May Flowers

 May has been a month with just about all flowers for us.  First and most important, Rex graduated from preschool.  It's hard to believe that my little boy will be in kindergarten in a few months.  He is learning all his letters and numbers, but sometimes it's hard to get him motivated to learn.  Slowly he is catching the fire.  We are so proud of him and we are excited for the future.  Along with Rex, I am officially writing it down that we are pregnant.  It's almost been five months since we found out, but better late than never.  This has been a rough pregnancy, with lots of trips to the bathroom and curling up on the couch.  I am now feeling like I can cook, clean and be a normal function mom to my kids.  The poor things have had to suffer for quite awhile.  While it's been hard, we are so excited for the new addition to our family.  When we told the kids about the news they screamed and jumped up and down.  In Rigby world it's been a long time coming for this last little baby.  So in our world flowers is good news and May has been filled with many flowers. 

 Rex and his neighborhood crew on a field trip to feed the ducks.

Bubbas and Lina making the bed.

We love Mrs. Taylor.  Congrats Rexy!

Rex with his best buddies at Graduation.

My baby is three!

Oh how time flies!  It seems like we were just leaving Arkansas and I had just had our little Bubbas.  I guess he is not little any more (yikes).    We had a good day celebrating Bubbas.  We gave him a lot of options on what he could do for his birthday and he was very persistent in wanting us to go to the dinosaur museum.  This kid knows what he wants and will not back down until he gets it.  He did not get his stubbornness from my side of the family of course!  Our little Bubs love to play with his siblings, sit on the couch and watch a show, play with friends and be twinners with his dad.  He is firery child with a lot of personality in that little body.  He did not get that from dad of course!  We are grateful to have this little man in our family.  He makes everyday exciting, busy and at time difficult, but we love him!

Like I said a lot of personality!

 Rexy and Lina would not give him space to actually see his gift.

 Love.

 Happy b-day Bubs.  You are the excitement of our family!

My big boy!

Can you believe Rexy is five?!!  He is our sweet little man with a lot of love in that little body.  Rexy was our gem baby when he was born and through his first year and then a bit of fire and ice came out in him.  But as he has grown older that sweetness seems to be shining through more and more.  He will always tell me how much he loves me(some of the best moments as a mom).  He is giving his toys to his friends all the time and he has a desire to learn.  I couldn't ask for a better son.  We sure love this little guy and we are so grateful that he is ours.

  He was so excited about ninjago legos even though it doesn't look like it.

He requested a black cake.  The kids poop was a little scary after that!

We put up the trampoline for his birthday.  He absolutely loved it. 

 The following Saturday we had his birthday at the trampoline park with cousins and friends.  A little crazy, but a lot of fun.

 Some of the birthday crew (Tristan, Rylin, Lucy, Lina, Jaida, Rex and Tommy)

Tommy had to be one of the highlights of the party.  Check out that mouth!

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 More party

 Beautiful, silly Lina

 He gets to play baseball now.  Go Rangers!

 Dad as his coach

My handsome little man

A few good months

It been a few great months for our family.  We started off the year with cousins up at the Hyrum house.  It is a big crew of Morris'!  Nathan and I went to Cancun with family and friends and then a week later we headed to Hawaii for a KJazz trip.  The hightlight was seeing the whales.  That was a check off my bucket list.  Caroline had fun with her indoor soccer team.  They were the cutest little feisty girls you will ever see.  It was so great to see her progress in soccer and as a person.  We also took the kids to Disney on Ice (thanks mom Rigby).  This is always a highlight for the kids.  They love dressing up in their costumes and having fun. 

Props to Cotton Top!

 Just this last week our Grandma Cotton Top passed away. She was a great lady, who was always so positive and always spoke her mind. The kids loved going over to her home to get cashews and tootsie rolls. Each week when we had her over for dinner we could always count on a cup of mini oreo's. We love her so much, but so happy that she gets to be with Grandpa Rex after so many years. Love you Grandma!

Our Christmas Season

It was a busy Christmas season for our family.  Parties, traditions, movies, temple square and friends.  We feel so blessed and we are grateful for the real reason that we are able to have this beautiful time of year to celebrate.  I had an idea to to have the kids do service each day before Christmas, but I quickly realized that my schedule didn't quite allow me to do it everyday, the kids were sick or I was too lazy.  We did manage to get in a few days of service.  One of the days we were to put money in an envelope and give it to a random stranger at walmart.  I had the kids pray with me to make sure the money went to someone who really needed it.  We arrived at walmart and walked around for a time.  We were ready to give up when right before we got to the door to leave we saw a woman who looked sad and had tears in her eyes.  I asked the kids if we should give it to her and they all said "yes!".  We handed the envelope to her and said that this was for her.  She replied "are you sure?".  The kids said yes and she said thank you.   We left and ran to our car.  I know it is a small act of service, but for some reason I truly feel that this woman either needed this money or just needed to know that someone cared.  I hope that our kids were able to learn that service comes in all types of packages.  That family, friends, neighbors and random people can all be recipients of acts of kindness.

Besides our service we were able to fill our time with so many activities: 

 We began with the ginger bread house.  This is our kids favorite tradition.  Tommy ate more frosting than anything else.  Caroline was bossy pants making sure everything was perfect.  Rexy wanted to follow daddy in everything, if dad did it he did it. 

Christmas cookies are a must at our home. We had the Reeses and the Tadje family come enjoy the tradition. We definitely had some beautiful cookies, but first place went to Tom.

 We had our aunties come to temple square with us. It was crowded, but it was fun and beautiful.

 

Christmas morning was so much fun. We had grammy and papa sleep over, new jammies, an American Girl doll, football attire and the best gift of all was a trampoline. The kids went crazy over this gift. They were screaming and cheering. Rexy even had to sit down his excitement was that overwhelming. We all laughed our heads off. I love Christmas with little ones. It is so magical!

First tooth

Nathan and I were a little scared pulling this little tooth out, so thanks to Aunt Jill-B we were successful!  I will now send all my kids over aunties house to do the dirty work. 

Caroline had a special tooth fairy come to the house named Star Light. My big girl is getting bigger.