Ready to head back to real life

So, it's been two weeks and I've got major cabin fever. We went back to church for the first time in 3 weeks today and it was so nice to just be out of the house and feel more like a real person. This week ought to be fun, we have dr's appointments, play dates and a couple family parties. The picture above is one I stole from my Dad's blog that he's been doing of old family slides. This is my great grandparents Nida and Dewey Coy. If I'm not mistaken this is their 50th wedding anniversary portrait. I love this picture, I didn't know my grandpa but I did know my grandma. She died when I was 16 years old, which was 10 years ago. I can't believe it's been that long, she was a beautiful woman and I remember we use to always go into her room and ask for a piece of candy. Grandma always had several jars of candy, but we most commonly were given a piece of Werthers carmel. Werthers carmel still reminds me of grandma.

This post is a bit scattered, but here is a pic of V this week. Violet is excited to go to the zoo this weekend with her Aunt Diana, I'm sure we'll have some fun pics to post of that. Violet is still adjusting to being a big sister, but as we've started to get back to our normal schedule she is a lot happier about things. Today when we got to church and were getting out of the car she said "ok, come on baby!" She was so excited to go to Nursery, I was walking around the halls with her towards the end of sacrament (she's maxed out of good behavior at about 45 minutes) and she just went and sat if front of the nursery doors. When I took her in after sacrament she just ran right in and started to play and when I went to pick her up she was still dancing around and having so much fun.

Claire is spending more time awake this week, her favorite time to be awake is between the hours of 1 am and 4 am. She doesn't stay up and cry but she just stays awake and hangs out. She hardly ever cries, except when it comes to food, if we take too long to get her bottle together she really let's us know, but it is such a cute little cry that we can't help but smile. Peter and I take shifts to make it through the nights and I think we'll make it. Needless to say we are grateful for afternoon naps!

I am feeling pretty good these days, sometimes I have remind myself to take it easy otherwise I overdo it and end up needing some IBprofen for my back at the end of the day. I'm anxious to get back to life and get back into shape. I've lost some weight and am now 8 pounds below my pre pregnancy weight, which I am super excited about. This pregnancy was so different from Violet's, which I'm really grateful for. I think Heavenly Father just knew I needed a super easy pregnancy and delivery because we would be moving halfway across the country at the last minute. We are almost done tying up all our loose Texas ends, we got the last of our bills and have been able to take care of those quicker than we thought and we are just working to take care of what's left of our lease... we don't have to pay anymore rent but there are a lot of fees when you break a lease! Oh well, things are starting to fall into place here. Peter has a temporary job lined up and some good leads for a more permanent job, thanks to a really great friend who has really helped us a lot with the job hunt. We have really been blessed and we know that this was the right move for us. The way has just opened up before us and we've always taken that as a sign that we are on the right path.

Well Claire is starting to give me the food warnings so I better get moving on that bottle. I'm having a good day and I'm looking forward to a good week.

Family reunion/ Claire's first week

Claire is one week old! This week went by so quickly, it is so fun to have a new baby again. I forgot how tiny and sweet babies are. Claire finally got her first bath at home this morning. Everyday we would say, ok we'll do it today, but she was always sleeping so we kept putting it off. By this morning though, she really needed a little rinse off.

Violet is starting to like Claire, and even comes to snuggle with her and Mom every morning. Two sweet girls is so fun.

Violet passed her swing down to Claire. Claire doesn't really care for the swing too much right now. I think the music may be too irritating for her.

Claire is so tiny, even newborn clothes are ridiculously huge on her!

Getting ready to head to Grandma and Grandpa's for the afternoon.

Peter took Violet out to the Corier Family reunion on Friday. She really needed some time to run around and be the center of attention again. We also took her to my parents house on Saturday to run around with the dogs, she loved it!

We are trying a new kind of bink with Claire, in order to minimize binky fights between the girls. V doesn't seem interested in Claire's at all so far, in fact she likes to make sure Claire has hers in.

Violet has found some great hats and loves to run around with a cute old lady hat on all day.

Peter snuggling with Claire. Claire loves to be held while she sleeps.

Peter's patented burping position, Guaranteed to get a good burp out of any gassy baby.

Video that Peter took at the reunion for Katie and Emily, who weren't able to come. Maybe we'll all be able to go next year :)

Claire Elizabeth Corier

Claire was born Sunday afternoon. She was 6 lbs 13 oz. She is a great baby and I am so happy she is here.

