Baby #3!

When Ryan Came home from work today this is what he found...



followed by this..



and this..



He then did this...



Followed by the cold sweats and the color draining from his face....



Our Conversation then sounded like this...

Ryan: How does that happen?
Me: Well honey you didn't learn that 2 kids ago!!
Ryan: But Megan you have that thingy (IUD)
ME: Honey,It must of fell out! It is not 100% guaranteed!

I even produced some tears- It was awesome!!!

Karden then wanted to show Daddy his April fools Joke from school, About 60 seconds later Ryan Realized that it was a JOKE!!!It was Hilarious!!!

I. AM. NOT. PREGNANT!!!!!

To see the relief in that mans face was priceless. There will be no babies around here for a while!!

Ryans last thought on my April Fools Joke: "Everyone likes a piece of Ass, No One likes a Smart Ass!"

Well that's what would have got us in that mess!!


Happy April Fools Day!!!

The Good, The Sad, and the Ugly!!

The Good-

We took a little mini vacation with Ryans family down to St George!! The weather was great. The boys drove to mesquite in the morning to shoot at the gun range and the girls braved the wildlife museam with the kiddos!
The kids had fun pretending to be on a safari
and playing in the "indiana jones" fort!
When the boys got back it was our turn to leave and go shopping, we may have scared my mother in law to death by Sharlyn's driving and my lack of navigation skills because when we finally stopped she kissed the ground.
We got some good deals and an afternoon without the kids! The boys had taken the kiddos to jumping jacks
Ryan is now 100% sure we will never have 4 kids!

The following week Karden turned 6!! Six!! More than half a decade!! He was so excited to wake up to his decorated door
and to be able to take cookies to his kindergarten class! He got a cool GI Joe dress up set with a sword that makes noise!
Yeah should of read the box BEFORE buying it.

We had our family meet us at Pirate Island pizza for a little birthday lunch-
Another brilliant idea was the jacket, I bought for disneyland and it drives me nuts, I had hid it but he decided to look in the very back of his closet and was so excited that he found his pirate coat. It was his birthday, I couldn't say no. The kids had fun playing in the arcade,
getting ballloon animals
and there face painted.
My dad got into the pirate atmosphere and loved doing his impression of Captain Hook!
Karden got spoiled again by everyone! Thanks for coming and making his day special! Ryan and I also had our anniversary and have been married for 11 years! Wow thats a long time- We were a bit preoccupied and didn't even realize it was our anniversary until I was writing a receipt at work around noon. Needless to say we didn't do anything fun.

The Sad-

The week was saddened by the passing of my Grandma-

She was 95 and was amazing- I don't think words can do justice to such a great lady! I can honestly say I never heard her say anything bad about anyone- She was designated to be the visiting teacher partner of one very "difficult" lady for 20+ years because the bishop knew she could handle her. Yeah the difficult lady even made me get out of the car and into the backseat when MY grandma was taking her home- Yes! I'm still bitter-
Grandma loved Her kids and grandkids more that anything in the world!!
She could also outshop me and I'm a good shopper. She never met a dollar store she didn' like! I slept over at my grandmas house every Friday night until I was like 13, then we would get up and make whirligig cookies!!
She loved my kids like no other- she "got" Karden, they were on the same wavelength.
They loved to pick on each other and more than once were banished from sitting by each other so others could keep some sanity. I was able to get a copy of her journal, reading it is so imcredibly neat. She was one tough lady, with a strong testimony and great love for life. She was able to pass away in her sleep, we are so blessed. We are so lucky to have had her for so long and have been loved by her. She will definatly be missed more than she knows but I know she is watching over us.

The ugly-

Yeah- Word to the wise- Don't make Whitley mad!!
I think she has a little Thomas temper- but we still love her!!

We have had a crazy couple of weeks, but we survived, and I guess what doesn't kill us makes us stronger!

Playing Chicken!

Whitley is afraid of alligators-
She hates them. She is random and will just out of the blue says things all the time like "I don't want the alligator to bite me" and " Mom alligators don't eat little girls!" etc. So to calm her fears We tell her that there are no alligators in Utah and that they only eat chickens.



So the other night driving home Whitley starts talking about how she doesn't want the alligator to bite her and keeps asking me what alligators eat! I tell her they only eat chickens. She seems fine and a minute later starts pestering Karden-Who is trying to play Mario on the gameboy next to her in the car. She keeps bugging him and he dies in the game. Then I hear Karden from the backseat say in a exasperated Voice "Mom- Can we dress Whitley like a chicken?!?"


This was one of those parenting moments were you try really hard not to laugh, but can't contain it. I was laughing so hard I had tears streaming down my face. 5 year old boys crack me up!

