quickupdateonlife

Well, I haven't sat on my couch in almost 2 weeks. 

The day of the spider.
(And also, my lips are the size of China in this pic).

Stori is 100%  potty-trained with ZERO accidents.

While my mom was in Oregon with Bridget, we went to her house and put up 3 Christmas trees for her as a surprise. This was Dan's 5th year putting them up and he's getting pretty good at it! :)

We made cookies last night for FHE even though none of us really like cookies all that much

And my girls are still just as cute as ever.

The End.

a little bit of June bug and Rosie girl

2 things really amazed me today; how fast I forget what it's like to be pregnant, and how fast 3 months goes by with a newborn. :(
 I forget that cool feeling of the baby kicking and squirming. I forget the excitement of each Dr. apt where they listen to the heart beat. I forget the uncomfortable sleeping-situation/clothes-wearing/work-out stage with a giant belly. I forget the labor pains. And I forget what it's like to have just one tiny human.
But I suppose it's all for the best to forget most of those so that we will want to have more children in the future.
As if having these beauties isn't motivation enough!

  

 

Here are a few achievements of our little June Bug!
+ ran her first 5k in Logan, UT
+ went to her first movie at the cheap theatre for FHE. She stayed awake the whole time watching Despicable Me 2.
+ smiles all the live long day! She has always been this way. It is very rare that she won't smile at you while you talk to her. She is also very ticklish and giggles lots!
+ eats every 3 hrs during the day and has a very set schedule with naps. she's very predictable.
+ goes to bed at 7:30 or 8 and sleeps through the night (except for this last week-she was sick and I was exhausted).
+ still sleeps in the bassinet next to our bed
+ still loves to be a burrito and loves her binkers
+ hasn't lost any of her hair yet (knock on wood) in fact it's getting longer.
+ wears size 1 diapers and is fitting into 0-3 month clothes
+ she rarely cries, but when she does, Astoria is there to rescue her before I get the chance to. She will give her her binkers, rock her, and whisper sweet words to her. The other day this happened...

She went and got her bunny book from her room and was reading it to her. She said, "Ohhh poor punkin, let's read book together......" 

     "....It's spring and the bunnies jump in puddles. What flowers you see? Orange flowers? blue flowers?" 
Her little voice is so cute! I say this every time, but she is such a good big sister. (and only partially nude part of the time :) ).

 Having Sylvie June in our life just makes sense! Don't know what we ever did without her or her sister. Sure we went on a lot more dates--but the dates we have at home watching a movie with popcorn or ice cream, is kind of hard to beat if you have two beautiful little red heads sleeping in the next room!

and if all those pictures weren't enough, here are ever so many more!

1st Dam Run in Logan UT--- I think this was my 10th year doing this race!

Daddy is a lucky, lucky guy! 

Watching Despicable Me 2 with the Foresters (and popcorn). All the kids did awesome for the whole movie!

the "spooooky spider"

2 things.
1. I will never sit on my couch again, and
2. We might have to move!


I was using up my precious 'Stori nap time' to cuddle with little miss Sylvie June Bug. Just laying on the couch with her laying on my chest. Best thing ever. Then it happened. In my peripheral vision I spotted a "fly" walking across our blanket. Then it continued to walk up the couch. WALK--- Fly's don't walk people, they FLY! So I hopped up faster than you can say Cotten Eye Joe and took sweet Sylvie and hopped up on the table. Sadly I woke up Stori and she was so scared of the spooky spider crawling on the couch. Let me tell you this---it looked like a crab mixed with a scorpion! With hairy legs! ughlllggg!!!! Well I called dan and he said he wouldn't come home from work to kill it, so I had to improvise. I looked out the window for a stranger to come up and kill it for me. Nothing. Then I looked for my neighbors. All gone for the day. So I called Alicia who helped me find someone that was home. Brian Garcia is the name of the hero. He came over, confirmed my description of the scorpion-crab-spider, killed it with Dan's shoe, and threw it away. After he left, I loaded up my kids and went to Walmart until Dan came home (2 hours later)! It's safe to say I have a pretty big fear of spiders. Especially ones that crawl on me and my little baby! Who knows how long it had been hanging out with us!
P.S. Netflix and Hulu are horrible and awful, and I love them!
Parenthood, New Girl, Psych, Castle, Blacklist, Modern Family, and probably a lot more that I'm forgetting!

Picture taken back before the spider ruined my life. Those were simpler times. 

10.31.13

Halloween 2013
-We usually start planning our halloween costumes about 4 months in advance, and then finish the costumes, the night before. Well, this year is no different.
In August, after much thought for the spooky holiday, we finally decided we would be the cast of 'Tangled.' The one problem we had--Astoria wanted to be Flynn Ryder.

Astoria+Flynn=True Love

We thought it might be a little weird for our 2 year old to dress like a boy, so the brainwashing began. By September we had her sold. Stori would be 'Princess Punzel', Dan would be Flynn, Sylvie as Pascal, and myself as Mother Gothel. 

(Don't think about the creepiness of Stori hooking up with her Dad, cause that would totally ruin everything. So just don't think.) 

All I had to make for Stori's costume was the hair. I just braided golden yarn and hot glued flowers in. (Thanks Ambs for holding Sylvie while I created!) I had already purchased the Punzel dress as a 'dress-up' toy/potty training reward. (oh ya, Stori is potty trained whoop whoop)!!!!

For Pascal, I had to create it all. I used felt for the tail and the eyes. Just put the eyes on a headband and it worked great so that we could still see Sylvie's beautiful hair! :) (Thanks to meg for the green body)!

