Happy New Year's Eve!

His hair didn't turn out as cute this time I think, but it's still fun.

Plus I got this cute pout when I first set him down. :)

Hope you're enjoying your last day of the year. We shouted happy new year at 9pm and put them all to bed, but a half hour later I can still hear them all. Katie has her friends Katie and Liza over to spend the night so I don't expect them to sleep anytime soon. Hey, it's vacation right!

Fun times!

We were trying to get a good shot of Ammon's do, but we'll have to try again in front of a lighter background, it's growing in very blond, but the rest is still pretty dark. Meanwhile, I like this pic of him watching me.

Ammon's blessing was on Sunday, and most everyone noticed during it, Bryan mention more than once his sense of humor. That must be prerequisite for being in our family.


Our Christmas things are starting to come down now, and we are taking donations of anyone that wants to drop off their live tree in our side yard. We love our bonfires and those trees put on quite the show.

Hope you all are enjoying this special time.

We've been busy here and often tired, especially Ammon and me.

I miss keeping up with mine, and everyone elses blogs. I'm so out of touch!

We are excited for Christmas and looking forward to the new year.

Time to go feed Ammon, again.

Ammon Bryan Hiner

Everyone was anxiously waiting for the phone call from the hospital on Monday telling us that it was time to come in for Vanessa to be induced. The call didn't come until 9pm when all the kids were already in bed. Aunt Jill came over to spend the night while Bryan and Vanessa took off to the hospital. After a long night of medication and slow progress, Ammon Bryan Hiner joined us at 11:07 on Tuesday morning. He weighed in at 8lbs 9.6 oz and was 21.5" long. Ammon immediately went to eating after all that work he had done, once again making mom wait her turn to eat.

Katie, Kevin, and Hunter spent the day at the zoo with aunts and cousins. They came to visit Tuesday evening and were so excited to see their baby brother. Ammon has been sleeping and eating well. We are so happy to have him here with us.

Tagged

My Sis-in-Law tagged me and since she changed her pregnancy counter I must comply. Though if you'll note, my fetus is still cuter than her fetus. :)

Here it is:
8 Things...

8 TV shows I watch:
1. Amazing Race
2. Life
3. The Office
4. Survivor
5. America’s Toughest Jobs (it’s over now)
6. Biggest Loser
7. I’ll catch Oprah or SuperNanny if I happen by and they’re interesting, but don’t make any effort to watch them.

8 Favorite Restaurants:
1. Julio G’s – for spinach enchiladas
2. Olive Garden – for the salad
3. In-N-Out – for everything!
4. Taco Bell – for the Nacho Grande and cinnatwists
5. The Melting Pot – for the Desserts
6. Chick-fil-A – good chicken and they just came out w/ a chocolate peppermint shake I must try.
7. Nielsen's – the custard of course
8. Mimi’s – salads and French onion soup

8 Things I did yesterday:
1. made cards
2. ate
3. talked on the phone
4. ate
5. laundry
6. ate
7. sent emails
8. snacked

8 things I am looking forward to:
1. Christmas
2. a new baby
3. Bryan being off work for a while
4. more roses blooming from our new plants
5. whatever unhealthy thing I’m going to bake tomorrow
6. Thanksgiving
7. all the cool stuff my kids are doing/learning, as they are growing so fast
8. the beautiful weather we are and will continue to have.

8 things on my wish list:
1. octodog maker
2. having more organized rooms
3. not being in too much pain in the coming weeks
4. If You Give a Pig a Party, by Laura Numeroff
5. Wii
6. a maid
7. cool craft paper
8. treadmill

People I hereby tag:
Anyone that is reading this or has a vowel in their name.

Grrrrrrrrr

Hope you all had a great Halloween!

We had fun at our church carnival then trunk-or-treating. I'm happy to have all the chocolate around, but surprisingly haven't eaten that much. Maybe because I still had hello dollys and pie, which trump a fun size chocolate.

The kids enjoyed the games.

Bowling, donut eating, mini golf...

