Happy Baby!

Mia is ALWAYS Happy! She is very content with whatever and always has such an adorable smile for everyone! I feel so blessed to have such a good baby!

Mia - 6 weeks

Here are the many faces of Mia at just 6 weeks old!

Mindy the Yodeling Cowgirl

Ok so maybe she doesn't know how to Yodel - but she sure looks cute in this Jessie Costume!

Mindy is our little cowgirl. Lately everytime we get in the van she says to me

"Mama, pretend this is Skip"

When we ride in the truck she always wants to listen to the

George Strait song "How 'bout them cowgirls"

She loves to play with her toy horses, make corrals in the hallway, and make a halter for her stuffed horse and run around neighing! She is a true cowgirl at heart!

Trying to Update!

I have been so bad lately about updating my blog! I plan on posting about everyday life going on around here. Mia is getting so big and now that summer is here we are very busy!

Stay tuned for more....

Mia's Blessing

Mia was blessed on April 10, 2011. We had a wonderful weekend with lots of family. Granny, Grandpa, and Judy all came from Idaho. Alex and Stephenie came just in time after leaving right after school got out for the semester.

On Saturday Judy, Brookelynn, Mia and I all went shopping for a dress for me to wear on Sunday. It has become a tradition to get a new dress with each baby blessing. I love the dress-Thanks to Aunt Jude! All the girls had a lemonade party. We all dressed up in our dresses, hats and flowers, and make-up. We had yummy croissant sandwiches with cheese factory too! For dessert we had strawberry shortcake.

The girls wore their "wedding dresses" to church and looked so cute! Mia looked beautiful in her blessing dress handmade by Aunt Judy. Monte, Grandpa Waltman, Great Grandpa Garner, Bishop Steinagel, and Alex all stood in for her blessing. Monte gave a great blessing-and she didn't even cry.

We were so greatful to have family there for such a special event!

A little about our new life with 3 girls

We have late church so it seems like every Sunday we are waiting around to go! Then when the time actually comes we are somehow not ready!! :) Well, this last Sunday we had about 15 minutes before we needed to get loaded into the car so of course I had to get the camera out. I took about 30 pictures to get one cute one!!! Is it just me or does everyone have this problem...my girls will not look at the camera!!!!!

So Monte felt the need to give baby sister a nickname. I'm not sure if it will stick but its Mimi. I told him it is too close to Nini but he keeps calling her that and now the girls have started to as well. (I like to use nicknames for the girls on the blog so it works for now)

I still cannot believe that Mimi has dark hair. She looks similar to the girls in their baby pictures but is totally her own self with her long dark hair. She is a good baby and wakes up about every 3 hours to eat during the night.

Sister Scott (Nini's BFF) gave us this adorable outfit. Honestly-I've never bought a blue outfit/dress because, if my babies are not in pink, people always ask "oh is it a boy or girl"(well, they actually sometimes even ask when they're wearing PINK--hello!!)

I thought Mimi looked so cute in this outfit and I just couldn't stop taking her picture!

Today she is 5 weeks old :)

Nini and Iya still get up at 6:30 every morning. Monte and I have this unspoken deal of I take care of the baby and he gets up with the girls. He has been a big help getting up and putting on a movie, filling cups with milk, and changing a usually stinky diaper. Every night I go to bed planning on getting up with the girls in the morning, but by the time their wake up call comes around, I'm so tired from getting up in the middle of the night that I just cannot bring myself to get out of bed. Maybe someday it will happen-but probably not any day soon! :)

My friend/visiting teaching companion did a baby shower for me 2 weeks ago. There was lots of yummy food. My mom and sisters even came too! It was so fun and I got lots of diapers and cute things. Dana made this ADORABLE diaper wreath!

After the baby shower my Mom and I tried baby Mimi's dress on her. Aunt Judy made it for her. She is going to look so beautiful on her blessing day!

I LOVE that the weather is getting nicer so the girls can get out of the house to run around and play. One of the days they were outside I told them Daddy was going to be home and to watch for him-I looked out the window to check on them and saw them sitting there waiting--so cute!
Monte is holding sleeping Mimi and watching basketball right now (surprise, surprise!). She is usually up and wants to eat or be patted in the late evening. I got a nap today for the first time in weeks while the girls had "quiet time"....who knew Peter Pan was ONLY an hour long! :)

Our Baby Girls

Each of these pictures were taken when the girls were 2 days old. I actually wore this outfit as a baby too! I cannot believe how different they look from each other. I feel so blessed to have 3 beautiful girls.

Baby Sister

Here is our baby sister! She was born February 18 at 2:33. She weighed 8 lbs 14 oz. We love her so much and cannot believe she has so much dark hair! Nini loves to hold her and Iya loves to touch her hair and nose. She is such a sweet baby and we are so happy to finally have her as a part of our family!

Snow Day!

The girls were SO excited to go outside and play in the snow. Nini woke up and got into the fridge to look for carrots for a snowman! Unfortunately it was not good snow man material snow......but it was fun to play in anyway! Daddy was such a good sport to go out with the girls. He pulled Nini on the snowboard and taught the girls how to make snow angels! Nini loved every minute and didn't want to come inside. She especially loved throwing snowballs at Daddy! Iya enjoyed the snow about as long as a 2 year old usually does and then wanted to come inside and take a tubby because her hands were freezing!! What a fun day in the snow!

Sunday Dresses

Favorite Aunt Judy made these adoreable capes for the girls for Christmas. They have "fur" collars and are so so cute!! The girls love getting all dressed up and ready for church. They get to wear sticker earings and lipstick!