Skyler's 4 Year Old Check Up
Skyler received another A+ at her check up today and exhibited such bravery around getting her shot. She became very quiet when she heard that she had to get one but when it came time to actually do it, she held out her arm and watched them do it. She said "ouch" and that was…
God's Teddy Bear
So I had one of those moments today when everything in life felt peaceful and perfect. When I was overwhelmed with a sense that all was right in the world and that I was doing exactly what I should be doing. I picked up the kids from school and we were driving home. The cottonwood…
Skyler's Rapunzel Birthday Bash!
Our little girl is 4!!! I cannot believe it. I know it's the cliche thing to say but WHERE DID THE TIME GO???!!?! It was so fun this year because he is so aware an opinionated about what was to happen on her birthday. She had all her friends picked out ("no boys except for Liam"), her theme…
Our Announcement
This is the picture Leif posted to FB. Funny that FB is the new way to announce your bug events to the world! 54 "likes" and 16 "comments" later and now all our friends know. I love this picture - Skyler was so excited to take it with me. She is so precious! She's gonna be such a good big sister.…
Summer came early!
The last time summer came this early was four years ago! I remember because it rained right up to Skyler's birth and then turned sunny for almost 6 months straight!!! Lets just hope this is summer is a repeat of 2009! The kids literally played in the blow up pool for 5 hours today with all their…
Arizona
10 days in sunny Arizona to visit grandpa and grandma Stephie! What a great trip we had - taken care of the entire time! It was so nice to be spoiled in the sun with daily pool time, bike riding, golf cart rides, patio time, wonderful food courtesy of Stephanie (I wish I could whip together meals…
Mexico 2013
Who would have thought we could have so successfully pulled of a family trip amongst 12 of our friends! I was worried about trying to find that perfect balance between having "family time" and "friend time" and my expectations around spending time with just the 4 of us (well, 5 if you count…
NYC
Leif's release party for VERA was in NY this last week and auntie Kayla came up to babysit. Before I go into the trip, I have to give her a huge shout out for flying to Seattle to take care of the little ones. We are SO unbelievably blessed to have the family that we do who cares so…
Blessed...
Just feeling extraordinarily blessed this morning as I sit on the couch eating my cheesy eggs (specially prepared for me by Leif even though he has to be a short order cook for me these days - kids wanted bacon eggs and I wanted nothing to do with bacon). Since I am pretty sure that everyone…