All My Children!!

It is a rare occasion that I can get all of my children to sit down for a picture. I love these two pictures, this first one because all three of my girls are in one picture. This is such a precious picture. I caught Mikaeli and Kaerli a little too soon. Just after this was taken they both kissed Baeli, it was so sweet!

Again this was a rare occasion, yes this is a posed picture but it is still so sweet. They get along so well together. Especially Mikaeli. She loves Baeli. She comes into my room if Baeli is crying, and she tells me that she will take care of her. Mikaeli changes her diaper and sings her songs. She does very well to calm Baeli down when she cries. I am very proud of her.

Kaleb and Kaerli are still learning when it comes to handling Baeli. Softness is something we have to work on EVERY day. But it is a work in progress. Right now the main thing we are working on is how to hold her properly.

Having Baeli is an adjustment. She still has her days and nights mixed up, although we are getting better at sleeping a good part of the night.

I am very thankful that she is loved by her brother and sisters. I had my concerns at first, but my older children are amazing with her.

Halloween BOO!!!

The kids had a blast this Halloween! Mikaeli went as a Nurse/Raggidy Ann, Kaleb was Spiderman, and Kaerli was a Tiger.

Baeli was a pumpkin, she actually wore the same pumpkin outfit that my mom made for Mikaeli (we left it at my in-laws house, and therefore didn't have it when we took the picture... I will get one of her in it and post it). This is a costume that all 4 of my children have worn for their first Halloween.

Kaleb had a blast being Spiderman. He didn't like the hood, so Dan painted Kaleb's nose to make it so he was Spiderman turning into the Venom monster. He thought that was a cool idea.

Kaerli we had a difficult time with in terms of her costume. We have had this tiger costume since Mikaeli was Kaerli's age. Kaerli is the first one to use it. At the last minute Kaerli decided that she wanted to be a princess. I didn't have a princess dress for her to wear, so we made up a story that a tiger was the only thing that could beat up Spiderman... She thought that was AWESOME so she agreed to be a tiger...

Mikaeli was so cute. My mom made the scrubs for Mikaeli, out of fabric that I picked. She has worn them to bed ever since she got them. Mikaeli is already picking out what she wants to be for next year. She is debating on Pippi Longstocking or a Ghost.

In this picture the kids are having a doughnut eating contest with their cousin Emma. I think that Mikaeli was the only one who fully grasped the idea that you were supposed to eat the doughnut off the string WITHOUT using hands... I think Mikaeli won.

Mikaeli's Birthday Party!!!

MY BABY JUST TURNED 7!!!! Mikaeli's birthday was on October 19th. And yes she is 7 years old. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!! Where has the time gone!?!?!

This year Mikaeli got to have her first Co-Ed party (with boy/friends from school) aside from Ryan and Keagan. We went to Storybook park. They had so much fun. We had relay races and the kids had a blast!

We also had a family birthday party, where the kids bobbed for apples. They had never bobbed for apples before and thought it was AWESOME!!!

So I thought that I would share these pictures. Kaleb and Kaerli had a little bit of a hard time because the bowl was kindof deep for them.

Kaleb and Kaerli thought that it was cool because they got to get wet and no one yelled at them.

Our First Snow Storm!!!

Who would have thought that on October 11, we would have a huge snow storm. A storm that was only supposed to give us 1-2 inches has already yielded 5-7, and it is still coming!!!

The kids were so excited to wake up and have snow on the ground that they couldn't wait to play in it. The same with the neighbor kids.

The kids wanted to make a snow man, then realized it would take more than just them, so they decided to have a snowball fight and make snow angels instead.

I can not believe that it is October and we are already having a snow storm. Ya gotta love Idaho. Luckily by Wednesday it will be in the 60's again, but not for long. Poor Danno is refing a foot ball game out in this mess. My poor baby!

Meet Baeli Madison Ringle!!!

On October 8th 2008 our family welcomed Baeli Madison Ringle. She was 6 lbs 7 ozs and 18 in long. She was welcomed by her parents Dan and Erin, her brother Kaleb, and sisters Mikaeli and Kaerli.

October is a VERY busy month for us. Kaleb's birthday is October 7th, Baeli was born on the 8th, Dan's birthday is on the 18th and Mikaeli's birthday is on the 19th. Much business this month.

