Christmas 2010

The year has gone by so fast. The kids are excited Christmas is here. They have been running around the house singing Happy Birthday Jesus and other Christmas songs. One Christmas Eve was took turns reading about Jesus birth. Tyler was excited to be able to read from the bible this year. Then they all picked a cookie, with the most icing on it, they had made for Santa. Then it was time for bed. Haylee woke everyone up at 7am. They had so much fun that day opening present, eatting their candy, and playing with their new toys as a family. We thank you for all the gifts. We miss everyone. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.

Birthdays

We also had a lot of birthdays. Tyler had his birthday on April 12th. He had a Mario Brothers theme. We played some really fun games and had cake. He loved all the toys and clothes. We had a blast.

Then Erin turned 8 on June 25th. She had a party in Carlsbad. She had a Lula theme. We had Lots of family, food, and fun. Thank you for all the wonderful gifts.

September was Haylee's birthday. She had a neon/music theme. She had her first sleepover party. She loved all her gifts from all you grandmas. I can't believe my baby is 10 already.

our summer

I don't really have an reason but it been forever. A lot has happened since March. I coached Tyler team in tee ball. I found out I like basketball better. Tyler like it though. Well he didn't like being in the outfield, but he can throw the ball 55 feet so that's were we put him. He did love make all the home runs.

Then June Kit donated his kidney to his brother Kyle. They both are doing a lot better. Kit still has some issues with energy. But that will just take some time.

August school started. Haylee started 4th, Erin started 3rd, and Tyler started 1st.

11 years of love

Well I know you guys usually see stuff about the kids but this one is about us. I am so excited that 15 years ago I meet Kit. We meet in choir. We instantly liked each other. We both had boyfriends/girlfriends so after about 4 months we started dating. Things were not always easy but we made them work. Then i graduated high school and he had one year left. One night after eating supper and commercial for wedding dresses came on TV. He looked over and said "so when are we going to do get one of those?" I laughed at first then I realized he was serious. so we looked at a calender and decided on the Friday before spring break, March 12. I need to give my mom and everyone else a special thank you for putting a wonderful wedding together in 1 month. Then through out the next 11 years we have 4 wonderful kids. I think that explains most of our married life. We are still head over heals in love with each other. I would not change a thing about us or about our family!!

all the maddness

In the last few weeks we have been busy. Kryssi was up and down with bad stomach pains. The good new is that she is doing better. We still have to watch her, but this last week has been good.

Also Haylee now has a thing called an expander in her mouth. Her top teeth turn in so it is made to push them out. She will have that for 6 months or so. Then if her baby teeth fall out then we will do braces for about a year. She has done real well with it so far. I guess I have enough teeth problems that it makes her want to take care of hers.

Tyler has been OK. He is reading really well now. He still does not like to read though. He wants to deal with numbers. They did time and money at school and he picked that up faster then the girls. I do have one that likes math like me YEAH!!! Also Tyler has now lost his first tooth. He thinks it's cool now.

Erin is good to. She loves school. She is growing up fast. She wants to help me with everything. She also has become a comic. She has perfected the art of voices and noises. She loves to make you laugh. even when its not the right time.

As for me and kit we are very happy. In about 3 weeks we will be married for 11 years and together for 15. We are both doing good.

Maybe we will see you all over spring break.

Kryssi is 4!!

WOW my baby is now 4!! They grow up way to fast. Kryssi decided to have a princess party. She was so happy to be the princess all day long. Her cake was Snowwhite.


We had 4 girls and 4 boys at the house. Kryssi opened her presents and got some princess dress up clothes. So the girls had a beauty show. The older boys rode scooters out side in the snow most of the party. She is kinda torn about getting older. Some days she tells me she is 4 and other she says she is still 3. We had a fun day. Thank you to all for the presents!!

opened eyes

I have realized a lot this last week. I am so so thankful for my family and all my kids. I found out that my cousin lost her baby to illness at 18 months old. I have lost a few but could not imagine the lose after being able to hold it. I have also decided to not worry about what other people think about my kids! I have been so worried about Tyler and Haylee being perfect. There is no such thing as perfect people. They are both smart but they just have extra energy. I am sure Kryssi will decided one of these days that she wants to be potty trained. I have exhausted myself doing everything I can think of for 2 1/2 years and I am done. . Erin is quite now but the first 2 years were full of screams! We all have things we are good at and things that someone else is better at. Thank you God for everything!!

Christmas day

I love Christmas!! On Christmas Eve we took reindeer food and spread it on the front lawn.

And made cookies for Santa!!

The kids started the morning by putting baby Jesus in the manger and a family reading of the bible. I think that Haylee has the story of Christ bith memorized. Then we opened presents. their was paper and screams of joy and more paper and more screams of joy. Erin now has a collection of horses and she is sooo very thankful.

The other kids loved the clothes and all the toys. Me and kit loved the kitchen gadgets, vaccums, and stuff. Thank you ssooo much to all the grandparents and great grandparents. We love you all very much. Have a Happy New Year. I made the video so you guys could get a look at all the fun we had.

