I feel like I take plenty of photos that illustrate our everyday life that someday my kids will look through and appreciate our little life and I will appreciate all the headaches they caused me. ha! But really maybe they will and maybe they won’t but I love our days spent together despite my sarcasm in the last sentence. Nobody told me that motherhood would be so hard. No one really tells you anything. It’s like you leave the hospital with a baby and there you go… But I don’t think anyone really tells you how challenging because, for the most part, the munchkins make up for it with all the happy, gushy I-am-so-grateful-to-be-your-mommy moments. I love those times. It really does help me forget earlier that day when I wanted to pull my hair out.
My bestie from ages ago took our family pictures. And before I just went on a rant about being a mom I was talking about pictures. How I love our everyday photos, they are my favorite kind of pics, but I wanted someone else to capture us together. You know, in a totally unrealistic running around in a field… only stopping to hug and laugh kind of way. Because these pictures are great too. Sure it looks like a pic you take out of a frame you just bought but, man, I love it. How would I even capture that squeeze from Avery or Collins dimple and how he’s gazing down at me like we had just met yet deeper like we’ve been together for ten years? How did this happen? We look like such a big family to me. It’s weird how beyond the outfits and curled hair this picture captures how I feel about these munkchins and my man. Surrounded by chaos yet we are holding onto each other since that’s all that matters in the first place.
And just when I think life couldn’t get more crazy…
I’M PREGNANT!!
15 weeks preggo to be exact!
xo, Lizzy
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Congratulations!
Lovely pictures
congratulations! that’s so awesome. $5 says it’s another girl.
ha! I would die.
Congratulations to you and your family!
Congratulations! And those photos are beautiful.
oh my GOODNESS, you got me! what a beautiful and honest post (with such a good surprise ending.) huge congrats to you guys!
OMGOOOOSHHHH! Congrats Liz!!!! I couldn’t be happier for you & your whole fam, you guys are just too cute, can’t wait to see another beautiful baby, yours are so cute ;] xoxo
Ohh, I was so surprised reading it, and I just had a happy feeling instantly. Hope it is a boy for this time!
god bless you and your super sweet family, i love to read your blog and your kiddos are amazing 
Congratulations!!!
Congratulations! Love the pics!
Congrats!
Congrats!! I knew that “tired” comment in an early blog post was a hint!!
Oh my what awesome news…I hope it’s a boy, would be cool, but as long as he/she is healthy that is all that counts…♥
First of all, that photo is absolutely divine. It’s perfect. And the way Collin is looking at you is priceless. What sweet girls and a sweet family. And of course, congratulations!!!
Congratulations!! You have such a beautiful family…such a blessing!
Totally was not expecting the end! Huge congrats!!
Yes, maybe this one will be a boy. That would totally change your family! LOL
So exciting! Are you waiting to find out the sex or do you “peek” early? You make a darling preggo, I remember how cute you were at Spark! #2. I will pray for an easy pregnancy and a soft landing
How did you tell the girls? Did they freak out?!
oh my God! Liz you and your family are full of grace!
ANd…; I guessed a little while ago that you were pregnant because you said all you wanted was to sleep all the time!! got that right hehehe!
Congratulations! I believe number 4 will be a boy
how exciting!! I agree with Dunia, #4 will be your baby boy! either way it’s a blessing, congrats to all of you, you look fab, hope you’re feeling great too!
Yes, I think it’s a boy, too!
Congrats !!!! Hope you have a boy
i love these pictures! congrats!
super exciting news! congrats. hope its a boy
I knew it! Something about one of your pictures this week…I said to my little ole self..that Dear Lizzie is pregnant!!! So excited and happy for your little family! Congratulations!! You and Collin make such pretty little girls but I do hope Collin gets his boy! (well besides the dog) Heehee!!
I knew it as soon as I saw the title to your post
Congratulations, that is wonderful news!I have 5, and even though it can be crazy…it is ever so much fun 
Congratulations to you and your family! Can’t wait for some baby bump photos and to see the little cutie!
congratulations your family is the sweetest !!
god bless !!
xoxxo
Congrat that is so very exciting for your family !
~L~
Congrats! I’m so excited for you and your little family! You guys make the cutest little babes!
Oh my gosh! That is wonderful! I, too, am a mom of 4 (girl-15, boy-13, and 2 boys-10); it is really a crazy ride, but one I am SOOOO glad I’m taking. Very very happy for you and your beautiful family! And P.S. The way you did your post with the announcement at the end… brilliant!
OK you just made me cry, massive congrats girl, i hope you get your boy xox
Thats awesome. I am so excited for your growing family. Congrats
What a blessing! Congratulations to all of you!
Congratulations!!!!!
OMG!!! Lizzy that’s so fantastic…..this one has to be a little Collin – RIGHT?!
