Look what I did....

Finally got around to using my Treasury of Memories snowflakes!!  Now where to hang it....hmmmm.

Guess Who...

Got STRAIGHT A's ((AGAIN))????

Is OFFICIALLY a Community College Graduate????

AND

Got accepted at WSU and starts in January??

Thats right. That guy is.  We are so proud of him. He has been a full time family man, full time employee and full time student and continues to excel at all of them!!    Yay Daddy!!  Keep up the great work!  You may have even made Cougar fans outta us!!!

This is from my childhood!  It has survived all these years ((Thanks Mom))   I LOVE reading The Velveteen Rabbit to the girls.

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

I am so excited about our tree this year....I think it still needs something. I'm hoping to figure it out sooner rather than later!

Mommy needed a Time Out

Can i just say the best thing ive ever done in my life is become a Mommy.  And NOW can i say the best thing ive done for myself is go away for the weekend. I feel renewed...recharged...refreshed.  i dont think i knew how run down i was. How much i needed a moment to be just be me...to stay up late laughing and not worry that i was gone be dragging the next day....to take an hour just to get myself ready.  Call me selfish...judge me...i dont care.  I know it was good for me...for my soul.  I am a better mom for it.   I missed my babies desperatley but thats good....i was reminded not to take for granted a moment i share with them! And Lord knows they pass by too quickly!

Good Eats!

She may have found her calling....

This precious lil thing is a NATURAL with a bowling ball!!   Lil Miss beat everyone but her daddy last night bowling!!   Im so proud!!  

First day of PreK-4

I am proud to say there were no tears this morning when Princess Cailin went to school ((it doesnt count if I waited till i got home to cry right????)) She was excited to be back with her friends and make some new ones!!   Today has me looking back fondly at how quick she has gone from being my only baby to a young girl full of opinions and dreams of her own.  Although the future excites me (and scares the pants off me) i cannot wait to see what it has in store for my girl.    I promise she is going to change the world...she has already changed mine!

EARLY retirement....

Reegan decided she is not quite ready to take the ballet world by storm....maybe next year!  

4 month (and 2 week) Check up

Lil Miss AddaBoo now weighs....

15lbs 14oz...and we havent even introduced solids yet.

She has hit all her developmental milestones, and is coming in about 2, sometimes 3 months ahead of her age on the growth chart (cant say we breed fail babies can ya???)

Look Who Reinvented Herself for PreK4...

Miss Cailin!

We are experiencing technical difficuulties....

You would think that since I am the wife of a computer genius I would never have computer problems...... WRONG...way way wrong.

I dunno what I did to my laptop, but it isnt very happy with me....

BUT I did fight with it enough to share this with you....

KIERYN STARTED WALKING!!!!!!!!

A First.....

Today i took Cailin for her VERY FIRST Mother/Daughter mani pedi....

She picked out the polish....and of course (much to my horror) she picked out 2 shades...one for fingers and one for toes (My matching "thing" is flipping out on the inside)

I know she had fun, but I cannot find words to tell you how much I loved doing this together...it may have to be our new thing...until Reegan is old enough to join in the fun too!!!!!!!

You KNOW your daughters watch too much MMA when...

You put them in a Bear Hug and they yell.. I TAP, I TAP!!!!!

It's a Love/Hate Thing

My Reegee still refuses to give up her paci.... I absolutely, positively, cannot stand it.

BUT... there is something so sweet about her lil sleeping face sucking away.

Any suggestions on getting her to give it up? we've trieed cold turkey twice and it never lasts......

Before there were 4 lil girls....

There was a young, crazy in love couple!!!!

7 years ago today my best friend became my boyfriend... and 15 months later my husband.

We knew nothing.... EXCEPT that we were crazy in love and were gonna be together.

and here we are.... still crazy, still in love, still together.... with 4 lil birds that make it even better!!!!!

in the words of the ever dysfunctional Gosselin Family....

It might be a crazy life, but it's OUR life

These are a few of my favorite things...

Sunshine.
Swings.
Smiles.

and we enjoyed them all today!!!!!!!

