Sunday, June 20, 2010

Summer 2010

Lincoln is now 2 1/2 months old. He is a sweetheart.

Here is Lincoln watching the ceiling fan. You can see how happy it makes him.
Aden started swim lessons. Last year he was terrified of the water the whole time. His dad took him tubing down a river last year for fathers and sons. They were going to hit a branch and had to get off, and Aden's face went under. He would wake up with nightmares that he was in the river again(I won't comment on how this made me feel). Anyway, this year started out mostly the same, but he was a little more confident. By the last day he put his face under water for the first time ever!!!!! I'm so excited. He even got confident enough to try swimming under water.
Aden has found a new love of drawing recently, especially on dry erase boards. We played a game with his dry erase book the other night. I tucked him in, but he wasn't ready to go to sleep yet. I told him he could draw one more picture before bed. When I went to check on him later, this is what I found! He even hiked up his underwear and drew on the bottoms of his feet. He was thorough.


Life as a mom of three...

So I've never done much with this blog except upload a few pictures now and then. I figured no one looks at it anyway, and I post all of my pictures to facebook, so why bother? I just found out from a friend that you can print your blog. I didn't know that! Wow, that's like having your only family book, and prevents the need to journal (this is it). So here I go... I am selfishly not going to do more for any of you that may be reading this, but for me. Ha Ha Ha.

Life as a mom with 3 kids has not been bad so far. Lincoln is an angel sent straight from Heaven (I know they all are). He is soooo sweet. He sleeps a lot, and when he is not sleeping, he is quiet and content. If he cries, he is easy to console. His first friend is our ceiling fan. He loves to lay under it, and will smile and talk to it. It is adorable. He is 2 1/2 months old now, and is just getting to where he will make eye contact with us for long periods of time. When he does, he is all smiles and cooing. I am quickly transferring from the baby only mom to the soccer mom-taking kids to this class or that lesson. I like it. Aden can finally play more mature games with me like checkers (not just pretend), and he gets it.

We went to Colorado last month for Christian's graduation with Regis University. Yay, he got his Bachelor Degree! That was one of our goals when we joined the Air Force. We also got to visit with his family, and my parents and brother Wil came.

I didn't realize this picture would be so small, but right before he flew out to meet me for his graduation, he was here. He just finished his training for level 2 combatives. He will bring it back to Davis-Monthan AFB and teach airman in his combatives class that he set up, what he learned. He's basically a ninja.

Lincoln was blessed in our ward on the 6th of June, 2010 by Christian. Here he is in the cute outfit that my mom made for him.
Aisley had her first dance class at the YMCA downtown. She is all about dancing and princesses and pink right now. Such a girl! She was the youngest and cutest in her class. She was shy for most of it, so she didn't talk much, but she followed directions very well.

She had a dance recital at the end of her class, where they dressed up like lions and danced to "I just can't wait to be king" from The Lion King. She was adorable. Since she spent so much time with her class and her teachers for this performance day, she has come out of her shell at the class, and is not afraid to be spazzy, like she is at home. I loved watching her in this. It was at a High School auditorium.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Busy month

Christian won the Volunteer of the Year award for our base.


Lincoln is Born!!! 7 lbs 15 oz 19 3/4 inches. Born on 4/8/10 at 12:45pm. We love him!







We had a fun Easter! The Easter Bunny came to base.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

March Activities

We had a fun early Easter Egg hunt for the kids for our ward playgroup.




I have been wanting to go camping, and thought we better do it before Lincoln is born! We went to some natural hotsprings and a cool place that I want to go back to that was a mix of bryce canyon spires and Goblin Valley blobs to climb on.






We found this old building remains by our camping spot.


Super Pregnant Lady!


Where we camped.
One of Aisley's favorite things to do is water and dig in the garder. I thought these were cute because her dress matched the greenery.












Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Happy, Happy Birthday Aden and Aisley!!!

Our kids our growing up!!! Aden celebrated his 4th birthday and had a huge party with lots of friends. I think there were around 35 people at our little house. It was fun to see lots of friends from our last ward.
Aden taking a swing at the piniata.
Aisley also just celebrated her 2nd birthday. She was singing happy birthday to herself all morning, and when someone would call to wish her a Happy Birthday, she would sing to them. She has to have everything pink right now, so she was excited to see all of the pink balloons and pink cupcakes! She is at such a fun age.
She was being so dainty trying to pick one of the cupcakes up without being messy. I finally got one and handed it to her and told her to eat it!
Pink!!!

Monday, January 18, 2010

Our Holiday Fun!

We had a memorable trip to San Diego for New Years.
The San Diego Temple
We went on the harbor ship tours.
We had a great stop at the Sand Dunes on the drive there. Aden loved jumping down the steep hills.
The Sand Dunes
San Diego Beach
Sea World!
Dolphins
Sesame Street playland was a hit with the kids.
Christmas 2009
We had a great Christmas at a condo in Midway, Utah with my family. Aden and Aisley had fun in the snow with their cousins!
There were some pretty ice sculptures by the condo.
Santa made a surprise visit!
Aisley was an adorable snow bunny all bundled up in her snow clothes. She was a little daredevil and loved sledding.
Aden's favorite activity was eating snow.