Sunday, February 7, 2010

Adam's Blessing

Yesterday Austin blessed our little Adam. He is such a good baby and we love having him in our family! Austin gave a beautiful blessing. I'm so grateful to be married to such a great husband/father and worthy priesthood holder. Thank you to all of our family and friends who were able to make it. We missed those who weren't here! Austin's sister, Megan, took a lot of great pictures but I don't have them yet, so here are just a couple:




We were also able to get a picture of all the Duke grandchildren.
Brielle had a lot of fun with her cousins Sydney and Zoey. They stayed here with us and Brielle was so sad to see them go. This is a cute picture of the girls playing on the Wii (the skii jump game)




It was a fun weekend. It just ended too fast!

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Smiley Guy

Adam is a very happy little guy. We've been trying to get some good pictures of him smiling. He's most smiley in the bath, but Austin was able to catch some good ones the other day.
























Wednesday, January 27, 2010

What A Mess













This little gem is trouble. You're probably wondering what is in her hair. Well, like all stories seem to, this one starts with the line "Yesterday, when I realized it'd been too quiet..." yep, it's one of those. She was having quiet time, watching Incredibles in our bedroom and I realized her movie should've been over and she hadn't come down yet. I shrugged the thought off and finished what I was doing downstairs. When I went to take a laundry basket back upstairs, I came to a stunned halt at our bedroom door. Brielle was no where in sight, I figured she heard me coming up the stairs and hid. Why? Because this is what I saw...





You probably can't see it very well in this picture, but here's a closer shot of our bedspread.



See that bottle of lotion? Yeah, it was pretty much full and now only has, eh, maybe an inch of lotion left in the bottom. That brush is full of lotion as well as the wings. The blocks are covered too. It was smeared all over the master bathroom's cupboards, toilet, and counter. Yeah, the window above our bed? It had huge gobs all over it and we're not sure how. She was able to attain heights on our walls with this lotion that are probably twice as high as she's physically capable of reaching, even on the bed. Our curtains were covered along with the floor. I wouldn't have cared as much that she got it through out our sheets and on our pillows except that I had just washed all the sheets the day before. It still all washed out fairly easily. Even the lotion in her hair washed out easily, although, with her long hair it didn't wash out as easily as when she has covered Jonathan's head in lotion. Of course while we (meaning, mostly I since she wasn't a huge help) were cleaning it all up, she kept saying "I'm just so sorry about that mom". To be honest, it was hard not to laugh the entire time. I guess she's understanding the phrase "Go Big or Go Home". We love her!

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Comparisons

So..all jokes about us getting the wrong baby at the hospital have ceased around here. Looking through a lot of Brielle's baby pictures, we realize that Adam looks quite a bit like Brielle. While it was really hard to find pictures that show it as obviously as we can see it now, here are some that I thought compared pretty well. (Adam is in the yellow pajamas, Brielle is in the white onesie)









Again, Brielle is in the white onesie, Adam is in the stripes.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Lately

Austin's classes started again yesterday. It's weird to have to go back to any sort of schedule. And by that, I mean that he has a schedule.

Brielle started primary and loves being a Sunbeam. It's so fun having her in there with me. When I don't have sharing time, she likes to turn around and find me in the back of the room so that she can do the "I love you" sign in sign language. It's adorable.

It actually happened. I turned 24 yesterday. Ew. I don't mind my gray hairs, the small wrinkles that are appearing, or even getting presents! I don't like my age number going up though. I swear I just get used to being a certain age when I turn a year older.

Jonathan has been sick for a few weeks. It's getting old.

Brielle informed me today that she and Eric (her imaginary friend) ran off and were married in the temple. If I'd known they were so serious, I could've done something. But, alas, all I could do was text Austin to inform him that we have an imaginary son-in-law.

Austin wants everyone to know he had the idea for Wendy's to make spicy chicken nuggets a long time ago. It's true. He told me about it when we were engaged.

I'm 75% sure I'm going to run the Salt Lake half marathon in April. I start my official training tomorrow. Last week I ran 3 miles and that's the farthest I've gone in one run since I had the baby.

Adam is growing like a weed. He turned one month old last Friday. He's also looking more and more like Brielle. I'll do a post comparing pictures soon. In the mean time, here's a picture I took when he was 4 days old.

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Bringerbread

Two weeks ago we decided to pull out the gingerbread house that Austin's mom bought us while she was out here last month. Brielle was really excited when she saw all the candy that fell out of the box. She could not remember "gingerbread" to save her life. The closest we could get her to remember was "bringerbread". We gave Jonathan some gingerbread to eat but that didn't go over very well. Eventually he came over and just would eat candy.










Of course I had to take a picture of my sweet little Adam in his carseat.















The Christmas Run-down

At one extended family's Christmas party, Santa came to see the kids. Yeah, the first picture pretty much sums up Jonathan's Santa experience. We expected nothing less.

















He was fine with getting a Lightning McQueen car though.








Brielle and her aunt Lizzy waiting and waiting. Brielle was one of the last kids to be called up. Lizzy said she kept asking for her to go get her a present while she waited far away. She did pretty good with Santa though.











Santa gave her some chapsticks of her very own.


There was also a pinata. Apparently, nothing says holiday fun like hanging Santa and beating him to death. Brielle loved it.












On Christmas Eve, we bathed and dressed the kids in their Christmas pajamas from their Baba before going to see Christmas Lights. When we came back, we set out milk and cookies for Santa with a few carrots for the reindeer. Brielle's been really into Christmas this year so she was really excited. She sat next to the fireplace that night talking to it, "Santa, are you in there yet?" It was really cute.














Christmas morning was a lot of fun. I think Brielle opened every present for everybody (whether asked to or not) while Jonathan refused to open any. He just wanted candy. He did, however, play with toys once they were out of their boxes and assembled. Adam just sort of chilled out in the swing watching all the excitment. (His shirt says "My First Christmas")















We had a great Christmas season and had fun visiting/skyping/texting/talking to all of our family!