Congrats!! This might sound weird but I had a feeling that would be announced soon! Here’s to praying for a boy but always cherishing another girl!!
Congrats! This is such great news! Maybe a boy this time.. but healthy is key! Take care.
I knew it!
Congrats! Happy and excited for you guys!
Oh goodness, you would not die if it was another girl. You would be just fine.
You know I’m thrilled for your precious family.xo
Congratulations to you & your family!
Congratulations!!!! I have 4 boys….4 is a wonderful crazy number to have!
Congrats – boy or girl I know your new baby will be loved and such a blessing for your family.
What a sweet post! Congratulations!!!! So happy for you!
I knew it when I saw your Facebook post! Congratulations!!!!!
I hope Collin gets a little boy(plus little boys are so sweet to their mothers;) but you
guys do make adorable little girls. I’m so excited for y’all!
Aw congratulations! x
Wow that is awesome news. I am a mum to 4 boys and love every moment (even the less nice ones!) BIG congrats!
congrats!!!
Congratulations!!!!
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Awww, so happy for you!
congratulations to you and your husband!!!! your girls must be excited!!!!
best
Big congratulations!! Xoxo
Mazal Tov girl!!!!!!!!!
I just saw this on Collin’s facebook page! CONGRATULATIONS! Can’t wait to get the blow by blow!
omg! congrats! kinda got this feeling from what you’ve written lately…best wishes
Super happy congratulations!!
oh my, CONGRATULATIONS!!
Your family is just lovely <3
congrats… Our little ones will only be a month or so apart! Hope your feeling ok.
Oh hooray!!!! Congrats, congrats Liz!!
eeek! congratulations!
so happy for you!!!!! XO.
Congratulations! You have the cutest family!
Congratulations!! What a wonderful blessing this new munchkin will be!!
This is the cutest announcement I’ve ever read! I wish you and your family all the best
Congrats!!!!! I hope you are feeling well!
Such exciting news! Congratulations to you and your family!
HA I am not surprised at all!! Actually I thought you were going to say that when I saw the headline – awhile back you said you wanted to sleep all the time!!!
I got a boy after my girls so maybe a boy this time????? However, my sister in law had to try 5 times to get a boy….. and my cousin ended up with 7 girls so you never know!
Your girls are gorgeous and I wish you a healthy and happy pregnancy!
Looking forward to all the pics!
Such wonderful news. Congratulations to you and your family. May God Bless.
Congrats!!!! Very happy for you!
AW YAY! So wonderful!
Congratulations Lizzie!! what date are you due……I am 21 weeks pregnant with my 7th, how exciting, A little secret gave it away……so happy for you!!
Congratulations! ;D
I knew it! I had a little feeling. There was a post and/or a picture a little while ago and I was wondering!! Glad I was right. A BIG congrats to you & your family.
How exciting! Congratulations!
Wow! Congratulations!!
Congratulations!
Pictures are great! Congratulations, and God’s blessing to your entire family, including your new love. All the best to you.
I read your blog faithfully and you have an awesome family so CONGRATS on making it even more “awesomer”!
I knew it!!! From your blog title….congratulations! What a lucky little baby boy or girl will be, to join such a loving family!
Seriously, didn’t think your family could get any cuter!! One more Kartchner, cuteness overload!!!!
Congrats
Congratulations!! So very exciting for you and your beautiful family!
Congrats to you and your entire family! Lovely pics!
SUPER EXCITED FOR YOU!! Love! Love! Love!!
I knew it! I had a feeling a couple of months ago when I saw some pics of you on here…you just had that glowing, gorgeous look! Congratulations to you all
How wonderful! So happy for you and your family
Congratulations!!!!!!!
heehe! Love the post and the pictures! Congratulations again Liz! I hope you are feeling better and will pray for an easy pregnancy and a bright eyed bushy-tailed healthy baby!
You look great!!
Yay!!!! Great news!!! Congratulations!!!
So excited about your news! I have 4 children too! Would have had more if I could! They are what life is about! You and Colin are an amazing couple, raising lovely girls. Your posts are an inspiration to so many of us…for me its a little spot of sunshine in my day! I even show your posts to my 14 year old daughter…We love your fashion sense, the snipets of your life you share… and i told her, someday, when you choose a spouse, you should choose like LIzzy chose…her best friend, who has deep faith and great humor! your life will be filled with love, laughter and joy! praying for a lovely pregnancy, a healthy baby and more posts about your magical life!
Woohoo! Congrats! I can’t wait to see another cute baby face!
Hey, me too!! Well, 16 weeks for me! CONGRATS!! I’m so happy for you! I’ve read your blog since Avery was little and have loved watching your sweet family grow!! Looking forward to following along on this one as well!
Take care,
Destiny
I literally squeled! I’m so so happy for you guys!
I knew it!
CONGRATULATIONS to you and your amazingly darling family! Time to think blue!
