The beginning of a very fun summer!

This is the summer prior to Jake starting dental school, so we are living it up!  Here are a LOT of pictures of our adventures!

 P Swinging...it's a theme this summer so far!

 C is catching onto the fun of swinging too!

Claire giving kisses to Alise

Marsha and Alise, pretty ladies!

Claire giving Nova kisses!

Paisley at the "playplace"

Claire at the playplace

P's first time painting...she did it for like 2 minutes

At Grandpa Riggs house blowin bubbles

at YaYa's house with Cousin Josh!

more swinging

Daddy's new toy, Kinect/xbox 360

Our princess on her throne!

Mommy and baby C

sink baths get pretty crazy!

P has to participate!

havin fun with YaYa

splashy!

One of Jake's trips this summer (he's still on ManTrip)

Long time friend TZ and Jake pre riding Mt. Ashland 

The whole gang

I thought this was the sweetest picture (at Lithia Park)

Lithia Park

More swinging

So far so good!  We've got big plans this summer...more pictures to come!

Life as we know it....SWEET

We are still waiting to hear back from dental schools, wish they'd hurry up and say what we know to be true..."Jake you are awesome, we'd be lucky to have you at our school!" Alas we must wait a bit more.

The girls are growing so fast and although we don't do much interesting these days due to the weather...we do have lots of fun! 

Here are some more recent pictures:

Mmmm...Daddy's homemade salsa!

 This girl is WELL aware of what the "mix-ah" is for!

 Just chillin w/ her sucker in her recliner w/ her blanket

 And the mixer again

Baby Claire!

 Pizza!

 Baby Claire loves her fingers!

What you see below is like a scene from ET:

There She is!

It's been a while :)

We've had a lot of growing around this house lately! 

Claire is probably 14lbs now at the rate she is growing, she has her 4 month check up tomorrow (4.5 mos old) so we'll see.  She is laughing and smiling so much now and loves the jumperoo, just like her big sister did.  She's grabbing things now and of course everything she can get her hands on goes in her mouth!

Paisley is doing all her ABC's and colors and she loves to name all of the things he knows, especially animals!  She loves to jump and climb and she's really into coloring now!

Jake and I are anxiously awaiting word of acceptance to Dental School (feels like we've been here before...oh maybe because we have!).  He's had 3 interviews already Loma Linda, USN/Roseman in UT and OHSU.  So he has 3 schools he could possibly be accepted at so far!  We are hopeful we'll have some good news this month!  Pray for us.

Here are some pictures of our fun! Click on the picture to see it better...I didn't want to shrink it too small :)




January and Half of February 2011

 

Baby Claire Rose Foutz

I'm a little late in posting this, but better late than never!!!

Claire Rose Foutz joined us on Oct. 7, 2010 at 9:03am weighing 7lbs 5oz and being 20.5 inches long.

She's a joy and Paisley is doing really well with her also!

Here are some pictures in no particular order!

Uncle Tyler & Claire

Paisley in the hospital room, she played in the privacy curtain

Brand new Claire

Our girls in their chairs

Daddy & the girls

Mommy & Claire at Lithia Park (2.5 weeks old)

Brand new Baby Claire

Bunk Beds!!!!

Super new Baby Claire

Just prior to our C-Section

We are all happy and healthy and so grateful to have our sweet little family of FOUR!

Play Dates and other social opportunities!

Aren't just for the kids.  Wish I'd taken some pictures of P running around with Kyla.  She's still learning to play WITH kids.  She mostly plays BY them, but she will run around with them if they are running through the house or around a table!  It was so fun to watch her grow!

But really this is about ME!  It was SO nice to get out and talk with a girlfriend (a new one which makes it neat on another level too) and just visit!  Sometimes we don't realize how much we need to just get out and be social.  I have many a time realized I hadn't left the house in multiple days!

This last weekend I got a chance to go to the dinner preceding and the General RS broadcast.  It was stake wide of course so I had the opportunity to see some old friends I hadn't seen in a while from previous wards!  I could think of lots of excuses to not go, and I am SO glad I did!  It was so fun to see those women who I just adore and enjoy being around!  Not to mention the broadcast was great!

I hope when #2 comes (in less than 2 weeks!!!!!) I remember how important it is to take care of myself too!  It's so easy to hole up and be hermit-like (especially for me).  So friends (whoever might happen to read this) remind me.  Help me to help myself and come visit me and give me opportunities to visit with you.  I have a blast every time I do!

That's all I got for today. :)

Summer...summer...SUMMERTIME!

We've been running around like crazy people this summer!  We've gone camping (Paisley and I, with family) at Harris Beach, been to Lake Tahoe, then up to Portland and next week out to Utah!  We just keep going and going and going!  I haven't really taken the time to blog, but I want to so that I can have a little record of our sweet little family's life, so here are some pictures of our adventures!

Well all of them are of Paisley at Tahoe, but still cute!

naked bum!

This girl is not afraid of water!

tired baby

just sitting in the water...she'd do that all day if she could!