ABBI'S BLESSING DAY

Almost sisters. These are are our good friends, Jen and her girls Taylor and Jayda.
Jimmy's mom bought a blessing dress for her first grand daughter 14 years ago. Little did she know that the dress would be worn by all twelve of these girls.
Thanks to everyone for supporting us on Abbi's special day. We feel blessed to have such great family and friends. We wish we would have been able to visit more with those we haven't seen in such a long time.
Photo: Courtesy of Jeff Decker

FAMILY NIGHT @ THE BEE'S GAME

The ball pictured is a foul ball that we snagged before we even entered the ballpark. Cameron was already excited to be going to his first game so you can imagine his joy when he got this foul ball.
Dad is teaching Cameron some of the finer points of the game.

ONE MONTH OLD

Fun on the 4th!!

Every year Jimmy's family has breakfast up in the canyons where we enjoy a big breakfast in between trying to keep kids out of the river. Jenni was happy to be there as Abbi's original due date would have meant that she would be "enjoying" hospital food. YUCK!!! We end the day by swimming and enjoying more good food.

PHOTO SHOOT

We went to get Abbi's newborn pictures taken and thought we would add the link to our blog. We also had pictures taken before Abbi came. They are a little out dated, but still really cute of Cameron and Kaitlyn. You can click on more pictures to see both sittings. Click on the "Photo Shoot" above to view the pics.

CLIPS OF OUR KIDS

Kaitlyn has become quite the little singer lately. Here is "Two Little Monkey's Swinging from the Tree"




The sunbeam class had talks on Father's Day. I wrote a poem for Cameron to recite as a surprise for Jimmy. Well it was supposed to be a surprise, but Cameron has not quite learned how to keep a secret yet. He made it to Tuesday of that week when he told Jimmy before bed that he was NOT giving a talk on Sunday. Jimmy played along all week and it turned out to be quite the Father's day gift for Jimmy. He did cry a little, surprise surprise.

CONGRATS TO JASON & JAIMEE

One of my baby brothers is getting married. We are excited for the both of you!!

CUTER THAN EVER

Abbi is getting cuter everyday. We may be biased, but her grandma's say the same thing, (ok, that may be more biased)

This would be an afternoon picture because she is truly sleeping like a baby. The nights are a bit different, as we unfortunately had expected.
Big brother and big sister gifts, aka something for them to hopefully do on their own.
This is attempt one in putting them in the same clothes. You can expect to see a lot more of this as they grow up.
We are still having a hard time realizing that we truly have three kids. As our pediatrician told us "the sooner you go crazy the better." Anybody ready for a fourth.

ABBI IS HERE!!

She is here!!! I had a doctor's appointment Tuesday morning and left feeling slightly bummed that I had not progressed since my last visit. After accepting that the baby would make it to the 26th of June, you can imagine my shock when I realized that I was in labor twelve hours later. Everything went well with the delivery and both baby and mom are doing well. Abbi was born at 5:54 A.M. after a total of three pushes. The baby was 7 lb 8 oz and 21 inches long. We feel very blessed to have three wonderful kids. Cameron has accepted that he has another little sister and loves her so much that he spent part of the afternoon singing her primary and other children's songs. We think Kaitlyn will like her once she slows down enough to realize that she is no longer the baby of the family.





This is a Abbi's cousin Avery, who was born two months ago. Future BFF's.

BUMBLE DUMB BEE

Cameron attended preschool this year. He went to the same school that Jenni's Mom taught at. He loves seeing his grandma there and had a blast staying busy, (away from Mom) and learned a lot. Here is clip of him in his spring program. If you heard Cameron sing this song early on, it was Bumble damb bee. What is that school teaching! Jenni gets a little teary eyed every Tuesday and Thursday morning because now it is summer.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAMERON!!!!

Every year for Cameron's birthday he comes up with some fantastic idea of what everybody needs to do on that day. This year the entire family was to play baseball, but not in the yard. We needed to go to "real" baseball field for the event. While we were at it we went all in with the cracker jacks, popcorn, hot dogs, and ice cream. Although some family members were missing, the game was close, with Cameron's team coming out on top. He is really in to there being a winner and loser. That would be his Dad's fault. As is the case every year, he was spoiled, with most of it coming from the grandmas.
Every year is a new adventure with what Jenni will come up with for the cake. This year's theme was baseball as you have seen, and with four bases, it fit perfectly. If any one has ideas for five, please let us know because it is never too early to start planning for the next one.


Some did not get the memo about not needing to wear full baseball uniforms in order to participate. You gotta love Jenni's Mom and brother's!!

EASTER

It has been a while since our last blog so we apologize for that. We finally figured out out to do a slide show so please enjoy our fun Easter pics.

IT'S A GIRL!!

It's been a while since our last post, but we wanted to let everyone know that we had our ultrasound and it has been confirmed that we are having another girl. We are still in a little bit of shock, but really excited. Upon hearing the news, Jenni informed me that she was so excited to buy matching dresses for every holiday that you can buy a dress for. When Cameron was told about his new baby sister his comment was, "oh, we already have one of those." Kaitlyn has not been told that she may have to share her shoes because we want to avoid a meltdown by our one year old. We have also bit the bullet and purchased a minivan. We can honestly say that we are happy to be driving it and love the fact that we are able to separate the kids. Cameron loves riding in the back seat, and his parents enjoy it too.