We Are Back

It has been awhile since I last posted, but I have a couple excuses, first being that the website would not let me post.  Second is that I am so busy with another baby!  Here are a couple family pics we just had done. 

Elynn Cecelia Bird was born January 27, 2012.  She was 7 lb. 3 oz. and 21 in. long.  I was induced with her at exactly 39 weeks.  I had not been feeling her move very much and something just didn't feel right.  When I went in for my appointment the doctor said she could break my water and induce me so I walked upstairs and started labor!  It was great and I am glad I did.  The cord was wrapped around her neck twice and I was low on fluid.  She is my only blue eyed baby and the sweetest, easiest, most chubby baby ever!  She is six months old and almost 19 lb.  I feel so blessed to have a "dud" for a baby finally!  She loves Maddox and is scared of Embree.  She is rolling all over the place and can sit with assistance.  Very far from Embree who was already crawling at six months and walking with push-along toys seven months.

 We live in Polson, Montana now and LOVE it!  Both Jeff and I are competing in triathlons now.  We just finished one in Missoula and Jeff and I are doing a full tri in a couple weeks.  Only I am cheating and doing a team.  My body just isn't quite ready for something so strenuous.  The kids love swimming in the lake, which is just down the hill from us and just playing.

 Maddox is a big boy now.  He is as big as his six year old friends, but is only four.  I have to keep reminding myself that he is still a little boy or a big toddler.   He loves riding his bike and jumping on the tramp and is learning to read.  Oh, and he is obsessed with the old school Super Mario Nintendo.

 Embree is a spitfire.  This is a perfect picture of her.  Very stubborn.  Wants to do everything by herself that I want to help her with and wants me to help her with everything I don't want to.  But she can be the sweetest girl too and loves to pretend she is a mom with her baby dolls. She keeps things exciting and is helping me realize I have a lot of growing to do.

Hello

My Latest Hobby

Throwing up. I am pregnant again and about 12 weeks along :)

Jeff's Latest Hobby

Since graduation from dental school Jeff has taken up some hobbies, such as wood working, cake making, photography and crashing cars. Just kidding. Getting rear ended by semi trucks is not his latest hobby. Although this did really happen, he is not making it a habit. Before leaving Kentucky Jeff visited some dear and close friends, whom we dearly miss, to learn how to carve wood. This is something he has expressed a desire to do before we were even married. He made several pens, which do actually work, and a candlestick.

He has also taken up cake decorating. He made a pig birthday cake for our nephew Talis in June. This was one of the simplest cakes he has made and also one of the cutest. He also made a big bad wolf cake for our nephew Jett, but I don't have that picture uploaded yet. It turned out cute too and I actually made the pig and the wolf! It was fun. Jeff totally doubted my cake making skills when I began making the houses of straw, brick and sticks and if you could see the cake you would totally agree. They are very ugly and not to scale at all. In fact, there was hardly any room for the wolf on the cake. Oh well.

He also made a Spongebob cake before we left Kentucky for one of Maddox's good friends, Kale.

And he made a graduation cake for Doug, which I haven't seen pics of as Jeff forgot our camera. And this is his second and I think his best creation. It took him literally a day and a half to make. This was for our nephew Garrett's birthday.

Last Days in Kentucky

Our last few weeks in Kentucky were full of excitement and celebration and goodbyes and tears...and strep throat, which we didn't find out about until we were in Montana. It was one of the best places I have ever lived and most of that was definitely not due to the incredibly hot and humid summers or bone chilling cold and brown winters...It was one of the best places I have ever lived due to the people. We lived near family and friends that I will never forget and hope to never lose contact with. And Jeff graduated from dental school! Yeah!

I should have some photos to post but right now we can't find our camera. Wups! It will turn up somewhere. You always "lose" stuff in a move right? Unfortunately we lose things we really really really need, like medicine and cameras and one of Maddox's three lightening mcqueen cars. Really bad. But we made it...halfway. We are still living with my parents in Kalispell, MT until we find a house to rent. Then we will move again. Jeff finally decided on a job in Polson, MT working for the tribe clinic. He worked there last summer and had a great time. We are excited. We miss our friends but know we will see you all again!

Happy Birthday to You!

It was Jeff's birthday over the weekend. He turned 29, although my family all thought he turned 30 this year. My sister, for some reason, was under that impression and spread the word. It was funny. Here is a picture of Jeff blowing the candles out on his cake. He made it himself, with a little help from Nate and Mallory, who showed him how to make fondant frosting. If you didn't know, Jeff loves baking and says if dentistry fails him, he will open up a bakery shop instead. I told him he better start developing some recipes...Not that he is going to fail at dentistry at all. It is just that we graduate in one month and still don't have a job! AHHHH!!! We do have prospects though and so know something will work out, but just don't know which one or where or when. Anyway, back to his birthday, we celebrate birth weeks in our house. This is a newly declared tradition as of Jeff's first birthday after we were married. He kept getting presents in the mail from family and friends and had two birthday cakes and decided he really liked having a week long birthday, so now we do birth weeks and the final day being your actual birthday. This means you get special treatment throughout the week, like a happy birthday sign, special breakfasts, naps, treats, bike riding time, nintendo time, or in Jeff's case, time to make his own birthday cake! And here it is! The famous cake! Can you tell what it is? Jeff and Nate even went as far as numbering the tooth and creating the specific tooth grooves. It is a molar of some sort, but I am unsure as to the exact one. The pink is for the gums, although Maddox thought it was for him, his favorite color being pink. The other day we went shopping for sandals for spring and when he got out of the car he declared, "Mommy, I want pink sandals!" I told him to see what they have first. Maybe red. When we got in the store and I was looking at Embree's sandals, he wandered down to the bigger girl shoes and found some all pink sandals and tried to put them on, declaring this is what he wanted. I told him they were too small...all the pink ones were too small and redirected him to the ugly brown ones for boys on the next isle. Silly boy!