Camping and other things

We did quiet a few camping trips and loved it, on one of them we had very large group that ended up all together between halls and the williams's there was quiet the crew, the kids just loved it and went back and forth all day between the camps.

Kaylyn started 3rd grade she got Mr. Smith and LOVES his class, she actually looks forward to going to school.

My little Red turned 2 in august and boy does she have a personality and the mouth to go along with it, she isnt afraid to tell you what she thinks.

Tater tot turned 4 in november she has finally mellod out a little bit and will actually sit and watch a show, she has a dvd of Max and Ruby and she will play it over and over. She loves being a big sister and Loves little Emi she thinks she can take care of her herself and hates the fact that mom has to help.

Time Flies

Wow really its been almost 9 months since i posted anything, time flies when you are having fun then (or just 4 busy girls). Well back in May Kaylyn turned 8 and got baptized by her dad, it was such a special experience since we had 5 cousin that had turned 8 we did them all together.Since the whole family was together for the baptisms we had Emilyn blessed,

She is Finally Here!!!!!

I am so glad that she is finally here, she is just perfect. So here is her story, My due date getting closer and there wasn't much progress going on only dilated to a 1. Then my Dr. informed me he was going to be outta town for about a week and half he would only be back 2 days before my due date I thought great I'd for sure have her before then, but to my surprise nope she was still in me come the 4th of April, so I had a Dr. apt on the 6th my due date. We arrive and there is no patience waiting in the waiting room (very weird since we usually always have to wait) anyways he was still there amazingly enough he remembered that was my due date and he wanted to see me before he left to do a delivery. He asked if I wanted him to strip my membranes I chickened out and said no just schedule a induction, was in hopes to do that in just a day or 2, but they didn't have an opening for 3 days. So the night before which was a Friday I dropped the kids off with gma and gpa Williams. Cliff and I went to dinner then of course out for some ice cream came home and packed, picked up the house and amazingly crashed and slept wonderful. Saturday morning came I got up and showered and off to the hospital we went, at 8 that morning my Dr. came in and broke my water and checked me, I was already at a 4. My contractions started out not to bad my nurse checked me at 10 and I was still at a 4 so we went for a walk and those contractions really started to kill so we headed back to the room and I requested my epidural. My nurse checked me again and I was at a 5. I got my epidural and cliff left for some lunch, about noon my nurse checked and I was at a 6 and I was still at a 6 at about 1 so she started some pitocin and checked me and hour later and I was still the same, I was beginning to think this was going to be a very long day. My mom and Brian showed up a little after 3 and my nurse checked me at 330 and said well its time I was fully dilated and by the time the Dr got there we could already see her head and 4 pushes later our little Emilyn was born 7lbs 60z and 20 in. long our biggest baby and she was just precious.

Cliff and I couldn't feel more complete after every baby I always felt like I could have another one but I feel satisfied, and I love my life.

Just Because

Cliff and I have found a lot of humor out of this pregnancy, when people ask you is this your first and we say no its our 4th their mouths about drop to the ground. We (mainly I) often wonder if we are crazy, these girls are very hard headed, determined to do what ever they want, but then there are those Moments that you look at your life and kids and wouldn't trade it for the world. I know that they are my test and that I need to change myself on the way I handle them, cause oh boy some days I would love to just beat the heck out of them (mainly Taylee, sorry tay) but I know that all that would do is make them scared of me. I dont want that I want to be the one that they come crying to when their hearts are broke or for advise on relationships whether its with girls or boys.
So every day I pray that I can handle what ever situation might come in a very calm way.
I'm trying to enjoy this pregnancy, but it is becoming hard to when I cant catch Taylee who is bolting towards the street, and I'm up most of the night with heart burn tossing and turning because of this huge ball I'm carrying around. But I know that it will end and I will miss it.

The Final Chapter

We are sooooo excited to announce that we will be having our 4th and final baby, it is schedule to arrive by april 6th, and we get to find out the gender on Nov 11th YAY!!! We thought that maybe we were done having kids but we talked and decided it was now or never to add a 4th, and I am actually quite excited about this one, don't know why its not like I wasn't excited about the others but this time it is different.

Catching Up

Where have we been? Well we went to sycamore camping for Easter we have found this little creek to camp by and the girls just love it.

We celebrated Kaylyn's 7th birthday

Celebrated mine and Cliffs 8th Anniversary

The best thing of all was that my Mom treated us adults (so NO kids) to Lake Powell, this was my first and hopefully not my last. It is such a gorgeous place! It was so fun to be with my brothers and sister like that we played cards jumped off the house boat, wakeboarded, and of course it wouldn't be Hall like if we didn't go fishing. LOVED every minute of course it took me a week to recover cause didnt get a lot of sleep, but sooo worth it!

Miss Addie is 6 1/2 months old

I can't believe how fast these last 6 1/2 months have gone, she is my little red head blue eyed girl and I love it. She has been such a joy we all just cant get enough of her. She is rolling over but that doesn't last long before she is screaming cause she hates to be on her tummy. She finally took to baby food but she still is refusing to take formula, she just prefers her mama. It cracked me up the other day I made another bottle (cause i try every day) and when I sat her on my lap and grabed the bottle she saw it and just started to cry, too smart I say. She still isn't sleeping through the night I'm so hoping that changes soon! She loves to talk and be tickled oh ya nad she is starting to give some pretty wet kisses, This is one of my favorite stages.