sisters

i often set reese in her swing to sit while i get stuff done.  it's one of the few safe places to put reese, excluding the one time tanner sat on her while in it.  katelyn loves it when reese is in the swing and will spend a lot of her time sitting there entertaining her.

my two cute girls

reese loves katelyn.  i love the smiles she'll give her.  so does katelyn.  she's often heard saying, reese, can you smile?  there's a cute grin.

two months old

this little lady is officially two months old.  she's so much more alert and smiles all of the time.  she continues to be our most sensitive child.  she has started crying a bit more, which has been okay.  we can typically calm her down quickly.  she loves to be swaddled and loves to be held.  once she's asleep she'll take a great nap.  at times her tummy bugs her and she'll wiggle and wiggle until she poops.  she's our little sweetheart with lots to love.

it's much harder than i thought to focus the camera while getting reese to smile.

cousins

we finally got these two cousins together for the first time.  reese was born in february and finn was born in december.  i'm just positive they would have been the best of friends if we were sticking around.

warm weather

in march we were completely spoiled with gorgeous weather. i know it's been such a strange winter across the nation. i'm so glad wisconsin didn't miss out on all the fun.

while katelyn was away at school we took tanner out in the backyard to play.  tyler decided this would be good chance to teach him how to use his t-ball set.

tyler even had a go at hitting the ball.  he was a tad bit too big for it.

reese joined us outside as well.  she wasn't as excited about the warm weather.  in fact, it probably just helped her get to sleep. 

once task master...er...katelyn got home she put tanner right to work pushing her in the car.

match day

match day definitely was a day we have looked forward to all year long.  the whole first half of fourth year was spent creating applications, figuring out which schools we wanted to apply to, spending lots of money so we could apply to those schools, flying out for interviews and eventually just waiting for this long anticipated day to see if we had matched. 

match day was a very thrilling day.  everyone wanted to be there.  they basically put all of the envelopes all together and pull them out one by one announcing the name of the person it belongs to.  i must say, not only was it fun to get our own envelope, but it was really fun to be there celebrating with our friends as well to find out where they will all be heading soon.

you can probably tell from the pictures that we were excited!  tyler worked very hard these past four years and made it into the university of utah pm&r program.  we are excited to finally know where we will be for the next four years.

month of march

i think most of march was spent at home this year. mainly because i was (and still am) getting adjusted to three. it was my first real month of being on my own. really the only time i ever made it out of the house was when i was driving  katelyn to school.  but my kids are good at entertaining each other and me as well.

little miss katelyn has been my amazing helper.  what would i have done without her?  she has helped us a ton with reese and tanner.  i've been so grateful for her.

when my mom came to visit she brought moon dough for the kiddos to play with.  they've loved it!  tanner played with this almost every morning until i got sick of cleaning it up and hid it from him.   i'm sure i'll bring it out again soon.

one evening for our fhe game we taught the kids how to sumo wrestle.  it was hilarious to watch.  they loved bumping into each other and then having daddy tackle them to the ground.

i thought it would be fun to let the kids do some projects after reese arrived.  well, it really wasn't that fun and it really wasn't a good idea.  tanner enjoys himself too much.  the ending result is always one huge mess.

princess katelyn visits our house every.single.day.  princess katelyn happens to be very helpful.  she'll even vacuum for me.

since tanner loves katelyn and wants to do everything she does, tanner wanted to vacuum as well.  but, tanner has a slight fear of the vacuum.  he layed down in this spot and didn't take his eye off of the vacuum the whole time.

you see?  that sneaky vacuum.

tanner pulled the coffe table up to his rocking chair one morning then told me he wanted some lunch.  funny kid. 

family of five