Kelsianne Is 3 Months Old - ALREADY!

It is hard to believe that Kelsianne is 3 MONTHS old already! I just cannot believe the time is flying so quickly. She is SO fun and continues to amaze us as she changes and grows every day!
She is really "talking" up a storm these days and I think she enjoys using her "voice". She smiles and laughs which of course makes us laugh - sometimes until we have tears running down our faces!
She is growing out of clothes and diapers almost faster than we can keep her in them. I have outfits that are too big and then all of a sudden she has grown and she gets to wear an outfit one time!

I am frustrated with myself for forgetting to get her pict taken during family picts last week - the girls helped me get a couple of these - the light was all wrong though - so I tried to get a few more here at home. Not real thrilled with them though - will just keep trying!

BUBBLES

Preston's sister brought this WAY fun bubble machine for the kids. During a lull taking picts she got it out and the kids came running. We all grabbed our cameras and started shooting - even the photographer! The kids had so much fun with the bubbles and it was great to just watch them. We all commented that we were so surprised that the photographer even stopped what he was doing to take picts of all the kids. He really was great to take his time with us and seemed to be enjoying all the fun and silly stuff as much as we were! We cant wait to see all the picts he took too!


OOOOHHHH - I love this pict of my neice. Her face really showed what she thought of all the bubble fun


BUBBLES TASTE GOOD - We were all laughing so hard at Ky trying to bite the bubbles. The rest of the kids tried to catch them with their hands and Ky ran around on the grass chomping his teeth trying to bite them!

FAMILY PICTURES

While we had all of Preston's family here with us we had family picts taken. We had a great photographer plus we all took picts on our own cameras. I will have to ask Preston's brother for sure the number of picts we took between us but it was in the 1000's! I realized that as I was getting ready to post picts that for all the zillions of picts that we took over 4 days that the only picts I took of Kelsianne were on her blessing day! I never got any picts of her during our family photo shoot. I may have to just find a fun spot at a local park and put her in that outfit and take her picts. It is amazing to me that as I am raisisng a large family that I am always forgetting someone - picts of kelsianne, ordering food for Caiden on AT, etc. It is a constant adventure raising a large family after coming from such a small family! It will make for lots of fun and hopefully fun (and funny) memories too!


LOTS O' KIDDOS - This is a pict of Preston's parents and all the grandkids - our family continues to grow - this pict really shows how many little people we have added to the family - so much fun!

BART & JACLYN - this is a pict of my new sister-in-law-to-be - she is such a DARLING! It was really fun to finally get to meet her and it will be great to have her as part of our family!

BEN IS FLYING - With such a big family we had extra time to play while waiting for our turns or to be re-positioned for more picts. This is a fun moment Preston caught of his brother Neil playing with his son Ben.

LITTLE BOYS AT HEART - All of us "girls" in the family would agree that the Baxter men are the best husbands in the whole world - we would also agree that they are still little boys at heart as this pict definately shows. They come by those genes rightfully though as I remembered Preston's grandfather being the same way - it is one of the special things we love about our guys though and wouldnt trade them for anything!

GRANDMA'S GIRLS - It was fun that the photographer took so much time with us to get any shots we wanted. It was surprising when we set up the girls with Preston's mom to see that the girls are definately outnumbered by the boys...

SISTERS FOREVER -


SAY "CHEESE" - I laughed so hard when I saw I got this pict of Ky - it shows the true colors of his personality!


DADDY'S BOYS -


ALL THE GIRLS -

LOTS OF LOVIN' - I loved that I got this shot of Ceana and Ky - it really shows how much they enjoy each other. It seems Ceana is always the one to get the biggest smiles from Ky and she constantly dotes on him (like everyone else) :) We got lots of fun picts of Ky because of her help - he is so happy when he is with her and it really shows!

COLTON

CEANA

KAELI

CAIDEN

KYLAN

Double Blessings

CAIDEN'S BAPTISM - It is hard to believe that Caiden is really 8! We have been looking forward to this special day for months and it has finally arrived. Caiden was so excited and did a really great job. Way to go bud for beginning your journey of making extra good choices! We are so proud of you for choosing to be a member of Heavenly Father's kingdom!


