Peyton's 5!

I have a 5 year old! What!? For his birthday we went to Jump On It... We had a great turnout. Thanks again for everyone who came! And we loved his cake! Peyton loves monster trucks and motorcycles right now :) we went to our annual Bees game & are waiting to go to the zoo once the Safari opens. (On his birthday each year we always go) 

Peyton finished his 1st yr of preschool. His teacher stated "he has improved leaps and bounds..." Peyton can read books that have 5-6 words on a page... Other things he has learned is on the picture below :) after much deliberation, we have decided to hold him back. He will be doing another year at preschool... And Bradyn gets to join him at the same school! (Learning dynamics) They will be going MWF 12-2:30. I'm excited for them:) right now we are potty training Bradyn to get him ready for August. Peyton can now sit in a booster in the car, that's cool! Haha. He got a new bike, a scooter, an Art set and lots of other toys for his birthday. He's out riding daily:) 

here are his Stats:

Weight- 38lbs 34%

Height- 45 in. 81%

BMI- 13.7  3%

 

He's in t ball right now & loves it! (With an exception of last game...) ha! His swimming lessons begin June 2.. It's a 2 week course, everyday... Just in time for Lake Powell the end of June! Wahoo:) 

Currently, we have been getting ready for our baby girls birthday party... It will be SO memorable & so fun! 

We are excited to spend his 6th birthday in Disneyland next year!!!! 

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9 months

My sugar pie is 9 months old today! 

She has been the fastest with so many things. She can sit, crawl, stand, pick things up from a table and squat back down to sit....she's going to be walking soon!  I'm so happy that I don't have to worry about her not doing things fast enough.  Sometimes I sit and think, what can she not do?!  She's got 2 teeth, she waves Hi & Bye, she is still the most social- smiliest girl that I have ever been around.  I love that she is that way.  You can tell how much she loves people and being around them.  She's SO easy going & is just the sweetest baby ever :)  While away on our Cruise, she was the best little baby for my Mom.  It was so fun to see such a strong attatchment my mom has with her.  I love how much my mom loves my kids. :)  I love the eye contact she gives me and others.  She loves to give kisses. She is the biggest fan of my hair....my heck, she just loves my hair.  She is constantly having to hold it and put it up to her face to fall asleep.  She's just SO sweet.  I can't wait to do so many fun things with her.  While in Disneyworld- we passed the Princess Boutique & got  prices and am so excited to always dress her up and to take her to Disneyland and have her dress up.  Lucky girl, gets to go to Disney twice within one year!:)  I also can't wait for her to get her toes done with me...love my pedi's :)  She sure has us wrapped around her finger. As much as I wish she would always stay little, it makes me so anxious to watch her grow and for me to grow right alongside her.  She and I love planning her First birthday party- and thinking of so many fun ideas.  I'm working on a special little project for her, that I can't wait to see how it turns out. :)  She is still nursing and loves it, i've planned on nursing for whenever she doesn't want to anymore....which ...may be awhile ha ha.  Doc says her weight has slowed down a bit & has suggested we do some form of solids 3 times a day rather than the 2.  and to powerpack her bottles whevever she has one.  

weight- 16.67 lbs- 25%

length- 27.5 in- 46%

head- 17.25- 51%

Doc says she's very porpotional, and am so grateful for that :)  In other news, Bradyn has become a persistant snore-er and may have his adenoids removed...poor guy! But we are looking forward to some restful nights, so whatever it takes to help him not wake up so much, that will be great.  

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Cruise!!!

Well the trip we had planned for like a year in a half finally came to pass! It was a Blast! Joyce & Nic and my brother Ben and his wife Krystal came:) 

We spent a day at Hollywood studios and that was so fun. Perfect amount of time without any kids to do everything. We did do that 90 min tour with Westgate to get 2 tickets for $80 and that ended up working really well. We only stayed 20 min more than expected and got to the park 30 min after it opened. We spent two nights at All star movies. After we had received our rental- we made it over to the OL temple for some pictures. That was cool. Our ship was called Enchantment of the Seas. We had two stops. Cococay and Nassau. We loved Cococay. It's owned by royal & it was so clean and colorful. They served a BBQ on the beach.  I enjoyed a beach side massage and we did some snorkeling. While snorkeling, we were out pretty far & came cross some small reef sharks... It didn't phase us too much but a few moments later a 6 ft reef shark swam next to Steve & I lost it.... A lifeguard came over on a jet ski and took us in! Sooooo scary!!!!! Atlantis was AMAZING!!! I dont think we ever sat down the whole time at Atlantis.... The lazy rivers, the slides, aquariums, dolphin cay- all of it was SO neat! The lazy river would actually take you to your slides, we just stayed on!  Atlantis closed at 5, so we then spent sunset on the Beach. Our ship had a rock wall and a jump trampoline thing....  Our rooms in the ship were pretty big, there was a couch inside the room! The dancers for the nights shows were SO awesome! Some interesting things- their ice cream cone machines were only opened a few hours a day, no pizza 24\7. We had a hard time finding place to eat on the ship, not a lot of options. I think if we had a choice, we'd prefer carnival over Royal. 

