The Long Blog

Ethan’s mission farewell

Jennifer — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:11:12 +0000

My cousin Ethan is going on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Mexico City, Mexico. He will be gone from July 2010-2012. To support Ethan, we all (except my dad–he had to work) went out to Salt Lake City to say good-bye to for a bit.

It was bittersweet in that it was hard to say good-bye, but I am really proud of him. (left to right: Ethan, his sister Courtney, and me holding Henry)

The best part of the trip was having most of my family all together. My sister Becca and her husband Carl flew in from New York City

along with my brother B.J. and his wife Jennifer from San Francisco.

We also went to the aquarium with my good friend Kristen (she is holding her adorable daughter Lily who is about the same age as Henry).

It was a pretty quick trip but entirely worth it even if it totally tuckered everybody out.

Lots of Fire

Adam — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:53:44 +0000

Jen’s birthday celebration at my parents’ house. Lindsey made the cake.

We’ve been talking to Becca lately about her upcoming birthday (she’ll tell you that she’s going to be two, and hold up a random number of fingers…), so I’m not sure she really understood–or cared–that the festivities were not for her!

Splash!

Jennifer — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:17:09 +0000

Becca and Henry did swim lessons this summer. However, I think they like playing in the pool more than anything else.

They both seem to have no fear in the water. Bec loves to have Adam throw her up in the air and catch her. She also loves going down the slide, but she still needs Adam to catch her at the bottom.

Henry loves to float and paddle around in the water.

Learning to share?

Jennifer — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:18:45 +0000

Becca thinks anything that Henry has should be hers regardless of what it is. Whether Henry has a toy or his bottle, Becca just takes things from him (Becca has the advantage of being bigger than Henry–although I suspect that will change before too long). I think she thinks she is missing out.

Here, Henry is happily drinking from his sippy cup.

Here comes Becca…

Henry is thinking, “wait, what?!? that was mine!!”

Poor Henry.

New Tutu From Ellen!

Adam — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:41:11 +0000

Ellen brought Becca a new tutu back from Las Vegas. Henry got the superhero shirt, but wasn’t as visibly excited as Becca!