Gracie is 7 months and our weekend trip to St. George

Gracie turned 7 months yesterday. She is so cute. She is talking more and more now. She now rolls over everywhere and can move form one position to another. Lately she has been into faces. She likes to touch peoples faces. With me and my dad it is mainly reaching right for our glasses. Also just today she has been starting to pull my hair. I guess I am going to have to put my hair u[ from now on. She also likes Grandpa's and dad's hands. She loves to smile and will definitely tell you when she is hungry. She is such a great addition to our family. So good and calm. We love our Gracie Goose.


Last weekend our little family took a trip to St. George. We had a really good time. We left at 8:30 Friday morning right after Josh got home from the night shift. I drove the whole way while Josh and Gracie slept. We got there at about 12:30 in the afternoon. We just hung out at the house most of Friday. Saturday we woke up early and went to Vegas. Josh wanted to go to the Pawn Shop on Pawn Stars. A show on Discovery Channel. He loves at show. The line to get in ran all the way across the front of the store. I wasn't so excited to go. I wasn't looking forward to spending 3 hours waiting in line and so on. It only took about 10 min. to get in the pawn shop and we where only there for about an hour.

After the pawn shop. I really wanted to go to the M&M factory and the Coke factory. Gracie had never been and I wanted to take her. We went to the M&M factory first. We bought Gracie a green M&M onesie and a little plush green M&M doll. Next the Coke factory where we took our First Family Photo with Gracie and the Coke Bear. I was so Gracie smiled for the picture. After our afternoon in Vegas we went to Henderson to visit Josh's Cousin and the new compound he bought. Complete with a bomb shelter. Josh's cousin Hayley has done a ton of work on the place. We spent that evening with Hayley and his family. For dinner we went to Sushi. It was getting late and Josh and I didn't what to drive through the Arizona Canyon so we decided to spend the night. Sunday we had a leisurely morning and didn't get back on the road until 2 pm. Sunday night we watched The Help. Very good show if anyone wanted to know. Monday we got packed up and traveled back to Saratoga Springs. It was a great trip. So fun to just be with Josh and Gracie. I'll Try to post the family picture later. Apparently my parents computer doesn't want to add it.

Gracie Loves Giraffes

Ever since Gracie's Great Aunt Judy and Great Uncle Bill sent her a giraffe pillow and blanket she can't get enough of giraffes. After her Blessing I received a little note and some money from my Aunt Tarina and Uncle Steve. The note said to by something fun for Gracie. I went to Target and got a soothing sounds giraffe and a blanket with a giraffe on it. She falls to sleep with the music every night now. Smiles and eats it before she sleeps. She didn't really like it until the giraffe pillow and banket came. Now she smiles at everything giraffe. So I had to get a giraffe outfit for her. Josh also brought her home a giraffe from Texas. She loves them and can't get enough. I think she will be having a giraffe birthday party. It is so fun to see what things kids react to.

One Crazy Vacation

So my dad took the boys to see the Utes play at the Sun Bowl in Texas over New Years. So the girls thought that it might be fun to take all the kids to St. George. We thought wrong. Lots of miss communication. We left Friday at 12 noon. Friday was Ok.

Saturday was the opposite. Friday night my mom, sisters and I decided that we wanted to go shopping on Saturday. We decided that going in shifts would be best. Mom and Camille would go first at 10 and be back by 1 so that Manda and I could go. I didn't really have anything in particular that I needed to get. I did want to get some shirts for me. Pretty much all of my shirts are to small and are getting so warn out that they are getting holes in them. We would switch off tending the other kids all except for the babies Brielle and Gracie. The babies had to go with their mommy's. I thought this was going to work out great. I thought wrong. I pretty much was the only one babysitting because Manda was putting Lianna down for a nap. Shopping was fun though. Manda and I went to JC Penny to get Clint clothes, then to Kid To Kid, then to the outlets and our last stop we went to a Down East ModBe Warehouse sale where all the shirts where $3. We made a hall. After our shopping trip we all met at Costco. Camille had left her baby formula at home and had to get some. Then we went to dinner at Panda. Four adults against 6 kids is not my idea of a vacation. We had to separate each child to eat. By the end of the meal every kid was upset about something. That night the adults stayed up and played UNO until the new year.