THE POWER OF THE PRIESTHOOD - Wow! Would you just look at all the power standing there with Caiden. It never ceases to amaze me that our guys hold such a great power and such a great gift that they use often to bless our families! I know that power has blessed our family so very much and now Caiden is on that same journey towards that special gift too!


OUR LITTLE PRINCESS - Kelsianne looked so amazing her in beautiful blessing dress. She gave us a run for our money in trying to get picts though - all she wanted to do was spit up and try and eat her dress! It was kind of funny and something fun to remember. As I get better picts of her we will be sure to share!


DOUBLE BLESSINGS - Caiden & Kelsianne got to share their special day. It was so fun to have Caiden's baptism and Kelsianne's blessing together and be surrounded by dear friends and family. I love this pict of the 2 of them - to cuties who are growing up too fast!


OUR DEAR FRIEND - This is a pict of our sweet friend Kymberly. She was a doll and made these special clothes for both the kids. She devoted many hours and many hand stitches to make the kids clothes extra special and we are so thankful to her for all of her love and time! Thank you Kymberly - we love you TONS! Thank you again so very much!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAIDEN! Caiden got to have an extra fun birthday because he got to share it with his friend Zachary Tuggy! The boys' birthdays are only a few days apart and happened to fall into the AT (active duty training - military concert tour)schedule this year. We had a swim party at the hotel and then we celebrated together with pizza, ice cream cake and presents in our hotel suite. We were so glad that our good friends the Tuggys, Worleys and my brother's family were able to join us for such a fun time!It was organized chaos for sure but I know everyone had a great time - esp the birthday boys!


KY LOVES CARS! As you know Ky LOVES cars! While we were on AT Ky had his own personal bag of cars. When we were in our hotel room or in the car they were constantly in his arms. It became an adventure for everyone each time we changed hotels though - we had to search every inch of the hotel rooms to be sure to not leave any cars behind - he sleeps, eats, walks, swims, etc with them! We found cars in some very unusual places and we are not sure they all made them back home with us...but he seems content with those cars that are his favorites and we are thankful to know we got all of those! :)


KY IS GOING FOR A SWIM? Ky wasnt too sure about the pools at the hotels. It took lots of coaxing by Ceana before he finally allowed her to take him into the pool and then would usually only let her hold him. He eventually warmed up to the idea though and seemed to enjoy having the big girls hold him and zoom him around.


RARING TO GO! Colton was not too thrilled to get into the pool at first either. I was expecting him to sit on the sidelines and hang out in all his gear (like last year). I think he finally got brave enough after he watched everyone having so much fun and got pretty fearless jumping into the arms of our friend's daughter from the edge of the pool. It was fun to watch him take on a new adventure, even though he was scared at first, and be able to enjoy the time with his friends and siblings.

YOU GO GIRL! The big girls had no qualms whatsoever of jumping into the pool and being grand drama queens in the process. This pict of my girls and their good friend Angelina is one of my favorites and really shows off their personalities. We took TONS of picts of the kids jumping off the side (may post more soon)and had a good laugh at all their antics and just enjoyed the kids having so much fun together.

Here We Are - FINALLY!

Well, after much help from a dear friend I FINALLY have our family blog up and running. I have to admit I am a bit nervous about this new project but hope it will be a fun new adventure!

I have to admit also that it has been very theraputic for me today - after a very crazy day, bezerk kiddos and all sorts of mishaps it has been nice to just set things aside for awhile and journal and post picts of all of our fun family things!

I am looking forward to being able to post so much more (including picts & video) and to be able to share things with all of those friends and family who have been just receiving emails (usually without picts and video)

I hope that you will enjoy checking out our family blog often and PLEASE be sure to leave comments and let me know how you like our page. With us just starting out I would also love to hear of fun new ideas and suggestions from all you veteran bloggers out there!

I will be sure to post more picts and video soon!