My new workout!

So this is my new workout. Porsha gets mad when I get on my treadmill because she wants to be held or close to me. I have tried putting her in her play gate thing but she just sits there and whines at me and I can't stand it. I pulled this out of storage and this is how we made our compromise. She actually fell alseep at mile 1.5 and so I finished the last half mile without her on my back. I wonder how many extra calories it burns to have her on my back like that? :) I can't wait til summer when I can go outside and run. Then I have my older girls to watch the kids while I go running in the mornings. Although they insist they are going with me this summer every morning. Mike goes running in the mornings outside and I would love to be able to go with him. If my girls want to run I usually follow them in the car afterward with the little kids in the car with me. The little ones even get out a run a little ways.

Spring

Mom and Dad with the kids in their Spring Dresses ready for church.

Sore Finger!

If you look closely at Taylyr's little pinky finger you can see the bandage. The school called me on Tuesday and said she had gotten her finger slammed in the bathroom door. It was awful. I think it took around 10 stitches to put it all back together and they had to remove her fingernail and stitch the nail bed too. I couldn't watch it all. Gross! She was pretty upset and didn't want stitches. When the doctor unwrapped it and looked at it she kind of moned (the doctor) and then Taylyr said, "Yea, I don't think it needs stitches, just put a bandaid on and we can go". It was pretty funny. She came through it okay though and was fine. I am sure she will be sore for a while :(

PRICELESS!!!

Okay, so the picture below is priceless. I don't think Mike and Clint are ever going to get a picture like this one again. After the race had been over for awhile we went back into the track. They let us walk around the outside fence of the track and when we got around to the tower where they hold out the green flag, there was nothing blocking us from going to the top and that was just what Mike and Clint did. I told them to run and they did. I snapped the picture and they were hi tailing it down cause as you can see from the above picture, security was on the way. The Po Po was parked on the other side of the fence, I guess waiting to see if we gave security a hard time. I don't care what you say, it was a chance worth taking. Mr. Security Dale was very nice though and didn't give us a complimentary escort out of the track. He was pretty cool. It was AWESOME!
Mike and Clint. Priceless. All they are missing is the green flag.
Mike sitting on the coca cola billboard. He is listening to his five year old son crying on the phone for him to come home.
Mike and Porsha.
So this is another story. When we first got into the track the inside field of trailer people were causing quite a commotion. They were out running on the track and riding bikes and rangers. Security tried to reign it all in but it didn't work. Finally the Po Po Canine units came and boy they had everyone a'runnin! This guy was running around the track in his underwear. I kept telling him to take them off. Who honestly can say that they have run around the Las Vegas Speedway naked? I bet you can't find one. Boy the Po Po was all over him chasing him back into the fences.
Mike, Kami, Porsha, Clint, Miley, Steph outside the track watching all the commotion.
Mike, Kami, and Porsha at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Sweet Porsha at the trailer on her first birthday. She wanted daddy's sunglasses.
Mike holding Porsha. She fell asleep with a cookie in her hand. What a cutie :)

Penicillin Reaction

Halle had a reaction to Amoxicillin. She is covered from head to toe in hives. She is quite itchy. Megan Brinkerhoff's little girl and Teri Feltners child also had a reaction to the same medicine. Does anyone else besides Megan and I think that this is wierd to have these three kids have reactions like this within a week of each other. Maybe a bad batch of Amoxicillin. Who knows. I personally think it is very strange!

Happy Birthday Taylyr & Porsha

YUMMY CAKE PORSHA!

Porsha was born on March 1st 2008. I didn't care what day she was born but I was not going to have her on leap year. At four in the morning the day after leap year my water broke and I was so glad I had made it. She was born 3 weeks early weighing 6 pounds 11 ounces. My biggest baby. She was so cute with the brightest eyes. She has been nothing but an angel ever since. She is my last baby so she is probably a little spoiled. She can already hold her own with her siblings. She is such a little sweetheart. We love you Porsha and hope you have a wonderful first birthday!
My sweet Taylyr was born on Feb. 28th 1998 weighing 6 pounds 5 ounces with her moms pug nose. She is such an angel. We were so excited to be expecting a baby after trying for 6 months. When we found out if she was a boy or girl, I guessed a boy and Mike was sure it was a girl. Be careful what you wish for cause now he has 5. Taylyr is such a good example to her little sisters and brother. She is such a cute sweet girl. She is so much fun and very outgoing. She loves to play basketball, play the piano, sing, and clog. She also likes to run, play guitar hero, play with her friends, and hang out with mom. I love the way she is so easy to talk to. At this point mom is still her friend and she loves to talk to me. I hope she will always keep doing this. She loves horses and so we got her a horse cake for her birthday. Taylyr has a very kind heart and is such a sweetheart. We love you Taylyr, Happy 11th Birthday. We had a party with all of Taylyr and Porsha's aunts, uncles, and cousins over. Grandpa and Grandma Syrett came too. Grandpa and Gradma Stevens couldn't make it. We had a great time.

I CAN'T STAND IT!

That is right. I can't stand it. (First of all, I know, two posts, but I am making up for lost time). Okay so on to what I can't stand. I can't stand not having a baby. Mike has been really playing with Porsha and getting her to walk and I don't want him to. She turns one on March 1st and I don't really care if she is walking or not. I have told him that I don't care if she walks yet because when she walks and quits nursing I don't have a baby anymore. I CAN'T STAND the thought of not having a baby anymore. Especially since she is my last. I don't want her to reach any of the normal milestones because I know it will be the last time I see them in my own children. I know that some people still see me nursing and are probably wondering when I will stop. I don't really care what they think. I will nurse as long as I feel like it and she feels like it. I will assure you though that I will not be one of these moms that are nursing their babies at 4 or 5 (At least I don't think so! :) Not that there is any thing wrong with it because--- to each his own. But for my last little one, I want those moments to last forever. I would love to have a dozen kids but my history of pregnancies is not the best and it was just my time to be done. Mike is EXTREMELY DONE, no, Mike was EXTREMELY DONE two kids ago. It is time to move on and enjoy my kids without being pregnant and nursing all the time but I am sure having a hard time letting go. If you have any tips on how to ease this process I would love to hear it. I am not sure that there is any easy way to do it. I just wish these moments could literally last forever.