let's catch up!

So what has everyone been doing? I feel disconnected. Let's fill out these questions and catch up:

What did you do last weekend?

We had a FUN weekend!! It was Josh's birthday on Friday, so I took him away to Park City for the weekend. We stayed at this NICE resort. We had a one bedroom suite - it was sort of like a little condo. It had a fireplace, a kitchenette, a king bed, and our own private hot tub on the balcony!!! It was incredible! We totally loved every minute of our little get-away. We went shopping at the outlets, ate at some yummy restaurants. And the baby did great!! She just went along for the ride. She woke up a little confused in the middle of the night on her first night, but after that it was pretty much smooth sailin'. We were sad when the weekend came to an end. We had a GREAT time. One of those fun things we'll always look back on with VERY fond memories.


What's new with your kids? (list each kid)

Well, Scarlett is almost 4 months old now (not quite). She's 17 weeks tomorrow. She's growing and growing and growing. Sometimes I tell her to slow down and be my tiny baby for a little bit longer. But other times I LOVE to see her learning new things. Just in the last week and a half or so she's really started holding onto toy and sort of playing with them. She has started getting "bored" too. She isn't as content to just sit and chill as she used to be. She laughs a little when she's in the mood and she makes the cutest babbles and coos and LOVES to blow raspberries and bubbles and get drool all over herself.

She's a pretty great sleeper! She sleeps through the night from about 9 to 5:30 or 6 and then eats and goes right back to sleep for another 2.5 - 3 hours. So Mom's getting plenty of sleep, which is a HUGE blessing!! She's an ok napper. She still wakes up every 45 minutes during her naps, but she's getting better about going right back to sleep once I go in and put her pooty (her binkie) back in. I REALLY hope she learns to sleep through that dang 45 minute sleep cycle soon! But at least she's not crying and fussing to get herself back to sleep anymore.

I swear as soon as I feel like I have her schedule down, she changes! But everyone tells me that's just how it is.


Any fun summer plans coming up?

Only thing for us is Bear Lake. That's during the first week of August. It will be Scarlett's first year and I'm excited and nervous. Camping with a baby will be a lot tougher. But I'm sure it'll be great. Josh has Scout Camp next week (he's the Varsity Scout Leader in our ward). So I'll be on my own for a few days. I'm going to miss him like CRAZY. :*( But I feel like a JERK complaining about him being gone for a few days when I think about you Les and how you do it on your own. So I'm not going to complain! :)


Anything else you wanna share?

Hmm. Not really. I'm loving being a mom!! I love that I finally feel like I'm in the "club" with you two! haha It's definitely challenging. For some reason we still can't figure out Scarlett screamed BLOODY MURDER for a couple minutes twice last night. Louder and harder than we have EVER seen her scream. We are pretty sure she was just CRAZY tired but it shocked us and brought us to tears. And then all the rest of the night after she was in bed I could still see and hear that scream in my head and once I went to bed I just broke down and bawled about it. It broke my heart. But I know she's fine and she was just tired or something. But its crazy how much you worry as a mom. It's hard sometimes to stop worrying and have faith that angels are protecting your little ones and that they'll be ok. (3 Ne 17:23-24) Josh shared this scripture with me last night and it made me feel much better.

Anyway - I LOVE you girls. Write your own 'catch up' posts ok?? I wanna hear the latest.

LOVE YOU!!!

xoxo,

Britt