Jordan's wedding

I now have a new sister-in-law, Brittney, whom I haven't met other than on FaceTime, but I'm so excited that my brother has found his sweetheart to marry in the temple! 

It was somewhat of a fast pace relationship and so by the time they got engaged, we didn't have enough money to fly out there for the wedding. Even if I just took the boys, I don't think I could've handled them by myself :/ so needless to say I was pretty bummed that we wouldn't be there. It would've been amazing to see a sibling married in the temple - since Janelle was married before me, obviously I couldn't go to hers. But there will be more in the future :) 

Everyone was there that night to celebrate except Brooke, who was doing a triathlon that day in Boise, and Jeremy, who actually was part of a rescue mission in the kidnapping of Hannah Anderson. He was a member of one of the Ada County metro SWAT teams that were dropped off from a helicopter in the wilderness to find her. Amazing rescue story and to realize how brave my brother is along with the team . . .

Anyway, so I facetimed Janelle and Tom while at the reception and was able to see everyone! Sounded like it was a great day!

Rolie Polie

I can't believe how fast this boy is growing up! Just yesterday he started rolling all over the family room, back to front, front to back! After I put him down for bedtime, he had been asleep for a bit when he started crying. I went in to check on him only to find him on his tummy. Crazy boy! I have unswaddled him and he's now doing fine falling asleep on his own. It only took a couple days to get used to it. Anyway, just wanted to post this milestone!

Mom and Dad's visit

Mom and Dad were able to come visit us the beginning of June. They had planned to go to Colorado Springs this summer already so I told them they should just turn it into a 2 stop trip since Denver is in the middle of us. They couldn't come for Griffin's blessing, so this worked out anyway. 

They got into Colorado Springs on a Wednesday and were supposed to fly out Saturday morning into Denver then to OKC. Well, mom's ticket wasn't scanning in co springs so by the time they got it fixed they missed their flight. Again, by the time anyone could help and figure things out, they had missed that flight out of Denver to OKC. This is where things just got messed up. The day before, there were some F4 tornadoes that hit west and part of downtown OKC. All those flights got cancelled and every flight (and airline, even into Wichita and Tulsa) they tried to get on, didn't have going into OKC until Monday. Sooo, they were either stuck in Colorado Springs until one of those Monday flights, stay there until their original flight back home the next Wednesday, OR I said they should just get a rental car and drive here. It was a 9 hour drive, but would still get them here earlier than a flight. That's what they decided to do. I was so surprised that my mom agreed to it! Thankfully the airline was going to credit the flight into OKC. After a long and boring drive for them, they got in around 10:30 pm. 

Sunday we went to church, took a much needed nap, and then headed out for Clay to show them some turbines and his work. 

Monday, I took them around town and went to Walmart to grab some diapers and food for dinner. They also bought Kort a bubble lawn mower that he absolutely loves! I'm sure they enjoyed our Walmart - ha ha ha! 

Tuesday, I decided to do the Kids Bowl Free summer program and take Kort for his first time.

Surprisingly he loved it and did great! We had the bumpers up, a 7lb. ball and the ramp to help out.

It was nice to get out with my parents.

We went shopping a little bit afterwards. My dad was so excited to try out Clay's hammock, but he needed an umbrella so we found him one at Ross. He was in that thing everyday :) and it was perfect  weather for it! 

We also went to the park to fly a kite and mom took Kort to see the ducks.

Clay was able to take Wednesday off from work to help me take them back to the airport. We got them there, said our goodbyes and then headed to the mall. We got Clay some early Father's Day presents and headed home. 

It was kind of weird having my parents visit, but it was great. I only say that because it had been a year and a half that I last saw them and the last place they were able to come visit was in Tacoma for Kort's baby blessing! It was a fun time having them here and letting them play with and spoil Kort and Griffin! 

4 month stats

(The background movie, Zookeeper, is what we named Griffin after - Kevin James' character!) 

