They are watching me!!!!! HELP

My sisters are making me post something so here I go. I have nothing, but I will think of something and come back. Boy did I make you excited thinking that I was going to actually post something. Made you look!!!

I will be seeing you

My sweet little grandma passed away last night. It couldnt have been a more spiritual night for our family. I will miss my grandma I have many fond memories of her and I will hold tight to those memories and think of her often. I will miss my grandma and all the times of watching her trying to skip and hop I remember asking her just to do it so I could have a good laugh and her knowing that was my intentions and still doing it, her telling the amazing stories. I think her and my grandfather have such a wonderful way of telling a story that puts you right into the story. I have a fond memory of when we first moved to utah we lived with them for a while and one evening she took me to her room and i sat on her bed and she pulled out her jewelry box and we went through her jewelry and she told me where she got each piece I remember thinking how beautiful each item was and that grandma surely must be very rich and special to have all of these incredible selections. I remember her when we would walk in the door asking me if I wanted a root beer and offering a pin wheel or a chips ahoy cookie in the red bag. Making us salad with oil, vinegar and sugar salad dressing. Always have her nails painted and a love of shoes. In California I remember going into the play room and there were these red high heels with a bow at the toe and they were opened toed shoes and I thought they were the greatest thing ever. She loved chocolate I think that is where I gained a love for chocolate. She was very protective of her shoes and purse always had them with her. She loved watching old movies and doing her crossword puzzles and having her coke in her cup wih no ice. I always loved her five hour beef soup. I remember when I was little they babysat me while my mom worked at jasper elementary and they had a light blue car and we would go for rides. Also going with them on camping trips in there trailor to right wood and utah lake. She was a beautiful artist she painted some amazing pictures I always wished that I had one because I always thought they were so fantastic. Before her demensia got bad she would call me to check on me at least twice a week. one night at a family party recently before she fell she grabbed my hand and said do you know that you are named after my mother and she sat and told me stories about my great grandmother. Even when she was feeling her worst at the manor you were so sweet to everyone you changed many people lifes that were there it shows what an incredible woman that you are even to the end. The thing that I loved the most is her and my grandpas love that they had for each other. You never saw them not holding hands. They had the perfect love story one that we all looked up to and wanted our marriages to be like. When she started getting worse with demensia we would try to get her comfy on the couch and she would only last there for a moment because grandpa wasnt close enought to her. I could go on and on about my memories that I have of her I love you grandma and you will be terribly missed by all that knew you. I know that you are smiling down on us. I think that you wouldnt have changed a thing about what went on in your final moments here on earth. It was a very spiritual and peaceful moment. I will miss you so much and right now as much as it hurts to think that I will not see you for a while I know that you are out of pain and I am sure chatting with all your loved ones that have passed before you. I love you grandma thank you for being such a wonderful example to me You will be never ever forgotten! Today was my anniversary and as hard as it was to lose you It will never be a day I will forget. I know that for us it was a bitter sweet moment wanting you out of pain but the selfish side of me was so sad to let go. I know that you are happy and that is what i keep trying to tell myself. I love you grandma till we meet again!

Sadie Jewelz

So Ben posted that last comment. He is amazing he has helped out so much with sadie and the other three monkeys. I love him so much and so thankful to have him. I cant believe that our little Sadie is already 3 weeks old. I am obsessed with her. I never want to put her down. I love being a mom to these 4 kids. Ben the other day texted me and said do you realize that we have four kids. I couldnt be happier with my life I have been so blessed. As Ben said the other day Sadie still pretty much still sleeps we have only had three nights that she was up a little more than usual so I cant complain. She is a little Angel and Ben has a cute little nickname for her he calls her his little peanut. She just is so little, you forget how little they are. We need to upload our pictures I take pictures everyday but havent downloaded them yet. I love my little family. These are pictures from the hospital.

We now have a family of 6 and things are filling up quick (rooms, minivan, dressers and of course garbage). We are so happy to have Sadie with us and although she has had a few sleepless nights she does spend 98% of the time sleeping. It is pretty sad when we have to strip her down naked to get her to wake up. You would think that after the 4th child we would be acustom to late nights and no sleep but the two nights that she has been up have been brutal (FOR CASSIE). Ben sleeps as though nothing is going on.

