Leah's Blessing

Jake blessed Leah on Sunday at church. It was a beautiful blessing and we were so thankful to have so many family members and friends there. There ended up being 15 men in the circle! All but 5 were family members. It was so amazing to have such a strong circle of the priesthood around Leah. Her little outfit turned out pretty well considering I made pretty much all of it. A friend at church made her a little bracelet, but it ended up being too big so I made another one (late Saturday night!!) as well as her bow because the headband I made was also way too big for her little head. Most of the dress is not from my wedding dress-but the bottom hem and the parts that are beaded on the front are. It ended up not being too hard to cut up my wedding dress. I really feel like it's such a special tradition to start. (If my daughters don't want to cut up their wedding dresses to do the same, that's just fine with me though). I didn't take a really good picture of the blanket Leah is laying on, but it's gorgeous and my oh-so-talented sister, Kristelle, made it for her. (I can't crochet to save my life!) Thanks, Kris! I remember being so nervous at Isaac's blessing that he was going to scream through the whole thing, but he didn't. I was just as nervous with Leah's, but she didn't fuss at all either. Whew! And my sister in-law Brianne was thoughtful enough to take notes during the blessing so I could just listen (and keep Isaac occupied!). Thanks, Bri-I really appreciate it! Thanks to everyone who made a special trip (or who were there already!) to be there for Leah's special day and to my parents for hosting some of those out-of-town guests and for letting us use your place all weekend for meals!!

*There will most likely be more pictures soon-Jake's dad will be taking some more probably sometime within the next week or so. :)

Spring Break

For Spring Break we went down to Burlington for a few days with Jake's family to One Fun City. It's an indoor waterpark attached to an arcade attached to a bolwing alley attached to an indoor go-kart track. We went there last year and it was such a hit we made another trip. Unfortunately, Isaac still didn't like the waterpark aspect. I think it's just a little too loud and overwhelming for him. Luckily, he did like the arcade and did pretty well with the bowling (with Jake's help as seen in the picture). Jake won something like 1,300 tickets and we cashed most of them in for an Elmo for Isaac-he fell asleep with it on the way home. It was pretty cute. I was surprised to find out that Isaac was big enough to go on the go-karts with Jake. He didn't love it, but he didn't absolutely hate it either. Maybe next year it will be a better experience for him. Though we all had fun, it was nice to get back home and have more living space than just our little hotel room. Isaac was a little too cooped up for his own liking. It was nice that our room, Steph and Jack's room, and Jake's parents' room were all attached so he could roam a little when all the doors were open. He especially enjoyed bouncing on Grandma and Grandpa's bed with Tava and Cael (that's sheer joy on his face, not terror). The trip clearly wore him out-he slept really well the night we got home and took a 4 1/2 hour nap the next day. Had I known he was going to sleep that long, I would have made a better attempt at doing something really productive (like starting Leah's scrapbook...). In one picture, you can see Isaac wearing a red lanyard-if we had taken a group pictures (which we never think to do for some reason) you'd see that almost all of us had one. The arcade there works with cards instead of coins so I found these lanyards on super cheap clearance last year and bought them. It was such a pain last year to carry the card around in your pocket and hope it didn't get lost. Isaac felt pretty cool with his own. It was a fun trip and we're looking forward to next year.

*We were there during St. Patricks Day-we usually don't intentionally dress in clashing greens for the fun of it. :)

Science Center

Last week I took the kids to the Science Center with my sister and her neighbor and little boy. We really had a good time. I was worried Isaac was still a little young for most of it, but we were there for 3 hours and he easily could have stayed longer. I'm sure we'll be making several more trips there in the future. Even little Leah did great-she was pretty content the whole trip-I think she really was glad Aunt Kristelle was there to play with Isaac so she could have Mommy all to herself a little.

One Month!

Leah is already a month old-where is the time going?!?! She is such a sweetheart and we really have been blessed yet again with such a wonderful little child. She really isn't cross-eyed...I know she kind of looks that way in the pictures. :)

Isaac's Lastest Loves

Isaac has three loves these days...

1. Leah


2. "The Incredibles"


3. Mini Tonka Cars (he has 19 of them somehow!!!)


He was sitting on the floor one day playing with his cars and then I looked closer to see he was hauling goldfish with his little dumptruck...creative, huh? (And then I vacuumed my floors for the second time that day) :)


*I really don't know what some of the font is underlined-oh well...

Pretty Little Leah

Here's our sweet girl after church on Sunday-thanks to her Aunt Stephanie for finding this adorable little dress. I must say I was a little nervous about the corn syrup adhesive for Leah's bow, but it stuck on there really well and came right off with just a little water. I'm sure we'll be using this method for quite a while-her tiny head is still about 2-3 inches too small for all her headbands!

Post #101

I was just thinking this morning that I was probably getting close to my 100th post-it was my previous post. Whoops! So I figured I'd recognize my 101st post-not that it's anything different from usual...just pictures of my beautiful children. We went outside this morning for a little while since it was 50°!!! Hooray!!! As with everyone else I know, Spring cannot come soon enough this year. Poor Isaac is suffering from Spring Fever like nobody's business, but with a newborn, I don't really think too many outside adventures in February are a good idea. Soon enough we'll be sweltering in the summer heat and wishing for Fall-we always want what we don't have, huh? Just a note on Leah's hat-I made it because I couldn't find anything for her. Luckily, I referred to Isaac's head size at birth-this resulted in cutting about 7 inches off the pattern. What a little peanut!