Have never posted to your blog before, but literally am in tears. How wonderful. I am overwhelmed with happiness for your family.
What great news! Congratulations to you and your sweet family
–Anna
Congratulations!! You and I will be having babies at the same time
Awwww Congrats!!!!
Congratulations! You guys sure make beautiful children! Can’t wait to find out what you are having!
Congratulations! I just love your blog. You have such a beautiful family!!! I am so excited for you and hope to one day be a mother like you!
Congratulations to you and your beautiful family!! You are such a good role model and I am so addicted to your amazing blog
HUGE congrats!!!!!!
No wonder you’ve been so tired lately! At least…that’s what I’ve gathered from your recent posts.
Congratulations to you! I hope you are through the “exhausted/sick” phase and onto the happy. All the best to you.
Girl, I KNEW IT! lol I have been reading your blog for a loooong time now & all that “sleepiness” & naps you were posting about were the same things you posted about before your other babes!
Congrats Kartchner family!!!!
I knew it! I felt bad for thinking you might be pregnant incase you weren’t
congrats!! You two make the cutest babies!!!
Congratulatons, Elizabeth! This is just so great!!! Take care!
YAY! Congrats you guys!
YAY!!! CONGRATS!!! Yep, add me to the list of those thinking this is a little boy
OH, I’m sooooo happy for you all!!!!! Hope you are feeling well!! Congratulations
ha…ha…ha…really nice pictures and what a happy ending. Congrats and take care! xx
congratulations liz,happy day for you and happy life for your family!!
Congratulations to you all, I think you are a beautiful family!! Being a parent is the hardest job there is, there are times when you really do want to rip your hair out and then there are the beautiful moments. I think you both are fantastic parents and it is that honesty is makes it work, we all do the best we can, the real world is not like the magazines or the movies, some days are CRAP!
I wish you many blessings for the new addition, they are being born into a wonderful loving family.
Muchas felicidades!!! Te deso un maravilloso embarazo.
When I read the title, that was my first thought! Congratulations!!!!! I wish you a pleasant pregnancy and a healthy baby. And of course our world would like to have a forth of those beautiful and lively Kartchner-Girls, I think. BTW, 14th week here, we feel blessed.
Congratulations!
Congratulations Lizzy!! Kiss Raquel.
Congratulations sooooooooo happy happy for you
. Wish you and your family
all the BEST
Awww, congrats!! I love reading about your gorgeous family – thanks for sharing your life with us!
I think you are crazy
but if I was a bit younger (as you are) I would probably have a 4th baby too. Congratulations from the bottom of my heart, it is sure going to be wonderful.
Congats an enjoy!
Congratulations!!!
Congratulations! I know what you mean about motherhood being a mix of wanting to pull you hair out and having those wonderful moments when you just connect with your children. I have two boys (ages 8 and 5) and I have no idea how you do it with three (and soon to be four!) Thank you for all the wonderful inspiration~ I originally came to you blog through the crafting world but love your posts about motherhood and life in general.
WOW!!! C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S !!!!!!! So happy for you! Your family is beautiful and so are you! All the best for this new bundle of joy!! Maybe it will be a boy……
Congrats! So happy for you. Hope it is a boy this time. XOXO
congrats to you guys!!!!
I’ve had a feeling about this for a little while! Congratulations to you and your darling family!
I’m so happy for you and yours!
Congratulations to you all!!! Simply beautiful pictures!!!
Congratulations and all the best for you and your lovely family:-)
congrats, so happy for your growing family. I wish you and your baby health and happiness.
Congratulations! Beautiful post and photos. Children are such a blessing! They make you laugh and cry all at the same time.
Wow! Congratulations!
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Hoping (for Colin) that it’s a boy
All the best for you and your family!
PS: I’m 17 weeks now with our first one and soooooo excited.
Yay! I’m so happy for you! Is it bad that I hope you have a boy so I can see some fantabulous boy layouts???
Your post touched my heart ~The love in your family is palpable! Congratulations to you and your family
Congratulations!! You are such an inspiration for me! I only have one and I feel like my life is crazy and out of control, then I look at you with 3 (soon 4 + a puppy!!) and how amazing your life looks and all the things that you manage to do and I feel inspired by it.
Congrats Liz!! you are amazing
Congrats!!!! Great news!
thanks for sharing such a great new! congratulation!!! it is gonna be another beautiful chapter in your life.Take good care of yourself. SMILE.
Wow!!! What a wonderful surprise!!! Congratulations!!! Another gorgeous baby on the way! You have such a beautiful family! God bless you all!!! Hugs!
Congratulations!!! We have 3 girls, then our son was our 4th (and last, lol). I love my girls, but was so happy to find out we were having a boy! Best to you and your beautiful family!
PS…
Those pics are great!
love the pictures! congratulations!