These days i don't get my camera out much...Bad Mommy... Thank Goodness we have found the worlds GREATEST photographer ever( if you live in whatcom county you need to call her) BIG THANK YOU Miss Mary for leading me to her with your FANTASTIC family photos

ANYWHO... this is a picture of what life looks like right now, PERFECTLY Imperfect. I truly am the mom of the most beautiful, breath taking wonderful little girls. And you know what else I am....

LUCKY

Today...

Reegan called for me from the bathroom...when i arrived she was immersed in the toilet and said "Mommy me take bath in toilet"

WOW

Complete Overhaul...

I have decided.

Its time for a new look, a new approach.

Every day I say I am going to update about this or that and then, well its a looong list. Life gets busy around here and it gets put off until tomorrow, again and again.

I tried to update the big things, BUT the real beauty is in the little everyday things. The things that bring me to tears of joy, pull out my hair in frustration, laugh so hard I wet myself (REALLY my bladder is not so good these days). My life... My life with girls. 4 beautiful, silly birds who make my life, well my life. A life I never dreamed of. The things I want to remember, Cailin singing my favorite Lit song, or Reegan telling me I am her best friend. or how Kieryn will let nothing keep her from crawling into mhy lap anytime its free or how Adysen gazes at me and I cant remember what life was like without her. So my new approach is going to be that...daily (well almost daily) updates of the lil things...good...bad...and sometimes ugly.

So just to catch you up.
The highlight reel...

Adysen is 3 months old...and still so easy going. sleeping thru the night and some days into the early afternoon

Kieryn is 15 months old and still refusing to walk. She loves the summer and patty cake."Roooooolllll it"

Reegan is, well, Reegan. Counting to ten, singing her ABC's and doing everything she can to keep up with her BIG sister and best friend, Cailin

Cailin is Big sister extraordinaire. So helpful(too helpful at times). Loves the slip and slide and CANNOT wait for kindergarten, even though she hasn't even started PreK 4 yet :):)

Daddy and Mommy are enjoying the summer, no school for daddy so we have more time for family. We have decided our family may not be completely complete. So we have selected a date and if we are blessed with another pregnancy by then, well we are going to have another baby obviously, and if we aren't we are going to take a permanent step to stay Daddy, Mommy and 4 lil ladies.

Miss Adysen's 2 month check up

Today Miss Adysen went to visit Dr Thompson... After she was weighed and measured and poked and prodded he announced...

"She's perfect...and isnt about time for you to be pregnant again?"

Funny.

At 2 months our sweet baby doll is:
12lbs 15oz
and
24 1/4 inches

Adysen Alexandrea is also sleeping 12 hours a night (YES I know I am blessed and lucky) and smiling that beautiful one dimpled smile.


Our cup runneth over....

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Has it already been a whole Month?

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Since this perfect lil angel joined our family?

We LOVE you Adysen Alexandrea Fultz!!!!

1st photo of.....

Something close to my heart...

April 24-May 1st is National Infertility Awareness Week. As you play with your kids today, or tuck them into bed tonight, please take a minute to empathize with the millions of couples out there struggling to achieve what you have. If you or someone you love is affected by infertility, please post this in your status this week to show your support.

I saw this on facebook, and well its been on my mind ever since. Although we have now been blessed with 4 perfect, healthy, wonderful baby girls. We struggled with thhe challenhges of infertility... the days of thinking we would never have a baby of our very own have not faded from my memory. I would like to think I love our girls more fiercely because of the road we had to travel to bring them into this world. they truely are the greatest gift we have been given.

So hug those lil ones tight...so many people wish they had the opportunity to.

Checkin In...

Feels like its been awhile.... Probably because i am all consumed with my sweet lil girls and darling babies. Adysen is a wonderful addition to our lil tribe... sleeping well, eating well. Like all her sisters before her just an all around GREAT baby. We are so blessed, just ask us... well any of us EXCEPT Kieryn... She is not as fond of Adysen as the rest of us are. (Mommy is feeling a little guilty about that, poor lil thing didnt get to be the baby for an entire year)

That said, our Kieryn Kingsleigh celebrated her 1st birthday surrounded by family, friends and tons of LOVE. Great Grandma and Grandpa Fultz came to visit. She has NO interest in walking, but we shoulda seen that coming since she seems t
o be follwowing in Cailins footsteps and Cailin refused to walk until she was nearly 15 months old!!!

