I have forgotten how busy life can be with a baby. We are busy all day but seem to get nothing accomplished. As soon as I decided that I would be better at keeping up with the blog things got even crazier. Shortly after Ellie was born my Grandpa was diagnosed with terminal cancer. My mom and some of her siblings went to Vegas to move him and his wife up to Utah to stay with my Uncle Ken so he could be closer to family. Tons of family came to visit him and many of them stayed with us. We had a constant revolving door (I finally just gave my mom her own key) of family. Sixteen short days after he moved to Utah, on May 4th my Grandpa passed away. This meant another round of family coming to stay with us for his funeral. Luckily he passed away without pain and was surrounded by family like he always wanted. The girls and I got to go visit him a couple times before he passed away.
Our family at the funeral
We love Grandpa and will miss him but know he's moved on to bigger and better.
Now onto happier things. I started with Grandpa because that seemed to be what added to the new found chaos that is our house. As you can tell from the pictures above Ellie is growing like a weed. She's almost 3 1/2 months old and weighs over 15 lbs. That's what happens when you eat nearly 40 oz of formula everyday.
She has more cheeks than she does face.
Mia has become quite a good big sister. It took her awhile to adjust to having a sister but things are going pretty good now.
Mia loved having people constantly visiting at our house, especially Grandma Barb.
Poor Uncle Shawn got spun around until he fell out of the chair.
We figured out how to rig Ellie's car seat into the bike trailer so we have gone on several family bike rides this spring.
Ellie's loves bath time.
Hanging with Aunt Trina
This is what a lot of our mornings look like except I'm usually in the middle.
Mia watching Curious George with her "friends"
We tried letting the girls take a bath together one night but Ellie's tub doesn't have suction cups on the bottom and it floats. It didn't work out so well...lol
Back when Ellie ate enough to only need the little bottles.
I just think this picture of Ellie is too cute!
We went to Jensen Nature Park to feed the ducks one weekend.
It was a little windy.
The girls and I headed down to Hogle Zoo with a friend of mine from work and her little boy. Mia had tons of fun and Ellie slept right through it.
Mia was adamant that she was riding the Zebra on the carousel. Luckily it was still available.
Easter Morning. Mia got a tee ball set
Ellie got a book, some food (for a few months from now) and a growth chart to hang in her room.
Easter egg hunting at Nana's.
While Monty went with the guys to the cabin the girls headed up to Idaho for a visit. We went to the petting zoo and Mia got to feed the goats.
One of the goats tried to eat Mia's bum. Notice the big wet spot on her backside. :-)
Grandpa and Ellie hanging out.
Mia had a blast climbing Grandpa's trees/
As well as helping Grandma make brownies.
Ellie's 1st Sunday at church was up in Idaho.
What a cute bunch!
We went to feed the ducks when we were up in Logan one weekend but we ended up feeding more seagulls than ducks.
I managed to get a picture of Mia's newly painted room but didn't have on of Ellie's room on the camera. Maybe one day.
Hopefully I'll manage to keep up with the blog now. I'm back to work so that should help. The middle of the night when there is a quiet moment at work seems to be the best time to actually get the blog updated. Only 3 1/2 more weeks of working full time and then I'll be part time! YAHOO!!
