street clothes and not swim attire, but I was so excited he finally got in and he loved it.

Wednesday was our Disneyland day which was so short- only one day with little ones makes for a very different trip-it was such a blast to see them at Disneyland. Kira didn't like fantasy land too much because all the rides are dark so she was pretty scared, especially on Snow White. Cooper loved it all. Kira's favorite rides were the Carrousel and the little train. I was excited to go on Splash Mountain. They recommended I didn't but said I could-so I did. Reggie took Cooper on the Matterhorn since I was too big and Kira was too small. Cooper ended up loving that ride along with Peter Pan. Between the two kids I think their absolute favorite ride was Autopia, where they get to drive the little cars. With all the family there we did some rides together and split off some. It was probably the shortest Disneyland trip ever but by the end of the day we were all very tired.

My sister-in-law Katie announced that she is pregnant with # 4 and is due in December -Congrats Katie May. My mom, Karen, Katie, Marie and I left the kids with the Dads and went to see Indianna Jones. It was very nice of them and we girls had a fun night out. We girls also went out for ice cream one night, the guys really were good to us.

Instead of coming straight home from our trip we drove to Mesa where Reggie drove home and me and the kids drove to Pima for a funeral. My Grandma remarried about seven years ago to Melvin Johnson a really great guy, and he passed away while we were in California. I was really glad I was able to go and support my Grandma, but very happy to come home so we left Sat. at 7pm and I had to pull over and nap a couple times, we finally made it home at around 11pm.

What a great trip and it wouldn't have been possible with out my parents.

THANKS MOM AND DAD!!!

I'll try to post some pics asap.

MAY 3rd 2002

2008-05-07T14:00:00.001-07:00

For Time and All Eternity

ANNIVERSARY

2008-05-07T12:46:00.000-07:00

For our anniversary we decided to stay in a hotel in the valley and let my sister-in-law pay us back for watching their kids;) My parents use priceline all the time and I decided to use it-we ended up getting a 4 star hotel(it was actually a resort and spa) in Scottsdale for $85.00.
The resorts cheapest price is $419.00 per night. We totally lucked out. I am sure we got the price because they were renovating, but when we got there we never saw any type of construction going on. Let me tell you we were totally out of place being young pregnant and Reggie with his wranglers and cowboy hat. I am sure we stuck out like a sore thumb.

This is a picture of our one of two beds...When we first went to our room and saw two double beds-I was like-"ok they got it wrong-I called and said we wanted a King bed, lets go downstairs and get the right room" - wrong! When I told the lady we had two doubles instead of a king-she said I'm sorry we are out of King beds for tonight-it's simply a first come first serve. I was ssooo bummed. She asks me if we were there for any special occasion and it hit me hard-I got red and I could feel my face swell and the tears poured. With little breath and turning away from embarrassment I said "Our Anniversary" she mumbled something I couldn't hear and we walked back to our room. I couldn't believe I cried-oh wait I am pregnant and always emotional what else would I have done. I didn't stop crying for 10 minutes and I was flaming. About an hour later room service showed up with a bottle of Sparkling apple cider and a tray of fruit. I guess that was their apology-and it totally worked, I was still bummed but I was very excited about the cider and fruit.

Poor Reggie hates posing for pics but he was a very good sport. And yes that is our enormous bag for only one night.=)

Oh, so this is where they got my salad!

Over to the right is a picture of the salad menu at Alto-the Italian restaurant. Reggie spent $32.00 on a piece of Salmon the size of my hand and I spent $8 on a salad made up of flowers-I kid you not-it was as if they went to a wildflower meadow and picked my salad, and guess what it tasted like-yep flowers. Very interesting, good thing their desserts were filling.

I am so glad we got to spend a nice night away from the kids, we had a nice relaxing time. I love you Babe. Happy Anniversary. Six years of marriage and your still hangin out with me. Thanks to my sister-in-law Katie who watched the kids, Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you.

Our place was so nice, but next time I think we will go somewhere where we don't spend more on food than our hotel, although the breakfast in our room was so nice and way delicious.

CAMPING TRIP!

2008-04-28T11:36:00.000-07:00

We went camping last weekend and had a blast, sadly it was the first time that we had taken our little family camping in almost two years - With the exception of my parents cabin on Mt. Graham last summer. But it was a great experience. It is amazing how you feel when you get away from it all (all meaning laundry, phones, deadlines, work, tv, etc.)

