Happy St. Patrick's Day! 

 

And Happy March Madness!

crib adventures

Remember THIS post? well her escapades have continued, and this time I actually got a few pictures. I still lay her down starting on her back and swaddled, but as of about 2 weeks ago, Caitlin now prefers to sleep on her tummy. The doctor says it's fine because now she's old enough that SIDS isn't a big threat and she can move around if she needs to. And, well, whether she needs to or not, she gets around in that crib! I don't know how she does these things, but they definitely make me laugh when i go in to get her.

This is how she begins:

 (3.12) Got one leg squeezed through her snaps

(3.15) Somehow unsnapped her whole bottom part and got her whole booty and legs out!

and, on her tummy, turned around. We find her sideways quite often. What a little rascal! She cracks me up! I know they make swaddle-me for bigger sizes but i think it would make her frustrated too much if she couldn't move around at all. Look how proud of herself she is!

visitors! x 2

A few days after the Dicksons left... the Meads came! ("if you buy it.. they will come" we have loved actually having room for people to visit!) We had so much fun with the Chris, Christine and Cason!! We did lots of relaxing, talking, laughing and of course visits go by way too fast.  Cason is the cutest little boy.. definitely my favorite nephew :) He is so sweet and chill and good tempered, and so big! He is a big healthy baby! I love all his rolls. He and Caitlin loved each other, although Caitlin did get jealous of me holding him a few times. 
Wednesday: we went to lunch with Paul at his work, went to the mall, met up with Mike and Jenna. We went to their place for a little bit then headed to BYU to go bowling. Bowling is never really my sport, but I almost hit 100 points. After that we went to "Hot Pots" in Provo (it's an Asian food place) Let's just say between the nasty smell, the tofu and shrimp with the eyes on, questioning the healthiness of the situation, and a crying baby, it wasn't my thing that night. But the boys LOVED it and had a great time and I'm happy for them.

Thursday: I got to babysit Cason for a while during the day and got a small taste of what it would be like to have twins. Good thing they are both such good babies!

Friday night we watched the BYU basketball game and had a sleepover (that is, Mike and Jenna stayed the night, since the rest of us were already here). Which was really fun. We stayed up late and lounged around in the morning.

Saturday: they left us. how dare they. way too soon. But we all love them and loved having them.

around the house...

Things are coming along in the new casa! between having visitors and going about our usual crazy busy lives, some rooms are pretty much done, while others have barely been touched but all in all we are making progress and loving every second of it. here's some peeks of how things are coming along:

-We mounted our tv,  which was quite the project but turned out great!

 -Paul's bear made his return and the office is mostly finished.

-the guest bedroom had to get done for our visitors!

-our bedroom is coming along.. 

I've still got painting and crafting and accessory projects here and there, pictures to hang and organizing to do but i have plenty of time to do it! More pictures and progress to come!

Foto Friday

don't you just love the hat?! we get SO MUCH MORE snow up here at our new house.

BYU Basketball

My complete lack of posting about BYU basketball this season shames me. I'm sorry cougars that I have failed to mention at all on this blog how AWESOME our team is this year! We have watched most the games on TV (believe me Paul is REALLY missing his glory days of writing for the BYU paper and getting to sit on press row) but on Saturday we were able to score some tickets and actually go to the game! It was a blast. Melissa's grandparents were nice enough to babysit so we got to go to the game and get really loud. BYU was ranked #3 in the nation! (yes, i know this will change after our embarrassing loss to New Mexico and after losing Brandon Davies to the honor code) Nonetheless, the boys are ROCKING IT out there! We won to Wyoming in our last home game of the season and it was definitely an exciting game to be at, for several reasons:
(#1) We scored over 100 points, which is always cool
(#2) We got to watch Jimmer Fredette play, which is also always cool because he is amazing. Some of my favorite signs people had were: "I've got the Jimmer Shiver" (instead of Bieber Fever... a 13 yr old girl had it.) "Jimmer Jimmer Chicken dinner" and "1 if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by Jimmer" people are so creative.
(#3) We got free cake at Magelby's afterward because we won
(#4) We got to sit with all our friends

 (#5) Caitlin looked SUPER cute in her new BYU shirt and i'm really sad i didn't get a picture. but i did get this one the other day when we were watching the game:

(#6) During one of the time outs of the last half the whole student section did a "flash mob dance" and did a full choreographed dance. It was so awesome! They all learned it before the game. I tried to video tape it but it didn't work at all. So i just got this chaotic picture:

but believe me, it was cool. Looks like someone else was able to capture the effect, so you can check it out HERE.

Happy 1/2 birthday

Caitlin's Happy 1/2 Birthday dessert party!

