Emma is six!!

Emma had her six year birthday. One of her presents from us was this American girl doll, Felicity. Brooklyn loves her and carries her around all day when Emma is gone. We had a birthday party at Fort Fun. We had pizza, cake, played games and jumped in a jumping castle. Everyone had a great time.

This is the kiddos on the bumper cars.

As you can tell Emma was quite excited about this present. One thing about Emma is that you never have to guess what she is feeling.

One of Emma's gifts was a 'swim to me puppy' that comes with these goggles. Brookie likes them better on her than the puppy.

This is the best I could do to get a smiling picture of Mia. She is a tough nut to crack so even though the lighting isn't good I thought I would post this pic anyway because I was excited that I got any reaction. She is already too cool for Kyle and usually looks away when he is trying to talk to her. Can't wait for the teenage years.

Six weeks old

It is Mia's six week birthday today. The weeks have flown by. She is growing fast and doing well. She has started to give a few smiles. You have to work hard for them though. I think I have heard one or two coos.

Brooklyn wants to do everything her big sisters do. She is all ready to go off to school here. Every morning she wants to follow them to the school bus. A few more years Brookie.

Ellie went to a mystery bithday party. She was given the character of a hobo so we put this costume together. We had fun ripping, cutting and drawing on clothes. Something that usually you are not allowed to do. I thought she looked great. The stick is a broken croquet mallet that Brooklyn smashed. I guess it isn't all bad when your kids break something.

Life with Baby

After Mia was born my mom came to help out for two weeks. At the end of th two weeks my dad, sister SaraLyn and her six week old baby Becca came to pick my mom up. This is SaraLyn snuggling the two babies. She declared this "heaven".

The cousins together. Cute together now, trouble together in a few years.

We went to a flower garden on the University campus after church. Brooklyn almost blends in with the flowers.

My big baby and little baby. Brooklyn all of a sudden looks huge. We have always called her 'baby' but now there is a new baby in town. It has taken us a little while to get used to calling her 'little girl' instead.

Big sister Ellie. What a great big sister she is. She is such a help to me and so sweet to her sisters.

Baby Mia

She's finally here! Baby Mia Grace Lambert was born on August 11th at 7:13 pm weighing in at 7 lbs. 12 oz. and measuring 20 inches long. I went into the hospital at 9:30 in the morning. By the time they did all the paperwork and finally got me hooked up to an IV (it took five tries and three nurses to finally find a vein that worked) I was able to get the pitocin started at 1:00 and my water broken at 2:00.

The epidural was at 5:00, pushing at 7:00 and baby at 7:13. All went smoothly and Mia is beautiful and healthy.

Mom and baby right after the birth.

Proud Daddy!

All the sisters meeting the newest addition for the first time. They were all very excited and fought over who could hold her.

Brooklyn loves baby Mia and wants to do everything she does from laying on a blanket to making smacking noises when she eats.

The hospital I was at offered a VIP package. We decided that since this is our last baby we might as well splurge. Included in the package was a huge labor and delivery room with this view,

A flower arrangement,

A gournet dinner (I had filet mingon),

A massage (no pictures of that), and a limo ride home.

The girls rode with us in the limo and as she was drinking sprite from a Champaigne flute Emma declared "This hospital rocks!"

Mia at three days old. Grandma is now here to help our for a few weeks and we are all getting used to the new arrival. We are grateful she is here healthy and wonderful.

Summer Fun

This past month has been alot of fun. We took a trip up to Canada to visit cousins. A day before we arrived my baby sister had her first baby, Rebecca. I was interested to see how Brooklyn would react to a baby as we will be having our own in two weeks. She absolutely loved her and wanted to hold her constantly. This made me feel relieved. She will probably drive me crazy wanting to hold the baby all the time but it is better than being jealous and aggressive.


We rented an Astro jump for a day. The kids played on it for six hours straight, only stopping for lunch.


Uncle Josh playing with the babies. All the kids love him. (The grown-ups do too because he will entertain the kids)


We had a sleepover in Grandma's backyard. Most of the kids stayed in the tent all night. (Quite a success).


Matt and Lily brought over their Wii. I think they are throwing paper balls at the teacher in this picture.

My mom's sister, Aunt MarJane and her husband, Uncle Greg were able to come spend a few days with us on their way home to California from a trip to B.C. It was great to see them as I love spending time with them. Uncle Greg is facinating all the kids with a mixed up story of Cinderella.

Cute Mackinley sharing her popsicle with Brooky.

Aunt Traci's dad takes boat tours down the Milk River and was kind enough to take us. This is Traci, Taylor and Emma. We saw cows, an owl, river sparrows in their nests on the cliffs and a family of Canadian Geese.

The tour ends at Writing on Stone where there are sandstone formations called Hoodoos that you can climb all over. This is Ellie on top of one. The kids loved exploring and climbing the hoodoos.

Crazy hair Brooklyn at the spray park.

All the grandkids outside of Grandma's house. There are eleven, all under the age of nine. It gets pretty crazy when they are all together.

After our great trip to Canada, my brother Josh, his wife Traci and their three kids drove down to Colorado with us. We had a great time showing them around our neck of the woods. This is a picture of Ellie in the Children's museum in Denver. After the museum we went to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

The Capital building in Denver.

Fun at a lake in Windsor.

We had a great July with all the cousins and will miss them terribly. Now we just have to get ready for our family addition in a couple of weeks.

Girls, girls and more girls

Well, it's official. The Lamberts only make girls. Yes, we found out that we will be having our fourth girl. If anyone has any good names let us know because we are out of ideas. We are excited but I am bracing myself for more hair bows, High School Musical, boy drama and weddings. Of course it also means more sugar and spice and everything nice.

Emma is learning to ride her bike without training wheels. This is her third time out for a lesson with dad.