Mommy is tired, tired, tired! There are never enough hours in the day...but i am not sure there ever were. I have high hopes we will find our rhtymn shortly. But I am ever greatful for Daddys never ending help. Even after work and school he finds time to help around here. I am one lucky lady...

I am hoping to find some free time in the next few days to post some pictures of the girls and everything that has been going on around here. And to work on Adysen's birth story...so many funny things to share about our hospital stay.

Oh and in case you were wondering.... maybe just maybe Team Fultz will expand again.... you do need 5 people for a starting Basketball Line Up....:):)

Happy 1st Birthday Kieryn Kingsleigh

A year ago you awoke me in the middle of the night to let me know you were FINALLY (4 days AFTER your due date) ready to meet us! and barely 4 hours later we laid eyes on all 10lbs 13oz of you!!!

Today,you are a year old, a big sister, and the sweetest, cuddliest, most easy going lil angel I could have dreamed of!

Happy 1st Birthday Kieryn Kingsleigh, we love you soooo much!!!

She's here!!!!

Adysen Alexandrea Fultz
April 10, 2010. 7:13 pm
9lbs 3oz. 20.5 inches

She is just PERFECT! We have once again been blessed with a healthy sweet gorgeous baby! We are so elated and proud and lucky!
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Arriving Shortly....

So Excited, ECSTATIC to announce that Baby Girl, still officialy nameless, will be joining us Saturday April 10th!! After weeks of false alarms, and a possible c-section looming over us we have an induction scheduled.... so unless she decides she wants to meet us sooner a week from today we will be holding our sweet lil angel, the final member of our estrogen filled home!!!

I have "to do" lists like no ones business to complete, diapers to buy (how did i forget to buy diapers until now???!!!?!?!) But I feel so at peace now, I can see the end in sight. and I knowthe I can get what HAS to be done DONE and what can wait will have to.

The icing on the cake is we will all be home in time for Kieryn's 1st Birthday on the 14th!!! although I am a little guilt ridden that I wont be throwing her a HUGE birthday bash I am sure she wont mind! and will be so excited to have someone smaller than her around here!

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Spring has Sprung!

Look what our Cailin made at school!!!
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Happy 4th Birthday Cailin Lorelei!

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And I thought we were gonna skip this part...

Poor Baby Fultz is without an official name, once again. Other than Cailin, all of the girls have been named last minute... Reegan, only a few short weeks before her arrival, Kier, not til 12 hours after she entered our world.

I picked a name once we knew she was a girl.... then We picked a name, and now just 48 days from our due date Daddy gets an inspiration.... oh what to do what to do. Can I just say I am SO glad I didnt buy anything personalized yet!

&&&&&&&&& I dunno what to do... we now have 2 gorgeous names, and no decision...guess we are gonna have to wait to lay eyes on her perfect lil face! This is a planners worst nightmare!!!!

i may need to enter rehab....

SOOOOOO... I am not to prideful to admit when I have been wrong, I have rolled my eyes and lovingly called many many people in my life Twi-tards since the "Twilight phenomenon" began. Garrett has been after me for months and months to watch the movie with him, and i finally ran out of excuses (i dont like vampires, Rob Pattinson will always be Cedric Diggery to me,etc, etc.) After watching the movie with my dear dear husband, my curiousity was peaked, So last monday night i picked up Twilight the novel and began reading and well I didnt stop reading until late last night when i had completed the ENTIRE saga. My poor children have been neglected, i have sooooo much laundry to catch up on, and i am sure my poor husband would like to have a conversation with me where i actully look at him and say something other than, "uh huh, yeah, sure, ok, thats fine" But i could not help myself. I was completely taken in by the story, in fact now that it is over i am desperately fighting the urge to just start reading all over again. I am going thru withdrawls, i just want more. So i guess i will just count the days until New Moon is released on dvd, and Eclipse is in the theaters..... or maybe i will give in to the urge and just re read the books over and over until baby Quinn arrives. Either way, I have no choice but admit, i am a HUGE Twi-tard, and i LOVE Edward Cullen!

