vacation summer 2012

We had our first ever two week long, both husband and wife - all children, out of state family vacation this year! We planed it out, believing it would happen and a year in the works we went to Florida!  Had a great time.
One of my favorite things about Florida is...there is literally a beach no matter where you are :) The kids begged to stop at every stretch of sand along the road. In the twilight it was truly magical!

Can you see the happy little dimples on her cute face?! And that curly little pony tail!

She was alright with waiting in the water, but hated the big waves!

The boys loved waiting in the water! They had so much fun with the water!

Ilona loved the sand! Our only baby to ever like sand! We were so surprised! While the boys swam deep into the water, Ilona would happily play in the sand with sea shells.

 Almost every evening we would head to the beach. Beautiful every time.

See...beautiful every time :)

The boys loved looking over the piers, hunting for fish and sea creatures!

I was ale to take amazing pictures! Just wish I could have a family photo like this! I even was able to take a couples pictures on their honey moon...on Honey moon island! hehe:)

Sweet moments

~The family was all in the living room. Camden is sitting on the couch and says, "Mr Stinky pants is climbing all over me and really stinks!" haha:) Ilona aka Mr stinky pants! We all had a good laugh and re named her Missy Stinky Pants!

~Elek is really into basketball. While at target I found a cheap basketball. When I came home the boys were outside playing with their backs to me. I went outside quietly and started bouncing the basketball. 3 very happy boys looked at me. Elek with the biggest, happiest grin jumps up and says, " thanks Mom!!" He is sleeping with the basketball in his room now :)

~Walking into the living room...Ilona is chillin on Elek's lap drinking up her bottle!

~We toured the K.C Temple last week. I would like to say I had four very well behaved children the entire time.... however Ilona has been busy teething her molars. SO Fun! She screamed a lot during.the.whole.tour. The boys were all super tiered from long nights of being at the inlaws packing. But there was a moment. We walked into the celestial room. We were told to not talk and to feel the special spirit in that room. Camden (who ran in long before Shaun and I could navigate through the crowd) Runs to me with a GiGanTic smile - laughing, says "Mom, It's just so Beautiful in here!"
 He then wrapped his arms around me. *Melt*

~While spending another long day packing at the inlaws it was late(about 9ish). The kids were done Shaun and I were done. Ilona was past done. She just wanted to be held. Shaun and I were finishing up, Ilona was crying at my feet wanting to be picked up. Elek walked over put his hands out toward Ilona. She look at him then at me and in a moment of tenderness reached up for her brother. Elek picked her up so tenderly put her on his hip and just held her. Ilona stopped fussing and together they waited until we were done. It was so touching. I'm glad that we had the boys so close together. But it is truly amazing to have Ilona while the boys are older. There is such a difference in the way they treat/help her.

~I heard an amazing quote on a christian radio station...It reminded me that God made me and Loves me. "...and thou the trauma was great, He wept with me..." At that moment it was so personal so deep and loving. I wish I could find the whole quote...

~Keenan is finally having a good school moment this year. He is so excited to be taking "more test" to get into the gifted program. He just beams with happiness! Honestly any kid who Wants to take a bunch of tests should get into that program :)

~Ilona is soooo friendly. She will walk up to anyone and reach out to them. She in a simple way makes people feel so needed, validated and happy.

~Ilona has the cutest shoulder shrug. She will come into the room looking very mischievous, get a huge smile and shrug her shoulders. It is adorable!

~We had a crazy kid/mom day today...and it's so wonderful to think of each of my kids in a "sweet moment" from this week. I love their happy faces. I love the excitement that radiates from there twinkling eyes. I love that each one of them have their Daddy's big cheek dimples. And when they are super smily those dimples take over! I love that they truly do care about one another. Each one of the boys adores their sister. They all look out for her and keep her safe. At cub scouts tonight Ilona spotted the fire and without thinking Elek kindly put her in his lap and continued listening until I was able to get her.

                                          Ilona turns 1!

My baby girl is now a 1 year old! After years of boy parties and boy cake themes I finally had a girl party! So the theme was PinK! I made pink tulle puff balls, pink wall flowers and pink cupcakes...oh Ilona was dressed in pink too =)

She's not sure what's going on...but aren't those leggings super sweet!?

