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Friday, June 27, 2008

Elise got her first tooth!


Elise got her first tooth June 25th. She had been somewhat grumpy for the past week and now we know why. Then the next day she got another coming up next to it. She has also been waking up a lot at night, crying for a few minutes then going back to sleep-we think she must be growing.


Lissy also broke out with a horrible rash two week ago, but the 26th she woke up and it was really bad. The doctor took some blood to run test to see if she is allergic to the normal things like milk, eggs, etc. But all of the tests came back normal (which is a huge relief, but we would still like to know what we can do to make the rash go away). It seems to be getting better, but then it will break out again.




Do you ever feel like you take your toddlers to church every Sunday only to get nothing out of it for you or them??? We do sometimes, with both kids crying, fussing, and paying no attention to us or the speakers. While there is hope!! A couple of weeks ago Mason was playing with some toy cars, driving them on the seats, the people in front of us, etc. We were trying to get baby to go to sleep because she was cranky and to control Mason so we weren't really listening to the speaker. All of a sudden Mason stopped playing, holding his car in mid air (it was flying across the seats) looked at John and said, "that's what Jesus said on my movie." At first both John and I were totally confused. Mason said it again, "that's what Jesus said on my movie, the one with Jesus." John turned his attention to the speaker just as he finished quoting the scripture in Matt when Jesus tells Peter to feed his sheep. We bought some of those cartoon scripture movies for Mason and he watches them every Sunday. He had watched the new testament one about Jesus teaching his disciples only a couple of times. Both John and I were shocked. Mason didn't seem like he was paying ANY attention at all, yet he still pick up on the main point of both the Speaker's talk and the Jesus movie! Moments like these make it all worth it.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Celebrity Morph by MyHeritage

MyHeritage: Family tree - Genealogy - Celebrity

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Another Crazy Week at the Hill's

Will and Anna came to visit us last weekend and we had a good time hanging out with them again-we really miss them. When we lived in Vernal we would play games and get together at least twice a month, sometimes twice and three times a week.

They had a timeshare at the Wyndam Hotel, so they invited us to play in the pool with them-which was GREAT! The funney thing was we spend at least half an hour lathering sunscreen on both kids and us, only to find the pool was COMPLETELY shaded by the building! Oh, well, next time
we'll put the sunscreen on at the pool if we need to.



Mason loved his freedom in his floaty and he chased everyone around pretending to be 'the shark' that was going to eat us.
Lissy on the other hand wasn't so sure of that cold water at first, but was okay as long as Mom was close by--Getting out was a completely different matter! As you can tell from the picture, she was NOT happy about being wet, cold, and she wanted her bed.
We had a good time. Even though the kids were a bit tired and cranky because we had dragged them around all day (Will helped us trade in our two SUV's for one nice one-an Escalade-which ALWAYS takes much longer than planned.)






This past week has been fun, but crazy. We had a least one thing to do every night and two and three things at times. We love it though! John and I are both people who like to be going and involved.






Monday we had Family Home Evening with some friends, Laurel and Peter. Mason adored having two boys to run around with, throw things into the pool with, and just do boy stuff.
Tuesday John had a priesthood meeting at 7pm and I had water aerobics at 8:30pm. John also started working out at the gym at work during his lunch breaks (which is starting to pay off!)
Wednesday we went to dinner with John parents and a work associate-which I had to leave early for a meeting and ministering visits. We always have a nice time with John's parents, though the visits are usually short, we're glad they work us into their schedule.
Thursday John had Ministering Visits at 6pm and again I had water aerobics at 8:30pm. Also, both Tuesday and Thursday Kassie (a friend) came with me to aerobics and her husband Joseph played games with John.
Saturday we also had a great day just hanging around the house and playing in our pool (though John tried to put more water in it, forgot about it while he took a two hour nap and came back to a slushing back yard-good thing it's Vegas and 110 degree dry heat evaporates water quickly).
Our little princess folds her hands for blessing the food at dinner,
she's so cute when she does it, so daintily (yes that's a word).
Lissy has also gotten Very mobile quickly. This past week she escaped from her room (with Mason's assistants) and rolled down the stairs. Mommie about had a heart attack, luckily she rolled sideways and was not hurt. Mason has received strick instructions that his job is to help and protect sister, which he does pretty good most of the time.
Lissy and Mason LOVE their bath time together (at what age does that become inappropriate???) They enjoy splashing each other and pushing the toys back and forth. With Lissy's newfound mobility Mommie also has to be on her toes to catch her slipping and slidding around in the tub-she thinks it's funney.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Catch up



ELISE IS CRAWLING!!! She finally decided that she wanted to get around herself (up to this point she has been our lil' princess and just wanted to be carried everywhere). She loves the little bit more freedom. And Lissy is so cute when she crawls, it is still very dainty and methodical. She only crawls to get a specific item that she wants (usually mom).

I know, I know many of you mom's out there are saying 'What, crawling, my baby is walking and is only six months.' Mason was walking by 10 months, but Lissy isn't in any hurry and honestly I'm happy about that. I've always been in too much of a hurry to get onto the next stage of life sometimes I miss what is happening now and I look back and wonder where it all went. I don't want to do that with my kids. I still can't believe Mason is going to be four next month--where did all that time go?

Elise has also had a bad ear infection the last week and has been extremely clingy to Mommie, she would scream at daddy any time he tried to hold her if mommie was in the room. All of this is somewhat satisfing as a Mommie. Mason was never very attacted to Mommie-even now as soon as Sacrament meeting is over he takes himself to primary with us trying to catch up to him just to kiss him goodbye. I love how different my kids are, they are so unique and wonderful in their own ways.

I also realized that I have never mentioned that John got Lasic on his eyes a few weeks ago. He is doing great and loving the fact that he never has to worry about finding or wearing glasses or contacts ever again. I wanted to do it too, but was informed that you can't if your nursing and for at least 3 months after you've stopped nursing. So maybe I will get to later this year.

My baby sister is getting married Aug 2nd! We are so happy and excited for her. She has found a wonderful man, Travis Partridge. And the REALLLY strange thing is Travis has the same birthday as my husband, John and my other sister's husband Brandon. So all three brother-in-laws have the same birthday. Also all of their last names are nouns: Hill, Furr, and Partridge.


I just started teaching a water aerobic class two nights a week, which is great! It's fun and makes me feel energized all week. Tuesday we had 20 ladies show up and we had a good workout. I'm hoping to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight by my sister's wedding.

Well, I think that's all the big news...more to come.