Church today and Grace.

I will start out with saying that I have been a blogging fool lately!! It's amazing how months can go by without anything noteworthy happening, and then BAM! the floodgates open. Here is a Grace story today.

Here is a little background info. We have been teaching Grace how to say her prayers and to bless the food at meal times. She is pretty good, she repeats everything we ask her to, and when we get to the end, she immediately says "amen" after we instruct her to say "In the name of Jesus Christ" (so she never says In the name... - just 'amen' get it? Good!)

So, just before the Sacrament, I was explaining what was going to happen - that there was going to be a prayer and we needed to think about the Savior, and the young men were going to bring us bread and water and that it was to help us remember Jesus Christ... immediately, she said loudly and firmly "AMEN!." Give me a Holla! Hallelujah! Raise the Roof! I almost cracked up. Glad I didn't, I would have gotten a few odd looks from the nice couple in front of us.

Libby's in the Toy Box!

Grace came running down the hall from the girls' bedroom saying urgently, "Mommy, Mommy, Libby's in the toy box!" I checked in and found this.

Libby is just so chill. Not really concerned, just kickin' back! Also note that we do not have a toy box, just a bunch of old diaper boxes to hold our crazy amount of small annoying toys. :)

A few thoughts on kids...

How is it that when you look at your kids - you can fall in love with them all over again? Grace, Libby and Leah - thanks for being ours. Logan thanks for being mine, and such a great dad to the girls.

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.