Word-less Wednesday...ALMOST

"On the first day of Twilight..."
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LOVE this load of laundry!!!!! :)

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Happy Valentine's Day...

Happy Valentine's Day from Team Fultz!!!

We spent the day together as a family, we ate at our favorite buffet, watched Daddy play soccer, and made heart shaped pizzas for dinner!! This year was EXTRA special cause it was Kieryn's very FIRST Valentine's Day!!

There really is nothing better than being with the ones you love!!!

31 week check up....

Yesterday was our check up... Baby Q is measuring 33 weeks. So 2 weeks ahead seems to be where we are gonna stay. Dr says I have bad anemia and gestational diabetes. That said I have to monitor my blood sugar 4 times a day, follow a diet and visit the dr once a week. I for one think it is cruel and unusual punishment to make a pregnant woman diet but a healthy baby has to come first. On the bright side I didn't gain any weight... that makes a total of 2 lbs since October. Maybe this special diet will keep the extra padding off. hmmmmaybe this diet isnt as bad as I thought :):)

Today we are 60 days away from our due date. I am getting really anxious, but I am more and more convicted that this is it for Team Fultz. The Fultz 4 has a cute ring to it... and the Fultz 5, well we all see what a mess came from the Jackson 5 so I would rather quit while we are ahead!

It wouldnt be Valentine's Day without....

HEART SHAPED cookies!!!!!

So of course we made some!!!!

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My New Best Friend...

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the smell of fresh laundry... LOVE IT!!! but I am not a fan of pesky dryer sheets that are always ALWAYS floating around my house...This is the coolest thing ever....I bought one hoping that maybe it would solve my dryer sheet annoyance and mildly satisfy my craving for that fresh smell....well it did and it has...even days later everything smells fresh and clean and I am no longer chasing dryer sheets. And at a time in my life when I need to simplify more than ever (am i really 64 days or so away from being the mother of FOUR girls 4 and under?!?!?!) This little bar makes me happy....and just ask my husband...HAPPY WIFE, HAPPY LIFE!!!!!!

Super Bowl Sunday...

We here at Team Fultz have never been big on Super Bowl parties, probably because we like to watch the game in our sweats. Every sunday of the season we celebrate Football Sundays, we hang out together, eat in and enjoy the time together. Super Bowl Sunday isnt much different. We had Daddy's awesome bacon avocado cheeseburgers and made cupcakes. Great Day. My favorite kind of day.

and... It was Kier's 1st SuperBowl!!!



YUMMMMMMMMMM.....


and even more yuuuummmmmmmmmmm......

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Today, and almost every other day...

I was reminded....

If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's,we'd grab ours back.


I LOVE my life!

Baby Update...

Friday the WHOLE team went to visit Dr Madsen. The girls got to hear their baby sister's heartbeat for the first time. Our lil girl is still growing quickly... she is measuring 2 weeks ahead of schedule, which I guess is better than 4, but still BIG!!!

With only 10 weeks (hopefully less) we are starting to get prepared for her arrival. We got her crib, for a steal (75 bucks!!! Thank you Target clearance!!). I have sorted all the baby clothes out by size, made a tiny wish list of things she just HAS to HAVE!:) Can I say the best part of being on baby #4 is that I can focus on details like cute clippies and bibs and burp clothes instead of huge, costly necessities!!! and although i love being pregnant i will be glad when this is all over!! i have big plans to reclaim my once slim, cute body before my 30th birthday!!

Very very soon we will reveal to you our final princess' name.... in true Team Fultz fashion we have changed our minds from our original choice...but have settled on a name we both love! So all's well that ends well!

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Happy 2nd Birthday Reegan Riley Riann!

Oh how quickly 2 years have passed....

I was going to bore you with all kinds of details about how our Doodle bug joined our family ( feritlity struggles, pre term labor, etc.) But I decided that you have probably already heard all this, and it doesnt really matter she was and is sucha miracle! So even as the terrible 2's set in, we'll keep her!! :)

Instead, thought I'd share these photos with you!

The day she was born...


Her 1st birthday...


Today, at 2 years old...