Christmas party

It has been a while!! November went by fast. And Christmas came before we knew it. Haylee, Erin, and Tyler all did wonderful Chrisymas plays at school. I was very happy to hear the kids say Merry Christmas through out all the plays. The last day of school was a Polar Exspress theme. The kids had a blast.

We had some friends over for a Christmas party. We played some games. We took the 2 five year old boys and stuffed them with balloons to make them look fatter like Santa Cluses.
We also made the kids find all 8 of Santas riendeer. 8 kids under the age of 9 and 6 adults in one house was LOUD but was soo much fun.

Halloween 2009

Well I know its a little late but here are the Halloween pics. Haylee is a cowgirl. Erin is Tinkerbell. Tyler is the Hulk. And Kryssi is a pretty"pony". They don't real know what unicorns are so she told everyone she was mommies pretty pony. Tyler loved Halloween this year. He is going to be like his dad a love to dress up just to see if he can get some kind of reaction out of people. We went to the church fall festival. They had bible related games and lots of candy. After telling them we were going to leave because they were not playing any games they all the sudden found a game to play. Tyler liked the " Red Sea Raceway". It was a sack race with the sides looking like a sea. Haylee and Erin both took turns going back and forth between a arm wrestling game and a water gun game. They were arm wrestling Samson, after his hair had been cut. And the water game was to shoot out a candle with a water gun. Erin was good at it. Kyrssi real did not care about anything but eating the candy!! we had a good time.

pumpkin carving time!!

We had a lot of fun last night carving pumpkins. Normally Haylee and Erin try as hard as they can not to throw up. This year they did pretty good. Haylee only gagged once. And Erin only gagged after tasting the pumpkin cause Kryssi was eating it and said it was good. It was nice this year cause they actually got all the seeds out. All I had to do was the slim part. Which is the worse part but they did a good job of helping.

Kit got a huge pumpkin!! We joked about putting Kryssi in it but she did not quite fit.

Haylee is the spider. Erins is the cat face. Tylers is the scary face. Kryssis is the other cat. Mine was the silly face. And kits won the contest. His was a picture of Jesus.

We had a blast and now off to cook the seeds!!!

picking pumpkins

On friday Tyler class took a field trip to Apple Annie's Orchard. They walked though a small part of the corn maze and took a hay ride to pick pumpkins. He had a blast. Tyler likes the girls already, great!! He got a gift from one and got caught holding hands with other.

Then we went as a family on Saturday. We took the hardest corn maze trail. We got lost. I think we were in the maze for about 30 minutes. It was so fun though. The view of the maze from the air shows they cut out aminal shapes in the corn field.

We also took the hay ride out to the pumpkin field. Erin's eyes were bigger then her muscles. We told the they had to carry there pumpkins cause Kit was going to get a big one. She made it back to the trailer but barely. Tyler helped Kryssi find one. She liked it till she found out the the stem is pokey.

We had a blast. it was windy but very fun. We walked for 3 hours straight. the kids slept good that night. So did we.

In Memory of Papa

I just want to write a little in memory of my papa. He was a man that loved everyone. He was a clown for the Shriner's. When I was little I had a lot of sleep over weekends. I remember he would peek in the room and see if i was moving around yet and if I was he would run to the donut shop and get donuts. Another good memory was when we would grill out. He made the best hamburgers and brisket. We would all sit down and eat and laugh the entire time. He taught me how to do the number puzzle books. He always gave the biggest bear hugs every time. He was always happy and loved the Lord with his whole heart. He is in a wonderful place now with love joy and no more pain. We love you and will miss you Papa Markham.

fun fun fun

September has been fun!! We started off with a visit from Grandma Vicki and Papa Juan. They came down for Haylee's birthday. Haylee had a Ice Cream party. Her and all her friends make their own ice cream sundaes. They had 3 flavors of ice cream and about every topping you can think of. Haylee didn't get a cake so her sundae was her cake!!
She was so happy. Thank you for all the presents and thank you Summer for coming and sharing in our sugar high!

Later that weekend we went to the apple orchard and picked apples. the kids love picking the fruit and veggies.

And on the down side we found out that Kryssi has 4 cavities. They are going to fill 2 tomorrow. We will see how she reacts before we do the rest. They also said she has an under bite but we will take care of that when she is about 7. Thank God i only have one out of four that have my teeth.

going to grandmas

Her is a picture of kryssi this morning. She has PJ's and panties in her bag. She grabbed a hand full of pretzels and said " I am leaving to go stay at Grandmas". So I guess she is on her way!!

oh it's Kryssi

well since the older three have been in school me and Kryssi have been all by ourselves. It has made me realize that she hass as much energy as all the others combined. She is soooo independant. Yet when she is done she is ready to be held. She tells everybody we see that she is going to school now. Her personality is just soo fun/hard. I just thought I would share so pictures of what a silly kid I live with.

The other kids r doing good in school. Erin reads at a third grade level. Haylee has already got a award for her spelling. And Tyler is doing good but he is acting very very shy. His teachers can't get a good test of what he knows because he is afraid to talk to anybody, who would have though. Everything else is great.