This summer we have been keeping busy in our yard.  It's been really fun to grow a garden!!  Matt and I both enjoy gardening and the kids love eating the veggies!

some fun spring pictures :) 

Kate's team took 1st place in their tournament, I'll have to get pictures off Matt's phone, but here's her awesome batting stance!

Happy Thanksgiving SISTERS!! (and whoever else still checks my blog!)

After my sisters have begged and begged for me to post pictures here they are... I like to think I will keep it up so our families can see what we are up to - I make NO promises! Life is busy and computer time is limited with little boys a foot:) The next month hold the busiest time I can imagine. Our move to our new house will probably be in 2-3 weeks. I've got to finish Christmas shopping like this weekend, pack, then paint and fix up the house and then up pack, set up Christmas and CELEBRATE!!!

Here are our most recent picts... I know a month old! We'll take some today and put them up. But now you can see our Halloween :)


He has Isaac's whistle in his mouth, he couldn't quiet blow through it so he would just make noises while holding it in his mouth.



Kate as Astrid from How to Train your dragon. I felt really sick on trunk'r treat day and Matt was deer hunting... so with Grandma's help we pulled it off :)


Isaac as Hiccup!!



Our Halloween weather was beautiful this year! The most fun was our 'dance party' Kate planned for Halloween evening! As the dancing wound down Grandma came up with playing 'I had a little doggy and he didn't bit you...' They LOVED it! Especially Ethan! He wanted to run every turn !!

I will hopefully get some pictures of our house up here soon!! I am so excited that we will be closing next week, we were hoping for this week so we could work on it over this weekend- oh well. We are counting our blessings:)

Okay, Okay I'll add some new pictures!

Sorry blogging just ends up at the end of my priorities list over and over again. But since I have a minute and I really mean just a minute I thought I would add some pictures. The kids are growing up SO FAST! We are busy having fun and always learning how to be a happy family.

Here is our New Year's Day sledding activity. It was a BEAUTIFUL- Sunny winter day. We made a long sled run in the yard that we all had fun going down. And the kids got to give their NEW SNOWSHOES a try!!! What fun. I have to add Friday I snowshoed up to a peak behind our neighbor hood. It was quite the accomplishment and so much fun. If I keep up on my exercise I don't hate winter so much! Amazing.



Kate's awesome drawing of Tinkerbell! She is a great little artist with SO much creativity.


Isaac is a SUNBEAM now. That means he goes with the big kids into primary every Sunday at Church. His only complaint in leaving the nursery behind is having to sit in a chair the WHOLE time!!


Ethan loves his BOOTS! He is a silly kid who is really figuring life out. He goes for his boots right after breakfast and wants to go out to play in the snow. I think he's the first kid in our family who really likes winter.

Dresser Make-over

Joanna's been asking to see these pictures so here is our latest project. This is my parents old dresser (like they've had it for 20 years!) and they bought it at a garage sale! BUT it is amazingly well built. You can't find top of the line expensive dressers that are this well built any more (and we've looked) So we (Matt and I) decided it was worth trying to make it look nice. (I always openly detested this dresser- to gaudy)



And here is a side table that I didn't take a before picture of. We painted them a light blue- almost white color with a darker blue trim.


I guess this isn't the greatest picture, kind of dark... BUT we now love it!

Swing, swing, swing

Ethan LOVES it...


Isaac LOVES it...


Kate LOVES it...



EVERYONE LOVES IT!!!

Isaac even got to help build it :) His favorite!!


Thanks to our Builders!!! (It took pretty much their whole Saturday)

Even with the wind...

... Sanae is amazing! I am seriously in love with her work :) What a cute family!
And the bride and groom!

Okay so I didn't really take many pictures at the wedding. I know sounds bad! BUT with two photographers and a videographer running around and then trying to keep track of three kids I figured why worry about it!? So we'll just have to wait and see all the really good shots from that great day. (all the pictures I did take are of my kids:) I'm excited for Joanna and Curtis to start their lives together. They are in for an adventure for sure. They are off to Oklahoma where he is in pilot training with the airforce. They know they will be there for about a year and then it's off to all sorts of places. They had a beautiful sealing the Salt Lake Temple.
I have to say my kids looked so stinkn' cute!! Kate was absolutely beautiful! and danced the night away when the band started to play, she didn't miss a single song- and she made sure to get on the camera plenty!

Isaac was SO SO good. I emphasize this so much, because he can be um... a little of a trouble maker at times, but I was amazed. Even as the night wore on and he was so tired, he just sat in his seat with his binki waiting to go home.

