Piece Number Four!

 A whole pound smaller than Andy! And I was convinced he would be 9 pounds...

The newest addition to our family has finally arrived! I was getting very anxious and had finally set an induction date because I was pretty sure this little guy was not going to come on his own.  He apparently was waiting for the most unexpected day to make his arrival- on his dad's birthday! I was in denial that I was actually contracting until it was bad enough that I called Lance and he convinced me to have his mom drive me to the hospital. It was so nice to show up knowing I had such wonderful people to take care of me! It went pretty fast after that. I arrived about 3:30pm, Lance showed up about an hour later, and at 5:51pm, Jonathan Roger Rees made his official entrance into the world! What a birthday present for Lance :) Of course our birthday dinner plans went down the drain, but at least I did make the cake in time...

We are still battling with some jaundice, but other than that Jonathan is doing fine. Andy doesn't seem to mind his little brother yet, and is very much enjoying having "Mog Fife" here to visit. Hopefully we will have some more pictures up soon!

Happy Halloween!

This year, Andy actually started to understand Halloween. At least, he understands candy! We couldn't decide what to dress him up as... until we saw this costume online.  Remember Andy's favorite part of the state fair? (See the summer post.) He was pretty excited about being a lemur... especially if it meant he got candy out of it! In fact, he wouldn't even put on his "lemur suit" until Lance told him that if he did, people would give him candy. Then he couldn't get into it fast enough! He is certainly the cutest lemur I have ever seen! We had a great time as a lemur family for Erin's annual Halloween party (ok, so Lance and I aren't so cute, and you can't see the excellent tails I made, but just for reference this is what we were aiming for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lemur_catta_001.jpg ). We also had a lot of fun Trick-or-Treating, although what we heard most of the night was, "Open this!" Andy probably could have gone all night, but fortunately he fell asleep in record time after we got home. Here are some pictures of our adventures:

All in all, I think Halloween was a great hit with Andy. And now that it and Andy's birthday is over... baby brother can officially arrive! If only he would... that should be our next post!

Andy's Birthday!

 Can you believe our little boy is two years old already? He is extremely active and loves running, climbing, getting thrown up in the sky by Daddy, eating suckers, and playing outside, among other things. We made monster cupcakes for our sweet little monster and celebrated at Grandma and Grandpa Rees' house. We all had a good time. Happy Birthday, Andy!

 Andy spilled some unknown spices on the purple one as I tried to frost them. He didn't seem to mind having to eat that one... especially as all he ate were the suckers anyway.

He's a speedy blur thanks to Grandma and Grampa Fife's present!

We love our little man!

Summer Recap

 Now that it is fall and I need to post about Andy's birthday and Halloween, I guess I had better put some pictures up from the summer. Among other things, we had a blast in NC for the Fife Family Reunion, celebrating the summer holidays, the Annual Rees Family Lagoon Day, and topping it all off with a visit to the Utah State Fair (Andy's favorite were the lemurs.... you'll want to remember that).

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