Big Weekend...like 4 weekends ago

So, I've been busy not blogging. I'm not busy today. Really not busy. It's 12:30 pm and Franny and I are still in pjs. Holland's the lucky one who is bathed and dressed. I decided since Franny and I are sick, we're allowed to be in pjs until after lunch. That time is rapidly approaching. In the meantime, here is a post of our big weekend: Holland's blessing and the TOU marathon. It was also Franny's and Liz's B-days, but I already posted that.

The Spencer grand kids await the arrival of Melis and Adria in Providence
(My brother in law, Mike, also participated, but he was ahead of the girls)

Here they are! Just 6 more miles to go

Finish line! Amazing!

Adria's rockin blister from the race.




Later that day we blessed Holland at Leah's house

My sweet little angel

Note to self: If someone says "I have a good one of your family", make sure there is a good one on your camera.

Uncle Zach and Aunt Amber

Bless Melissa's, Mike's and Adria's hearts for coming to the blessing. They were hammered from the race. Hammered. They couldn't even get up to get food. They had to be waited on the whole time. They also were emotional wrecks. Not from the blessing. Mike held it together but Adria did not. Note to self: Don't ever run 26 miles consecutively. Ever.


Party people

Here's what else has been going on the last few weeks:

Here's Franny with a bowl of cookie crisp (I did not buy those. Paul bought those.) watching the slide show screen saver. I love when she does this and labels all of the pics as they flash on the screen.

I didn't see this when it happened

or this

Franny took a Kindermusic class. Her first class other than swimming. Super cute.

Holland is still dang cute.

Franny watching Little Einstiens while nursing. TV while nursing? Where did she get that idea?

One day, one Melissa's way to my house, all four kids fell asleep. Success!

Did I mention my kids are cute?

Really.

2 years! For Reals??

We can't believe Franny is 2 years old. What a lucky girl to have so much family that love her and have watched her grow along with Paul and me. I love living here where she has been able to know her Grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. Thank you all for loving Franny (almost) as much as I do.

This is our favorite video of Franny. She was 14 or 15 months old and just learning how to talk. She called us both "Dadden" for the longest time. The funny thing is that she could say "Mom".

Franny "pumping". Apparently milk comes out of her belly-button.

When I go to get her from her nap, she brings all of her books up to her bed and waits for me.

She likes to help the baby with tummy time

Like I said, she's a lucky girl and got to blow candles out twice. Once with the Spencers and once with the Gutkes.

Here's the only song she knows on the guitar

These don't have anything to do with Fran's B-day, but I wanted to show some of the beautiful sights where we live.

Lots of cool old barns. Who knows how old they are

LOTS of cows and horses everywhere...and goats and chickens and roosters and ...

Lots of corn

We love it here

Labor Day Extravaganza!

This was our third year going up to Lomia as a family. Thanks to everyone (and hot showers, toilets and a full kitchen), we had a wonderful time. Now that's what I call camping!


The Gutke Family campers

Masoner von Trapps. "One bottle of pop..."

Talent show dance

The blackjack tourney
We thought the Chinchilla was real cute the night before...

Then we realized it had been reeking havoc all night long.

A hike up the mountain

A short walk for us

Baby Holland

Lucy and Lizzie...Friends in the morning...

In the afternoon...not enough pink playdough

Rough riders

Why is a freezing cold canal fun?

Shuttle run during the fitness test

The spectators

Melissa and Cesar taught us a funny Argentine dance

"A chu chi Wa Wa Wa..."

Dance party...

Thriller

Work it...

Camp shuttle

The Perez-Spencers

A perfect Mallow

Labor day evening, Marilyn had us over for her delicious BBQ turkey. The kids had a lot of fun playing with each other.

Holland is so loved

I took this a couple of days ago. Franny kept pointing to Holland's baby acne and saying, "Oh, owee!" and kissing it "better".

Franny reeeally wanted to take some pictures.

A little frog and a big cousin

I can't believe it's September already. I also can't believe my little six lb. baby is already 4 weeks old and now 9 lbs. He's a healthy boy with a healthy appetite. I am loving being a stay at home mom and am so grateful to have a husband that works so hard to take care of us. Since the baby arrived, Fran has been quite the little stinker, so my alone time with her has been more precious than ever. She's starting to talk in sentences which keeps Paul and me laughing all of the time. She says the most random things that we didn't know were rolling around in her brain waiting to emerge. She's also very polite..."Mommy. Go away. Please." I'll have to take some video. We also area loving living in Nibley. There is a produce stand down the road from us with Cache Valley corn and Brigham city peaches. So, that's pretty much why I love living here.

See how he's chunked up??

I looked over one morning and saw this cute silhouette

This picture makes it look like we have grass. It's just the weeds in the dirt.

Paul brought a frog home to show Franny. It was very entertaining for a few days before we released it back into the wild (Marilyn's pond)

Hates to smile for the camera, but I still think she's cute

Here is 3 week old Holland with 4 month old cousin Bailey. I had to take these pics because I have a feeling that he'll pass her up in size once they reach the 5th grade (or 8th).

Um, yeah. Bailey is massive (and darling and sweet) and her mom has guns to prove it.

She is 4 months and wears a size 9-12 months...just had to throw that in.

Why am I blogging instead of napping??

I've been taking a lot of pictures to capture my sweet little boy before he grows up. I'm loving having a newborn. He couldn't be sweeter. Franny's struggling sharing our attention, but she'll snap out of it soon...right?

This is what I get to wake up to every morning

My babies

Franny is so sweet with Holland and loves him a lot. She just doesn't like me so much right now.

Here's Franny in the bassinet we all use in our family

And here is Holland

I love when he's bright-eyed and looking around

Already loving the moby...we both are.

This is usually what happens if I hold Holland too long

Proud papa

Visitors...

I forgot to get a picture of Sandy, but here is Will (2 months) with his new friend Holland

Cousin Lucy has been EAGERLY awaiting his arrival.

Aunt Melissa and Tio Cesar

Jake's favorite way to nap.

Grandma Marilyn

Boots

The Lows

Self-proclaimed "favorite Aunt" Sarah

Ima Chiq and Ipa John

And I just had to add this picture of Franny walking around with her favorite things: her nicey, her baby and her leche. She's really needed these things lately.

I don't know why she started using her foot as a phone, but it's too funny...

Good Times Summer '09!!

Hi everyone! I mentioned before that we were going to have a very busy July. I wasn't kidding. In a nutshell: Gabe and his family came to visit from Baltimore, Julia's little Micah got blessed, we had our Gutke Bear Lake reunion, we had a baby and got a new house! I wanted to show everything that we were able to do, but there were SO many photos, so I put them into slideshows. That way, you can pick and choose that ones you really want to look at.

Our BIG news is that Holland was born on August 3rd. He's a tiny baby weighing in at only 6 lbs. He's so sweet and we're loving this special time with our newborn. Our other big news is that we bought a house in Nibley. We love living in the "country". We live just off of the highway and we love visitors, so drop by anytime you're going in or out of Logan. Enjoy!

July, Here we come!

It has seriously been raining for like 2 months strait, so I have no cute pictures to post. I guess I could've taken pictures of us finding things to do around the house...but I didn't. The sun is finally out and we've been having some summer fun, but July is when we're going to have a ton of action. We'll get to see lots of cousins and friends and we'll have some great pictures then. Until then, here is Miss Franny getting bigger and cuter (and finally getting some hair) and me at 7 months pregnant. Oh, and Paul's doing well, too.