All three of the kids were so excited to hear the news that they received a new little sister.

Mikaeli came into my room after school beaming. Mom picked her up from school and told her the news that Baeli was born. She held Baeli for over an hour just singing to her, and telling her that she was so happy to FINALLY meet her. She kept telling Baeli that she would protect her and keep her safe. It was very sweet.


Kaleb was so excited when he was picked up from school and brought to my hospital room. He held Baeli, hugged her, and kissed her. Then he asked her why she didn't come the day before on his birthday. He has been such a big help with taking care of Baeli.

Kaerli was the first of my children to meet Baeli. She came in with my mom, and was so happy to get to hold Baeli. She keeps asking me if the baby is still in my tummy, she doesn't understand that the baby that sleeps in Mommy's room is the baby that was in my tummy. She is such a sweet little girl. All of the kids love her.

Kaleb's Birthday!!

I can't believe it. My little boy is now 4 years old.

Kaleb woke up the morning of his birthday (October 7th) and said to me, Mommy why isn't the baby out? I told him that I guessed she just wasn't ready to come. So he said to me: Mommy can I have the baby for my birthday present? I sat down and sat him on my lap and asked him if he wanted to share his birthday with the baby. He told me yes. I asked him if he wanted anything else for his birthday, and he said no. It was so sweet.

For his birthday we went to Pizza Hut. He had so much fun. Megan, Kevin and the boys were there, as well as my mom.

For his birthday he got a lot of school clothes, he got several puzzles, and he also got a bike. He was so excited.

Mikaeli's Fall Mini Cheer Camp!!

Mikaeli had so much fun yesterday. She got to be a cheerleader again!!! HURRAY!!! Last year she cheered for Burley Bobcats Basketball, yesterday she cheered at the Burley/Woodriver Football game. (Burley won 20-6) She had the biggest smile on her face. This is such a good picture of Mikaeli. I took this right after she sat back down from cheering. Such a cutie. Ok here is proof that Dan ref's football.. I know, it is a little dark, but he is standing next to 55.. Dan did a really good job at the game. Every time Mikaeli saw Dan running along the field (sorry I didn't get a video of it, he was always too far away) Mikaeli would yell "YEAH DADDY!!! GOOD CALL DADDY!!! She was so proud of him.

A little scare!

Saturday was a big day for us. Dan was in Sun Valley reffing little league football, and I was in the Labor and Delivery department of the hospital. I went in for severe abdominal pain that wouldn't subside. They monitored the baby and my contractions, for 3 1/2 hours. It turned out that the pain was caused from the contractions (painful ones I might add) and my body is starting to give out.
Yes I know scary. So Dr. Dowdle (my OB GYN) gave me Tributaline to stop my contractions. The down side to that is I shook for 3 hours afterwards, then when the medicine wore off, the contractions started right back up to the intensity and frequency that I had them in the L&D department. Needless to say, Dr. Dowdle doesn't think that I will make it to 37 weeks (I am 35 1/2) he wants me to try to get there, but he thinks I will be lucky to make it to 36 1/2 weeks. Who knows. I guess we will have to see. Pretty much I have been ordered to "Take it easy"
YEAH RIGHT!!! If anyone knows how to do that with 3 children please let me know.

Dan and his horsey friend!!!

At the Twin Falls fair they have a barn dedicated to Draft horses.

We thought that this was awesome that there was a draft horse named Dan. So Danno got a picture with him. It was amazing that Danno's head didn't even come to his shoulders. After this picture was taken Dan (the horse) put his chin on top of the horse stall, about 9 feet off the ground. Amazing!

This was actually the first picture we took of Danno and the horse Dan. We kept trying to get a picture of him and he turned around. So now we have a picture of Danno with his name and a horses behind. He has also given me permission that when he is acting like this picture... I am sure you know what I am referring to... I can send this picture to his phone. It worked twice. :)

Twin Falls County Fair!!

We went to the Twin Falls Fair (two weeks ago) for my mom's birthday. The kids had a lot of fun. They have an entire building dedicated to model trains. There is a train set that is just enormous. I wish that I had taken a picture of it. It encompassed the entire room. It took 20 years to build. They obviously leave it at the fair grounds because moving it would destroy it. That, I think, was Kaleb's favorite part of the entire fair.

