We finally have seating besides a love sac in our downstairs family room. This week Keaton has begged us every night to go down and watch a show as a family. We have done it a couple times this week. It has been really nice. Keaton is all boy and at that age where he is begging to watch Iron Man, Spiderman, etc. I don't think my 3 year old really should be watching that :)

When Lee and I were first married we bought a ton of Disney classics on sale at Target. This week we watched Snowball Express, and last night Swiss Family Robinson. Keaton LOVED them. They are true classics. Why can't they make movies like that anymore? Robinson has EVERYTHING Keaton likes Pirates, animals, adventure...AND everything Mom likes a family that works together, kids that figure solutions to their problems, and a family that takes time to kneel and thank their Father for blessings. Snowball is just a fun family working together and supporting each other to work through problems. I am so glad my tiny guy can be easily swayed to a different show :)

Saving in a tough economy

We have all had to cut back in these tough times. Here is Keaton doing his part. He told me he doesn't need a Superhero mask like the neighbors....he can make one (please ignore any stains :)

Lil' sister is officially off the billi lights. We couldn't be happier to get her dressed every day, and snuggle her to like crazy!

I wish I was better at taking pictures....she really is quite cute. I guess we will keep her!

More pictures

My Mother-in-law is stuck in a care center instead of holding her new little princess. That gives me ample reason to post more pictures....YEA FOR YOU


Nothing can bring this 6'3" guy to his knees quicker then the cry of his baby. He is SMITTEN!

Well now you have her 2 looks, asleep or crying for food, I will spare you the other picture I can get of her nursing and awake :)

Keaton LOVES little sister! He cannot get enough of watching her every move. He says tomorrow he is going to teach her how to climb the rock wall at the rec center....yes I will get pictures of that!

William E. Rubin is back!

I am not so sure why Mr. Bill E. Rubin thinks he needs to visit our children when they are born. It took us SIX weeks to get rid of Keaton's jaundice, now our poor little sister has it. She is such a good baby that she has been much more patient to lay on the bad hour after hour after hour. Seriously it is just hard to not clothe and hold your brand new baby. We are hopeful that she will be done this week (we are 1/2 full kind of people you know :). For now though we will just have the worlds biggest night light in our room!
P.S. Her level is headed in the right direction (17.7) although she has to be on lights 24/7 until at LEAST Thursday.

Tiny and Cute!

Well, she made it. I am sure I will post more soon. Here are the essentials:

Savannah Elizabeth

3/12/09

6:11 am

6lbs. 4 oz.

20" long

......cute as a button!

P.S. Mom and baby both home and doing well.

Learning?

This year we have been trying to read the scriptures each night as a family. We have done really well this time with it thanks to Keaton. He really LOVES it. We all pile in our bed and read one chapter. Keaton reminds us each night to "read our scriptions". I thought we were making real progress and he was remembering the stories. The other day I rewarded his effort by getting him his own missionary pass out type copy to read from. It has pictures in front which CLEARLY make it better then Lee and my copies. I was THRILLED as he went through the pictures and he could name the pictures of Christ and Joseph Smith. When he got to this picture, he told me..."hey Mom, that is the guy on the boat after he cut that guys head off with the sword.... that was COOL!". I guess we all get different things out of our readings :)

How we met

My darling sis-in-law asked for our "how we met" story to include in a paper she is doing for school. I thought I probably should record it somewhere for our records. Right now I have PLENTY of time so I thought I would write it out. Thanks for indulging me :) Lee and I met the Spring of '04. I had gone through another lonely Christmas (come to find out later Lee went looking due to a rough Christmas too). I had great fun, went to great parties, had a great job, traveled with my best friend Mindie but after everything I went home alone. Mindie and I decided that we would try LDSSO.com (an online dating site). We didn't have a whole lot of hope since it didn't necessarily work out great the last time we did it but we thought what the heck. For some reason this time I hit the jackpot. In January I went out with 15 guys. I really liked a lot of them and went out TONS. I was having a great time. I went to Seattle to meet a guy, met up with a guy in San Fran, and in Vegas (I took girlfriends with me, don't worry). I was at my brother Garrets house in CA after I went to Seattle. I was perusing the site and I saw Lee.....actually I really just saw his HUGE muscly arms :) I cyber-winked at him. He wrote me back right away. We wrote back and forth a couple of times and he asked me for my number. I gave it to him. He called while I was on a date cuddled up with some guy watching a movie. I saw the caller i.d. and really wanted to answer but waited till after the date. My Grandpa had died that day and I was feeling a little blue so I called Lee back that night to see if he would be interesting to cheer me up. Lee was charming and asked me out for that Sat. at 3pm. I thought the time was weird, but oh well. I gave Lee my address to pick me up (I had NEVER done that before, online dating rule #1). He came and I was immediately interested in this tall strong guy. He took me to Fridays to split a dessert. At the time I really liked the Dixie Chicks and he spent most of the date making fun of them. He also told me he was from Vernal, I was horrified. I had dated a guy from Vernal before and it was a DISASTER and had sworn off those "country folks". The VERY best part of our first date though was that the ENTIRE time he kept looking at his watch. I then knew why we were meeting at 3....he double booked! Me being the smarty that I am knew the score and called him on it. Lee being the all too honest type admitted to the other date and that he had a date the night before.

Lee dropped me off and gave me a hug. I thought I would never hear from him again until he said, "I really wish I did not have that other date and I could stay here with you". THEN he proceeded to tell me how he doesn't kiss girls until he dates them for MONTHS. HAHAHA I knew then he WANTED to kiss me. I snickered as I shut the door.

Lee called the next day. I knew how to get guys going so I asked him about growing up as a farmers son and particularly about the irrigation. He went on and on for 45 minutes about irrigation. He then asked me when he could see me again. I told him I had my Grandpas funeral the next 2 nights but I could see him Thurs. night. I had tickets to the Opera and I was upset with the guy I was seeing the most over his lack of sympathy about my Grandpa so I said Lee could come with me (on a side note Lee had called everyday to see how I was doing with my Grandpas death). The Opera was magical. He put his arm around me, I put my hand on his knee, he rubbed my shoulder, I kissed his finger tips.....pure magic. On the way home I offered him a heart shaped breath mint. He took that as a "sign" with the "kiss me eyes" he said I shot him and we kissed on the second date (which makes his "speech" on our first date hilarious). We were inseparable after that. I loved everything about Lee. It was not too many dates after that when we said "I love you". It wasn't that much after that that we set a Temple date (he said October, I thrilled him by saying NO August :). We have had trials in our marriage but our relationship has not been one of them. I really met the one for me. I couldn't imagine life without Lee.

P.S. Please take the time to record your "how we met" on your Blog. I would love to read them!