Aren't they sweet?

This is the look I got when I asked if I could switch places with them.

Piggy back ride with big brother

C4 being dramatic

My five year old!

C2 wanted to go for a hike. Here is some of the group before the hike.

Me and baby C enjoying the hike.

David and C4, she kept up pretty well.

Snack time!

The Mills Fam

 We came home and had pizza and cupcakes.

We went to Red Robin the night before his birthday. Red was there and came to visit our table. 

Waiting for them to be done singing so he can eat his ice cream sundae!

 One of C2's birthday gifts was a slip-n-slide. Here he is being very cautious and sloooow!

 C1 going as fast as he could!

Our friend Tonia was over she was enjoying it as much asthe little kids were!

C1 and Tonia racing

We have had visitors in our new house already! Grandpa T and Uncle J came for a visit and to help the first two days we were in our house.

Grandpa T and C2 read for awhile on the couch. Grandpa T's visit was way too short, we need you for longer next time around!

Uncle J came and helped with the move - he was such a  BIG help! Here he is spending some special time with Baby C.

Grandmom came for a nice visit. We all got to spend some quality time with Grandmom!

Sorry for the lack of blogging! It has been a busy month! We are IN OUR HOUSE!!! Yay! We moved  one month ago today - and it has been busy ever since. I am so happy to be be in OUR house.  A lot has happened in the last month and I will be posting a lot of pictures...

For now here are some pictures of our new house.

Our house

Our barn

Pasture

Here are some of the kids enjoying time on our back deck.

My mom came for a little visit. We had a nice visit with Nana but it went by way too fast!

David and I got an overnight date (with the baby of course) and we got to attend The Christian Heritage Conference. This is the third year we have gone and we always leave it so refreshed.

Thank you, Nana! We miss you!

Nana and the kids.

Nana and the girls.

Nana and baby C.

I am so excited that we are moving in less than 2 weeks! I am picking out paint colors for the kids rooms, reading up on dairy goats and chickens! I can't wait!

...so I thought I take off 10 inches!

I donated my hair today to Locks of Love.

What do you think?

I can't wait to be out of transition and into a house!!

On Saturday (March 28th) we headed over to our house we are selling (sold as of Friday!) to load up some heavy things with a friend of ours - I didn't do any loading. When we returned home and I was getting lunch ready for the children I started getting consistent lower back pain every 4 minutes. David was timing them, I was dismissing them until he told me they were consistent! So after I got the kids lunch, I started gathering our hospital items and David called our friend Megan. Megan hurried over as fast as she could and David and I took off to the hospital which is 40 minutes away. My contractions did not stay consistent on the ride to the hospital, I was scared they were going to turn me away! We parked and when we were checking in the contractions came back! We were checked-in and shown to our room and I changed and was checked and I was at a '6', the day before I was at a ' 4-5' so we were staying! We checked into the hospital around 3:20 in the afternoon. After they put the monitors on me we walked around for awhile to let gravity do it's thing. My contractions were pretty easy on me, except I had back pain with each one - not so fun! After we walked around for a bit we came back to the room and I sat on the birthing ball - that was nice. My contractions were starting to get harder and more intense and I wanted to try the bath tub. I got in the bath and I am so glad I did, that is when I went through the transition phase. I started feeling pressure so I got out and got on the bed to be checked and I was at a '8',  the doctor was paged and I started pushing about 5 mintues later! I pushed through about 3 contractions and she was here! I prayed with each contraction that the Lord would have His hand on me and the baby, and He did. I prayed for strength and courage - at times I did get scared and nervous, but He was with me. And through transistion I prayed He would bring that baby down! I felt his presence throughout the whole process.

She is just beautiful. I was so happy to be holding her in my arms and snuggling with her at last!

I am so happy I went the all natural route. I am never being induced again! It was amazing the difference between a pitocin contraction and a natural contraction!  The natural birth was just so natural. I don't know if I can explain it.

I thought this was so sweet! I ran and grabbed my camera. We have been enjoying having a baby in the house again.

C1 enjoys holding baby C.

Doesn't it look like C4 is telling C5 some juicy secret??!!

Baby C had her first bath at home over the weekend. It was a family affair!

She liked the water...at first!

Daddy took great care in washing her.

She didn't like the whole getting out and getting dressed part!

Baby C is enjoying being with mama in her wrap.

We purchased an espresso machine the other day (Costco had it for about half the retail price). I have my own little barista here at home!!

Meet Dave my barista

Doesn't it look good?!

Enjoying my white mocha!

Now with baby C here it is half caf/half decaf for me!!

C5 made her arrival on March 28th!!

Here are some pics and I will give more details later.

Mommy and Caleah shortly after her birth

Daddy and C5 - he looks so proud!

The whole fam!

Daddy and his girls

C1 checking out C5!

I am 39 weeks today! Baby "C" should be here soon and I can't wait to meet her!

I am dilated to a  4 - and hoping she comes on time!

Here is a belly shot from today.

We celebrated the first day of spring with some homemade nests!

C1 trying to form a nest

C3 trying to form her nest

The finished nest on C3's decorated plate

C2 enjoying his nest

To make the nests we used the orginal Rice Krispie treat recipe. I ended up making the nests in a muffin tin with a buttered spoon to press the mixture into the nest shape. Enjoy!

 A friend of mine got married earlier this month and I was asked to be the photographer. I was 37 weeks along and so I brought back-up! A couple of young ladies at our church have an eye and a passion for photography so I asked if them if they would be my assistants. We all had a great time!

Here I am 37 weeks pregnant!

My assistants

The beautiful bride and groom

The wedding was wonderful and the reception was a blast. A friend of mine watched a couple of the kids, and David and C1 attended the wedding and reception. It started snowing pretty heavy that night so instead of David heading home with the kids he brought them back to the party. The kids were the only ones there in pajamas! Oh well the party was about over!

Here is C1 enjoying the cake

Mommy and C2 slow dancing

David and I both requested our wedding song, Breathe by Faith Hill. Here we are dancing to it with all 5 kids!

(most of the pictures featured were taken by my wonderful assistants!)