Pioneer Day

Today was Pioneer Day Sunday. We had a wonderful time at church. We were fed well by the spirit. Hannah has been potty training and doing really well. If she stays dry she gets to use a binkie. If she wets she gives it to us until she uses the toilet again. It has been working so much better for her than candy. After church my parents and Dallin came over for lunch, Sunday beans and bread. It was yummy and fun. Then we went out to check on Grandma and Grandpa Ha's garden for them. With it being Pioneer Day ,I took several binders of stories from our ancestors to read during our 2 hour drive. The kids all loved it, and so did Matt and I. They especially loved hearing about Grandpa Lorenzo Hatchs mission. Grandpa Neil Forsyths WW1 experience with the bullet and being protected by following a prompting from the spirit, and Grandma Amanda Wheeler's account of her childhood. I think I'd like to make a children's book for our kids someday of their wonderful ancestors. We stopped at Aunt Mary's house for a bit and had a nice visit with them. The kids were so happy to be together. Boone kept telling us pointing to Hannah, "He is a princess and he is going to get me!" After that we went to Grandma and Grandpa Fo's house and had hamburgers with them. They were sure yummy! It was a great hot humid day.

Best Sisters

I love how much these two love each other. Even though Hannah attacks Lydia with kisses and love Lydia still just loves it.

Lydia 4 months

 Lydia loves her toes. She started rolling over from her back to front the day before her 4 month birthday.  

 She weighs 17 pounds 8 ounces. 

 Hannah and her are best buddies.  Lydia loves it when Hannah is near and lights up when Hannah starts to talk to her.  Hannah loves to call her "SweeTHeart."

 "Hi SweetHeart!"  (Yes, Hannah is in the middle of potty training and holding toilet paper)

 Lydia is the happiest little baby. She really hardly ever cries. 

 She usually takes 3 naps during the day. She goes to bed at about 8pm (which gives us one hour alone with her to snuggle before she goes to bed. I love that.) 

 She usually gets up once around 4 or 5 am to eat, then goes right back to sleep and sleeps until about 9am.  (which gives me time in the morning to start the day with the big kids, I love that.)

 She is so tender hearted. She startles very easily.  She also hates it when Hannah screams or one of the boys yells.  She is pretty sensitive. 

 She is so sweet and squishy and bald. We love her so much! 

Lydia's Blessing Day

On May 29th Lydia was blessed by her Daddy.

Her cousin Stella was also blessed by her Daddy, my Brother.

It was a beautiful day filled with wonderful people.

I love my little brother and his amazing wife Brittany.  They are so precious to me. We were so glad they could share a special day with us.

Daddy gave Lydia a beautiful blessing. She was blessed to have a strong relationship with her father in heaven. To always know that she is his daughter and to strive to keep that relationship strong through a desire to speak with him in prayer and to feast on the scriptures and his word. She was blessed to have a desire to seek out her ancestors and to help her family unit return back to Father in Heaven someday. She was blessed with Charity, to love and serve those around her as Christ did. 

In the circle she had her Father, Grandpas, Uncles, and 2 great Uncles.

I just love this picture.

When we found out Lydia was a girl I set out to crochet her a blessing dress.

I had a pattern I had used for Hannah that was nice, but I wanted something different.  I was having a hard time finding anything I liked in a 0-3 month size. 

After a while I found a pattern that I loved but it was a 6 month size.  I figured if it was too huge I could adjust it if need be, but felt pretty confident that it would be fine.

Man am I glad I went with that pattern.  It fit our chubby little princess perfectly.

I love it when babies are so asleep that their lip tucks in like this.

After church we had everyone over to our new place for lunch.

We had only slept there 3 nights before all of this so things were pretty bare, but we enough room for everyone and a great time was had by all.  Including babies, we had 74 loved ones there with us.

Owie boy

Aunt Dixie, Uncle Bob (who just turned 70 the day prior and looks great!) and Aunt Cindy

Little Stella is so adorable.

We had nachos with all the trimmings for lunch, then dirt cake for dessert.

Kayla had made it to town the day prior. It was SO fun to have all of us together again!

Nile and Kayla being their silly selves.

Uncle John, and Johnny

Matt, Kayla, Dallin, Duffy (Brittany's Mom), Grandpa Fo, Camden

Maren

I love this picture of Kayla and Dallin

Grandma Fo and Lydia

Kayla brought her boyfriend Matt along so we could all meet him.  We all think he's pretty great.

Lydia got a lot of love from all of her sweet cousins.

We are so grateful to have this sweet little girl in our family.