Silly petunia

Sweet petunia

Sweet petunia! She asked the girls to plant some special tic tacs in a bowl of sugar for a sweet surprise in the morning! lol

Oh petunia!

I guess she can't wait for the snow!

Petunia is potty trained

Petunia has arrived!

So In Love!

Introducing Sophia Rose Pauls

Born at 8/13/2012 at 8:08am. She weighed in at 7lbs 9oz and measured in at 20in. So far she has been such an easy baby, hardly crying at all and such a snuggle bug! I am so in love!

here is a link to more pictures of lil Sophia

April Recap In Pictures

April started off with all fun, and has been ending with all work. We went to Chicago for a few days and also spent a full day at the Craigs cruisers in Grand Rapids. Hopefully, May will bring more to talk to about, more fun, and warmer weather!

It is a....

I am almost half way done with my pregnancy! It is so hard to believe, feels like I just found out yesterday I was pregnant.  This pregnancy has been completely different from my last two pregnancies, which is why I was certain it was a boy. I was wrong though, ITS A GIRL! I cannot even begin to imagine our home in 10 years with three girls (of course that is if we don't have anymore), the hormones, doing hair, the phone bills, etc.. Whew, I think I will just focus on the now, the future can be a bit overwhelming.

So here is to another little girl!

February

Here are some pictures to recap February for us. We were pretty much on vacation almost the whole month. We went down to Florida (with in-laws) and stayed in Daytona beach for about a week, then Miami for a couple days, then a cruise for another week. Fun times, but it was great to get back home and into our normal routines and not to mention OUR OWN BEDS!

Click here and here too see more pictures from our vacation!

"We Wish You A Merry Christmas!"

Made it through their first program without any tears! Whew! Just took alittle bribery and Sugar!

Evelynn is 4! Part2...

Evelynn Is 4!

I cannot believe my baby turned 4! It seems like just yesterday we were talking to the nurse and they were having me come in to be induced, which lead to 18 hours of labor and ended in a c section. However in the end we received this wonderful child who is developing into a wonderful little girl with a big girl attitude! Already having such a motherly nature, caring, sensitive nature. Cannot wait to see what this year holds for her. We have already started gymnastics and soon will come school. Evelynn and Olivia both are loving gymnastics and ask all the time if it is their day for gymnastics. They can't get enough of it and are doing really well at it! Anyway back to Evee's birthday. We celebrated on her actual birthday (4th) by going out to dinner to Applebees (did you know they have kids eat free on Tuesdays! Sorry had to plug that in) with her grandparents (minus Papa Edwards who was out of town), Uncle Jon and Uncle Jacob, and obviously us. She got a couple presents, but the rest came at her birthday party, which was today. It was so fun to celebrate with her. We did a hello kitty theme. However I need to sit down and watch an episode; the girls like hello kitty because of seeing it in the store not the show. I let them watch one last night, and during the glances of it, while getting stuff ready for the party, I noticed a couple characters that didn't look so nice. So I need to look into this, and if anyone out there knows anything about hello kitty shows- good or bad, please let me know your input. I digress again. I am on little sleep, so I am going to leave the rest of the post with pictures. I might have to add a second post because there are several pictures.

Princess Lauren and Prince Mike

Trying to explain a wedding and the whole Bride and Groom thing to a 2, 3, and 4 year old is like pulling teeth. They just don't really get the importance of it, quite yet. So I decided to put it in their terms- Prince and Princess. From the time I explained it to them that way, that is all we heard about. "When do we get to see the princess?", "Are we going to see the princess today?", "what is the princess' name?". Then alas the day of.. filled with so much excitement, it was as if we really were seeing royalty. Very cute in my book, despite the fact we don't really practice the princess thing in our house. I have a feeling they are going to out number me in this department and that will be the number one thing on their wish lists.
No we really didn't see a "princess" but it was her wedding day so it fits for the occasion. My cousin (2nd actually),Lauren, got married. Very beautiful wedding and great time with family that we don't see that often. Lauren, who looks just like her mother, was stunning! Lauren and Mike (the prince) seemed to really enjoy their day,didn't seem like there was a care in the world. So refreshing to see that!

I thought this was so cute.... They went up to Lauren as we were about to leave and asked to see her shoes. However, she had taken them off and she told them they were over there in the corner. They both gasped as if they found the glass slipper! Make me chuckle! Oh to have the mind of a child.