Justen's 1st Day of Rotations

Today is Justen's 1st Day of rotations. He is shadowing a family practice doctor for his first rotation. I had to get a picture of J before he left for his 1st day! Congratulations Honey! Hopefully these next two years will be exciting and full of lots of awesome opportunities.

6 Months

Little Tanner isn't so little anymore! Tanner is 18.1 lbs (80% percentile) and 27 inches long (86% percentile). WOW! I never thought that my little preemie baby would be so big! He is growing up so fast; and desiring to explore the world more and more each day. Tanner has started eating "grown-up" food and loves to be included in Mom & Dad's mealtime. Tanner still hates tummy time. No matter how much I work on it with him, he still buries his head in the blanket and screams. My hope is one day (soon); he'll realize that being on his tummy means he can become mobile. In the meantime I'll enjoy that he can't escape yet. Here are some pictures of the precious little guy! We love you Tan Man!

The one shot of him smiling during tummy time!

Cousins!

Backyard Transformation

When we moved into our house last September the backyard was a wasteland. Over the winter and through the spring it turned into a home for weeds. Since Tanner is a little bigger and will be soon wanting to explore the outdoors we decided to make the backyard a pleasant place to be/play. We didn't get the best before picture (the one with all the weeds), but this still gives you a good idea about how incredible our backyard looks now. Thank you Rolling Rock Co.; you did an excellent job!

Before

All the rocks they dug up!

Curbing in

Finished Product!

Side view

We love our beautiful yard and can't wait to get some good use of it; as soon as it cools off a bit!

That's Right... Daddy's Done with Boards!

After two LONG years of endless studying Justen is officially done with his exams! Can I get a Yahoo! Tanner and I are so proud of him and all his hard work. We are looking forward to seeing more of Daddy! Now on to 2 years of rotations! Should be a nice change of scenery.

Tanner's Blessing

Best picture of Tanner where he's not screaming.

We blessed Tanner on May 1st. He looked adorable in his little blessing outfit. However our little angel was far from an angel on his blessing day. We have church at 1; otherwise known as nap hour, and we had a cranky Tanner. Despite our difficulties in keeping Tanner quiet the day was great. Justen gave Tanner a beautiful blessing and we felt so privileged to have so many family and friends there. Thank you to everyone who came. Here are the few photos from Tanner's Day. Sorry if you were there and weren't captured in the photos.

Tanner with his Great Grandparents; Mumsie & Bumpa

Court's Family

Watkins/Williams Families

Watkins Family

Court & her Dad

School's Out for the Summer...actually forever!

I know I've been a terrible blogger recently, but I've been very busy. My plan; to be better about blogging. Today was officially the last day of school! Whew.. It seemed like it would be forever 7 weeks ago, but it flew by fast. I am totally excited about getting to stay home with my little man. I love being with him and can't wait to spend more time together.
Today was a little rough. I'll be the first to admit that I did cry. I really will miss teaching. I loved my two years at Westwind and will forever be grateful for those memories. As I was closing my classroom door for that last time, a flood of memories poured through my mind. Even though the students were a headache a majority of the time there will always be a place in my heart for those unique children of God.
As for the summer. Totally excited; except for this awful heat! We have some fun plans; Utah Vegas, Justen finishing boards, Justen finishing boards, Justen finishing boards, and Justen finishing boards. You can tell we are totally excited for Justen to be done with the "school part" of medical school.
I have lots to post; so please be patient as I post bits of stuff over the next few days! As for now here's a preview!

4 Months

Tanner is 4 months today! I can hardly believe he's growing up so fast. He's getting so big! Tanner is such a good baby and oh so sweet. I'm back at work now which is very difficult. (5 weeks left). I miss Tan during the day so much, but am very grateful he's a good baby. I cherish the time we spend together even more now. I love waking up in the morning to a smiley baby. He loves to smile and receive attention. If you talk to him he'll smile for you. Here are some more recent pictures of the little guy. Monday we'll find out how much he's grown at his Dr.'s appointment. Some of you may be wondering why you haven't heard much about Justen. That's because all he does is study! He lives in the library!