Gila Valley Temple

On Saturday we went to the open house of the Gila Valley Temple. It is such a beautiful temple and the kids were so excited that they actually got to go inside.

We went with my family

Brycen

McKinley

Leah

There was still snow on the mountains and it was very windy and chilly.

Leah was exhausted on the ride home.

2 Months Old!

11 lbs 12 oz (75th %) & 24 inches (90th %)

She is my biggest baby. None of my kids have ever been in the 75th % for weight.

She sleeps for 8 hours at night and is always happy. She rarely cries, just smiles all the time. If I could have imagined a perfect baby she would be it. She is great!

I thought this picture was funny.

My Creative Child

Ever since her 2nd birthday last month, Leah has been obsessed with birthdays. Today, I sat her down to eat lunch and went back to finish making my lunch. I kept hearing her sing the birthday song and when I glanced over I found that she had made her own "birthday cake". She used the bread from her sandwich for the cake, yogurt for the icing and a cheeto for the candle. Then she proceeded to sing happy birthday to herself one more time, blew out the "candle" and ate her cake. She claimed it was delicious. She's so creative.

Ha ha!!

A Rare Moment

Everyone clean, quiet and happy!

This doesn't happen very often with three kids.

6 Weeks

6 weeks old already and I finally caught some smiles on camera!

She is such a happy baby.

We're Moving!!

Last weekend, we started discussing the possibility of putting our house up for rent and looking for a new house. With the addition of a new baby, we have quickly outgrown our current home and it's a great time to buy right now. So on Monday night we went to look at a brand new subdivision that was close by. Lo and behold, they had a spec home that was just finished, we loved it and the price was right with lots of incentives so we bought it! If anyone knows Jeff and I this is very out of character for us. We are never spontaneous especially when it comes to huge financial decisions. But we had to act fast because some of the incentives were ending and everything fell into place. I guess it was meant to be. We are so excited to have a bigger home for our growing family but we are so sad to leave our ward. We love our current ward and several people have called, emailed and posted on facebook telling us not to leave. This will definitely be the hardest part about moving. We hate to leave our wonderful ward family and friends.

Our new house is in Cameron Ranch on Higley and Baseline. It's just right around the corner from our current house. We love this area so we are happy that we are staying close by. It is 2304 square feet. It has three bedrooms, a huge loft upstairs, a den (which we will convert to a fourth bedroom, it just basically needs a door and half a wall filled in), 2 1/2 bathrooms, a formal living room and dining room, a large family room and nice kitchen. It has a ton more space and I am so excited that the kids will have a playroom and so much more space to run around and play.

We close on May 3 and can move in anytime after that. I am so excited to move but not looking forward to all the packing with 3 kids including a newborn. Yikes! But we will survive and everything will work out.

Here is a link to the floor plan.

http://kbhomes.com/Plan~PlanID~00875227-235.2304.aspx

And a few pictures that we took.

Front of the house. The painting and landscaping is finished now.

Kitchen

Family Room & Den

Loft upstairs

Birthday Party & Baby Blessing

We had a very busy weekend. First we celebrated Leah's 2nd birthday with a party with family. We enjoyed having everyone over. Even though Leah usually likes to be the center of attention she was a little overwhelmed. I don't think I have ever seen her so quiet and subdued. She still had fun though and got lots of fun presents.

On Sunday, we blessed McKinley. She wore her beautiful dress that Grandma Sherri made for her. I'm so glad my kids will have special blessing outfits to keep forever that their grandma made for them. Jeff gave her a wonderful blessing and then everyone came over for lunch. It was a nice day and I'm glad we could spend it with our family.