CRAZY!!

The Triple Wide

(this is an older picture from July)

Last week Chad, my mom, my sister, the three babies and myself took a drive up to Heber to enjoy Swiss Days.  We go every year and love it.  We never really buy anything except my mom always buys a "swiss taco" and piece of pie.  Any how on this lovely weekend we took this triple stroller and loaded the babes into it.  They love their stroller and it's very nice for me to have them contained in one spot. Plus it was an opportunity to get out of my house and enjoy some sunshine.  You would not believe the comments I received while pushing this triple wide.  I was somewhere between a celebrity and a freak show!!!  Most people were nice and thought the babies were cute, sweet etc, etc, but we had a few comments like this "Are you crazy?" "Holy (swearword)", "Your Crazy", "Better you than me".  Now these comments I don't like.  No I am not crazy (yet) and how can you say these things while looking at these three angelic faces who were as good as gold...never complained, whined or made a peep...just smiled at the passerbys and the RUDE commenters!!!  "Better you than me"??? Absolutely better me, I adore my kids, my life, my craziness and yes I CHOSE and was blessed to have a big family. (As a teenager, I had a sister who went through years of infertility and heart break and could only have one child. At that time I would pray that I someday would be able to have lots and lots of children, so worried that I too would suffer from infertility.) This is my lovely life.  I understand if this is not the life of choice for most people, I get that!!  It takes a TON of sacrifice, a supportive spouse, a loss of identity (for a little bit) and a whole lotta poop, spit up, laundry and tears to make it through every single day.  It's not always fun and it costs lots and lots of $$$ to raise a family this size...or any size for that matter!!!  So to those people who think I am crazy...I am so so sorry for your ignorance. I am not crazy for having nine great kids who love each other, play with each other, take care and nurture one another, laugh with each other, always have a buddy to ride a ride with or give them a push on the swing, play board games with each other, support and encourage one another.  This family life I have choose is better than I could have ever imagined it to be for me. It may be a crazy time in our lives but that does not make us crazy for choosing this life.  Plus I get to drive a sweet 12 passenger van...my dream car! (wink)

our LIFE IS GOOD!

8 Months

 My sweet little boys are 8 months old today.  I can't imagine life without them.  They bring joy daily, hourly to our family.  They are the sweetest babies and are so good natured.  These last 8 months have gone by so fast...too fast!! 

 

 Chandler

 We love when they wake up.  They are so happy to see us.  Especially when Chad goes in there and yells..."HELLO BOYS"!  They grin and giggle.  When I went in to get them up from their nap today this is what they looked like, they had some crazy bed head going on.  So cute!!!

Chayce

*8 Months old*

*Trying to crawl

*Each has 2 teeth

*Eat bananas and oatmeal twice a day and loves it

*Chandler is more of a chatter box than Chayce

*Chandler is more demanding than Chayce, if we pick up Chayce first, Chandler just whines and whines until he is picked up, Chayce doesn't really care but I rotate between who I pick up first

*They are content to roll around and play on the floor for hours

*Nicholas always refers to them as "the babies" and takes care of his two little brothers (love it!)

*They love to eat paper...we have to keep any paper way out of reach for both of them
*As they get older they are looking more and more like my dad.  Which is so sweet to me to be reminded of my dad on a daily basis

*Whenever we have the two of them sitting next to each other, Chayce is always trying to put his arm around his brother or his hand on his shoulder...so dang cute!

*The best Grins and Giggles I have ever heard from any baby

I feel so blessed to have these two little boys as well as my seven other awesome, wonderful, fun children in our family.  I can't help but to count my many blessings.  

LIFE IS GOOD!