January is almost over already??

This has been the coldest month of my life. I will forever be an Arizona girl. We have had ONE day that finally reached 60 degrees so we took advantage of it and took the kids to the park. Of course the next day it snowed.  We are back into the swing of things and are doing well. We have yet to hear from Lukes internship applications. Still praying for a miracle. I know Fin would be in heaven having a whole summer spent with cousins! (and so would the rest of us!) Vera is growing like a weed. She is trying to walk and is into everything. She has 2 bottom teeth and the two top ones seem to be her battle now. Finley met a girlfriend at Chick fil A last week and they played for like 2 hours together. When Luke finally got him to leave, he ran back in and KISSED HER ON THE LIPS! Then she ran after him and gave him the "Key" to the car. ( They were using a piece of paper as the "key" to the toy car they were sitting in). Then Fin put his hand up on the glass window and she put hers up on the other side...Luke said he felt so bad taking them away from each other :0 haha

8 months and growing fast!!

I love this girl so much! I can't believe how fast she is growing!!

 Here she is spying on her dad doing his homework :)

 And here comes trouble...she discovered the power button on the xbox...seems like we were just telling Finley to stop touching it and now she has begun...

 This past Sunday she pulled herself to standing position for the first time and she was sure proud!

 She is one busy, busy girl and always wants to be where Finley is.

 These kids make me the happiest person in the world. (and craziest at times:)

Vera Faye you brighten my day!

@ 8 months

• Crawling everywhere
• pulls herself to standing position
• Loves yogurt chips and Pizza crust
• Follows her brother around the house
• Loves to play peek a boo and row your boat
• Loves to be read to
• Is a high pitch song bird while she is laying in her crib supposed to be taking a nap

We love our baby girl!

Randoms of the New Year

 Finley loves to help his baby sister "Bera"...and Daddy taught him how to feed her :)

 Love this boy when he sleeps (and yes, he still needs a hair cut)

 Fin loves to read Vera stories...he makes up his own version of the book , of course.

And boy does he want to be in Arizona! Everyday he asks to go to Arizona and live there :(

Tomorrows post: Vera turns 8 months!

Our AZ Christmas!

 Our first day back home and Fin found his Uncle Ike to read him a book.

 We decorated cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve with our Tabla cousins

 And we delivered some to Uncle Ike at work

 Grandma and Grandpa tried to act out the Nativity

 And Finley thought he was Ironman..not a Wiseman.

 Finley got his monster truck he asked Santa for

 And Meadow got her nut for her scooter :)

 Vera had her first Christmas!

 We met some friends at the park and guess who was at the same park!

 Wright grandkid picture...of course mine had to be the one screaming and running out of the pic

 Playtime with the Merrill cousins

We had such a WONDERFUL time in AZ! We miss our family and friends SO MUCH! Finley keeps asking to go back to Arizona everyday now...the poor thing wants to play with his cousins. I don't know who misses it more..Me or Finley...maybe Luke. Luke I think was the most homesick on our flight home. In just 2 years and 4 months we will be packing up and moving back home! Yay! haha

Vera's 7 months!

Here she is!

Little miss Vera Faye is now 7 months old! She is just growing way to fast for me...
@ 7 months:
- She is on the move now! she has begun to crawl and is into everything now.
-She eats a lot.  Her favorite is a mixed vegetable of Pears,Peas&Brocolli.  She was never a fan of cereal..so we just stick to the fruits&Veggies.
-She cut her first tooth at 7 1/2 months
-I am betting she weighs almost 18 lbs now.
-She loves it when I read books to her or sing Row, Row, Row your boat.
-She still loves her big brother.  It is my favorite thing to watch them both just smile and play together.
-She survived (or I survived) her first plane trip to AZ. She slept maybe 10 minutes, but she was happy the whole time and my arms got a 3 hour work out from her bouncing the whole time.
-She makes some funny faces and I love them all
-I hear "mamamama" and "dadada" and "duhduh" all day long. Not sure what "duhduh" is but she always says it when she looks like she is trying to tell you something serious.

She will be 8 months in 6 days...so I will have to try and think of some new things to document...