We have a NAME...

So we can now finally call our baby that will be here in about six weeks something. I am the type that likes to call it by name and talk to her. Her name is going to be Sadie Jewelz Sandberg. I really had my heart stuck on a few names at first there was paisley, presley, addison and of course sadie. Well the only one we could both agree on and love is Sadie and so for the middle name we like to do family names. Carter is John from Ben and lucky enough my dads name is john, Hallie is Marie from me, Ellie is Lyn from my mom and also bens family has Lyn and now Sadie you might be wondering why Jewelz? Well Bens mom is Julie Alaine and so I told ben he could decide I thought he would do alaine or laine but he came up with Jewelz which is different and fun at the same time and I also have a sister named julie so there we go again. I am so excited to meet our little one. I am at little sad because I know that when she comes our little man will start first grade and be gone all day and Hal will start preschool and be gone 2 days a week for a few hours and I am no ready to let go. But I guess ready or not here it comes. I love my little family and feel so blessed.

So we got a new camera and I havent been able to blog because I cant figure things out on it so I need Ben to help me. I am huge right now feeling like I am going to pop. This pregnancy has been a hard one for me but I am so thankful for it and so excited to see our little one. Hopefully soon I will up date and show pictures of my cute kids and my handesome husband that might I add while I am getting insanely huge has gone from 211 to 173. He looks amazing but then again I always think that he does. I am the luckiest girl ever he takes such great care of me and our kids I couldnt wish for more. Sorry about all my babbiling but I am on one!

kids say the funniest things

So the other day I am getting ready and Carter comes over to me and says mom your belly is really big is that baby ready to come out yet? I said Oh I hope not, Carter Mommy still has a very long time left until the baby will be healthy and strong. Carter then says you mean it is going to get even bigger than that! Not so much the wording but his facial expressions were killing me. I love my kids even when there honesty makes you feel like a huge COW!

Getting Bigger

Last night watching tv, me and Ben were talking and I coul feel the baby moving like crazy so I put my hand on my stomach and felt it. I turned to Ben and said do you want to see if you can feel the baby so he put his hand on my stomach and totally felt it. We were so excited. I am only 20 weeks I will be 21 on wednesday so we didnt think we would feel it so soon so it was very exciting. We only know about 80% that it is a girl. Every time I go in she is very modest my other kids were like here I am so hopefully next time we will know for sure.

We are having a ........

Little Girl! We are so excited and we finally have an official due date August 28th.
We are very excited and especially glad that the baby is doing good. It was pretty scary there for a while but today to see the heart beat and know that our little woman is growing and developing right on schedule it brings a lot of comfort. Thank you to my wonderful sisters and all there love and support during the past 16 weeks. I couldnt have made it without you. I hope and pray that from here on out no more scares. Especially no more kidney stones good love like pregnacy sickness isnt mean enough throw that in there. No really I am grateful people have it a lot worse so I am thankful I can actually handle all that I just struggle with the problems with the baby more than anything. But for this week and hopefully the rest to come we are good. Thank you for all your love and support and prayers it really helped our family out alot.

Baby #4 here we come!

Yes it is true we are blessed to be having another little one in our home. It was a surprise and we couldnt be happier. We are still not 100% on the due date it is either august the 24th or september 1st. It has been a rough one but well worth it and we cant wait to find out what we are having. All the kids would love a little brother. Carter actually said Mom if it is a girl can we send it back and get a brother? I laughed so hard. He also said mom there are too many girls in this house I need a boy to play star wars and superheros with. I love my kids and no matter what we have we will be excited. We find out hopefully if the baby works with us on March 10th I will be 16 weeks that is when we found out what our kids were. So we will keep you updated!

