Best big brother award !!

So as you all know since the day Brianna has come home from the hospital Sean has loved and watched over Brianna from day one. I was so worried when I got pregnant again that when she came out that Sean would hit her or bite or any kind of abuse or even just ignore her. He did the complete opposite, he is always trying to give her hugs or kisses and loves. Some days he'll even try to feed her a bottle or give her the binky when she is crying. The other day Sean kept saying "mommy Sean hold baby" of course I was busy feeding her or doing something so I came out to find Sean trying to pick up baby and hold her. So we had to go over not picking her up only mommy could pick her up. Then of course I let him hold her and he was so excited. Brianna has started to laugh and smile alot and even coos. So Sean gets so excited when he does something and she smiles or laughs at him. He thinks it is the best thing in the world. I thought she would of wore off being fun already, but no. I hope their great friends growing up. They will probably fight alot too like any other siblings. I can't believe how fast it goes by. Everyday I am amazed at the new things Sean is learning and the things he says. His newest thing is he says "mommy I hear that" so on top of being observant he hears things very well. Most of the time he can identify what he is hearing. It's so cute.

Already 3 months old

Man time goes by so fast. I cant believe she is already 3 months old. She is so good at smiling and some cooing. Also she has great head strength. We have started to use the mat that has toys hanging above it and the bouncy chair with fishes she can look at. She loves these toys especially when Sean comes and helps her play with them. Last week Sean helped me buy her a new toy and it is so cute to watch him try and show her how it works and even sometimes in the car he will ask for his toy cause he wants to make the toy make music for his sister. He loves her so much. I always catch Brianna watching Sean and smiling at him, it is so cute. Brianna's hair is starting to turn red and then has some blond highlights in it. I think she'll be red like Greg and then when she's older she'll turn blond like Greg. I think Sean will be brown like me. Either way their adorable. The picture of Brianna in her crib was Sean's doing, he wanted to share all his stuffed animals with sister and as you can see she loved it.

My cousin Cade's wedding

This weekend the whole family got in the car and endured a six hour drive to St George. I must admit the drive out was not bad but the drive back on Sunday was horrible and we sat in a ton of traffic with all the people coming home from Vegas after losing all their money. Anyways we had so much fun. Cade is one of my younger cousins and brother to my cousin Amber that I love to death and always have love to hang out with her. This is the Archibald side and we are all really loud and have so much fun when we get together. Its crazy cause were all pretty much married and have kids, it really starts to make me feel old. We got the privilege to go to the temple and see them be sealed. It was so neat and such a good feeling in the temple. It brought back so many good memories of when me and Greg got married. Did you know we are going on five years in October. That just seems crazy to me. Brianna was great the whole weekend and was loving being held. Sean loved playing with all his boy cousins and cause ruckus. I got to dance with Sean at the reception and he was so cute. I cant believe how big he is and how much he understands, it is so cute. Also Brianna got to wear her blessing dress again which is so much fun and again reminds me so much of my wedding day. I am so excited for Cade and Sierra they will be great together and I'm excited for Sierra to join our family.

Brianna's Blessing

So last weekend a great thing happened. Brianna was blessed by her dad with both of her grandpa's there helping out. It was so neat to see such a sweet little girl receive such a great blessing. Also I really enjoyed it, because she got to wear her first wedding dress. Well actually she got to wear my wedding dress. I decided awhile ago if I ever had a baby girl I would have her blessing dress made out of my wedding dress. So luckily for me my sweet little girl came and I got to make my dress into a blessing dress for her. It turned out beautiful and it brought back so many great memories of that special day. So now every time I see her dress or the pictures I can remember her special day and my special day. My family came in from Idaho and hung out with us for the weekend and we got to go see Wicked, which was great. Sean was loving having both papa's to play with. It was so much fun having my family here. So since everyone was here and this is Brianna's first wedding dress we were silly and took a bunch of pictures with both sides of the family. You'll see we were having way too much fun. I hope you love her dress as much as I do. Here's some more pictures of my parents having down time with both kids.

