B Bugs Turn

Well today it was B-Bugs turn to go to her school and meet her teachers. 

She was so excited. 

We got there a few minutes early so we sat in the car. 

B wanted me to put some makeup on her, so I put a little eye shadow on. 

 We went in and met her teacher, who happened to be Kael's teacher last year, so we were pretty familiar with the routine. 

 Briea loved her classroom. She already made friends and was having a blast with all the toys. 

She cried when we had to leave. 

Hopefully she will be that excited when she starts on Tuesday. 

She asked to have a picture taken by her cubby. 

I love how happy and excited she looks in this bottom picture. 

I hope B has an Amazing year in Pre-K!

First Day of School

Well today was the official first day of school. 

Cullan and Kael are off on another adventure as a Kindergartner and a 1st Grader.

 My 1st grader.

 My Kindergartner

 Cullan waiting to meet his teacher and go to class. 

 Poor Kael's allergies flared up this morning and so the sun was bothering his eyes. 

 Lining up to go into the building. 

Look at all those Kindergartners.

 This is Cullan's teacher in the pink and brown dress. I have not met her yet, but I have heard great things.

 On their way to Ms. H's class.

 First Rug time with Ms. B. 

Getting all the classroom rules.

unbelievable.

I can't believe this. 

Monday my husband goes back to school. 

Monday...He goes back to school FOR HIS LAST YEAR OF GRAD SCHOOL!

I can not believe we are here, at this point. 

I don't know how excited Garran is, but I am over the moon. 

We have been in school our entire married life. 

I feel like we are actually growing up. 

Yes I know we have 4 kids and are both in our 30's but being in school keeps you in a certain state. 

I am praying harder than ever that the job market will be in a better place soon and that we will have some sort of employment.

oh what a day!

what a day. 

it started with taking Kael to meet his kindergarten teacher. 

it was great. 

then on the way home i stop to get gas and my card is declined. 

long story short. 

some one stole our bank info and the bank had frozen our accounts. 

sigh. 

then i come home from YW to lights and sirens in front of our neighborhood and house. 

garran greets me in the garage saying he had to call 911. 

i start to get a little nervous to say the least. 

so little boys in our neighborhood literally set our backyard on fire. 

this is really right out side our back door. 

with how dry it has been we are so lucky that it was not worse. 

good thing Garran saw it when he did and called 911.

Here is a video of the fire.

meet and greet!

does this picture look familiar?

it should. 

i have one just like it of Cullan with this lady last year. 

yep, Kael got Cullan's kindergarten teacher and we could not be happier. 

I am so excited. 

So is Kael. 

The first day of school is right around the corner and he is so excited. 

Welcome to Kindergarten KB!

what i hear on any given day

I'm still laying in bed since half of my kids are still asleep and I am not yet ready to start my day when Cullan comes into my room with a can of silly string and states his case for why I should let him use it to wake up his brother.....time to get up I do believe!!

Quote from Kael: "when ever Cullan gets the creeps I just turn on the beaver show and it cures him. The creeps go away! So if you get scared, just let me know and I'll turn on the beaver show!!"

so the other day, Kael went next door to our neighbors house to see if their little girl could play. (Sidenote: Their first language is Spanish and that is what the usually speak) Kael came running back home a few minutes later and said to Garran Cochran Gillespie, "Dad, Dad, I can understand Spanish. J's mom told me she was sleeping and could not come out to play and I could understand her!!!" Yep. She said it in English, but Kael is now convinced he knows spanish!!!

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the following comments all took place when we took the kids to get their teeth checked for school:

Kael to the Hygentist: So what do you do around here?

Kael after gagging a little during the cleaning: Sorry sometimes my brother and I get hair balls. 

Cullan to the dentist while he was looking at the x-ray: Um ya you need to make that bigger so we can get a good look at that. 

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"That's my bubble sound!" - Briea after passing gas.

"Your Fired!!"- Briea yells at the boys when she gets mad at them

Briea this morning coming out of the bathroom: Mom I was trying to go to the bathroom but my butt was being rude!"

Briea to me: Mom you are the bestest but Kael is the meanest!!

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story posted by a lady we go to church with on her Facebook page. The little boy she is referring to is Kael.... 

Brianna teaches Sunday school to the 4 and 5 year olds. She was teaching the lesson about the Good Samaritan, when one of them said, " I don't like the Samericans, and my Mom and Dad don't like the Samericans either" Brianna said, " well, this is a good Samaritin, so you can like him". The little boy insisted that they were called Samericans, and they were bad for walking past the injured man on the side of the road. You gotta love those precious little kids :) They say the funniest things sometimes:)

randoms from my phone

i take a lot of pictures with my phone so here is kind of a picture dump of just random shots I have taken.

 How in the world does she sleep like this?

 ayla being tough

 ole

 not sure what she was doing 

 how cute are they?

 foreman ayla

 ayla trying to ride on her brothers toys.

