Ezra

Ezra is almost 9 months now! Holy cow.... where has the time gone? He is now crawling. He loves food soooo much... not baby food, but real food! He doesn't have any teeth yet. But has been teething since 3 months old. He still doesn't sleep very well and doesn't take good naps at all. He cries in the car at night for some strange reason. He loves Malcolm our dog. He loves his siblings and loves to play with them. He loves to be held by someone all the time. He loves people and will pretty much go to anyone. He loves being outside. He loves bath time. He loves to talk. And his smile melts my heart!

Elijah Update

I have always admired parents that have children with Special Needs. What amazing people they are to be so patient, loving, and kind with their children. Elijah is not necessarily special needs, but sometimes with the lack of communication and many therapy appointments, it kinda feels like it. I think he understands everything we say, But I'm not totally sure. He definitely can't communicate to us what he wants to say. I guess I've always taken advantage of the fact that I can just ask my 2 year old what's wrong and he can tell me without me getting down to his level, watching his body language, and trying to figure out what he's saying. I'm just trying to figure things out with him. He's doing really well with his speech therapy and is saying a few more words. But the words are coming very slowly. I guess I'm just not very patient and thought he would be talking a lot more by now. It just takes a lot of patient and work on my part. I'm not on here to complain at all, cause it's all good. I just wanted to let you all know how it's going for him.

Father's Day

I can honestly say that I love Father's Day! I love a day that I can focus on the amazing dad's in my life. I wanted to post some pics on here from our day, but our battery is totally dead... so I'll just write about our day. I got up at 5am, started getting ready for my day and took my shower and started the daunting task of searching for church clothes and socks. I also needed to put together my Father's Day present for Jason. We're getting black out curtains for our room so he can sleep. But as I was at Walgreens Saturday night at 9:45pm, I wanted to get him some fun too. So I decided to do a last minute candy gram. Here's how it turned out.... "Jason, I know it's been a ROCKYROAD for the past 10 years of your life. I would be telling a WHOPPER of a lie if I didn't tell you how much you bring the kids and me ALMOND JOY! I know there was a SYMPHONY in heaven the day we were sealed. I really SKORed that day! Not because of your PAYDAY, but because of your GOOD N PLENTY genes you passed onto our JUNIOR MINTS. And I have to SNICKERS when you are such a GOOBER with them. And I love to PIECES how you share you M&M's (missionary moments) and testimony of the Gospel with them. From the SNO CAPS of the Himalayas to the ends of the MILKY WAY, we all love you more than anything. So on this Father's Day, please TAKE 5 and know how much of a MR. GOODBAR you are to us! We love you!" As he was reading it, he got all teary eyed! Maybe cause he was so excited for all of the candy! ;-) No, I really do appreciate and love Jason and all that he does for us! We were able to go up to Oroville and go to church with my dad. And then we went to the McOmber's. Then to my parents. I always love hanging out with family! So ya, that was our Father's Day!

Goodbye Old Friend

It was a sad day when we sent our 1999 Ford Windstar to the Pick N'Pull.


Seeing it for the last time.


Elijah and Sadee cried when they saw it leave. I even got teary eyed!

It was time for us to let go of our mini-van. We've had it since before Sadee was born. It's been so good to us! It's brought 3 babies home from the hospital. It took us to our first family trip to Disneyland. It took us to my Grandma's funeral in Utah. It took 3 of our kids to their first day's of school. It made many trips back and forth between Roseville and Oroville, and Plumas Lake and Lincoln and Oroville and Sacramento. It picked kids up from school for the past 4 years. BUT, for the last year, Jason nursed it along. It didn't have windshield wipers that worked. It had a major gas fume smell after we drove it. Jason tore everything apart and it still didn't go away. Towards the end, it didn't like driving anymore and just seemed tired. So after months and months and months of praying and looking for another car, we decided to upgrade.... in size that is....

A 12 Passenger.... and we absolutely LOVE IT! (except for the gas)