Ivy Love

Ivy sure gets a lot of love...from her brother, sister, aunt, cousins, etc! Here are some pictures of our pretty girl and some of those that love her!

Davis Learns to Ride a Bike

At the end of March, Davis learned to ride a bike! Steve was super frustrated trying to teach him...I was inside one night when they were practicing and Davis comes running in telling me he rode down the street all by himself. When I asked Steve what he did to help Davis figure it out he said he got tired of holding on so he just gave him a big shove and let him go! I guess the moral of this story is just push them when they don't get it:) He has gotten really good really fast and rides around like a maniac. Good thing we live in a pretty secluded culdesac. He wants to go bike riding every day, all the time. He thinks he is big enough now to play with the 12 year olds that live on our street and ride their bikes out together. It makes me laugh but they are really nice to him. He is super proud of himself and I have to say it was kind of a moment for me when he first learned. It is a monumental achievement in a child's life when they learn to ride a bike! That is big stuff!

Ivy's Birth Announcement

Here is Ivy's birth announcement...hopefully if you are reading this you got one in your mailbox! Also, we are blessing her on April 8th at 1pm so consider yourself invited! We would love to have anyone who can make it.

Ivy's Newborn Pictures (and an attempt at sibling pictures!)

I wanted to post Ivy's newborn pictures...we attempted to take some pictures of all 3 of the kids. Lets just say we weren't super successful! Some of them just make me laugh. It was a complete circus and it shows in the pictures!!

I love Emery's smile in this one but Ivy looked away:(


This one cracks me up-it shows all of their personalities!
My favorite picture of Ivy. So sweet.

They are all looking, but not sure what Ivy is doing?







I love the face she is making in this picture. She probably felt completely tormented by this point!

BYU Basketball

When we found out that BYU was coming to Louisville to play in an NCAA tournament game (especially after coming off of a win from a 22 point deficit against IONA) I was so excited...and then really bummed that tickets were so expensive. It isn't very often that you get to see your school play in a tournament game. We totally lucked out that Steve was able to get some tickets through work! Even though they lost and well, it wasn't really even close, it was so fun to get to see them. Of course, lots of people from our ward and stake were there and we got to sit by Jenny and the boys for part of the game, too. All I can say is that my husband is the best to find tickets for me and be a good sport about BYU...even if he did refuse to wear blue:) Don't let him fool you, he really does love BYU!

Spring!

Spring is in full swing here in Louisville...or maybe even Summer. It has been amazing weather the last week and a half. It snowed two weeks ago and now we are having summer like temperatures in the 80's in the middle of March. Crazy. I have to say it has been so nice to get outside and enjoy the outdoors. We love to take walks in our neighborhood and we had to document our first walk of the season.

This is Ivy at 5 weeks old



On a side note...Emery has been into EVERYTHING...she can get into all of our cupboards and drawers that have child locks and there is no stopping her! Her hair looks so awesome in this picture because Steve found her with a tube of neosporin spreading in all in her hair, over her face and hands and she probably put it in her mouth, too (he was really worried she had eaten it). She has done the same with lotion, soap, aquafor, toothpaste, butt paste...I guess she has a thing for ointments! I think I have everything put out of her reach and somehow she ends up with it. What a crazy!

Basketball!

Davis finished up his first season of basketball a couple of weeks ago. He really like playing and it was especially fun because his cousin, Josh was on his same team. He also had an amazing coach, Coach Grimm. He made a lot of progress through the season, especially learning how to rebound. I liked basketball because the kids made a lot of shots and it didn't get my competitive juices going too much!!