Well we didn't mess around - being pregnant, I did not want to starve. So we had taco salad for dinner and for breakfast we had pancakes with bacon and eggs, we had delicous sweet snacks and desserts and sodas and we definately did not go hungry.

We went exploring on our quad Saturday most of our time. We found water twice and both times the kids found where they could spend the whole day, throwing sticks and rocks into the water.

Kira sincerely thought after watching Cooper pee outside the whole time that she could too. At home she always takes her pants off and her diaper and says "peepee" and out in the woods with no toilet she Did NOT want Mommy to hold her and help her pee so she kept taking her diaper off no matter what Mommy would say and she would arch her back like Cooper does and try to let it flow. I am very glad she did not succeed.

Kira walked right into the water and never even had a clue.
This pond was right in the middle of a huge meadow, it was so beautiful.

Despite the beanies with hats they were wearing around:

The kids were just giggling and soaking it all in the outdoors-especially the sun-oops, I am a bad Mommy, I forgot to put sunscreen on their faces so they both and I got a little souvineer.

Everytime Kira would say "up" when she felt she was behind or tired of walking she would come to me and I would send her to ask Daddy, and since neither Mommy or Daddy can resist her when she wants something she is pretty spoiled. She always knows that all she has to do is be sweet and cute and she rules the world.

Reggie very much enjoyed showing Cooper the animal signs in the forest. The Bear signs and the Elk Poop(yipee) and especially the Elk rubs where the Elk rubs their antlers in the tree. Cooper is his Daddys son and loved to be taught about anything and everything.

Cooper really loves his Daddy and loves to help so does Kira, even if she is normally causing more trouble between falling over and getting hurt to taking off with your stuff, but they both really are the best little helpers.

We really had so much fun, camping always makes me feel like a pioneer. Even if we used krusteaz pancake mix =) not to mention every other luxery we had comparitively.

As soon as the sun started going down Cooper told us we needed to go to be and take a nap. He loved the tent, by the time dinner was made and cleaned up and smores were eaten(You can't go camping w/ out smores, and roasting marshmellows-even if you hate eating marshmellows, which I do, I still like to roast them and with a little graham cracker and chocolate-mmmmmmm) Anyway we finally made it to the tent around 8:30 or 9. For some reason when we got in the tent Kira started screaming and would not stop. At first I thought she was just throwing a fit and I was a little frustrated but I kept trying to calm her down. But when minutes went by and she never stopped I asked Reggie to give her a blessing, it was amazing. As soon as he put his hands over her head she stopped her histarical crying and didn't budge or make a peep the entire blessing or the rest of the night. She fell asleep about 2 minutes later. I am so greatful that Reggie holds the Priesthood and is able to bless our family.

2008-04-22T13:51:00.000-07:00

Well, we are alive. Sometimes I do wonder how. A couple of weeks ago we(me and the kids) went to Tucson for my niece Eden's 8th birthday. I was pretty exhausted from the day before when our washing machine flooded our bathroom closet and part of our bedroom. We had to clear out our closet and move our desk which is not small, and some other furniture. It was crazy and since it was about 6 or 7pm before we realized it and with no plans for dinner yet I thought Reg and I weren't going to eat for a long time. Reggie called his parent and they and Reggies brothers came over and helped us out. Margie went home and got their dinner and brought it back to share with us. What a blessing it was to have family close by to help and feed us. She brought Enchiladas - mmmmmmmm were they good. I am very lucky to have great in-laws.

Well our house is still in shambles but getting there. I should be working on it right now, but I thought I'd take a short break. It wouldn't be such an ordeal but I suppose I have some of my great-grandmothers blood, because I don't want anything back where it was. I love to move furniture-poor Reggie, especially while I'm pregnant and he gets stuck with most the moving. But I figure if we have to move it anyway - well what the heck why not re-arange. He still doesn't know that I am planning on moving the bed;) If you don't move furniture I totally suggest it because it is very refreshing.

Well I tried posting some pics but it's not working. Catch ya later.

Imagine giving birth to eight!

