Loving every minute!

So once again, it has been a long time since our last post! I'm hoping that at some point in my life I'm going to get better at keeping this site updated :) Our life has been busier than usual, but full of good stuff! Jonathan and I have decided to rent out our house so that we are able to buy something that will have a little more "play room" for the youngin's. We advertised our house on the 27th and by the 29th had a renter! Who knew our house would go so fast! Although it's stressful, Jonathan and I are both very excited about it. In addition to that Hailey has discovered that she loves to dance to music, she can roll to any destination she pleases, the first steps of learning how to crawl and how to say "da-da". Needless to say, she's been a busy girl... now, if only we could get her to sleep through the night. Speaking of babies, we find out the sex of our next baby on Feb. 5th! I'm so excited I can hardly stand it.. I want to know now!!! Anyway, keep looking back and I promise, I will post what we're going to be blessed with :) In the meantime here are some pictures of miss Hailey...

Hailey's 6 months!

In the midst of my posting last night, I forgot to tell everybody that Hailey was officially 6 months on the 15th of December! Her appointment was on the 17th and as usual, she's little :) She weighed in at 14 Lbs. 4oz., she's 25 inches long and her head circumference was 40.9cm. This means that she's in the 15th percentile for weight, the 25th for length and the 7th for head circumference!

YUUUMMMM!

We started giving Hailey rice cereal last week and she absolutely loves it! She will just sit there with her mouth open waiting for the next bite... sometimes I feel likeI can't get her the next bite fast enough! As you can see, she and daddy have a great time together, eating isn't any fun unless you can get messy! Keep looking back for updates on her new foods!

So Busy!

We've been so busy lately with random things, I haven't had a chance to post! Jonathan is currently in Montana, but on his way home today. He went hunting over there for deer. It's a trip that he absolutely loves and can't wait for each year. This time he got a 4 by 4 mule deer and a white tail doe, so I think it's safe to say he had a great trip! Hailey is still working on getting some teeth in so she's been a little uncomfortable, sleepy and cranky throughout the day but still manages to smile and laugh at things just as she usually does. She's also trying to figure out how to roll from her back to her stomach. She rolls onto her side and then rolls back to her back, but she's almost there! Porter's doing okay, I think he's felt a little neglected since Jonathan has been gone, but he's hanging in there :) And as for me, I've just been trying to keep up with the laundry, the cleaning, work, Hailey and Jonathan :)

Fall Pictures

Well I guess I'm making up for lost time this month with all of these posts, but I couldn't resist posting the pictures that Melanie took of Hailey last week. Melanie always does such a wonderful job and these pictures are no exception! Enjoy!

Birthing Class Reunion

Last week Jonathan and I had dinner with two couples from our birthing class and we had a blast catching up with them and seeing the new editions to their families, Luke and Aliya. Luke was born June 16th and Aliya was born August 19th. Hopefully we'll get to see more and more of them as the kids grow! We are so lucky to have met such wonderful people, are able to share these precious moments with them and watch all of our children meet their milestones month by month.
Luke is a true ladies man! Look at him with a girl on each arm!
Daddy's busy during dinner time. On the left are Sean and Aliya, then Jonathan and Hailey and on the far right are Jake and Luke.
Luke and Hailey always find a way to hold hands... it's too cute!
This is a picture of the three of them from biggest to smallest! Luke weighs 17.4 pounds, Hailey weighs 12.7 pounds and Aliya weighs 8 pounds :) They are so cute!


There is nothing better than little baby feet! From left to right goes Luke, Hailey and Aliya :)

Pumpkin Carving!

It's been a busy, busy week for us! Hailey had a doctor's appointment on Thursday. She weighs 12 pounds 7 ounces, is 24 1/2 inches long and her head is 39cm. She's in the 50th percentile for height and the 25th for weight and her little head is in the less than 5th percentile. She was the smallest baby in her class! Then we visited with our cousin who came up from Oregon and came home to get the house ready for our party on Friday. A couple years ago we had a pumpkin carving party at our house and everybody really had a good time so we thought we would do it again this year... only problem was that we hadn't picked out our pumpkins yet. So yesterday afternoon we went to the pumpkin patch. It was pretty slim pickins but we found the perfect ones for us. Then we went to the store, picked up some groceries and some tables and came home to make food and prepare for company. Hailey is teething so it made it a little more difficult to get things done, but we managed. Jonathan put some stuff on Hailey's gums and that seemed to really calm her down :) Hailey missed most of the festivities but we had a great time with everybody!


At the pumpkin patch!
Daddy helping mommy pick out her pumpkin!


We wore her out!

Daddy helping Hailey feel better... She had been crying for a while :(

Time to start carving!

The girls are having too much fun! Not sure why Stacie has "earmuffs"... :)

Brian, Jeff and Kaylee are kickin back lettin the Jenny and Stacie do the hard work!

Stephanie and Carson! Carson had so much fun with all the pumpkins!


Nothing like drinking and using sharp objects to carve pumpkins.... Good thing we had some EMT on scene :)

Josh is checking out Emery's creation to get some inspiration... Cheater.


This is our family picture! Can you guess which one belongs to Molly, lol.

From left to right, Emery's, Josh B., Justin T. and Dede!

From left to right, Stacie, Kaylee, Matt, Nicole, Jenny, and then there was Molly (the one on the broom).

From left to right, Nicole, Jenny, Molly, Hailey, Jonathan, Justin & Stephanie, Jason.

The "Rainier" pumpkin is Jason's, can't imagine where he got his inspiration (See picture above) ;)


The last two belong to Justin and Dede.

Everybody did such a great job on their pumpkins and we all had a wonderful time! Can't wait to do it again next year!