Mother Gothel's costume was all borrowed from my Mom's stash of old and previous Halloween costumes and Amanda's vampire dress.

Flynn took the most work. My favorite part was that we used my Grandma Lila's wig! haha! I made his boots out of DI brown sweater sleeves, his vest from an old DI henley, the toggles on his vest from the rest of the brown sweater, the brown pants were from DI, the satchel---yep, you guessed it, also from DI, and the crown from the Dollar Store. Dan grew out his facial hair for the role, and put on his best 'smolder' face.

We won "Best Family Costume" at our ward Halloween Party. We LOVE our ward, and Stori especially loves our Bishop!

Bishop with most of the kids

+on actual Halloween, we headed out to Lewisville to Trick or Treat a few houses, and then on to my Mom's house to enjoy pizza dinner with Mom and Josh's fam!

before the carnival

We love almost everything about Halloween: dressing up, the decorations, the candy, the pumpkins/punkins, and the weather. the thing we (mostly me) HATE=all things scary! So no haunted houses or scary movies for us! Can't believe this is our last Halloween in Rexburg! :(

family pictures galore.

I am so obsessed with my family it's ridiculous. 

I love them more than Tillamook ice cream and sweet pork salads. 

Here are about 20 pictures of this family of mine.

 

haha Sylvie! 

reently became a daddy's girl 

A special thanks to Megan, Mom, Amanda, and a red sucker for making these pictures possible. 

photos taken in Menan

Sylvie June Bug is 2 months!

I am beyond behind on my blog! But I still must document... I must not give up!
so here goes.
@2 months Sylvie:
*stats--10.3lbs  (32%) 22.8in (62%) head=14.8in (15%) BMI=14
*goes by S.J. Sylvie June, Sylvie June Bug, and June Bug---never just sylvie
*eats every 3 hrs still and will take a nap exactly one hour after eating-then sleep for about 2 hrs each nap.
*sleeps from 9pm-7:30 ish (randomly she'll wake up at 5 or 6, but we just go with it) then goes back to sleep til 9am
*smiles every time you talk to her
*super ticklish! she also giggles when you make farting noises. :)
*coo's lot's throughout the day, but especially right before she sleeps
*takes a bottle once a week on Sundays
*speaking of Sundays, she gets nominated "cutest baby award" several times each week.
*she still gets soooo much attention for her hair everywhere we go.
*is smothered with hugs and 'special' kisses all day from Stori Rose and Mom and Dad
*only does tummy time for a few minutes before she rolls over. little stinker.
*and she melts our hearts with sweetness every single day!

My interview with Miss Astoria Rose Radford, and life with 2 kids.

A little comparison of my two babes!!! 

Well I'm pretty bummed... I had to trim off about a minute of the interview video to get it to upload. You just missed a jumbled count to 20 and her showing us her right and left hand. oh well.
Gosh my Stori is so dang fun and I love her so dang much!
I also love Sylvie so dang much. and SDR too for that matter! Putting that all together= best life ever!
I thought I would have a harder time than I am adjusting to two kids, but so far it is absolutely wonderful. Stori has chilled out, Sylvie is a great sleeper and eater, Dan is a hard worker, and I'm just along for the ride. I don't get much sleep, but thankfully i don't have to go to work! Sylvie turned 6 weeks and slept from 9pm -7am then ate and went to bed until 9am. She has done that the last 3 days so  I'm hoping it's her new schedule.
The most tricky part of having 2 kids is finding motivation to get out. It's fun when Dan is able to help me, but otherwise i'm content to just stay at home. Overall, life with 2 kids isn't much different! We still eat out the same...never-and we still go on the same amount of dates....zero! :) Well that's not true---we go on family dates to Broulims and such. And we have a lot of popcorn dinner and pizza dinner together. Quality time. I love it all. Even the changing of 40 diapers a day.

S.J. @ 1 mo

I can not believe this little lady has been in our life for an entire month! she has been such a little angel girl and definitely much less drama than our spicy 2 year old. :) 

Let me update about this gal real quick-like.

*Rarely rarely rarely cries. Not even when big sis is giving her squeezes loves.

*eats 5 times/day: 9, 12, 3, 6, & 9. We lay her down at 9pm and she sleeps until 2:30 for a feeding, then goes back down until 5:30 for another feeding, then up for the day at 9 a.m. If I could just get rid of those 2 night time feedings, then we'd be smooth sailing! :)

*SUPER smiley in the mornings. I spend about 15 minutes talking baby talk to her cause she smiles so dang cute! She uses her whole body to smile, especially her forehead. Gosh it's cute!

*Poops a lot

*sleeps a lot

*cuddles with me the best during Stori's nap time. She starts up on my chest, and either wiggles her way up to snuggle under my chin, or wiggles down to lay on my belly (like where she was when she was in my tummy). It's the coziest thing in all the land.

*follows me with her eyes when I move. 

*loves bath time--especially getting her hair washed.

*hates her carseat. When we go for walks each morning, I have to make sure she is asleep first or else she cries about 5 minutes into it. but once she's in there and asleep, she's golden for a good 3 hours! :)

* loves her binky

*drinks from a bottle once a week

*fits in her newborn clothes now

*and gets A LOT of attention from her hair. She doesn't seem to mind all the attention though :)

chillin on a big girl bed at Meg's house

found her way down to my tummy

we call this the "shocked" look. 

We love her more each day!!!