Blessing Day

Corbin was given a name and a blessing on March 4, 2012. Here are a couple of pictures of him wit his brothers. We are so grateful to have our 3 boys!

Corbin Dale

He's here! We all love him!
Since Matthew was born so fast we were really worried about making it to the hospital in time. I was having contractions a few days before he was born and they were 3-5 minutes apart for a couple of hours, so we went to the hospital, but apparently it was early labor because I was only dialated to a 3 so I got sent home. Early Wednesday morning I woke up to consistent contractions again so we went to the hospital. We had the same nurse that we had had on Sunday. I was then dialated to a 3.5, but having consistent contractions. She called the Dr on call because our Dr was out of town. He decided to keep me because of my fast labor with Matthew. After they decided this my contractions slowed down so they had to give me pitocin to keep me in labor. Kind of funny, we were so worried about making it in time and it turned out to be my longest labor. 12.5 hours. I was so happy to see Corbin when he was born he looked a little like both of his brothers. He weighed 6 lbs, 8 oz. and was 20 inches long.
We are adjusting to having 3 kids, and we are very thankful to have each of them.

Proud BIG brothers!

We taught Matthew and Landon that they need to put hand sanitizer on if they want to touch Corbin. Matthew calls it hanitizer. He puts it on and says "I member, I need hanitizer." When Corbin is crying Matthew will come over and say "Its okay Corbin, I your big brother."

Landon also put on hand sanitizer, and we told them not to touch his face, but they could touch his hair. So for awhile everytime Landon touched Corbin he rubbed hand sanitizer in his hair. Corbins head smelled like hand sanitizer. :) Now Landon makes sure his hands are dry. :)

We thought we wanted a girl, but we are glad that Heavenly Father is in charge and sends us what we need. He knows us better than we do. We are grateful for our 3 boys.

Christmas 2011

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. These pictures are little out of order, but you get the idea.

Matthew playing with some of his new toys on Christmas!

Landon playing with some of Matthew's new toys on Christmas. :) He liked his toys too I think, this picture just happens to be with Matthew's toy.

Last year for the nativity Landon wanted to be baby Jesus. This year he wanted to be baby Jesus again, but I told him one of his baby cousins would be baby Jesus. He wasn't too excited about his role as a shepherd, but he sure looks cute. My mom made new nativity costumes for all the kids to wear. Matthew didn't want to participate at all, so I don't have a picture of him.

Here are the cute dancing girls we had at our family party. We sure have cute neices.

Landon and Matthew showing off the gingerbread train that we built. They asked me if we could eat it about 5 times everyday. When I finally let them eat some of it they decided it was gross and left it alone. I should have given in to them earlier.

Matthew showing one of his favorite Christmas ornaments. This one happens to be from Uncle David and Aunt Angie, it sure is cute and we still enjoy it.

Landon decorating the tree.

This year on Thanksgiving Landon was sick and very contagious, so we had Thanksgiving by ourselves at home. We missed seeing everyone, but had a fun time ourselves. Although, I do not enjoy cooking all of Thanksgiving dinner myself. It was a busy morning. Landon could tell it was a special day because I put a tablecloth on the table.

We loved the holiday season and loved to end it with our little Corbin coming to our home. More on that later. . . . . .

Halloween 2011

We carved pumpkins the week before Halloween. Landon says his is the scary evil pumpkin, and Matthew's is the funny one. Don't worry the boys didn't use the knives, they just picked the patterns and Clint and I did the cutting. They loved seeing the pumpkins lit up with candles.

A Buzz Lightyear ready to get some candy.

A pudgy Woody with his pajamas on under his costume.

We had a great time trick or treating. We went around to some neighbors and the boys got a lot of candy. They had a hard time saying trick or treat and mostly just stood there, but every once in awhile you could hear a "trick or treat" whisper.

September/October

Wow, we haven't updated this for awhile. ;) At the beginning of September we took the kids to a baseball game. As soon as we got there it started raining. It rained the whole 1st inning which turned out to be enough baseball for a 4 and 2 year old. :) It was a lot of fun though.

The boys getting ready to help in the kitchen.

My little brother Jared left for his mission in the Philippines. We got to see him off at the MTC. He will make a great missionary. We love him.

We went for a little hike up the canyon one Saturday.

Matthew has a little phone that he carries with him everywhere. He was excited when he found out his pjs had a pocket for his phone too.

We made halloween cookies. We frosted them and the kids decorated them with halloween candies. Here are Matthew's reaction to the licorice candy on his cookie. I don't think he likes it.

Landon liked his cookie!

Its A Boy!!!

We're excited to announce that a new baby BOY will be joining our family in January. Now we just have to figure out his name. Landon wanted Rudolph, but we're not going to be using that one. :)

Overload of pictures. . .

Can you find our boys? If you look really closely you'll find them behind the large tree trunk in our front yard. HA!




Dressed up and ready for church. I had to make him wear the suspenders for at least one day because he looks so handsome in them.


On the 4th of July we went camping in my moms back yard. Matthew wouldn't get out of the tent, he loved it.



Landon loved roasting marshmallows and eating smores.




Dad & Matthew roasting marshmallows.


We've been on a couple of hikes on the mountain near our house. They boys really like and like my brother Jake would say, "They are good little hikers." They really want to go again because we told them about the trail mix we would get for our next hike.





Landon turned 4 years old! For his birthday we went to a fun zone where we could go mini golfing and to an arcade. It was the boys first time golfing. They want to go back everyday.



Landon wanted a boy castle cake for his birthday. This was the best I could come up with. He liked all the candy on it.



Vampires with neon teeth.



We visited the dinosaur park and had a great time. Landon was a little nervous about the dinosaur noises he heard, and we had to keep reassuring him dinosaurs aren't alive. Matthew thought every dinosaur was Rex and loved it all.



Digging in the sand for dinosaur bones.




Landon with his birthday present