It's time for a haircut when...

1. It has officially become summer time and your apartment went from freezing to super hot in roughly 2.5 seconds.
2. Your 2 ½ month old daughter has learned how to pull hair and enjoys doing so while eating and getting a diaper change.
3. Your split ends are starting to get split ends. That’s just embarrassing.








Will just passed his oral exams, which means he is officially allowed to graduate as an MSW. Whitney and I went with him as moral support. And we wanted to go out to lunch afterwards to celebrate his hard work. So it was a win win. Here is Whitney dressed all cute to show off for the judges on Will’s panel.




Whitney has now become fascinated with things she can touch. I tried to get a video of her playing with her swinging toys in her bouncer and this was, unfortunately, the best that I could get. Just imagine that she was playing with her toys more right before the camera came out.





Sometimes I wonder if Whitney would beat us up if she had the chance for always messing with her and making her angry. She is flinging her fists in the air and sticking out her tongue like she is deep in concentration. Everybody better watch out.




Whitney doesn’t much care for tummy time, so we are working our neck muscles by sitting up more. She seems to prefer that because then she can still see us and make sure we are still watching her.








And all that extra exercise is making her extra sleepy.





Finally, with the summer comes hat season. Courtney loves putting hats on Whitney and Whitney doesn’t hate it too much. Now if they would only stay on. In one we are teaching Whitney how to tie on her own hat, or something like that.





We hope everyone is happy and enjoying a little sunshine. We are doing great and cannot wait for Will’s graduation.

8 weeks old

Whitney is now eight whole weeks and she has had her first graduation. She has officially moved from newborn outfits up to 0-3 month outfits. It is a happy moment because she is getting bigger, but also sad because she is getting bigger. She is getting so big and there are now three babies younger than her in our ward at church. Isn't that just crazy? We are so happy she is part of our lives.








Another intern at SCAN where Will works gave us a cute outfit that Whitney can now wear since the weather is starting to warm up. Thanks Joanna.




And we literally spent all day long trying to get Whitney to be smiling in her cute red outfit. She would get all smiley and then stop as soon as the camera came out. Go figure. But I guess you cannot blame a baby. We did finally get a couple of smiles on camera.





Thank you for all the support we have had from family and friends with our new baby. Everyone has been so wonderful to us.

Toy Time

We decided to see how Whitney would do with her first toy. We have been practicing for a couple of days now and Whitney is starting to grasp onto things for a little while. But, as you can tell from the video, we will be doing lots more practicing. She doesn't mind being on the floor as long as we don't roll her onto her tummy, then life is over. She is getting much stronger at holding up her head and she is all smiley now. If we smile at her, she will smile right back at us, most of the time.







And her talking is adorable. But we know that we are a little biased.

First Easter

We were able to go back to the Tri-Cities for General Conference and Easter. Whitney officially slept through most of her first Easter egg hunt, but Courtney tried to show her different colors on different Easter eggs. Unfortunately, Whitney's mean mom wouldn't let her have any chocolate candy. What a bummer for her. We enjoyed spending the holiday with family. We were given a cute Easter dress that Whitney wore; it is just a little big for her. But there is no way that it will fit next year, so we had to take advantage of it now. And we finally got a picture of Whitney sucking on her hands. She loves doing that and would probably do that all the time if we let her. Again with the mean parents thing.







Happy Easter everyone.

Spring Break

Well, things have been busy, busy, busy here in Cheney. At the last minute, we decided that we wanted to go to Idaho Falls for Spring Break. Will's brother, Dave, is at BYU Idaho and we were able to stay with Aunt Carol and Uncle Randy for a couple of days so we could visit everyone. Whitney did a pretty good job on the car trip; we were worried that we would have to hear her screaming for 9 hours straight. But that wasn't the case at all. While in Idaho, we were able to go to the temple visitor center. Now Whitney can say that she has seen her first temple, Idaho Falls, and she has felt her first snow. We also saw Will's cousins, Paul and Jessica Zeil, and compared our 3 week old baby to their 6 week old girl. That was fun. It was great being able to see everyone and we wanted to thank the Waites for their hospitality. Here are some pictures from our trip.











When we got back to Cheney, Whitney's big day arrived for her baby blessing. We were very excited for her. Ruth and Dana and Courtney's family were able to come to be part of the event. She looked very cute in her dress from Burlington Coat Factory.






We hope everyone else had fun with their Spring Break as well.