2008-04-08T08:31:00.000-07:00

Our dog was in heat a couple months ago but we weren't sure if she was pregnant until a few weeks ago, and so for the past week or two we've been checking on her and watching her pretty close...
Yesterday morning when Reggie left for work he told me she was acting funny, so in the morning when I woke up(much later than Reggies 4:30 am) I went looking for her with no luck. I knew she was having her puppies, because she never leaves home. When I looked in her dish it still had food - yet another sign of having her puppies. The kids and I ate breakfast and drove around a little with no luck and since I didn't feel up to walking the creek with two little ones and a big belly, Reggie came home from work and helped. We never found her. But around 2pm she just showed up all bloody, skinny, and very thirsty-she had her puppies. Now where were they? And were they alive?

We found the puppies in the bottom of our neighbors chimney(all covered in ashes).

The birth was a success. And she is a great mother.

Here is a picture of the absolutely exhausted Missy after giving birth to eight!

Cooper told us they wanted their mommy. He calls the puppies little Missy's.

There are 4 males and 4 females. All are black except one chocolate female.

April Fools Day!!!

2008-04-01T09:48:00.000-07:00

April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!April Fools!!!I am very sorry everyone but I didn't really perm my hair. Have a great April Fools Day. I love you all and I hope you still love me too after tricking you for so long.

2008-03-26T20:57:00.000-07:00

These Pictures were taken last week while we were helping Reggie with the shed. I am not sure if it was when it went up the 1st time or if it was the second time(after the wind blew it over).

OH MY GOSH!!! WHAT DID I DO

2008-03-19T08:42:00.000-07:00

Just when you thought I was super crazy for cutting my hair I went and got even crazier, I went to Perm my hair. Yes you read it right I 'Permed' my hair. Late last night when sleeping was obviously and definately a better idea I decided to take on a project much more exhausting and exciting, ah to see what the future had in store for me from last night...

Ok we're all done let's see what it looks like...

Oh, crap. Oh I didn't .

Oh I did. HELP!!!

2008-03-12T15:57:00.000-07:00

IT'S A BOY!!!

OUR LITTLE BOY # 2

IS COMING IN JULY

After we found out last Monday that we were having a boy, Cooper wasn't very happy. He got very mad at anyone who tried to tell him he was going to have a little brother. If you asked him he would say it was a dwirel(girl). If you told him it was a boy he would yell "NO!" But I just asked him if Mommy was having a boy and he grinned and nodded his head. Cooper loves to kiss the baby in Mommy's tummy, and Kira will say bebe(baby) to the belly. They are both adorable about the baby in my belly. Ah, what a joy.

2008-03-11T13:27:00.000-07:00

WOW! DIRT!

Nice Hair

Kira just woke up from her nap.
Don't mess with the girl when she wakes up!

WOW! I'm as strong as you Daddy!
(He really did let go of him until Cooper got tired and asked to get down)

But Daddy, I don't want to be an alien!

Hello 80's chic

What A Big Helper (They both thought the act was pretty funny)

Lesson Learned

2008-02-21T10:03:00.000-08:00

So I went to get Kira out of bed on Mon or Tues and stubbed my toe. I really thought I broke it, but yester day it felt a lot better. My second toe is bruised from the top of my toe for about four inches down onto my foot.

Kira sits on the toilet about once or twice everyday for several minutes but has yet to go potty. She has been doing this for a couple of weeks. She thinks it's pretty cool. The same day a stubbed my toe, Kira decided that she had to go poop - only she didn't decide this until right after she was off the toilet. I am sure you can imagine. I was only gone about one or two minutes finding a diaper for the little toad. When I came back she was squating on my bedroom floor. I gave a quick scream of "NNOOO" and hauled her into the bathtub and in the bathroom on the floor was another 'pile'. The bummer part is that it was hard in the bathroom on the tile and soft on the carpet, which was tons of fun to clean up. Like I hadn't learned my lesson enough, as soon as she got off the toilet yesterday she went and pee'd on my closet floor, and I was pretty much right behind her all along. All the while Cooper pee's his pants about 2-3 times a day and yesterday he only made it to the toilet once. But I will NOT give up. It's too much work to start again. hopefully if all goes well my kids will be potty-trained(daytime) before the baby. Cooper will but we'll see about Kira.

