Keagan 2 Months Old

 Our Baby Keagan is 2 months old.
He weighs 15lb 14oz and is 25 inches long.
 As mentioned earlier he is the best baby.  Patient, happy, calm, tolerant of his brothers and sister, and the best sleeper.  He has been sleeping through the night since 3 weeks old and making my life a lot easier with the transition from 3 kids to 4.  He has just started smiling at us.  We love him.

December Temple Trip

 We try hard to make it to the Temple every month.  Since we have lived in storm lake we average about every other month

 Our Temple is the Winter Quarters Omaha temple.  It is great because there is always something to see and do while we are there with the visitor center next door.

 It is a 2 hour drive to get there but the kids are wonderful travelers and look forward to the trip.

This trip, we met another couple down there and they watched out kids for the 10am session then we came out, switched off and took there kids for the 12noon session. This picture is us taking the kids out to lunch. You can't see the babies in there car seats but the other family has twins that just turned one and we have Keagan so we were hauling around 7 kids. It was an experience.


After lunch we went back to the visitor center to see the special Christmas Display.  While we were there a group of professional bell ringers were performing.  It was so fun to watch them they let the kids come up and ring some of he bells.

The special display they had were Gingerbread houses.  People, groups, wards, and organizations had donated gingerbread houses.  This was the little gingerbread house for the kids to play in.  The bear the you see Miranda holding in the pictures is a traveling bear for her first grade class.  She had it for the weekend to go on our adventure with us.

Steven's Birthday

 Steven turned 32 on Sunday November 18th.  It was an eventful day to say the least.  We all went to church but during Sacrament meeting Jacob went out to go to the bathroom and through up all over the men's bathroom and all over Steven.  So Steven cleaned up the mess and I took Jacob home.  About an hour after Steven came home from church with Miranda and Jackson, Jackson through up all over the living room.  There were no real symptoms before all of this.  So we had a birthday dinner with just Miranda and our friend Laura

 Miranda made the birthday hats, each one was personalized.

This is what the boys were doing while we ate.  After dinner I left to take our friend Laura home and when I got back i found Miranda throwing up into a bowl, and all of the kids ended up having diarrhea also.  Needless to say Steven spent a large part of his birthday cleaning up puke and poop.  At least it was a memorable one.  Steven is a great husband, and father and I am grateful to have him in my life.

Keagan's Blessing day

 We blessed Keagan on Nov the 11th.  It was a great day and he is such a great baby

 This is a picture of Steve's Aunt Karla in the back and my mom holding Keagan.  We were lucky enough to have Aunt Karla and Unlce Rudy join us as well as my Mom and Dad.  It was so great to have family here and we had a great long weekend wiht my Parents visiting.

Here is the man of the hour.  He is a big boy and a wonderful sleeper.  He started sleeping through the night at 3 weeks old so we have no complaints around here.