Thursday, March 24, 2011

Quick update

These past couple weeks have been really fun :) Last week my mom and Derek came over to Elko during Derek's spring break. We all had a good time going out to dinner, swimming, visiting, and hanging out. The girls all went shopping one day, while the boys went and looked at dirt bikes. Ami and her girls came over to Elko a couple days after my mom. Of course Alexis, Sorcia, and Izzy spent most of the time swimming. My mom, Derek, Kelly, and Nicole left Friday morning to drive to Provo. Derek needed to go over to get his tux for prom and Kelly caught a ride back from Elko. Alexis, Kinleigh, and I followed Ami and her girls on Saturday to Provo. So that is another 4 hours I drove myself and two kids. Luckily they did really good. Kinleigh slept almost the whole way. On Saturday night my mom, Kelly, Nicole, Alexis, Kinleigh, and I went and did some clothes shopping, then ate at the The Pizza Factory :) On Sunday Alexis, Kinleigh, Derek, and I followed my mom, Kelly, Grandma Josie, and Nicole down to Monticello. It was nice having Derek ride with me, because he drove when Kinleigh was getting a little fussy so that I could sit in the back with her. So there is another 4 hours of driving.
Anyways so we have been in Monticello since Sunday. We've just been hanging out and Alexis has enjoyed playing with the toys we weren't able to take with us to Elko. Alexis and Nicole have spent most the time fighting.. ha ha. I'm not sure why but those two do not get along at all. Alexis does however have a great time when Sorcia and Izzy come and play. Today I went and visited with my friend Jackie. Her little boy Keaton is only 2 weeks older than Kinleigh! We had a great time visiting :) Alexis, Kinleigh, and I will be following Kelly, Nicole, and Keri back up north on Sunday. Keri is coming down to go and watch Derek's promenade dance at his prom tomorrow night. Then on Monday Jonathon is going to come to American Fork from Elko so that on Tuesday we can do a walk through of the house we put an offer in on. The sellers accepted our offer, and now we are just waiting for everything to go through.. and we also want to be 100% sure we want that specific house. If we do decide we want that house, and everything goes as planned we will close on it by April 8th. So we could possibly be homeowners in a couple of weeks!

Kinleigh is getting more fun everyday. She was smiling at me this morning :) She is still such a good baby at night :) Last night she slept about 4 and 1/2 hours straight! She is just so calm at night and never cries. During the day she can get a little fussy sometimes.. but usually she'll stop fussing when I give her the binky. She is just so precious. Even her cry is just so soft and cute :)
I've been pumping every 4 hours.. and that seems to work for us. She still isn't a great eater, and pulls away about 50 times when I nurse her.. so the bottle seems to just be better. I don't really care how she's getting it, as long as she is getting my milk.
Alexis is still a big help! She makes me laugh all the time because she always has something to say about everything. Ha ha..

It's hard when we leave Jonathon over in Elko :( But it's also hard sitting in a hotel room all day with two kids.
Anyways life is good.. and a little bit crazy right now. But I'm thankful that Jonathon has a good job and that we are all healthy and happy!