Now that was worth it!!

Our family is officially signed,SEALED and delivered! March 12th was a great day! The weather was wonderful. The temple was wonderful and being there with all our family and friends was WONDERFUL!!! I wish I had pictures to post and we will do it soon, but I think our family could all agree to me saying that...NOW THAT WAS WORTH IT!!!

Mattea is 5!

What a face!
Her new dress
Christmas time 2010
Her at 1 year old

March 6th at 11:38p Mattea Hazel Wahl turns 5. Wow! My water broke early that morning, and so we thought that baby #5 would means that things would move right along, but nope! She decided to hang out a little longer. With the attitude that I could do this without any drugs, which I did, she was born at a healthy 8lbs. 8oz. Her sisters and brother were so excited for her to join our family. She brings so much joy and happiness to our lives. She has plenty of one liners... and we sometimes question if she really is only just 5. Daddy calls her angel princess, Bella calls her Matteazel, Cecilia calls her tiny, but we mostly love that we can call her ours.
Happy Birthday to Mattea Hazel Wahl!

14 years...

I thought about blogging about our anniversary

but I thought these songs would sum up the last 14 years.

I want to be a missionary now...

Elders Cunha and Aaron have been here in the valley for a while and our family just loves them. They came over the other night and taught us about the Armor of God. They are so fun and the kids just loved what they did. They made the armor and also let the kids throw darts at them...not real darts, they were the Styrofoam type.(We're not that violent) They all got to try on the armor and here is the pictures.
1. Elder Aaron
2.Luke being Luke
3.MAttea holding to the faith
4.Cecilia
5.Fierce Frankie

Note to Butterscotch- by Mattea

Here's a note that Mattea wrote to our dog that died:
I miss you Butterscotch
I Will always love you.
I hope you have a better place.
I hope that you will be friends with Jaxon( my mom and aunt's dog that died in August), and that you can make friends with other dogs.
I miss you.
Love, Mattea

Steak

I guess this should be obvious since Louie is, after all, a meat cutter, but the kids are obsessed with steak. We made out a meal plan and once a week the kids get to choose for their night a meal that they like. ( For those of you that don't know they have one day a week they have as their day and they get to eat off the blue plate. ) Well, every week on of them, if not more wants steak for their dinner. They just love steak. Louie think this is great of course and gets things at work that he knows will be good. I had to tell them that only one person that can choose steak for their dinner per week. ( I have also had to do this for mac and cheese as well, or that would be every night.) So tonight we have steak. Louie loves to season and marinate and we all just sit back, chew and enjoy. I guess I should share a recipe but he just finds different seasonings and herbs that he likes and mixes them together and voila! tender meat! I haven't made up the menu for next week, but it might just have steak on it!

Happy #11 to Cecilia!

Happy Birthday to Cecilia Marianna!She was a born at 10:25 a. She had SOOOO much hair. When I was pregnant with her I always had heartburn! (They say that when that happens your baby will have hair). She was 5 days early and weighed 9 lbs. 6 oz.She came out SCREAMING! She was never happy to tak ea picture, but when she decided something, you better be ready. She didn't crawl until she was 9 months old. I think she didn't see the point, her older sister just got her everything. Fun story about Cecilia. When she was maybe a year, we decided to go somewhere and we took Bella and Cecilia. We gave them each some chocolate milk to drink for the car ride. Cecilia immediately drank hers in record time, threw her cup on the ground of the car, turned to Bella and said(while waving her hand back and forth) "Bella, gimme gimme". The little stinker was demanding Bella give her her milk. So what does Bella do...GIVES IT TO HER!! I told Bella she didn't have to, but Bella knew that Cecilia wanted it and so she made her sister happy.Cecilia a great person. We are so grateful that God gave her to us. She is very loving and thoughtful. She has a very tender heart and is willing to take charge. We love you!