Sunday was crazy too. No one was ready to go to church until 1. Camille decided that she was going to put Brielle down for a nap but never left her room until we went to church. Thus me babysitting again, We walked to church because it wasn't that cold. We missed the sacrament. After sacrament mom, Camille, Jordan, and Brielle went in the chapel to sit. Manda didn't think that there was enough room in the chapel to sit so she and I stayed out. I was feeding Gracie, Lianna started to wonder and got lost. Amanda found her and decided to leave because was worried about Lianna getting lost again. She left in a huff because mom wasn't there to help. But mom didn't know she needed help. I went in to for the rest of the meeting and sat with Camille, mom, Jordan, Brielle and Gracie. The rest of the day Gracie and I took an nap. I think it was a well deserved one.

Monday we went out to breakfast. Kracker Barrel. Yum. It took a while. Apparently a lot of other people had the same idea. We had planned on leaving at 1. We had to be back to pick up the boys from the airport. We went to the house and started to hurry and clean up and get out of there. Manda went to Walmart to get treats for the ride home and didn't seem to come back for a while. She was making keys and it took longer than expected. We didn't get all the laundry done and took 2 whole garbage bags full home to wash. we finally left at 2:40. Before we left Kai misplaced his IPOD. Mom and I had been looking everywhere to find it while trying to clean and do laundry. Manda came home and was panicking about it. She didn't want to leave with out it. She mom and I had a shouting fight about us not helping looking for it. We never did find it. The trip home was a very quiet trip. I was so glad to be leaving.

Needless to say there will be no more baby sitting trips for me. We are back now and are all getting along just fine. Man am I so happy t be home.

Gracie's first real sickness

Christmas and yesterday Gracie had been acting very unhappy. She wasn't eating that great ether. Christmas at my parents ward she was so fussy. I spent the meeting out in the lobby trying to get her to calm down. Yesterday she woke up crying and didn't stop. She seemed like she was in pain. Strep has been going around in my family the last couple of weeks. So I was suspecting that she had Strep. None of the regular Doctors offices were open yesterday so we had to go to the InstaCare. The doctor swabbed her throat and was testing it when she started crying so hard that the doctor came in and asked if maybe the swabbing caused her to cry. I told her that she had been this way all morning. The test came back negative and another doctor came in to examine her. He was so nice. He picked her up and console her to the point that he could take a look at her ears, One of them was fine but when he checked the other ear there was a infection. I was given a prescription and went right next door to get it filled. The whole way Gracie screaming and crying. I didn't know what to do. It took what seemed like forever to fill it. Finally we went home and I gave her some medicine and a bottle. She didn't drink much but it seemed to console her enough to help her sleep. After a short nap all she wanted to do was be held. Poor baby, I feel so bad. She has had up to this point not very many sicknesses. Just stuffy and runny noses. So the day after Christmas was Gracie's first real bad sickness. She is however feeling much better today. Thank goodness.

Happy Thanksgiving!

This year we spent our Thanksgiving at my parents house. Josh had to work Thanksgiving night and my mom, my sister Amanda and I went to Walmart and Shopko for black Friday.

Gracie Is 5 Months

I can't believe it. She is getting so big. She now reaches and can grab things she moves all over the place. We have been trying to feed her baby food and mush everyday. Some times she likes it and sometimes she cries about it.. She does not like plain mush but does like the one with apples in it. She has tried, peaches, sweat potatoes, carrots, green beans, and peas. She so far is not fond of peaches, or sweet potatoes. She now sleeps through the night in her own room and in a crib. She can almost roll over and is laugh and talking. She is such a joy and we love her to much.

Gracie is 4 Months

Actually she is almost five months. She has started to smile and laugh. She is so close to roll over. She rolls all over and will be in one spot and then move to a completely other spot. She is so fun and smiles so much. Such a happy little girl. Love her so much. In November Gracie went to the Living Planet Aquarium for the first time. She didn't really get it. Still trying to work on her neck mussels and tummy time.

Gracie on Halloween

Sorry these are so late, but thought every would like to see Gracie's Halloween Costume.

Our New Home In Saratoga Springs

We finally closed on our house on November 1. Two weeks after we were suppose to close. Here our the pictures I promised. We love it.