 Kael being silly, sticking out his belly.

I don't know what this means, but he wanted me to take a picture of it!

vacuum 1 - ayla 0

ayla had a run in with the vacuum. 

guess who won.

poor girl. 

2nd try

Second scope done!!

and the best part is... I didn't wake up in the middle of my procedure.

My anesthiologist had the same name as me and it was spelled the same. 

Let me just say you can never go wrong with a Meghan with an H. 

Thats my theory anyway. 

 here I am post procedure. 

you can tell by my awesome hospital hair. 

on top of not waking up the 2nd scope looked much better and all is well. 

woo hoo!!

any time we go into chicago, garran always wants to go to china town and try a new place. he is in love with dumplings. i have to admit they are pretty good. We tried a few different things and brought most of it home with us. It is funny that my doctors appointments turn out to be our dates, but that is just how it seems to go!

I will take what I can get... especially since my beloved goes back to school next week, and I go back to never seeing him. 

Girls Camp.

I am behind on posting. My life has been so insanely busy that blogging has just kept falling down on my list of things to get done. 

so here are some catch up posts. 

A while ago I got to spend a couple days at girls camp with the Young Women from church. 

I was sad that I could not be there longer but enjoyed the time that I was there!!

Here are the amazing girls I get to work with each week. They are a lot of fun and I have really grown to love spending time with them each Sunday!!

They all look pretty darn cute for having been camping all week. 

 They young women having fun. 

Trust stuff!!

 all of the young women at camp built this temple. 

pretty impressive i thought!!

Here is Tori and myself. 

She was our only first year camper but she did amazing!!

So glad she was able to go and meet lots of people and get to know the other girls. 

So glad I was able to spend a couple days at camp with our girls. Had such  great time!

Thanks JCPennys!!

We took advantage of the JC Pennys free hair cuts to kids K-6!

this was before 

 this was after!

both looking very handsome and ready for school!!

new look.

well I took Cullan in for his annual pre-school year eye exam. 

apparently this kid can not see. 

he really had not complained all that much about his eyes, so I was surprised when they said how bad his eyes were. 

So they lady helping us was really nice. She brought out almost every frame imaginable and let Cullan try them all on. We narrowed it down to 5, then 3 and this was his final choice. 

I think he looks very handsome in them.....

and a little to old for my liking.

Guess I have to give up on him staying little forever!

So in about three weeks, he will be able to see and look very stylish!!

Grandpas

this past week, Ayla made it no secret that she loves her grandpa. 

she would wander over to him for a snuggle all throughout the week. 

i love this first one.....

 but this one is my absolute favorite!

Grandpas are Great!!

(even as I am typing now, Ayla is next to me pointing at the picture saying "Gam pa, Gam pa")

Wedding Weekend.

This is going to be a long one. Hope you are comfy. 

We traveled to Iowa to be with Garran's family while Uncle Sam and Ashley got married. 

When we all get together it is no small feat. 

We had roughly 30 people in my in-laws house, the majority being kids. 

Surprisingly things went pretty smoothly for the most part. 

So here they are at their reception. 

The Happy Couple!!

Sam and Ashley

(they did a reverse reception and had it on Friday and got married Saturday!)

they are so cute and so fun together.

sam loves star wars, so Ashley made these for the two of them. Aren't they cute?

It was a pretty laid back reception. It was decorated very nicely and was by the river. It was fun to catch up with old Iowa friends and visit with everyone. 

My favorite part was watching all the cousins interact. They don't get to see each other that often so it is fun to watch them all play together. 

So here goes a ton of pictures of all the kids!!

Blaine

 Haley and Katie

 Briea

 Gillespie (mom-dad & kids) minus Silara.

 The B Girls

Briea and Brina

 The oldest Grandchild.

Tessa

 Garran with his Dad

 Britt and Sam

 Jadelyn...

 I love that  you can see all her personality in this picture. She is a cutie.

 Miss. Piper

 Shaleigh

 Julia

 My Mother in Law

Tobie

Garran and Ayla

The Groom

 and of Course...

i had to get one of the lovely Bride!!

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The next day was the big day!!

August 4th 2012

Nauvoo Illinois

Everyone was so excited. 

It even rained...

which i hear is good luck. 

I did not get as many pictures as I would have liked due to weather and having kids running around. 

But I still got a few cute ones.

 Uncle Dennis and Haley. 

I am not sure what is going on, but I love this picture.

 The Happy Couple just minutes after getting married. 

Look how happy everyone was to see them!

 Ashley, Sam and the Gillespie's

 Ashley, Sam, her Mom and Step Dad.

 Ashley, Sam, Dad and Step Mom

 The Gillespie Siblings. 

minus Silara

Congrats Sam and Ashley.

We could not be happier for you two!!

We wish you much happiness and love!