random thoughts

I am having one of those days of feeling like you dont give enough thanks for the things that you have. In a moment things can be perfect and in a instant it can all be taken away. I am so grateful for my life, I have it better than I could ever imagined. I have an amazing husband and three beautiful, happy, healthy children. I am so grateful to be me and thank you to everyone that has been a part of my life even if it was as simple as a smile. I held my baby girl today in my arms and squeezed her so tight and told her how much I loved her and I didnt want to put her down and the best part is she held me close and gave me hugs and kisses and told me she loved me. What more could a mom want than a moment like that. It is great to be me! As the top of our blog states dont blink, truley in an instant the are all grown and life is passing you by. I dont want it to pass me by I want to be in it and live in the now and not worry about tommorow I want to see and be apart of every little thing. Sorry about the random thoughts it was just one of those days.

Sisters

A girl couldnt ask for better sisters! I love each of these women right here! I love that we all have such strong relationships with each other. We are there for each other rain or shine it is such a comfort to have them by my side!

Our very own pumpkins

okay so we decided to grow our own pumpkins in our garden this year! Wow what ever we did we did it right. We got 7 pumpkins all together, we had eight but someone took one it grew outside of our fence so what can you do! Anyways our kids loved watching them grow and when they picked them it was worth all the work! Well really what am I talking about I didnt really do anything but water here and there I cant take the credit on this one. Well if you have ever read the story book the berenstein bear with the giant pumpkin well I believe it was in our backyard it weighted over 100 pounds it was awesome it is the one Hallie is sitting on! We hope we have as good of luck next time!

Disneyland

my little family

I love this man, he is amazing I fall in love with

him all over again each and everyday he made

this such a fun trip for us all!

Our kids were so excited it was so fun seeing there faces light up

The cousins! We missed the Gardners and the Mccormacks

Amy, me, and Julie we missed you Lisa

It was such an enjoyable trip to California. We went because our oldest nephew had is farewell to go a mission to St. Petersberg Russia! Kevin we are so proud. I love him so much he is an amazing young man it is a privilage to be apart of his life. My kids we so fun the loved everything about being there. It is fun to be able to show them places of where I grew up and to get inn n out and thriftys ice cream! yummy yummy!

Happy 7th Anniversary

Happy 7th Anniversary!
Wow where has all the time gone? Do you ever look at your life and realize that things are above and beyond all your hopes and dreams? Well today is one of those days. I sat today and reflected back on my life and all that has happened. I remember being a little girl and dreaming about that man I would marry , our wedding, how many children we would have, a place of my own and just being big kids. Never in my wildest dreams would I have guessed that it would be this perfect. Sure we have had our ups and downs but through it all it has only made us stronger. I love you Ben you are my everything. I cherish all our moments together and all the memories that we have made. This past year we have grown so much together thank you for always being there to lean on I wouldnt want it any other way . I look forward to our many, many, many years together. I love you and thank you for making all my dreams come true.

This year we started a new traditon that was really fun we had a birthday party for just our little family. In the morning Ben made french toast and we sang Happy Birthday to us ! Because for our anniversary it isnt just for me and ben it is a celebration to us as a family! At night after me and Ben got home from dinner. Thank you Julie for watching the kids! We had cupcakes everyone had there own candles and blew them out wishing that we could always be a happy and eternal family. It was so much fun and our kids loved it!

Happy Anniversary I love my little family! They each bring something to the family that makes it so wonderful! Ben Thank you for asking me to be yours I would do it all over again! I love you!

Kids EVERWHERE !!!

So what do you get with 9 children eight and under? Oh Crazy CRAZY fun! So it was Lisa and Dans anniversary yesterday and so Dan called me and asked if I would watch there kids so he could take her away so of course I said yes. Well I figured if I had 4 out of the 12 twelve cousins that live in Utah here we might as well asked all the others too. So on it came all the 4 of the gardner kids, and 2 out of the three mccormack kids because Gavin is to little. Ethan didnt come because it was Amys birthday and Sarah is too little and he wanted to help his daddy get presents and the 5 beck kids didnt because well they live in California. Wow now you know the life history anyways! So we started out at 3 in the afternoon yesterday until 3 in the afternoon today. We had pizza, candy, popcorn,played an animal game, dancing game, olympic races, talent show, special movie time, they put on two plays, played outside, had a water fight, and played on the slip and slide. It was very fun and in the morning Ethan, Sarah, and Gavin joined us along with Amy, Lisa Mac, my mom and dad and Hillary. We had a birthday lunch for Amy. Happy Birthday Sis! It was a super fun day. I have to admit It was crazy at times and I called and told Ben if he was planning for 9 children he would have to find another wife. LOL!!!! Anyway it was a fun time to spend with all the kids and I hope that Lisa and Dan you had a wonderful Anniversary!