Oops she's got it =)

The next day Grandma and Grandpa H stopped by to give Ilona this shopping cart. Both Ilona and Camden had a great time loading it up! I forgot to take pictures of all the cute pink-ness, but there's a wall flower in the background. They turned out so cute!

Well, little Missy, We've loved having you in our family. You have the cutest happy face. Gigantic dimples on both cheeks and your chin, even a cute little dimple by your nose! I absolutely adore your blond tight curls! You win on the most teeth for a one year old in our family. It was fantastic when you teethed all four front teeth at the same time... :(  You love being with the boys. You will squat down by them to check out their toys. Whenever you see a dog - you raise your hand and say "it, it." I don't like the dog jumping on me and will always say "sit!"...I guess I do that a little too much : ) You love, love bananas! No one can eat one around you without you begging for it! You say da da dada all.the.time. Mama is only said out of desperation! But you do add a cute little ay sound at the end ;) We love you so much sweet girl :)

8 is Great

 In November Elek was baptised! I should have come back to this post while everything was fresh in my mind... Lets see some random thoughts from the day:
Elek is so old and tall and thin. I swear he grows an inch a day!
He's looking so much like His handsome Dad :) 
In the last picture my hair is wayyyy to short!
The family was is some seriously cute matchy outfits :)
Elek asked his Aunts old room mate to give the talk on the Holy Ghost. He just loves this sweet gal! 
The font was freezing and Elek practically jumped out after going under-haha :)
We have great friends that came to Elek's baptism!
We met up with eleks grandparents/cousins for dinner and fun.

Boys Costumes

My Boys have been massively under represented SO here are their adorable Mario Brother costumes! Shaun even had a red toad hat, but he managed to stay out of pictures :)

He still loves green! I first had the idea of a Luigi costume when we were at target and Camden said, "there's my green guy!!"

All my boys and their pumpkins :)

Toad, Luigi and Mario.

I found a fantastic tutorial to make the Luigi hat. So easy! Then I figured why not use it to get a toad hat too! Shaun even liked them so much that he asked me to make him a red toad hat! He even wore it to the boys school parties and trick or treating! What a guy :) I thought I had overalls for Keenan and spent a ton of time looking for them... So I made these ones out of felt just before k's school party. If we do this again I will make another pair-they look so cute!

We dropped by to see the kids grandparents and ran into some other cousins too. I'm pretty impressed with this picture. So many eyes looking even though they desperately wanted to be let loose!

This picture cracks me up! The kids were soooo busy! Everyone in constant motion-I think this picture captures all the movement well :)

Tights and other cute picts

I love this picture of Ilona...She is trying to "play" with Camden while he was hiding his toys from her on the couch:) they learn so young! Such an inocent look!

Beautiful blue eyes

During our years of boys -one thing I loved to do was buy fun tights for my nieces and any other little girls. Now I get to buy them for MY little girl. And Yes they are just as adorable as I always new they would be! I got a steal on this little skirt 5 bucks-Tights $1.24 Whoohoo!

She loves to stande at the chairs..

Every time She saw the camera she would stop and bable at me :)  

Fall is fantastic for fun socks and tights. I think this is the begining of a beautiful friendship!

where did the time go...

I really am going to do better at keeping up this blog...

My Parents came out when the baby was born. My Dad made me some awesome pieces! Above is the toy chest. Totally kid friendly. There are diapers and wipes hidden away. Baby toys, and misc toys in the other baskets. Behind the curtain is a huge bright yellow bucket of legos, blocks and other big things that are now hidden away! And now I have a cute little display spot!

Camden had a birthday too! This year I tried very hard to talk camden out of another green party. Luckily he loves Angry Birds! So I made a cake with blocks on top and "Birds" toppling over those pigs :) Camden received several stuffed birds and we played with boxes that I wrapped up in brown paper. Everyone went crazy over this game and still when the kids have friends over they play it!

Ilona grew too, too fast! She loves Camdens blanket and sneaks up to get it then rolls herself all around in it - just snuggling up! (about 5 month)

She looks a little cross eyed here, but I was trying to get a picture of her sitting up all by herself. She has been scooting and flinging herself forward for awhile, but now she is without wobbling and sitting up! It doesn't last long though-there is always something she has to get off to...