Start of Summer

Hello everyone. So summer is approaching the halfway mark so I guess it time to update everyone one what is going on. We spent the first week of summer down in La Sal. Unfortunately our camera battery was dead, so we don't have any pictures, so if you want to see some you will have to check out my siblings blogs. We did have a blast with all the family and all the kids had so much fun together. We did some dutch oven cooking (thanks so much Brandon and Sara), jeeping in Moab (thanks mom and dad for the jeep), shooting, games, and just hanging out. It was fun to have all the babies there too.

We got home and I had to really quickly put together a wedding cake for my friend Janina. I baked the cake that night and scrambled all the next morning frosting and decorating it. Thanks to my wonderful friend Sherie we were able to get it done right on time.
After all of that we had to get our house put back together. We have been having fun at the library, swim lessons, with friends, and hanging out. Last week we had Janina come at take some family pictures for us. Here are our favorites for you to enjoy. Just a month and a half left and school will start again.Dai kept squinting her eyes as she tried to smile bigger and bigger, so occasionally we would have to tell her to open her eyes and this is what we would get.

We all had a lot of fun taking the pictures and a great big THANK YOU to Janina for taking them for us.

Infection

Dailynn: "Mom I think I have an infection."
Mom: "What kind of infection."
Dailynn: "A cereal infection from eating so much of this cereal."
Mom: "Well tomorrow we will have to keep you from eating that cereal again."
Dailynn: "Why?"
Mom: "So that you don't keep getting your infection."
Dailynn: "ok"

Words for you

Dailynn can sure make us smile. Yesterday she was trying to get me to do things so she started saying "Mom I have 2 words for you, you need to help me, wait I have 4 words for you, come help me do this, no 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8...." then later that night she comes running in the kitchen while I was working on dinner and loudly states, "Mom I have 2 words for you HELP!!!" Yeah, she doesn't have counting words down yet I guess.

Last night while Jeslyn was winding down for bed she was rolling around the living room playing. She grabbed her blanket and kept rolling until she was completely wrapped and tangeled up in it. After a few seconds she was quite upset about it. I released from the blanket and a few min later she did it again. All that was hanging out this time was her little feet. She was in there pretty tight too. When I got her out, she just smiled at me. Silly girl.

Already 6 mo

I can't believe that it has been 6 months already. Jeslyn has been such a WONDERFUL baby. She is growing up so fast and is so fun. We are so entertained by her and her discoveries.
The problem, she is developing way to fast. As my dad put it, she just wants to grow up too fast. At the 6 mo check up the Dr. came in asking the usual questions for her age. I set her on the floor and he was surprised by her ability to sit up so well. Then I put her on her stomach and she just rocked back and forth on her knees. First he said that I am in trouble then that she is acting like a 9 mo old with both of those things. Then when he started checking her out, he held one hand and expected the other to just stay still because that is normal for her age. Instead she started pulling at his hands trying to stop his progress. Another 9 mo behavior I guess.

Then on Sunday she started army crawling. She doesn't have it down yet, but when she starts crawling instead of the roll thing she has been doing for the last month she can cruise so fast across the floor. Now I have to baby proof even more. She is just anxious to be able to walk and do things for herself.

She wants to eat our food anytime we are eating, so when I had a fruit smoothie one day she wanted to drink it with me. Dailynn is pretty good at taking pictures sometime.

Nathan was being silly one night and grabbed some fake teeth and slid them into her mouth. It's a little creepy but so cute.

March

So at work it is the DEAD time, so I am totally bored. I have caught up on a lot of blogs tonight, and I still have an hour of just sitting here. It is driving me nuts because this isn't what I want to be doing. I want to be home soothing my grumpy baby, I want to be tearing apart the bathroom we are remodeling this next week with my wonderful parents, I want to be home with my husband that I have only seen for about 20 min today. I love my job, but could I take the month of March off?

So now you are wondering about my family. Jeslyn is still teething, but what can I do about that. She has also started realizing when mom is not home so dad is having fun each night I am gone. I love my children and it is hard to be away from them, but they need to build their relationship with their dad too, so I think it is ok to spend a few hours a week away so that that relationship can be built.

We are still renting, but our second bathroom is just not very good, and since Nathan's mom wants it changed so much we finally decided it was time to just do it. I am trying to do as much prep work as I can befor Dad gets up here to put me to work. The more prep work I do the more I am horrified with how it was put together. I started by taking shelves out of the closet in there. Each shelf was held up by 2 2x4s and each one had 5 nails at each stud. That was not fun to work out. Then I started taking the panelling off the walls. The closet wasn't to bad, it was just nailed to the studs, so pretty easy to pull out for the most part. Then I started taking it out in the main part. Another nightmare. So the walls had no sheet rock on them. They had one type of pannel nailed on the 2x4s with another type glued to that. Luckily the glue is old enough that when we take a hammer to the walls the glue just breaks away the the first panneling comes off. Next we get to tear apart the other panelling because the nails have been glued over and the panelling is not durrable enough to withstand a hammer pulling on it. Then between the walls is carpet padding. We aren't sure why that is there, we are thinking it is for sound proofing, but who knows. Another fun thing is all structural things were put in after the panneling so we are trying to rip the panneling away from light switche and outlet boxes. We have to take out the toilet before we can get the rest of one wall out and the medicine cabinet had to come out before the paneling too. I am getting pretty handy with a hammer this week and my hand are all scratched up. I didn't get a before picture, but if I take one before we tear out structure you will see it just as beautiful as it was before we started. I am so excited for next week and the chance to get a new bathroom downstairs.

The not seeing Nathan much isn't a new thing, he leaves for work just before I wake up unless Jeslyn thinks I need to be up a little earlier. On the days I work he gets home about 20 min before I have to leave. Those end up being long days, but the chance to save up for a house of our own is so exciting. Just one more month YIPEE!!! Have you done your taxes yet?

Avi's wisdon

So Dailynn can't be the only one who has tidbits of wisdom. We were driving around a few weeks ago and Avi informed us as to who lives where. So I guess we all take for granted what is taught in primary, I know when I was teaching I didn't think to be more specific whith my lessons. So Avi informed us that God lives in the temple, Christ lives in the church, and the Holy Ghost lives in our bodies. She isn't too far off, so it was kind of fun to hear her take on the Lord's house.

Growing too fast!!

So Jeslyn has been growing up way too quick for me. She is almost 4 months old and let me just tell you how much trouble we are in. At the beginning of February she started scooting across the floor on her nose. She was able to get her knees up under her and push forward rubbing her nose across the floor. Then a few days later she mastered the sitting on her own. She loves to just sit and watch us. After a min or so she starts falling too far forward, but for how young she is she is doing great!!! Then today she figured out how to roll over. I layed her on her stomach in hopes that she would crawl for Brittney to watch, and then she just rolled over. It was slow, but perfect. So I put her back on her stomach to see if she could repeat it. I went and sat down and looked at her again and she had just rolled the other dirrection. I guess she doesn't get to sleep on our bed during the day anymore.

Here is a pic of her sprawling out on the bed during nap time. We love bath time!!!

I love how cute she is in her towel.

We have a Dr. appointment on friday to see how big she is. I'm excited to see what the Dr. says about her acheivments!!!