Some Rising and Shouting

March Madness is truly the most wonderful time of the year. And what made it even more wonderful was the awesomeness of my dad and brother in finding us tickets for both BYU games. Matt, Rex and I got to go to Thursday's game. It wasn't the most exciting game, but a win nonetheless. Then Rex escorted me to a much more exciting game tonight. Matt won dad of the year as he took the 4 other kids to watch the Rapids play in their home opener. Add the two soccer games of Donovan and Howie and it was a great day of sports for us all.

Found some common ground

I'm not sure of the exact saying. Or if a real saying even exists for that matter. But the one that I'm thinking of essentially says, "if your daughter sometimes drives you crazy, start by finding something you both have in common and before you know it your daughter will start behaving like an angel and you will become the best of friends". I'll continue looking for that exact quote. But until then, I did find something we had in common. We should be excellent friends any day now!

And that commonality? We both wish we had another little girl in our family.

A 2 month dream

Lately whenever I sit down to post something, I find myself wishing I would have taken more pictures. That is definitely the case tonight. We love our poor 5th child, and we will try to capture more of his life. Time has flown by since Rex was born. We are slowly getting to know him. What we have learned so far is that he is a dream. He is a calm, low maintenance little guy. It would appear that he is very curious about his surroundings. But he could also just be in shock from all the chaos. He doesn't seem to mind being passed from person to person allowing everyone a chance to hold him. He sleeps okay at night, we're not going to complain. But he sleeps very well during the day.






Yes. This is the only picture we took on Rex's blessing day. Thank goodness my dad had his camera.

A bygone birthday

Ten days ago Nina joined the 5 year-old club. We even celebrated it. She had a low key party where she and a few friends decorated cupcakes and made valentines. The thing I liked the best was the fact that she invited 2 nine year-old girls who pretty much rocked. They supervised the younger girls during the crafts while I cleaned up messes, got new crafts ready and what not. We had a crazy cousin party for all the January and February birthdays (6). We put together a scavenger hunt to find her stash of presents. We got her the obligatory Krispy Kremes and we took her to get her ears pierced. I think we did a fair job celebrating. We even let her wear this out in public.












I am reassuring myself that I'm not completely forgetful, just sort of. We did a lot of fun things for Nina's birthday, I just forgot to put up a post about it. And I forgot to make her a birthday cake. And I forgot to take a picture of her newly pierced ears. And I forgot to make her the birthday dinner she requested. That might be all.

Basketball fans

Having a baby in January had 2 disadvantages that I want to complain about. The first is that Rex was more susceptible to getting RSV. Check. The second is that it would make it really hard for me to attend some cool basketball games. Check. But Matt and the boys got to enjoy some games in January.

Matt, Donovan and Howie met my brother Chris and his two boys and ventured down to Colorado Springs to watch BYU have a little fun with Air Force.





Of course Jimmer was the highlight of the evening. I was told the boys gave Jimmer a high five, but I think Matt was a little slow on the click.




Matt is going to be slightly disappointed with this part of the post because I can't remember 2 key pieces of information.
1. Who the Nuggets played
2. Which Nugget player's sweaty headband Howie caught



A super-nice couple invited Howie to stand in front of their seats so he could reach the players as they walked into the locker room. He got to give Nene a high five.




Those were some pretty sweet seats guys. Go team!

Brothers

We gathered our 4 boys together for a few snaps.






And they graciously allowed Nina to sit in on one shot.

Celebrating 1 month

Rex wasn't feeling too good over the weekend and on Monday we ended up taking him to the ER. Turns out the little guy had RSV. After a couple of days in the hospital, he looked and sounded a ton better. Aside from that little episode, the past month has been quite enjoyable as we bond with our new baby.