Jayci and Presley's Bday!

This year I wanted to keep birthdays simple. Main reason being i'm pregnant and last year I went all out so I didn't feel like doing that again this year. Besides I don't want my girls expecting extravagant parties every year. I decided to do their party at Menchies! How fun right? You pat per kid and they decorate for you, you get a tshirt to color, party hat, and menchies in a waffle cone. They also clean up for you! It was worth every penny and i've spent more than that on home parties. It was great! We were also lucky enough to have Sarah come to face painting for us. She is amazing! I will hire her anyday! So that was an awesome bonus for the kids. It was easy, fun and the kids had a blast. My kind of party!

Be prepared for lots of pics. I actually used my real camera!

Yes the twins are tall. They are in the 90% for height or something...

 

Awesome face painting eh?

So they asked for Furblings for their bday and I've told them over and over no. Kyla got a Furby for her bday and I said one is enough. But the day before their bday we were in walmart and they were just sitting there on the shelf. I had too. Besides their bday morning Jayci's like, "I know what we are getting for our birthday, a furbling!" So thank goodness I got them. I think they were a bit excited! 

We also got them our original plan of new bikes! They can't even ride them. They still have training wheels on their small bikes. The next nice day we are teaching them on the smaller bikes with no training wheels! I'm determined this year. Last year I just wanted to pull my hair out. ha.

Our family pic went over good... Thanks Laken! 

Good times. I didn't even care. 

So that's it! I would highly recommend having a party at Menchies anyday!! Happy 6th birthday girls!! 

Goin on a bear hunt

"Hey babes, you wanna go for a drive tonight together and maybe see if we can see a bear?" 

That's the question I was asked on Friday night by Dustin. I thought to myself, a quiet drive with my husband would be awesome. So relaxing and quiet plus some time together. Little did I know the drive meant "road trip" for over an hour out of town and on bumpy ass side roads. I fell asleep on the drive so I had no say in the moment. I played the good wife and just went along with it. We finally headed back but every side road he saw looked like a "good spot" to get a bear. So we pulled in and off roaded some more. Oddly enough the bear we did see was right off the highway in the tree line. He tried to shoot it, I waited in the truck, but the bear smelled him and ran. 

It was definitely nice to get some alone time! But I'm not the best hunting partner while pregnant, sorry babe. I don't think I'll be his first choice next time...

Speaking of, I have been owning this pregnancy! Cleaning all day, running kids here and there. Not one little mess to find in my house. I became a little OCD. This week that feeling has passed. I have ZERO motivation and feel huge! I'm measuring 3 weeks ahead and I'm only 22 weeks. My back is starting to hurt and my energy is gone. I was so excited how smooth sailing I had it... Son of a. 

But I have a long ways to go still, so I'll just take it one day at a time. I think I grew a lot more these past two weeks so that didn't help. There's no gradual growing here. It is the fastest growing belly I've had! Oh and I didn't even gain weight this month! So weird. Anyways, enough of the pregnancy. That was supposed to be a separate post. But I ramble sometimes. Deal with it.

Here are some pics from our "little drive".

And no I didn't shoot the gun. Hells no. Not that thing. Especially pregnant, I couldn't even hold it up. I clearly wanted a pic to look bad ass. Don't be hatin on my wardrobe selection either. I was trying to look the part. 

Booya, owned it. 

Guess who's back

Moi.

That's right, after a very long time I am back to blogging! I have been wanting to start up again for a while and there's so much going on in our lives that I need to start documenting it again. I love reading back on old posts and they seem like yesterday!

Ok, lets catch up.

Dustin got a new job out at Suncor! All our (his) hard work it finally paid off and he got the job we've been working towards. This job opens so many doors for us and we are so so excited about it!

I stopped doing photography over the winter. It's too damn cold and I hate the cold, so I took a break while Dustin started his new job. Also I couldn't work with his schedule, being new he pretty much was all over the place and any overtime he took it. There wasn't time for me to work, which I was totally fine with. After the winter I had to start doing something. When we first got married I went to hair school and then had kids and never went back to it. So I decided to take a hair extension course! I love it! But I haven't been doing too many of them, between our schedules with the girls in activities and Dustin working it doesn't leave much time or energy for me to work.
 But one other major reason i'm not working much is we are expecting baby #5! Now let me get into the details, because we all know I like to overshare...
Since Laken was born I never felt like we were done having kids. Dustin on the other hand would ask me WEEKLY "do you think you're done?" He would particularly ask when i'm in the worst moods or the kids were driving me crazy. He learned to stop doing that pretty quick! So last summer we were talking on a trip to Edmonton and he told me he could see us having another baby. I was like "wait, what? ok hold on... i'm not ready!" A few months went by where we would talk about it seriously because Laken was almost 3 and we didn't want a huge gap between her and the last. In December I had some conditions... I really wanted a fall baby, always have, and since all 4 of our girls are spring (within a month of each other) I really didn't want another spring baby. I didn't want a Christmas baby and I wanted to be pregnant through the summer for once. I am so sick of layering and bundling and not being able to breathe in winter being pregnant! So that left us with one month to try for a baby. January. We said lets do it. If it's meant to be, we'll get pregnant. And who woulda thought, we did! We were both beyond shocked but so happy!

So we announced when I was 13 weeks and my poor family was ready to shoot me because I wanted to wait to announce it. But i'm glad we did.

The Announcement pic!

   

So each pregnancy has been different how we found out what we were having. Kyla was a surprise, the twins we found out and told everyone, and Laken, Dustin and I found out but no one knew we knew, so it was a secret the whole time except to us two. So this time I obviously had to find out (just incase it was a boy maybe this time...) and so I wanted to go all out and do a fun gender reveal party! Jill was nice enough to host it for us and it was so much fun!! I bought silly string and Dustin, me and the girls each had a can and sprayed it all at once. It was seriously so much fun! My parents had to work so my three sisters were on facetime and Dustin's parents and other sister were on speaker phones. We had some close friends and Jill and the kids and it was so awesome. We videoed the whole thing so i'm going to try and post it!

So for those who don't know... We are finally having a BOY!!! My girls are over the moon. All of them wore blue because they wanted it to be a boy so bad! Dustin is so excited too, but he's seriously so awesome. He said to me last night, "I don't want the girls to ever feel left out because I have a boy now, I'm still taking them fishing, hunting and quadding with me." I died. He's the best.

Only a few more months of this family pic with all girls!

 Team Blue!

(There would have been a lot of disappointed people if it was a girl!)

Team Pink! (had a few hopefuls)

 Diane and Paeden couldn't decide. (But really she just didn't want to be wrong)

 And go! 

HALLELUJAH!!! 

Kyla's excitement is just too awesome in these, the twins were just trying to figure out how to work the stupid cans...

Excuse the blurriness. The silly string shot kind of everywhere including the camera...

These pictures make me so happy.  Thanks to Crystal for taking them!!

I was a little happy it was FINALLY out! 

 Facetime with Kristy, Britt, and Steph!

Talking to Greg and Shirley!

This is my favorite photo by far. 

(And remind me to never wear that shirt again...)

We couldn't be more happy!! And the amount of calls, texts, messages, comments etc from people is so overwhelming and we couldn't appreciate them more! We seriously know some awesome people and are so grateful for all the love and support we have. We are so lucky.

Here's to blogging again, making boys finally, and the happiest times in our lives!
Until next time! (Which won't be another year, promise. No really, I do.)