CRAZY BUSY!!! (with pictures!!!!)

As most of you probably have figured out from my SUPER extended brake from blogging, we have been Crazy busy!!! Since we moved back to Shelley in June, we have been going NONSTOP!!! It has been good though! I desperately miss Moscow, and our friends there, but it is also great being back with other friends and of course, family! Since I posted last, all 4 kids have had birthdays! (okay, Shylee had had hers, but I hadn't posted on it yet. Oops!)

So, Shylee is our little 6 year old (her birthday was in August!) She has attitude like no other, and is not afraid to throw it at you, if she is comfortable around you! But she still lives up to her name and is incredibly shy! She is loving her new Kindergarten class, and especially so, because her best friend Colby has the same teacher!

Ivory is our Spunky 1 year old. I cannot believe that she is already 1! This past year has just FLOWN by! She is crazy and into everything! She is super independent, yet if someone walks in the room she doesn't know, or she isn't comfortable with, she is glued to me. The older she gets, the more she looks like Cayge and Icelynn, which means she looks just like the Bird's!!!!!

Icelynn has turned 8, yet thinks she's 18! She refuses to wear "little" girl clothes, and will only wear what she thinks is in style for older girls. And to tell ya honestly, she does a pretty good job! She LOVES school, and luckily for me, has broken up with her 1st boyfriend after she got in trouble (by me) for holding hands!!! (The last thing I need is to be a grandma in a few years!!!! YIKES!!!!!!!)

Cayge has turned 10, and is a very advanced 10 year old indeed! He pulls straight A's in school, with very little effort. He has an imagination like his father, and loves to play legos and video games till my eyes are about to bleed! He is best friends with my sister-in-law's little brother, Kelson. He recently played flag football, and just finished up fall wrestling! He is such an amazing, loving, thoughtful kid!



And of course, this post couldn't go without saying...




WE ARE EXPECTING BABY #5 IN MAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are super excited, and as of now, everything is looking great! We find out in a week what we are having. Personally, I hope it's human! But really, I hope to find dangle-ee parts hanging there, if ya know what I mean! :) We need a little testosterone in this house to help balance out all the crazy girls!!!

I just had to add these pictures of Ivory. Our great friend Kenny Bowcutt is an amazing photographer, and he just snapped these one night at his house when we were over for dinner!

This is her kissy face. When she wants a "tiss", she juts out that bottom lip and hums. She doesn't stop until you lean in and get a wet slobbery smooch!

Ivory's teasing face!

Kenny is just amazing. He just tossed her up on his couch cushion and snapped this priceless face :)






AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST.......

RAYCE IS ON SEASON 2 OF SYFY'S FACE OFF!!!!!!!!!!

This is the cast (notice the extreme hunk in the middle? You might know him as Rayce.) You can check out his, and the other contestants profiles here. You can also see the commercial here and here. It airs JANUARY 11TH at 7 o'clock (mt time)





(and yes, I know I didn't post any pictures of the older 3 kids, but I am not using my own computer, so I had to use the few pictures I had on this computer Hopefully I can get better about this!)