2008-02-15T13:23:00.000-08:00

WED/THURS - FEB 13TH AND 14TH - 6 YRS AGO

2008-02-15T12:13:00.000-08:00

So I bet you thought that was it for Reggie's journal, but he actually has two more and that's it. Sorry I was slacking - been a crazy week.

Wed, Feb 13th:

I was a wreck all day at work. I decided that I was going to ask Jenny to Marry me. So I got a dozen roses and had Brian Reed make me a metal rose and bend a horseshoe nail into a ring. I gave her the dozen roses right when I got to her place for an early Valentines at 9:00pm. Later that night at 12:15am (I waited for Valentine's Day early morning) I gave her the metal rose symbolizing that it would last forever. Then I asked her to marry me and she said "of course". I then gave her the ring.

Funny huh - This is what he actually said, "Do you remember the roses I gave you earlier, well they are going to wilt and die, but like this rose my love for you will last forever. Will you marry me?"

Thurs, Feb 14th:

So I proposed this morning! Two weeks from when I first really talked to her. The Lord sure moves fast. When something is right, its right, and we're not supposed to wait around on the feeling.

Well that's it for the journal episodes. And Reggie has yet to write in his journal since that day. Happy Late Valentines Day Everyone.

SUN/MON/TUES - FEB 12TH - 6 YRS AGO

2008-02-12T07:51:00.000-08:00

Well Reggie didn't write in his journal Sunday or Monday.
I imagine Sunday we went to a fireside together and maybe church.

Here's Tues the 12th for Reggie's journal entry - this is my favorite one:

I rode with Jenny to Globe to meet her mom and cousin Paul to go up to Snowflake to see the Temple. When we finally got up there, we saw my family eating at the Mexican restraunt, so we all stopped in and ate with them. Then me, Jenny and her mom and Paul went to Grandma Brinkerhoff's place to change for the Temple open house. The open house was awesome. I got a confirmation in the sealing room that Jenny was the ONE. That scared me to death. Well, Jenny's mom dropped us off in Globe and Jenny got a wild hair to go home. So we dorve to Pima. Of course she had to introduce everyone to me. That was a litle nerve racking. I was fixing a plumbing leak in Jenny's house when her Dad came home. So that scored points right off. Her family was really cool. On our way home, we pulled over and talked about what we felt in the Temple. That was hard. I'm not good at those heavy duty talks. We both sort of knew we were going to get married. I got home at 4:30am.

That really was an amazing experience at the Temple open house. On our way home we had pulled over on the side of the road because I got tired and wanted Reggie to drive. A cop kept driving by us making sure everything was ok. It was pretty funny. I told Reggie that I was afraid of THAT question. He wanted me to tell him which question but I wouldn't say- so we both knew but neither of us was going to say. He kept saying things like "You're afraid I'm going to ask you to rub my feet" and things like that. He was driving me crazy. He finally did say "You're afraid I'm going to ask you to marry me."

I just remembered that sometime that night Reggie and I said 'I Love You'. And just now when I asked Reggie about it he says he remembers saying 'I Love You' and he just told me that I said I couldn't say(even if I felt it - I always hated when high school kids would date all these people and always say I Love You). But I did eventually say 'I Love You' to Reggie that night. I remember when I got back to my apartment and one of my roommates was like "What is wrong with you - are you in love or getting married or something" I didn't want to actually say anything yet but I couldn't hold it in.

SAT - FEB 9TH - 6 YRS AGO

2008-02-12T07:48:00.000-08:00

Here it is for Reg's journal:

Me and Dad went shooting today but the wind was blowing too hard. So we only shot a little bit. When we got home, I had Jen come over and we went and rode the horses. Then we hung out at our place until Madison, Justin and Ginger showed up. We went and got ice cream at Neilsons and then Justin went home. We dropped Madison off at the dance and we went to Shirines to hang out.

FRI - FEB 8 - 6 YRS AGO

2008-02-12T07:43:00.000-08:00

Reggies journal entry for Fri night 6 yrs ago.

Tonight, Justin, Ginger, Jake, Kristin, me and Jen went to the Outback steak house. We all played a joke on Jake and Kristin by telling them me and Jen were engaged. We led it on for about an hour and they so believed us. It was so funny. After dinner we went to Justins and watched a movie. Then me and Jen drove out to the wash and talked for a long time.