Ethan had such a long day! He is such a great nap taker- in his bed. So not being home all day was a little hard for the baby. He finally ended up taking a nap in the stroller long enough for me to get some DANCING in! I loved the little boys bow ties and suits! :)

New FAMILY PICTURES... to come!

Well there I made a NEW POST!! Amazing. Now I just need to get a new family picture up on our title bar. But we are hoping to come up with a cute one Aunt Joanna's wedding NEXT WEEK! With all our CUTE new outfits for the wedding we might be able to get my AWESOME friend SANAE to snap one of us while she's photographing the wedding! Check out her blog and some of my sister's BRIDAL's here.

Time, Time, Time

I just never have enough TIME!! So blogging gets pushed off the list... but here I am sitting down to enter something of our lives.

Life is... well honestly life couldn't be better!!! Of course we are waiting for the day we have our own house, the day we have school paid off, the day we don't spend 1-2 hours putting Isaac to bed, the day we are really done with school, the day no one has colds, the day it STOPS SNOWING, the day all our siblings lives are going totally smooth... you know how it is I could go on and on! But why wait?

I am so blessed and happy! Ethan is just amazingly chubby and he giggles and grins and it just lights up my heart. And I was thinking, you know by the time I get all those things I just might not have any chubby little babies around any more?!! So I am just enjoying the fact that my husband works so hard and sacrifices for me to be home and enjoy these kids right now at the stages they are in.

Isaac is one funny kid!  He loves to play play play and is really good at pretend!  For instance... he had some peas for lunch this week and as I stopped and listened to him and the peas' conversation I was laughing!  It was something like this, "Hi I'm Tiny. Hi. move over I'm big. Oh no. Ah come here Tiny!"  He also is a smart and inquisitive toddler.  He knows all his colors and will repeat anything Kate teaches him.  He loves to count and look at books.  This week he was laughing at me- while we were running errands Ethan would not nap!  I told Ethan he needed to start learning how to sleep on the road.  Isaac laughed, "Ethan sleep on the road- that's funny mom!"

Ethan is one HAPPY baby!  We love it.  He is a good napper most of the time... and HE'S CRAWLING!  AAH  We now need to RE- Child Proof!  We sure love all his ROLES.

 The kids enjoyed Easter and HAD to be outside, even with the rain.  One of their favorite prizes was bubbles!  It's my favorite when they play really well together :)

 Kate lost her first TOOTH and now we are trying to convince her to pull out her second tooth!  I guess the money from the tooth fairy was just not thrilling enough to motivate this girl.  She is set on letting it take it's own good time.  Kate LOVES Kindergarten!  She has made a lot of friends and is very sweet to any one who is down.  She is really developing a great talent for painting- I'll have to scan in her watercolors.  They are amazing!!

One Happy Day at the PARK!  We LOVE it when Dad COMES!!  And EVEN more when the SUN comes out too!!

Fall with a new baby!

Well I think we are all 'adjusted' to having 3 kids in the family now. But I will say at times it is a little crazy!! Ethan is a sweet little addition to our family and the kids love him so much. I am amazed at how easily Isaac has just accepted him. Isaac is so sweet and gentle with him (even while trying to share his goldfish crackers with him by shoving one in his mouth!). Kate is a big helper and always wants to hold Ethan and get him to smile (even if she acts like he is a little doll).

Isaac has proven to be a BUSY little boy. He is constantly going! We all have to try to keep up with him and my challenge is to think two steps ahead of him. If I sit down or turn my back I'm most often met with some craziness or minor disaster! Like the time I was nursing Ethan and Isaac brought me my tooth brush coated in diaper ointment! aaahh His favorite thing right now is to climb, climb, climb. He finds something to climb no matter where he goes.

Kate is enjoying school and all the new things that come with that. She's made some cute friends and is very good at being a friend to everyone. She has to make sure she's not missing out on to much while she's gone though. She is reading really well and we just wish that school was proving to be a bit more challenging to her, good thing she really enjoys coloring!!

Ethan is a great baby. I've had a harder time getting him on a set schedule, but I think it's more my scatterbrainess than him not cooperating. He has had some hard adjustments after all the antibiotics he had after birth getting things back to 'normal'. He is the greatest night sleeper though! Wow he'll go 7 hrs some nights, but always at least 5 hrs in a row. Now if I could just get in bed I might be getting some decent sleep :)

Our trip to the pumpkin patch with 3 silly kids!!

Handsome Isaac and Beautiful Kate!! What great kids we've got!

Ethan is almost 2 months old and growing cuter every day!!

