Just Because

It is so sad to me how fast the first year goes. Boston was such a tiny little "peanut". Now he is getting so big. I love every stage he is in, I look forward to the stages coming, but I really miss the newborn stages too. Boston is such a good baby. For my fifth I really needed that. We cant even look at him without smiling. When ever anyone in our house is having a bad day I will make them look at Boston and the bad day is gone! He is such a special little boy. We are so blessed to have him in our family. Love you buddy!


Boston a couple weeks old
Grandma Gin found him this cute shirt when she went to Boston! He is our Boston Boy :)
The cuttest stocking stuffer! Grandma Bearden makes Christmas Stockings for everyone in the family. I thought it would be cute to stick Boston in his. Turns out, I think I was right:)

This was when we were taking pictures of all the Bearden grandkids for Christmas for Grandpa Bearden. I love the look on his face!

Happy Birthday Alex and Brooklyn

Alex on her Birthday
Brooklyn on her Birthday
Girls out to a Birthday lunch with mom
Alex and Brooklyn

Sorry girls you don't get your own posts! At least I am doing one.
Their birthday's are 5 days apart, so they get to share it most of the time.
They don't mind though. They are such fun girls. We are so blessed to have them in our family! Happy 5th birthday Alex! Happy 3rd birthday Brooklyn!

Boston's Blessing Day

Boston was blessed in September 2010. It was such a great day. We had lots of family and friends there to celebrate with us. I have a ton of pictures of that day, but I cant find them... So, I will just put up a few that I can find...


Craig, Jera and Boston
Mom and Boston

Boston

It's Great to be 8! (I know, I'm playing catch up).

In June 2010 Makade turned 8 and got baptized! He was so excited. It was a great day for him and our family. We are so proud of him for making the choice to be baptized. He is such a great kid and adds so much to our family and home. And yes, I'm huge and 8 1/2 months pregnant in these pictures.....





Makade, Craig and Jera

Boston James Bearden

I am finally posting about Boston...
He was born on July 3, 2010. He was 5lbs 7oz and 18in long.
He was 4 weeks early and had a hard time breathing in the beginning. He had to be in the NICU for the first week. He is doing great now. He is such a sweet baby. We are so blessed to have him in our family. It is amazing the spirit that comes with a new baby.
Here are a few pictures of him:)




Jera and Boston. This is just a few days after Boston was born. We are in the NICU..


Boston, the day he was coming home. He had to have an IV in his head for his antibiotics. We got to take it out a couple days after he was home.


Boston, 5 weeks old... My friend Jordan took some really cute pictures of Boston for me.

Field Trips

This last month I went on a Field Trip with each of the kids and their classes. It was a lot of fun to be able to do that... We had a great time at each one.

For Makade's Field Trip we walked to the Butterfield Farms...
Makade got to try roping a cow dummy. He did pretty good.
This is Makade wearing masquito goggles..


Alex's Field Trip was to the Petting Zoo at Thanksgiving Point. The kids had such a good time. Brooklyn got to come along on this one.
Brooklyn, Alex and Faith on the wagon ride.
Alex riding the pony

Jaxon's Field Trip was to the Zoo. We got to ride the bus, take a lunch and walk around the zoo. Such a great day for a Kindergartner...
Jaxon and one of the kids in our group.

Happy Birthday Craig!!!

Happy (really late) Birthday Craig!



Craig turned 32 in April!
The kids and I are so lucky to have Craig in our lives.
He is the best husband I could ever ask for and he is such a good dad. The kids think he is the greatest!:)
Happy Birthday, we love you!

Basketball Season

Makade and Jaxon both played basketball this year and both realy enjoyed it! We had a lot of fun watching them.

Makade on the ground fighting for the ball...
Jaxon giving great Defense!

I love this...

Okay, so honestly how many dads would do this. Then be okay getting their picture taken while doing it:) I am so lucky to have such a great husband and my kids are so lucky to have such a great dad! We love you Craig!!!

Alex and Craig. She love him to blowdry her hair because he will put the blowdryer under it all and make it fly straight up. She thinks it is so funny!

Happy Birthday Jaxon!!!

Jaxon turned 6 in Feb. I know I am really behind. We are so lucky to have Jaxon in our family. He always keeps us on our toes. Here are a few pictures of what he has been up to the last few months. I love you so much Jaxon!