Beach memories

Well since it has been really nice lately and we bought a state beach pass we have decided to take advantage of my time off and go to the beach as much as possible. It's not as often as we would like since we have little Brianna but we are going as much as can be done. So this last week we got two good trips in. On Friday we went to the state beach but ended up not getting too much beach time due to Sean falling asleep early in the car. We went out at noon to set up table by fire pits for the ward party that night then Sean ended falling asleep so we headed home to get him a good nap but of course as soon as I got him home we was wide awake. So we tried again and this time we succeeded. So we started are day out just relaxing by the beach and playing in the sand and water with Sean while we took turns holding Brianna and keeping her covered because I was the smart one that forget her hat and baby Bjorn. On top of all that Greg brought his boards along to get there and find out no surfing was allowed. So the day at the beach ended up being poorly executed but still fun. That night we had our ward beach party where we roasted hot dogs and then had wonderful smores. Also we had a great sand castle contest that Sean kept trying to destroys the Parker boys sand castle. We had a great time and ended staying almost to the end. Surprisingly Brianna did great and slept most of the time. Then the next day on Saturday Greg headed back to work and me and the kids headed to the harbor beach for a birthday party of one of Sean's friends. I have never seen so many fun toys for the kids to play on in the water. Sean was in heaven. Now you see the party was at noon so I thought we would go for two hours then go home and take naps, well that didn't happen we ended up skipping the nap and staying till four or five but as you can see from the pictures Sean was in heaven going from the trampoline in the water, to riding the boggy board or surf board, to getting a ride on the little sail boat and paddle boat. Oh I forget to mention the whole time we were there Sean was running around with girls didn't even bother to really play with the boys. He mainly chased after little Kate that is in our ward, she's the cute little redhead, which means trouble. But for some reason since we went to visit them at their house a few weeks ago they inseparable when they are together. Sean kept sitting with her in her little chair at the ward beach party and chasing her around at the beach. Kate's dad says he's never seen her be so daring and try so many new things since she met Sean, their match made in heaven. Last but not least when Sean was being pulled around on the surf board he was trying to paddle while he laid there it was so cute. Also Brianna got a new bathing suit that I love. We are loving the nice weather and the beach, anyone can come visit and join us.

More Pictures from the farm

We had so much fun I had to do another blog just to show you all the pictures.

Only on the farm!!

So for the fourth of July we decided to go visit my family in Idaho. So we packed up the kids in the car and drove 16 hours straight through! Amazingly, the kids did great, I think the trip was harder on us than it was on them. We stopped once on the way there and on the way back we got smart and stopped once and slept for a few hours. I have now decided that portable DVD players are life savers and I understand why everyone has one. So we came up with the theme "Only on the farm" because Sean got to do somethings that we could never do in California. So here's the list : 1. Drive the car(like actually drive, in the front seat down the road) 2. Go to town without a carseat (Don't worry Jillonnie, he was seatbelted in the back and it was still safe, Idaho drivers don't go faster than 8 miles an hour) 3. Drive a tractor(he really knows how to operate a front loader for any of you that know what that is) 4. Ride a horse(bareback and with a saddle, and when he was leading the horse he was stepped on! What a tough little guy) 5. Play in the ditch(irrigation canals are so much fun when they are full of water) 6. Make a fire in our yard 7. Light fireworks 8. Feed the cows(and scare the bulls, I told you he was tough) 9. Ride the four wheeler(he even learned how to operate this one on his own, thanks Greg!) 10. Pee on the side of a public restroom building(thanks Rachel and Kyler). So when we got back home Sean kept asking to drive the car or light fireworks so our new saying is "only on the farm." It was great to see everyone and show off Brianna to everyone. Sean loved getting out and getting dirty on the farm. He got to play with his cousin Kyler and Kambrea while he was there and loved every moment of it. I've never seen a kid so excited to just go outside and run around and explore. Everyday Greg and Sean would go on an adventure to look for bugs or feed one of the animals. We also spent alot time at the water park where Sean got daring enough to go down the slide on his belly. We love spending time with the family and letting Sean run around on the farm. Of course Brianna loved it because she was held almost the whole time getting passed around. Also she was great in the car and pretty much slept the whole time expect when she wanted to eat, she is a great baby and so cute. We cant wait to go back to do all those things we can do "Only on the farm".