Kaerli was so excited when she found a horse that was her size. They had an entire barn dedicated to miniature ponies. This pony's name was Dolly, there was another pony a little farther down that right after Kaerli got her picture taken with it, he bit her bum. After that she wasn't very excited to see the little ponies anymore.

My kids just love the carrosel!!! As you can see they had a lot of fun.

Kaerli refused to look at the camera.

Kaleb was being funny... hence the look. Haha

Our Faithful Sam!

Tragedies happen every day of our life. Some in different ways than others. Unfortunately not all of our posts are going to be happy ones. Today our family has gone through a tragedy of our own. Today our faithful family friend Sam, our dog, was killed. He was hit by a car.
My parents neighbors had friends who weren't very kind to Sam, they would shoot him with BB guns. It got to the point that every pickup truck that came into or out of their driveway he would chase after it. Today he ran out of my parents yard, to chase one of the trucks and ran right in front of another car. He limped into the pasture, and laid down. Our family knelt down beside him and hugged him and told him we loved him. He died in our arms. Mikaeli has taken Sam's death really hard today. Kaleb and Kaerli just don't understand what has happened. It was really hard for Dan and I as well.
He has been a member of our family for 4 years. We got him when he was an enormously fat puppy. We got him with his sisters Minnie and Daisy. He was the best out of all three of them. Minnie and Daisy got really vicious and we had to take them to the pound, Sam on the other hand was more protective of our children. He grew up with them, he loved them. If one of the kids cried he would get really upset and come running to "Save them", and if we didn't pay attention, he would bark at Dan and I until we listened to the kids crying. He was a very good dog.
We have housed Dan's parents dog Doobie for the last two months, and we had to take him back because it was just too hard on all of us. Doobie is a good dog, but he isn't as close to the kids as Sam was.
I think that it will be a little while before we will be able to have another dog at our house. For me it was really hard, not only because he was a family pet, but it was hard, because I have already watched a family pet suffer and die. The kids were able to tell Sam that they loved him and were able to tell him good-bye before he died. All of the kids cried while he was dying, but only Mikaeli really understands what happened. Kaleb has been telling a lot of people that Sam died, but he doesn't really understand what that means. Unfortunately he will.

Mikaeli's Show and Tell

Yesterday was Mikaeli's first Show and Tell. She took two things, a statue that grandpa Ringle gave me right after Mikaeli was born, and Tucker the Traveling bunny.

Tucker was a Kindergarten project. We sent him out to family, and by May 10th (when he was returned) he made it to 8 states. The goal was for him to make it to all 50 states... unfortunately that didn't happen. Mikaeli did very well with her presentation, I am very proud of her.

This is Mikaeli's teacher Mrs Sahr. Mikaeli loves her. So far Mikaeli has been an exceptional student. Very helpful to Mrs Sahr and her classmates.

Kaleb's First Day at School

Kaleb's first day of school was September 2nd. He loves school. This is Kaleb's Preschool, Little Learners.

He was so excited to go to school this year. He was very sad when he found out that his "girlfriend" from last year Allie went to Kindergarten this year. According to his teacher he already has 3-4 girls swooning over him. He is such a "ladies boy"!

As I said before. Kaleb loves school. When I pick him up, and ask him how his day was without fail he always says "Ummm... It was awesome!!!" Then he proceeds to tell you exactly what he did during the day. He also gets really disappointed (like today) when he realizes that he doesn't get to go to school every day like Mikaeli (he only goes Monday through Wednesday). I got Mikaeli ready for school today, and Kaleb begged to go with her after I told him that he doesn't go back to school until Monday.

It pleases me that both Mikaeli and Kaleb love school. Kaerli loves spending some time alone with me, but she gets really sad that Mikaeli and Kaleb get to go to school and she doesn't.

Kaleb's First Big Boy Ride!

Kaleb is getting so big. He wanted to ride his bike to Momma's house all by himself on Friday. As you can see... didn't happen. But he rode all the way from our house to my mom's house (about 1 1/2 miles) with Daddy next to him on the motorcycle.


He was so proud of himself when he got there. He ran all over my mom's yard saying I did it, I did it. Then he took a dive in the pool because he was so hot... HAHAHA!

