Happy Halloween

Since half of the sisters are having babies for the holidays, we decided to do our big family get together for the year for Halloween. Katie couldn't make it up but most of the grand kids all got to go trick-or-treating together! They were so cute and LOVED getting candy. I told the girls they could not be princesses this year so Jayc was a witch, Sis was spider girl, and Aynslee was a bee who was showing off her stinger that stuck out in back.


Here is the cutest kid in the universe! Little Roman was a cop and I was trying to get a pic of just him and Nickole said "Tell aunt Meggan to put her hands in the air" and cute as he is......he dropped his gun and put HIS hands in the air. It was so funny :)

After we gather too much candy around Rigby, we then hit the Boo and the Zoo! The kids had a blast!

To celebrate my mom's and Nickole's b-day (which is on the same day) we decided to do a spa morning with all the sisters and mom! No pics were taken cuz there was a lot of facials, massages, mani's, pedi's, and waxing. Afterwards we hit Olive Garden for lunch and then the mall for some much needed shopping minus the kiddos. Hooray for all the daddy's for taking the kids so the girls could have some pampering:) I did try to get a pic of the chubby, swollen, sparkly toes for you though.

Halloween Festivities

The fam had a fun filled day of super delicious treats and carving pumpkins!!!!! The girls actually helped clean out the pumpkins instead of saying......eeeww gross! They were good little helpers and we topped off the day with some caramel covered goodies that my mom whipped up.

Of course we had to have minnie for Aynslee. She is still her favorite Disney character!

Joldy gave up on snow white a little early so she is harder to tell who she is.....but this one was Sicilee's

I MADE my mom carve one pumpkin and she totally just free handed this and was done in like one minute flat. Cheater pants!

A couple of funny kid quotes of the day.

Jaycee was on the computer and she yells at me "Hey mom, what is my email address!?" Obviously she was trying to buy something but seriously what is this world coming to? She is in first grade for heavens sake!

Joldy is in so much trouble for this one. Let me explain further. Aynslee has this little raspberry birth mark right on the top of her foot (I claim it is from her kicking my rib so hard while still in my oven) and her newest "thing" is claiming that she is bleeding EVERY time she gets a teeny ow-ee. So every day she says she is bleeding. Joldy got tired of it and taught her that it is a freckle, YES A FRECKLE! Use your imagination of that word being said over and over by a 2-year old all day. It sounds like she has such a potty mouth between freckle and sh**. We are such bad parents I guess. My mom laughed pretty hard when she heard it so she has been trying to teach her that it is a polk-a-dot. Which she can say clearly, thank goodness.

We are down to single digits with our very active fetus. I actually feel pretty good. Sleep is...... well very interrupted by her moving and me not being able to breathe but that will only get worse over the next weeks so I will live for now. My weight has been much more managed with this one although I really do nothing different from any of the other pregnancies. So weird how each one is SO different. Went to the doc and measure 3 weeks big, so normal for my chubby newborns! She is sitting breech, however, I have never had one breech this far along. They have always been head down and in the birth canal by now so it scares me a little that she might not turn before she gets too big. Which also is a big part of my breathing problems. Her head is right against my diaphragm. Lil' stinker! I think time will actually fly over the next weeks until she arrives. My fabulous husband is scheduled for a vasectomy next week (yep...we are so done!), then the next week we head to Disneyland, the next day the girls have their first cheer competition, our 8 year anniversary is on the 6th, another cheer competition on Dec. 11 in Utah which is also Jaycers birthday,then I have to make it through graduation week for work sake, then bam the baby will be here! Usually the last months drag but as you can see life will be super busy clear up until she decides to arrive:)

Happy Birthday Sicilee!

My middle baby turned five! We celebrated by taking her to Red Robin (the kids' ultimate favorite place to eat) and then went home to have cake and ice cream. She is really into barbies.......so we added to her collection. My mom added by getting her a barbie bathtub toy that seems to lengthen bath time by at least a half an hour. And Poppy and MeMe sent their birthday card with birthday money to add a boy barbie to the collection. All in all it was a Barbie Fest!

