Blast from the Past

When I was a baby my mom bought me this cute valentines outfit and she saved if for the last 31 years for this moment to recreate the photos she took of me as a baby wearing the same outfit with her and my Grandma Packer.  It was pretty fun to compare, so adorable. 

To see the pictures of me, you'll have to go look in my baby scrapbook and compare.

Halloween

Halloween this year was a ton of fun.  The costume box was out and the kids changed their minds on costumes about 43 times.

They all agreed to a fun family theme which I was so excited about!  Teagan was the big bad wolf and the girls were the three little pigs.  So adorable.

  For school, Teagan wasn't allowed to wear a mask and we realized that his costume looked like a kitty cat.  He wasn't too worried because he made a sign to wear on his sweatshirt.  "Big Bad Wolf not Kitin (Kitten)"

I couldn't send him to 4th grade dressed as a kitten so before school I rushed to broulims for face paint and created a wolf work of art.

For the ward trunk or treat we decked out our car to look like a scene from the TV show "Stranger Things."  Only a couple people recognized it, but it was so cool!

My cute little piggies and awesome wolf man.

I went on a witches night out with some of my girl friends a few weekends before Halloween and we had such a fun time!  A night with my friends is always welcome.

Sweet Little Everly

Everly is about 6 weeks old and we have had a rough couple of weeks.  We had a really nasty dry cough that went through our whole family and it was the worst for Everly.  It was a cough that kept each of us up at night for several days when we had it, Everly's last more like 2 weeks though.  She would cough and then start choking on the mucus and then we would have to suck out her mouth so that she could breathe again.  Her whole face would turn blue and it was so scary, I've never experienced that with any of my other babies.  During the worst few days she was "choking" every 30-45 minutes day and night.  I felt like I couldn't leave her out of my sight because the choking was silent so if I wasn't looking at her I would miss it.  I don't think I've ever been that tired before.  I slept on the couch and put her in her swing right next to my face so that I would hear her and wake up.  After a few night in a row I just got too tired and I wasn't waking up anymore so Zac took over.  I would go to bed at 8 and sleep until 12 while Zac took a shift, then he would sleep until 6 while I took a shift and then I'd go back to bed for a few hours while he was up with the kids in the morning. It felt like it would never end, but it did!  We made it through alive and so did Everly.  I'm so grateful that she is feeling better now.  I felt so bad for her.  I did become an expert at the baby heimlich and sucking the junk out of the back of her throat.  It got to the point where I didn't freak out everytime it happened too which was good.

I think the most memorable moment from the whole ordeal was one moment when she started choking and was blue and I had her over my knee and was hitting her back and sucking out her mouth.  Meanwhile, Adeline was trying to get on my shoulders, Eloise was throwing a tantrum about not being able to have a friend over, and Teagan was trying to explain to me all about his pokemon cards.  I think my words to them were along the lines of, "Can you guys give me a minute?  Can you not see that your sister is dying right now?!?"  

Even though she was sick, she still hardly ever cried and would go right back to sleep after having a choking fit, the kids are still in love with her cuteness.

I think this is the first sibling picture, they are so beautiful, and looking so grown up with that tiny little baby girl!

Eloise and Adeline ask me to put Everly by them all the time on the couch.  Everly definitely gets plenty of attention.  Notice how big her pajamas look, they are newborn size!  She lost weight when she was sick because I just couldn't get her to eat very well.  She stayed newborn size until she was about 2 months old.

My Funny Adeline

Adeline has been saying such funny things the last few days so I am trying to write them down for memories because I keep forgetting.

Tonight her prayer:
"Thank you for Eloise and Teagan and mom and Dad and Adeline and Jesus and Santa Claus..."

Today we went to the store because Teagan wanted to buy pokemon cards.  As we were leaving the parking lot Adeline was feeling pretty bad and crying:

"I just didn't get anything at the store today, like I didn't even get my Snow White lego (pronounced yay-go) set.  I guess we need to go to sam's club and get my lego (yay-go) set."

I don't know why that one made me laugh so hard, she was just so matter of fact about it.

Today I was giving some suggestions for activities and I suggested going downstairs and playing with the kitchen set and kitchen toys.

Me: "Can you go down and get me a piece of pizza and put it on a plate for me"  (they have a pretend pizza that can be cut into pieces)

Adeline, looking very confused: "No, I can only get you a piece of bread if you are hungry"


She sees the world and interprets things very literally, she is quickly earning the nickname, "literal Larry."  She doesn't understand sarcasm or teasing at all and always becomes confused and responds so funny.  I am going to start writing down all the funny interchanges, we sure love this cutie pie!

Our little Posers

These girls love to get their hair fixed pretty and then have their pictures taken.  I remember loving the same thing.  Such a couple of cuties!

Football Finale

The Football season is over and we are so excited and sad.  Teagan and Zac have had a lot of fun and worked so hard all season.  I love this picture, the whole team was running over to meet at halftime and Teagan weaved through all of his friends looking for Zac so that they could walk together.  He sure loves his dad and I love that he is still young enough that he isn't afraid to walk with him...hopefully he'll never grow out of having his dad for a best friend.

For the first game of the playoffs some of the moms got together and made posters and signs and I went home with the assignment to make banners for the boys to run through.  I was pretty proud of how they turned out.  Teagan LOVED running through the signs along with his teammates and ripping these beautiful signs to shreds.

The game was supposed to be an easy win, but the other team played really well and we struggled and they ended up winning by one point.  They went 10 yards back to score the extra point (our coaches and boys didn't know about that rule) and ended up getting ahead with less than a minute left in the game.  It was a real heartbreaker, I think every boy on that team cried.  They learned some great lessons though-never think it's an easy win!  They had an undefeated regular season though so that was so awesome.  Teagan is so excited for the football season to start again next year.

One Month Old

This sweet little baby girl is one month old today.  She is such a good natured little girl and we are all so taken with her.  She is sleeping really well and usually only gets up one time in the night to eat.  She eats great and is starting to smile at us if we work really hard.  Eloise and Adeline are constantly trying to hold her and carry her around the house, Everly isn't sure about how she feels about that.  I am soaking up all the snuggles I can get.  Everly rarely cries unless she is hungry or ready to go to sleep.  She is our perfect Happy Everly After, as Zac would say.