It let me upload 2 more pics! I'll keep trying to upload more but at 2 at a time, no thanks.
Mr. & Mrs. Kevin DeVito

The first dance as husband and wife...awww cute!

Hawaii Part III

For some reason I'm having technical difficulties uploading these pics. My camera was acting funny in Hawaii and I think it effected everything. So far these are the only pics I can get to come up. All the "good" pics aren't uploading.
This is the bride and her mom. (Lindsey & Teresa)

Uncle Rob & Jackie

Blurry pic of Kevin and his groomsmen. Nick, Mike, Fletcher & Rob

Fletcher and me

Nick & Kahua (first couple) Anna & Mike (second couple) and the flower girl in front. (I won't attempt to spell her name, it's a Hawaiian name)

Coming Soon

Wedding pictures are next or you can check out some of them on Facebook. :)

Hawaii Part II

Here's some pics of the vacation, I'll post the wedding pics next.
The Davis' plus "Papa to Hawaii". Papa got that name years ago when they couldn't say Papa from Hawaii, it's just stuck and it's fun.

The backside of a waterfall.

Me and my dad

Austin, Dusty and Kaianah. (Check out her goggles, she loved them and wore em' for hours)

It's a rough life but someone's gotta do it. Way to take one for the team honey! :)

Noah & Me

Dolphin Quest...

Austin and Me @ Dolphin Quest

Pololu lookout point, the next picture is a better overview.

So pretty

Us at "Papa to Hawaii's" house. We all stayed at Papa's house while we were in Hawaii. He had just finished a major remodel...tile floors, granite counter tops, slate behind the fireplace, expanded deck oh I mean Lanai. :) Our accommodations were very nice!!

Dusty and Kaianah at one of our many stops along the ocean side.

Hapuna Beach, HI.

My Uncle Rob and Dusty

Bubba Gump

My brother Kevin (AKA Uncle Kevin) playing with Josiah and Noah around the pool. Austin in the background.

Kevin's wife Lindsey AKA Aunt Lindsey with Alanah

The boys and Grandpa Fitzpatrick.

" Papa to Hawaii" preparing his lawn for the wedding reception.

The kids eating lunch and enjoying Papa's house.

Now Boarding Flight 856 to Kona...part 1

We are home! We arrived home safely yesterday after spending 15 days in Hawaii. My brother married the love of his life and we all got to witness and participate in the festivities. We had a blast being tourists, thou it's been said we weren't "total tourists" since we have so much family on the island to show us the insiders scoop.
We have a TON of pictures, so I'll split this up into a couple blog postings.
Everyone's first question is "How did the kids do on the plane?" The boys did amazing, they were great. Alanah was okay, not great but not horrible. Kaianah, well lets just say I thought to myself many times during the flight, WHAT WERE WE THINKING??? The boys sat in front of us, taking up the three seats. (and sharing a DVD player) Then Dusty, Alanah, and I were directly behind them with Kaianah in my lap the entire time! phew, that was a rough time.

Dusty rigged up a way to keep the head set on Alanah's head. That's a hair tie and pipe cleaner! :)

The boys all wore matching orange shirts and the girls wore orange paisley shirts so we could spot them easily.

When we boarded the plane, single file down the aisle in our orange shirts, we had another passenger ask us if we had ever heard of Jon/Kate Plus 8 and everyone laughed.

Awww, she FINALLY sleeps. Now I just need to hold this position for another 4 hours. ha,ha

12 years already??

Happy 12th Birthday Austin!

Our little jokester/prankster turns the BIG 12 today. Almost a teenager seems impossible. Austin got a good laugh when we told him he was a TWEEN.

We are so grateful for such a wonderful, caring & sweet son. Austin has such a big heart and we love his loving spirit. It's our prayer that he continues to grow into a wonderful young man and a man that loves the Lord.

Funny!!

You don't tug on superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger
And you don't mess around with slim

Mom: Now, kids, why don't we spit into the wind?

Kids: I don't know, why?

Mom: Let me show you.... :)

Can you see the spit marks on his shirt?? soooo gross

Do you think they will ever forget this life lesson? :) hee,hee

I'm pretty sure the kids learned a good life lesson today, with the help of Jim Croce. I added the song to the blog and the kids had a fun "dance out" after our little project. If you haven't heard it before you can take a listen. :)

8 years ago today...

Sibling Fun

Josiah & Alanah enjoy a tea party together! Up until today day Alanah was just pretending with her tea set, Josiah has shown Alanah that you can actually fill the cups and pots with water!!
See Alanah, you do it like this...

The boots are a nice touch, dontcha think?! No skirt, jewels & tea set are complete without rubber boots!

April Birthdays in May

On Mother's Day we celebrated Alanah's 3rd birthday and my Mom's 53rd (she's going to kill me for that) birthday. This was the first chance we had to all get together and in the words of Alanah sing "Happy U U"
Alanah got some jewels...

and a tea set

Here's Grandma Fitzpatrick & Austin

The kids all wrote her notes and gave her random stuff from around the house. After they collected their "gifts" all of the kids wrapped 'em up. (I had nothing to do with this, all the kids idea)

Noah was especially proud of the Christmas stickers he gave Grandma. After Grandma open all of the kids gifts we moved on to the other gifts. :)

And cake or course.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL OF THE LADIES IN APRIL!