THURS - FEB 7 - 6 YRS AGO

2008-02-12T07:42:00.000-08:00

Reggie's journal entry for that day:

Just hung out with her but didn't do much else.

Videos of Cooper and snowballs

2008-02-06T14:02:00.000-08:00

Snowball Fight!!!

2008-02-06T13:43:00.000-08:00

DOGS, SNOW, AND POTTY PLANES

2008-02-06T12:47:00.000-08:00

Well about the present day. Our dog Missy went missing on Sunday. Reggie and Cooper took the quad Sun Evening and looked everywhere for her. They never found her. Cooper said a little prayer asking Heavenly Father to "Please bless Missy home." Well yesterday I heard Buddy barking and I yelled out the window at him because I didn't want him waking up my kids from their naps. After a few minutes he started up again. Instead of yelling at him I decided to just let him bark I thought maybe he could bring Missy home. Another few minutes later I looked outside and Missy was almost home, I couldn't believe it. My mom asked me if she was in heat and I wasn't sure-we hadn't even thought about that, but she was right. I am so glad to have her home, she is such a good dog and the kids like her alot more than Buddy (poor Buddy-he's just more of Reggie's dog though). When Cooper came downstairs from his nap Reggie showed him Missy and said look Heavenly Father answered your prayer, He brought Missy home. Cooper thought that was cool. He told me "Jesus brought mine Missy home." I had no clue Cooper had any idea there was such thing as a best friend but this is what he said to me, "Mine Missy mine Best Friend." Now if that doesn't just melt you. It really was so cute. He was acting all shy when he said it.

Cooper decided he wanted a plane(we have a basket of plastic planes, and he gets one if he goes poo-poo or potty). Well yesterday he said "Mommy I want to go poo-poo in the toilet and get a plane." I was very excited, but between Kira sitting on the toilet once or twice everday for the past few days and Cooper wanting an airplane, we spent the majority of our day in the bathroom yesterday. Cooper did earn himself 2 planes yesterday but none today-yet.

We went to play in our like 6-8 inches of snow on Monday, Cooper wanted to build a Daddy snowman and a Cooper snowman. Kira didn't want me to put her down for a second. She just wanted me to hold her. The second time she went to play in the snow there more trails so she wasn't as scared to walk around a bit. All Cooper wants to do is play snowballs, mostly to throw them at Daddy. I love the snow, it has been a blast to play in and just look at. I am very glad that I am feeling better or I wouldn't even want to go outside. We went to vote last night, good thing Margie(Reggie's mom) reminded us. We made it oh so barely, we were the last one's in line and they closed the door right behind us. I had no idea whatsoever about voting being yesterday.

WED - FEB 6TH - 6 YRS AGO

2008-02-06T12:40:00.000-08:00

If you just started reading my blog for the first time you may want to start from the bottom and read up - it will be less confusing that way.

Ok, back to Reg's journal entry:

I hung out at her place for most of the night. Until we went and visited Shirine at her place and played some pool.

I know, I know he's ssooo descriptive. I wish I remember a little better those days, but at least I know what we did only thanks to Reggie keeping a journal. Shirine lived with her sister and they had a really nice house. I remember she cut his hair one of the times we were there, and while she was cutting his hair we were watching some show on T.V. They were showing some lady with a talent for licking people's eyeballs clean. It was and is so disgusting. People would come from far just to have her lick their eye clean.

TUESDAY - FEB 5TH - 6 YRS AGO

2008-02-06T12:33:00.000-08:00

Here's Reggie's journal entry for Tues. in 2002

Tonight me and Jen went and hung out at Jeff and Jenny's place. Shirine came and got Jen and Jeff and I lifted weights.

I remember Reggie being really sad when Shirine came and I left him at Jeff's(gosh we were practically attatched at the hip. If I recall correctlly Reg and Jeff were trying to bench press a certain weight-I just don't remember the number. I remember when I came in the picture he didn't have as much time for lifting anymore.

MON - FEB - 4TH - 6 YRS AGO

2008-02-04T07:53:00.000-08:00

Well it is totally snowing outside. We have about a few inches on everything. So here is my open invitation for anyone to come up and visit us. Well back to Reggies journal Entry for Mon Feb 4 2002. Uh-oh I forgot to call Brian yesterday and wish him a big fat HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

I went to pick up Jen and bring her to my ward FHE, but she was late, so we sat on the couch and had our own FHE.