Without even reading the title, I knew that was coming. I think it was the roller coaster talk about being a mommy! The best darn job in the world! Congrats I hope it’s a boy!
Hi Elizabeth ! Been a follower for a long time….gorgeous pictures, gorgeous blog and family. Big congrats! Xx merav
Congratulations!!!!
Lovely pictures!!!
Congratulations!!!! So, so happy for you guys!!!
Congratulation! I almost alread guessed, as I saw the pictures
Great great great!!!
Big smile on my face. I live in the UK and over the years I pop in and out of your blog and have loved to follow you and your family’s stories – happy and sad. None makes me more happy than when you announce another “little munchkin” is on the way. Good luck and best wishes to you all.
I just KNEW it! Congratulations!! Welcome to the Mommy of 4 Club!!!
Congratulations! Can’t wait to see many, many more photos.
So happy for your, for Colin and for the girls !!!!!
Congratulations!!! Your family is adorable and I can’t wait to see another cute addition
) I wish you all the best!
Congrats!!! Beautiful photos of your sweet family too!
Congrats! I’ve had my fourth on august.This is the best!
I am so happy for you & your husband. Congrats and blessings for the entire family.
congrats! I don’t know you but I love your blog. I happen to have 3 kids very close to your 3 kids ages and am 15 weeks along too. I’ve been waiting for you to make an announcement:) the only difference is I have 2 boys and a girl. Maybe you’ll get a boy this time. How fun! I know of the chaos, but it is so rewarding.
Congratulations, I love how you announced it never expected you to say that. So when I read it I had goose bumps.
So happy for your family!
So exciting! Congratulations!
Congrats!!!
OMG EXCITED…that is wonderful news. I love pregnant cuteness, love the babies. So excited to see you go this journey! Congradulations!
Congratulations!! So happy for you!
Congratulations to you and your family! I wish nothing but the healthiest of babies for you.
I just brought home my own tiny bundle. My 3rd boy was born just after Halloween. Sweet joy.
congratulations! my third kid,i’m waiting now, will be of the same age as your fourth (well my Arthur is the same age as Quincy,my Kattie is the same age as Lola).
Congrats, Liz! Seems like you just had Avery and you were asking for name ideas!
WOW! Congrats!! A big family is such a blessing! What gorgeous pics.
I wonder if you are hoping for a boy this time? (wink)
What wonderful news. Congratulations to you and all the family
Lovely pictures by the way
Congrats!!
Yay Liz!!!! Congratulations!!! I am so happy for you and your family!!
Out of a frame! Sure but how good is to run around and been photographed! Only time you can be you without worrying about the posing or the timer in the camera!
So happy for your news!!! A baby is always a blessing! Do you know is just one, for a moment I imagine twins! How cute that would be! Anyway, one or two, boy or girl, I wish you is healthy! Have a happy pregnancy!
Xoxoxooxox
I knew from the headline
Congratulations Liz and all the best for you and your family! What happy news!!
Congratulations that’s awesome!!
Congratulations and thank you so much for sharing with us your exciting news! Wishing you a happy and healthy pregnancy. Photos are so beautiful…
Congrats to #4!!!
Massive congratulations to you and your beautiful family! Enjoy it cos the time is just gonna fly by, I’m only a week or so away from the arrival of number 2, and it feels like I only just found out (mind you the pregnant waddle and desperate need for sleep tell me otherwise). Super excited for you.
Congratulations
Really happy for you 
Congrats!!! Your girls are adorable and I love it when I hear that a baby is going to be blessed with a wonderful family! Best wishes for a healthy, happy baby!
KNEW IT! congrats!
here*s to a healthy pregnancy and healthy baby!
xoxo…
~p
Congratulations!!!
so beautiful. congrats!
congratulations! I’m pretty excited for you
and lovely lovely family portraits 
Wow!!! Are you freaking out yet!!! What exciting news!! Congrats to you, Colin and the girls… Woohoo
Congratulations Liz! I have four girls and a little boy…I hope you have a safe and enjoyable pregnancy..Thinking of you from Aus xx
Congrats to you and yours!!! How lovely to read such wonderful news. What is more surprising is finding out that you are as pregnant as I am! My first is the same age as your third=) Now April is going to be real fun! Hope the first trimester blues have left you! Enjoy the journey ahead!
Wow, these are wonderful news, Lizzy! Congratulations. Can’t be happier for you.
Congratulations!
I have four daughters. You too will be the same!
Congratulations! Here’s to a happy and healthy little one.
Congratulations! You have such a beautiful family and now there’s another little one on the way
kiss kiss
Congratulations!!!! What great news for your adorable family!!! I”m sure your girls are so excited!
We just had our 4th a few weeks ago and its awesome! Totally nonstop, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world! I’m guessing boy! 
AWESOME! AWESOME! AWESOME! Shame on me! Can’t believe I missed this news! Congratulations!!