SPRING!!!

This spring has been crazy just like every other part of our year!! I swear there is always a lot to keep us going in life. Updates on the family!

Little Malek is growing bigger by the day I think and taking up more and more of his mommys interiour space. He is just like his big sister and loves to hang out in my right rib cage!!! He is very active and always moving in there. Watch out world here comes another busy little Sutton boy!!!

Lexi: She is Ms. INDEPENDENT!!! she wants to do everything "self a me" and she is actually pretty good at doing most things by her self. She can dress herself and pick out her outfits. She tells me how to do her hair every day and what she wants to eat. This little ladie has quit the opinion and I love it. She loves to play outside with her best friend Zoe and she will go out there for hours at a time with a shovel a bowl and a spot full of dirt! She is wonderful at entertaining herself and for that I am so grateful! Her most recent quotes and stories are worth sharing and saving.  About a month at I had to stay after church to practice a song with the young women so Matt and Lexi went to my parents for dinner. Lexi Always wants to wear her Easter Dress to church and NEVER wants to take it off after. So she was in a beautiful dress and Grandpa Mike thought she should wear a bib over that dress during dinner so she wouldn't get it messy! He put the bib on her and she ripped it off and said "no" after he sat down.  He went to get up from his seat and put the bib back on and she looked at him pointed her finger right at him with dropped eye brows and said " You sit down". Needless to say everyone laughed and grampa lost that battle.  A few days later we were all ridding in the car and Lexi was in the back doing the 2 year old broken record thing and Matt turned around and said Lexi stop talking mom and I are trying to talk. Well a few days later Matt came home from lunch and she had something to say so she told him. "stop talking dad, I'm talking to mom!!"  The last lexi story is this one day Matt was having egg sandwiches for lunch and Lexi thought she wanted one too, but every time she tried it she would shiver in disgust. So Matt asked her if he could have a bit of her sandwich. She said no we convinced her to let him have one bit (which we knew would take care of most of the sandwich). After he had his one bite she said "Daddy no, mines sandwich. Bad choice, I'm going to spank your bum." Matt and I started laughing. I have been telling her about good and bad choices lately and obviously she did not think Matt made a very good choice. Man we love this little girl and she is always keeping us on our toes!!!

Matt: Matt has been taking realtor classes this spring and is going to be starting a new job next week with Chad and Jon. He is so excited for change and I can't blame him. We feel like this job has really been an answer to prayers and we look forward to the opportunity!

Mom: I have been trying to get June all figured out with volleyball camps and other things so that when this baby comes we will be ready. I have also been a nesting little mommy. I painted and redecorated a new room for lexi, organized a lot of our house and prepared a new nursery for Malek. I am so excited about how both rooms turned out and Lexi has done awesome sleeping in the basement!!! Mom is almost 37 weeks and after that we say bring it on little baby we are ready for you to come.

Other family: Craig and Rachel baught a new house in IF and it's great it has lots of land and room for the kids to run. Craig got a new job and it should be a lot more stable. Troy and Kara but there house on the market and are hoping to move. Keelie and Jordon move home with there sweet little faimly and have found a great home and will be here in 3 weeks. Grandma Red is all done teaching and we can't wait to have her around more to play with us!!! We  are so blessed as a family!!!


Picture time!
I planned a quick little get away for our family to go to Utah this spring, but I forgot Matt had realtor classes every Friday and Saturday so I decided to invite Bailey to come with Lexi and I to Utah. It was fun to get away and have a relaxing weekend. We did miss our daddy though. We went to city creek, at lots of good food. Went to the Hoogle zoo and played in the pool! Here are some fun pictures!!

I suck at blogging!

I admire those of you who are so great at blogging because well... I SUCK AT IT!!! I want to do better because this is about the best journal I have going. Life gets going and is so fun I forget to sit down and write about it. The last few months since September when I last blogged I believe have been fun just like the rest and CRAZY!!!  So here goes another catch up blog. Month by month might be the best!

Oct.
October was great Volleyball for me. We took third in our conference which I thought was pretty good considering  Bonneville and Century took first and second at state in the 4A division. I'm looking forward to taking the poky volleyball program to a great place! I had a great team of fun girls who worked hard, we had some drama, but for the most part it was a great year. Lexi loved the girls and loved volleyball. She was a cute lil zebra for halloween.

