We're snowed in! lol

Although this is not your typical Utah snowed in look, we really were snowed in! School was canceled for 3 days as well as church. We cozied up by the fire, enjoyed hot chocolate, did lots of reading and played in the snow!! Everyone was sad when our over programmed life returned.

They're off!!!!!!

After two and one half years of pained teeth, aching gums, and lowered self esteem, at last they are off!!!! This morning I sat through an hour and a half of wrenching, scraping and polishing, but alas the time has come!!! Now my teeth feel slimy and my gums swollen, but my poor dear teeth can breathe as they haven't for years!!!! Now you guys can all have a party!!! :)

Joy and I decided to take a picture together and she wanted her doll to join us. The entire night we've been singing and dancing "Put on a Happy Face!"

Emily's only comments were "You look like way different!!! How did your friends know it was you?" :)

Emily's 7 year old Birthday Party

Emily had a fun birthday party. We made the girls matching aprons with their names on them. They decorated cupcakes and got to create several of their own flower hair ornaments. What a fun time we had!!!

Reid update

As of today, Reid is now 4.5 months and is cuter than ever. Recently at the doctor, Reid was measured in the 80th percentile in height, but only the 30th percentile for weight (super tall and skinny!). Our doctor gave us the ok to start feeding him solid foods (ie rice pudding) but we haven't started yet-probably this week we'll try it out. Other than that, Reid is just seriously the most alert, responsive baby you have ever seen! When I come home from work or school at the end of the day, Reid will almost immediately look straight up at me and will smile a huge, toothless smile. The other day, Christine was holding Reid as I was on the couch and he started to do something that he has never done ever before. I would make a funny sound and Reid would look right at me and started to BELLY LAUGH, like DEEP and LONG. It was soooo funny. At first, Christine and I just cracked up because we thought that it was just a one time thing, but as I continued to do it (probably about 20-30 times) Reid stayed right with me and absolutely CRACKED himself up immediately after each sound, and then paused (anxiously awaiting the next sound) and proceeded to belly laugh his little 4 month heart out.

I wish that we had caught it on video, it was just literally the most hilarious thing we have ever seen- we laughed for like a whole hour afterward.

Also, we just got a new computer, a Samsung, so no pictures right now, but they will be forthcoming.

Chef John

I went to a market last week and had some amazing soup. They said Chef John is the one to thank. He has a recipe book here worth checking out.

Family Skype

Dear Family,

I think we should have a weekly video-cast, where everyone that wants to can be in a family video conference. That way we can stay updated with each other. There is a version of Skype that allows conferencing with multiple computers. I suggest we do it Sundays at 6:30 MST (that would be, 5:30 Pacific and 7:30 Central). What do you all think?

27 weeks!!