Its Great To Have Family NearBy

Mikey, Anthony, Jaileigh, Jakey and Kelsey

Jakey
Michael and the tubby belly.

Anthony pulling a funny face. He was running.

Jaileigh and her legos. She loves legos and cars, forget the dolls.

The boys club- Anthony, Michael and Jakey

Jakey and his famous grin

Jaileigh just being cute

Anthony mid-tantrum- I think he liked the audience

Attempting family pictures
Not working out so well

Nope still not working. . . .oh well

Our new found cousin Kelsey. She moved here from Chicago and found us. Its so nice to have family close!

Kelsey and Jakey

Michael and Anthony on the couch and up to no good. They are quite the team.

Jakey and Mikey

Kelsey and Anthony

Michaels "I'm cool" look

The adorable Haiwaiian outfits were given to us by our friends the Dunkleys. They went to Hawaii on vacation and brought them back. We Love Them! Thank you!

**HaPpY BiRtHdAy GrAnDmA!!!**

Happy Birthday Grandma! We wish we were there to celebrate with you. Here are some memories for all of us to remember.

*Pictures of Grandma are a little hard to come by. I had to really search for these. I must do a better job of Grandma pictures even if Grandma is camera shy.

Oldies but Goodies. . . .

Here are some older picture, not to old. They have been taken with in the last couple of weeks they just got skipped over when I was posting. For your viewing pleasure. . . .

Anthony fell asleep at dinner


Jake- this is an older picture. He still has baby chub

Jaileigh

Jake

Mikey

Jaileigh
Anthony climbing into the exersaucer
and he made it in, sort of. His foot is still sticking out if you look closely.
Michael thinking about climbing in.
and there he goes, head first.
Michael
Anthony is so excited that he found a dirty diaper.

Labor Day Weekend

Today Anthony discovered eyelashes. I was laying on the floor playing with the babies. Jakob, Jaileigh and Michael were blowing raspberries on my belly. Anthony, "Mr Curiosity", was studying my face. He started poking my eye so I said "eye" thinking that he was trying to learn the name of my eye. Then he started pulling. He was trying to pull my eyelashes out. I started laughing so hard I startled him. Then he thought it was funny and tried to do it more. Little stinker!

Here is a belated posting of labor day weekend.
Playing in baskets is fun, especially when your buddies fit in them with you. The babies climb in these all by themselves. I don't know how they do it but they somehow all manuever in. I guess if they squished inside me then they can squish in a basket.


Michael is reaching for the computer, look at his little grin
"Ah ha, I got it!" He's checking out his moms cousin Sunny's Blog. (so does that make them 2nd cousins?)

Checking out their new playhouse with Bill inside. I don't know if they were confused with the house or that there was a big guy inside the little house.

After swimming at the Millers the babies crashed on their floor. Michael, Jaileigh, Jakob, and Anthony

Sweet Jake
Michael thinking about something
Anthony lounging on daddy and brushing his teeth
Michael contemplating again. . . .

Miss "Sass" herself

Broken RV :o(

On the way back from the San Diego Zoo our RV broke down. Bad news when you have 4 babies. Luckily we were only 20 miles from home. We called AAA to come and get us, of course they didn't have a tow truck big enough to seat all of us. Our good friend Dana went to our house, picked up our suburban and came and got us. The temperature was 107 degrees. The tow truck guy let us hang out in his truck while we waited for Dana to come. We were so blessed that she was home and able to come and get us. Otherwise we would have been stranded on the side of the road.

Jakob and Jaileigh

Michael
Anthony and a not happy Daddy

Future Football Team

Watch the tackle by Michael.

Ball Pit Fun

Walking Babies

Everyone is showing off their walking skills except Jaileigh

Honest Scrap

I was recently nominated by fellow quad mom, Jenn King for the Honest Scrap Award. This means I have to share 10 honest things about myself and then I get to nominate 7 other bloggers that I love.

#1- I HATE tomatoes. I will not eat them. I won't eat their juice, their seeds, their skins. If any of the above touches any part of my food, I won't eat it. YUCK!

#2- I LOVE chocolate. When I was younger I was actually allergic to it. After college I outgrew the chocolate allergy and now I am making up for lost time. While I was nursing I wasn't able to eat it again and it was very painful!

#3- My husband calls me OCD and anal retentive. I don't think that I am that bad but I do have a few anal retentive habits. I like things neat and orderly. My closet is organized by color, DVDs and CDs are alphabetized, laundry needs to be folded my way, dishwasher must be organized, etc. I love to organize. This was the BTQ (before the quads) me. Once they came my life was overthrown. Now that they are 1 and a little easier to take care of the "old" me is starting to come out again.

#4- Now that I just told you how anal I am, I am going to tell you how easy going and laid back I am. I am a very mellow, patient person. I don't know where the analness came from?! and how can a patient person be anal? The patience helped me when I was a high school teacher and now it has really come in handy with the little quaddies. My students would always ask why I never yelled at them. I just don't believe that yelling gets you anywhere in life.

#5- When I first went to college my major was conservation biology, I was going to be a forest ranger. Then I switched to pre-med, then I decided I was done with school and got a teaching certificate. I still LOVE the medical field though. I taught Anatomy and Physiology to High Schoolers to keep in touch with the medical side of things. Maybe someday I'll go back to school, hmmmm, not likely. Haha

#6- I love to shop. BTQ I never bought anything full price. That was a sin to buy something that wasn't on sale. I loved the challenge of finding awesome things at really cheap prices. Now that I have 4 little ones I pay full price quite a bit.

#7- I am a reader. Each of the Harry Potters and Twilight books I would read the day I got them. When I was single I would stay up all night reading. Once I got married I didn't do it too much. That is one of the things that I miss most, sitting down to a good book.

#8- I used to be a closet Mountain Dew drinker. I haven't had it since December 2007 but I still miss it. I really have a sugar addiction and Mountain Dew has a load of sugar! Sugar and Caffeine= great combo!

#9- I have broken every toe, except the 2 big ones, several times. I broke my foot, my pinky twice (or was it 3 times?) and had stitches in my forehead, and staples in my head. I am sometimes referred to as a klutz.

#10- I have had more traffic tickets than anyone I know. I have taken traffic school in too many counties to tell. Thank goodness for traffic school otherwise I wouldn't have insurance. My husband calls me the "speedracer". I hate it when people drive in the fast lane. It is NOT for traveling in, unless you are going really fast. That is one of my pet peeves and why I have so many traffic tickets. Now that I have 4 babies I no longer drive. I really don't think they should be put in jeopardy of my mad driving skills or my crazy road rage.

And now the award goes to . . . .

Karmann from the krazykkouple

Marci at Li'l Grippers

Tia Bee from the Stokes Clan

Michelle 4babies4us

Sunny from Sunny Happenings and Sunny Expressions

Jenny from puddle jumps

Mandy from 6 Flowers

San Diego Road Trip

At the zoo we only got a few pictures and sadly none of them were of us. This picture is a picture of "tree lady" If you look closely you can see her face. It was the coolest costume I have ever seen. Mike thinks I should apply for this job and bring the babies along as barnacles living on the tree.
Here is the other zoo picture- Peacocks were wandering around the zoo. They were beautiful. When Jaileigh was younger she sounded like a peacock when she would cry.

We stayed in Chula Vista, home of the Little League World Champs, at the local KOA. For breakfast they had an all you can eat pancake breakfast. The 6 of us went through quite a few pancakes!

One Of The Guys

Jaileigh plopped herself in between the boys.

Billy & Jakey- Hard at Work