St. Patricks' Dinner

 This year Grandma and Boose came for our traditional St. Patrick's Day dinner. What's great about this tradition is that it's so easy to keep up with! I already cook dinner for my family s might as well make it green and call it a special holiday dinner! The girls look forward to little things like this. 

They were so excited to have Grandma Bleak and Boose come join us this year. We made our rainbow fruit kabobs and veggie rainbow and then a chicken asparagus pasta with green sauce. Then green smoothie and brownie and mint ice cream for dessert. Then the best part...put on a movie for the girls so I could talk and catch up with my mom and sister :). Good times!

Random Family Fun

 Just some random family memories. 

Sunday's we like to drive up the canyon sometimes. Didn't realize there is still that much snow in March but as Cade says, "sometimes Mom needs to drive up the canyon and sniff the air." Then Nora kept saying, "I don't want to drive just to sniff the air!!!" Hahaha. 

Girls night with my Mom and sisters! Man, I love them all! Especially during this past year with the pandemic...I have become closer to all of these wonderful women and I love them so much. We had a favorite things" party at my house and had amazing food and good talk. It was great! Faith was home recovering from covid-19 and we missed her terribly but we got to Face Time her in for a bit. 

I love listening to my girls and husband sing together and hope we create lots more memories doing it in the future!

Just some fun pictures with our fun LuLu. During a Daddy-daughter interview she wanted Daddy to put a "boop-boop" in his hair. Hahaha. She is doing swim lessons right now and loving it and doing really well at it. 

I try to change things up every once in a while and be spontaneous because I think children need that to keep life fun and interesting. These pics were after I picked up the girls from school and we did our after school snack at the pond near by. We had apples and popcorn and fed the ducks and geese. Jane LOVED it so much. She calls them "kack kacks." So cute. 

Ahhh. The end of skiing season. Cade created some awesome memories taking the 3 oldest on the slopes this season. I was kind of bummed I didn't get to do it with them but at the same time I can't be sad about growing another baby to join our family! It's so great that Sundance is 30 minutes from our home. It forced them to go about a dozen times this season. They have all absolutely LOVED it! And Cade feels like he can ski and not just fall down the mountain :). Next season we'll probably get them another couple lessons where the girls can learn to do more than just pizza the whole way down. But the important thing is they loved going and learning something new. 

Baby BOY Close!!!!

 What?? For real?! 

Cade and I weren't going to find out because it was so much fun waiting until sweet Jane was born. It was so fun waiting until the end. But I kept asking Cade, "Are you sure you don't want to find out? Especially if we feel this is our last baby, will you be disappointed if it's a girl and is it better to find out sooner?" So the week before the ultrasound we decided we would find out the gender together and tell the girls later. 

We went to get our ultrasound done and it was the same lady who did our last two ultrasounds (even the one with Lucy where we thought she was a boy at first). We reminded her of our past ultrasounds and that we have 5 girls at home and we indeed wanted to find our the gender after all. So half way through heart and organs she couldn't wait and said, "Okay! I have to show you guys now!" She found a good shot and wrote out "boy". Cade couldn't believe it. The ultrasound tech said, "I've known this whole time and I usually wait until the end but I just couldn't wait any longer!!" She was too excited for us. Cade was trying to hold back the tears :). Of course we'd be excited either way. Our girls are AMAZING!!! And we wouldn't have our family ANY OTHER WAY! And to be honest...I think we really aren't going to believe it until baby boy is here in our arms. 

Now for telling the girls...

My friend a few weeks earlier said, "If you want a gender reveal cake let me know and I'll make you one!" I told her that was so nice but we probably weren't going to find out. Then after we DID find out I texted her to ask if she would still be willing. We found out Monday and did the cake on Thursday after dinner. We told the girls we had a special dessert and when we brought that out they were SOOOO excited because they've had this amazing ice cream cake from our neighbor before. Then Cade said, "now there is something special about this cake. With the help from our doctor this cake will tell you whether our baby is a baby boy or a baby girl." The girls screamed, "WHAT?? Are you serious?" They were even MORE excited. Lots of screaming started :). Everyone made their guesses. Emma and Reese guessed girl and Nora and Lucy guessed boy. Jane just yelled "cake!" When I made the first cut into the cake, I pulled the knife out and there was a little bit of blue on the knife! Then I cut the other side and more blue came out. The girls were going CRAZY and screaming. I finally got out the piece and it indeed was blue inside. They couldn't believe it. They're reactions were so great. They are so fun and so animated and it makes anything like this so much fun. 

We are excited to have Close baby boy come join us this summer! What a special little guy to join a family with 6 mommies!!! He is going to be extremely loved.