Cameron's announcement

My cute friend Becky made this announcement for Cameron's birth. (Hope all the other kids won't be mad because they never got an announcement) So grateful for talented friends!

1 month

I can't believe that my baby is already 1 month old. We went in for his 1 month checkup and I just had to laugh. I sure do have healthy babies! He now weighs a healthy 11 lbs 6 ounces and is 22 1/4 inches long.

He is such a good baby and is becoming more alert and loves to watch his brother and sisters. He gave me a great birthday present by smiling at me more than 1 time. I believe that was his first smiles, Jason would say otherwise. He is sleeping ok, but I can't wait till I can get 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep. His skin is still peeling, and he has some baby acne, plus his hair is beginning to come out but we don't think he could any more handsome!

Pictures

My good friend Becky took a few pictures of Cameron just before he was 2 weeks old. So fun to have some great pictures!

Girls

Sometimes I wonder how, and why I was allowed to be the mom of girls. My parents just laugh and say that all the grief I gave them is going to catch me now. I like to think that I was a perfect angel and never did anything wrong....but we all know that I wasn't and I am not perfect. Now I get to fight the stuborness (Jason insists that trait is from me, and I of course blame him) of a 4 and 2 year old about what clothes to wear, how to do hair, and anything else you can think of. I am doomed for sure, guess I should really just relax and not worry so much about those silly things.

But then we have other moments when we color, dance (they don't laugh when I dance!), and play that I remember why it is fun to have little girls. We love to dress up, Kylie can sure give a great compliment to make mom feel good, and we love to be girly. I have such great helpers with Cameron, and they love to help me fix meals, and any other treat, and decorate for holidays. Although sometimes it is hard to have girls I wouldn't want to have it any other way! I love my Kylie and Paige, just heaven help me when they are 12!

Cameron at 2 weeks

Cameron is such a good baby. He loves to be held when he sleeps which I love too. He is pretty consistent waking up every 3 hours and wants to eat. Which he is very good at, and we can tell as he is starting to fill out. I love his double chin!! He also lost his umbilical cord stump. It was the earliest that any of our kids have lost it. Time for the first real bath...yay!

We have loved having both grandma's and one grandpa out to visit with us and help us as we tried to adjust to this new one. It was so nice having meals made for us, cleaned up after, and kids played with, and shuttled around to school and dance, having help cleaning and with laundry, and being able to nap....heavenly!

Jason's mom left Thursday the 24th and my mom came within the hour. It was nice to not have a break since Jason was out of town in Idaho. Then we were lucky enough to have my dad come out on Saturday and it worked out well because Jason was able to get a flight within 10 minutes or so of my dad landing so one less trip to the airport for me. We had a good time visiting and talking, and just relaxing. We even got my dad to play Scrabble which he won of course. I loved all of our visitors just wish we had more of them!

Lori in Flagstaff

I am backtracking a little I got behind and am trying to get caught up.

Lori my youngest sister plays volleyball for USU. And she called me months ago saying that she had 2 tournaments in Arizona. I was ecstatic! One was in Flagstaff at NAU, and then the second one was at ASU. It was perfect, I could see her play and she could see us. Well the tournament at ASU was cancelled but we still were able to see her play at NAU and it was her birthday weekend! It was perfect. We needed a little break from the heat and all the moving and some good family time since Jason had been traveling so much.

It was heavenly the weather was perfect, we headed up to Flagstaff and found overcast skies and nice cool weather in the 70's. We got there found where we needed to go and then grabbed some lunch and headed to the game. We got to watch Lori play and USU won the game. Unfortunately we didn't get to hang out with her between the games so we went to look at some old cars on route 66. Tanner was in heaven looking at all the old mustangs, and other cars. We walked around for awhile and then we decided to find a park to play at and the kids had a really fun time. I didn't get any good pictures of Tanner he found a friend to play with and was all over the place.

Then we headed to get some dinner before the game and met up with some friends from home (Provo) and had dinner at Oregano's. It was super yummy and then we headed back to watch the last game. It was fun and USU ended up winning in 4, and won the tournament. I had hoped it would just be 3 so we could have some time to visit and take her to get some birthday dessert, but I loved being able to watch Lori play. We had to get back home because Jason had to get back because he was headed back to Idaho early Sunday morning. I was so sad that we didn't get to spend more time together but it was so fun to see Lori. We only had 1 casualty for the entire day. During the game Paige was playing on the bleachers and took a tumble and hit her mouth on the bleachers. I think her tooth almost went through her lip but other than a lot of blood she was ok. She just was so sad and kept saying owie and pointing to her lip. It was pretty fat but healed pretty quickly. We love you Lori!

Cameron

We are so glad this little guy is here. Everyone is totally in love with him, and wants to hold him all the time.

He is really a good, mellow baby so far and loves to sit in his swing and look around...he isn't the best at sleeping. Sometimes its every 2 hours at night which isn't fun, but most of the time it's every 3 hours. We are adjusting to life with 4 kids as both our parents have gone and we are on our own. I can't believe that he is 2 weeks old today. We had a good friend take some pictures of him yesterday and I can't wait to see how they turned out. I will post some more when we get them