I know, I know what a shock that Jen was late to something. It's a good thing I'm always on time now - j/k - maybe someday soon I will be on-time. I remember having that Family Home Evening with Reggie and thinking how awesome it was to have somebody so good around and share the spirit in our FHE.

SUNDAY - FEB 3RD - 6 YRS AGO

2008-02-04T07:48:00.000-08:00

Reggie's journal entry for Feb 3rd.

Jen and I went to a fireside tonight and then I took her home to meet my family. They behaved themselves, so it was ok.

I remember wanting so badly to meet his family and I was so excited when I did because I thought they were so awesome. I am lucky to have great in-laws.

Just so you know Reggie only kept a journal for two weeks, so I won't be dragging this on forever.

Reggie Lon Reed - The Love of My Life

2008-02-02T13:08:00.000-08:00

Here is a poem I wrote very close before we got married.

REGGIE LON REED - THE LOVE OF MY LIFE
That time has come for you and I
To end the sadness no tears no cry
Remember back to that first night
When we knew nothing not even to fight
We laughed and danced without a clue
That the Lord had a plan for me and you
Through the sad times and bad times we've grown together
And now we must learn to love forever
We musn't let the world come bewteen us
Hand in hand we should enjoy life without a fuss
The road is much to long to make it on my own
I promise to Love and Trust you and never leave you alone
I apologize for the sorrow that I've given
Please forgive and love me, and live with me in heaven.

SAT - FEB 2ND - 6 YRS AGO

2008-02-02T12:57:00.000-08:00

Here we go again

Journal entry for Sat, Feb 2nd:

I didn't get up until 11:30. That was crazy. I went to a saddle shop in Casa Grande with Dad and then I went over to Jeff's to finish my glass bed job on my gun. It turned out good and then what do ya know, I went out with Jen again. She came and got me. We went with her friends for their birthday. We went to a comedy place called Jestures. It was clean fun. The we went to Cold Stone on Mill Ave. and back to her place to watch a movie. For some reason I want to be with her and she wants to be with me. Something weird is going on. This time I got home at 3:30am. That's going to have to change.

How adorable.
It was Heather and Athena's birthday and Sara came up.

I think it is so funny how life works. Life takes us all in different paths to learn and grow in our own way and to have the different stories and feelings and laughs and cries. I have had many laughs and cries since I have been married and I am glad I get to share them with Reggie.

FRIDAY - FEB 1ST - 6 YRS AGO

2008-02-02T12:49:00.000-08:00

I am sure you are all getting a kick out of how descriptive Reggie was in his journal entry's. But at least he wrote something. I on the other hand was in whole different world. Probably dreaming my life away.
Ok Reggie's journal entry for Frid, Feb 1:

Well, she dropped her plans and went with me tonight. We ate dinner with Dallan and his wife. Then we went to Justin and Gingers place to hang out. Then we drove to my place and I introduced her to the horses and dogs. Then we went and talked for a while and I got home at 4:30a.m.! This track record is getting worse.

Isn't he cute.

THURS - JAN 31ST - 6 YEARS AGO

2008-02-02T12:42:00.000-08:00

Oops. wrong day on my last post - it was Wed.

Anyway, Reggie's journal entry for Jan 31st:

Jennifer called me and invited me over again. This time we went to the jaccuzzi tub........Jennifer is from Pima, AZ and she's 18 years old. She makes me feel old. This time I didn't get home until 3:30am! Crazy kids.

He did fail to mention in that journal entry of his that we had our first kiss that night.
It was a fun night, my friend Shirine and another friend were there with us.

p.s. I did some spell checking for the sake of the reader.
Love you Babe =)

THURS - JAN 30TH - 6 YEARS AGO

2008-02-02T12:36:00.000-08:00

Reggie and I met 6 years ago this January. January 30th was the first time he called (about 2 weeks after we met). This is his journal entry for that day:
I called Jennifer Cluff for the first time to see if she wanted to go out on Friday night. She turned me down but she told me to come over right then to hang out. So I did and I didn't get home till 2:30am. We had fun.

