Family Pictures!!

WARNING: A LOT OF PICTURES AHEAD!!!!!!! (sorry, I couldn't choose only a few :)

Our good friend Stacy was so nice to take our family pictures a week ago! If you're looking for a photographer, she is the one!! She does an amazing job, as you can see, and is so great to work with :) Check out her amazing work on her blog

They have recently fixed up the south end of the BYU campus, and this is where we headed for the pictures! The girls had plenty of cheesy smiles throughout the shoot, the little goofs! Hallie had fallen asleep for most of the time, so we tried our best to get some pictures during her good moments :)

Thanks Stacy for doing our pictures, we love them!!

Hallie is 1 month old!!!!!

I can't believe Hallie is already 1 month old!!! She is such a sweet baby girl, we are so lucky to have her in our family!

She eats well, sleeps well, and has lots of blowouts :) My laundry has definitely doubled, but that's okay, she is worth it :)

She is starting to smile at us, which melts my heart. Abby and Bailey still can't get enough of her and are so sweet with her. Every time she opens her eyes, they run over to play with her and tell me that she is awake!

Bailey gives her the binky every five seconds and gives her lots of kisses and hugs. Abby is also very attentive to her and will sit right next to her "to make sure she doesn't get hurt". Bailey calls her "baby hawee", it is so cute.

I'm lucky to have three beautiful girls and a great hubby too. I always tell Gavin I have four babies now (he is my #1 baby :)

One side note, a few days ago, Abby said "Grandpa called you Jill, but your name is Mommy, not Jill". She makes me laugh.

When it rains, it pours!!

Things have been pretty crazy around here. First off, we're still adjusting to Hallie's sleep schedule, or lack of sleep for us :) We have also had so many sicknesses coming through our house! I was sick with a bad cold when I went into labor, then I came home with Hallie and Abby had the stomach flu. Bailey has also had stomach sickness. Well, now I have completely LOST my voice because of this sore throat and cough I have had for the past few days. I seriously have NO voice, which is hard as a Mom, I need my voice as a Mom :) And unfortunately, I was told it is a virus, so I can't take meds to get better either. I am just worried about little Hallie getting sick, when will the sicknesses end? And honestly, I don't get out much these days, so I don't know where we keep getting sick from?

Then, last night, Gavin was trying to fix the side of our rocking chair. He was trying to unscrew a bolt and he said his hands slipped from pushing so hard on the bolt and he pushed the screw driver RIGHT INTO HIS PALM!!!!!! Ahhhhhhh, it makes me hurt just thinking about it. I was cleaning bottles in the kitchen when I heard him yell out, I could tell something really bad had happened by the tone in his voice. He actually pulled out the screw driver himself, he is tough! His hand was shaking from the shock and he jumped into the car and headed to the ER alone because I am sick and the girls were already asleep. A few hours later, he came back with a wrap around it and he was started on antibiotics and pain meds. They are worried that he will get infected, so he has to take a heavy course of antibiotics this week.

The screw driver went into the top of his palm and in between his index and middle finger on his left hand. There was a bulge on the top of his knuckle and the screw driver had almost gone completely through his hand. They did x-rays, and luckily he barely missed hitting bone and tendons. He told me they made him wait in the ER while some Cop was having stitches removed. They had him sit there in tremendous pain for about an hour! Gavin tried calling me a few times to update me, but I have no voice, so I was trying to be supportive, but I couldn't even communicate. Poor Gavin, I feel so bad! He was just trying to be mister fix-it and ended up with this injury!

This is going to be an interesting week with him having to go to school/work. Luckily, it was his left hand, not right.

Another fun thing, our "check engine light" has been on for the last week. We have just kept driving on it, haha. Our car has had SO many problems and we are just about to send it off a cliff! And seeing how we never have excess money (because we are college students), this is another fun thing :)

I thought my biggest challenge would be adjusting to having another newborn, but I guess with a family of five, there are just going to be a lot of challenges all at the same time, haha.

It just always seems like things like this happen at the same time :)

Okay, just wanted to share our crazy stories.

Halloweeen 2010

We headed up to my Parent's house this year for Halloween! Gavin had to go on a field trip for one of his classes during the day on Saturday, so I thought it would be fun to hang out at Grandma and Grandpa's instead of staying home alone :) My Mom was so nice and sewed Abby that adorable witch costume. I don't have a lot of free time on my hands lately, so she was so nice to do that for me! Thanks Mom!

When Gavin was finished, we took the girls trick-or-treating around their neighborhood. They only lasted for about 20 minutes because it was raining and freezing cold! Well, truthfully, Gavin and I wanted to stop as well, it was not good weather :) They definitely filled up those bags with candy though!

We headed back to my Parent's after and had fun seeing more trick-or-treaters come to their house. At the end of the night, there were quite a few teenagers that came by, it made me laugh. I remember going trick-or-treating with friends when I was way too old to be going still, what can I say, I LOVED candy and still do :)

It was a fun holiday! Thanks Mom and Dad for letting us come!!!

Bailey was a little kitty if you can't tell, and Abby was a witch. And yes, as you can see in the pictures, Gavin was a good sport and dressed up in his whoopee cushion costume! It is going to be his tradition he told me :) Hallie and I were mother and baby this year, no costumes necessary :)