Thanks for the prayers!

Thank you, everyone for your prayers this weekend in our behalf. We sent out an e-mail on Friday asking friends and family to have their thoughts with us as we hunt for a job. Sorry to those of you who didn't recieve our e-mail in time. We could still use prayers. We definately felt extra strength and comfort today and we greatly appreciate all of you who care so deeply for us. It's wonderful to know the support group we have backing us. We love you all and as always, we will keep you updated as much as we can.

Ben's pictures

Thanks Ben

Benjamin and Becca Munson took some great pics of the kids last night. We loved this one. We will post some more shortly.

This is a really cute little outfit my sister-in-law Paige made with a matching bib and birp cloth. I love them! If you can't tell, the front has a "J" on it with the same material. This is perfect for summer. I may need to get the pattern from her, but it looks simple enough that I may try to do it on my own. Thank you aunt Paige, we love you!

Julia

Julia has started to eat solids for the past couple of weeks. She LOVES food. It's like she has been wanting it all along and now that we are finally giving it to her she is so happy. She tries to grab for our food, but we aren't there yet. Although Natalie did try to give her a grape the other day (scary), luckily I saw it and got it quickly out of her mouth. She has been sleeping longer at night and now it's not such a big deal if I'm not there to feed her, now Marc can just give her cereal or bananas or whatever to tide her over. Food makes her sleepy. This particular time, she fell asleep while Marc was feeding her. And it wasn't the first time either. She's our happy little girl!

Here's another day of the kids at the Batanical Gardens. It's free on Wednesday mornings so we've been trying to go every week.

This was a fun day at the park with Natalie's friends Remi and Crew. They are moving back to Idaho the end of June and we are very sad to see them go. But excited for them to be done with residency and live close to their family.

What was the Surprise?

I got a new piano! Our friends the Noonans moved to Utah and didn't want to take their piano with them so they were giving it away. Marc told them he wanted it, so while I was in Utah he had to delivered to my in-law's house. It will stay there until we get a bigger house and have a place to put it. It's a hundred year old upright-piano, very antique looking with ivory keys. I haven't decided if I want to refinish it or keep it the way it is. I haven't taken any pictures of it yet, but I will the next time I'm there and post them. I'm so excited, now I just need to start practicing and take more lessons.

Here's a picture of the get together on Saturday night in Utah. The other two are in the hospital when I saw little Jordan. I felt so lucky to see him before I left, though I only could stay a few minutes. I told him if I have any boys I want them to look like him, he's so cute, he looks a lot like my kids, but a boy version. I couldn't believe he actually had more hair then Natalie when she was born. I definately see myself with a little boy just like him.

Surprise

By the way, Marc took off work on Friday while I was in Utah. I had a babysitter lined up for Natalie, but he told me to call and cancel. He said he was taking off and he wouldn't tell me why, but he had to do it that day and not on Saturday. I'm thinking it must have something to do with my birthday since I haven't found out the surprise yet. My b-day is coming up on the 17th of May, so I'll let you know if anything exciting happens, or as soon as I find out what the surprise is and why he couldn't do it on his day off. I guess we'll see!