My Baby is 6!

She has been counting down the days. She couldn't wait to be the boss on her birthday!

Chloe is now 6 years old! She wanted to have a fairy mermaid party....she got a fairy party. I couldn't quite figure out how to incoorporate the mermaid part...so it got left out. She didn't seem to mind. This is her first homeade party. I baked the cake, cooked the pizza, and made all the games. It was really a lot of work! I miss the YMCA and how easy they make parties! Anyway...all the girls were turned into fairies with wings and glitter make-up within the first half hour of being in our home!I fed them lots of sugar! They are eating stawberry marshmallows here. NO hands allowed!

After this they had a lollipop sucking contest. "It's really hard not to bite the lollipops"! -Chloe liked the marshmallow game...not the lollipop game.

Shrieking with excitement and being serenaded with ooohs and aahhhs...she got lots of new toys!

Many of you have asked to see pictures of our new house. Well....here are a few parts of it...all decorated for the fairy party. (Sheba got to wear wings after the party).

It took me most of the morning to fill all the balloons!

The kids got to play pin the wings on the fairy! (I painted this the day before).

The girls all went home with fairy wings instead of treat bags. I've decided that I hate treat bags filled with junk.. It's a waste of money and just drives moms crazy as the junk gets scattered all over the house. Thus my reasoning for filling the children with sugar at my home and just giving them dress-up wings to take to their home!
Lily has decided that we have to do the same exact thing for her birthday. Fun...but....yikes!


Here's the update on Lincoln:

He still loves to suck his thumb! He's wearing 3-6 month clothes. Many of which are labeled 6 months only. The boy is growing so fast! Too fast!

He's so stinkin cute! He looks a lot like Lily when she was a baby.


The girls just adore him.
We are so blessed!

A Weekend of Firsts

Last weekend we took Daddy and Linc to the Warm Springs for the first time. The girls and I have been there twice before with Nanna and then again with Jennie, Sam, and the boys. So it was exciting to take our whole family for a Ward activity. I made chocolate delight to share and had to scrape the bottom of the dish to get any myself. I guess it was a hit....but now I feel like I need to make it again!

So Lincoln took his first dip in a pool! He had on cute little swim trunks...but his swimmie diaper came all the way up to his nipples! (It was given to us from a friend because I forgot to bring one). Oh well....it worked!

He was really unaffected by the water. We think he liked it. The water at the Warm Springs is like bath water...so the biggest reaction we got out of him was chattering gums when he got out. I think we might have another fish on our hands!


Daddy was wearing the kids' goggles to do a few laps -as evident on his forehead!

The following day we drove north again, out through the Valley of Fire to Lake Mead. Wow! The sights were amazing! We went for a get together with Jason's colleagues from work and had such a good time. Lincoln, Chloe and Lily went on their first boat rides. Chloe went tubing with Mommy and Daddy, Jason did some waterboarding, and then he and I got to surf behind the boat! I got up on my first try!!!! Lily was so proud of me. She kept saying, "Wow, great job Mommy!" It was a blast!

This little one, known as informer #1, and known for changing her clothes at least 5 times a day, got a little car sick on the way there. But as soon as she sat in front of the air conditioning vent, had some water, and saw her friends....was happy as a clam! I never heard, "Mommy, I just wanna go home" again, after we opened the car doors.

This one, also known as miss bossy, or informer #2, had a blast the entire day. She made new "best" friends and tried to hide out in their boat when it was time to go home. On her first boat trip Lily opted to stay on shore and play. After awhile, Miss Bossy was telling the driver, Sam, that he needed to turn around and take her back to shore because she missed her sister. She has no problem telling people exactly what she wants, when she wants it. Gee. I wonder where she gets that from?!

Daddy and the girls went to scope things out while Lincoln and I hung back in the car for snack time.

This is the boat we got to surf behind! -So much fun!
Packing things up and getting ready to go. Where's Chloe? Oh yeah...the stole away in the boat! We broke out the Twizzlers and crackers...she came back!

This is the boat she was hiding out in!

Chloe had soccer pictures last week and will have her first game this week. It's going to be interesting! (They haven't been taught what a game is going to be like). Will I laugh or cry...???!!! Maybe both!They are such a cute group of kids!Lily loves her baby brother!

Linc is now wearing Calvin Klein. (Uncle Rick sent us a package)! Thanks Uncle Rick!

Linc has started blowing bubbles!

And is now sitting in the bouncy seat...even though his legs don't touch the floor. (So we stack books under him)! He loves it!

Lots of firsts for us! Hope you're having some great first moments too! We love and miss you all!