Happy Conference

This post is a little late, but Whit has been working a lot of overtime this last week so I've been really busy!  It makes for some long days but it's great that he is busy at work :)  But I have a little bit of blog catching up to do.  So, last weekend was conference and we loved it!  My sister Kira took the train to our place Saturday morning.  I took the kids and we picked her up at the station just a few minutes from our place.  It was so nice.  Whit had to work that day, so Kira hung out with me and the kids.

She is pretty much wonderwoman :)  It was great to have her take care of the kids so I could finish unpacking and getting things organized.  We also ran a few errands which was awesome.  It's so much easier to go to the store with two adults.  Me taking the two kids by myself proves to be quite a challenge :)

 Sunday morning my parents and brother came up and we all watched conference together at our place.  Winston was very entertaining and kept running all over the place.  It was kind of hard to pay attention to conference at times, thank goodness we can read all of the talks now :)  This picture makes his eyes look crazy, it makes me laugh.

 Kira wanted me to do his hair spiky, and I tried to comply.  But this is what it ended up looking like.

 Fuzz halo.

 That evening we went over to the Pettey's for dessert, and Winston had a lot of fun playing with his cousins! We love those Pettey boys :)

 This is one of my favorite pictures of Edie.  I put her in the baby bjorn so I can get things done around the house, and she falls asleep in it.  Sometimes.  So then I unclip her and put her in her bouncer and she stays asleep.  It's awesome!

And say good-bye to Winston's hair, because we gave him a haircut!

Happy Easter!

 Edie just keeps smiling more and more!  I'm loving every last one of them :)

 We still can't get her to take a pacifier, but she loves to suck on her hands or fingers, it is so fun to watch.

 And Winston has become quite the walker!  He gets around so well these days, and is so much happier because of it.  Awesome!

 The Saturday before Easter we went down to my parent's house in Spanish Fork for a Fife family lunch/Easter egg hunt.  Winston loved walking around in the yard and did pretty good on the uneven terrain.  However, when he did fall, he did not like to touch the grass!  He would sit up quickly and wave his hands around and wait until I put him on his feet again.  He hasn't quite learned how to get up without something to climb up.  But he's getting there :) 

He still continues to put everything in his mouth.  Now that we can go outside in the warmer weather, that opens a whole new world of things for him to eat and me to pull out of his mouth!  

 And he loves playing with balls.  It's fun to see.

 The Fife clan.

Four generations--Alice Fife, Wynette Christensen, Brooke and Edith Anderson.


After the hunt, I dragged my family down to the river trail so we could get some family pictures.

Here she is in her Easter finest :)  She wouldn't smile for me though.

She did calm down a bit when Whit held her.  We went downstairs to check out our new home!  The basement got all cleared out and ready for us.  We are so excited to be able to move down there, unpack, and get settled into our new place.

Winston loved roaming around down there, plenty of space for him to walk around and explore.

And he really loves his new playroom!  We are so lucky to be able to live here and save for a home.  Life is really good right now and we are enjoying every minute, at least that's what we're trying to do.  I must admit it's easier to love the minutes when the kids aren't crying, but we're trying to love it all!  :)

6 weeks!

Hard to believe it's already been 6 weeks since she was born!  She is just growing and growing and we love her so much!

 It was a pretty quiet week, we didn't do many exciting things.  Saturday we ran some errands and visited family, and when we came home we found this mess!  I was doing laundry and the detergent fell off the washer and landed on the carpet.  It was a new bottle from costco, and practically all of it was spilled onto the carpet!  It was  such a mess and you wouldn't think it, but laundry detergent is hard to clean up.  We did our best with the shopvac, but ended up having to call a professional to come on Monday :(  I think I'm going to try powder detergent from now on!

