baby blessing

Baby blessings are different than baby christenings. In our church we believe that infants are born innocent and without sin so we don't sprinkle water on them. In baby blessings their baby's name is stated (and recorded in church records) and they are given blessings to help them as they grow up. Jason gave Trevor a beautiful blessing.

Here is the outfit I made Trevor. It was my first time doing pin-tucks (3 pin-tucks on each side, under vest), but I think they turned out well. (Oh yes, and thanks for the comments and emails with photography tips in my previous post- using a boppy really helped!) I also found some good tips here. If you know of any other good photography tutorials, please share!



There are buttons in the back, but its hard to button them with just one person... That is why the collar looks funny. But I love these pics though, fists tight, toes pointed... this is how he looks when he lets out a cute, happy squeal.

Since we live in the same ward as his cousin Alyson, who was born 3 weeks earlier, they actually had their baby blessings on the same Sunday. And we had a yummy waffle bar brunch afterwards.







And here are some pics of the two babies:
(they were actually holding hands for a brief second, before this pic was taken... too cute)

grandparents visit

Trevor sure loves grandma's kisses


(blurry but cute)


Trevor loving the attention from Uncle Eric and Grandpa


Trevor doing some stretching


Claire loves Olson! He was a good distraction from little Trevor getting so much attention.

stadium of fire + swimming

This year, Jason's work, Qualtrics, sponsored the Stadium of Fire and bought tickets for all the employees and their family. We got to sit in air-conditioned box seats. This was great because it was really hot outside, and it was nice to nurse Trevor in a cool place, and nice to keep Claire contained in a room. When we checked out our seats outside, Claire loved running up and down the benches... and it was tiring to keep track of her.




I fed Trevor at 6pm and then he slept till 9pm (when I woke him up). I was so amazed that he didn't wake up, even when David Archuleta was belting it out.


My favorite part of the show was, right before the big firework show, they had the stadium of fire dancers (young girls, probably age 4- 18) were dancing with want looked like glow in the dark batons, to the song "firework" while some fireworks went off at certain keywords in the song like "firework" and "boom". Sounds cheesy, but it was cool.
Here is a video someone took of it:

(I have to say, the dancing looked much cooler from our seats... the glow in dark batons made a flag design)



For the fourth of July we went swimming.


Trevor enjoyed it, yet it was really tiring :)

two cuties

I can't believe how grown up looking my little girl is... they grow up too fast! She loves 'taking a smile', as she calls it, but these pics are actually not cheesy, eye squinting grins



Claire was finally not sick! And she asked to hold baby Trevor, he is almost 2 months old in these pics... Here she is singing rockabye baby... Claire loves to sing!

Here she is sushing him, as she sees mom do alot, lol

Trevor is such a smiley baby! With Claire, I remembering having to work real hard to get her to smile...but when I smile and this little guy smiles too! ( As long as he isn't hungry or tired =D)

(right) This little cutie at 2 months. So maybe its because this little guy is well acquainted with pain, with all his gas issues, but his 2 month shots didn't phase him at all. Yes he cried when they poked him, but then I nursed him, he fell asleep, and he never seemed bothered by it at all. With Claire I remembering it being a rough couple days afterward. But with Trevor, even after he woke up from his nap, he had lots of big smiles for me! As Jason said about his shots, "He took it like a man"

Claire loves "taking a smile" with Trevor! And as you can tell, she loves her baby brother!


Tummy Time for Trevor, Claire and Tiger

Now time to kick those legs



We love our little cuties!