Lots of memories & pictures :)

Bahamas Shark Story

One of our stops was CocoCay.  It's a private island of Royal Carribbean's.  It was clean & colorful.  They served everyone a BBQ on the island.  We did some snorkeling, lounged around, I had a massage on a beach in a cabana...the day was going So well :)  After my massage, Steve had asked if I wanted to go back out snorkeling.  Joyce and Nic had gone back to the ship- it was getting later in the day and he had told me that Ben & Krystal were out there and that there was a place he wanted to show me that was pretty far out- I said OK.  We got into the water and had caught up to Ben & Krystal- the 4 of us were snorkeling around.  We saw the prettiest and huge fish and stingray...I realized we were out really far.  Which I wasn't too concerned about at all.....then as myself, Ben and Krystal were all next to each other we came across some 4 ft reef sharks.....it made us uncomfortable but didn't seem like a big deal at all.  We had just glanced at each other under the water in a "wow" kinda expression.  I then swam closer towards to Steve, with my head still under the water & noticing that his was not...I began to see a Shark coming closer to steve....he then came alongside of him and realized he was the same length as Steve....I began to rise to the surface & tucked my legs into my chest....Steve asked if I had seen something and without saying any words, just nodded Yes.  I felt really uncomfortable & began to panic.....I told Steve & Ben & Krystal that we were too far out and needed someone to come and get us.  I knew if Steve had seen what I saw his panic would have thrown me into histeria haha.  In some colorful language....we got a lifegaurd that was on a deck to come over with his jet ski- he explained that it was JUST some reef sharks and that there isn't anything to worry about and took Krystal & I into the beach and left Ben & Steve to swim to shore!  After getting on to shore a small crowd wondered what had happened and we told them.  It was so SCARY!  At the time though...my first thought wasn't that the shark was going to bite...which is weird....i more so just didn't like the idea of swimming ALL the way back to shore after seeing what I saw!  As we've been back home, Steve told me that there was a part to this story that he hadn't had told me....he explained how he had seen a dark shadow that had ran alongside of him.  EEEK!  Just glad we are all Okay!!!!

pure joy

As I found myself sitting in a sealing room watching a special ordinance being performed for someone I had met on my mission.  My happiness was so far and beyond, that I realized it was a feeling of pure joy.  As days have passed, I have been able to recount these moments of pure joy in my life.  These moments for me have been shaking hands with the Dean of a University as my diploma was being handed to me, receiving my mission call, kneeling down in a small home in prayer and listening to the words of someone asking God if the church was true, witnessing the look on someone’s face as they are brought up out of the waters of baptism, being told “thank you for coming into my life”, walking towards my hubby for the very first time and finding ourselves embracing, being sealed for forever & being so happy that we had the room packed from wall to wall with everyone we knew and loved, being told by my parents how Proud they are, holding my first baby in my arms, a surgeon coming towards me to inform me that it was all Okay, a “thank you” for being a best friend, receiving the call that a dream job was being offered to me, the moment in a ultrasound room and realizing that it was indeed a girl, my oldest singing his ABC’S, my two boys loving each other, discovering a message written to a friend 9 ½ years ago, a daughter gazing into my eyes and smiling ear to ear.....these moments…moments in life where the whole world stops just for a few seconds…where your heart just wants to burst in light and love.  Tears that may flow uncontrollably.  I’m not just talking about moments of happiness, we all have so many of those…but these moments of pure joy.  A joy that fills your entire soul.  A pure joy for me, that seems to be rare in occasion but comes at the perfect moment.  I can describe as being taken out of the world & finding such a clean perspective. I think these moments of pure joy are very individualistic. As I think of all these moments, not only am I SO grateful to have had these moments of pure joy. But also realizing how LUCKY & blessed I truly am too. 

I am so eager to experience more of these moments of pure joy.  A picture that describes a moment of pure joy as of late would be this one... 

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Must Read

http://weseekjoy.blogspot.com/2013/12/babies-ruin-bodies.html?m=1

Love love this article!!! I am ALL for fitness & eating well, getting in shape post baby. But seriously, let's stop trying to mask the fact that our bodies DID actually in fact HAD a baby. Rather than "celebrating" on the "hey check me out, I just had a baby" focus on the words in this article- you, your body was a home for your baby. Your body will never be the same & be proud and feel honor for that. It is an amazing blessing. 

6 months

Our angel turned 6 months!  Seriously....a complete angel!  She is seriously the best baby ever.  She is so well-tempered & SO chill.  We just love her sparkly green-gray eyes.  She's began sitting about a month ago.  And has been a champ at it :)  She just loves to sit on the ground and play with toys.  We tried Peaches today---Thumbs up!  She loved them!  She still isn't sleeping through the night--but the Doc thought- "no wonder she's not sleeping through the night yet, she only breastfeeds & at the moment isn't taking in solids."  (we had started to, but had been on a break for a week)  SO...we are hoping that by feeding her solids 1-2x's a day, that she will begin to.  That would be nice :)  She's just been a delight & we love her more and more as each day passes.  We want to thank all of you for your kind words!  We love taking pictures & posting them of her!  Not going to Lie- having a girl is the BEST!  it's SO much fun!  

weight: 15 lbs 9 ounces- 40%

length: 26 1/2 inches- 66%

head: 17 inches- 61%