Sicilee and Aynslee have been getting along so much better since all the have to play with is each other while Jayc is at school. Still fight like crazy but they seem to play well too. Sissy is my growing weed that I can't keep up with! She has now passed Jayc by a full size in shoe.....therefore already had to exchange her cheer shoes that she can't even get on her foot. And even though it seems the school year has just started, I had to go shopping to buy just her some new shoes that she could actually put her foot into. She is enjoying cheer and trying desperately to get her back kick-over before competitions start next month. I still call her my lost butterfly in everything that she does, her attention span is short. Especially when I ask her to help clean up of to do something.......weird. The sassy that I thought maybe passed this one child is entering her blood slowly:) DANG IT! I thought that I might not lose my mind if I had one sassy-less child! All in all we love her so much.......and her sassy too!

I was behind on Aynslee's shots and finally caught up this week. The doc got a good look into her terrible two tantrums. She screamed, kicked, and cried the WHOLE time we were in the building. No reason, just my JoJo. The doc asked me what I did when she did this and I said ignore her and walk away.....that seemed to be the right answer cuz he just smiled. She has however grown ALOT just this summer. She put on 4 1/2 inches putting her over 90 percentile for both height and weight. Each child seems to be getting taller as we go. Jayc is predicted to be 5' 2, Sissy 5' 4 and now Aynslee will be about 5' 8. Maybe the last two won't be cheerleaders!!!!!

Jaycee is loving school and once again top of her class. Homework is a breeze cuz the child basically outsmarts me. Has conquered her back handspring at cheer and seems to be growing out of some of her sassy. She is becoming more responsible and definitely fitting the role of the oldest. She has good instincts and is my biggest helper. So maybe there is light at the end of my tunnel and maybe as they get older the attitude will not shine through near as much. MAYBE JUST MAYBE!

Family Time

We decided to have a family day and took the kiddos to Bear World for the afternoon. It was actually funny cuz when we were at the window paying the guy was all like "so, where you guys from" and I laughed and said "Rigby". He just looked at me and smiled and ended to conversation.......like we were then uninteresting. Anyway it was Aysnlee's first, well second, but being weeks old doesn't count.......and she was pointing and oohing and awwwing the whole time.

This was Aynslee and daddy and her first impression of animals up close. Not okay with it at first......

.......................then she warmed up and was just fine :)

Look......................3 little bears!

and 3 sleepy, being good little bears!

This little stinker has expanded her vocabulary a little too far recently. I have heard sh** come out of her mouth like 8 times a day. And, honestly, the swearword I say all the time is dammit. So it makes me wonder if her Aunt Halley who watches her twice a week for a couple of hours has rubbed off on my innocent 2-year-old......................naughty Halley. So at first I didn't know what she was quite saying until she only said it when she was frustrated, so here was my conversation with my child

"JoJo! We don't say that word......you can say oh my crap instead, okay!"

"Ooooooookay mom, sh**, oh my crap!"

Yeah, I didn't get anywhere with teaching my 2-year-old about what not to say. Bad mom award.

So for the record, the other 2 kids caught Jaycee's little flu bug but minus all the vomiting so Sicilee caught it the 3 days following Jayc, and JoJo caught it the next 3 days after that. LUCKILY I did not catch this one just needed to catch up on some sleep after 2 weeks of being up with kids all night. I have to admit I have been pretty lucky in the catching sickness area with this one, usually I catch every sickness at least twice while pregnant.

So finally after I am getting at least 6 hours of sleep a night........I FEEL GOOD, LIKE NOT SICK OR TIRED! I even can sleep COMFORTABLY at night which is new in pregnancy for me. Routine with the kids in school has helped a lot but my only complaint now is I CANNOT BREATHE! To the point of passing out but if that is my only terrible symptom then I can handle it. The contractions have even stopped. I hope I can coast on through the last trimester and cross my finish line of having kids with a smile :)

Trouble at the Homestead

Don't let this picture fool you at all. She is cute, adorable, cuddly, polite, and gives the best kisses ever................................this is what I keep chanting to myself



terrible two's is just a phase, it will pass
terrible two's is just a phase, it will pass
terrible two's is just a phase, it will pass

It is my phrase of the month!!!!!!!! This girl has got attitude and is the biggest bully ever. Her and Sicilee go the rounds all day long. The tantrums and independence of this child are at a level even I am unaware could happen. We sure do love this little girl. My favorite lately is when we go to a public bathroom and I let her go first, then as I am finishing I get the "good job mom" with a high five and pound it. EVERYTIME. LOL Still taking naps......oh so grateful right now. And is my wart on my bum all day long. Does everything with me, shower, makeup, hair, lotion, toe painting, all the fun girlie stuff.


