Audrey's Blessing

Audrey was given a name and blessing on Sunday. It was such a beautiful blessing, Kirk and I both really felt the strength of her spirit. It was amazing! How neat is it that our Father in Heaven would allow us to feel of her divine nature. I really feel honored to be her mother.

We are both lucky to come from amazing families who drove the six hours to be here. Almost all of my family (minus the German, Coloradan, and High Schooler) were here. And they all stayed at our house (ok, Riley slept at my uncles house but he was here most of the time for the party). We had two tents set up in our tiny St George backyard and people sleeping everywhere but the bathroom and kitchen. It was a wonderful time and we made some good memories (11 kids, 12 adults it would have been impossible not to make memories!) Kirk's family also came and showed their love for us and Audrey...we are so lucky!

We love our Audrey so much and so are glad she is a part of our family forever! Thank you to those who participated in the weekend celebrating her!
(Pictures of the weekend will be posted on facebook)

Weekned Review

This past weekend my oldest brother Riley (who is amazing) ran the St George marathon.

 Oh and he did it under 4 hours.
Simply amazing I tell you!

But it almost killed him.

(I hear he is able to walk now)
He had some awesome supporters
One of whom loved the free chocolate energy bars that were passed out
(As her parents we later regretted her free chocolate energy bar)

Other supporters found the whole marathon thing a little boring

Either way I was really impressed with my brother. Way to go Riley!

We also got some cute pictures of Audrey in the bathtub.
I told you she was getting chunky

 Kirsten thought it was necessary for Audrey to have plenty of toys to play with

(aren't big sisters the best!)

 And then there is the mold. A couple weeks ago I was sitting in my recliner healing from the c-section holding my brand new baby when I look over and there are mushrooms growing in our carpet by the baseboard!!! Something was finally done about them last Friday. They ripped out part of the wall in the living room and our bedroom, the baseboards and some of the carpet padding. There was a hole in the living room wall looking into our bedroom. Awesome. Then we got to spend an entire weekend with very large loud fans in our living room and bedroom. Lets just say we were in the house as little as possible :) Hopefully everything will be put back together in time for Audrey's blessing this weekend!

Our bedroom:

 

The living room:

Wonder if it was loud?

Kirsten's First Haircut

My cute Kirsten has been sporting mullet hair for the last couple months. I've done my best to hide it with pigtails, so I could keep her cute baby curls, but today it all came to an end. I trimmed as much as I dared and must say it looks a lot better. She did pretty good during the haircut and stayed relatively still as long as she had fruit snacks and fruit loops (neither of which have very much fruit). I took before pictures but I think she deleted them when I let her play with my camera so she would hold still. The bottom two are the after pictures. Don't believe her tortured face, she just likes being dramatic for the camera!

One Month

Can you believe my Audrey is already a month old?

And she weighs 13 pounds to show for it

Do these pictures remind you of some taken 18 months ago?

Audrey's Photo Shoots

birth announcement

tiny fingers

tiny toes

two weeks old

6 days old

Fourth Anniversary

The day after Kirk and I were married we drove through big (or was it little?) cotton wood canyon from Salt Lake into Heber. It was absolutely beautiful with all the fall colors. We stopped in Heber at the dine-in Pizza Hut where we enjoyed the most delicious meal known to man. We were incredibly googly eyed for each other making Pizza Hut a fun memory for us.

On our second anniversary we found ourselves back in Heber and stopped at the same Pizza Hut. We once again enjoyed delicious deep dish supreme pizza with a large rootbeer, although this time we were snugly and I was a little nauseous (que Kirsten 5 months later)

So on our fourth anniversary we didn't really have a choice. Of course the deep dish supreme pizza and rootbeer were order, but instead of sharing a booth making out we sat across from each other each of us manning a daughter. I'm pretty sure not one kiss was exchanged and the pizza is sitting in our fridge with only one piece gone, because after the fit Kirsten threw we didn't last in the restaurant very long. But we celebrated and are looking forward to our fifth year "get a way" anniversary. I'm already counting down the days.

Will we return to pizza hut for our sixth anniversary? I think it's probable.

Four Years of Marital Bliss

Happy Anniversary Kirk
I Love You!