3 Kids Later

Man, I love my kids. Most of the time anyway. These three babies keep me so busy. What did I ever do with my time when I had just one? Some of my favorite moments/pictures over the past 6 months:

Taya's Blessing. It remains true that you never look as good as you think you look at your baby's blessing. Taya looked so pretty in that dress though!!

Christmas. And I obviously need a new spot to take family pictures.

Yellowstone memorial weekend. It was a fun trip, lots of happy moments... lots of tears.

Tyler's HUGE worm. I found it on the kitchen floor still wiggling around. He told me Dylan brought it in (Dylan was at school). Gross me out.

This is how she sleeps - every night. So stinkin' cute. It's like she's practicing for sports illustrated. Is that inappropriate?

Taya's moment of glory. Taya is a bit (or ALOT) slower than our first two babies when it comes to physical progression. Still working on the whole sitting thing at 6 months. She's a princess! This signature Papa "stand on hands" moment was shocking to say the least. She usually refuses to put any pressure on her legs, or any use any body muscle for that matter.

Dylan has tried out just about every sport over the past 6-9 months. Swimming, basketball, soccer, even flag football but his best has got to be baseball. He's not a super aggressive or competitive kid so up to this point sport have been more social than anything. He'll chat it up with kid that's stopped at his base or laugh and smile with the boy he's guarding during a basketball game. Baseball though, that's his sport. He can throw and catch and he's got a pretty good swing for a 5 year old:



Tyler, he has absolutely NO fear. The kid is crazy. Jeff took him to the sand dunes for a Father and Sons camp out. That's him in the red shirt in the video. Notice the adults in the background jump up to come save him. Nope, it's cool. He doesn't even care he just completely wiped out! He's crazy. Check out the video of him at my sister's pool. He doesn't care that he can't swim!

Yep, my kids were wearing goggles and yes, that is sand in his nose and mouth. He looks so crazy an not so caucasian in this picture.

And just because a baby wearing goggles is funny.

It's all coming back to me...

Yes, it's all coming to back to me now. The horrors of sleepless nights and "please hold me all day or I'll cry really loud for a really long time" days stacked with two boys with croupy coughs, a head cold for me and a completely wrecked and mis-shapen body. Why do I keep doing this to myself? That's a really great question and I wonder that myself multiple times a day. Maybe I can't resist how sweet they look when they sleep:

Yep, I'm pretty sure I'll do this to myself again. Not anytime soon, but I don't think it gets much sweeter than this!

HUGE shout-out to Johanna for taking these amazing newborn pictures!! She was SO patient (Taya wasn't so sleepy and did not like to be touched when she did finally fall asleep if you can believe it) and did an amazing job. If you need a photographer - check her out at http://pbjphotographe.blogspot.com.

Baby Sister!

She's finally here and she's still a girl! I can't believe I have a girl, so crazy. Taya Lynn was 7lb 2oz, 20 1/4 inches and a healthy pink screaming baby. Everything went as planned with c-section and she's been a fairly sleepy baby to this point. The sucking reflex is a little stronger than I remember :), but so far so good. I'll let you know how we're doing after I run out of Percocet.

  (1st Game Day)

 If you have a weak stomach, you might want to stop looking here! I love these c-section pictures :).

Flag Football Champions!

Well, champions may be exaggerating a little, but the Dolphins did kick flag football last Saturday! Dylan, and by Dylan I really mean Jeff, has literally been waiting his entire life for this moment. Dad coaching and son playing in the first flag football game of the season. It was pretty cute watching 5 and 6 year olds huddled in football stance watching everything but the ball and constantly messing with/gagging on their huge mouth guards. Dylan did awesome, and I'm only partly saying that because I'm his mom. He ripped two flags and had a good block at one point. Not bad for being one of the little guys!

That's Dylan's buddy Cam. They both play defense a little better than offense, Dylan outside linebacker.

Going in for the kill...

And there it is! His first red flag pulled this season! See that little smirk?

Some diving action...

Another play stopped...



The hand off... didn't go as planned but we'll just leave it at this



Check out that face. That's some serious focus :).

