Due to having a baby, I can’t really get much done at all. Today I was able to go through the dressers and get rid of some clothes that are well past their prime though. It felt good to clean the old stuff out. I thought my kids had …

Davis 2 months

9 lbs 11 oz and 22.5 inches long

He has reached the 9th percentile for weight and 11th percentile for height. He is still tiny, but considering that he was 5 1/2 weeks early, growing 3 lbs and 4 inches is a big accomplishment. The …

From Davis 2 months

I wish I had the camera on me all the time to catch pictures like this. Isaac and even Reece have held the baby for me like this just so I could get stuff done…. and sometimes so I could nap too.

The best, funniest, baby-sitting …

On August 1st, Davis’ due date, we began to venture out into the world again. I tried to go back to church for the first time that day and was 2 hours late. It was not a successful attempt at all. I did get my dream calling that day though …

July was rather boring in that we had a newborn baby and could not really go out and do a ton to enjoy that month.

The highlights:

• Hiked to Doughnut Falls up the Big Cottonwood Canyon that we live at the mouth of. The doughnut shaped rock at the top …

June was a surprising month for us. The kids got out of school and Ily decided to keep them busy with all three boys doing swim lessons and per Isaac’s request, ice skating lessons for he and Micah. Micah hated ice skating at first. He had to be bribed …

For fun this summer we enrolled our boys in ice skating lessons. This was not to make Olympic skaters out of them, but so they will be able to ice skate independently. We live a block away from and Olympic size skating rink, I figured we would be using it …

The Fathers and Sons (and young daughters) campout was Friday and Saturday. One of the benefits of being in a stake that has existed in Utah a long time is that the stake own property. I’m not sure how that works out with current budget policys of The Church …

Reece said to my mother when she visited in May: “Our new house is boring. It doesn’t have a sandbox in the backyard.”

We had to fix that. I should have been nesting and getting ready for a baby, instead I get a crazed idea to build a sandbox …

In June we celebrated Reece’s 4th birthday. He is such a joy to have in our family. He is so confident and willing to try new things. He really is funny too. We are lucky to have him. Here are some pictures from his little birthday party we had …