NEW FAMILY PICTURES...

Thanks to Jocelyn (Justin's Mom) who got everybody together to get these pictures done and Jaelyn (Justin's Sister) who has great skill to take these pictures! We got these pictures done on campus at Southern Utah University and the cool thing is they were taken on Haven's 9 month birthday March 15, 09. I think that's so cool that it landed on the same day! We thought it was a warm beautiful day, but soon learned it was only that if you were in the sun, if not it was bitter cold and windy... little Haven and Kirra were freezing! It's definitely a Hallelujah moment when all is said and done!

ANNOUNCING...

My Brother Jason and Sis-In-Law Katie are having their first baby!!! They found out about a week ago that IT'S A GIRL! This is going to be Hope, Halle and Haven's first little cousin on my side (none of my siblings have had kids yet)... not to mention my first niece on my side, way cool! We are all so excited for her little arrival in July!
CONGRATS J AND K8!

HAPPY LATE VALENTINE'S DAY

MY CRAWLER BABE

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HALLE

Hey... Dad and Mom this is the little Birthday invitation we made for Halle's little party we through on Sunday! It was just with family, this invite is a good way of having family members have an updated photo of her. I have one for all of you guys, when we come visit!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOO...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ON MONDAY JANUARY 19TH TO MY HALLE BUG AND TO MY BRO. LANNY GOAT. HALLE WAS BORN ON MY BROTHER LANDON'S BIRTHDAY, A DAY BOTH MY MOM AND I WON'T EVER BE ABLE TO FORGET! WE BOTH LABORED ON THE SAME DATE AND MY MOM WAS THERE WHEN HALLE WAS BORN! A GREAT DAY FOR BOTH OF US! I'M SAD TO SAY MY LITTLE HALLE WHO USED TO LAY IN MY LAP TO TAKE NAPS IS TURNING 3... SHE IS SUCH A BIG GIRL NOW... FOLLOWING IN HER SISTER'S FOOTSTEPS! LANNY'S TURNING THE BIG 12! SURPRISE LANNY... I CHANGED MY MUSIC BACK FOR YOU, THAT'S MY LITTLE BIRTHDAY GIFT TO YOU... HAHA! FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS LET ME EXPLAIN. LANDON WAS DISAPPOINTED WHEN I CHANGED MY BLOG MUSIC TO CHRISTMAS MUSIC. HE LIKED COMING HOME FROM SCHOOL AND LISTENING TO MY OTHER MUSIC WHILE HE WORKED. SO, WHALA MAGIC IT'S BACK LANNY ALL FOR YOU, HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

LANDON HELPING HALLE SWIM FOR HOPE'S 5TH BIRTHDAY PARTY, IT'S WAS A LITTLE COLDER THAN EXPECTED. CAN YOU TELL THEY LOOK A LITTLE UNCOMFORTABLE?


WATCHING A MOVIE IN KAYLIN'S ROOM!


HALLE GROWING UP SO BIG...


SISTER LOVES...


DO WE LOOK ALIKE?... OUR EYE COLOR'S THE SAME!


PRACTICING FOR HER DANCE PERFORMANCE, FEET IN FIRST POSITION!


FALLING ASLEEP WHILE READING A BOOK, THAT'S A RARE SITE AROUND HERE. HALLE USUALLY LIKES TO READ A WHOLE ROW OF BOOKS ON THE BOOKSHELF BEFORE SHE'S READY TO GO TO SLEEP!


WHAT WOULD THEY DO WITHOUT EACH OTHER?


THE SNOW ANGEL SHE'S BEEN BEGGING TO MAKE EVER SINCE IT SNOWED!


SHE'S DEFINITELY A FASHION DESIGNER IN THE MAKING... HALLE IS HOPE'S LITTLE APPRENTICE!


BEING CREATIVE AND MAKING A HOUSE/HUT IN THEIR BEDROOM! LEARNED FROM LANNY, WHEN HE MADE A MASSIVE HUT WHEN WE LAST VISITED!

ANOTHER MONTH HAS COME AGAIN...

Today my little Haven is the big 7 months! We just had her 6 month check up yesterday and she got the usual rounds of immunizations, so all night she had a fever! Poor baby :( teething and shots, not fun! She weighs 18 lbs, which is in the 75th percentile. Her height is in the 90th percentile, so she's my long baby. The other news this month is she loves to sit up, also has mastered turning in circles while lying on her belly (trying to reach everything) and now has started to scoot backwards while on her tummy too! She absolutely loves sleeping on her belly, we always put her on her back to sleep, but soon after wakes up to roll over to her belly! She sleeps more peaceful and longer if you just leave her on her belly! As far as teeth go she has both top teeth now, and is getting a new bottom tooth right next to her front bottom left tooth! We've been trying to figure out what her deal is all month with being whiny. We thought maybe she was constipated from all the banana's now in her diet, but just yesterday realized the white bump in her mouth! Also, we've tried all the veggies and finally started the fruits she's now tried banana's and just started applesauce yesterday. When she tried banana's it was the 1st time she's ever made a face to any baby food... even the nasty green beans didn't spark a face out of her. But, she made a sour face to the banana's and shook her head like she had the chills! She did it every time, so we started to mix it into her rice cereal to mask the strong taste... and she took to it just fine! Even if you do a bite of plain rice cereal and then follow with a bite of banana's, she makes the face like it's gross. The trick is to mix it all together, and she gobbles it up! Feeding bubba's consumes a lot more of my day now, more than it used to... i feel i've now just graduated from baby feeding school! Who's to say i didn't finish college. I just transferred from SUU, to home school myself. I decided on a master's in child development/care/feeding and a minor in laundry! I'll tell you what Motherhood has been the hardest, never-ending learning experience of my life, but i wouldn't trade it for the world! I've earned my title as "Mama Joy" as Halle likes to call me and i'm proud of it!

Loves to move and reach everything on her belly!


Haven got this new little mesh food holder for Christmas, that we put carrots in and she teethes on. We've also tried putting a banana chunk in there and it mushed out of the little holes... she liked that for a minute and then didn't want it anymore! We'll have to try a frozen banana chunk, i bet that would feel good on the gums. She's just not into the banana thing... i wonder who she gets that from??


This is the best sour face i could get of her trying banana's out for the 1st time. The camera didn't catch it as good because she was moving, but we got some video footage!


My big girl sitting up...


She loves her new little toy box we got her, she loves to pull out all the toys then eat the rope on the box! Go figure... she has all these cool toys and she plays with the rope on the box?


Now she loves Daddy's invention of mixing the banana's in the rice cereal... it's a better mixture than the plain rice cereal by itself and, also the strong banana's by itself. It's a happy medium!


The new JUMPEROO, we just couldn't resist this fun activity center for her and it's also like a Johnny-Jump-Up! We have one of those that we used for the other girls, but you have to hang it from a door way and it never looked very comfy! I realized they sold this new JUMPEROO when Halle was a baby, but thought it would take up too much space and we already had a Johnny-Jump-Up. So, we never bought it. Now with baby #3 we though a little exersaucer thingy would be nice to keep her busy, since the JUMPEROO is both things in one it just made sense that we should buy it. If only i would have realized that with baby #2, i would have really got my $'s worth!


You can see all 6 teeth in this picture, her 7th one is still too small to see.


Belly heaven...