I finally got some sleep.........

Well after four nights of only 3 to 4 hours of sleep, last night Carter finally let me get 8 hours! (really) They were broken up by nursing him of course but at least I got that. I can't believe how great I feel! What a cute little guy huh. A couple of nights ago he opened his eyes really good and I got these pictures. I just can't believe how much love you can have in you heart. I love my family SO much and there is just so much more for Carter. It's amazing how much I already love and adore him. I worried when I was pregnant how I would make 3 small children work and how hard it might be. But honestly I don't feel that way at all. I just feel like we have been waiting for him to complete our family.

On Sunday when we were leaving the hospital we found out we would have to come back up the next day to have another bilirubin test done on Carter because his was a little high. So when I had him tested again it was still high so they had to order the lights for him. In the above picture he is using his biliblanket. And below is his bilibed. It has taking some getting used to but I am just glad he's ok.

I would like to say thank you to my husband, he has been such a great guy to me. Escpecially because I am such a miserable pregnant person. He has had alot to put up with and I know I don't give him enough credit. I love you Ben and I hope you know how much I appreciate all the wonderful things you do for me and our family.

These are the beautiful flowers he gave me in the hospital. I've never seen any that color before. Thank you to everyone (too many to name) who has helped us, and for all the great gifts as well!

Our new addition!

We had our little baby Carter on Friday night. He weighed 7 lbs 8 oz and was 20 1/2 in long. Everything went really well and he is a healthy boy! There is just nothing like holding a brand new baby!! Isn't he just SO cute!

Logan thought he was pretty neat too.

What a handsome little guy!

Brylee and Boston love him already. Brylee never wants to put him down either, she is going to be such a great helper.

Cleaning, Dancing & Playing

In the last couple of weeks I have had NO energy to clean but I decided I better start detail cleaning today since really the baby could come any day now. And after I have it comes I know I won't have time. So every time I get out the cleaning supplies I have the two best helpers around. Today Boston knew we were gonna get down and dirty so he even put on his saftey glasses! When we clean Brylee usually cleans up all of the toys off the floor and in her room and Boston pretends to mop. Such good little helpers I have!!!

Brylee has really gotten good at her tumbling in the last couple of weeks. She can do strattle rolls, front spring rolls and cartwheels all by herself. She's still working on the handstand though!

When she gets home she always wants every one to try what she learned (not me of course). We all get a good laugh about it because all the boys really have no tumbling ability what so ever. But they all will try just to entertain her.

This is just a cute picture of the kids. They like to crawl over the top of Brylee's bed to get on the window ledge. So when my sister Shauna was over here the other day she moved the bed for me so they don't break an arm or something.

Explanation

I thought that I better make a post to explain why I have asked some of my fellow bloggers to change our name on their blog list. I watched the news a couple of nights ago on KSL about the dangers of blogging. Since then it has made me think about things a little bit and I have decided to take my last name entirely out of my blog.
Problem is that when changed it in my settings, if you didn't rename my blog on your list, it still says our last name even though I have changed it on my blog. Does that make sense? I assume if you deleted us and put us back on it would change. But instead I thought it would be easier to ask all of you to just rename us to Ben and Trisha, well, because it seemed easier to me. I just wanted to clarify that. I didn't mean to bother anyone by this. It is just I don't want to go completly private. But I did want to make sure that if someone by chance was creepy and wanted to find us they couldn't. Thanks again to everyone for taking a minute to do this for us!!

Happy Halloween!!!

Last night on Halloween me and Ben invited everyone from both sides of our family over for some yummy chili. Almost everyone came, and it was great. It was alot of fun seeing everyone come over dressed up too. Kami and Scott (Ben's sister and her husband). They won best dressed in my opinion.

My sister Mikka who had to work but came over earlier to help me decorate. Thank you Mikka!!

Everyone getting some grub.

Nick and Kim (Ben's brother and his wife). His outfit was VERY reflective which made for some interesting glares in some shots. Love the face Nick!

All of the kids eating outside. Thank goodness it was such nice weather otherwise I don't know where I would of put everyone.

My favorite people in the world my Mom, Grandma and Hubby! Grandma fell a couple of weeks ago so she is still a little bruised up, ouch!

Thank you to everyone who came, it was alot of fun to spend time with both of our families. I'm glad all were in good spirits and dressed up!

Then after dinner everyone headed over for our ward "Trunk or Treat". This is Boston and Brylee's friends Quinn and Avery. If you look close you can see that Bry has a sucker stuck in her crown thanks to Boston! They are always full of suprises that make us laugh!!

Haloween Carnival

Logan's school had it's annual Halloween carnival last night. So we dressed the kiddies up and headed out.

Logan is a dirt bike rider. This is his last year in elementary, how sad huh. I can't believe how time has flown by.