Happy Birthday to Aunt Diana, Kari AKA Chewy, Kathy & Amanda

Rookie of the Year

Dusty has been gone for less than 24 hours and we end up with a trip to the E.R.

It was a rookie move all the way...
We were at Costco, 5 kids in tow. Kaianah, who was sitting in the appropriate child sitting area of the cart started getting fussy, in an attempt to quiet her and continue on with the shopping, I placed her in the big part of the cart, AKA the inappropriate part of the shopping cart.

I put Josiah in the cart with her thinking that the two of them would happily play while we shopped. We stopped to give the kids a food sample, I turned my back for approx. 6 seconds and she was out! She flipped out of the cart and landed back and head down on the hard, concrete Costco floor.
The panic filled my entire body, I picked her up and tried to assess her body & head. By this time we have a full crowd of people are standing around and watching. It was horribly scary. I saw Kaianah go from red, hot and sweaty to pale and cold in 10 seconds. I could feel the goose egg in the palm of my hand as I held her head. Next step was a trip to the E.R.

The employees at the E.R. got Kaianah seen within just a few minutes. Everything was fine and the doctor didn't feel we needed X-rays.
The doctor asked me if this was my first child....I sheepishly said, no it was my fifth. He looked surprised. I wanted to say, I know, I know. It was a stupid rookie move, one that a first time mom might make.
Lesson learned.

I can sum up in one word the reason for my out of date blog...SPRING

I hope to get some pictures up, along with a little update.

Coming soon....

VICTORY!!! ~at last

WE FINALLY HAVE A CHICK!! After all my failed attempts, victory at last. This little chick might look pretty pathetic but it's only an hour old, it's suppose to look like that.

It will dry out and get cute and fuzzy in a couple days. 3 other eggs are showing signs that a possible hatching might be coming next...

It's only a miracle that I hadn't throw the eggs out yet, they are all 4 days "overdue" and according to my research that's not typical. Honestly I was waiting until I could stomach the process of going though and opening up the eggs. It's heart breaking to see fully developed eggs not hatching.

Hopefully I'm not counting my chicks before the eggs are hatched! :) I had already called this third attempt a failure so I am ecstatic to have even 1 chick hatch.

Out of the mouths of babes...

Some of the funny things the kids have said recently...

Noah & Josiah are walking towards the compost pile, Josiah wants to play in it.
Noah says: I don't want to play in it, it's poop!

Josiah: Laughing at the idea that Noah thinks compost is poop..."Hey Mom! Is compost poop?"

Mom: doesn't answer right away, she is thinking on how to respond.

Dad: Steps in an answers before mom. Dad says: "Yes, compost has some poop in it"

Noah: Feeling victory that he was right.

Josiah: Completely grossed out that we are putting poop in the garden!

A couple minutes pass and Josiah walks up to me in the garden and says "Mom, why are we putting poop in the garden, we eat the food from the garden?"
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Last night we had a beautiful day and decided to eat dinner outside on the back patio. We are eating dinner and Noah decides to tell us the birth order of all the kids, he says Austin was born first, then me, then Siah, then Alanah, then Kaianah.

Noah: Did we really all come out of your tummy Mom?

Mom: Yes, you all really came out of my tummy! (mom thinking, I have the stretch marks to prove it)

Josiah: You ate all of us?!?

Noah: We are all so big, how did we fit?

Dad: You were much smaller than you are now, you've grown since you were in mom's tummy.

Mom & Dad: We turned Josiah's comment into a joke and said that Mom was reallllly hungry and that's why she ate all of the kids. We have explained since that Mom didn't eat the kids.
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Josiah & Mom are gathering chicken eggs a couple days ago. We are walking and talking and having a nice time just the two of us. I open the chicken box and hand the eggs to Josiah to put the eggs in the basket.

Josiah: Mom, do the chickens poop the eggs out of there bottoms? How do the eggs get in the chicken?

Mom: Great question Josiah, let's ask dad when he gets home! :)

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Mom is getting ready for the day, I'm in the bathroom brushing my hair, & putting on makeup. Alanah comes in and wants to do what I'm doing.

Alanah: Mama, I need stick-stick. (stick-stick is chapstick or lipstick)

Mom: No, not right now.

Alanah: "Mama, I princess, I need stick-stick! I pretty."

Mom thinking: Oh, wow...she is such a girly girl. What's this going to be like in 10 years?? I'm scared. :)

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Easter Sunday

We started our Easter Sunday by attending church. After church we had some food prep to prepare for some family coming over. In an effort to cut down on the cost of a traditional Easter dinner we tried something new this year, our Easter dinner was a Mexican theme. We had beans, spanish rice, homemade corn tortillas, chile relleno, pork with chile verde sauce, enchiladas etc.
My Aunt Alice made this cake for Easter. The kids just LOVED it.

Alanah with one of her Easter Baskets. (With a few extra items that we didn't expect, THANK YOU Aunt Diana & Uncle John.)

Grandpa & Grandma Fitzpatrick left Easter baskets for the kids....we hid the baskets and the kids had to find them.

Kaianah enjoyed her 1 egg that doubled as a rattle.

Here's the kids Easter baskets. They are about 30 seconds behind me and I snapped this picture before they came running up to get 'em.

Uncle Rob and Uncle Mike are watching the kids hunt for eggs. (Uncle Rob had recent neck surgery thus the neck brace)

Alanah found some!

Aunt Barbara & Aunt Alice helped the kids dye Easter eggs.