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!

My trip to Utah

Here are some pictures of my Utah trip. I went out there April 9th through the 14th. It was so much fun. I had Julia with me and Natalie stayed at home with my parents part of the time and Marc part of the time. Paige, Terica, and I went out there for Gloria's shower. We thought it would be a great time to all get together and spend the weekend. I stayed at Jake and Sariah's the first two nights. On Thursday we had a fun craft day where Sariah convinced Terica and me that we have to have a Kricut machine. (It's a fun machine that cuts out letters and shapes on paper, vinal, material and I'm sure there is more then I really know.)Then Sariah drove me down to Provo, where we met Paige and Terica for lunch at Cafe Rio. I went shopping with Sariah and then she dropped me off at Gloria's and we picked up Nicole and went to dinner. I stayed with Adam and Gloria on Friday and Saturday. I was glad that Matt and Sarah live so close, I got to see them a lot, too. Plus I got to see their daughter Dianna for the first time. On Saturday I got my hair done. Then we had the shower and everyone stayed at Matt and Sarah's for the rest of the night to hang out and play games. Then Sunday morning Adam dropped me off at Marc's brother, Rob's house where I stayed Sunday night. That night Gloria had her baby. Rob stopped at the hospital so I could see the baby and then took me with them to the airport where they went to Hawaii and I went home. Needless to say I had a blast, but I was glad to be home, I missed Marc and Natalie.