Me and Ethan... trying not to look to tired! hahaa (looks like his siblings hun?!)

With almost everyone having the flu the week before Halloween we were feeling a little less than festive. Kate recovered in time to go to trunk or treat, but not her school's party- which was VERY disappointing to her. Isaac didn't get the sickness until after Halloween and Matt's lasted almost 2 weeks!! Luckily Ethan and I were very blessed to not get sick! Wow, amazing hun?! Because it's such a bummer to be sick and be the mom and having a newborn with the flu is not an experience I want to have.

Isaac LOVEs candy!

My sister knit this CUTE pumpkin hat on her mission and set it to Ethan!

Kate was a mermaid and Isaac was a tiger.

Ethan John Masner

Ethan weighted 7lbs 9 oz. barley bigger than our other two kids and was 21 inches long. It's amazing how easily he was delivered! Matt is my hero and I'm so thankful that he can stay calm in such stressful situation. He could barely concentrate on what the dispatcher was telling him, but he just knew what to do (it helped a little that he had EMT training over 12 yrs ago). I'm impressed that I only ended up with one stitch when it was all said and done, better than my other Dr. deliveries ;)!

Ethan has an IV to get antibiotics, and since his veins are so hard to find they had to use one in his head. I guess they do it all the time (my dad reassures me), but it looks so invasive!! He doesn't complain much, just sleeps through almost everything they do to him :) My boys have inherited a lot from their dad, one being thick blood and veins that roll. Hopefully they are done poking at Ethan though.

Matt can add BABY DELIVERY to his resume!

Baby Ethan was born @ 7:27 am, a little late, but NOT slow!! He surprised us to say the least and was born before we could leave the house.. the details (for those who care about all that stuff)...

Ethan was due four days ago, but was taking his time. Luckily I was able to stay pretty patient with sewing projects and nesting. Saturday I was having a lot of contractions, but very sporadic and nothing progressive or consistent until 10:30 pm. They started coming every 12 mins. So I went to bed to get some sleep inbetween the contractions. They stayed over 10 mins apart most of the night. Around 5 am they were getting very uncomfortable, but not to bad. I layed back down.

At 6:20 I figured I needed Matt's help to get through some more painful ones. He helped me breath through a couple while I called the Midwife. They were just starting to get under 7 mins apart so she said well I guess you could head in and your about 30 mins from the hospital. And I was GBS possitive and needed to get antibiotics in 4hrs before delivering. As I got up and got ready to leave they quickly sped up, within 15 mins they were 3 mins apart or something. We started rushing to get out the door! But right before we got to the door my water broke... coming with it contrations right on top of another!!

From here it's kind of a rushed blurr! Matt kept asking me if I wanted to go to the hospital. My mom kept saying "No, she can't she's going to have the baby!" My dad was the most stressed and was like you need to leave right now! As everyone was asking me what I wanted to do I was sitting down on the bed and having contrations right after another. They told me I was repeating over and over, " This isn't funny, this isn't funny!" and " I don't know what I want to do." (I guess in my mind I knew I wasn't going anywhere, I was getting the urge to push, but I really really didn't want to deliver at home!)

So within a couple of minutes they had 911 on the phone and a dispatcher telling Matt what to do. I remember my dad running around looking for a shoe lace to tie the cord off with!!! I was trying not to push for as long as I could, but didn't last long, that urge is pretty intense! So Matt looked down and called out the baby is crowning. The dispatcher was giving him instructions, but it was a little intense! Matt did an amazing job and quickly delivered Ethan! He layed him on my tummy and was wiping him clean when the first parametic walked in. Wow!! So from the time I called my Midwife to the time Ethan was born was less 40 mins.!

For those who know me, know that I've had all my babies natually. This was a whole new experice. Easier in some ways, crazier in others, and definetely more stress full for Matt!! Looking back we figured the time we should have been leaving was like 3 am. But at that point my contrations were 10 mins apart still and I was managing them just fine on my own, without Matt even having to breath with me. This labor was so different for me; not being on pitocin was SO much less intense that I didn't think I was progessing as fast as I obviousely was. My labors are fast once I get to a certain point, but I had no idea that I had reached that so early and with such endurable contrations. I never had contrations that were as intense as the last 2 hrs of contrations of my last deliveries. I never knew it was so much easier not being induced, although I've heard it!!!





When Isaac came to visit us at the hospital he said, "Ethan good job" and started clapping! He is excited, but a little dazed!


Kate is thrilled and already a very helpful big sister!

We are all happy and healthy!