Isabella's blessing

We blessed Isabella and had such a wonderful day!  Thank you to everyone who came and helped make it a special day!  Unfortunately we did not get pictures of everyone, but this is what we do have.  Isabella is one lucky girl to have so much love.  I am grateful that she does!  Both of her grandmas got her special blessing dresses so we had to be a bit creative during the day.  Grandma Davidson made her a blessing dress out of leftover material from my wedding dress and Jean's mom brought a dress from Brasil.  She was beautiful in both of them!  

 Isabella was wiped out from a day of partying!  so sweet in Daddy's arms

 the dress my mom made

 the dress from Brasil

Moved in!!

I love.

 Well this was the exterior before they made a couple corrections.  The porch stairs are now wider and there was some trim added to the front.

 Kitchen

 dining

office

Just so there is no confusion

that I love my new house more than my kids!!

 Isabella is three months old today--another Friday the 13th

This is just a glimpse and what a goof Spencer is.  I have about 15 other pictures like this all taken in like a 3 minute window!  Too bad I don't have his energy level!

coming along!!

 They just need to add the colored layer of stucco and stone

 Mud room just needs baseboards now that wood is in

 pantry

 Master looking into bathroom

 Master bathroom (toilet room on right, closet straight ahead, and linen closet behind open door)

 hall linen closet!!  I love how huge it is!

 kitchen

half bath on main level

Now that painting and hard floors are in, I am hoping to they deliver cabinets today!!!

update

Our house should be getting sheetrock put up as I type.  yay!  

I think I have been a crisis worker too long.  Today I picked up my IHC employee gift from HR with Spencer in tow.  The blanket had a rope tied around it and the lady from HR told Spencer, "there is a rope for you to...(pause while she thought)...pretend to be a cowboy with" and during her pause before she could finish, I thought "for you to choke yourself with".  Yikes, I am in "get everything out of the house that could cause self harm" mode apparantly!

Spencer cannot grasp the concept of running errands, no matter my efforts to explain it to him.  Today I told him we were going to run errands.  On our way home afterwards he asked where we were now going.  I told him home and he yelled, "but we didn't get the errands yet!!"

Also, he likes to sleep in a box.  Our temporary apartment is just that small.  Just kidding, he does have a mattress on the floor that he can upgrade to!

Isabella dearest!  Thank you for sleeping through the night since you were five weeks old!  And I am not talking 6-7 hours, more like 8-9 plus!  Love it.  I didn't think I would get this lucky with another child, boy am I glad to be wrong!  Enjoy some pics taken today of her.  I know this is a lot, but trust me that this is the narrowed down version of my faves!

 

we have been framed....

Finally.  These were taken this morning.  They should now be done with the framing and rough plumbing. What a perfect birthday present for Jean.  Happy birthday, love.  Tomorrow begins electrical.  Is it August yet??  I want to move in!!

videos for out-of-towners

It is fun to hear her "talking" and see her smile.  She is getting much more smiley everyday.  I need to get better videos of it.

Idaho Falls

We took a quick trip to Idaho Falls to see Abbie get baptized and hang out with family this past weekend.  

 Spencer and Grandpa

 Spencer was so excited to see Dallin.

 Can you tell that Spencer is addicted to mints?  He had 3 or 4 in his mouth at once.  Quick funny story.  Spencer loves the cafe rio mints and eats them without any problems.  Jean on the other hand, frequently thinks that they are too hot. 

 Now that we have Isabella, I did not have an all inclusive, good family photo of us.  So I attempted many times this weekend to get a good one, and this is one of our best efforts.

Mom and Dad

 Ben, Amy and Abbie

It was Cherilyn's birthday so we had to celebrate with cake.  Nevermind that Cherilyn is in Pennsylvania on her mission!  =)  We enjoyed it for her!

Four generations of eldest daughters

Grandma "Hi", Grandma Davidson, me, Isabella

cutie pie

I think her little facial expression is so cute in this one.

She was so patient with my impromptu photo shoot in the car today, I got a lot of cute pics, but these are my favorite!

Air show and lazy day

We went to the air show early this morning and had a good time minus freezing to death!  I knew that it was going to be overcast with a chance of rain, but hello wind!  Anyway, grossly under prepared for the elements!  Needless to say, we didn't stay the whole day but got some fun.  We left just in time as it started raining fairly hard once we got in the car.  Hopefully next year has better weather!

 We had to compensate for not sleeping in, and all took pretty good naps!  Spencer wasn't too happy to wake up for me, but was excited to get to "play" with Isabella and hold her!

Happy Memorial Day!!

my life today