Nov.
November was fun we enjoyed some free time with not volleyball. I didn't coach basketball this year for the first time in 6 years. It was really wierd but also nice to have some free time to spend with family! Matt worked like crazy and we had somefun. On November 3rd we did a really awesome thing. We had the entire Harding family in the temple together to do a session. We were also able to do a chapel session together before the session and then those of us who were married went and did a session together and the single boys and young kids did baptisms together it was such a neat experience to be in the temple as a family and to feel of the spirit there. We had our Harding family Christmas party that night after that and it was so fun to see Lexi dressed as an Angel in the traditional nativity! She made a cute angel and loved being in front of everyone and able to be like the big kids. I also potty trained Lexi in November. She had been going for a while in the toilet so I decided it was time to bit the bullet and do it all the time! She caught on quick and we stopped buying diapers. I was excited to not have to change diapers for 7 months of my life!!!



Dec.

December is always so crazy! Time goes so fast! It was no different this year. Lexi turned 2 this December which is just crazy I swear just the other day I was bringing home a tiney beautiful baby and now I have a busy energetic toddler! She loved having a birthday Party and loved opening presents. She got spoiled by her family and loved every minute of it. She also loves to sing " HAppy to you" The birthday song. She doesn't really care who it's for she just loves to sing it! Christmas was really fun and we enjoyed spending time with family. My parents went to Illinois for Christmas. For the first time in 25 years I spend Christmas without them. It was kind of weird but wonderful none the less! Lexi got spoiled again and made lots of memories!! Matt worked way  way too much in December so we were grateful for Christmas break to have some daddy time! I got a new calling as the YW secretary. I was so excited to serve the youth of our ward and with some amazing women!

Jan.

New years day we went bowling with the Sutton's and it was so fun. Lexi loved bowling and she did pretty good with the bumpers. of course she wanted to do it "SElf OF ME" She loves to be independent! After we went to Tom and Ruths house and Roger brought out his 4-wheeler and took the kids around the yard on sleds! My little adrenaline Junkie LOVED THIS!!! If she wasn't on the sled she was on the 4-wheeler bossing someone around!! Matt and I had to take turns outside watching her because we got so cold but she refused to come inside! She loved every lap she got to take! Matt and I celebrated our 4th Anniversary in January and it was really nice. I can't believe all of this things we have done in 4 years! my how time flies! I couldn't be happier to be marrried to such a wonderful and loving husband and father!!! I can't wait to spend Eternity with Matt! He really is my best friend and I don't know what I would do without him!  For our Anniversary we went to dinner and then we went to a HHS girls bball game. My husband knows how to keep me happy. I really missed watching the girls play ball this year so it was fun to get out and go watch them!!!

Feb.

Work and play happened in Feburary. Matt was doing  some work for Ashlee and Shawn my cousins in Boise so Lexi and I were able to go with him and spend some time with Ashlee and her kids as well as see Daddy. It was really fun to get to know Ashlee and her kids better. Lexi  loved playing with "THE KIDS"  She thought she was just one of the bunch and they were so nice and always included her. Matt went back another week during girls state basketball to finish tileing so that was fun to get to watch state basketball. Highland took 3rd and it was nice to have Matt and Lexi there with me this year. Lexi loved the Chocolate milk and the free ice cream she kept getting!! We also found out the exciting news that we were going to have a baby boy in June! We couldn't be more excited to have another little one in our home and are so grateful to the lord for blessing our family at this time. We are excited to have one of each gender and will be excited to add more trains and trucks to our ever growing collection of pink princess things!!! I have felt a lot better this pregnancy so that has also been really nice to be a normal human being!



MARCH

Where is the year going! Wow its already March. I am almost in my 3rd trimester of pregnancy and can't wait for this little guy to get here. Ok I really can wait cuz I know its not time but I am really excited to have our family grow! I stopped skiing this month at Doctors request and I am sad to miss our at Targhee but it will still be fun to spend time with family and hopefully do some other fun things!! Keelie and her family just got here yesterday and I'm so excited to have them home for a few weeks! Her kids are getting so big and it's so fun to be around them. They will move home in June for sure and I can't wait. It's been a long time since they lived here and I can't wait to have them around!  Matt started taking realtor classes this month and has had some job opportunities open up that we are really excited about!! He is ready for change and so are we. His body can't do tile forever and he has worked a lot of long hard hours and were all ready for some change. Change however is scary, especially when you figure were about to add one more person to his list of people he provides for. Matt is such a hard worker and is determined to succeed so I know he will do great at what ever he does!!!  I am getting ready for the warm spring weather since I can't ski! Lexi and Zoe and I have started going on more walks and enjoying our time outside ! Lexi is a total jabber box and has finally got in her last front teeth! She took forever to get her teeth in. I will only be so lucky if the rest of our kids take that long. She loves to help around the house!! She liked to help vaccume, unload the dishwasher and clean up her toys! I love that she is such a big helper and I know it will be especially nice when she has a little brother to help take care of. She is like a sponge and wants to learn and explore everything I love it!!! more march pictures to come!!!