Maddox Moon... and other happenings!

Sorry it has been soooo long since I've posted but life has been a little insane!  Maddox made his appearance January 10th @ 9:38 P.M. after 14 hours of waiting in a waiting room Mike & I couldn't wait to get our hands on that little man, who was suprisingly LITTLE he weighed in at 5 lbs. 10oz.  It was such an amazing experience, but I will blog about all of that later.  Maddox was discharged the 14th, I wasn't feeling well that afternoon, so I went to the ER they said that I had a kidney infection and sent me home on antibiotics.  We then quickly drove home to have our whole little family together.  That evening I had a fever of 104.6 and was having a lot of back pain, we drove to the ER near us the final diagnoses their was Meningitis, and they wanted to Life Flight me because they were worried I would crash.  In short I was in the hospital for 16 days, but am doing amazing now a loving this little man, and all of my munchkins!  Here are some of his first pics... I will get some more recent up ASAP, when I find my camara.

The MIRACLE of Adoption!!!

I have been trying to keep it in but I'm about to EXPLODE!!!  We are going to be welcoming a perfect little baby boy into our family on Tuesday morning!  Here is a little recap of how we got to this point.  As of last summer, I had started the process of BEGGING Mike once again for another little one... he tried to say no, but its not something he can easily say to me.  We started all of the paperwork again around the first of October and were complete and approved again within a few weeks.  At this point we had said our preference was for a little girl.  Something just didn't feel right that next month and a half.  After much prayer and though, I had decided that maybe a baby girl wasn't God's plan for us this time, maybe he had a little something different in mind.  We contacted our agency and told them that we wanted to open up or preference to boy or girl.  I felt much more at piece about it all for the next month and a half.  We waited, our profile was shown to a few situations, we were almost scammed, and we waited more.  On January 4th a situation came up on facebook that caught my eye, an African American baby boy due January 10th.  I begged, and begged, and begged Mike to let our profile be shown.  In the mean while I had contacted the agency and sent an application and our profile.  On a whim the social worker felt like she should show us, so she did.  She called me and said I shouldn't have done this but I showed you, and... "SHE LOVES YOU!!!  " Now I had to convince Mike, so I prayed and prayed that the big man would give me a little help on this... he did!  Friday I ran to SLC to finish a little paperwork, and the most miraculous thing happen.  I was able to meet our babies birth mother.  She is such an amazing woman, and seems like a wonderful person.  I am so happy that God choose such a sweet, kind, perfect woman to carry our little man to his forever family!  So thats it, that is what I have been trying so hard to keep secret but just can't anymore because I am like a little kid on Christmas!!! So please pray for all of us... please pray that our birth mother has peace in her heart and guidance from her savior... please pray that I will survive the next 2 days!!! :)

The Random Adventures of A Family of 6!!!

I have decided instead of trying to post about everything individually... I am just going to post it all together whenever I get a chance!  So life has been crazy busy, it seems like I run, run, and run some more!  I love this time of year, so we are just enjoying every single bit of it!

 This was one of my attempts at getting a picture of all of the kids together... We ended up just doing individual shots of each one!

 Me... My Momma... and my cute lil Sister!  Headed to see Breaking Dawn!!!

 My Granny Honey with my little Avery!

 My little moody man... in this picture he is happy!!! Yippee!!!

 Our little Princess... she tried so hard to get a picture for mommy... just didn't know what I wanted!

 Uh Oh... I've been caught in the CHOCOLATES!!!

 Granny Honey... Sarah... Miss MaCee!

Chocolate making day! 

 The big boys helping grandma dip!

 My sister and I decided to fight the crowds @ the Park City outlets on Black Friday @ MIDNIGHT... this momma is to old for that, but it was so fun!

 Kylie and Braxton having Thanksgiving dinner with all of the Kindergartners!

 MaCee attempting to look cute for me!

 Dalyn with his Dooney & Bourke purse and his basketball... something is wrong with this picture! :)

MaCee was mesmerized by Santa it was the cutest thing EVER!  I hope you are all enjoying they Holidays!  We are getting so excited for Christmas break... and a little bit of quality time hangin' out in our Jammies all day!!!

