100th Day of School

On Friday, Adam and his class celebrated the 100th day of school. His teacher asked each student to make a t-shirt with 100 things on it to wear to school that day. We decided to make a math lesson out of it and we put 100 dots on his shirt. Adam counted by 5's and 10's as we plopped the dots on.

  One of their 100 activities included writing to 100. I was very proud of Adam for completing his paper and thought he did a very good job!

Week In Review

Tessa has started nursing her babies. She sits next to me, pulls up her shirt, and makes sucking noises. It's pretty funny!

 A daddy/daughter nap

 This week Gwen got to meet her Uncle Matt, Aunt Lisa, and her cousins Amie and Leora.

 We had a surprise birthday party for Aunt Dee. I made the cake and she blew out all 50 candles!

 After going to the Jazz game, Adam has been playing a lot of basketball. He and Tessa set up an inside court with cheerleaders! These are all of Tessa's cheerleaders.

 Here are Adam's cheerleaders.

 We started our Valentine's Day countdown this week. We decorated the house for Valentine's Day and did some heart attacking. The kids chose to heart attack Gwen and Daddy.

 Little Gwen came down with a cold this week and has been pretty congested. It has been sad to see her not feel good. Hopefully she will be on the mend soon. 

I ventured out with all 3 kids to a trip to the grocery store. It went fairly well and I think I will survive trying to keep track of 3 kids.

4 Weeks Old!

I know I say this every week, but I can't believe how fast 4 weeks has gone by! Gwen is wonderful and we just can't get enough of her. She turned 4 weeks old on Tuesday. I am healing well and finally turned a corner recovery wise at about 3 1/2  weeks after surgery. It's nice to be feeling a bit back to normal.

Here is our beautiful  girl!

 These kids can't get enough of their baby! 

 Tess loves being a big sister!

 I had to post this picture for Adam. He about wet his pants laughing when he saw it.

And then she made it very clear she was done with her photo shoot!!

Jazz Game

Monday night Eric and Adam were able to go to the Jazz game. They had such a good time together and Adam LOVED going to the game! Eric said he cheered so loud and loved screaming "defense!" Adam was thrilled that the Jazz ended up winning and loves telling us the final score. What a fun boys night out!

Gwendolyn Marie

~Gwen~

January 21, 2012

Eric's News!

Eric had some exciting news this week! Last Wednesday he interviewed at BYU for their Executive MBA Program. He felt that the interview went well and we figured it would be a couple of weeks before we heard anything from them. He got to work Monday morning and had an email waiting for him from BYU. He was accepted into their program! 

All his hard work paid off and we are grateful that he will have this opportunity to expand his horizons. We are not quite sure how we feel about being students again, especially with 3 kids, but it will all be worth it!

3 Weeks Old

Yesterday little Gwen turned 3 weeks old. We can't believe how much she has changed in 3 weeks! Her cry is louder, she cries tears now, she looks for noises, she makes funny faces, she squeaks and grunts like crazy, and she would eat all day if I let her. Eric and I were talking the other night about how it feels like she's always been with us. We are so grateful she is part of our family!

I love her little elf ears! Adam loves when she makes any kind of noise, even a sneeze. He often says, "Listen Mommy, she's making noise like a human!" The kids just love her to pieces! They are dying for her to play with them.