Pics of the Kids

2008-01-31T18:46:00.000-08:00

Cheese! Or look scared and crazy, which ever.

Aren't I cute. This is a picture before the haircut. Cooper is posing for the camera

How can you sleep with hair all over you. Well he got a well deserved haircut.

Maybe he's dreaming that he's eating his sandwich.

Kira wanted to a big girl. Who knows maybe she'll be pottytrained before Cooper.

Little girl in a big hat.

This is what happens when you don't watch boys 24/7

2008-01-29T14:39:00.000-08:00

Picture of Kira like a bug at our Christmas Party. Cooper loving the mini playground at Gaiges house.

2008-01-29T14:26:00.000-08:00

2008-01-25T12:22:00.000-08:00

Last week was a pretty crazy week being a single mom of 5 kids for the week. Things went pretty well as long as we kept on track with our schedule. Our first day was kind of funny when I read the instructions wrong and took 5 kids to Kiley's bus stop an hour early and we waited there on the side of the road with the babies in the stroller and playing games with the other three just to keep them out of the road. After about 40min.(I had no idea so much time past) a lady came around the corner and to make the story short I realized how long we were there and that we didn't have to be. Trying to eat breakfast and lunch and get five kids ready plus myself was quite an adventure
I guess the second best part would have to be when I got the flu while I was there. I called Reggie at 4:30am and woke him up because the clock was wrong and I thought he was already awake. And I was only calling to complain because I couldn't sleep all night, and I was terrified about how the day would pan out. Well @ 10:30am that same morning somebody was trying to open the front door and scared me a little. It was Reggie who had come to rescue me after a 3 hr long drive to do what he loves soooo much - BABYSIT. He is so sweet. He got Kiley off to school and let me nap when he got back and got the kids dinner that night while I rested. Oh boy was he happy to come home.
Ever since I got the flu last Friday my pregnancy sickness came back. I started getting better the week before we went to babysit. So I had a little taste of wellness and then - BAM! I guess things can always get worse-and they did-Kira got the flu when we got home and yesterday I woke up feeling bad with a cold and Kira got it today. I tell you what life has definately been more calm before. The great news is that we made it to the Temple this month, the first time in a while and when life is busy you have less time to feel sorry for yourself. All in all I really do feel up-beat.

And we're back in the game-trying anyway.

2008-01-10T15:45:00.000-08:00

And the Winner is...

Does Insurance cover this?

It could be worse

So, Christmas was good except for Kira being sick that was pretty sad. Cooper still says Santa is Coming To Town. I can hardly wait for my vacation next week-I am going to a far off land of Exotic people, a place where only the chosen get to go. It is the vacation of a lifetime (I hope)(just kidding Katie) I am going to BABYSIT in MESA!!! Well Cooper seems to like Sunbeams. And every week we go pick up Kira they say "She is so good" and I think it figures because she is quite the drama queen at home. Well I did something that wasn't exactly wise, but then again who said pregnant mothers are wise-this one is definately not wise. Maybe more like sporatic, crazy and completely non-coherant in most ways. I went to cut my bangs and I put the scissors away and I decided to trim my hair up in the back only it got much shorter than I anticipated. Well I never finished, my mother talked me into putting the scissors down and walking away. So it is completely uneven and I cut it about two weeks ago. The top doesn't even fit in a ponytail so I have to use bobbypins. I guess you could say "Here's your sign."

Peace Out All Y'All

2007-08-10T14:03:00.000-07:00

Well I am very sorry to say that it will be some time before I post anything since I am with out a camera. I keep hoping to one soon like maybe for my b-day but Reggie and I decided-no presents this year and even though I think a camera is a need-there are many other important things also, like a fence-for our kids and dogs(not that a fence will keep the dogs in).

I have a funny joke: Who runs slow, plays ball, and sprained their ankle
Ding Ding Ding: You got it - ME.
Reggie actually did the same thing about a month ago but he's tougher than me - he went to work the next day. I sat on the couch the next day, as much as possible with the kids fighting.

It was the championship game too. The bad news is that I didn't finish playing, but the good news is that we WON!

Well I am going to try and post some family pics we took right before we gave back the digital camera.

Peace out, and until next time in probably a very long long time. BE SAFE

2007-06-05T19:24:00.000-07:00

2007-05-17T23:44:00.000-07:00