Hot chick wins fishing tournament!

We had a great time at the lakehouse. Many large fish were caught, the largest by winner Amber Staub, who caught a true 'mantle fish' (a fish worthy of a picture on the mantle). Channing also caught her first large mouth bass, by herself no less, and when you see the pic you won't believe it is a large mouth bass, but it is! It was really funny. Finally, Logan and Channing went on their first fishing boat trip. They packed back-packs with snacks and they and their Dads had a great time together. Logan fished with his Finding Nemo pole and Channing with her Barbie pole, and alas, nothing was caught, but it was fun!

Happy freakin' b-day

Chloe was not happy about being the only one in bed when we called to say happy b-day...

Happy Birthday, Justin!

Yes, if you didn't know, now you do- today is our oldest sibling's birthday. From what I could tell from our quick conversation, it was going to consist of a day at the pool and then Costco on the way home, followed by dinner and ice cream and popcorn. Sounds good to me!

Speaking of popcorn, I can't seem to get enough air-popped popcorn. Spencer's not really into it, but me and Carter share a small batch every other day or so, made with mom's old popper. I don't know how that thing has survived going from wherever it's been with mom and dad, to Rexburg, to Hemet, California. It still works, though, and I love it. To me, there's nothing that says, "This is a family night" more than hearing that thing roar and smelling the hot air it puts out. Every time I plug it in, I think of watching family slides. Oh, the olden days! We'll have to plan a slides night during Christmas when we are all together. ~Hay

The Boys...

Here are a couple of pix of the boys. One morning Ben and Logan were playing hard for a while, TV blaring, Logan jumping around and going crazy, and Ben felt tired so he wormed over to the blanket laying on the floor and just went to sleep. We have a video of it too, it was pretty cute. Ben has to go to the doctor for his eye, he still has one that gets all nasty from having the clogged tear duct. Logan is doing well. Just a happy, healthy, energetic kid. The first thing he askes just about every morning is, "so, what fun thing are we going to do today?" Since just about everyday Kate has him either going to preschool, swimming, library time, mall, playing at the park, or playing with friends. The other day we over heard him drawing a picture and writing a letter...this is basically how it went..."Dear Voldemort, (mumbling, mumbling), cast a magic spell, (mumbling, mumbling). Kate is very and doing well and having fun with the kids. We are currently fixing up the house in Rowlett and hopefully selling it. Anyways, all else is good. Book 7 comes out this weekend so don't try to get a hold of me for about a month, until I am done reading.

The girls.

This is officially the first time I have 'blogged'. We are doing well. Mom, sorry about the tattoos, but that's the price you pay for being a biker chick.

Chloe is doing great. She is talking more and more, and loves her new big girl bed. We may have Channing and her in the same room before long. She also still has major attitude. As Dad says, you never know which Chloe you're going to get.

Channing is well, aside from the nightmares that plague her. Oh, and she was VERY upset yesterday to learn that she can't marry me when she gets big. I told her daughters can't marry dads and that I already have a wife, but that didn't go over too well. Tears, trying to convince me otherwise, the whole 9 yards. Finally I calmed her by telling her she didn't have to marry anyone and that she could just always live with us. I have a feeling she may change her mind about this someday. - Rye

I guess I'll give an update on the belly...So far, I'm not very big but I feel like I'm getting a lot bigger recently. My due date is still October 31 and everything seems to be going very well and as far as I know, the baby is very healthy. He is also very active. We still don't have a name picked out- probably won't until they make us sign the birth certificate at the hospital, but I'm pretty sure the middle name is going to be Mack. So, that's pretty much the update. I've been staying really active with Carter and we do exercises together and he helps me get my weights out of the closet and everything. Then when we do my video, he goes, "Seengo, seengo, dubbo" (single, single, dubble) and breathes real loudly. It's pretty funny. At least he's learning early how to stay in shape! ~Hay~