Home made soap.

This is my new clean hobby that my mother in law and I are having soooo much fun making and smelling!!

P.S. Super cute snowman....

I forgot the snowman pic......

Happy Birthday Amazing Grace!!

Our little Gracie is 6 today!! Where does time go? We had a little birthday dinner last night. This was my attempt at the requested " purple snowflake cake."

We got her a porcelain doll and she LOVES it. She came up to me after and said," Oh Mommy, I have never gotten anything like this before!" It was pretty cute. Here are a few more pics of the birthday girl!

1st big snow day of the year!!

I know some of us can't stand the stuff, but with 4 little girls and a dog that should be a sled dog....you can't help but get a little excited!



Our dog, Akiva, LOVED the snow. The girls kept trying to build a snowman, but she would steal the snowballs from them before they had a chance!



It snowed all day and most of saturday night and this is what Sunday looked like! It was beautiful.


Well this morning is another story....like the weatherman said..."its like a great big slurpie out there." It rained all night and we are supposed to get up to 70 mm of rain today.....Gotta love the west coast! Oh well....I hear there is more snow to come!

Fun at Nana & Papa's!

Just thought I would post some pics of our trip to Nana & Papa's....We love the west coast! The girls had soooo much fun....so did Daddy!



The Girls called it bubble beach.....and tested fate with the waves!!



It was a perfect weekend, very cold, but that didn't stop Gary!



This is what happens when you get a little too friendly with the wild west coast waves......

22 weeks....and counting!

It is very interesting and scary how much your body sceams " I am pregnant" with your 5th baby!! I ran into a lady the other day who asked me when I was due...so I told her mid march and her jaw hit the floor and she asked if my dates could be wrong!! I soon found out that she is pregnant too! I could not tell by looking at her....she had to do the belly hold and "show me"....when I asked her when she was due my jaw then hit the floor! She is due in the beginning of January! Now this is her first baby....but that really did not bring me much comfort...so here they are the 22 week belly shots. We took them in Ucluelet when we were visiting my parents.

Halloween Fun !!

Our kids have the coolest Bugga(aka Grandma)on the planet!!!! We went to Bugga and Grandpa's for dinner and to hit their neighborhood trick or treating.....and Bugga once again made an amazing and fun dinner!!! She wasn't even there to eat it and I am not to sure when she found the time to make it while working 12 hour shifts???
BUGGA YOU ROCK!!!

These are my " vegetarian" eyeballs that were soooooo good, I was nice enough to share them....

Here are the meat eyeballs......lots of fun at the dinner table!



And of course she couldn't stop at dinner....here is what we had for dessert!


It was a very "sweet" night and that was before any candy!!! I will post picks of the trick or treating fun soon....just waiting for the pictures!

It's a BOY!!!!!!

We are totally in shock and are flying high!! The Hodi sisters finally get a little brother and Gary gets his son!!! Here is the ultrasound picture of his little willy!! The picture shows his 2 legs spread out and his "thingy" is hanging between them!!!!

Here are a couple more pics...one of his legs and the other is a side profile shot


March seems very far away now.... but they did move my due date to the 8th... not that that means anything!! We are having a hard time with boy names, we thought we had one picked out but now that we know that it is a boy we don't like the name anymore! Here is an updated pic of my belly. I am 20 weeks...and I feel huge already! And knowing that I have 20 weeks to go is scary!

Life can be so weird sometimes...my Papa passed away this morning. He had cancer and we were all praying that Jesus would just take him in his sleep and that is exactly what happened. I was pregnant with Elizabeth when Nana died too.....so to say the least I am full of very mixed feelings.....excited about life long awaited for and already loved constantly reminding me of its presence and the sweet sting of death as Papa is reunited with Nana and is no longer with us.



I love you Papa.

15 weeks preggers!!

Ok...it's been a while! Here is my first pregnant shots.( taking by Emily!!)

This has been a much nicer pregnancy....no tubes down the nose, no I.V.s, not to much puking....kinda weird! I am very happy, mabey it's a boy?!?!?!?