Grandma Evelyn's Funeral & Time with Grandma Sheryl

On March 4 Grandma Robert's returned to be with our heavenly father. It had been a long time coming she has been sick for a very long time. Saturday was her funeral when someone is as old as she was(95) and as sick as she has been the day was more of a celebration than a day of sadness. I thought that Hallie owuld be content to run around and play with my cousin's kids but in fact she was very interested in what was going on at the funeral. We talked to her ahead of time and explained what would happen we wondered if she understood. Once we got there we figured out very quickly that she was listening and remembered everything we had talked about she wanted to see everything.

The morning of the viewing was the 1st time Nate got to meet Gracie as you can see from the pic she really likes him

My little brother, Nate, although he would like to think that he is tough is just in fact a big sweet heart that is very tender and sweet. You wont find many 17 yr old boys out there are wonderful and talented as he is. While holding Hallie at the funeral Hallie asked where grandma had gone and why she had to leave...it made Nate emotional he said because he had a hard time explaining to her why the people we love are taken away from us even temporarily. So I took her aside and explained to her(the best you can to a 2 yr old). Then while the casket was being closed and a few of us were emotional she said, "don't be sad grandma is with jesus and doesn't hurt anymore" don't worry this just made the tears come even faster. I am thankful for our sweet Hallie and her innocent and loving personality. Hallie's flower for grandma


We are always excited when something brings my parents to Utah and this was no exception. After the funeral we celebrated Nate's birthday with Pizza Plus pizza and homemade ice cream and toppings. My family got in as much playing as possible while they were here. My dad spent hours outside playing with Hallie, the ducks, and a ball. While my mom spent most of her time cuddling with one of the 2 younger grand kids. She still has the touch and both slept most of the time.


Mom with her 3 grandbabies

Happy Birthday Brit

Although Thursday was Brit's birthday we celebrated on Friday night with yummy dinner and cake. It made it extra exciting when Brit announced to Matt's mom that she and Nick are expecting baby #4 in October(strangely enough her and my sister Kim are due the same day Oct 7). We have know since the weekend of Valentine's Day when we went on our double date. We have been so excited it has been hard not to slip and say something. We can't wait til October when we will add 2 new additions to our family. Here are some pics of the yummy cake

2 Months

Hallie wanted to pose to she will be 2 1/2 at the end of the month


On March 6 Gracie turned 2 months. When we went to the dr he was very impressed with her development both physically and cognitively. She was a little shy at first but after some prompting shared several smile and coo'd a little. She weighed in at 10lbs 10oz(43%) and 23in(75%). What she didn't like was when she was given 3 shots and her rota virus liquid to drink. I hate that cry and the look of why are you letting them do this. But I love the way they sleep once we get home.

She still has dark hair and somewhat of a mullet in the back..I wish she would go some more on top. She continues to wear a size 1 diaper and 0-3 month clothes at this point they fit perfectly but soon will become to short for her long legs. She is an awesome baby sleeping about 8 hours at night and eating every 4 hours.

Playing in the Snow

Its hard to believe that it took until March to have enough snow to be able to go out and play in it but that was the reality so we tried to spend as much time as we could playing outside.
All dressed up to head outside

Although the driveway didn't need shoveling we used out shovels to carve out a snake in the yard...she loves her snow shovel

The snow didn't cooperate to make a snow man so we played follow the leader and had a snowball fight

I showed her how to make snow angels and she went to town and then she was repeating to me the instructions on how to make a snow angel...she really does listen

Once we were done playing we headed inside for some hot chocolate, cookies, and a movie

I love days like today where we have no place to go and the whole day just to play.

Treehouse Birthday

Wednesday was Treehouse Museums 20th Birthday Celebration. They had a big party that included an awesome puppet show, a magician, and of coarse cake and ice cream. Hallie loves going to the treehouse and when they have special events Matt gets to come with us too. I was actually quite happy with the bad weather because there weren't many people at the party.
Eating our cake and ice cream

Gracie watching the fun

Showing Daddy her favorite things


And when we got home we for almost the 1st time shoveled the driveway

Family Date Night

So since the first of the year Matt has been great about planning dates and making sure they happen. I think we are realizing all the time how important dating your spouse is especially as we add more kids to the mix. Anyways we decided that once a month that it would be a "family" date night and include one or both of the kids depending on what we are doing. I think as kids get older its important to not only spend family time all together but also one on one time with each child. I hope these are the beginning of wonderful relationships and memories in our little family. So this past weekend we went to dinner at Pizza Factory and after headed to Fat Cats to play in the arcade.
She was so excited to go play games she had a hard time focusing on dinner

This game was both Hallie and Matt's favorite


We had the play place all to ourselves, not much to it but Hallie enjoyed it


We had a lot of fun and made it home just in time to get ready and head for bed. Can't wait til next month the plan is bowling...that could be interesting.