Brothers

I love this picture. Yup, that's Tyler's foot on Dylan's face (both out cold in my bed). This picture is totally representative of their personalities. Dylan is usually so sweet and concerned with others feelings, and well, Tyler - he is a little different :). I'll sneak into their room late at night and find Tyler has crawled in bed with Dylan and has all but kicked him out of his own bed. They love do each other.

It's a girl! ... Probably

That's right, it's been like 3 years since I've posted on my blog. No big deal. I only post 30 times a day on the coupon blog, you think I could manage 10 minutes for my family! Sheesh. What's wrong with me?

Anyway, on to the reason you, and by you I mean the two people who actually will look at this blog, are reading this post. I'm 16 weeks and it's a girl, maybe. I meant the ultra sound tech said she was sure, but it's just too good to be true! I'm just not sold :). Don't get me wrong, I would have been 100% happy with a 3rd boy, but a girl is SO much fun! I can't stop buying stuff. I guess it better be girl.

You can decide for yourself:

I bet your glad I shared that ultrasound picture huh? And just because my boys are the cutest ever and deserve some attention:

Fun in Arizona: (Uncle Todd and Tyler finding "Skippers")

All of the Driggs cousins together in a rare moment:

New Family Pics!

One of my best friends sister took our pictures a few weeks ago and she did such a great job! Thank you Kara!

Halloween Cookies!

Halloween could be my favorite holiday. I have these great memories of my mom sewing our ornate costumes and spending hours on our hair and makeup. (You are great mom!) A few days ago me and the kid put up all the decorations and, of course, made some sugar cookies! You probably know how that went though, the first 10 minutes are fun and kids help, then after that, it's all mom and not so much fun :).

Here are the boys in action - Tyler thought that since I put a spoon in the icing and put it in front of him it was his own personal serving :).

Here's "our" product:

And here's what happens when you make a 4 year old hold a really heavy plate full of cookies - even though it makes his "arm hurt."

First Day of School! (A little late

(I drafted this post weeks ago and forgot about it :). Oh well, better late than never!)

How did this happen? I have a kid in pre-school? I'm posting a "first day of school" picture? It's all a little sad for me, but Dylan doesn't seem to notice. I pulled in to the parking lot of his pre-school and he starts unbuckling and says "Thanks Mom, Bye." What?! He didn't want me to walk him in and he now has started thanking me for rides?? I think he thinks he's 15.


We headed out to Pocatello Labor Day weekend to see some family and so I could run in the Pocatello 1/2 marathon.

I pretty much look how I felt in this picture, like I had been run over by a Mac truck... a few times. A little swollen in the face and ankles from dehydration, in pain for sure, but still enough adrenaline left to be unaware of the blisters, raw skin, and the incredibly sore muscles (I wasn't quit prepared for a few of the hills!) It was a lot of fun, except the part when I used every ounce of strength left to push it in to the finish line only to realize it wasn't really the finish line, and I still had 1/4 mile to go!! The horror! I almost died, really....

My "big dog" is 4!

Today is officially Dylan's birthday! 4 years ago today was when it all started - nothing, NOTHING changes you life like a new baby. I can't believe it I've been a mom for 4 years!

I decided we needed to celebrate with a Disney Cars "friends only" party. I'm not really sure what was going through my mind, but I may have gotten a little carried away with this one - I think the total count of kids was somewhere around 20 - pure craziness!. With the help of a couple of my good friends (shout out Shelley and Season :) ) we seemed to get through the 2, yes 2, hours. As crazy as it was, Dylan had the best day of his life with all of his little friends running around and racing in box cars. Thanks to every one who came!! We had so much fun!!

Happy birthday my sweet boy!

Some of the cars (made from used cardboard boxes):

I had lots of ideas for this party, but unfortunately the making of the cards took over my life and the rest of the party got thrown together the night before (I mean the ENTIRE night ... and morning). The drink station was V8's cafe and the doughnuts are suppose to be Luigi's leaning tower of tires, but as you can see - the tower didn't last very long :).

Here is my little Toe-Mater! Really though, they look alike!

And this picture below pretty much sums it all up :)