NEW PICTURES!

Well Happy 4th of July. WE took the kids to a parade this morning. I guess I did not tell Jamie the parade consisted of US walking and waving to old people. The Fire Department had 7 trucks there for the kids to follow (every truck had their sirens blaring!). Then they had ice cream and cookies for the kids. The kids then were able to climb all over the trucks.

These are pictures from today and the last little bit. Post comments as we love to hear from everyone!

NEW PICTURES!!

Brody Jensen McKinney

I don't have any new pictures at my finger tips, but I wanted to give an update.

The last couple nights he eats at 9-10 and again at 3-3:30 and 7-8, so I think that is very good. He Actually went 8 HOURS the other night and Jamie about had a heart attack. He is a very big boy. He is usually all smiles and puts up with a little torture from his brother and sister. Aiden and Emesha just love him so much and they want to help out all the time. Well he was crying and mom was not coming fast enough. Aiden kept telling Jamie "Brody is hungry Mom!, Brody is hungry MOM!" well by the time Jamie made it there Brody had his first taste of solid food (GREEN BEANS!)

Jamie had her 31st birthday this week and she wanted money to buy new clothes with (when she looses those last few pounds). So I decided to give her a challenge! I taped the money to a wall with each bill slightly higher than the last one. For the final 3 bills I was jumping from a chair to get them nearly to our ten foot ceiling. I then told jamie should could have as much as she could get without standing on anything. (well I did help her figure out a way around that rule; she could lift one of the kids, have me give her some long tongs, or have me lift a kid!) She used all three. She did get all her b-day money and will get to go shopping all by herself when she is ready.

I will post more pictures in a while, but I wanted to give an update!

Check out my Slide Show!

And the verdict is...

Well, I did not think it was too hard, and I am glad to see that everyone was able to score very well on this test. Boy number 2 will be joining us in January. No we don't have a name yet, nor have we even really started talking about it. I guess sitting in a car for 18 hours x 2 in November when we come for the Wedding and Thanksgiving will give us plenty of time to hash this out. Thanks for posting comments and we hope you are enjoying the updates on the blog.

Sold our home

Well we have a signed contract and a projected closing date of October 22. We will have to move all our stuff to a storage unit, live in a hotel for at least a weekend; then we will close on our new house. The primary reason for the move is to reduce our debt. It will be challenging to go from 3300 sqft to 2300 sqft, but I am sure we will manage as most of this house sits partially empty. We will be moving 'out of the city' to a small town just south of here called Flint. It will be a much longer drive to work (15-20min) so no more coming home for lunch, but it will cut our monthly house payment by more than $1000 -that we can use towards something else. Love ya and guess on that baby picture!

Tai

Time to Play Doctor!

Can you guess the Sex?

post a comment and show everyone your skillz! I will post the answer next week. Love ya!