A Perfect Weekend!

Good: Free Weekend getaway in Mesquite and St George for a convention with Ryans Work!

Better: Having a actual conversation with Ryan without hearing this the entire time we are trying to talk- "Mom, Mom, Mommy, Daddy, daddy, Mommy, Mom, Dad, Dad,Daddy, Daddy"


Good: Winning something at every drawing they had. (okay so I won a wooden box or nuts and a hunting knife set) I least I won!

Better; Ry Winning a gift card to Walmart ( Yeah there was some trading going on)


Good: Gambling $20.00 on the Goldfish Slot Machine and playing for 5 hours!!! It was the best machine ever!

Better: Actually walking away ( okay so being pulled away) 18.00 richer!



Good: Watching my hubby kick the butts of the others at the Oasis Gun Club shooting skeet.

Better: Getting AWESOME deals at the Outlet Stores in St George!


Good: Spending the remainder of the time in St George by going to dinner and a movie!


Better: Spending 2 whole days just being "Ryan and Megan" instead of mom and dad!


Good: Sleeping in until 9:30 am and having perfect weather to drive home in.

Better: Coming home to these two!! ( I actually missed the endless "Mom, mom, Mommy")


Perfect weekend!

Thanks to my awesome sister who watched my kids, and spoiled the crap out of them! Chuck E Cheese, lots of candy and NO bedtime!! I can't wait to watch her kids in April!!

The Toothless Wonder!!

Karden lost another tooth- That makes 2 down and a mouthful to go... He was so excited and got a gold coin from the tooth fairy, He was even more excited that he got his name on the tooth board again at school.

He is getting too big!! Anyone know any secrets for making them stay little longer?

"Wii" wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We had a fun and busy Christmas Season, It seemed like I had all these great ideas in the beginning of December and ending up not getting to most of them, I guess there is always next year.

On Christmas Eve we finally got to build the Gingerbread house,
The kids had a fun time decorating( Karden) and eating the candy (Whitley). It actually resembled a gingerbread house when we were finished. You gotta love the prepackaged kits~

Christmas Eve came and after feeding the reindeer, putting the Santa key on the door and leaving cookies and a Pepsi for Santa. The kids went to bed and after a few times of getting out of bed just to see if Santa came yet, finally fell asleep! Once again I had to MAKE Ryan wait until 6:30 to wake the kids up. But when everyone was up we realized that Santa found our house. WOW did he ever!!

Whitley got her Dollhouse, and babies and lots of other stuff.
Karden got a racetrack and starwars guys and Santa left the family a WII!!
Karden has been in heaven! I think Ryan may think he is in HELL, because he hasn't played anything but Lego Starwars! But I have come to love the Wii for a simple thing that karden had to earn time to play the Wii, Karden has played it everyday but after making his bed, getting dressed and eating all his breakfast, without whining! He also has to be nice to Whitley and If he whines the wii is grounded!! LOVE IT!! It has made Christmas Vacation much more enjoyable especially since all his little friends have been sick~

After our house it was off to Grandma Mollys. Were the kids were spoiled yet again! />



There is not a Devenish Christmas without something weird! This year Jon made Paul Bacon Flavored Vodka!! Yes he drank it and liked it and no he isn't dead...Yet!


On sunday it was Christmas at my moms house! It was fun spending time with the family and getting More presents!! And yet what did the kids all play in... The Boxes!!
I give up!!

The kids loved riding in the sled with Grandpa Norman.
If we get any more kids we will need to think of what to do for next year, there is no room in the sled!

Whitley of course thought she was the little mommy to baby Bryce-

This is also one of my favorite pictures, If you would of asked me in June if I would see my grandma with all the kids again and doing so good I would of called you a liar! She even walked down the stairs at my moms house! We are VERY Blessed!

New years eve came and it was off to party like it was 2009..well as much as you can party with 5 kids under 5. We spent the night with good fun, fun games and great people! We had a little jam fest with Rock Band,
and played a little Wii Price is right.About 10:30 pm we all started to drag a little bit, we decided we are too old to stay up until midnight! We of course did what everyone else does we grabbed a cold one... of pepsi, and the boys started to play the new Wii Mario Brothers. We realized we had missed the new year when someone realized it at 12:10 pm. The only new years kiss I got was from this cutie patootie my nephew Josh
The boys kept playing and the girls just kept laughing at more and more random stuff. (Can you imagine if we were drinking!)
and before we realized the clock said this...
We had a great night and I will never think of Garth Brooks and Tricia Yearwood the same way again. Thanks to these two!

We had a great Christmas season, it has been fun but I am ready for routine again. Thanks to all our great family and friends, we love you all. Bring on 2010!!