After school got out, and my mom got home we went up to Twin Falls to the Temple celebration rehearsal. It was really fun. The kids really enjoyed it. Out of all of the dances our stake and Paul stake did the best job. Our stake, the Rupert West Stake did the 40's swing style dance The Lindy, and Paul stake did a hip-hop rap type dance to a song called "All about the Potato" it was so funny.

My kids and bee stings!!

My poor kids. These are pictures are of Kaleb and Kaerli. They have had a really bad time this year with hornets. Kaleb especially.

This picture was taken 3 weeks ago. Kaleb had been stung once on his thumb and twice on his forhead. This picture was taken the next day. My poor baby. This was an hour after giving him benedryl, before I had given it to him, he couldn't open his eyes. He has been stung more times this year alone than most people get stung in their entire lifetime. I think the count is 15 year.
People can be so cruel to kids. On the day that this picture was taken, my mom and I went school shopping for Mikaeli and while we were at Wal-mart people would point and stare at Kaleb and say such derogitory remarks as to his puffiness. After about the third or fourth time Kaleb caught on that these people were pointing at him. He started to cry, and asked me why those people were being so mean. I took his face in my hands and told him that those peole were jealous because they couldn't look as cute has him. So the next time someone said something mean he had a huge puffy smile on his face, sat up straighter and said, TO THEM, "Yes I am cute aren't I!" It is so amazing how some children can turn a bad thing into a good experience.
The bad thing is, on Wednesday he got stung again right on the back of his ear. His forhead right between his nose started to swell. He looked like he had had a horn and we cut it off... He is becoming paranoid about hornets and bees though. After he got stung on Wednesday, he screamed and flailed his arms around saying that the hornets were getting him for 45 minutes. Along with the benedryl and tylenol we had to give him something to knock him out. My poor baby!


Kaerli isn't as bad. She got stung 2 times on the forhead and once on the nose last night while at my moms house. She hasn't swelled up quite as bad, but it is only 10 in the morning. We have been right on top with the benedryl, so I am hoping that she doesn't swell up much more than she already has. It is a good thing hornet season is almost over!

School time again!!!

Mikaeli's first day in the First Grade was August 20th. She is again attending Mtn View Elementary. Her first grade teacher is Ms. Sahr.

Mikaeli is so excited to be back in school, she is also excited that she gets to eat breakfast (for free) AND lunch in the school cafeteria. She also gets to play on the big kid play ground which last year they were not allowed.


This is a picture of Mikaeli's classroom door. She wouldn't let me get more pictures of her on the way in. Kids these days they just don't understand. Haha

Mikaeli was standing in front of her OWN desk. They don't have to sit at a round table this year, they get their OWN desk filled with their OWN stuff!!! She was really excited about that!

I have officially become the embarrassing parent!!! As you can see from this picture she is quite annoyed with me. She even said that I was "SO EMBARRASSING" HAHA!!! The best part is, the other mothers that were in the room were sad that they didn't bring their camera's.
I am so happy that she loves school. She jumps out of bed, and hurries to get ready so that she can be early for school. When she gets home she goes on and on about how "awesome" school was that day. She just impresses me all the time.

Long Awaited Pregnancy Photo's!!!

Ok, Ok, Ok. I have heard from a lot of people that they would like to see pictures of me pregnant this time. I have done so well dodging photo's for so long that at my birthday party tonight, my mom took a few pictures of me pregnant.


This is a front view of me at 7 3/4 months (31 1/2 weeks). I know I am not standing up straight... it is kinda hard.


And this is the side view. I can guarantee that this is me at 7 3/4 months. I have had a much better, more balanced diet this pregnancy, not to mention I have been doing some light excercising. I also have not been over induldging in junk food like I did with the other three. I have only gained 16 lbs with this pregnancy (which is doing really well, they have lowered the amount of weight that you should gain from 20-25lbs to 15-20) so I am right in the middle of the weight range. I only have 6 weeks left, YEAH!!!!!
The kids are becoming very excited about the baby's upcoming arrival. They all love putting their hands on my tummy and feeling the baby kick. It has become an every day event.

These next two pictures were taken today. One day after the first two... I think that they look much better... I looked horrible yesterday on my birthday. No make-up. YUCK

Here is another side view. Again yes I am 7 3/4 months pregnant. My due date is October 16th. Boy I can't wait to be done. It has been way too hot and I am SOOO tired. Thank Heavens for A/C!!!!!