Guess who??

Maybe it is Daniel's bottom half of Lula's face

and the top half of my face

Field Day 2009

Today Olivia's class participated in Bubb's Field day. There were many fun events.

Such as bowling, hula hop races, gunny sack races and more!

This is Olivia's team getting ready for the hula hoop race.

Here is Cate and Olivia getting ready for the 3 leg run.

artificial marshmallow

Until this afternoon I have never had a Hostess SnowBall.

I am here to tell you, if you have never had a Snowball,
GO GET ONE!
I just loved it, but I also love the marshmallow chocolate pinwheels.
It must be the artificial marshmallow!!

Kindergarten Open House

Olivia just LOVES kindergarten. She is very sad that there are only 6 days left. Olivia has a natural love for school. I have never had to nag her to do any school work. She loves writing and coloring.

Paige and Olivia

Olivia also loves friends. After a few months of school her teacher said Olivia felt like she had no one to play with. The teacher said none of the kids have cliques and everyone plays together. After talking to Olivia we found that she finds it hard to approach a group of kids playing and ask if she can join in the game. I let Olivia know that is a hard thing for adults to handle and that she was very brave. We have prayed with her to help her have courage to approach kids and ask to play with them. Since then, Olivia has become better friends with most kids in her class. I am very proud of her!
Ethan and Olivia

Mrs. Engelhardt just told me that Olivia has the best penmanship in her class! Earlier in the year she classified Olivia as one of the "happy" children and was glad to have Olivia in her class.

Here are some more of Olivia's friends: Cate, Ally, and Sara.

One of these girls is a high functioning autistic. She has an aid that comes to class everyday. Her aid asked me if I thought Olivia would mind having a few play dates with the child because Olivia has such an even temper and is patient. The aid thought Olivia would be able to play well with the autistic girl. I spoke with Olivia and she said it would be fine. The two girls had fun and some good teaching moments arose for the girl. This is just another example of how great our Olivia is!

Uncle David

Here is Uncle David doing something he is good at- taking care of Loula... but...

Uncle David does get himself into trouble. He and the baby took a tour of the backyard, but then he let her eat some leaves off a fruit tree (which he says are not poisonous) and when she spit up the leaves he put them on her eyes. I don't know about this!!!!!!!!!

TOO Many

Someone once told me you know you have too many kids if you end up
away from home and one of your kids has no shoes on.
So today I took all 3 kids to pick up Olivia from school. When we got
to school I realized that all 3 did not have shoes on!
I guess I have too many kids. But I love them all, even if it
means a day full of shoesless errands!

...and yes that IS an Ariel tattoo on Sam's leg!

not so family photo

Well this is as good as our family photo gets.


Sam did/said the cutest thing last night. I came home from swim team around 8:15pm. He was still awake. So I said, "Sam why are you still awake?" He said, "Because I missed you so much." Then he even gave me his smurky grin and winked at me then crawled onto my lap. As if he knew I had not bought his line, so maybe a look would get him out of trouble. I have to watch this boy, he might hang me out to dry some day!!!!

Family Night

Our kids LOVE Family Night . Tonight we decided to skip the lesson and meet a family at GolfLand.

Here are some of the kids playing.

Sam has quite a swing!

Here are David, Sam, Liv, and Jill Burt and her kids.

a brief history on the people who delivered my babies...

A few days ago I saw Chloë's obstetrician at the grocery store and wondered if I have ever written down a brief history of all my children's births. so here it goes...

Dr. John C. Nelson was my first ob and my favorite. He called me L squared (get it... L.L.) Olivia was the LAST birth he oversaw because he was made president of the American Medical Association. His nurse was also so great. Every time I called or went in, they knew who I was, which made me feel great. He loved his kids and loved to talk about them. Dr. Nelson also loved to question Daniel about becoming a lawyer. Unless I was really worried about something, he did not like to answer questions which were not relevant to the current point in my pregnancy. Having said that, our appointments were informative, relaxing and friendly. Nothing took me by surprise.
I have a little story that demonstrates what kind of a doctor he was.
While I was in the hospital getting ready to deliver Olivia, I had a resident doctor watching Dr. Nelson. I was fully dilated, so Dr. Nelson put his hand inside me to see if I was also fully effaced. AS he told the resident doctor (who was a 24 year old 'boy' and had never seen a baby be born) to feel the baby's head, he took the guys hand and put it up inside me. That definitely was out of the boys comfort zone; he was shocked. But according to Dr. Nelson, it was a perfect way to put the resident into the delivery frame of mind. That is how Dr. Nelson was - respectful, yet wanted everyone to experience the reality of what was happening. He felt it was a miracle and a gift from God to have a baby born.


