Moms, Jobs, Babies - such fun!

there is no time to blog when you are the mother of seven - at least a temporary mom! (eight if you count kyle) i have a renewed respect for moms with large families - especially those with teenagers!my sisters have been pretty good for the most part. last week, i bribed them with tickets to harry potter, this week it's sunsplash. a few of them lost their tickets and had to earn them back with a chore. thanks to that, my mom's room and hall closet are getting very organized.

this week, kyle stared his new job at bank of america. since compass bank had to lay off all employees in az back in march. kyle applied for jobs and heard back from several places and found this job with balboa insurance. just in time for school, thank goodness. kyle was really excited in march when he was able to stay home and be with addison and i, but the excitement wore off quickly when i put him to work helping with addison, cooking, cleaning, or when he got real bored. i miss him though.

remember me saying i wanted to be more crafty? well i got down to business with my sister kenna and made addison (and me) some serious flowers clips for her hair. prolly like fifteen. but i have a problem with addison finding the flowers and bows and pulling them off. any suggestions on how to get her to stop? my sisters and i shopped and bought some of the cutest ribbon too - clearance! i can not wait for that.

speaking of babies and bows, my cousin stacia just had her baby girl saturday morning at 6:50. breckyn ray rogers was 7 lbs 1oz, 20 1/2 in long. what a sweet baby! she is so tiny and has beautiful dark hair at the back of her head, a cute pointy nose, and itty bitty wrists. stacia and i have been close cousins for our whole lives and i am so excited for her and what a great mom she will be. when i got a phone call telling me about the birth of breckyn, i remember how happy i was for stacia and reflected on the special time when addsion was born. i miss those first days and can't wait to have them again some day. the precious babies grow so fast.
last saturday, my parents ward had a slip n' slide day using billboard signs and a fire hydrant. adults and kids got in line to slide down the steep hill for several hours while others liked to just watch from the shade and eat watermelon. it was a blast. we had a short scare when kyle lost his wedding ring, but it was found. the last hour, they poured soap on the slide and it was fun to watch to little kids fly! Kyle even took Addison down a few times. She liked the slide, but didn't like the water spraying on her.