Baby #3

Here we are already in week 13 of the pregnancy with Endsley kid #3. I can't believe time has flown by so fast!! I think the current two crazies I have, my church calling, and working just made me so busy I haven't had time to count the days or weeks of this pregnancy. We are excited though. It seems so weird that I am old enough to have 3 kids. I have been a little sicker with this one but the kids and the hubby are very accommodating and understanding. We are really blessed and can't wait to find out what this kid is!!

5 Year Anniversary

So Friday was our 5 year wedding Anniversary and we decided it was finally time to get away just the two of us. We planned on Sedona and our good wonderful amazing friends the Bartons tackled our kids for us from Thursday night to Saturday afternoon. We had a great first night there and planned to SLEEP IN since we had no kids to interrupt our slumber... only problem was I FORGOT TO PLAN FOR THE KID GROWING IN MY BELLY!! (YES I AM PREGNANT YEAH!!!) I woke up at 7:30 STARVING and needing to go potty then I could not fall asleep. Adam had a different story. He is coming of a pretty mild pain medication that he has relied on for a whole year to calm his stomach issues from the pancreatits and about a week ago decided to be done with it COLD TURKEY. Well this means he can't calm down and even though he is so tired unless he takes something small he can't relax enough to get into deep sleep, and of course his medicine for sleeping fell out of his pocket somehow before we left.
When we got up, we forced smiles on our faces, ate a REALLY expensive breakfast and trudged around the town pretending to be interested but really just wanting to get back to sleep. I wasn't feeling good because I am only 10 weeks along, he wasn't feeling good cuz he didn't sleep well, we were both hungry and tired and ultimately the day was sort of a bust. We basically spent our anniversary in two separate rooms watching two different shows. It was pretty pathetic.
We did however sleep in the next morning (almost missed check out time) and ended our trip hanging out with the Bartons and our kids and it turned out OK. We rushed back to Gilbert to drop our kids off yet again to our wonderful friends the Batchelors while we went to see the play my cousin Rob is in at the Hale Centre Theatre "Little Shop of Horrors" which was REALLY funny and a great end to our weekend.
Once we got home we decided never to leave again unless we are NOT SICK. Even though we didn't have a great anniversary day, it comes down to the fact that I would rather spend time with him doing NOTHING than being apart from him. He is so amazing and I am so excited for the next of FOREVER.
Love you Husband!!!

Salt Lake Trip

Katie and I went on a trip up to Salt Lake for my cousin Lyndsi's wedding. It was so fun... and tiring. I realize now that I only got ONE clear picture of me and Katie. I had to put this one in though and I think you can see why.

I was so excited to use my camera a little and stayed behind it most of the time. I love learning more and more about it and think I grabbed some good shots. It sure helps that Lyndsi and Jon are such a cute couple too.
Grandpa Prows and LyndsiKatie LOVED dancing to the live music at the reception.

She was SO tired but still so cute. I woke her up at 5:30 when she normally sleeps till 9. She only had an hour and a half nap when she normally takes a 3 or 4 hour nap, and she didn't go to bed till 10:30 when she usually goes to bed at 7:30. She was still so happy though. Mommy and Daddy

Terrible 2's??

Katie... oh what do we say about our little Katie bug??? She makes us laugh and she also makes us worry a bit... she has a lot of spunk and personality and she kind of gets away with it because she is so freakin' cute.
Here is her latest little antic.


These are the couches we have had for 5 years... we got them for $100 about 3 weeks after living couch less in our apartment when we got married. They have served us well, although they are not very comfortable, they work for now.


This is how they look now after a brief encounter with Katie and an orange Sharpie. Silly Mommy leaving the marker out!! Kevin never did stuff like this so I forget to be be more cautious. We could just flip the cushion over but this is just the reason Adam was looking for to replace these things.

I told her to come show me what she did for the camera and this is what she gave me... attitude!!
Apparently she is proud of her artwork.

Our Health Woes

I have an amazing husband. He is sweet and caring and such a great Daddy. He works hard for us and loves to be with our family. Most of you know this already, but he has had some health issues since he was admitted to the hospital because he had Pancreatitis. He has been battling pain since then so they did an endoscopy to see what was going on. Apparently his gallbladder was full of stones and needed to come out. So... here we are at the Hospital again just before surgery. It has been 3 weeks since the surgery and everything is healing nicely. He still has an inflamed pancreas but things should start turning up for him now that there are no possibilities of stones getting lodged in the duct to the Pancreas.
Even though he is sometimes a sickly, I sure do need him and love him.

4th of July

Our 4th was relaxed and FUNtastic! We woke up late, went to breakfast, relaxed while the kids napped and hung out with Tiersa's inlaws swimming and eating great food with fireworks to end the night.

