This year for Thanksgiving my brothers Jeff and Monte come out. It was so cool because it has been years since all three of us have been together. I wish I would had taken more pictures, but I was having to much fun. Amber and Ammon were so nice to host dinner at their house.
Just to prove that us girls didn't do all the cooking. I got some pictures of Isaiah and Ammon helping out in the kitchen.
Reagan's personality is coming out more and more each day. She is such a content baby. She hardly ever fusses unless she is hunger or tired. She loves to be talked to. When you talk to her, she will smile and laugh.
Reagan loves her to play with her dad. He can always get a big smile and lots of laughs out of her. She loves to be balanced on his hand. Isaiah also likes to give her little tastes of food, which she loves.
All the kids love Reagan. If I put her down someone comes right behind me and starts playing and talking to her. Amita has especially turned into my little helper with Reagan. She helps a lot with Reagan, and Reagan really lights up when Amita is around.
It is so fun to see Reagan growing and changing and yet I want her to stay little too.
We have had a very fun fall. For Halloween I (Isaiah was on a cruise) took the kids to the lds church for their trunk-or-treat. The kids had a great time and were so excited to get dress up. They had lots of games for the kids to play including throwing plastic cow pies to win candy.
Early in the month, we all went to a corn maze. The kids had lots of fun riding the train, swing on the rope swings, and shooting pumpkins with the sling shot. We even let the boys go through the maze by themselves.
The weather has been so nice this October, but it is starting to turn cold. I just don't know if I am ready for winter to come. I just love fall and would love for it to last longer.
Reagan is growing so fast. At her 6 week appointment she weighted 11 lbs. 6 oz (a gain of 4lbs.) and was 22 3/ 4 inches long (a growth of 3"). 
I decided to put Benjamin in cub scouts a few months ago. He is absolutely loving it. He gets so excited when it is time to go. He has earned his bobcat badge and is working on his wolf badge. I think he looks so grown up and handsome in his uniform.
It is amazing how fast time flies with a baby. I can't hardly believe Reagan is a month old already. She has gotten so big. At 10 days she had already gained a pound and at her three week appointment she weighted 9 lbs. 6 oz.
She loves to laugh and smile for her dad.
She likes to be held a lot but will give me little breaks where is will be happy sitting in her boppy pillow. If she starts fussing Amita and Melody race to take care of her. They love to pat her on the back and give her her plug.
Reagan loves to take baths. I always have a little helper to help give her baths.
All the kids have really taken to Reagan. Even the boys will come and love on her. The girls definitely have little mommy instincts. 
Reagan Leah was born August 28 at 3:35am. She weighted 7lbs. 6oz. and was 20 inches long.
I had another home birth with her. It ended up my midwife had another lady in labor at the same time and had to make the hard decision of who to stay with. She ended up staying with me. I was hoping for another water birth, but Reagan had other plans and ended up being born on my bed. I was in labor for 8.5 hours; 4 of which were getting from 9cm to 10. It was a very hard labor, but everything went great.
The kids love her to death. The girls want to hold her all the time and are fascinated with all she does. We have decided she could be Amita's twin. Their baby pictures look identical.
I found out my Idaho family was taking a trip to the Oregon Coast and I decided to join them at the last minute. I ended up taking Melody and Benjamin, while Amita and Carter stayed with Isaiah. It was so fun to see the family.
This is a picture of the beach closet to our beach house. It was a long hike of stairs to get down to it. The weather was chill and I ended up having to buy jackets for the kids and I, but it was a nice break from the Missouri heat.
We got to the beach house late in the evening, but still had time to walk the beach before it got to dark. Benjamin had a blast chasing the waves.
Jeff and Annette's daughter Mackenzie came with us. She was Melody's buddy.
We spent one whole day on the beach at a place with lots of tide pools. The kids had so much fun exploring and making discoveries.
Melody liked to haul buckets of water from the ocean to a hole she had dug by our chairs.
We also spent one day driving down the coast seeing all the sights.
Here is Nan, all bundled up from the cold wind.
Just a fun picture of some of the brothers and sisters. FYI: I am eight months pregnant on this trip.
I have been wanting to put the boys in swim lessons forever and finally there were some in Stockton. They both absolutely loved them and both improved their swimming.
Carter learned some basic strokes and got a lot more confident in the water. Everyday at the end of class the kids were allowed to jump off the diving board, but Carter never would. Finally, on the last day I told him he had to at least walk to the end of the board and think about it. So he walks to the end of the board and just jumps in. He loved it so much he didn't want to stop. Even after the instructor that was catching them left, he still wanted to and jumped in with no one to catch him. It scared me. I was thinking I was going to have to jump in to save him, but he swam as hard as he could and made it to the edge.
Science:
His main focus is different bugs that he read books about and then make lapbooks for.
Math:
He is in Rightstart Level B. He is learning about addition, money and time.
We buy a zoo pass every year and go to the zoo all the time, so I thought I would include some fun pictures from our last trip since it is so much a part of our lives. 
This trip I actually took all four kids by myself. We had so much fun. I let Benjamin have the camera most of the time and he took pictures of all the animals. I included his two best.
It was really cold that day and Amita ended up being sick. She was a really trooper through. She didn't fuss or whine about not feeling good.
We ate our lunch at a park near by and the kids played for a few minutes, but by then it was so cold we were freezing. So we packed up and headed home.
Isaiah's brother, Helaman, got married and Amita was the ring bearer or ring princess, as we called her. She was very brave about it till she realized she was walking along down the aisle and then she got a little scared. It was really cute to watch her play her part.
Her she is with Helaman and his bride, Royceanne.
All of Isaiah's brothers and sisters were able to make it out for the wedding, so here is a picture of them with their mom, Mary.
Our little family decided to take a trip to Springfield, Illinois. We were going to go to a friends wedding, plus it was Benjamin's special birthday. (For those of you who don't know what a special birthday is it is when you turn the age of our birthday date. Like Ben turned 8 on the 8th). 
Once we got to our hotel, Ben went right to bed and stayed there. We did get him to muster up a smile for his birthday picture and he open his presents. As soon as they were opened, he went right back to sleep.
I was hoping to get a picture with all the kids in their nice clothes, but with Ben being sick it just didn't happen. But here is one with the girls in their fancy dresses.
