Holt Girl #3

The newest member of our family arrived on May 9, 2011 at 3:13 pm. She was a few days late and I suspect was up spending time with my dear grandmother who had passed away just days before. I started having contractions on Thursday and while they weren't regular, they kept coming. Thinking it was time, we took the girls to Brock's parents and drove to the hospital -Elsa came so quickly that we didn't want to take any chances. But after an hour at the hospital, they sent me home! I was shocked and a little embarrassed, I've had 2 kids, but the contractions weren't regular. So we went to eat and walk around a lot, and nothing happened, they completely stopped. I am sure now that she was just allowing me to be able to attend Grandma Reeder's funeral and be with all my family at that special time. When Monday morning rolled around, I was ready. We decided to be induced so my sisters who had all flown in for the funeral could meet their niece before they left. We arrived at the hospital about 8:00 in the morning and things went very smoothly. My doctor invited Brock to assist in the delivery which was a first for him! She came out with tons of dark hair and weighing in slightly smaller than her sister but still holding her own at 8 lbs. 7 oz. She is the sweetest little thing and we couldn't be happier to have her here safely. After much deliberation & negotiation, we finally settled on a name.

Ada Ann Holt

We think it suits her beautifully.

Grandparents

First look at their new little sister.

Grandma Elaine

First Bath with Dad

Easter 2011

We had a fun Easter party at Aunt Lindsey's house with all the Holt cousins. There was and egg hunt, egg decorating and bun-moblie making. Needless to say, the kids had so much fun. Just look at all those girls! They love gettting together.

Easter Sunday - I got this darling dress in white for Elsa. She was outside for about 3.5 seconds before she fell down in the wet, muddy grass just as we were leaving for church. (I rushed her in and luckily got it mostly out.)

The girls had so much fun coming home from church to discover that the Easter bunny had been to our house and left candy and baskets of goodies to find!

First Haircut

I know this is probably the oldest kid to have a "1st haircut" but my reason is this- the curls. I have been so scared to cut Greta's hair in fear of losing her beautiful blond curls. And it seems that everyone I mentioned this to said "oh yeah, I wouldn't do it" and then proceeds to tell me a story of their sister or niece that had curls until they were cut off. So my fears were thus reinforced-I mean could you cut those off? I don't think so.

Well the time has come, her hair had become increasingly difficult to brush out and fix so I made appointments for us with my friend Lynette. Lynette was so cute with her, she really won her over with her "aminal cape" and some sparkle spray for her hair-go figure. You can see how unsure she was in the 2nd picture, she was scared it was going to hurt, but by the end she was all smiles. She came home telling her little sis all about getting a haircut.

A little nervous...

New Pictures

We took some before pictures for the new babe Sunday and although I am totally uncomfortable posting pictures of myself, here you go. She is coming and will be here before we know it - and I am feeling completely unprepared, good thing Brock has Spring Break this week. We are going to work hard to get everything ready. This little girl is due on May 6th. So we'll see if Brock gets a new baby for his birthday or not!

We also had a little graduation dinner for Michael & Lauren. They both graduate soon and then are off to Washington D.C. where Michael will be working for Senator Hatch. We are very excited and proud of them

but also painfully sad that they are leaving....packing up the truck as I

write. Michael leaves tomorrow and Lauren next week. I don't know

what I will do without them & what my girls will do without them, they are so attached to Nornen & Michael. I've tried not to think about it

and now it's here. (I am starting to feel abandoned, 3 of my 4 sisters

will now be out of state.)

We will miss you more than I can say, we love you.

St. George

We spent a long weekend in St. George with the Holt's. The cousins had so much fun playing together and the weather was so nice. Very hard to come back to snow in SLC.

Needless to say the girls loved swimming. Elsa as usual is not afraid. She jumps right in-she is our water baby. She would walk all over the shallow end with no fear. Several times she got going too fast & would go down in the water. Brock would run over & pull her out and instead of crying and sputtering she'd squirm out of his arms to get back in. It was a little chilly and she was shivering like crazy but would cry if we even tried to take her out. She does the same thing when bath time is over.

3 cute girlies

Cute cousins

We also had wonderful watermelon & corn which my girls couldn't get enough of. Really, Greta started eating the rind.

Cousins and popsicles

Sleepy baby on the way home

18 Months

Check out those blue eyes, lucky girl.

I can't believe she is so big, (19 mos. to be exact). It makes me sad and then in the same breath happy because she wants to do everything her big sis does and I am going to need her to when thing #3 arrives. She is so happy and so busy, mostly wandering around the house picking things up, finding a new spot for them and starting over. She LOVES babies and no carseat at church is safe when she is around. Yesterday she said "Hi baby!" to the baby behind us probably 30 times. She has been sitting up at the counter and feeding herself for so long but sometimes I still can't believe she is so good at it. It is the cutest thing watching her feed herself-especially applesauce, she's very determined. She is a lot more adventurous than her sister. She will climb up anything and go down the big slides at the park. Her smiles are so big and her excitement when daddy comes home can't be contained. It's "HI DADDY, HI DADDY" for a good 5 minutes. She is talking like crazy (her "geta" is my favorite), does her body parts and animal sounds so darling. And best of all, she still snuggles with mom and I can't get enough. Brock's sister, Lindsey, took these lovely photos for us, so000 adorable.

February 2010

I'm a little behind, here are some happenings from last month. We had a fun little Valentines party with a couple of my girlfriends and their kids. We decorated cupcakes and made V-day hats, the kids loved it.

My friend Karen and her cute boy.

I attended my first "Scrapbooking Weekend" hosted by my sis-in-law Lindsey at her in-laws ranch house. It was such a fun break and nice for me to get away on my own. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. My sweet husband watched the kids and did a great job, fixing hair for church and everything! Here is the snowman they built -notice the before and after, leaning and then gone.

Finger-painting fun

My mom was also here visiting. I had 2 cousins get married about a week apart from each other so she came out to attended the weddings. She took Greta on her own for a special sleepover with grandma & her 2 aunts. She loved every minute. She keeps telling me if I want my nails painted, I just need to ask Lauren.