Happy Birthday Baby Girl!

I guess she is hardly a baby anymore but I call all of my girls "baby girl"!

Yay for Gracie, she is 3 today. Unfortunately she has been fighting off illness all week and is not quite her usual self :( So what does three mean to Gracie? It means she is potty trained. She is now a BIG sister. She can play outside with Letty and mom doesn't have to be out there the whole time. She says funny things like calling me a "little fella" and mixing up her v's and b's so she sounds Latin. She also likes to say "you don't have to tell me a hundred, hundred times"...after you've asked her twice. She loves playing with little things like strawberry shortcake, and her miniature sleeping beauty set. She loves yogurt and rice. She is excited to be big like Letty so she can go to school and dance class. She loves to play games and pretend and to water color. And she loves her sisters! Our little Gracie lights up our lives. She is an irresistible bundle of joy. We love you babe, and wish you a wonderful year of being 3!

Another year...

Happy Birthday to T-man! I have been so behind on posting everything but didn't want to leave out a tribute to the MAN in our lives. His girls adore him, all of them :) Where would we be without you T? Our lives are richer and so incredibly blessed because you are in them. We love you!!

Time

Where does the time go? Baby girl is just about 2 months old, yikes it's gone by so fast. I decided to put some December and January pictures together that represents what we've been doing. Christmas was in Idaho this year and the girls had tons of fun with their cousins. Baby gets to grow up with her cousin who is just three weeks older. I don't have the pictures to show you of the other two second cousins that were born, so there are four total within one month of each other. We celebrated T-mans b-day, yay! We enjoyed a trip to the Crayola factory a week ago, it was a lot of hands on fun. We have also had lots of snow. The girls and T-man built a snow tunnel the length of our driveway (hours of entertainment).

We are adjusting to having three kids in tow as life whirls by us. I can hardly believe another year has come and gone. I'm afraid to blink and and see my girls all grown up. So TIME if you are listening slow down a bit, I don't want to miss anything.

3 weeks

I'm a little behind at posting these pictures since now she is 5 weeks old but wanted to share them anyway.

She's Here!

Our little angel was born on November 24. She came just in time to remind us how truly blessed we are. We were so happy she was healthy and strong. We were able to come home from the hospital on Thanksgiving day and even got to enjoy a Turkey dinner prepared by my mom and Aunt K-Rae. We are all doing well.

Waiting...

So we are waiting...waiting for this baby to come. My mom has been here for several days which has been fun, and productive. But also reminds me of why she is here, to help me with the baby. I am still a few days away from my due date, but having the other three early has set some expectations. My feet look like they belong to Shrek and I'm all out of Mylanta to help with the heartburn and I don't want to go and buy more since it will go away once the baby is born. So baby if you are listening we are ready and waiting.

An Apostle

We had Stake conference this weekend where we were privileged to have Elder Christofferson attend. This morning Letty decided that she wanted to write him a letter which we thought he may or may not get depending on circumstances. We were fortunate that when we got there he was on the stand with the Stake Presidency so T-man took her up to deliver the letter. He talked to her for a minute and shook her hand. After they came back and sat down we saw him open and read it and then they all chuckled. The letter simply said her name and age and something to the affect that she was excited to hear him speak and was wondering what it would be about, followed by a picture. I hope she remembers this special moment and the spirit that came along with it. It is so fun to have such a personal experience with the people you only get to see on TV.

On a very non religious note here are a few pics from Halloween:

On Saturday we went and Trick-or-Treated in downtown Summit which was fun but crowded and then they had a parade you could walk in which after a bit Gracie fell asleep on T's shoulders.


Pumpkin carving - We ended up with a Dora pumpkin and a happy face. This year was the first time in our history that we've had some animal chewing on our pumkins. T-man cut a very large nose for a happy face pumpkin to hide the animal bites. After we carved them and set them on the porch, the next morning, something had nibbled around the eye brow. Two days later they completely chewed through one of our smaller ones, kind of crazy. Though we long suspected bunnies, our neighbor spotted squirrels chewing on their pumpkins.

So you can see Dora, somehow we didn't end up with a still shot of Mr. happy face.
Some pictures I took while enjoying our fall weather which has quickly turned chilly. We LOVE fall around here.