2 Months Old

Skyler is two months old now!  It's hard to imagine life without him now.  Time is passing much too quickly and even though I knew it would it doesn't make it any easier.  At two months Skyler weighed in at 9 lbs. 4 oz. and was 21 3/4 inches long.  He's such a good baby.  I'm enjoying longer stretches of sleep and usually only having to get up once during the night.  It really makes everything in life so much easier with a little more sleep!  Skyler is adored by everyone although sometimes picked on by Kaitlyn who is still struggling with losing her spot as the baby.  She really does love him though and often tells me, "I love you Mom, but I love Skyler the most!"  He is smiling and cooing all the time now.  He's decided Daddy is his best playmate.  As soon as Jason walks in the room he spits out his pacifier and starts cooing and smiling no matter what time of the day or night!  The other day we stopped by Jason's office.  Jason was having a busy day at work and didn't have time to pick Skyler up and he let everyone in the office know he was unhappy about that!

15 Years!

Jason and I celebrated our 15th anniversary on Aug 14th.  I was told we have now bested the national average by double.  It has certainly been an interesting 15 years.  The first 10 were spent with Jason in training and we have really enjoyed the last five years moving on with what we dreamed and hoped for 15 years ago although life is never perfect.  We have welcomed four beautiful children into our home.  We've traveled on three continents together.  We've moved six times (four of which were over 1000 miles.)  We've had our share of loss, disappointments and sorrow but there have also been many times of joy, fun, and accomplishment. 15 years is a big enough milestone we should have celebrated by traveling to Hawaii or something but with a new baby this wasn't the year.  Jason instead suggested we take all the kids with us to Salt Lake.  We enjoyed wandering around Temple Square and City Creek.  We had a fun afternoon.  Kaitlyn loved the flowers and I found myself wishing I could hire a maid for my house so I could spend all summer in my flower beds and have them look like the one's at Temple Square!  Jared wondered what we were going to look at when there weren't Christmas lights up but we were surprised to see they were already working on putting them up.  The kids were quite entertained with the rock climbing gear they were using to install lights on the trees!  Later in the evening Jason and I were able to get away for an hour to go to dinner.  (That's been harder to do this summer!)