Lagoon

Here is another fun day for the Sandberg Clan. We decided take the kids to Lagoon for our stake Lagoon Day. The kids had a blast, it is so fun to see their little faces light up with excitement. It truely makes being a parent even better, which honestly I think is already the greatest. I love these little monkeys everyday is truely new and exciting. I love all there little sayings and laughs. I am loving enjoying the moment, it scares me because it is all going to fast. I cant believe that Carter is going to be six soon. In a blink of an eye, and it passes you bye that is why I am going to enjoy the here and now. I cant think of a better place I rather be than with these four other people in my life.

Dinosaur Park

I love this picture they were stunned by the moving dinosaurs. I couldnt get the girls to focus and look at me they were just in awe over the dinosaurs that looked so real. It was such a fun day, the kids had so much fun. Thanks Lisa, Britton, Bryson, Parker, Abby, Amy, Ethan and Sarah. We had a FABULOUS DAY!

Daddy's Soccer Game

Here Are the kids watching daddy at his indoor soccer playoff game. They love to go and watch Ben play.

I love this picture Ellie spotted her dad and was yelling "Hi Dad" almost the whole game it was so cute to see her so excited. Ben did such a great job his team took 1st place in the playoffs ! GO BEN!! My pictures of him didnt turn out because of the glass.

Pool Time

Ellies first time in the big pool. She was loving it. When I got her out of the tube she kept grabbing my hands trying to have me let go of her. She thinks she is big stuff. What a cute little woman. Carter and Hallie were here to having the time of there lifes I didnt get pictures of them but they were just as cute. Thanks to Uncle Buff and Aunt Cami we have a lot of fun during the summer soaking up the sun!

HAPPY 28TH BDAY BEN

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEN! Well I made sure Ben got the day off today so that we could take him out for the day to try to show him all our love and appreciation we have for him. We woke up bright and early I made omelets, then we headed for our very first time to the front runner and decided to spend the day in Salt Lake. The kids were so excited everything was so exciting to them if we would have only did that it would have pleased the kids. After the front runner we took tracks to the Gateway and went and bought movie tickets to see the new movie UP with matt, amy, ethan and Sarah. Ben and Ethan have the same birthday. Then we headed and picked up some lunch before the movie then to the movie. Which was fun but also had a very sad moment Carter figured out about death from the movie and was hystarical. Seriously it was the sadiest thing that I have ever seen. He kept saying that he didnt want me and Ben to ge older and die. He said that me and ben were really old and he was scared. We reassured him that we were really young and not to worry about it. It broke me and bens hearts. After the movie we shopped and let the kids run through the fountain at Gateway. Then we decided that we needed to go to dinner somewhere nice so we took tracks to Trolley Square. We ate a Rodeozio I probally spelt that wrong sorry. Ok so as we leaving rain starts pouring down and we have to walk a block and a half to get to the track station. No coats, or umbrella. So we put all three kids in the double stroller, luckily we had two baby blankets so we draped them over the stroller and went searching for and umbrella. We found a plain black, nothing special about it where at walmart you could get it for like 6 dollars oh try 37.00 thats what you get shen shopping at Trolley Square. So we headed out it was lighting and lets just say water was up to the curb it was horrible out. I cant even explain how bad it was out but we made it to the track station and made a memory that we will never forget. It was seriously the best day ever. Happy Birthday Ben we love you and are thankful for you and all that you do for our little family. You make every day a happy and bright day. I love every little thing about you. I love growing old with you. Thanks for such a fun Journey! I love you!! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo