A Cookout of Salads

We had a super fabulous fun time this last weekend! We ran up to Mesa for the afternoon and evening. We stopped by Logan's mom's house and visited with family... it was great to see everyone (Laurie, John, Becky, Brandi, and Brandi's mom). Laurie and John just moved back to Mesa after a couple of years experiencing the four seasons up in Utah. We're glad they are back.

After visiting with family for a while, we went to the Cookout of Salads with friends. We have been out of Mesa for about three years, and now several of our friends are following suit. Gina is moving to Delaware (Dela - WHERE?), and Laney and Blaine are gonna move to Texas. The group we hung out with is really getting split up. So we had a small get together to say goodbye to everyone. Here are a few pictures.

Blaine and Laney Porter :)

Scott and Jessica

Ben and Nichole holding Emma (Scott and Aubree's baby)

Nichole, Ben, Laney (holding our Leah), Scott, Emma, Logan, and Blaine

Back row: Logan, Ben, Laney holding Emma, Blain, Aubree holding Jessica
Middle row: Karen, Nichole, Gina, Scott
Front row: Kirby's behind, Aggie

7 week photos

Leah is now 7 weeks old, and time for her 7 week photos. We think she is just gorgeous and love her to pieces.

Leah at 7 weeks

Laughing laughing laughing!

Libby at 7 weeks

Grace at 7 weeks

Grace is Three!

Grace is three! We are so happy and wonder where the time goes. She is such a great girl, good big sister, and loves loves loves her dad. She is always so excited when she hears him come home from work - she is out the door like a shot to give him a hug, then talks his ear off telling him all that she did that day. She loves to color, read books, counts everything in sight, and gives great hugs. Thanks, Grace, for being such a wonderful daughter. We love you!

Having fun making colors *pop*

I have a fun time taking pictures of my girls! We were given some cute hair accessories and fairy costume for Leah. Amazing that we can actually use the hair stuff already for her - but in these pictures Grace and Libby are wearing them. Leah is wearing her cute fairy outfit. I love photoshop, I really like making the colors more vibrant and mixing things up. Now I just need to get better at it! Anyway, here are some pretty pictures of the girls.

Spring is a great time for growing things!

We have a lot of things growing at our house. Our turtles have all come out of hibernation and are moving around, we planted some new grass in their pen so they have enough to eat. We have six baby chicks that are getting big and will soon go into the chicken pen. We bought some tomato plants and some green pepper plants that will soon be going into our "garden." And of course we have a growing baby. Leah is getting chubby and growing growing growing. Here are some pictures of our growing things.

A few pictures and other goings on...

Since babies change in their looks by the hour, I thought I should post some more pictures. I think Leah looks more like Grace as a newborn, though a little like Libby. We have guessed that she looked (at times) like my nephew Nathan as a baby, and a little like my niece Kimmy, and various other relatives, but now I think she just looks like Leah. We love her!

My mom came down from Wyoming and spent two weeks with us. She helped us with the two girls while I got into the swing of having 3 kids. I loved every second she was here. She is a superb game player and child holder. Grace and especially Libby liked being held , rocked in our rocking chair, and getting wonderful hugs from Grandma Flash! Another plus is that Leah and Grandma Flash now share the same birthday - April 13th - I am glad they will have that connection.

My Mom holding Leah - I love them both!

Grace "helping" my mom with a quilt for Libby! - my mom is a super grandma!

One of Grace's favorite pastimes - aside from running down the road to look at our neighbor's "peabocks" (peacocks)!

Libby had a fun time getting into some pink frosting in our pantry!

Welcome Leah!

We welcomed Leah Rebecca Beach into our family on Monday April 13, 2009 at 1:34 pm. She was 7 lbs 10.5 oz and 20 inches long with LOTS of dark straight hair. We love her so much!






Thanks so much for my Mom for coming down from Wyoming to help us with the kids and me and everything for a couple of weeks. It has been great having her here!!! I love her so much! Leah is lucky enough now to share a birthday with my mom, I hope she will always love that connection.

A few pictures of the girls...

Here are a few pictures of the girls lately. Grace is starting to love dressing up - the other day she found what she could from around the house and was a Cowboy!


Here is a bathtub pic of Libby - isn't she cute? Her hair just happened to remind me of the earlier pictures of Brigham Young - a nice cute bob! Let's just hope the girls don't dislike me later for the bathtub pics!


And since we are posting pics of the kids - here are some of baby Leah - scheduled to arrive in about 5 weeks!

I am ALMOST too embarrased to share.

But- it is too sweet/funny not too! As you may know, when any two or three year old has a "hurt" they need their mommy to kiss it better. Lately I have kissed so many body parts on my little two year old, I cannot count them all. This morning I had to kiss her tummy because her stomach had hunger pangs! Lots of kissing in our house :)

Well, (here comes the slightly embarrassing part...) I have a nice little zit on my cheek. btw - had hoped they would go away by this time in my life, but I get visited every once in a while :) Grace noticed it today and said, "Mommy, you have a spot!" I agreed that I did, and told her what it was, and she promptly said, "It's okay, mommy, I kiss it better!" Nice girl. She doesn't often offer kisses to help her mom's hurts, but was a sweetheart to so willingly kiss a zit!

Go Away Boogers!!

We have had sickness in our house - it seems to have lasted for two months (in one form or another). I can't wait for the day that all of us are healthy all at the same time. That would be a red letter day! Anyway, Grace was sitting on the couch this morning and I hear her freaking out. She was kicking her legs, shaking her arms, wiggling her head, and repeating "Go away boogers, go away boogers!" Should that make me laugh? I have to say that it did! We had a quick rehearsal of the nose wipe process, and then she was ok. I think the next time I have a runny nose I might just say, "go away boogers, go away", and see if someone will come wipe my nose for me. Do you think I will have any luck?

ps... no photo posted - because that would be gross.