goodbye seattle

Yep, that's right! Back to Minnesota we go! Clay is temporarily moving to the Energy Group with his company and so we are headed to the middle of no where to work on wind turbines. Actually, I'm quite excited. That red dot is the county that they are being built in, and it's basically like back home! Countryside, small towns, plenty of things to do outside! We'll only be there for some short months, maybe 5 or so, then off to somewhere else. So, hopefully we won't get stuck in those frigid Minnesota winters! Gratefully we'll have movers from the company because we're moving in 2 weeks! AAHH! I'll keep you updated as I'm sure we'll have many great adventures ahead of us!

crazy kort

kort has been so close to crawling it seems! he's constantly on his hands and knees now, just rocking back and forth not quite sure how to make the right motions :) within the last couple days i've noticed he's been getting up on his toes like in a real push-up/plank position! it's so crazy! i am so excited to post this picture, although it's blurry, it's the best i could catch of him so far!

this was a couple weeks ago when he was just starting to get onto his knees. like i said, it's been quite the constant thing now! clay and i help him move his knees and hands in sync (which all he does is laugh!) and it looks like it's paying off as he's kind of going through those motions and scooting forward a little, although it's mostly backwards that he goes :)

happy father's day

it was exactly one year ago that clay officially announced he was going to be a daddy! i couldn't be any happier with how everything has turned out. he really is the best. kort's face just lights up when he sees that daddy has come home to play with him. he gets the biggest smile. i can tell those two are going to cause havoc once kort gets older. i sure love my boys. sundays are so wonderful. 

they love their afternoon naps together.

clay is the best daddy. i can't wait for more to come!

LOVE YOU!!!

my dad is so incredible. i wish i could be as intelligent as he is, 

and talented, and funny, and successful. 

thanks papanawa! 

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i'm so grateful for the men in my life. 

bbq's mean summertime!

memorial day we joined up with some friends and had a bbq at some park that i won't even try to write. something like kobochuk park. ha ha anyway, it was so much fun! it was right on the beach so we enjoyed walking along. kort did pretty good. had some good naps. too bad we didn't take any pictures. 

the next weekend our friends went camping. we decided we weren't ready to take kort camping yet, but we joined up with them saturday night for another bbq.  the dinner was delicious with chicken and all the extras. we made our lovely dutch oven peach cobbler !YUM! it was a lot of fun though and so glad we were able to spend some time with them.

 he's starting to get really good with holding his body up. now if he can only get those knees under him.

 jennifer loves holding him and he loved falling asleep in her arms too!

he fell asleep so great in my arms. not a fight like it normally is. yay!

our future bed

i've been so excited to finally get a headboard and new bed frame! i found this website a long time ago and instantly fell in love with it! and having quite the handy craftsman, i knew that i'd be making a lot of things from it :) we made our changing table for kort from two of her plans combined and now i found this plan for our bed and love love love it! we'll be taking pictures of our progress. we've had to get some extra power tools (clay's early father's day present), but we'll be saving hundreds still - we were lucky enough to get free oak so that's where we're saving the dough!

(this was someone else's that they sent in their final result. 
hopefully ours will look this great!)

5 months

Kort was late on getting his 4 month checkup, but he's still growing like a weed!

Height: 27 inches = 90th percentile

Weight: 17.3 lbs. = 75th percentile

Head Circumference: (I always forget this number) = 50th percentile

He had 2 shots in his legs and built up his scream after the first shot, but he calmed down pretty quick and was just kind of fussy throughout the day. 

I'm weaning him off with his nighttime feedings and just bouncing him back to sleep.  He's doing better and only waking up usually once now.  We're also not swaddling him anymore.  That kind of makes me sad :( Our swaddler was a lifesaver but lately he's been waking up with his arms punched out the top and sometimes his legs also.  He's just grown so long now that they don't fit him and swaddling him with a blanket is useless. So, we are resorting to his jammies now :) He's starting to get the hang of it and actually sleeping pretty well.  Still has his 1/2 hour daytime naps which are a little annoying, but he's still usually happy.  I just can't believe my baby is already 5 months! Hopefully we'll get more videos of him with his milestones.  I still can't get a video to upload on here though. Anyway, until then...

judge ye not

i love reading other people's blogs. especially when they're uplifting and talk about their trials and successes. it makes me want and try to be a better person. one particular one that i read was a simple post about a happy birthday shout out to her SIL. first off, this girl and i go way back to the beginning of my semesters at byu-idaho. we played basketball against each other and she was the off-the-wall type of girl. very outspoken. show off during time-outs. the list goes on. well, i was very judgmental about her. a few semesters into transferring there, we got stuck in a science lab together. i was going to freak out. we were the only girls in that group. now, to make the story short, i was very wrong about her. we got to know each other and i actually started to like her. no, we didn't become best friends, but i gained respect for her. since then, she has returned from a lds mission and her facebook status updates are amazing, she loves, loves sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, and her blog posts are just the same.

before the post about her SIL, she blogged about one of her guy friends there in rexburg. about what an example he was. about not being judgmental. just what i needed to hear. crazy that it was on her blog, whom i had judged from the beginning. why not sacrifice your blessings to bless others' lives? we're not going to run out of blessings. our father in heaven loves us too much to withhold those blessings. i need to do better. i want to do better. it's just sometimes i don't know how or where to start. i do know that i have been blessed with the best sister anyone could have. stuck in between 6 mean, ugly, loving brothers, we definitely had to work together so we didn't get our hair permanently torn out. she was always there when i was going through a rough patch of my life, even though she was clear across the other side of the world, serving the lord, being selfless. she was able to serve many communities through her platform of music and share her love for it, to help young women be their best self. i love my sister. we've had our ridiculous moments of stealing one's clothes, but we'd get over it 10 minutes later. there's no way i could go without talking to my sister. it was the hardest thing to not verbally talk to her while she was on her mission. i'm so glad that we could both be mommies, especially have new babies the same time. both boys. what a great example she is to me. love you janelley belly!