Griffin got his shots and was a champ. He fell asleep on our way back home and was happy the rest of the day after waking up. I still think he looks like a cute chunky baby, but apparently not as big as I thought. Here's his numbers:

Weight: 15 lbs 1 oz = 48%

Height: 25.5 inches = 65%

Head circumference: 42.5 cm = 52%

I really thought he was bigger than Kort at this age, but when I went back to Kort's stats, surprisingly he was up in the 70 percentiles for all. Oh well, Griffin is healthy and strong and just different than Kort. 

As of a couple days ago, Griffin has begun rolling from his back to his belly! He finally got that arm out from under him.

He's still swaddled at night and has rolled over a few times when going to bed so it looks like it's about time to just do the Pjs which took time to get Kort used to it so it should be fun. 

Boys' weekend/wedding

Clay's younger brother, Justin, was getting married the end of June. It would be a quick trip, and we didn't have the money for all of us to go, so Clay took Kort with him so I could relax with Griffin. 

They left for OKC Thursday afternoon. 

Flew to Denver around 7:00 and got into their SLC hotel around 11:00 pm. Clay was going to drive straight to Rexburg that night but glad they slept.

Kort likes to take up the whole bed.

They left Friday morning, had to stop at Smith and Edwards :), and got to town around 1:00. Kort loved his pancakes a little too much at breakfast and got syrup all over them so he got new jammies :)

Clay was put right to work as his parents just got a house built and they were moving stuff while Brandon and Barbara were there. 

Kort did his part by sitting on boxes playing on the iPod while Clay was hooking up the fridge. 

They ended up getting most of the appliances and furniture moved so they all ended up sleeping at the new house! They played the wii that night and Clay danced to some song called Rasputin and found it on YouTube when he got home to have me dance with him (Just Dance 4). It was quite the workout! 

Saturday was the wedding. Kort had been going nonstop with everyone else so by the time they drove to the wedding in Idaho Falls in the afternoon, he konked out seconds after Clay gave him his water! Never have I seen this happen! 

Hilarious! Anyway, he woke when they got there and was put to work. He was supposed to carry a sign down the aisle. He made it to the first row of chairs and started climbing on them. Then some kid grabbed his hand and brought him to Clay in the front row. 

Leland was the ring bearer as well. They had a little food before the reception and then had some fun! 

They left after the reception for SLC and took Justin and Sara with them as they were flying out the next morning too for their honeymoon. They got to sleep in the hotel around 1:00 and had to leave for the airport around 5:00 am. Luckily, Kort slept on the flight to Denver and to OKC so Clay was able to catch up on sleep as well.

 They finally made it back to me and Griffin Sunday afternoon! It was a very quiet weekend, I got a ton of things accomplished and Griffin did great, but it was so nice to have my big boys home! 

Little fishy

Some of our friends have invited us over to their community pool to go swimming. We took Kort's pool down so we jumped at the invitation. They let us borrow their extra swim floaters (whatever they're called that Kort is wearing) and right away Kort enjoyed swimming! He's not afraid of the water and can float by himself.

This second time we went, Kort was a lot more brave. He would jump (more like fall) into our arms in the pool. After he got comfortable with that he would just go all by himself! I think this is the beginning of him loving to swim! Now we just have to get Griffin in the pool! 

4 months

I swear I just posted about Griffin turning 3 months. Lo and behold, another month has already passed!

Things have gotten much better. There were a couple weeks there that he was starting to take short naps and waking up crying, or even screaming out of no where. I knew he had to still be tired because he wakes up happy when he's had a good nap. So I'd try to rock him back to sleep. Sometimes it would work. I finally researched what could be going on and all I really found was that he was waking up screaming from being overtired. I think I had been putting him down later than usual so I figured that was the problem. I worked on looking for signs of being tired and kept him up no longer than 2 hours and it's gotten better! He's back (cross your fingers) to napping for an hour and a half morning and afternoon with a short nap before dinner and waking up happy! Thank goodness! 

The most recent things he's done is just these past couple days he's been scooting so much! I'll have to put another blanket in front of him so he can continue. And with that, he is constantly rolling onto his back. Can't do the other way yet, but he's so close!

He's just such a happy baby! We've been so blessed. Kort still keeps me on my feet so I'm glad Griffin is the way he is. Kort loves saying hi baby over and over and is a lot more gentle with him. Before I know it, it'll be 5 months and then that much closer to half a year old!!