Jaxon on his birthday. He got a new mountain bike like his big brothers and plenty of other stuff..
Jera and Jaxon and Jaxon's birthday!
Jaxon got mad and went to hide like he does sometimes. It took us a little while to find him this time. When we did, we found that he had fallen asleep under his bed while he was hiding:)
This WAS my patio table. The kids were playing out back and Jaxon had a granade in his hand (a rock) and said he had to throw it or it would have blown up in his hand. It just happened to hit my table just right and it was so cold out side that it shattered. He did tell me he was going to get a job and earn enough money to buy a new one. I don't know, he has been wanted to set up a rock store on the corner. Maybe that will make enough to buy a new one.:) He has such an imagination...
I know this is Alex, but the drum set is Jaxon's. Of couse he asks for drums for Christmas. What else would he ask for. We do have them in the basement. He is actually better than you would think. Like I said, this kid always keeps us on our toes. He is so much fun to have around... We love him so much!

A little early!

I know that my new back ground is jumping the gun a little with the summer theme, but I really want the warm summer here. So, that is why I put it on there:)

Here comes Santa Clause

Every year we go to Riverton City Hall and see Santa and Mrs. Clause. My mom works there and this year we got to join all the employees and see them early and beat the crowds... The boys loved it. The girls, not so much. Brooklyn cried and Alex cried and ran for the door. I had to chase her down and I am so mean, I made her go back and tell him what she wanted. Every year we go with my Mom and Kane, Mark and Lara and thier boys and Eric and Amy and their kids have been coming with us the last couple of years too.. It is so much fun. You get to see Santa and then you get to go decorate a cookie, do a craft, go on a hay ride and eat scones and have hot chocolate. This is a fun tradition that we intend on keeping up.

Uncle Mark really likes the scones :)
Jaxon is so funny. He got a new scarf that his grandma Bearden made him that he has to wear everywhere and of course he had to wear his Santa hat.
Sier, Kip, Makade, Trett, Jadd, Jaxon and Alex
Our HAPPY family with Santa and Mrs. Clause

Halloween

I know I am really late at posting this, but here you go anyway...
We had a lot of fun this halloween. The kids got to dress up so many times. They had their school parties, a neighborhood party, a party at Grandma Beardens and then Halloween itself. Makade wanted to be Indiana Jones just like last year, Jaxon had to be a Vampire and the girls of course wanted to be princesses.

All of the Bearden cousins at Grandma's party
Our little family at the party

Happy Birthday To Me!!!

So this year I celebrated my 30th birthday! Craig, Amy, Jory and Lara gave me a Surprise Party! It was so much fun. We had it over at Eric's house and they had it a Sugar-Free party just for me:) All of the food there was sugar-free so I could eat it and enjoy. We had such a great time. Some of Craig's family came, all of my family came and some of our friends. It was soo much fun. Here are a few pictures of the night.

My Sugar-Free icecream.. Yum!
All the girls at the party
All of my family was there except for Jory's husband Chet.
Craig and I

The Zoo!

All the kids.
Me and my kids..

Looks like a good time right??.... It really was, but we had 16 kids and 4 adults. Something is wrong with that. It was UEA weekend. We thought since the weather was bad no one would be at the zoo. We weren't the only ones that thought that. It was packed. It was a lot of fun though. The kids had a blast! AND we only lost one kid. Of course it had to be Brooklyn. Luckily it was only for a minute. We were really lucky and found her. She had wondered off looking for a drink. Over all it was a good time.:)

Football

This year was Makade's first year playing football. We put him in flag football with his cousin Kip. He loved it! He did really well. The beginning of the season was a little slow for him, but by the end he was doing awesome. We all had such a great time watching him. He is anxious to play again. This time he says he is ready for tackle football. We will see....

Makade is the QB in the gray in this picture.
Makade
Brooklyn loved watching the football games...

Alex's surgery

Alex had to have her tonsils out and a patch put in her ear. This poor girl has been throuh enough. She did really good. The surgery was at primary childrens, she was very anxious to get home and as soon as we did she was ready to eat and run around. The next day wasn't so good.... She is doing really well now. She is sleeping a lot better and loud noises don't hurt her ears anymore. Because of that we call the surgery a great success.