Happy Birthday Kyler and Pioneer Day!

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...

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!!

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!

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!

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!!