Kyle and Kristen

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Ever wonder how much fun a family can fit into one day?

I still need to post about Michigan but since that will take me a year, I'm going to squeeze Labor Day in first.

Labor Day means Payson Onion Days to us, and it's always a fun day spent with Kyle's family. All the brothers intended to participate in the 5K that morning, but it ended up being just Kyle and Justin (and Tabby). We aren't sure how many people participated overall, but it was a lot, and Kyle took 26th place, and 5th in his age group. Justin crossed the finish line soon after Kyle, pushing Tabby in the stroller. They accidentally had him down for the 10K, so it showed him winning 1st place overall, with a 4 minute mile average. He's hoping to see his name in the paper. :)

After the race we went to Lee and Maxyne's for a big breakfast, and then went back for the parade. I was a little nervous Bentlee wouldn't be digging the loud sirens, but her bottle was distraction enough during the beginning and then she surprised us all and slept through the rest. Babies are so unpredictable!

I get a kick out of ~~advertising campaigns~~ parades. There was definitely the normal candy throwing. But there were other interesting goodies as well. One guy was passing out notebooks. Can't remember what his company was, ironically enough. Our friend's mom owns a flower shop in Payson and they handed out flowers. But my favorite was probably the popcorn from the local movie theater because there's nothing like movie theater popcorn at 9 am. There was a cool float here and there, but mostly just company after company passing out fliers and coupons.

Yes, those would be donkeys.

Tabs was so darn cute. She's the lil runt of the family.

Hearing this music always makes me nostalgic for Alma's Highland Festival

Nixon!

Lyla!

Ryan bought his boys these cool umbrella hats. Of course, the boys didn't find them nearly as interesting as Lydie and Ryan himself.

Ezra and Maddox jumped on these cool bungee trampolines, and then Tyler showed them up with some mad flips.

After the parade, we went to Lee and Maxyne's to barbeque, and then the girls took off for the craft show, leaving all the kids with their daddies. We received this text from Justin while we were gone:

Take your time. Just enjoying baby arm wrestling. Nixon's in the lead!

When we returned, the boys started their semi-annual tennis tournament (not really, they do these randomly but they seem to fall on Memorial Day and Labor Day) and the kids played on Grandma and Grandpa's new swing set. And the girls did what we do best- chat, nurse our babies, and console injured children.

Can you believe Nixon is 10 days younger than Bentlee?

Abby was sporting her new cape from the craft show

We finished the day with pizza and then Amber and Wes and Noel went off to take engagement pictures!

I love Holidays!

Saturday, August 18, 2012

4 MONTHS

This is a big month for Bentlee because she is in Michigan for the first time! We arrived a week ago today, and are still here for 2 more weeks. So far she has met her Uncle Jeremy, Uncle Mitch, Grandma Hinton, Aunt Karla, Aunt Gail, and cousins Aubrey, Michael, and Carlee, everyone at the Weiferich family reunion, and my BFF Ashley for the first time. To say that she is being spoiled would be an understatement. This morning she was pretty fussy while we rocked and she didn't calm down until Aunt Stephanie scooped her up and began walking around with her. Something I have never had to do until we came here.

Last Monday we flew from Salt Lake to Phoenix, then Phoenix to Detroit and Bentlee was perfect the whole time. I think the people sitting near us were pleasantly surprised. The flight attendant on the second flight fell in love with her. She stopped to talk to her several times and even gave us a certificate for her first time flying.

Randoms:

I guess she likes to show off more for her daddy because she has now rolled over both ways several times and I've only witnessed it once.

She still buries her head in our arm when she gets really tired. Case in point:

Even Skyler can put her to sleep!

At home she's always smiling and giggling but she's much more serious when we are in a new place or around new people. It's funny to watch her bob her head around and take in her surroundings. I wish she would show off her cute laugh for my family though!

She loves and sometimes even needs her bunny or a blanket against her face to fall alseep. My favorite thing is when I give her her binky and she grabs my hand as fast as her little hands can, holding tight while I try to let go. Other times she just needs a finger to hold. She's not high maintenance at all. :)

Nursing isn't going as well as it did the first few month so we've been supplementing formula here and there. I love nursing and will be really disappointed if we have to stop. I am trying hard to keep it going, but I'm also preparing myself in case it doesn't. I have so many friends that couldn't nurse at all, so I'm grateful for the 4 months that I have. And I'm glad that we've always given her formula every once in a while because now she isn't picky about what she eats, or what kind of bottle she takes it in. Before we came to Michigan I stopped at her Pediatrician's office to have her weighed and she had actually lost almost a whole pound. That's when I started supplementing formula and we've already noticed a difference. She's never looked unhealthy or anything, but she's almost starting to look a little chubby to me now. We went away for a night this week and were gone only 36 hours but I SWEAR she got bigger!

Words can't express how in love I am with this baby. The way she grins at me almost every time she sees me makes my heart melt. Often when I will look at her, her arms and legs are kicking and she's grinning up at me as if trying to get my attention.

I was helping Skyler find something to wear our first morning here, and I was just as excited as she was to discover they had matching dresses. I just so happened to have matching headbands as well!