Half a year is a pretty big deal. Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate with us, your friendships and support and love for us and especially Caitlin mean so much to us. And she loved being the center of attention for the night. And yes, her half birthday cake did turn out to pretty sloppy and yes, it did topple over later on, but whatever i'm working with a new oven and it's the thought that counts.

visitors!

So we moved in Thursday night, and by Monday we had visitors! Jeff, Melissa and Madison came up to Utah for Jeff's spring break from Med School. Although leaving sunny Arizona to come to cold snowy Utah for spring break.. I'd definitely say we got the better end of the deal. It was so fun having them! Little Madison is such a doll and it was fun having the two baby girls together. They really got used to one another and I think they liked at least looking at each other. The boys got to go skiing a couple times, Melissa and I had girl time with the babies, we hung out with Mike and Jenna, watched movies, ate a lot, went to a BYU basketball game, and even went and explored the Midway "ice castles". It was a lot of fun, I'm so glad they were able to come visit. Now as I'm typing this I'm realizing we didn't even have time to do even more stuff that we had planned to do together, it always goes by so quickly so we better get together again soon! love you guys!

6 months old

i cannot believe my baby is half a year old! HALF A YEAR! wow. time flies. I feel like the changes between 4 to 6 months have been huge, and to think they will just keep getting bigger.
-She sits up by herself. Sometimes she is still a little tipsy but she does well. She likes to sit up and play now, instead of laying down. She rolls all over the place, every which way but she still prefers to be on her back if she's laying down. She also scoots, usually backwards. 
-She is getting more of a personality and becoming a lot more independent. She will play with her toys by herself and she wants to feed herself with the spoon sometimes. She gets really sensitive sometimes but is usually really happy and easy going.
-She eats rice cereal and for most the past month she's been trying a bunch of different vegetables and fruits. So far carrots and sweet potatoes and peaches have been the favorites. She is a VERY messy eater and she makes the funniest faces. She still LOVES getting her bottle and sometimes she shakes and her eyes get huge when she sees it and it about to get it because she's so excited.
-Great sleeper. Still almost 12 hours at night and about 2 hour nap in the morning, then a shorter one in the afternoon. She loves her crib.
-She loves her mom and dad, and she can usually be coaxed pretty easily to give any one else a good smile. Sometimes she gets a little overwhelmed when we're in a big group of new people and she's being passed around but usually she is ok with a few new people or staying with a babysitter.
-She got sick for her first time, which was the saddest and most pitiful thing ever. I had my ups and downs with it but only lost it a few times. It was just a cold, very stuffy, sore throat, coughing, etc. It took her about 2 weeks to get over it and boy was i glad when she did. She was quite a bit more fussy than normal but mostly she was just sleepy and tired and didn't want to play and i missed my happy girl so much!
-I feel like she has grown SO much this month. She looks and feels huge to me, my arms get tired holding her, although after going to the doctor she is still pretty small for her age.
-Her eyes keep getting darker, a little bit to my dismay. Thy are now a hazel color, brown with blueish/green. Which is still pretty i was just really hoping they would stay light.
-Her hair has gotten lighter since she was born, but is still a medium brown color. It gets really fuzzy/poofy on top. We can now do a mohawk with it after her bath and it's so cute.
-Her Stats: head: 17 (71%) length: 25.5 (42%) weight: 14.2 (17%)

February 28th

I LOVE my life! I love that there are so many things to love: from people to places to things. And although the things are not as important as the people I love that I have people in my life to share them with. I am so truly blessed to have so many highlights in my life, and to find joy every day.

February 27th

I LOVE my baby girl. She turns 6 months today. So big! I can't believe it. She is truly the light of my life.

February 26th

I LOVE quotes. I have always loved finding quotes and sayings to put up in different places. I try to memorize ones that mean a lot to me and I have a huge file on my computer of ones that I like.

February 25th

I LOVE our friends. We seriously have the greatest friends. They are all not only so fun to be around but so willing to serve and help in whatever way possible. We were able to move entirely into our new house last night with the help of many many friends and 2 caravan trips and lots of loading and unloading. We didn't plan on being completely moved in one night at all but we started and about 6 hours later we were done! Everything we owned was in our new house! Ad it's definitely a good thing because we woke up this morning (in our NEW room, in our NEW bed) to about 8 inches of snow in our neighborhood and I am so glad we didn't have to move in that. THANK YOU THANK YOU to all our friends who helped us move!!

...and we're back!

So i kind of forgot that when you move you don't have internet. Not to worry, we have it now. So i'll be playing catch up for a little while. Life has been crazy busy but so far i LOVE being in our new house and we've already had lots of fun and exciting things happen. more on that to come!