Random pictures!

Hazel has started smiling and it's so cute! We are constantly trying to make her smile because we just can't get enough of it!
Eliza is losing teeth like crazy! She has lost all four of her front teeth and only one has grown in so she may be singing "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth" this year!Here is another cute picture I took of Hazel a few weeks ago. She will be two months old tomorrow so you can expect lots more pictures of this little sweetheart!
This picture got lost somewhere on my camera and I was finally able to retrieve it. The girls went to a "cooking party" for one of our favorite neighborhood friends' birthday. They had a great time!

Fun times!

On Labor Day, we went to this fun little park in Ogden with my parents and grandma. It has a pond with a walking path that goes all the way around it and lots of ducks that love to be fed. The kids had such a blast when we went earlier this summer, but I forgot to take my camera so I took lots of pictures this time. They especially love this cute little stream that is perfect for wading and is full of acorns, rocks and other interesting treasures that the kids have fun collecting.

Isn't this picture precious?
It was a fun day and it was nice to spend it with grandma, grandpa and great grandma. I hope people don't get too sick of all the pictures I post of my kids. I can't help it, I just think they're so darn cute!

More pictures!

After all that work I did on Emma's dress, I couldn't resist another opportunity to take pictures. So we got out the camera again on Sunday morning and got some cute pictures of all the kids. Here are some of my favorites:

A Baptism and a blessing

Emma has been looking forward to her baptism day for a long time and it just happened to work out that we were able to bless Hazel the same day! Thanks to all our friends and family who were able to share this special day with us!

Since Emma was the only child being baptized in our ward this month, we got to plan the whole program. I did a special spotlight all about Emma, each of her grandpas gave a talk, and she chose to sing "When I Am Baptized" with some of her friends from the neighborhood. Ben was feeling very proud and a little emotional as he baptized his little girl. Emma was so cute after she was confirmed. She said, "I was just crying the whole time because I was so happy!" I am so proud of her and I can hardly believe that she's growing up so fast!
Hazel Jane was blessed by her daddy immediately following the baptism. He did a great job!

We had lunch at our house after the baptism and the girls got a chance to hang out with their cousins, Sammy and Celeste.All in all, a great day!

Spots!

Today we found out that Brigham is allergic to penicillin. Yikes! These pictures actually don't even show how bad he really looks. I took him to the doctor this morning just as the rash was starting and by tonight he had red spots all over his head, back, tummy arms and legs. They took him off the immoxicillin and put him on something else, so, hopefully, he will look normal again soon!

Hazel Jane: 1 month old

Hazel is one month old today. This little girl is so sweet and so loved by her whole family. She is becoming more awake now than she was the first couple of weeks and it is now a little easier to get a picture of her beautiful dark blue eyes. She is already looking less and less like a newborn and it is so fun to see her get a little chub. Her sisters love to dress her and put cute little bows in her hair--sometimes they even change her diapers! Emma and Eliza were both spit up on recently and it was so funny to see their reaction--"Ew! Mom get it off of me!". Ben was saying the other day when Hazel was a little fussy that she was getting spoiled, but how can you not spoil such a sweet baby?

Here's that hair I've been talking about. None of our other kids had nearly this much hair. The second picture is a close up of the cute little curls she has after her bath. I haven't figured out how to get them to stay--any ideas?

Back to School?

All three girls were very excited for the first day of a new school year. Although I wasn't there to see it, Ben said that Rachel literally ran out the door and down the steps when her ride came to take her to pre-school. He also said that she went to her first day with peach juice on her shirt because when he tried to get her to change it she informed him "I can't change my shirt--this is what's called 'an outfit' ". She also told him to take a picture "just of my backpack". Unfortunately, while the girls were at school, the rest of us were at the doctor being checked for strep throat. Not only were the tests positive, but when I told the doctor that my other kids had also been sick the week before I found out that the rash that they had was also a symptom of strep (who knew?) and that they all needed to be treated and could possibly still be contagious! So, basically, we may have single-handedly exposed the entire school and neighborhood to strep over the course of the last week. The school year is off to a great start--my girls are all mad at me because they could not understand why they had to miss the second day of school when they didn't even feel sick, my throat hurts like the dickens and I feel awful for not taking them to the doctor sooner. So, to anyone who has come in contact with us in the past week, please accept my sincere apology. The good news is that our pediatrician wrote out prescriptions for all four kids and me saving me about a hundred bucks worth of co-pays and he also said that Hazel is probably safe because kids under two usually don't get strep. It's been a rough first day, but I figure things can only get better from here on out, right?