Out to Breakfast

Katie REALLY doesn't like taking pictures, especially if she hasn't eaten yet.
They are so cute
Can we just focus on Katie's perfect piggy curl. I didn't curl this... it just did it on it's own. Too bad her nap ruined it.

Kevin... growing up

Kevin has been so cute and helpful lately. I can't believe how much I love each stage he goes through. Here are some pictures of what we have been up to lately.
Kevin has been so excited for Cars 2 to come out, Adam even surprised him with Cars 2 cereal. So on the morning the movie came out he requested Cars cereal in his Cars bowl with his Cars spoon which is TOTALLY a balanced breakfast!!!

Kevin usually gets up around 7 and Mommy doesn't get up until 7:30 or 8. He plays so quietly I barely hear him and usually comes in when he is ready for Breakfast (okay judge me if you want but I am NOT a morning person and it works well for us). Anyway a few mornings in a row he requested help with his Thomas puzzle and was quite frustrated that he couldn't put it together by himself. I obliged and we would work on it together. A week or two after our last puzzle completion he came in talking about it and I thought he wanted help with it, but instead I came into find that he had finished it all by himself!! I was so proud of him. He has also been coming into me fully dressed in the morning and most of the time he matches REALLY well.I ask Kevin to do some things to help out around the house to teach him to serve and do his part. A lot of those things I ask him to do have something to do with helping Katie. This is him attempting to put Katie's shoes on... he was unsuccessful but it was worth a try. One day he will get it and it will help me a lot.

Despite our 100+ degree weather Kevin was adamant about wearing these Tractor footy jammies given to us by our Gibson friends (I think). He loved them even though it probably made him sweat like a pig. I turned his fans up extra high that night and he seemed to do fine.

SURPRISE!!!

Even though I had all sorts of plans for Adam for his birthday he had to go and change them all up on me. It still ended up working out though, we visited family in St. George then drove home on Monday. I timed it just right so that when we got home our house was full of all our family and friends. He walked into a big surprise party.

Adam didn't want a party cuz he didn't want to have to entertain people, but he loves ping pons so we had a ping pong party. This table was borrowed but we are on the hunt for our own used table since it is technically the only sport Adam can play with his blood condition.
Sisters and I
OUr friend Jeff and Adam playin' some mean ping pong
Happy Birthday Honey
Even Kevin got in on the action
Mitch and DJo with Adam

St. George Birthday Trip

For Adam's 30th Birthday we went up to St. George to be with his family. On Saturday we invited everyone for a birthday party and games. Some of our Cedar friends came down with all their kids and we were able to just hang out. Apparently Adam's friends and family wanted him to become diabetic given all the sweets they gifted him.
Adam and his best friend Curtis are always being a little silly... this might top it off.
Curtis sucking his thumb!!!
Our old neighbors Adam and Jenny
I can't believe he is 30!!!
Mo and me
Ummm... inside joke
Adam entertained these little girls for hours with a little piggy bank and some pennies. So cute.

I'm a Slacker

I think I have mentioned this before, but I got a new camera for Christmas and its AMAZING... but our computer is rather slow so to upload my mega files to the computer, re size them, and then actually post on this blog of ours is almost an all day process. I don't know about you but I have several other things demanding my attention, meanwhile our pour little blog sits here and waits patiently for me to return. So here we go. I will post two things right now...


One of my FAVORITE MEALS is Hawaiian Haystacks... all the veggies are just delectable. Well I try to make it often cuz its easy and good for us and for a while Kevin wouldn't eat it and it made me sad. Then I got the brilliant idea to let him BUILD his own haystack... WORKED LIKE A CHARM. He loves them now and even asked for seconds on Sunday. HALLELUJAH!!! So one day we were all ready for dinner but Adam wanted crunchy noodles so he headed to the store really fast and I let the kids loose on the table. They chowed down. It was so cute to see them eat all the little condiments. Oh I love them.


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My niece Jaycee is so cute and wonderful. I lived with her family for 3 or 4 months before Adam and I started dating and she was about Katie's age at the time. She is almost 7 now and is very much in love with Katie. She also thinks she is bigger than 6 and that Katie is smaller than 24 pounds. She always tries to pick Katie up and carry her around. Well while I was cutting my other nieces hair Jaycee picked Katie up outside and accidentally dropped Katie... I heard this horrible little cry that sounded like she was saying... "oh my gosh this hurts so bad" as CoCo and I ran to get her I could see scrapes all over her little face. She had gravel stuck in there too. From what I can tell Jaycee must have dropped her by the stucco pillar on our patio and Katie's face was the cushion. Poor girl. Jaycee was so upset that she wouldn't look at me (since I have told her several times not to pick Katie up) I reassured her that Katie was okay and that it was an accident and that I wasn't mad as her. All of a sudden Katie reached up her hand and put it on Jaycee's arm almost to console her. It was so precious.
Here is her face... it healed quickly and everyone just thought I didn't wipe the food off her face.