 She is growing into her tights, but they are still a little baggy on her.  Oh well :)  She was an angel and slept through all 3 hours of church!  It was so awesome!  Whit took Winston to nursery for the first time, but they didn't last very long.  We'll try again next week.  Church is always an adventure with kids, you never know quite what to expect :)

Can you see her double chin!  She is just chubbing right up and we love every ounce of it!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

 Here's a happy Winston.  This is what I do when I need to feed Edie--I put Winston in his bouncer so he can't walk away or get into anything.  Most of the time he just whines and wants to get out, but every once in awhile he'll play and be happy.  We like those times!

 Especially since Edie has now discovered she can cry too!  She's not shy about letting us know when she wants something.  She can be quite the drama queen :)

 Sometimes she sucks her thumb.  We keep trying to give her a pacifier, but she hasn't really taken to them yet.  Just like Winston.

 We have really been enjoying the warmer weather, we've gone for a few walks and Winston loves bouncing on the trampoline.  What fun!

 I just have to laugh at his hair, I keep trying to figure out ways to style it but I don't think we've found the right look for him yet.  This definitely isn't it!  It's alright because they never last anyways :)

 At the end of the day his hair just ends up in sticking straight up.  But it's fun to rub and everyone loves rubbing his head :)

 At least he has hair, right?  I'm glad we can put cute headbands on Edie and hopefully someday she'll have enough hair to put bows in :)

 Do you notice all of the wet spit up marks on the blanket?  This girl likes to spit up.  A lot.  So we go through a lot of outfits each day.  Good thing she has a lot of clothes :)

 This is what she wore to church on Sunday, Grandma Karyn said she looked like an Easter egg with these colors together :)

 And then after church, when she spit up on that dress, she got to change into her St. Paddy's outfit.  We went to Grandma Julie's for dinner and had fun celebrating with everyone.

Aren't holidays the best?  We love celebrating, that's for sure!

One Month Old!

Here we are at Grandma's!  We went down there last week so I could have a little break, and mum and Kira could see the kiddos :)  We had a great time, Winston wowed them with his walking skills and we had a photo shoot for Miss Edie:

 She has the cutest little smile, that this photo doesn't capture at all.  But you can use your imagination and get an idea of what it is like.

 Have I mentioned that I love that dimple?!

 This one makes me laugh since we have a family photo where my little brother is about 3 and is flipping the bird, unbeknownst to him.  Edie must take after her uncle McKay... :)

 Again with the dimple.  Yep, I'm one of those moms!

 She stretches her arms out like crazy at random times.

 Isn't she sweet?

 And Kira didn't think we would get any good pictures :)  She crocheted this cute blanket by the way, it's so soft and snuggly.  Thanks Kira!

 Ha ha!

 Again with the crazy arm stretches.

I was rocking her one night and she just kept looking up at me so serenely.  I just love our little baby girl!

So that's that.  It was a great week.  Friday was the day we went down to Spanish Fork.  Whit took the train down after work and we picked him up in Orem.  We all went to dinner at Red Lobster.  I have been craving sea food the whole pregnancy and made Whit promise we would go out for shrimp after I had baby Edie.  So we took my parents and brother and sister to say thanks for all of their help with our move and taking care of the kids.  Bad idea to go on a Friday night!  But we still had a good time together.  Then on Saturday I went to my friend Holly's place for a little party and got to see some good friends that I haven't seen for awhile.  On the way home I stopped by the rehab place to visit my grandma Fife.  She had hip surgery a few weeks ago and is staying at the rehab place for awhile.  It was so fun to introduce her to Edie. It was so sweet to see her hold this little baby.  I wish I would have taken a picture!  But we had a nice visit and then I came home.  Whit was so nice to watch Winston the whole time I was gone :)  Sunday we made it to all of church.  Whit was out in the hall with Winston pretty much the whole time, but I really enjoyed our meetings.  Edie slept pretty much the whole time until the last 15 minutes or so, it was awesome!  Then Whit made us all a super fancy and delicious dinner.  Yum.  Then we went over to the Pettey's to play games.  I love Sunday game nights!  What a great way to end a fun week :)