Attempt to catch up

Here are lots of pictures over the past few weeks, maybe a whole month :)

My sister made this beautiful bed set for Jillian so we took a few pictures of her modeling it. And in this one I caught a smile! She LOVES to smile! The more you tell her she's cute, the more she'll smile at you. It's adorable, we all love it!

Paul caught this one of her sucking her thumb. She doesn't really do this much or for very long so this was a rare shot.

Jillian is 2 months old now, she weighed in at 11lbs 4oz and 22in long. Putting her in the 50%. This is very different from Erik, he was always in the 90% or above. But we love our petite little girl.


Erik decided to read his Highlight magazine to Jillian. He looks like a teacher, showing her the pictures, so cute! Erik LOVES to read! And he can read some books entirely by himself. He recognizes lots of sight words and has a great memory to memorize some books. He amazes us each day with words he can read!


A sweet Daddy-daughter moment under the Elmo toy. We call the time Jillian spends under this toy her "Elmo time"

She looks more interested in Daddy then the toy :)


Daddy having fun with Jillian.

Actually this is designed to help her hair grow UP like Marge Simpson, now we just need to dye it blue to complete the look.

" That pocket is so huge, it could hold a baby!"

That's what I said the first time I saw this sweatshirt, so that's what we've done with it. Erik has also been 'stuffed' into this pocket.

Erik and cousin Hendrick taking turns holding Jillian

They both love kissing and holding her, it's very sweet.

I'm surprised Jillian looks like she's smiling in this picture because she does not look comfortable.


These next pictures are from May 1st, the day Jillian was blessed in church. However, we didn't get any of her in her blessing dress this day, yeah forgot the camera, grrr.

But we caught a shot of her smile.

And her snuggling with Aunt Jamie

We LOVED having all of our family there to support us and celebrate Jillian's birth and blessing! Thanks to all those who traveled a long way to come see us! We love you!

We had a lot of fun with family,

like PUDDING PAINTING!

Aunt Laurie painted a sister missionary.

Aunt Roni was thinking of the tropics and painted a Palm tree.

I, apparently, was thinking of a mountain scene and a cabin near a stream. We just let our creative juices flow. We noticed that the girls painted more than ate, and the boys ate more than painted. But in the end we all ate our works of art.

Erik loved it, just had to get used to licking the pudding off his fingers. At first he kept asking for a napkin.

But later her got into it and got nice and dirty.

A silly picture of daddy and the kids before bedtime.

Well that's what we've been up to lately. I think I have a new goal to update weekly or at least twice a month so there isn't so much to post at once.