Jaylee's Blessing Day

At the beginning of this month we finally blessed Jaylee. With her being sick on and off the first 3 months we kept her away from the public as much as possible. (in my opinion church is full of germs and there's nothing worse than having the kids sitting behind you sneeze all over your back side while sitting in church, and I admit my kids have done it before as well, so sorry to all of those that sit in front of us at church, or anywhere around us for that matter! :) Ryan gave a very sweet inspired blessing and Jaylee was surrounded by people who love her dearly and support our family constantly.

Jaylee was so well behaved and I was told she just smiled around at everyone in the circle wondering what was going on??!! She looked absolutely beautiful! I took a ton of pictures after church but by then she had had it and wanted her nap. So while she was sleeping the rest of the family came over to celebrate our special day. We had early church so we had a brunch afterwards at our home with krispy Kreme dough nuts, egg and sausage keish, bagels and cream cheese, fruit platter with dip and every breakfast drink possible. Ryan and I both have very large supportive families and for that I am very grateful. We always look for an excuse to get together with great food. Ryan and I also bore our testimonies at church and for me that was the first time in almost 10 years. How sad is that!! I get so nervous that I start crying before I even start talking and then no one can understand me so I think "whats the point", but when I am done I realize what a great thing it is to do. So, new goal for me- Be Brave, and just do it! It's kinda ironic because if I have a script, speech or talk prepared I can get up in front of anyone anywhere to an unlimited number of people but ask me to bear my testimony I freak!!

Jaylee with Ga-ma Ethington

Jaylee with Nauni Phillips

Jaylee when we finally took the beautiful, but very itchy and tight (newborn size on a 4 month old!) gown off. She was very much relieved, but loved all the attention she got while wearing it!

I guess I should have waited to post about Jaylee turning 4 months until I got her professional pictures back, but oh well, what can you do?! My sister Kelli's friend Annie Randall took these pictures and she did a great job. Her website is www.annierandall.com She is very affordable, and even more important, she is very patient which is a must with my 3 kids!

Jaylee brings so much happiness into our home. It doesn't matter what kind of mood you are in, as soon as we look at her she gives us this huge wave your arms in the air kind of smile that makes us feel like a million bucks. She recently discovered her feet and loves to grab on to them. She is reaching for toys and loves to suck on her fingers and her blankies (she has been teething pretty bad these last couple of weeks. She even had her first cold last week since RSV and I was a wreck the first couple of days just waiting for any kind of sign that it was slowing her down to rush her into the Doctor, but amazingly she was a trooper and handled it very well. (she did better than I did!) Her bottom 2 teeth have not come in yet, but looks like they will any day now. I will be sure to post it when she does!

Jaylee turns 4 months!

Jaylee turned 4 months this May and she is getting so big. I wanted to post some random shots of her because they just grow up so fast. I was looking back at some pictures of her when she was a couple of weeks old and couldn't believe how little she was and how much she has changed. When you see them all day everyday you don't notice it as much till you do look back at old pictures! Jaylee has come a long way since she was born (respiratory issues at birth, RSV at 1 month, lung distress in March) and I am happy to report that she is going GREAT! She is the most absolute happy, content, easy going baby.

This was taken at a birthday party at a gym. She loved sitting on the bars . . Maybe a future gymnast??!!

Her first swim suit. We didn't get in the pool though, too cold for us!!

More May Happenings

I had to cut my last post short so here is what our family has been up to this last month.



Cabin trip- This is what we saw on our way up! SNOW?!?!? Bizarre weather for this time of year. I had to break out the winter clothes again. Jaylee and I stayed inside the cabin for most of the weekend, but it sure didn't stop the boys from going out and riding on their quads.

Logan has no fear at all (I think it's runs on his dad's side). Ryan was yelling at him to slow down that he was going to fast and Logan replys being dead serious "but it's not too fast for me"

Later on Logan went riding behind the barn and we didn't see him for a couple of minutes. We then see him walking up and we asked what happened, he replys all frustrated "I was just trying to do a cool trick!" He had fallin off while doing it I guess. Its a good thing I didn't see that!

May Happenings . . .

Well not that my blog is finally set up, there are a few things in May that I did not get a chance to post. So here is May at a glance!

Boys graduate from Pre-K. They will be in Full time kindergarten in the Fall. I have mixed emotions about this! So excited for the break I will get. There are so many things on my to do list I might actually get to. But, at the same time I just don't know if they are ready!! They will be eating at school, walking around campus, sitting in a class room all day, being with kids that have all sorts of backgrounds (that part really makes me nervous, hope they don't pick up any bad words). I know when the first day actually comes I will be so worried all day.