Mother's Day :)

We celebrated the "eve" of Mother's Day with my side of the family, that way the actual day all three four of us mother's could celebrate with our own families. We had everyone over for dinner and roasted Peeps for dessert!
My dad was very intent on getting his Peep roasted to perfection!




It's these moments of watching my family enjoy each other that help me make it through the difficult days of toddlerhood... someday Jake and I will be sitting around a fire with a mulitplied family that loves each other... if we can just survive the hard moments now!

It was great having Andy's girlfriend "Miss But-nen-EE" join us... the girls love her!

Amy was trying to minimize the size of Andrew's "Jimmy Neutron head"... but there isn't much hope for that, is there? (He is the one that pointed out he has a Jimmy Neutron head and rapter
arms and now you know we just can't let that go!) My poor sister has been SO sick with this pregnancy! She is almost 12 weeks, so here is hoping it was just a first trimester thing!

And here I am surrounded by 3 of my 4 greatest blessings! Both the girls got fevers on Mother's Day and they were extra cuddly!

Pregnancy Update: 12 days till my due date. Thought I was in labor on Saturday. Had contractions 3 mins appart for 8 hrs. They never got worse, but they were very consistant. Went to the hospital and 12 a.m., got hooked up to monitors, at this point the contractions stopped, and we went home at 2 a.m. I felt like such a loser!! They were just Braxton-Hicks! I thought that Braxton-Hicks didn't hurt, but apparently they do hurt, they just don't dilate you like the real deal does! I haven't felt much since then. Still feel really, really good. Grateful that my third pregnancy has been my easiest one!

Highlights from April

Stephen got baptised on April 3rd! Such an exciting moment to see the last Boettcher publically testify their loyalty to Christ!



The old is gone...

The new has come!

God saved Stephen's life when my mom was carrying him. She hemorranged when she was 6 weeks pregnant with him, but his little sac was right above the hemorrange and when they did an ultrasound his little heart was still found beating! God saved his life once to save it again! Praising God for the work He has done in Stephen's life!!

April 12th we went to the aquarium with Naomi, Ava, and Nora. Kenzie has been once before when she was 12 days old! I remember nursing her there and it was the first time she pooped up her back in a public place! Luckily my mother-in-law was with me because that was a 2 person job in a public bathroom with a newborn! So much changes in 3 years... now I have 2 kids that looked like the practically went swimming with the stingrays!

Getting ready to touch a stingray!

Gymnastics on Tuesdays have been a highlight! Kenzie has grown so much in following directions and waiting her turn in line! I love all the kids she gets to be in class with. The older ones really look out for the younger ones.

April 13th we got to watch Ella and Alaythia for the day! We had so much fun making cookies together!

Believe it or not, all 4 kids slept for 2 hours and so did this mama!! When we all woke up I was really impressed by the way Kenzie played kindly with Alaythia while Ella read to Aubrey! Such good big sisters!

We had a few warmish nights in April and Jake had a fun idea to roast marshmellows one family night in our fire pit. I couldn't find marshmellows at the grocery store, so I bought peeps instead (ok, I didn't really look that hard cuz I thought peeps would be more fun anyway!)

Daddy teaching Kenzie how to roast it just right!

Lucy liked the peeps too!

Peeps are so good over the fire!

We really weren't ignoring our second born... she just refused to let her peep get anywhere close to the fire! She was all about eating as many as she could as fast as she could!

Easter!!

Well, our girls sure had their fair share of egg hunts this year... 5 in total (not including the "practice" hunts they set up for themselves!) The last one was at my mom's after church and she had a basket for everyone... even Lucy and Amy's baby who is affectionately called "Santino" even though we do not know what she is having yet (and if it is a boy, don't worry, there is no way in heck Amy would let "Santino" fly!)

Waiting for the hunt to begin!

Snapped right before she fell down the stairs in all her excitement!

Looking for the presents Memom hid... that one was for Lucy... it was a matching outfit to wear with Sophie this fall!

What did she get? Why, Tinkerbell panties, of course!

And Aubrey scored a Dora bathing suit... she adores anything with Dora or Boots on it... she went nuts and tried to wear it right then!

Memom with her "Egg Hunters"

Poppop did the Resurrection Eggs with Kenzie. We are all trying to teach her that Jesus didn't die and come back to life so she could eat jelly beans as she was so proudly proclaiming to everyone before we sat down to eat!

Our hysterical attempts at a family picture... maybe we'll have better luck next year!

Picture of my belly at 35 weeks!! This is Lucy's room!! Jake did an amazing job with the drywall, paint, chair rail, and crown molding!

View from the other side, there is a glare on the wall from the mirror and Jake is still fixing the broken drawer on the dresser. That dress that is hanging on the shelf was my Mommom's... it's 71-years-old!! The blanket on the rocking chair is the blanket that my Nana knit for me when I was born! I'm so excited to have another girl and get to use these treasures in this room