Peyton 7, Kai 5, Ruby 2, Shae and Sydney 3 months

I realized that I did not have a picture of all of my kids together so I took a few. Looking at all of them, I feel so blessed to be their mother. I have 5 beautiful children. I just feel so lucky, they are all such sweet loving kids. I have so much fun with them. I had been so scared to have 5 kids, but so far I am loving it. It is starting to get a little easier. I think I am just getting used to being sleep deprived.

Christmas 2008

We had a pretty fun Christmas. The kids were so excited and said they all got what they wanted. I am not able to really leave the house much so this year I bought most of the presents online. I was really impressed and got some good deals, but I did not expect the crazy snow storm and a lot of the presents did not make it until a week after Christmas since the roads were so bad. I felt so bad, but my kids are so sweet and did not act like it bothered them a bit. I also "collect" discounted toys and games thorough out the year that I find for really cheap to use as birthday gifts and party gifts and was able to use a lot of those as Christmas presents instead. It all worked out very well, I had a lot more stuff then I had remembered. My kids seemed so satisfied that as we got some of the presents in the mail, I just kept some of them to give to them later.

I was so bummed because we were having camera difficulties on Christmas so we had to take the pictures with our video camera and so they are all fuzzy.