Party time!!

We've had a busy week! We have gone to 3 kid's birthday parties this past week. The first one was Saturday morning, the next Sunday afternoon and the third was last night. The parties were lots of fun with lots of chaos, as there were little kids everywhere!! The next birthday will be Gabby's in April!! I can't believe she is almost 2 already. They do grow up so fast.
I'm so glad that spring has finally arrived!! We don't have any snow left in our backyard now, but we still have a little bit in the front. Yesterday the girls played in the backyard for a couple of hours and they loved it! It's so nice to finally see some sunshine:) Although, I just read that we are possibly getting some more snow this weekend...not happy about that:(Nicole and I and our boys...only 8 days apart!!

Megan has her first professional haircut this past week. My mom stayed home with the 2 little ones and Megs and I went to the hairdresser. It's a kids haircut place called Beaners. The kids get to sit in a little jeep or a quad to get their haircut. Oh, and they get to watch a movie and Meggie thought that was pretty great! She sat so sit and did great getting her haircut and it looks so cute. It's angled like mine is, with her hair a little bit longer in the front than the back. She also chose to have some ribbons put in by the hairdresser!Jeff is running in a race on Sunday morning. Jeff and 4 other people are running a 1/2 marathon relay. Jeff has never really run before...so we will see how it goes! He has ran around our neighborhood a few times this week and he's been working out. What a crazy guy! Oh, and you should see his runners...they are held together with duct tape!!! He doesn't want to spend the money on new runners since this is kind of a one time thing. I want to go watch him run, but I'll have to see how things go because I'll have all 3 kids by myself.
We have a new interm pastor at our church and he is awesome!! He has a young family with kids similar is age to ours. He is so encouraging and we are so thankful to have him at our church. My dad was telling me that the attendance last Sunday was way up and there were 12 little kids in Megan's children's church class last Sunday. We have been praying that more young families would come to the church!! God is so good.
Marty is doing great and continues to be such a happy and content baby!! He's still sleeping great and only gets up once at night, usually between 3-4am and he's going to bed around 10pm. We have given him a few bottles this past week just to see if he would take it (since Gabby never did and I didn't have any freedom). Well, he took it no problem, so I will try to pump and give him a bottle every once in awhile to make sure he gets used to it. He is such a blessing to us!!!

My parents took the girls swimming this week and they had a blast!! Megan and Gabby both love the water. We haven't taken them swimming in a while, except for Meggie's lessons. Megan was even brave enough to put her face in the water!! I was so proud of her. Gabby went under a few times as well by accident and she did fine.
That's all I can remember about this past week...I hope you all have a great weekend!

Our weekend!!

We had a very fun and busy weekend at the coast!! My cousin Kirsten got married on Saturday and it was such a beautiful wedding. I was so blessed to be a part of their special day. The ceremony was so honoring to God and to Malcolm and Kirsten. Kirsten was one of the most beautiful brides I have ever seen...she was stunning!! We love you both and pray that God will bless your marriage always.Meggie all ready to watch aunty Kirsten come down the aisle!

The reception was at another church and it was also great! We were able to leave the girls with Rob and Leanne and we only took Marty along. It was such a treat to not have to entertain the girls and just be able to enjoy the reception. I was excited to see my brother and to introduce him to our little Marty! Marty was great during the whole day, he pretty much slept it away. At the reception, I got to meet a few of my blogging friends, Kelly and Kristal! It was great to finally meet them in person. I already felt like I knew them because of reading their blogs. It was really fun!!
Uncle Loren got to meet Marty for the first time!!

The trip went really well. The kids did pretty good on the trip down, Gabby got a little frustrated towards the end because she was tired of being in her carseat. I don't blame her! Marty pretty much slept the whole way, we just stopped once to feed him. Megan was happy as a clam playing her games on the laptop!Marty meeting his great-grandma for the first time!

Rob and Leanne were such great hosts to us this weekend. Leanne always had such wonderful meals for us, we were totally spoiled there! They watched the kids while we went to the rehearsal dinner and again during the wedding reception. We are so thankful for them!! We had lots of great visiting time together too. The girls had a blast playing with their kids and they already miss them.
The kids playing "log ride" on the stairs.

We went to their church on Sunday morning before we headed home. The trip home was pretty good. It was snowing quite a bit, but the van does great in winter conditions. At one point, all 3 of the kids were sleeping and we enjoyed the quiet time!

Our whole family has managed to pick up a little cold:( The girls and Marty have runny noses and Jeff and I feel the cold coming on with our sore throats. I guess it's better that we all get it at once and get it over with. I took Marty to the doctor yesterday for his one month check up. I can't believe he is one month old already...I can't imagine life without him!! He weighed 10 lbs
1 oz. He is in the 75th percentile. He is still such a good eater and sleeper. Last night I fed him at 10pm and he didn't wake up until 3:40am!!! What a good boy.

We have a busy weekend coming up. We have a birthday party on Saturday morning and another birthday party on Sunday afternoon. I was invited to another birthday for some friends of mine on Saturday also, but I think it will be too much. Both of the parties are for Megan and Gabby's friends and there are going to be lots of kids!! It should be fun.

I better get going and figure out something to make for dinner!

Our family of 5...

We have been adjusting well to being a family of 5!! Sometimes I can't believe we have 3 kids, but it's going really well. Marty is such a good baby and we love him to pieces!! The girls are totally in love with him and can not get enough of him. Megan often asks in the mornings if she can go wake him up so she can see him!
Marty has been getting up to feed only once at night for over a week now. I am loving that!! I feed him about 10pm and then he gets up to feed between 2-3am and then again between 6-7am. I usually go back to sleep then for a little bit if I can. He is such a content and happy baby!! He still sleeps a lot in the day, so he's pretty easy right now.We had a playdate on Tuesday and Marty got to meet his new friend! My friend had a baby boy a week before Marty was born. We get together every week for playdates and so these boys will be good buddies! It was nice to finally get out of the house and be with friends again. We were home for about a week after Marty was born and I could tell the girls (and me) were getting a little house bound! Jeff's mom has offered to take the girls every Monday for the whole day...what a treat for me. This past Monday, I went grocery shopping with just Marty and of course he slept the whole time. It was SO easy having only one child!! I totally forgot what that was like. Then Marty and I had a 2 hour nap together, it was wonderful:)We have been SO blessed by our many friends and family who have brought us meals over the last 2 weeks! I didn't have to cook one dinner in over a week and a half...we are SO thankful to all of you!!We are SO looking forward to next weekend when we get to celebrate with Kirsten and Malcolm as they get married!! I just think they are such an incredible couple and we feel blessed to be able to share this special day with them! I'm a little nervous to travel with 3 littles ones, but it's only 3 hours or so to get there. We are staying at our friends place and they also have 3 kids, so it will be a house full!! It will be great to see them again and our girls love to play with their girls.

That's all for now...