Grandma Brants Visits.

My mom came to visit us last week! It was so nice to have a helping hand and some company! Tim's new rotation keeps him away from home 12 hours a day leaving me car-less with two kids and pretty lonely. Having my mom around for the help and the company was really nice.

Owen was thrilled to have Grandma here since she has the energy to play with him for hours on end. After a day or so he was following her around like a little shadow and mom was so not cool anymore. Ha! He has been talking up a storm lately but still not real words. So far he says Mom, Dad, Hi, Num num, and 'Sup! Most of the time it's just jibber jabber that sounds like he's speaking Tagalog! Hopefully he'll start soon so we can start the potty training process. Having two kids in diaper is keeping me busy!

June is doing really well. She's already 5 weeks and starting to fill out. I weighed her on our scale a week ago and she was just over 8 lbs! (who knows how accurate our scale is though!) We started her on the babywise routine a few weeks ago and she's doing really well. Most nights she'll go right back to sleep after being changed and fed and has even had a few 4 hours stretches already! They are rare but SUCH a relief when they come. Usually she wakes every 2-3 hours so I'm still pretty tired.

We're all doing really well here! Just pretty tired still and anxiously awaiting Tim's graduation! Having one car and a small apartment is getting old REALLY fast. :-)

Mom & June

Sunday dress

Reading books with Grandma

Owen LOVES his sister

My new haircut. It doesn't really look that different but it's MUCH cleaner.

Smiley bug.

hair help.

getting my hair cut on monday and I don't know what to ask for! I've had long, short, blunt bangs, swept bangs and everything in between it seems. Right now I'm rockin' the blunt bangs (which is a total lifesaver since I have my hair in a ponytail most days) with suuuuper long hair.

here are my top 3:

Swept Bangs, shoulder length bob

blunt bangs, keep the length, add layers

or copy my sister JoLyn's haircut again. She always looks fab. :-)

What say you?

2010 in a nutshell.

January:

-Tim turns 27

Februrary:

4th year of our traditional "heart shaped pizza" for Valentines

3rd wedding anniversary

March: 

Surprise trip to Salt Lake

Celebrated Owen's first birthday early with the Wood's

Owen gets his first haircut.

April:

Owen turns 1!

Owen's first Easter!

Found out a little surprise of our own!
Baby Duex would be joining us in December!
(I took a total of 6 tests because I couldn't believe it!)

May:

Tim has his pinning ceremony for his last year of pharmacy school 

(aka paying to work 40 hours a week for different pharmacies for a whole year)

First trip to Sante Fe.

Trip to California to visit Tim's sister Lisa and her family.

Went to the Sacramento Temple.

Saw the Big Trees.

June:

Owl Cafe

Lazy Mornings

Lots of Car Shows

Tim's first Father's Day

July:

Spent the 4th in HOT St. George with the Brants.

Bear Lake!

Lived in Salt Lake City for one of Tim's nuclear pharmacy rotations. Had millions of Arctic Circle Shakes and frequented Red Iguana.

August:

lots of pool hanging.

September:

Lots and lots of car shows

October:

Balloon Fiesta

Halloween

Jemez Springs

November:

Baby shower for baby June.

Kidney stones and about a million trips to the hospital because of it.

Thanksgiving with the Elmore's.

December:

Baby June arrives!

Christmas

MyLyn turns 24.

Things to look forward to in 2011:

4th wedding anniversary
NOT being pregnant (hopefully!)
Tim graduates with his PharmD!
Real vacations
A second car (finally!)
A bigger place with a garage
Owen's 2nd birthday
Milestones with June
Moving to who knows where!

Bring it on 2011! We've waited oh so long for you!

June's First Moments

Our first few moments with baby June. 

Don't mind me, I was still a little weepy.

Happy Birthday Jesus.

Christmas was very different for us this year. We stayed home since we just had a baby and it's RSV season. The only Christmas Tim and I have spent here we did all sorts of fun things and slept in late, this year we were up all night with a baby and started opening presents at 6am! We still enjoyed Christmas through bloodshot eyes. :-)

Owen got spoiled. We didn't take many pictures since we had a video camera this year. 

His favorite present is a pop up spiderman tent that he and Dad likes to call their "fort." 

Owen and his kitchen.
We bought this with the theory that it would keep him out of the REAL kitchen when we are making meals. He's so cute when he tries to help but has almost burned himself several times.

Owen his his powertools.

The best of a dozen attempted pictures. 

Tim and I spoiled ourselves as well and bought a GPS for the car and a Ninja blender!

 Hope you had a Merry Christmas!

can't say we didn't try!

We tried to take some pictures today.....

We were able to get a few good ones before....

Mr. Fussy Pants came out.

We let him take a picture and this is what we got after we took the camera back. :-)

opposites.

June

and

Owen

this makes me laugh so hard. Owen is HUGE compared to tiny little June! Even at birth Owen was a good 2 lbs heavier and 2 inches longer. We never felt like we had to very super careful with him since he was so thick and sturdy and June is just so dainty! I laugh every time I think of how opposite these kids are. :-)