Love me some Lily

Tonight we were cleaning out our basement, and we found some scrapbook pages that I had made of when Lily was around Reese's age, and it was so weird! It's weird looking back at pictures and seeing how little she was and how she has grown. She is becoming such a fun and silly little girl and we love her. Along with that comes a little sass, but that's pretty normal I would assume. I love how smart she is and that she loves to cuddle in the mornings and she sings primary songs. I love that she giggles when we tickle her and how she plays with her toys. I love watching her with other kids and how she thinks she is SO big! I love that when she goes potty she says, "This makes you happy huh mom?" I can't help but smile when I think of her. She is our sweet rainbow baby and we love her more than words can ever say!

7 MONTHS!

Reese turned 7 months yesterday! HOLY MOLY! Where has the time gone?! She is so awesome and so much fun! She is such a chill baby and just happy to be around.
Recently, she has started to sit up by herself fairly well and it looks like she'll probably start crawling soon too because she just wants to move so bad!
She LOVES solid food and if we're eating around her and she isn't getting any, get ready for some upset baby!
She absolutely LOVES her sister! Whenever Lily is around, Reese completely lights up. It is so much fun and so sweet to watch them interact with one another.
Reese also loves her nap time. She is so good to go down, and that makes for a happy mommy!
She's pretty small for a baby her age, she is around the 25% for her length but her weight is not much. I worry every once and a while, but I'm not sure I can feed her much more than she is already eating, and she is just fine developmentally, so, I guess I can just relax.
I can't believe how fast the time is flying by, but we are enjoying every minute of it!

Yay for Food Storage!

So a friend of mine has started selling Shelf Reliance Food Storage. I decided to host a party hoping to get a few deals... well, I invited a lot of people and only 3 people showed up. My hopes for getting really good deal, deteriorated very quickly. Well yesterday, she came to close out the party and I found out that I could get $650 worth of food storage for only $250! Apparently the right people showed up and ordered plenty of stuff! I am STOKED! I will probably be getting a palate worth of food here next week... we'll see how it goes! :)

I LOVE COUPONS!

So if any of you know me, you know that I LOVE getting a good deal! I am a huge coupon user and I love being able to stock up on our food supply without paying much. Well the last couple weeks, I have been able to get toothpaste for only 25 cents a tube. Well, I got 25 tubes because that's how many coupons I had... Who is going to use that much toothpaste?! We certainly aren't! But I didn't want the good deal to go to waste, because that's just how I am. So I decided to buy them anyway, because the whole lot only cost me $5. Well one of my best friends works at the service center at SUU so I asked her where I could donate this toothpaste. She directed me to the care and share, which I gladly went. WOW... I was completely humbled sitting there with my two kids nicely dressed and clean hair and smiles on their faces. There were a few people there, and many of who I would have NEVER thought needed assistance. They were talking about sleeping in parking lots and the different things that they used to get by. I sat there and listened to their conversations, all the while thinking of my nice warm bed in my nice home with all the nice things such as this computer I'm typing on right now, and I felt completely and utterly humbled. I thought," I complain WAY too much! I have so many blessings, and I take them all for granted." So tonight, I will lay in my bed and appreciate my blankets with a comfortable feeling, knowing that I won't be losing any of this any time soon. And I have been complaining that our upstairs AC hasn't been working... at least I have an upstairs! I hope I can teach our daughters to appreciate what they have better than I ever appreciated what I had.

My Beauties and their silliness!

I love her beautiful curly hair!
She was watching Baby Einstein and was LOVING it!
This is what you get when you are asked to serve and make brownies for a funeral... I'll serve ANYTIME! :)
Todd was eating Spaghetti and whenever we have food anywhere near Reese she will ALWAYS grab it... he was trying to eat with his plate pretty far away, and well... it happened to get on her head but she didn't care, she got to eat the food! :)


I decided to deactivate my facebook account because I have been spending WAY too much time on it, and I need to look at my priorities again. So needless to say, I will be posting on the blog a lot more! Plus, I just love my girls! :)

Public Blog

Just so ya'll know, this blog is public now... in case you were wondering!

Family Pictures

I have decided it's really hard to get really good pictures with two kids under the age of 3... but I was REALLY excited about these pictures and I think they turned out adorable. Our good friends mom did these for us. It was awesome and completely affordable! The best way to go!

