Thursday, June 21, 2007



Well, we'd have written sooner, but we've gotten pretty busy the last couple weeks. I started my first online class...Student Development 100 (it's required to start independent study). So I've been working on that whenever I have a chance and we have been spending lots of time outside swimming. I think today is the first day that we didn't go outside because I decided it was time to catch up on the house work.

Park has cut another tooth and is army crawling everywhere as fast as he can. Which is pretty fast. He has also started pulling himself up on his bouncy chair and car seat, since they are low enough to the ground. He can sit by himself now, but he never wants to. If he is being held he wants to stand and if not he wants to be moving around.

Annicka makes us laugh everyday with her little antics. Her favorite thing to do is have mommy and daddy bonk their heads on the door every night when we go into her room to say family prayer. She has started to say prayers by herself now, without any help. She has also started thanking Heavenly Father for Matthew, Carter and Mason (her cousins) every night. She also loves to play with Park, especially since he is moving around now. He'll crawl after her everywhere and she'll say, "come on, Park, let's go!"

Friday, June 8, 2007

Lots of Babies

Well, Park finally cut his first tooth day before yesterday. He's been teething for a while, which means not much solid sleep and as soon as he cut that tooth he slept for ten hours the next night. Which we (meaning I) were grateful for.

Well, there have been lots of babies born around here...well in our family at least. Steve and Jessica had their baby boy (after two girls) on the 23rd of May. Kaden Harris. Scott's sister Lori had her little girl (after three boys) Avery Rae yesterday morning. And my sister Julie had her little boy (their first child) this morning in Italy. Thankfully everything went well for both. We were really nervous about Julie having a baby in Italy where they are about 20 or so years behind us in medicine. She was in labor for 23 hours though...which seems weird for our family. My moms were all less than 8 hours and mine have all been 8 hours and less too. Sorry, Julie...you didn't get the right genes. They don't have a name for him yet though.

The Spurs won game one of the Finals last night and we all had a BBQ at gma Chamberlain's house last night and enjoyed the game together. SPUUUUUUURRRRRRRRS!

Well, those are the things that have been occuping our thoughts lately. Love you all!

Monday, June 4, 2007

Lovin' summer!

Today was Park's first experience with swimming...and boy did he have a GREAT time.
Can you tell he is kicking his legs like crazy?
Annicka had a good time with brother too...this was the first time that she enjoyed splashing around...especially splashing the other kids in the pool.
Here we all are with the neighbor boys that Annicka routinely plays with.