This weekend has been fun and adventurous. We had the opportunity to get pictures done of our family with a friend of ours in our ward. She offered to shoot some pictures and we gladly took her up on it because she is really good! Earl dropped us off at the studio and ran to go get a white shirt for our Eternal family picture. While he was out and about, the transmission went out on the suburban. Yay.... we do have so much to be grateful for but I guess when it rains, it pours. Taking those pics of all of us dressed in white definitely took us away from the temporal things in life and helped us focus on the eternal perspective again, at least for a few minutes until the shoot was over and reality set in. The joys and memories in life that we will hopefully laugh about later! Anyway, our friend put about 8 pictures of our family on her website for anyone to look at. The link to the site is http://setintimephotography.blogspot.com/ if anyone wants to see them. We will also be adding more pics soon. We haven't forgotten. I guess that I am just valuing sleep a little more than anything else whenever I can. I just wanted to thank Bethany for taking a ton of time out of her day to help us get some wonderful pictures of our sweet girls and for waiting so long with me while we waited for Earl to get back with his white shirt. Thank you Bethany. Your time and effort meant so much to us! My parents were able to look at the photos and they loved them. Some of my siblings haven't even been able to meet her yet because of sickness so they really appreciated them!
Things are going well with our sweet Ellie. She is getting closer to approaching 7 lbs now and it is crazy how fast she is gaining. Her eyes are tracking a little better all the time and this week her head rounded out a ton on her sides. Her little head is almost a perfect normal baby's head. I love the precious moments of her smiling while she sleeps and this week she laughed for a few seconds. It was such a fun moment! Emma helps all the time and she is so sweet with her. I got out myself for a time and went grocery shopping last night. It is the strangest thing to see two car seats in the back of our car. I am so grateful that Heavenly Father blessed us with a second child. And especially this little girl. She is perfect just the way she is! Thank you to everyone that has brought is gifts and meals to us. You all have helped us adjust so much easier to our new life. We love all of you!