Saturday, May 15, 2010

Spaghetti!

Lindsey has just been dying to have grown up food and I have finally been letting her. She loves it! I am just so nervous about choking, and the jars of baby food are so convenient. I can't believe how many teeth this little thing is getting! She has two on the bottom and four coming in on top!


My poor babies!!! We were finally on a healthy streak there for awhile and then disaster hit! Both girls have nasty colds (horrible coughs), startings of ear infections, Gracie has strep throat, and Lindsey is getting in about four teeth on top! Despite it all, little Linds has still been trying to give us sweet smiles. They seem like they are at the tail end of it, but it sure has been a long haul. Plus, Tim got their cold last week and to top it off, I was throwing up yesterday. I just started crying because now I will be waiting for the girls' to start throwing up too. Taking care of sick babies for a week, getting sick yourself with something different, so you think you have more sickness ahead with the babies, plus trying to get ready for a big move, and being on the enrichment committee taking care of our activity on Thursday night, it just all keeps piling up and I feel like I might have an anxiety attack thinking about all the things I need to get done between now and the move!! AAAAAHHHHH!!! I guess I should just be grateful that we are all sick now and not while we are flying out. Hopefully I didn't just jinx us!

I've been wanting to try to post a video so here is my first attempt. Of course, the girls are coughing all through it - poor little things! I tried to get Gracie to spell her name. That's her new trick :) but she didn't perform this time. She usually says, "e-r-a-c-i" and leaves off the "e" at the end, but the other day she did the whole thing! She still said "e" in place of the "g" but I thought it was pretty good. This video was taken with my camera and I did get her to finally spell her name on my video camera but I don't know if I can get that video onto my blog.

Colter's Mission

I can't believe my baby brother just left on his mission and that both of my brothers are serving missions!! When did we all grow up? It's crazy to think that Lindsey will be older than Gracie is now when he gets back. We are very proud of both of our missionaries and know they will serve well.

Colter will be serving in the Baltic mission, Russian speaking!

Interesting connection with Colter's mission companion, Elder Bressler. I met a woman here in Rexburg who used to live in Richmond and she gave me some contact information for some friends of hers that still live back there, since we will be moving there shortly. Then when I read Colter's first letter from the MTC and saw who his companion was, I called her and she said that it was her son! We were both so excited!!! It seems like these "small world" connections happen every once in awhile as blessings from the Lord to let us know that there is always someone placed in our life to be a friend and help to us and vice versa.







Grandma Cosgray & Aunt Cheryl

Lindsey Lee met her Grandma Cosgray for the first time! None of us knew that she was flying out to surprise us for Colter's mission farewell! It was SOOOOO good to see her and Aunt Cheryl again!

We attempted to take some four generation photos and this is what we got. They are cute, but at least one of us is looking in the wrong direction in each picture. That's what happens when there is more than one camera taking pictures, two of the people in the picture are babies, and Gracie kept on trying to play with my hair. Oh well!




Here is a picture with the Aunts!!! My girls aren't looking at the camera but they sure do love their Aunts!