For Trunk-or-Treating Katie was the only one who got to all the cars for collecting candy. Kevin would run up to each person and growl, and Hunter just loved looking at any decorations people had brought, but lucky for me he still said trick-or-treat to increase our candy supply.

I was a cow and Bryan was my farmer.

Unfortunatly we did not get a picture.

The kids are cuter anyway.

Kevin is 4!!!

Kevin Hiner, born October 19th, 2004.
(thanks for the pic idea Heather)

Kevin helped me make the cake and all the kids helped decorate!
A big thank you to everyone for all the cool stuff!!! The clothes are awesome and he wants to wear them all. (As he's finishing going potty "Mommy, I love my Diego underwear.")
The toys are great, so we're going through one at a time, and the rocketship card is being played with as much as anything.
Bryan's happy, because they're ages are the aproppriate ratio again (2, 4 & 6), but he's only got until January before that's ruined again. Just don't trust what he says, because he'll just keep Katie's 6 untill Hunter's birthday, then promote them all. He'll at least get one out of 3 right that way.

Miss Hiner

Katie's teacher was letting me know Katie had extra papers in her bag today, because she had asked for some. She wanted to teach the boys all about Mesopotamia. Her teacher was impressed.

Katie always says she wants to be a teacher when she grows up. She loves to practice on anyone who will let her. I often find papers that are titled Miss Hiner, then list her brothers and stuffed animals as students. When I ask her what grade she wants to teach she says "little kids, but not too little".

I found this hanging in her bedroom last year.

Silly Faces

Aunts are great! They get their niece and nephews the coolest stuff, like these fake pumpkins.

I'm all for the traditional pumpkin carving, and the mess that comes with it, but these fake things are awesome! They are so light, and you can carve, draw, paint or in this case poke and hot glue any face you'd like.

Now that we've got these decorations, it's time to bust out Aragog and get him on the roof.

Happy Halloween!

Primary Program

The children did their program today, and everyone loved it! I was impressed that almost every single child had memorized their line(s), and they did their very best singing.
Unfortunately for me I was up their prompting, and didn't get to just sit back and enjoy. This was also the main reason for Kevin to become increasingly more irreverent as the program went on. I'm not in my most agile state, and he found it fun to play the "lets see what I can get away with game".

Oh well, if you can't have a reverent child, at least have an entertaining one!

My boys are in love!

Dora has stolen the hearts of my dear young boys. She is the only DVD that will never fail when we are on a road trip and they love to go strait to NickJr.com every morning to play games or watch episodes. Oh well, at least she's a good influence. The other day they kept singing "never give up, never give up".

Here's the front view of the haircuts I gave them last night.

Gone Fishing

Bryan is spending four days fishing with his dad, grandpa, and uncles at Lee's Ferry. Lee's Ferry is an historic pioneer river crossing 14 miles below the Glen Canyon Dam (Lake Powell). From the launch ramp, they fish the 14 mile stretch of river up to the base of the dam. The river is shallow, most places less than 15 feet deep, and very cold, 56 degrees year around. The predominant fish in the river is rainbow trout and almost everybody does catch and release. Restrictions on the river do not allow a fish to be kept once it is longer than 12", thus making most fish not keepers. Today the weather was beautiful and clear. The fishing was great and hopefully the rest of the week will follow suit.

Having Fun!

So I've been having lots of fun figuring out some of the cool things I can put on here. Thanks for the help Candice.
I've also been looking back through my 2008 pictures, and there's lots of cute stuff. It's too bad I didn't start this sooner. I will post more to catch up but for now here's a great one of the boys. I sent them out fully dressed and dry, but they found a mud puddle so...

May 5, 2008

Here we go!

It had to happen sometime. I was destined to join the blogspot world. So here’s our spot.
It may not be the most interesting reading you do, but for those nights when you can’t get to sleep you can come do a little reading to pass the time. Who knows maybe you’ll learn something, like to always put the Tang powder on a higher shelf so your son doesn’t decide to spread it on the floor dying his hands orange in the process.

Well, I suppose that’s all for now. Let’s keep in touch shall we?