Photo shoot and DyLan is 9 Months old!

I have been a total slacker on this blog, but I have been a little busy with these 3 kids of mine!! We have had a busy summer and I was going to document it all but, I am having to much fun. I did however have to post some pics of a photo shoot we did. Dylan turned 9 months old and I have not blogged about him much. He sure did surprise us but it has been no surprise that he fits right into our family. He makes our family even better!! Dylan has been such a good baby and is always smiling and making us HAPPY. He LOVES to play with his SISTERS and be outside. His new accomplishment recently is he is crawling and into EVERYTHING! He also got his first tooth and it is so CUTE. Dylan really enjoyed this July month celebrating and all the activities. He LOVED the Rodeo and the HORSES! His favorite word is uh-oh and he can sign eat, horse, DOG, More, and thank you. His other favorite thing is to play with our new puppy Zip and smack's his lips to have Zip come play with him!! We really are having some SUMMER FUN !

summer

Our summer has been so busy and we have had lots of fun! I am so far behind on my blogging but I wanted to show some pics of some things we did leading up to our summer.

After Finns blessing we had lunch. This picture is 5 out of 7 Cousin's babies starting with Dylan in October and ending with Liv in May!!Dylan and Finn!!

No this is not a pictureI took with my new camera I talked about in my last post... But I am going to do my own pictures soon. With Addey I had her pictures done when she was a newborn, 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, ect, ect, and probably some in between. With Reece I got most of the milestones. And with Dylan He is 4 months old and this is his first professional pictures. I am definatly going to get my new camera out and get more pics. look at those kids, I mean really I think Wacey and I make some pretty cute kids!

How Lucky am I...

I am reminded many times a day just how LUCKY I am, this is just one of those times!!

AND... this will be the last time I post off of THIS computer, because I am getting Waceys old (REALLY NICE) computer!! AND... look for some really nice pictures because I also got a new camera, courtesy of my brother going on a mission and giving us a good deal on his old (REALLY NICE) one!! I have been saving my birthday, christmas, valentines, ect, ect... gifts to buy a nice camera and this was perfect!! Now I can capture just how lucky I am and Lucky for all my blog followers my luck is really cute!!!

We Love grandpa Bisel

I was looking through my posts and noticed I had a drafted one, it was one I did soon after grandpa died... I do not know why I did not actually post it but it brought back some good memories so I thought I would post it now!!

Thursday of last week I got to spent the whole day with my grandpa!! Looking back it was a great day, I think I have felt a little bad because I do not know if I realized it then... But it really was a great day!! I am not a good writer and I usually get frustrated when I try to write things because they just do not come out like I want them to or how I see other people write, but I just wanted to write a few things down about my grandpa and the last few months I got to spend with him.

I always remember grandpa being a great grandpa but I was reminded of that one day when Reece and I got to grandpa's house and Reece was ready to play and started getting out his bowls and pans. I was busy seeing what pills we needed to give him, as walked in the living room to see Reece feeding grandpa, and even though it was pretend grandpa was going along with it! He was licking each spoon she would hand him and play along saying it was so delicious!! I do not know where Reece got the idea it was "Tonic" but she was saying here is your tonic and grandpa would laugh every time. I reassured grandpa I was not trying to poison him and letting my child give him tonic and I had no idea were she got that from.

Grandpa's knee's would hurt him and Reece and I would rub his legs. One day after getting done grandpa grabbed Reece in his legs and said she was in a bear trap, I don't think she knew quite what to do but he laughed and said oh what are you going to do? Grandpa was never in to much pain to play!! Reece would always help me take grandpa his pills and his lunch, One day Reece was really surprised when she took him his lunch and his teeth were sitting on the table. Again grandpa chuckled and when she asked me why his teeth were out I tried to explain and I was just not doing a great job when grandpa took over and showed her how it all worked!

While I was at grandpa's I would have to leave to pick Addey up from school, grandpa would always ask me what time it was and remind me it was time to go get Addey. Every time Addey would come in the door grandpa would ask to see what she had done in school. We would talk about her day and read grandpa books. The last day we where there Grandpa had been really tired all day and had been sleeping but as I brought Addey home he woke up and gave Addey a big kiss and asked about her day. Addey and Reece where putting chap stick on him and kissing him and combing his hair! Addey and Reece spoke grandpa language, when I would have a hard time understanding what grandpa needed they could usually listen and tell me exactly what he was saying!!

I have been so lucky to have such a wonderful grandpa and I have so many memories with him. I think one thingI will be grateful for is my children getting to spend so much time with grandpa the last few months of his life!! We LOVE grandpa Bisel.

Whats in a Name?

On January 2, 2011 we blessed Dylan and gave him a name and a blessing. Dylan Todd Richards is a very special name to us! '

I had a room all ready for our little girl and I had the girl name in vinyl lettering up on the wall. You know how you picture the birth of your child... well I had it all in my head how this one was going to go. We did not find out with Addey or Reece what we were having so when I had pictured there births I pictured the Dr saying it is a... and it was big surprise, I loved it!! With this one they had told me I was having a girl so I pictured hearing oh look what a beautiful little girl and concentrating more on what happened after. Watching them take my sweet baby and looking her over every little perfect detail. I wanted to watch that moment and take it all in!! That is not what happened. It was even better! I knew it was my last push and I was getting ready to watch it all happen and then I thought I heard OH IT'S A BOY!! It took me a minute to register, I had it all in my head, I was playing it in my head and that is not what they said. I even missed them taking "HIM" away so I did not even get to look for myself. I looked at Wacey in probly a very confuused look and when I saw him I knew I had heard right. "IT'S A BOY". Still very confussed I said how am I suppose to name him HOPE? I did look over and I got to see the nurses checking him out, The weight came up clear 7 Ib 3 Oz, I was still trying to see if I had really indeed had a boy. The Dr. asked my mom if he looked like the girls and she said he definatly fits in. I said almost as a question ,but with different parts? The Dr. laughed and brought him over to me and said do you even have a boy name picked out? Again Wacey and I looked at each other and said Dylan Todd!! We really did not have it picked out at all. I don't even know when we had discussed that name. Even when Addey and Reece were born I was thinking I did not want a "common" name (with Wacey and Beau Dee I thought you had to be a little creative)... (And Addey was not common when I named her) So on our list were some of those creative names. We always joked that it was a good thing we had girls because we could never really agree on a boy name.

I guess I had told Wacey before that when I was little I always said my boy would be Dylan. Growing up we always called my Uncle Matt, Dylan. For anyone who knows my uncle Matt you know why that name is so special!! Yes Dylan is on the top 100 name list and I think that is why it was never on my list, yes it has become a "common" name.. but for some reason we both Knew our sweet surprise was Dylan Todd. And it is special because he is named after his Great Uncle Matt !!!

Our Surprise!

We have a little Brother at our house!! Yes I did have a split second of sheer panic... but only because I only had a pink outfit to bring him home in, and the room was all purple, and I had the name we had picked out already on the wall. But only for a second and then I looked at Wacey and I was so happy!!

And I know he is now a month old sohere are some pictures (For some reason I have a lot of pictures on my phone) but here are some I have taken!! Isn't HE cute!!