Jerry's Girls

road trip report: part 4

i'm staying up late for you, my sweet, because there are just too many photos i want you to see.  and when i get back to you there are 5 times as many for you to look through.

these are from our trip to salt lake on monday...

"this is the place" is definitely my kind of place.

in the church...

washing clothes at a pioneer home...

zeke had an awesome wind-up while beating the rug...

our favorite place was the school house...

but we also REALLY loved the animals...

and you can imagine how much they all loved (especially  wynnie!) doing this...

oh, and mya almost got her hair cut, but we knew that you would FREAK OUT! :)

and just one more.  we had a few melt downs that day, road tripping tends to do that to all of us, you know.  this time it was paige, so i plopped her down & walked back to the group.  when i looked back over to paige there was our wynnie (who had just had a melt down of her own) giving paige a tiny flower.  she sat down by paige & succeeded in making her baby sis feel better.  what a precious .

we make lovely children, don't you think?

road trip report: part3

sunday evening stroll...

road trip report: part 2

hi baby,

since the computer isn't being user friendly i am just going to give you a few pictures to make you happy.
you've been getting a play-by-play everyday over the phone, so these are to help you not get too lonely.

we finished up our vegas days & are now on your home turf.

we stayed at spring haven last night & attempted to get a picture of the grand-kids before leaving.  here's the best one, how do you think it turned out?

our kids are handling the road trip well, don't you think?
i took this one of spring haven just for you...
 

and i loved this afternoon shot of the kids listening to thunder on the front steps.  you can tell how nervous it made wynnie, plus you can see how hard the kids have been playing all day.  fun stuff!

and here's uncle ryan & uncle matt helping the kiddos load their water guns. 

we love you.
we miss you.
we're so happy you rocked in the NICU last night.

xoxo,
your ies :)

road trip report: part 1

the fun started last night with a big bubble bath & paige was in heaven!

 

and right after papa was in heaven?...

mya & wynn started art camp this morning & when i dropped them off i felt so excited for them.

this afternoon was spent playing hopscotch (each of us created our own design, it was fun!)

 

and then we went on a snail hunt (wynn asked me ALL day to go) and i searched & searched because i didn't want to disappoint.  i finally found 2 snails & one snail shell for paige.  we just sat there with our new buddies & had a wonderful time.

 

that's wynnie saying to mya's snail, "hello little guy, do you want to say hi to your friend?"

and paypay was happy to simply cozy up on me...

 

and later on she cozied up on wynn & her silkie pj's...

 

we ended the day with one of nana's fun FHE's on taking care of our bodies.  my favorite part was the opening song when wynn made up her own.  i only remember the first line, "we came to earth to get a body..." she sang while mya acted it out.  the girl's favorite part was the blindfold game where i gave them healthy & sweet food.  they had to guess what it was & then say if it was healthy or not.  they loved it!

 

we're all tired from the weeks of go, go, go.  but i got them to bed semi-early and i'm looking forward to dreaming of you tonight.

love you, my jerry.

miss you.

your b.

he sent me this text from the NICU:

just recuscitated premie twins. 

had to intubate one of em.

also a meconium aspr. baby doing ok.

just finished rounds. :)

i love it!!

07.05.09 12:57 p.m.

 

(and when i read it i got a big, BIG smile!)

bye bye daddy!

we wish you could road trip with us. :(

we'll miss you like CRAZY!

happy studying.

LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU!!

your girlies :)

our 4th.

my photos:

walking to the parade...

waiting for the parade...

spotting the parade...

watching the parade...

wynn's photos:

before the parade...

mya's photos:

waiting for the fireworks...

jer's photo:

waiting for the fireworks...

today we celebrate:

our freedom.

our armed forces.

our history.

our country.

our home.

(we like how if you squint at this photo it looks like our flag.)

happy fourth of july.

santa monica:

through the lens of our toy camera.

06.21.09

blue.

fact #1: i have always wanted to paint our walls, especially my little girl's room.

the night after we moved in i didn't have a plan, but as i laid in bed thinking (i do that a lot when i should be sleeping), i realized that it was now or never.  so on the morning that my parents were heading back to vegas we dove in.  

(my mom painting the base coat.  she hated leaving me with a mess & went on a working rampage to make sure the first layer was there for me.  i only had to paint the top & bottom.  she also did all of our laundry that day, but still says "i don't feel like i helped you that much."  she's amazing.)

fact #2: mya & wynn have had a very long standing obsession with the color blue.

my dad took me twice to the store & then two more times by himself.  (finding the perfect shade of blue takes one wonderful & very giving daddy, plus several varying shades of sample cans.)

(pre-paint party.)

fact #3: painting a room 2 days after moving in is nuts.

(the girls painted almost the entire wall by their bunkbeds and LOVED it!)

(it didn't take long for paige to throw down the roller & use her own method.)

(real painters stand on ladders.)

(and moms & dads finish projects when the younger generation has lost interest.  jer- all the rolling. me-all the edges.)

fact #4: their walls are perfect and make me very, very happy.  

painting was worth the wait & the trouble.