Aside from my 2 year old being 2
BOY HAS IT BEEN A LONG WEEK AT THE WATTS HOUSE!!!!!!!!!

A better explanation of the pics of my toughest Jaycers ever. It started out as me thinking a bad flu bug...............it just hasn't stopped for a week now. Just a fever, stomach pain, and a whole lot of vomiting (mixed in with sleepless nights) This poor girl by day 4 was so dehydrated that we had to go in for 2 days for an IV, followed by blood tests, x-rays, totaling about 5 trips to the doc in a week. Talk about a trooper though, every time they poked her she didn't even flinch. Actually I am pretty sure she does better than me with the needles :) So just when I thought maybe I would start getting sleep again.......this morning Jayc starts up with the vomiting, Sicilee has a bad cough mixed with an ear infection, and Aynslee woke up crying with the nasty croupy cough. As I laid there almost in tears already awake when the alarm went off , it is then I started a new chant:

I can do this, all moms do

I can do this, all moms do

I can do this, all moms do

LOL i am just exhausted!! To the point of having some serious unwanted, way too early contractions. Although it has been almost a whole week since I have had morning sickness and aside from lack of sleep I do seem to just barely be getting the second trimester energy:)

I had my ultrasound and I really think this last one is definitely going to be the "odd" man out child. All 3 first kids were grabbing and playing with their bums and had the hiccups, this one decides to grab her toes and suck on them. All 3 kids have been born on the 11th day of the month, most likely not for this one. Although it is the same exact due date as Jaycee had. I am just hoping to be home with my family for Christmas and not spending it in the hospital :)

My sister Halley and I have been having Sunday dinners lately and cooking things we crave. We came across a recipe for churros here are some questionable pics:

So basically teeny turds, sugar-coated turds, and boiling turds. We are now not craving churros for some odd reason!

My pregnant sisters and I are sharing the same brain without even knowing it. I had rescheduled my ultrasound 3 times (due to baseball) Nickole had hers from day 1 and Halley scheduled hers 2 weeks before she went in. We all ended up on the same day within an hour of each other. WEIRD. I cheated of course and am still clearly having a girl, Nickole is having another boy, and Halley is most likely having twin girls! All happy and healthy babies.

There is the Watts update and school starts in 1 day! Jaycee in 1st grade, Sissy in preschool, and JoJo to the sitter!

State+Regionals=I have a husband again!

The smell of fresh cut grass, hot dogs on the grill, and spittin' out seeds has just come to an end for the Bees. They sure did end well though! They took state, then we headed to Bozeman, MT for regionals. Last year they were out in 2 games....this year made it to game 14. We took a young team and they held their own the whole time :) It was a good way to end the season.

First game in we played the Alaska eskimos...that's right, my ancestors. I was actually confused on who to cheer for the first game (hehehe)

Daddy and his girls

Porter's biggest fan.........she cheers him on the whole game. "Go Porter" she says and claps! She will look back one day at this picture and know that she knows someone famous cuz this kid will make millions for his talent one day very soon.

Since the team has done so well this year, Joldy is getting tired of getting cold water dumped on him at the end of the games......so he turned on them and threw it at the boys instead......

then the boys grabbed the "fire hose" they use to water down the field and hosed him down good:)

In Bozeman there was a statue of a little boy with a baseball glove, when I lost her for a split second (weird, me lose a kid) I would always find her talking, hugging, and kissing this little statue.

And last is our water babies!!!! They got to go swimming like 2x a day and were loving every second.

We were able to spend some time with Joldy's high school baseball coach and family since they live in Bozeman. After 5 days of eating out....we had dinner and smores at their house for the last night there. We haven't seen them since Aynslee was born so it was good times:) But I seem to not have taken any pics while we were there, oooops.

Aside from Joldy heading to Chicago to meet Cal Ripken, that's right you heard me right, he is coming back on sunday..WHEW! I will have a husband again! My list of "honey do's" has gotten pretty long. Life can go back to a routine with the girls starting school and most important they will get to spend time with their daddy! I guess that means I will actually have to cook dinner now that he will be attending the dinner table:)