Happy half birthday

6 months ago it was new year's eve and most of you probably had a little party, watched the clock tick down to midnight, and kissed your love ones. I had a little party, watched a clock and kissed loved ones as well the only difference was I had a party called "let's have a baby party" I watched the clock timing each contraction and I kissed my husband and my new joy, my baby boy! I can't believe that was 6 months ago. Will had his 6 month check up today and I thought I would post what's new with Will.
Will is now up to a whopping 17.5 lbs meaning he has gained 10 lbs and a few ounces. He's 26.5 inches long and is measuring in the 65% and 80% which is a big deal for our family gene pool.
Will is now a rolling, jumping incredibly active kid. He rolls all around until he comes against his dreaded enemy, "the coffee table" dun, dun, dun (dark music inserted here). He has a new friend named jumperoo which keeps him, and us, entertained for hours. He loves his sisters especially when Lizzie sings him the chicken song. He's starting solid foods although he's not as crazy about them as I thought he would be he at least humors me and lets me make his face all messy. Anyhow here's a few pix of Will and his favorite pastimes.

Favorite past time #1: Spitting up! seriously it's a miracle he's gaining weight.

Pastime #2: Dress up with the sisters (there's more to come I'm sure)

Pastime #3: Laughing at his funny Daddy.

Showing off his two new pearly whites. Yep he's a cutie!

Help me pick please

Our amazing friend was able to snap a few pictures for our family photo and I was wondering if you, the internet public, could help me decide which one to blow up

Picture #1

Picture #2

Picture #3

Thanks again Lex for taking the pictures. It really is amazingly hard to have 3 kids happy in all of the pix but it was awesome to see how many we really got.

2 years and a couple of days

Two years and a couple of days ago we moved to Tooele. What a crazy time in our lives. Jeremy had just graduated from USU with his masters and had accepted a job with L-3, an answer to our prayers. Abby was just a couple of weeks old and we were leaving the only home that Lizzie had ever known. We love Logan with all of our hearts and it was sad to leave all of our family and friends but we have really grown to love Tooele and feel so blessed to be here.
A few things that have changed since we moved into our lovely home.

We've painted: the entire main floor including the 25' entry way, The girls bedroom, our bedroom and the master bath. We still have Will's room to paint and the entire basement but all in good time.
We, no scratch that, Jeremy installed: wood floors throughout the entire main floor while I watched in a sick pregnant state. They look awesome!
We've replaced: a yucky glass sliding door with a beautiful french door.
We've officially killed: 6.5 trees, the lawn and numerous flowers and other such plants. All though Jeremy has done a killer job with the lawn so far this year and it looks lush and green and beautiful!
We've survived: a giant wind storm that took apart the majority of our roof and nearly sucked out our living room window. A pregnancy with a new Doctor and Hospital. Jeremy commuting every day for an hour round trip. And being so far away from all of our family.
We hate: The over crowded Wal-Mart (Target please hear our cries) Lack of high quality restaurants, That our families are so far away and our dreaded side lawn that needs way too much TLC for our liking.
We love: Our neighborhood, Our ward, the small town feel, And so many things that are too hard to explain.
All in all we love it our here and feel so blessed to be where we are.

The dreaded side lawn looking super fine.

Our backyard that needs a fence and those are not weeds I promise they're my beautiful Wild flower mix.

Hair Ideas

So a little while back I complained that I had no idea how to do my kids hair but as you can see I at least have found a place where I can get good ideas on it now. I've had to get over the fact that I HATE using hair gel and such and the results have really been fun. It's been fun for the girls too I'm just glad that I only have 2 for now because I don't think I could take doing any more hair. Anyhow if you want to see the real professionals do hair just click here or i've added the blog to our people we love list under hair ideas.

I was feeling really creative with Abby's hair this day.

It turned out pretty cute

Lattice Pig Tails cute and fun

Triangle with loops

French Braid into flippy ponytail

Lizzie for a princess party

Sectioned to half way up and curled

A knot variation of the puffy braid

Head band french braid to half way back

Lou-Lou loop to my lou

We had fun doing these loopy buns although I need to figure out what to do with the ends

This is called a puffy braid and works great for Abby's many layers of growing hair

This was an immense project and the parts aren't straight but it was still cute.

William 5 Months

I know I've been a blogging fool lately but it's been fun anyhow. I was browsing through all of my pix and realized I hadn't posted anything about our little man for awhile. Will hit 5 months on the 31st and is just getting bigger and bigger each day. He really is incredibly happy and I want to say "spazy" but he just is constantly moving unless he's sound asleep. From what I understand Jeremy was the same way as a kid so Will's got that going for him. He now can roll from both back to front and front to back and kick himself around in a circle. We've started him on rice cereal and he's been doing great with that. Anyhow here's some pix of the amazing boy named Will.

He's constantly drooling or spitting he even blows spit bubbles all the time.

I put this as his new pix on our blog but I really debated if it was the cutest one...

I love everything about this pix he's laughing at Lizzie and you can see how huge he's getting. (Got to love those toes too!)

And honestly this sums up everything. That's our little Man.

Lizzie and Friends

We had a play date with some of Lizzie's friends the other day and I thought I would post some of the pix from it. I've never seen friends get so creative with Cotton Candy.

Cotton Candy Goats

The kids thought that it was so cool that Cotton Candy dissolved on your tongue

They all loved how their tongues were changing color

This is were they all got creative and decided to make cotton candy juice. They dipped there cotton candy into their cups of water and loved making different colors.

This is little Gracie Lynn encouraging all to try her yummy cotton candy juice. (how could you resist that smile?)

Everyone sporting their new tongue colors at the end of all the cotton candy. (Well except Devon he was going for the masculine Cotton Candy goatee.)

L3 Work Party

Saturday after we got back from St. George we had Jeremy's annual Work picnic. It's really lots of fun they rent out the Utah State Fair Park and bring in rides, bouncy houses they have tons of food and a great drawing. We had tons of fun last year so we couldn't wait to go this year. We weren't able to stay very long but made the most of our time. Lizzie had a blast and I think Abby will really start to enjoy it next year.

Me and Abby waiting in line for the swing ride. She was really hesitant about all the rides.

After I put Abby in the swing and started to walk away she looked really nervous

She didn't smile once through the ride and I was sure she was going to start crying any second. But....

She gave me a great big smile and only cried because I took her out of the swing.

While I was with Abby at the swing Jeremy had Lizzie at the ferris wheel. (She's in the blue one)

Lizzie didn't even know the kids she went on with but she was friends with them by the time the ride was over.

Lizzie's reaction to the Ferris Wheel.

Our next favorite thing to do is the Giant Shark Slide. Abby didn't want to go but I made Jeremy take her. I am such a mean Mom.

Will anxiously waiting for his sisters to come out of the Shark's Jaws

At least Jeremy looks like he's having fun. Lizzie slid and then began to roll just as I started to take the pix.

Lizzie looks a little shaken up and unsure what has happened but Happy anyhow.

Ya who couldn't have predicted Abby's reaction. She laughed nervously as they went down but by the time they got to the bottom she was pretty sure she didn't want to do that again.

It was a crazy week with lots of fun and good family quality time but we're really happy to be home. Now if I can only get my kids back on their regular sleep schedule.

Last Pix at Zion

We really had a good time at Zion's but we couldn't leave before snapping a picture of Lizzie and the Lizard. We tried snapping pix of them but they just moved too fast. Luckily someone caught one and then dropped it in metal and put it on a rock for all to see.

Lizzie and the Lizard

Abby striking a cute little pose under the ranger station

Lizzie Lizard