The Blessings of Tragedy

This weekend, we had family pictures taken up Cedar Canyon. We go up there often, it is beautiful up there, but every time we drive down the canyon I always feel a sadness and yearning. The reason for this is because about 4 years ago, we made that drive at midnight going as fast as we dared go. This was because my water had just broke at our ward camp-out and we were going to the ER. Every time I travel that road, flashbacks of sobbing comes back. I remember every turn, every breath of just hope that this baby would make it, but know that he would never be in my arms. I will never forget that night.
This weekend as we drove down the canyon, those thoughts once again came to me. The sadness came once again in waves. Then something kind of amazing happened. Just as we started to pass the turn off that we took the night that we lost Gibson, Todd and My song started playing from the CD we were listening to. As I listened to the words and what they meant to us I felt an enormous amount of peace. I thought of the two beautiful girls sitting in our back seat. I thought of the wonderful knowledge that I have about having Gibson for eternity. Then I thought of the amazing man who was at my side and all that we have gone through. I truly felt blessed to have him there to calm me and to give me strength to stand when I didn't believe I could get out of bed. Gibson has taught me so much with his passing and teaches me something new everyday! What a blessing that tragedy has become! I can't wait to hold my baby boy in my arms again and to have him for forever, and most of all to thank him for all that he does for me!

Everything By:Lifehouse
Find Me Here
Speak To Me
I want to feel you
I need to hear you
You are the light
That's leading me
To the place where I find peace again.

You are the strength, that keeps me walking.
You are the hope, that keeps me trusting.
You are the light to my soul.
You are my purpose...you're everything.

How can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?

You calm the storms, and you give me rest.
You hold me in your hands, you won't let me fall.
You steal my heart, and you take my breath away.
Would you take me in? Take me deeper now?

How can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?
And how can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?

Cause you're all I want, You're all I need
You're everything,everything
You're all I want your all I need
You're everything, everything.
You're all I want you're all I need.
You're everything, everything
You're all I want you're all I need, you're everything, everything.

And How can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?
How can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?

How can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?

Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?

Spontaneous trip to CA

Lily and Robbie on the awesome 4 person bike
We're just happy to be on vacation!
Me and my babies on Carmel Beach!
My Beautiful Lily
Enjoying the bonfire at the beach!

This past week we just decided to go to CA with Todd's sister (who lives there) while Todd had time off work. It was SO much fun! We did a lot of things that I have never done there before, such as hiking in the mountains, biked the monterey pier, went to Carmel Beach (yes it is a white sandy beach at the end of a long road full of ridiculously rich people), and Todd and I even got to go on a date and went through a mirror maze... very confusing. We got to see some friends but most of all, we got a lot of much needed family time and much needed Husband Wife time... Maybe some day we'll live there, but we'll have to see if that ever happens. If it were our choice, we would probably already live there!

4th of July

What a busy and fabulous 4th of July! It started off at 6AM when I got up and participated in a 5k in Richfield with some of my most dearest friends! It was so much fun! I didn't even run most of it but it has lit a fire in me and I see myself doing a few more! :) I then drove as fast as I could to Cedar City because I missed my family and I spent the rest of the day with my family! We went to the carnival, the movie Larry Crowne (super cute btw), had a BBQ, and did fireworks with the family! It was so much fun, but it was fabulous to lay in my bed at the end of the day! It's so nice to be back home with Todd and Lily again and now we are getting ready to spend the rest of the week since Todd has it off! Get ready for even more fun pictures!

Fordham Family Reunion

Me and Reese near where my Great-Grandfather and Great-Grandmother carved their names in a rock in 1913.

Reese experiencing fireworks for the first time.
The Indian drawings
Face painting
The superheros in the parade
Becky and Trevor after their water fight... EPIC!
Uncle Pete's face painting adventure!
Me, Becky, and Reese on our 4-wheeler ride!

This year for the Fordham Family Reunion it was just Reese and I who could make it from our family but it was so much fun! It was great going to the family property in Grover, UT (Near Capitol Reef). We hung out, ate lots of food, had a candy cannon, shot off fireworks, lots of water fights (with a few pie fights included in there), some fun 4-wheeling, and visited with our family we only get to see a few times a year. I haven't laughed as hard as I did in a long time. I love my family and I love getting all together! It's always fun to just catch up on the year. We were able to visit where my Grandpa grew up, and as crazy as it sounds, even though I grew up in the same area, I had never really been to where he grew up. Todd and Lily were sorely missed, but now we know that they can't miss next year! :)

Tasha Washa's Wedding

This past weekend, one of my dearest friends, Tasha got married to her awesome finance, Doug. It was a beautiful sealing and basically a whole lot of fun. He reminded me a lot of Todd so it was even more fun. I was able to see a lot of old friends from good ol' SUU days! I miss them all so much it was way to much fun getting all together. Back in the day, there were 4 of us that we called the fabulous four... and this was the first wedding that we all made it to! It took 4 to get us all there, but we accomplished it! :) I am SO happy for Tasha and I know that she and Doug will be so happy!