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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

More pictures of Madelyn

These are many of the pictures I just didn't have time to edit and post before.Jordan loved playing on the stairs. I should have taken video of Taylor and Morgan sliding down the stairs in several different positions. I'm sure this would have brought back memories for all the aunts and uncles of Christmas's from years ago.Jordan checking out Madelyn's crib--this is before she knew she had to take a nap in it. She wasn't too happy about that.
Aunt Beth with her 3 month old grandson Caleb. (Naph's son)
Grandpa Gary with Madelyn and Grandma Beth with Caleb. :)

Little Madelyn in the boppy.
Aunt Bekah with her 3 nieces and Madelyn napping in front.
Great grandma with the newest edition.
Aunt Beth hands Madelyn off to Jordan and Gram.
This was the only pictures I had of Naph and Mike together. Sorry guys!

Great grandma with the 5 great grandkids. Morgan is willing to smile now that she gets to hold the baby.
Great gran
Jordan loves to look at scrapbooks. When the attention was on the 2 babies, she just brought this book over to Naphtali and said "up". So, Naph got some one on one time with Jordan.
Deb with her cousin once removed. We discussed these labels and figures Caleb could just call her Aunt Deb.
You know how Grandma loves babies!
Doesn't she look pleased as punch to have her hair done? Okay, so it's gas, but still. . .
What else would you expect a "hair saloner" to do with her daughter's hair? (On the drive home my kids informed me they were going to have a different job for each season and spring was to be a hair saloner.)
The difference between 3 months and 4 days old.
Grandma Bilyeu and Deb getting in some baby time. As you can tell, we just passed the babies around most of the afternoon.

Monday, February 23, 2009

Our weekend with Madelyn and Bek

Taylor with her new cousin.
A little munchkin!
Bek at the hospital with Madelyn Nevaeh
Notice the matching hair color. :)
All of my kids loved taking turns holding the little doll.
I got in my share of holding time too.
Taylor thought that Morgan looked like a little mom.
Madelyn started staying awake a little bit at a time during our visit--she has dark blue eyes right now.
I thought I got one good one of the grandparents (my parents) with their grandkids--I missed mom's eyes though.
I look kind of yuck in this picture, but you can see how excited Jordan was to get a turn holding the "baby". She jabbered on all weekend about the baby.
Great grandma Bilyeu (my grandma) holding Jordan whose kissing Madelyn.

It is late and I need to get ready for school in the morning. However, I wanted to post just a few pictures from our weekend visit to see our new niece/cousin. We had a great time and that made all of the driving worth it.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

The new niece




These are the only 2 pictures I have of Madelyn Nevaeh right now. She was born on Feb. 17th and weighed 6 lbs. She was 17 inches long and we are going to see her in Iowa this weekend. Then, I'm sure I'll have lots of pictures to post.

Thursday, February 05, 2009

Snowmobiling

Bracken bought a really old snowmobile to drive the kids around on. They love it.

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Taylor playing piano

Taylor is taking piano lessons (from me, so it's not that big of a deal) and wanted to show a little of what she's learned. She is doing pretty good at practicing since she can't watch Spongebob until after she has practiced. :) We don't use the bench too much because Jordan is always climbing on it and trying to knock things off of the piano when I'm not looking.