Day Care Carnival

Since Lucy was 10 weeks old, she has come to the Child Care Center at Syracuse High School. Now that she is a little older, she loves going and looks forward to playing with her friends, and seeing all of her teachers. At the end of each school year they put on a Carnival for all the kids who are in the child care. Last year Lucy was still too little to be able to participate, but this year we were able to take her. She had so much fun seeing her friends and playing all the different games. She even got her face painted like a kitty, and then realized there was something going on her face and tried to wipe it off... which then lead to crying because her hands were dirty. (she is a little bit OCD). She walked around saying "Meow" because she knew she was the cutest little kitten around! Even though being a full time working mom isn't always easy, or fun... I am glad that Lucy has been able to make friends and is so social! That being said... we cannot wait for summer to get here!! 3 more weeks and we will be off for 3 months. Yahoo!

 

On a sidenote... Lucy's hair ALL fits into a little topnot now. Cutest thing ever.

May days...

Rather then stressing myself out over catching up on this thing, I am just going to start right where we are at, and slowly add in random things from the last 6 months.

 

These last few days Lucy has been doing nothing but making my heart burst! She is the sweetest, funniest, happiest little girl and I can't get enough of her. Her vocabulary is growing like crazy and she tries to repeat EVERYTHING we say. (this is both good and bad.... yikes). This weekend, we spent every available minute playing outside. Drawing with chalk, kicking the soccer balls, playing with the dog and going in and out of the playhouse 800 times. I wish I could freeze time and keep Lucy this age forever! Sunday morning, Lucy woke up at 4:25am. Even though I am used to being up at this time, it is always a kicker when it's the weekend. Both Matt and I made our failed attempts at getting her back to sleep, and finally gave in and started the day extra early. Even with Lucy being up so early, and all of us being sleep deprived, she managed to make us laugh and keep us all happy. She is the sweetest. If Matt or I would close our eyes to try to get a minute or two of "sleep" She would immediately kiss us on the cheek to wake us up. Who can be mad about that? We are loving every second with her and I can hardly wait for summer time when I get to be with this little babe 24/7!

 

Spring has been so good to us!
 

 

I want to start blogging again...
but I feel like I have missed so much in the last 6 months.
Do people still blog?
Is this even still a thing??
I feel like we all shoudl make a deal to get back in it together! Who's with me?

Family Pictures

We were lucky enough to have Jena Hendry take our family pictures back in August. She is definitely the sweetest, most genuine, most patient, most awesome photographer and I am so happy with how all our pictures turned out! I am so in love with my sweet little family, and feel so blessed to call them mine each and every day!

St. George Weekend

This last weekend, We went on a short little vacation to St. George, UT with Matt's parents and two of his sisters and their families, to stay in Matt's uncle's house. Frit was in town for a few days to finish getting her house cleaned and ready to rent out, so we took advantage of it and had family dinner on Thursday. Once the dinner came to an end, Matt and I loaded Lucy into the car and headed on our way. We knew that Lucy would not be too excited about sitting in her car seat for 5 hours, so we chose to drive during bed time. We left Shmovels house in Kaysville around 8pm, and rolled into St. George about 1am. Matt had 5 tests this week so he studied on the way down while I drove (half way). Once we got to the house we had to unload everything and try to get Lucy back down. My child is one that ONLY sleeps in HER crib, in HER bedroom, so I wasn't sure how this was going to work. The first night she didn't sleep much at all, which means we didn't sleep either. However the next two nights she slept the entire night! What a blessing!

The first day there, Matt went on his first Mountain Biking ride with Zann, they finally came back home SIX hours later with scratches, bruises and sore muscles. While they were gone, Camer and I hung out with the babies, went to the pool and played on the swing set. Later that night Shmovel and her family arrived. We sat around talking, playing yahtzee and the boys accidently firing a really old gun in the house. (Long story, was definitely NOT funny at the time, but is kinda funny now). A broken window and a repainted kitchen table later, we spent our entire day Saturday playing outside. After packing up the house and cleaning up on Sunday we all headed home. It was a quick trip, but a memorable one. I hope that we do it again soon!

(Sidenote, I have been TERRIBLE at taking pictures lately. All of these on the blog are from my cell phone, and they were usually last minute thoughts, I really need to be better at documenting things.)