Happy Birthday Dallin

"It's a bird, it's a plane, no...it's Dallin Anderson!"

You're a SUPER guy!

Hope you have a Happy Birthday.

Sarah's long gone . . . And I'm so sad!

Sarah and dad left yesterday, and I miss my favorite roommate I've ever had!

On the Move

Emarys cast from M Cornwall on Vimeo.

We love our sweet Emary.  She has been such a trooper with this cast.  Although its sad that she hurt her leg we have enjoyed seeing her just get up and run with it.  Babies are so resilient.  She is such a sweetheart!  Don't worry if you missed seeing this adorable walk in person, we are told she might walk a little different for the next few weeks so you might just get the chance!  

It's Official

We'd like to announce that Reesa is officially a certified yoga teacher and Jeff is officially a graduate student at BYU studying Art Education! Most of you are aware that Jeff received his acceptance letter a few weeks ago in the mail. But yesterday, I picked up my official yoga teacher certificate from 3B Yoga. We're both pretty excited about our futures in teaching. 

Hot Time In Monrovia

We have a bit of excitement from the west coast today. A "little" brush fire broke out this morning in the hills behind N. Madison. It seems 336 must be in direct line with Santa Fe Dam where the helicopters are picking up water for their drops as there has been a constant, and I mean constant, train of low flying air traffic directly overhead all day. For evacuated streets (those of you who know N. Monrovia) you can go to Monrovia patch.

Every street is blocked by police cars above Foothill west of Primrose.  So Ivy is okay.

Favorite Pictures of the last few weeks

 My nieces Emily and Linda came over on April fools day to make meatloaf cupcakes and pudding chicken pot pies.

 Here is Seth, so excited to eat what he thinks is a cupcake.

 No one loves Hannah more then Seth.

 Rachel came up to play one afternoon and we loved it.

 These kids love their dad

 Hannah on her first outing to the Draper Temple grounds.

 Draper Temple

 Sweet Sisters

Four of the greatest JOYS of my life.

Look who came to seminary!!

So happy to have Hermana Miller come and speak at seminary this morning. She is a incredible girl and did such a great job. Emily came with her. Love those Miller girls.

jUMP ON iT

Last week was Paul's birthday. He decided to celebrate by going to Jump On It. Reesa and I (especially me) were very excited. We've heard many good things about it, like from Robb and Marybeth. As you can see from the photos and video, Paul and I were like school boys hopping around. It was so fun but SO tiring. What a cardio workout! The wives were very concerned for their crazy husbands jumpin', flippin', and swingin' around.  

This Picture Made Me Smile

Thanks Haylee for documenting your fun time with Grandma Hodgkinson. She is fun!!!

A New Friend for Emary

On April 2nd Emary fell down in the garage. It seemed that she tried to step on a water bottle and it rolled out from under her. She cried for a very long time, at first I thought she had really hurt her head so I kept rubbing it. We decided to have her take a bath since she loves baths. I figured this would calm her down. I realized when I put her down to undress her that she wasn't standing on her left leg. I had my Mom come over to check her out. We decided to give it a little time. She was up all night. Every time she moved it would hurt. Long story short, we ended up at the ER and they put her in a splint and told us to have her see an orthopedic surgeon/doctor. We got an appointment that day and Emary got a new big purple friend for 3 weeks.

So here she is with what Bennett calls her "big one"

This is the day she got the cast, she was already crawling and dragging her leg behind her.

This is the next day and a closer look at all we can see of that little leg.  Her tiny toes!

As you can see she is just as happy and silly as ever.

Again, heres the big one!  We had to find socks that had skids on the bottom, since we knew she would be standing and trying to walk in no time.

She loves to bang her cast against the ground and hear it bang.  And it doesn't even hurt!

Sometimes she tries to take it off.

She is pointing it out to me....since I can barely notice its there right!

She is such a sweet baby. 

  

Life with the cast:

It has required our little independent girl to become more dependent. I secretly like that she needs to be held more and carried places.  It makes her still seem like my little baby!

Emary has to have sponge baths and she does not like them.  She doesn't understand why she can get in the tub with Bennett anymore.

This cast really hasn't held her back.  She has stood up to dance, try and walk and climb things...including the slide in the playroom which we have to tip over so she doesn't hurt herself.  She still crawls all over the place.

The only real tricky part has been at night.  Emary is getting 3 new teeth and between that and the cast has been spending a lot of time in our bed.  We feel bad most of the time that she is really struggling at night, but then we get a cast to the head and remember that maybe she in fact has the advantage! 

She is a such a sweet happy and resilient baby!  

We feel so bad that she got hurt but are so glad that it will heal quickly.

Plus Robbie says since she is being held so much it will be good practice for a plan ride we will be taking in a few weeks!

We have some video footage that we will add later but there were some requests for pictures so here they are.

Siblings

 

These two kids have so much fun together.  This was just one of their cute moments on April 1st. 

 

Silly kids! Oh I love them!

Just in time for conference!

The BYU men's chorus is offering a free CD of missionary hymns and they are wonderful so I thought I would share it with all who are interested.

Here is the link:

http://setapartalbum.byu.edu/