While We Were Out...

Hi All! You may or may not have noticed I've taken a bit of a hiatus from blogging for a while, but all that's about to change. James is now 9.5 weeks old and I am starting to figure out how to be a mom and wife without sleep and with 2 kids. Every time I've sat down to post recently I just got this nagging feeling that I should focus on my screaming kids instead of the blog.

So, here is my super lame post about things I should have posted more in depth about during the last couple months:

1. Nick fake graduated and got a 3-year post-doctorate position at Los Alamos National Labratory in Los Alamos New Mexico!

2. Nick will really graduate in August and defend his thesis after which we'll be moving to Los Alamos!

3. We planted our garden! This year it's peppers, strawberries, and onions.

4. James turned two months old! HOLY COW! He weighs 9 lbs. 6 oz., and is a happy and healthy little boy.

 
5. Alexa still really loves James, nearly to his death a few times, but it's all good natured and no one has been permanently damaged...we think.

6. I have some catching up to do but I'm sticking with my goal of reading 50 books this year! I'm about 40-60% through about 5 books right now, so it's not over yet!

7. Nick went to France back in April leaving me at home with a 3 week old and a 2-year old for 8 days!

 The obligatory "Just in Case You Die" photo

8. The loneliness wasn't too bad though because my sister, Cindy, came out to visit for a few days. We had such a great time!

9. I finished my recreational women's soccer league last Friday and dominated the game by scoring 2/4 goals for our team. I'm really going to miss those ladies!


I'm really sure there are more posts I meant to do, but please, for now, consider me caught up and I'll fill you in on a need-to-know basis! 

Got a post already for tomorrow, so I'm serious this time that I'm back in the blogging world! Woot woot!

Happiness is...Squirrel Watching

Nick is in New Mexico for a couple days this week, and we definitely miss him around here for many reasons.

Not the least of which is squirrel watching.

Just about every morning before work Daddy opens the blinds and he and Alexa look for squirrels in the open space outside our house.

It's magical.

Love you, Daddy!

Happiness Is... Going to Church

We love Sunday's. Here was today's schedule:

• 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Nick attends Elders Quorum presidency meeting.
• 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM: Our family attends church. Rachel conducts Young Women's. Alexa rocks nursery.
• 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM: Rachel attends ward choir practice.
• 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM: Rachel attends a fireside commemorating the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Boulder Stake.

And this actually was a fairly calm Sunday compared to some in the past month. We even had time to take a family picture in our Sunday best.

We really love Sundays!

Snowed In

I don't think it's ever happened before, but we were literally snowed into our house today. With an accumulation of somewhere around 12" and a drift just beyond our driveway of about 24", when Nick did try to leave, he got stuck and we had to push the car back (mostly) into the driveway. That just meant that instead of being busy doing all sorts of things outside the house, we got to focus on busyness inside the house.

And occasionally inside-the-house-busyness leads to tickling!

Don't you love that they're making the EXACT same face?!

And sometimes it leads to kissing.

Being snowed in is nice in someways...until we run out of milk.