Brylee is Snow White. And she just insisted I spray her hair black. But thankfully it did come out last night in the bath, whew!

Boston is a giraffe again this year. Hey if the costume fits, right? And I promise it's not to small he just wanted to pull his sleeves up all night.

Don't they look so cute dressed up this year!

This picture was cute cause we told Bry to pose like a princess so this is what she did. Then cute little Bosty had to stroll through the shot. (love that tail!)

SO this isn't the best shot of Ben's backside for most of you. But the carnival was crazy, so this is the only picture I got of the kids playing games. Anywho! they are playing skeeterball. They also played basketball, did a football toss, and spun the wheel to name a few.

The kids had a blast and were definetly wore out at the end of the night. Despite all of the candy they ate!

You can't go to a carnival without eating cotton candy!

PUMPKIN GUTS!

Last night we carved our pumpkins. Everyone had a great time. Logan is getting really good at carving his own pumpkin. Good thing cause me and Ben each had an extra one to carve thanks to the two little ones!

And yes, I decided to put a picture in of me. I never do because I am ginormous! But I figured someday I won't care, right?

Brylee had SO much fun doing this she was probably the most excited to put the candle in though. Everytime she put her hand in her pumpkins she would squeal PUMPKIN GUTS! It was cute.

Boston mostly loved playing in the pumpkin guts. And he also ate alot of pumpkin as well. That should make for an interesting diaper change later!

Pumpkins!

We made our annual trip to Cedar Crest Farms to get our pumkins. I did attempt to grow pumpkins this year but I'm sure I planted too late. Because I only got one orange one and it was about 3 inches big.
This is always fun for us to do. We love to come here and let the kids crawl all over the pumpkins. They had SO much fun.
I ecspecially love Boston's face in this picture. You can just tell he wants to do something naughty!



Logan Really wanted to get this HUGE pumpkin. I told him that maybe I'll grow one like that next year!!! I don't think he has much faith in me though.

Shoe Party!!

I am having an shoe party with Sole Desires, they have the cutest shoes! She comes with a big trailer full of all of her shoes,
and has them there to give to you when you purchase. Some of the brand name shoes you are probably familiar with like; Soda,
Classified, Qupid, and Delicious just to name a few. The sizes that they carry are sizes 5 1/2-10 for women, toddler sizes
starting at 1 and up to 4 for little girls, with a few styles for boys and certain styles have wide widths as well. They have great
prices too, $22.99 or less on all shoes! And $34.99 or less on boots! So everyone please come it is going to be
so much fun, I'll have goodies too. I am SO excited to finally be getting some new shoes!

Date: Thursday, October 16th

Time: 6:30-8:00pm

Location: Trisha's house,

4394 W. 5375 S. Hooper, UT

visit their website and view their shoes at www.shoeparty.com

Snow Day!

Well thanks to this crazy October weather we got to play in the snow today. When we got up this morning and the kids saw that it had snowed, they drove us crazy to go and play in it. So finally we dug out all of our winter clothes and took them out while Ben shoveled the driveway. They had a blast building their snow man. Afterward we came in for some soup and hot chocolate. I don't know if I am ready for snow yet, but I'll have to admit it was a nice change of scenery.

What a silly boy!

So I wish I could just fall asleep anywhere! He must get that from his Daddy.

This picture is sad I know but I was laughing. Boston has started climbing on EVERYTHING and one of them is Brylee's kitchen so he can turn the light on and off. Well today I heard him crying and this is what I found. Apparently he forgot that he took the kitchen sink out! It took some manuevering around but I did get him out.

Hooper Park

We went to the park on Tuesday because it was such a beautiful day and we wanted to check out Hooper Park's new playground. It was really nice, I think it's my new favorite park!
What cute kids, I know!

20 Questions

Brylee always ask me a hundred questions a day, so I followed Holly's blog and asked her these 20.

1. What is something mom always says to you? I love you this much
2. What makes mom happy? When I help you
3. What makes mom sad? When the house is not clean
4. How does your mom make you laugh? Tickling me
5. What was your mom like as a child? You were in a crib
6. How old is your mom? 5yrs.
7. How tall is your mom? 4ft.
8.What is her favorite thing to do? Put Boston to bed.
9.What does your mom do when you're not around? Go to the bank
10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for? I don’t know
11.What is your mom really good at? Cleaning
12.What is your mom not very good at? Buckling Boston’s seatbelt?
13.What does your mom do for her job? Cleaning the dishes
14.What is your mom's favorite food? Root Beer
15.What makes you proud of your mom? When you clean the house
16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be? Minnie Mouse
17. What do you and your mom do together? Read books
18. How are you and your mom the same? Our hair
19. How are you and your mom different? You don’t have piggy tails
20. How do you know your mom loves you? Cause you tell me and kiss me and hug me

So apparently all I do is clean and I love to put Boston to bed. Who knew!