We are obviously all a little tired but I think so far we are doing pretty well in the sleep department. Claire likes to sleep during the day and stay up and eat all night, I think that's normal. Violet is slowly realizing that Claire is here to stay, but she was just happy to have Mom and Dad home.

Claire's first bath. After a minute she realized she liked the water (like V) and stretched out and relaxed in the sink. It was really cute. Ok well I'm going to go sleep while I can.

What we do when we are waiting waiting waiting

So we are waiting and waiting..... and waiting for this little girl to make her grand entrance (I went to the Dr today and my "Progress" has more than doubled....yay!) we are hoping V's sisters shows up sometime this weekend. But in the meantime we are playing in the park and trying to keep Violet busy. She has been sleeping so much lately! I think she is going through a growth spurt, she has taken like 2-3 hour naps everyday and still goes to bed at the normal time, so she'll be taller the next time anyone sees her I guess.

Today we went to LBA park, we only spent a few minutes playing, because we had some errands to run afterward, but V still had a lot of fun.

She really likes to make faces and scream at Peter.

V likes to give me the stink eye. I think she had just gotten up from a nap and that's why she was making grumpy faces at me.

Violet has found some cute hats at grandma's house and has been playing dress up. She likes to put this black hat on and walk into a room and say "hey! look at my hat!"

Pictures Pictures Pictures

Well it's only been about a week since I last put something up on the blog but so much has happened since then. It has been a wonderful, crazy, busy, sleepless week. And yet again I've put these in the wrong order so we'll work backwards through the week. Katie and Darin got Married on Saturday. It was a really beautiful Sealing to witness and the reception was a lot of fun. The picture above is of Emily trying to figure out how to bustle Katie's dress, wedding dresses are pretty complicated.

After the temple sealing and as the family pictures were wrapping up the kids all found a hill to run and roll down, they had a great time.

Katie and Darin got married in the Seattle Temple. It was a beautiful grey Seattle day but the weather held out for the reception and it turned out to be the perfect day for a wedding.

This is my favorite bridal picture of Katie. She is so beautiful.

An attempt at a cute kids picture.... ha ha ha oh boy.

Violet on the way to the Temple wearing grandpa Brown's hat, she is so cute (I of course and a bit biased)
37 weeks! This is officially my longest pregnancy! The Dr says the baby is making progress toward being born and things look great so I am now just in the hurry up and wait phase. we'll have a new baby sometime in the next few weeks..... better get the crib up!

Katie came in Thursday and played with the kids all day friday. They all love their Aunt Katie. Friday was the Dinner at Daniel's Broiler, it was a delicious dinner. If you will notice there are absolutely no pictures from the dinner. I do not recommend bringing children to 1. rehearsal dinners or 2. Fancy restaurants..... ha ha ha, it was a beautiful disaster for the kids but everyone survived and we all slept like rocks that night.

Thursday was my Sister Diana's 28th b-day. It was a lot of fun to go and see here and have a great dinner with my family. (I've had a lot of great food this week, I haven't stepped on the scale for fear that I've exceeded my weight goal for this pregnancy this week!) Violet needed some snuggle time with Grandpa. She really enjoyed the birthday cake. I think my parents are always going to have to have birthday cake on Friday night dinners because each time we've been there since we moved home, we've had birthday cake.

My Mom is so pretty.

Me and My sister. Happy Birthday Diana!
Bill and Michele being cute newlyweds.
Diana and John John. John was home from school for the week, he went back to Pullman yesterday. Bill and Michele are moving in a week to Pullman, it will be their first real place together, we are all excited for them and hope they have a great time!

The Wood Family came in Wednesday night and Thursday we went to the Lattins Cider Mill. The kids all rode the carosel and fed the animals, they really liked to just run around and look at everything. We came home with a dozen donuts, some strawberry/apple cider and some blackberry freezer jam. Yum!

Sam Slept through most of the farm visit, but he woke up just in time to get a donut.

Wednesday night the Woods arrived right around bedtime so after some running around and screaming in the backyard, the kids were ready to relax and get settled for the night. Sam was so exhausted.

This picture is too dark but it's V and W snuggled up watching "Cars" they were so happy to see each other and today Violet called out Wesley's name and then said "where are you?" She misses him already. We'll have to plan a trip to Houston.

The kids in Grandpa's garden wagon on wednesday night.
It has been a whirlwind few days and we are all exhausted but it was such a great week.