Easter 2012

The Easter Bunny Arrived while we were coloring eggs on Saturday. :)  

We had a great Saturday Easter Bunny Celebration with coloring eggs and an egg hunt. Grandma Julie also sent fun treats in the mail for the kiddos. Thanks! 

Jacob Gymnastics Spring 2012

Jacob loves gymnastics! Here's some shots from his last class. He loved the awards ceremony and felt like a super star! 

Jacob

Watching cartoons at Daddy's work :)

Jacob's last day of Kindergarden in next week! Crazy! He is excited for Summer Break...mostly because he seems to think that it means going to the pool, Disneyland, Seven Peaks, the Zoo, visiting family...most of which are not on the schedule......a new baby is on the schedule. Yikes...I'm in for it! Hopefully we'll have a fun enough summer for this kiddo.

We've started a wall calendar for the kids to keep track of their schedules. It helps Jacob to see what days he has things scheduled. We also add things like when Grandma comes to visit, FHE, dad out of town, TBall...etc. Its so helpful for him. He has finally stopped asking me when events are and he simply says to me, "So, when is TBall again, I'll go check the calendar". I love that.

He just finished his 2nd session of gymnastics and he loved it! What boy wouldn't love jumping and bouncing around!? He is so proud of the metals he received and loves that they are his very first metals! Spring swim lessons end next week and he is so excited to be learning "to be a real swimmer"! We'll pick up on more swim lessons in July and fingers crossed I'll have 2 little fishes in the family by the end of August!

TBall starts this week and his first practice is tomorrow! This kid is so stinkin excited. He has had this obsession for baseball for about 2 years now...and he can't even catch a ball. Poor kiddo...but its just TBall....he has plenty of time to learn ;) His first game is Saturday on a little team I think with only like 6 kids. I pray that he loves TBall, has a blast, and feels like a huge success after his first game. I will just be crushed if he doesn't love it! Yesterday he asked me to make hooks on his wall for all his baseball hats. Cutie. He doesn't ever ask for anything decor related in his room...but his hats are getting important to him. :) Heath gave him a hat with Heath's work logo on it last week and this week Heath gave Jacob a grey hat that makes my son look 5 years older! (take it back! my baby is growing up!) Jacob also has a Dogers hat and a Texas Rangers hat that reminds him of CA and TX. He loves his hats.

Jacob has his first Teddy Bear picnic tomorrow. His guest of honor will be his grey kitty. Which he informed me (for the very first time) that his kitty doesn't have a name. I asked him if he wanted to name his kitty, he said no. Alrighty. :) The kitty sleeps with him every night and was a gift from his Grandma Rose (Avery) his first Christmas. It has been washed a zillion times and is still holding strong.

Jacob participated in his first Fun Run at school last week and they did 3 miles. Crazy! He walked/ran and loved it! It was fun to him to be like his uncle Paul and run a real race! Jacob recently attended a race Paul did in Provo and thinks Paul is the coolest. Jacob...who refuses to walk to school anymore...is very interested in walking and running now...but mommy is 37 weeks pregnant...no thank you sweetheart. So Jacob and Lexi run around the backyard, good enough!

Jacob and my dad walked around the temple when he was here for Paul's graduation from BYU. Jacob still talks about how much fun he and Grandpa had. Its the little thinks like going on a walk with someone you love, that makes a kid feel special and loved. My son lights up when he talks about his grandparents.

Jacob loves to read and is learning so much. He also loves to help us read from the BOM. We are in Ether and Jacob is so excited...he seems to think that after we finish the next 25 pages then we will be all done and won't have to read the BOM ever again. Oh goodness....still trying to teach him that he'll read it over and over and over and over for the rest of his life. That's a hard concept to teach a 6 year old. Have you tried it?!!!!  In the past year I've really felt like he can grasp more of the stories from the scriptures. He loves to come home from church and tell us all about what he learned that day. Heath was just called to team teach a primary class and I think its so amazing to have him in primary with Jacob and Lexi watching him fulfill his calling. Heath doesn't teach Jacob or Lexi...but I think that's good. The kids see him a sharing time and Heath gets to tell me all the funny things Lexi does or the cute little answers from Jacob. Its great. (I lead the music in Relief Society and I LOVE IT!)

Jacob is excited to start 1st grade next year and thinks it's so cool that he will be attending the same school! (My poor kid is so scared from moving so much...) Jacob loves his new house (rental house across the street from the Provo temple) and he loves to tell everyone "we have stairs!" haha. We're moving up in the world. lol. His bedtime is 7pm and he sleeps until 7am! Crazy right? My little boy needs his rest. He's such a good sleeper...he has always been that way. I'm blessed. (Lexi on the other hand...no so much..she sleeps at 7 but wakes between 6 and 7, good i guess:)

Jacob is a sweetheart and is so obedient. He sets such a good example for his sister Lexi and soon to be little brother. We are so blessed to have such a good example heading up the kiddos in the family.