Christmas, Christmas time is here!!!

I Love, LOve, LOVE this amazing time of year!!!  I thought I'd share our Christmas cards with all of my bloggy friends!  If you want me to mail you one leave a comment.  Merry Christmas... Happy Holidays... Merry & Happy EVERYTHING!!!

Blah... Blah... Blah...

That is what most of you are probably going to be thinking as you are reading this post.  It is going to be a HUGE vent session, and you probably really could care less... so if you don't read on... don't worry it won't hurt my feelings.  First of all I am so sorry I have been a big huge busy slacker!  I was looking on my camera the other day so I could find some picture to put on the old bloggy blog... and guess what... none... I have a few pictures from Halloween but I didn't even get very many great ones then either.  Ah... Its because I am OBSESSED!  You see we have started the process of trying to adopt again... now some of you have been through this whole process... for those of you who haven't it is FUN!  Most days I love that we have been so blessed... and get to experience this amazing blessing.  Today and last week it is making my miserable... it is all I think about... I mean obviously I am busy with life but every second that I stop its on my mind,  I'm so sorry to sound sooooo negative about it... I just wish that I could have a little better control of myself!!!  So that was my little vent... now onto the fun of it.  We are working with the same agency that we used with MaCee's adoption.  I love them they brought us our first little princess.  Because we do have 4 children  we think it may be a little bit harder this time around... so we have decided to not only go through one agency we are applying with multiple agencies and the help of consultants... and praying like crazy that our sweet little angel will find us.  This is a little off subject... but tonight after we had put the kids down Avery came in and said, "Mom I know that you have been wanting a baby sister for MaCee... So I prayed for her."  I love kids!!!  So if anyone makes it to this point in my post... Pray for us... and selfishly I am going to ask you to Pray for me... Pray that the Lord will guide me... and let me know patience... and peace... because I know that he has a plan... I just sometimes have a hard time waiting for his plan to play out!  Oh and for any of you Adoption Veterans... If you have any suggestions... They would be appreciated! Thanks!

When Daddy's Away... Mommy and the little Monkeys will PLAY!!!

Every year since Mike and I were married, Mike has passed on hunting season.  Not this year, daddy has been gone ALL week... and what have we been doing you may ask?  Well I little bit of everything!!!  We have secretly been planning our week long party.  The first day I told the older boy they could pick WHATEVER they wanted for dinner... they both yelled PANCAKES!!!  I love Mike but pancakes for dinner... I can handle that!  The second night they wanted Spaghetti Tacos (an ICarly special!)  We will be SOOOO happy when daddy gets home tomorrow... but we have had a blast!

 I set up the boys tent in Avery's room so they could have a lttle camp out!  Brax is grumpy because I wouldn't shut the door to the tent... little moody man!

Little Dally has finally turned NICE... oh my goodness what a relief!  He has been so mean to me, if I ever say I love you.. he swiftly replies... I don't love you!  The last couple of weeks he has been so sweet, he tells me mommy your the best ever!  Ahhhh I am loving this new little attitude!

My Lil Mocha Baby!!!

I researched & researched for months before we adopted MaCee. I researched hair, skin, etc, etc!!! Nothing I read could have prepared me for what it would be like. When we were in the hospital it seemed as though her hair was a little wavy, but mostly straight.

I learned very quickly that this was not true... Our first day home I washed her hair and this is what I saw!  Curls... Curls... Curls!  In the beginning these curls were EASY!  Now they have gotten longer and a little bit harder to comb out. 

So recently I decided I needed to get back to researching... After multiple videos online, I decided to try yarn braids!!!  I think they turned out pretty cute... and I can't complain because the only cost was 2 dollars in yarn!  MaCee was such a little sweetie and sat for 3 hours while I finished he whole head.  Have I ever said what a little angel she is... I don't know many 17 month old babies that would sit for 3 hours!  Love this little girl... and all of the wonderful things she is bringing into our lives!

 Over the last 17 months our lil mocha babies hair has changed in so many ways... but I think I have learned as we've gone, and we are finally getting it figured out!!!