Dr. Max Steele helped me deliver Sam. Dr. Steele was Dr. Nelson's partner. I did not get to know him as well. Daniel and I were going to be moving 3 weeks after Sam was born, so I knew Dr. Steele wouldn't be around for long. My pregnancy was Sam was much harder than Olivia's, although I would never have admitted that. It took me 2 more pregnancies to see that. My hormones were all off and I did not like to go out and hangout with the other moms living in Wymount at BYU. I was also very uncomfortable. I think Sam was up in my rib cage for the last half of the pregnancy. But this pregnancy still was not hard compared to many.

Before I was pregnant with Chloë I did have a miscarriage.

Hector Medina did not actually deliver Chloë, but I did all the office visits with him. He was a great doctor and loved to talk to Sam and Liv when I brought them to the appointments. At my 13 week appointment, Dr. Medina could not find the baby's heart beat. I was scared as I waited for him to bring in the ultra machine to find the heartbeat. I am so grateful our baby was fine, she was just hiding I guess. Something unusual about this pregnancy was the fact that I could NOT drink water. It made me feel SO sick. This pregnancy was similar to the pregnancy I had with Sam, except the baby was not in my ribs the entire time. I did gain the most weight with Chloë.


I went to 4 different OBs before I chose to see Dr. Christine Litwin-Sanguinetti and her group. The deal with them was you had to see all 4 doctors for the monthly visits, then you could choose the doctor you wanted to deliver your baby. I figured this o.b. would also end up being my gynecologist, so I wanted to really like him/her. We were a great fit. This was probably my hardest pregnancy. My hormones were off and I was tired and overwhelmed with the other 3 babies I had a home. Olivia, being the oldest, was still at home except for preschool a few times a week. It was a lot of work to be happy for them and keep the house running. I am not sure how Daniel got his hours in at work that year. He stayed home A LOT to take care of me and the house and kids. We had a lot of quick dinners or ate out. Daniel never criticized me or tried to second guess what I was going through. There were a few very special moments I could see in Daniel's eyes the unconditional love and respect he has for me.

The blessing to be able to carry a child in one's body for 9 months was an incredible experience for me and did change me into a more compassionate person. I am grateful for what it taught me. But most of all I am grateful for my healthy children!!

Nice hair dude!

It is BIG

If you never thought Daniel had any nervious habits,
here is the proof that he does.

This is from chewing on a plastic cup from work.
Don't worry, he got it fixed within 48 hours!

Do you see it?

I was wondering which of my children look alike, so I found pictures of all my children at age 8 months and 18 months (except Lula)

Here are all 3 girls now.

Olivia at 8 months

Sam at 8 months

Chloë at 8 months

Lula at 8 months


Olivia at 18 months.

Sam at 18 months

Chloë at 18 months

A few firsts

You can't see it in the picture, but... Lula has her first tooth!
It is on the lower right side. She is our first baby to get a tooth
before she is one year old.

This past weekend we went to visit our friends, the Deccios.
While there Olivia wanted to ride Zion's bike
(with no training wheels). Olivia had so much fun
we are going to buy her a big girl bike this Saturday!

Sam & Liv love to swim

Cousins at Grandma's

We had a great time with our cousins. The Rosas family joined us at the end of the week. We played at the park, outside Grandma's house, and at the pool.

Olivia, Chloë, Jacob, Jennifer, Christian, Ricky and Sam.



Jennifer and Olivia had fun playing together.

Every part of this park was fun.

Here we are again with Aunt Elizabeth and Aaron

Grandpa Jack came and spent time with us.

All 3 kids LOVED the slide!

Awesome Sam!

"Hi Grandma!"

St. George

We had Grandma Ann, the sun and park all to ourselves. It was fun.

She figured it out!