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.

7 Things

7 Things

7 things I can do:
1. Cook
2. Sing Alto at church in a large group
3. Make bread
4. Read long books :)
5. Touch the floor with the palms of my hands while standing straight legged
6. Play Boggle like a maniac
7. Change diapers - I better be able to - we are in for the long haul!

7 things I can't do:
1. Remember the Preamble to to Constitution - if you are part of my family, you'd understand my dilemma and sadness
2. Run more than one block - I hate running
3. Stay up late
4. Remember people's names
5. Juggle
6. Iron well
7. Watch music or fishing shows without leaving the room in near total boredom - unless they are fly fishing shows about Wyoming.

7 things I say often:
1. Love you!
2. Grace - stop it!
3. Rats
4. Chocolate milk or yellow juice?
5. Come here, sweetie
6. Do you need to pee pee? (speaking to Grace - we are in the middle of potty training)
7. Stop!

7 things I love about Logan:
1. He makes me laugh
2. He can fix anything!
3. He is smart
4. He works hard at his job for long hours and doesn't complain
5. He wants to someday move back to Wyoming, it helps that there is great fly fishing up there! :)
6. He doesn't mind watching the kids when I need to run an errand
7. He's a very good man and loves our family that is full of girls!

7 favorite foods:
1. Orange chicken from Pei Wei's
2. Homemade wheat bread
3. garlic bread
4. Lasagna
5. Diet Coke
6. Twin Bing candy bars. You can't get them in Arizona, so I eat them like crazy every time it go back to Wyoming!
7. cereal - wheat chex or grape nuts

7 people I tag:
1. Heather
2. Rachelle
3. Jill
4. Megan
5. Alice K.
6. Tammy
7. Kylie

Two year old fun...

I let Grace play in the flour left over from making bread the other day. We have a new toy! I had no idea that it would entertain her for as long as it did. Five Plus Hours!!! She had fun making "cakes" and moving it around. A cup of flour sure makes for an easy and inexpensive pastime.

Robertson Family Picture

This is a picture of my immediate family... We are missing Logan, two nephews that are serving missions (one it Tucson and one in Samara Russia), and my nephew Christopher and his wife Brooke (he is in the hospital getting his appendix removed!).... So, if you've counted... there are five people missing. My niece-in-law Megan took the picture, her web site is http://megangrantphotography.blogspot.com) She is fabulous!

Ramblings

I still need to post some pictures from my trip to Wyoming for the month of November. I am a procrastinator! Anyway - as I said before, I had a great time, the girls loved Grandma Flash (my mom) and had tons tons tons of fun playing with all their cousins and meeting lots of family again.

Thanksgiving was a real treat. We had everyone home except for Logan and two of my nephews who are serving missions (Lane and Lucas). That means with all of my siblings, their kids and grandkids, and a few extra bonus guests we had 70 people for dinner! Wowza! that number still blows me away. We knew we could not all fit into anyone's house with everyone there, so we had it at the Church Gym. In Lovell, we have the Stake Center, and then the Church Gym across the street. It kind of felt like a ward dinner, not having it at a home and having SO MANY people there.

We all had a great time, a scrabble and Boggle tournamnet, Trivial Pursuit, Volleyball games, and the big boys had a full court basket ball game too. What a fun and full day.

At my mom's house (she recently moved to Cowley, WY to a house considerably smaller than the house I grew up in) we had 25 people and three dogs staying over. It was so much fun! I hope a holiday like that happens again.

There are a lot more happenings than that that went on, but I will bore you no longer. Here are a few pictures of our time there. Grace had lots of fun with my niece Betsy's little girl, Maren, and Libby learned to pull herself up to furniture while we were there. I will post a big family picture when we get it from the photographer (check out her website... http://megangrantphotography.blogspot.com/).

Grace and Maren

Grace and Grandma Flash

Libby and cousin Caleb

Laughing!

Look - Libby is Standing!

Headlock!!

Siblings: Karen, Gareth, Margaret, Marianne, Gwen, Eric, Joyce (Kevin would be standing between Eric and Joyce - we miss him!)

Scrabble tournament and boggle on the side!

Libby Maren and Grace

Matthew, Kyle, Eric, and Jared singing beautifully.

Pink Shoes?

Grace: "Mommy, ... Pink shoes?"
Mommy: "Hmmm?"
Grace: "Pink shoes?..." looks down at her feet. "Don't worry toes, I find 'em!"

She makes me chuckle every day!

Exciting News

I know I should be updating about my fun time in Wyoming last month, but more exciting news has occurred since then. What, you say, could be more exciting than spending a month in a small farming community in Wyoming where the highlight of the day is going to the local supermarket? Have I kept you in suspense? Thrilled? Can't wait any longer?

Drum roll... (it is up to you to imagine the sound :)

We had an ultrasound last week... and... It is another girl!! Hooray! We are excited to have another girl join Grace and Libby. They will have lots of fun, and run Logan ragged. He has decided that these girls will just have to be tomboys so he can have a fishing buddy. That is fine with me - my biggest fear is having a girly girl. I wouldn't know how to relate!!

We are looking forward to welcoming Leah Rebecca (we're pretty sure on the name) in the middle of April.