 Fun Run

Sleeping with Kitty 

Hanging with cousin Caden. 

Lexi

Exhausted after Dance class

After eating cereal today, rubbing her tummy Lexi says, "My baby is full now". Then walks away :) She loves pretending to be pregnant just like mommy. While cleaning the bathroom with Jacob she often puts her stuffed bear under her shirt and just cleans like that. It's like she prefers to do her chores with her baby in her tummy. (I sure don't!) I love her. I tell her everyday that she is going to be a great big sister. She is very excited for her little brother coming at the end of this month.

While eating a snack this afternoon Lexi was pretending with her food. Often while pretending she uses names of people she knows like Courtney (my sister :) or grandma, or Paul (my brother that lives closest to us). Today while eating almonds Lexi was pretending that 2 of the almonds were visiting teaching another almond. Guess who my visiting teaching buddy is?! :) Lexi loves to visit with me. One of the sisters we visit is 87, Sister Sperry. She is just amazing. Lexi loves her so much and the two of them sit and cuddle during the visit or Lexi plays at her feet with a basket of toys provided by Sister Sperry. You can just tell that she is an amazing mother/grandmother/great grandmother. My daughter isn't an angel at every visiting teaching appointment...but at Sister Sperry's Lexi is just in heaven.

Lexi is in her 2nd session of a little dance movement class. She looks adorable running around and doing little ballet pleas. Her performance next week is to one of the songs on RIO and she gets to wave around a little scarf. Oh its just precious!

In July she will start swim lessons and in the fall Lexi will start preschool. Lex is so excited to be a big girl and have her very own school to go to! Mommy will miss her :(

Lexi and I do everything together! She is my shopping buddy, my Cafe Rio buddy (one a week baby!), and she helps me with dishes, laundry, and getting the mail. She's my shadow and I love it! If I'm taking a nap (while my kiddos are awake;) she'll come cuddle up next to me and I wake with a cute little sleeping beauty next to me. I cherish these times with her.

Currently, Lexi's sitting on the floor next to me, not sleeping like she should be because she's waiting up for daddy, she's looking at a book and making up stories. Wait, take that back...she just climbed on the table and is rearranging the napkins. She is just like me! Lexi also likes to pretend she is crocheting like mommy. She says she makes little blankets for 'her baby'.

Everywhere we go she gets complimented on her long "chocolate" hair (as she calls it :) and often times she smiles and giggles. I try to coach her to say thank you but the strangers talking to her freaks her out a bit sometimes. haha. Get used to it sweetie...you're adorable!

Several times a day Lexi asks me to read her a story. I love that FINALLY my children are interested in reading. But my goal of always saying yes (within reason) to story request is KILLING ME. Since we now have a designated "reading room" in main area of the house the kids have quick access to their books and Lexi looooves her books. We'll see how that goes when we have a toddler in the house again. We are in for a lifestyle change that's for sure. When Lexi "reads to herself" she likes to hum or make up stories about the pictures. When Jacob reads his site word books for school Lexi likes read them too and he goes solely off of the pictures but its like she's really reading. It drives her brother nuts. hehe.

I love having Lex at home and cuddling with her. I tell her when we cuddle that she is my little princess and push hair back from her face and plant a kiss on her forehead. She smiles and lights up. She expects it and loves it.

 Dance

Cleaning with her baby 

Isn't she just adorable

Me

For those that don't follow me on Facebook...this was my 30 week picture. Ya know... for posterity.

This is my new hobby :) Learning to crochet. This was my first fleece blanket. 

This is a cheater picture of me at 35 weeks. Makes my hips look big...not the baby...that's just me;)

Happy Birthday Lexi!

Look who turned 4 today! Princess Lexi!

Heath and Lexi went on a Father Daughter Date tonight to Best Buy...before you laugh...he took Lex to pick out a new game for her Mobigo (handheld game thing for little kids:) She was so excited! Its the little things like getting a special outing with daddy that make this little princess happy!

Make a wish! She had to blow at least 5 times before she got them all out. Cute Cute. 

Lexi helped to set her birthday table. She wanted it to look perfect. It was the cutest thing to hear her singing Happy Birthday to herself while getting everything all together. Love this kid. After cutting the cake she continued to decorate it with the candies on the table.

My brother Paul was able to attend Lexi's birthday celebration and the kids were so excited to have him there. Its such a blast to have him living close by...the kids seriously ask about him every single day.

