Our Busy Month

Our April was a busy and eventful month. It started out with Christopher's 2nd birthday (we thought it was crazy there was snow on his birthday- little did we know it would continue through the month!)

We enjoyed the few times we had to relax and play together:

My sweet grandma died at age 101, and we were honored to be able to sing a song my dad wrote, Feed my Sheep. (This is us practicing)

Here is most of Grandma Dayton's posterity. While a funeral is a sad event and we will miss her, we were grateful for the opportunity to see so much family.

Chris finished up and presented his impressive senior project; as Team Leader he did a great job and they were happy with how it turned out.

And here is the graduate! He got his bachelor's degree in four years, a big accomplishment since he worked most of those years and was still a very involved father and helpful husband!

And of course we moved. We are sad to leave Ogden and will really miss our friends and family there, but we are grateful Chris has a good job he is excited about, and we're enjoying being near the Waldron family and loving the warm weather!

Next post will have more pictures and info about the kids...

Brooklyn's Blessing

This Sunday was Brooklyn's baby blessing, and Chris did a wonderful job. Our kids are so lucky to have a loving dad who is a righteous priesthood holder. Here are some pictures of the day:

My mom bought this blanket in Bethlehem, and it was made from the sheep in Shepherd's Field, and her booties were made by my sweet grandma who died when I was 16.

And I was really excited that she was able to wear the blessing dress that I wore, which is also the dress my mom wore! (Her mom's friend made it for her)

The parents and grandparents

I love this picture- my 3 favorite people!

The priesthood holders who participated in the circle

Our families (minus a Waldron missionary and 4 Daytons)

We were so blessed to have so much family come support us, particularly Waldrons who flew in from California, and my sister who left that afternoon to start an 11 hour drive alone back to WA with 2 kids under 3. Thank you to our families for their support!

A Weekend of Ups and Downs

It has been a very interesting weekend for us- here are some ups and downs:

Down- Friday at breakfast, Christopher sort of choked on toast/coughed till he couldn't breath and it got so bad that when he turned blue, his eyes rolled back and he started getting stiff, I called 911.

Up- He came out of it less than a minute after I called (I think he fainted, then he was ok), and he was super excited to see the fire engine outside (they had to still come and follow up).

Up- We got to spend some time with some of Chris' family in Logan later that day.

Down- The reason we were gathered was to attend his sweet great grandma's funeral.

Up- We met up with my sister and her kids in Provo and enjoyed the evening with them.

Down- Saturday morning Christopher pulled a 10-pound weight off a little weight rack in the basement onto his big toe.

Up- We kept with our plan to go to St. George for my awesome cousin's wedding. Christopher rode between cousins with his foot propped up and did really well on the drive, with his cousins and a movie to keep him entertained.

Down- Once there my cousin who is an ER Dr. said he needed to get it fixed asap or he would lose his big toenail.

Up- Chris was the hero and took him to an InstaCare (I probably wouldn't have handled it very well), and I was able to be in the temple for the ceremony with lots of family.

Down- I forgot to tell my sisters to bring a pacifier for Brooklyn and she was quite fussy while we were outside of the temple taking pictures.

Down- The Dr. said Christopher's toe was broken but not too badly, and he removed the nail that was barely hanging on, sewed up a cut underneath the nail, pushed the nail back in, sewed it onto the toe, and bandaged it up. I know, Ouch!

Up- When he and Chris were driving back to the hotel, they saw a horse running down the road, then Chris stopped so he wouldn't hit it, and honked at it. Random! Christopher talked about it NONSTOP for the next few hours. "Horse! Stop, honk." Ha ha!

Up- My mom got 3 hotel rooms (2 connected and the other across the hall) for our families at the Fairfield, and we loved being close to everyone the rest of the day.

Up- We relaxed and my mom got In-N-Out for everyone, then we enjoyed visiting with everyone at the reception.

Up- After the kids were all in bed, some of us hung out in our hotel room and ate, talked and laughed till it got pretty late.

Ok, there aren't really any more downs. On Sunday we packed up, went to church and drove back. We had just our family in our car and Chris and I enjoyed talking and spending time together. We had a yummy dinner at my mom's house and got back home last night. It was an eventful weekend for sure!

Fortunately, Christopher has handled it really well and doesn't seem to be in pain except when we change the bandage.

He hobbles around and was really cute and playful today. While there have been a few downs, we still have lots to be happy about and grateful for!

Baby Brooklyn

My sister-in-law, Alicen, took Brooklyn's pictures when she was one week old (I'm just slow sharing them!) She always does great work and I love how these turned out. Here are a few of my favorites:

And here are a bunch more:
Thanks Alicen!!

How Time Flies

We have loved the past 2 weeks with our sweet little Brooklyn, and she has already started to look a little less newborn-like and act more alert. I'm so not anxious for her to get any bigger as I am loving this phase she's in.

On Feb 3rd, Chris and I celebrated our 4-year anniversary- it feels in some ways like we just got married, but so much has happened since then that it makes our wedding seem like it was forever ago. But it's been a good 4 years and we look forward to many, many more together. Here is our engagement picture:

And here are a bunch of pictures from the past 2 weeks:

In case you can't tell, Christopher is a very sweet and adoring brother!

Chris' mom was able to come visit and help for a few days. I'm bugged I never got a picture with her and Brooklyn, but these are from when she, Chris and Kelsey took Christopher to the Treehouse Museum:

My mom also came to help and we enjoyed our time with her as well! Our kids our lucky to have these Grandmas!

More pictures of Brooklyn to come soon...

Brooklyn Kae Waldron

Well she's finally here, we welcomed Brooklyn Kae Waldron last night at 630pm! The pregnancy went well as did the labor. Sara makes it look easy; she is now 2-for-2 for pregnancies without throwing up or any other kind of incidence.

We got the call to come into the hospital at 515am and it was slow going for a while. Sara's uncle was able to deliver Brooklyn and he did a great job. Mom and baby are doing well...here's a few pictures of her right after she was born.

Brooklyn Kae Waldron 7lbs. 12oz. 20 inches long.

She came out grinning!

Christopher was sad to see his mom on the hospital bed...he wouldn't even sit on her lap. Despite his stone-cold look he kept giving his sister hugs and kisses and holding out his arms to hold her. He's going to be a good big brother!

She has got some good hair, after she had her bath the nurse put a little purple bow in it.

Dr. Great-uncle Dayton

Christmas Pictures

I figured I'd just put pictures up instead of writing out everything we've done and enjoyed the past couple of weeks (I really had to limit which pictures to share and still maybe went overboard!)

Loving cousin time

Christopher wasn't super excited about Santa this year

Shepherd Christopher listening to angel Kyla in the Nativity on Christmas Eve

Our sweet but somewhat humorous Nativity

Enjoying Christmas morning

Cute matching PJs, thanks to David and Heather

Landon, Christopher, Taylor

Enjoying the Christmas lights

Kind of random, but one night we had a massage contest- the whole thing was quite funny, and Chris won!

Awesome Uncle Tia took the kids to the Bean Museum while we undecorated the house

Having fun with April

Chrissy keeping the kids entertained while we were shopping

Playing in the snow- Christopher's snowsuit made me laugh- but he stayed warm!

Our awesome snowman

Christopher absolutely loves his cousins and we are so excited he will have a sister plus 2 new Waldron cousins this year! What an awesome Christmas it was being able to spend time with family and hear exciting news from the Waldron side. Congrats also to Ryan and Nancy on their engagement!