March 2015

March 1 - Colton turns 10 months old!

March 3 - Another snowy day

March 4 -

"Helping" with the dishes 

Happy Boy!

Figuring out the slinky

March 5 -

Sleepy boy with a fever

March 11 - Scott and Sirrinna came in the middle of March to stay a few nights before they went on a couples' retreat at Bear Lake. We didn't see a whole lot of them since they were visiting friends, but we got to spend a little bit of time with them.

March 20 - A few days later, Beth, James, and Emmalee came to visit. We had a great week! I kept us very busy. They flew in on Thursday night. My kids were already asleep, which helped getting Emmalee to bed when we got back to the house. Friday morning, Beth and I took the kids to the library for music time and then to the park for a while after that. The weather was so nice all week! We got very lucky. The boys were out car shopping because they both want new cars. After we all got back, we relaxed, let the kids nap, and Chase got really mad at me when I told him he couldn't get a car that didn't fit in the garage (which now we are realizing is almost impossible to do that and still be big enough to tow the boat). We'll figure it out someday. Beth and I went grocery shopping for the weekend and we spent the rest of the night at home.

Saturday, we drove up to Park City to the Olympic Park. We stopped at Arby's when we got there and noticed an elderly man that looked exactly like our grandpa from the back. It happened to be the anniversary of the day he passed away, so I like to think he put us all there at the same time just to remind us of him. It made my heart swell. Miss you grandpa! We had a great time at the Olympic Park. We made it outside where they were doing a youth competition of downhill skiing with jumps and ending with a skid across the surface of the pool. We loved it! The weather was so warm, the snow was so slushy and there was barely any left. It was perfect to be a spectator in though! After that was over, we headed back down to the Salt Lake valley through Heber and Provo canyon. The kids napped and we went to the Museum of Natural Curiosity at Thanksgiving Point. We grabbed some dinner after that and spent the rest of the night at home. Gave the kids baths, got them to bed, and watched a movie (Divergent).

Some made it across...

...some didn't.

Trying out the slide for the first time.

He couldn't quite figure out why he wasn't moving anywhere...

Sunday was Stake Conference, so we didn't have to go to church. We drove around looked at houses and neighborhoods. Beth and James are planning on moving here in the next few years and so we drove around for them. We drove to American Fork canyon but turned around when we got there because the entire canyon wasn't open yet. We wanted to go explore Cascade Springs. So we drove back and up over Suncrest into Draper where we ended up at a park there. The girls got to play and we had a picnic lunch. We drove back home for naps and stayed home the rest of the night.

Monday, they packed up their bags. We drove around the valley some more to show them the different areas. We ended up at Barbacoa in South Jordan for dinner before taking them back to the airport to go home. I was so sad to see them go. We had so much fun and the girls loved playing together.

Beth helped me begin sleep training Juliet on Sunday night and we continued it for the rest of the week. It was so so hard, but in after the week was over, it finally paid off. We no longer have to sit in her room or out in the hallway until she falls asleep. My sister is the best! I cannot thank her enough! I finally have some me time at night again (so I can catch up on this blog!).

Juliet is turning into such a sweet girl who loved being a mommy to her baby doll. She sits her in her lap while we're singing songs at night and helps her do the hand motions to the songs. She changes her diaper, she cradles her and pats her back. I love it! I think it is so cute! She loves watching YouTube on the tablet and bossing her little brother around. She loves jumping on the bed and playing outside with our neighbors.

Learning letters at bedtime

Library Music time

Park time!

Thanksgiving Point Curiosity Museum

Showing her baby outside and then she put her in time out.

Loves her chick-fil-a ice cream!

First time she went up front for story time at the library

Learning all sorts of Primary Songs at night time.

"I'm so glad when Daddy comes home!"

Colton, on the other hand, is turning into a tornado! He gets into everything and pulls all the contents out of cabinets and drawers. He is still super happy and is the BEST sleeper! He does down for naps and to bed at night so well! I'm still not used to not having to fight a kid to go to sleep. I used to fight Juliet for an hour to take a nap and then the nap would only last an hour. We have to fight her that it is bed time every night still. He just drinks his bottle and I lay him in bed and he goes right to sleep. If he cries, it is for a minute or two and then he goes to sleep. I so needed a baby like him!

Colton is crawling all over the place. He's very quick if he knows you're coming after him. It's cute. He loves to rough house and is learning to walk while holding our hands. He loves baths more than anything. He has 8 teeth, is fully in 12 month clothes now, and is now officially in his own bedroom.

On Saturday, March 28^th, the kids and I went to our ward Easter breakfast and Easter egg hunt. Juliet loved finding the eggs and eating all of the candy from them that morning. She was a beast after that! She was so sweet and found some eggs for Colton too. That afternoon, we all headed up to Taylorsville to attend our niece Kyah's baptism. It was so sweet and wonderful to see her dad baptize her, which he had to do three time since her feet kept popping out of the water. The rest of the kids thought it was so funny. I was asked to give the talk on the Holy Ghost after she was baptized, which was perfectly timed for me (see next entry about Trials). So thank you, Shauna, for asking me to do that. It was divinely planned. We had a great dinner and birthday party for Brynn after that.   

March 29 - Easter outfits for church since General Conference fell on Easter this year.