Princess Lexi is growing up so fast. She loves to read stories with mom and enjoys putting on mommy's blush. We lovingly call her our angry bird because she often squawks at us just like one of those annoying birds on my cell phone. She started Sunbeams this January and attends what she calls, "Cry-mary" Primary :) She looks forward to starting Preschool in the fall and still can't quite believe that the new baby in mommy's tummy is a boy...she wants a girl! She has her own room, but can't seem to sleep in there all by herself...mom sure wishes she would! She's definitely not allowed in mom and dad's room....so Jacob has welcomed her mattress on the floor of his room ;) She received a new bedding set tonight so she's back in her room...we'll see how it goes! 

Lexi Rose is such a happy and beautiful girl, we feel so blessed to have her in our family.

  

First snow and a little peek

Heath snapped some pictures of our first snow in January

Pictures from the front window. The Provo temple lights shine in our front window. Love it! 

We couldn't have found a more beautiful view in a rental home. 

That's Utah lake way out there....

I have some framed pictures of temples...and I feel just silly putting them up in the home with a view like this. :)

The front porch. I heart the flag pole that came with the place. Just up the street....mountains! 

The porch wraps around and this is a little peek of the backyard. Porch came complete with decaying furniture. lol. Haven't made a plan for all that yet.

The snow has been light this winter and we've loved that! The snow looks great light a fluffy...let's just keep it that way ;)

Last Sunday in Texas and Lexi Nursery Graduation!

Here's some pictures from our last Sunday in Texas :)

December 2011

In Utah!

Hello All :)

About the time of my last post I fell off the planet. I got a terrible cold that made packing and moving annoying. Then the part about me making a baby made life difficult.

Then we packed out POD an headed for a long vacation in AZ and CA to see family and Disneyland! Many pictures to come.

We also had a lovely time watching the waves and the peeps and the beach where my sweetheart proposed 8 years ago. Time zooms by. My babies were in the back seat asleep while Heath and I enjoyed the view. I love my heath.

After our lovely vacay we headed up to Provo Utah to our newest adventure in the Temple House! We now live in a large lovely "well maintinged (old:)" home across the street from the Provo Temple. When I say across the street...I literally mean my driveway leads to the temple. The views are breathtaking. Alas, we are renting....until we find our dream home and location. No rush over here....I have a feeling that Utah will take some getting used to. I have been so blessed with friends and loved ones that have confessed their undying love for Provo and all the exciting things to do here....that has made this transition so much easier.

Shortly after arriving in Provo I got yet another cold that lasted 2 weeks...and is still lingering a bit. **Has this turned into a travel log or would this be defined as me being one of those old people that tell you all their bodily woes on the first sunday of the month. haha. oh well, you love me. My sweet bun in the oven....I swear HE is making me WEAK!! My stellar immune system is just shot. So this made unpacking a stinkin joke. My friend laughed at me and said I've spoiled my husband and kids in previous moves by unpacking and decorating in less than a week. HA! Not this time, curve ball people!

My heath started decorating a bit because he is helping out. Oh, lovely. He's so sweet. For all those that come to my home before, um December 2015...beware... Just kidding. His taste is better than mine...which is actually run by my favorite blog Thrifty Decor Chick and pintrest. hehe. We have great plans for this home and are enjoying stretching out. The basement has a playroom, office/guest room, full kitchen, and a large bathroom. And a "movie room" which currently houses all the furniture we own and a front entry area with a separate entrance that I don't know what to do with just yet. I tell you this.....so you come and visit!! You can have the bottom floor to yourself every night! Unless that scares you...then you can sleep in the front room with the glow of the temple on your pillow. Someday, somehow this place will get furnished and decorated. Fingers crossed before baby # 3 arrived in late May.

Heath is currently working in the Corporate office 10 minutes from the home. Gotta love that short commute. Jacob is attending Kindergarden less than a mile away. Love it. He's only gone 3 hours a day. Oh my...such an adjustment from the 7 hours and 20 minutes he was gone in Texas. He is bored....but they grow up so fast so I'm trying to love every minute and keep this kiddo entertained.

Me, well...I'm just making a human and trying to keep up with this million trillion sq feet of housework, laundry that never stops (because I rarely do it ;) and occasionally unpacking boxes ONLY because I'm not allowed to move them into the garage (you know the baby thing....) so I can't hide the boxes and avoid my work.

Its a boy...that deserves its own post :) We are so excited. Heath and the kids came with my to the ultrasound and they were so cute. Then there's that discussion with Lexi about why she's not having a girl. She says she still is. :( She's sad but I'm so stinkin happy!!!!!! I wanted a boy and was openly telling everyone that's what I wanted. Whew...glad it was a boy ;) Following in my mommy's footsteps...Boy, Girl, Boy...guess this is my Paul baby, Yes! Paul was moms best baby I hear. That's probably only because mom had just survived me.

Pictures hopefully this week!