Siri Turned 3

This past July little Miss Siri turned 3!

We had a party and ate a cake that she picked out. 

Siri your favorite color is still very much PINK. If it were up to you everything in life would be covered in pink.  Your Birthday landed on a Sunday this year which was great because you got to spend the morning in Nursery your favorite place to be. We sent you with pink and white animal cookies which are also your favorite and you loved it. Chamberlain and Harrison loved that you had extra pink and white cookies that were sent home with you and they ate them all gone. 

We had Grandma and Grandpa Chamberlain along with Uncle Truett and Aunt Kelsi over for the afternoon to celebrate with cake and ice cream and presents.

You are one happy little girl and if I could stop time for you it would be now.

You are always happy and singing. You love to laugh and smile and I really enjoy this time I have with you.

8 years to us.

Just before Harrison turned 1. Josh and I celebrated our 8th anniversary.

We were lucky to have my mom come watch the kids while we had a short getaway to Vegas.

We went shopping, went to the movie Superman, walked the strip ate dinner and recounted the previous 8 years and did more shopping.

I enjoyed every minute of it and wished we had a little more time with just the two of us. 

We had Chamberlain take our annual couples portrait the night we got home from our trip.

I think our annual couple photo on our anniversary is one of my favorite traditions. 

Happy 8 years babe! I love you. 

Summer's Traditional Mexican Dress

Miss. Siri! 

This year I found your Mexican Dress for summer at TJ Maxx. I thought it was such a score. 

This style of Dress is my absolute favorite. These have been a staple dress each summer if you look back you will find several Mexican style dress in many different colors. 

I think you love how comfortable they are too as you were it often.  

So as usual here you are in all your Mexican Dress glory. 

I hope you will always want to wear dresses. 

Harrison Turned 1

In June Harrison turned 1.

We had a small party with just our family and Grandpa and Grandma Chamberlain.

It was so hot that we opted to go to Chick-Fil -A for dinner and Menchies for yogurt instead of cake. 

Harrison we loved celebrating your day as a family and glad we could share your special day with Grandma and Grandpa. The following Sunday we made a chocolate cake and let you dig in!

Because we call your Harry for short sometimes, we thought it appropriate to give you the book Harry The Dirty Dog. 

We read it often.
You, just like your sister before you, thought that the day of your birth would also be a great day to start officially walking and have been walking ever since. 

We love you Harrison. What a wonderful year its been and we look forward to many more.

Siri got a hair cut

We went up for baby Navy's blessing and while we were there we chopped Siri's hair!

I was so over trying to do her hair and it was kind of getting a little stingy at the ends. This was her first hair cut. We called up Shelbies awesome sister in law Cami and we headed over to her house at like 11 pm! 

Siri was so still on the chair I think its because she was beyond tired. When it came time to blow dry she fell asleep! Now that its short I LOVE it and cant imagine at this point in time growing it out. 

 When I was looking for a before photo because of course I forgot to take one! I had to go clear back to Christmas to find a photo of her hair down. I pulled it back everyday I should have realized just looking through photos that short hair would be the way to go!

Harrison 8 Months

Harrison you turned 8 months in March and I did snap some pictures while we were cooped up at home. 

Harrison you were crawling all over the place. I let you play naked in the mornings and as soon as I take that diaper off you flip yourself over and start your getaway.  Your life at this point consisted of eating more and more solids and keeping up with Siri and Chamberlain. You followed them all throughout the house just a happy little camper as long as you could be near all the action and most of the time center of attention. You love to climb all over the red striped rocking chair and choose that one over the pink rocking chair every time.

You are one determined little boy. I feel you have are more outgoing at an earlier age than Siri and Chamberlain. It seems you have no fear. 

Really you are happy all the time and sleep well. 

You have been such a joy and blessing. 

Where did the month of March go?

Its been too long since I last updated so I decided to do a monthly update to catch up for my own records and when I make these into blog books. 

How about one more picture of the team from Chamberlains first official basketball season. Oh and I think the coach is a handsome one. 

March.

 Where did this  month go?! Oh yes it was spent in the hospital and in Dr. Offices with 2 very sick kids. If we weren't at the hospital or Dr.'s Office we were home away from everyone stuck on the couch watching too much Disney Channel and Movies because the younger two were again too sick to do anything but lay around. 

I think I would chalk this month as one of the scariest as a parent praying like crazy for your child to breath on their own.  Not having to fly to Primary Children's was definitely an answer to prays and a highlight of the month.  

Both Siri and Harrison had Bronchitis. Siri also had RSV and Pneumonia as well thus being her stay in the hospital.  Harrison was a champ and only had to see the Dr. a couple of times and was able to get better on his own. Siri caught us by surprise. She was perfectly healthy one day and the next day (Josh's Birthday to be exact) was super weak that we ended up taking her to the ER. They sent us home after her oxygen levels went up. However, we ended up in the hospital within 24hrs and stayed there for the rest of the week. At one point during the first night they were going to fly her to Primary Children's Hospital but lots of prayers and a few hours of waiting her oxygen levels started to rise enough to keep her in St.George close to us. That would have been extremely hard for me to deal with since I was at the time still nursing Harrison and he was sick and to have to travel up north it would have not been easy.  I am grateful for all the prayers that were offered in our behalf. I feel extremely blessed that she was able to stay in St.George and more blessed that my mom was able to drop everything and come stay and entertain Chamberlain and Harrison at home. Which let me be with her all day and then home in the evenings for Harrison. She brought Harrison to and from the hospital and I would nurse him in the car in the parking lot and she would got sit with Siri and Josh. We feel so blessed to live here close to them. 

She recovered but it took all month and into April. We did nothing but stay home for the most part.

Josh literally spent every minute with her in the hospital. I called him home from work to take her to the ER while I stayed with the other kid.   He never left except one day to come home and shower. He was her constant with new nurses and new Dr.'s coming in to check on her take her vitals and oxygen levels she was confused and the drugs they had on her made her angry and crazy. She stuck to him like glue and for the first time in her short life she didn't want her Mama. I think they bonded in that week and have had the cutest relationship ever since. In away I'm grateful for that time they got to spend together just the two of them. 

As I look back through photos I noticed that we did, before the hospital stint, make it to see the water rising in the new reservoir in Kanab. What a fun time that will be when its full and we can canoe and fish!