Taits Blessing

So I am pretty behind in my postings. We had Tait blessed on December 5th. He wore the same outfit that Owen did when he got blessed. Here are their two pics side by side. Can you guess which one is which??

I think we only make one kind of boy! We had the blessing the morning at church and then everyone came back here for lunch. Here are some pics of the day.

All of the cousins from my side of the family minus my Sisters kids.

All of the boys that helped bless him.

Our little family.

We just love Tait so much and can't imagine our life without him. We are so glad that he is ours forvever!

Buttercup Bag

This is the best pattern for a little bag that I have found. This took me just under an hour from start to finish. I made a few adjustments and would make more next time, but I think it turned out so cute. This only takes 2 fat quarters to make so not only is it fast, but it is cheap. This pattern is called the buttercup bag and I found it on madebyrae.blogspot.com. It is a free pattern!

Brothers

Here are some super cute pictures of my boys. Anytime I get the camera out to take pictures of Tait, Owen jumps right in and wants to hold him and get his picture taken with him. Owen is so gentle with him and will hold him and give him kisses and tickle his tummy. I can't wait to see these boys grow up together.

Halloween

We had a very low key Halloween this year because of the baby and Halloween being on a Sunday. Olivia told me she wanted to be Hermine from Harry Potter early this summer and I convinced Abby that she really wanted to be a butterfly fairy, because we already had the costume that Olivia wore 2 years ago. They got dressed up to go to our wards Fall Festival and then again for Olivia's schools Fall Festival. My poor kids didn't even get to go trick or treating this year because we were in Tucson visiting family on Saturday and I wouldn't let them go on Sunday.
She had the stance down perfectly!! If you can't tell, her wand is a tree branch from the front yard. She chose it herself very carefully!

I love this pose!

She was so excited to dress up, she had trouble standing still long enough for me to take a picture. This is the best one of almost 20 pics!

More Baby Pics

Here are some more pics of Baby Tait, I am trying to take lots of pictures so he can't complain that he doesn't have any baby pictures because he is number 4.

This was taken the day we got home and his face is still really swollen from the birth (he tried to come out upside-down).Sound asleep watching football with Daddy.

Wide awake and looking around.

Don't you just want to smell his little head! I love the newborn stage so much, I already am getting sad that he is growing up so fast. Some of that might be because he is an awesome sleeper!! He usually only wakes up once during the night, nurses and then falls right back asleep. So I am feeling great and getting lots of sleep. I just hope he doesn't grow up too fast!

Alexander Tait

The wait is finally over, Alexander Tait was born on Tuesday the 12th at 8:30pm. He was 8lbs 11oz and looks exactly like his brother Owen. I was scheduled for induction early that morning, but was postponed because they were so busy. We finally got called in at 1:00 in the afternoon and got to the hospital and got all checked in. They started me on pitosin and broke my water at 4:00 and after a wonderful epidural and about 20 min of pushing he was born. So far, he has been a really good baby. He eats good and sleeps good and is so cute. The girl absolutely adore him and Owen just kind-of ignores him. We are so excited for him to join our family!

California

Last weekend we were able to take a quick trip to California to visit Alex's Sister who is there for the summer. The kids has so much fun on the beach as these pictures show!!

They loved to play in the water, especially Owen who didn't want Alex to hang on to him at all, he wanted to do it by himself, but he kept falling over. It was so funny to watch him play in the water. They also loved to play in the sand!!

We packed a lunch and taught our kids why they are really called sandwiches!! Abby didn't like it so much and didn't eat any of her sandwich, but she did drink like 5 capri-suns.

We had such a great time and the weather was awesome! I forgot how sandy everything gets at the beach and our car now looks like the beach. We are still finding sand in the most interesting places on the kids!! We might have to make it a yearly trip.