Lucy's Hair Cut

Amy has gotten sick of trying to comb out Lucy's curly thick hair every day. So tonight, we took her to a salon and got it cut. She loves it, and I have to agree that it looks pretty cute.

The Mitchell Twins

Hi friends and family. I'll post a quick blog about my sister Julie and her twins. They were born Monday, August 25th, about 3 p.m. Julie, through lots of blessing, prayers, fasting and miracles, was able to somehow make it to 35 weeks and 3 days. She was even able to avoid having a C-section. Ethan Tiberi was 5 lbs. 7 oz. and Benjamin Beecher was born 16 minutes later at 5 lbs. 3 oz. As soon as my mom heard Julie's water broke, she frantically booked a flight and packed and was able to be there shortly after they were born. She will be there for at least a month to help Julie. The babies are perfectly normal and healthy and there have been no complications at all. Our family feels so blessed. Thanks for all your prayers on their behalf. We love you, PJ and Julie and Ethan and Ben!

Moving Day

On moving day, Train came strutting out of his room in his underwear and Native American head dress. I don't even know where he found this thing. Whatever. The rest of moving day wasn't quite so entertaining.

Sam's Blessing Day

Sunday, August 10th, we finally blessed little Samster. It was our last Sunday at our ward so we figured we better get it done. We sold our home and are in the middle of a huge mess with packing so we weren't able to have people over for lunch afterwards but it was still a great day. Sam had most of his uncles in the circle (we missed you Chris, Greg, Mike, Mike and PJ), Grandpa D and Great Grandpa Beech. We were so worried that he would scream but we gave him his favorite toy to hold (his Lance Armstrong bracelet) and he just looked around and smiled at everyone the whole time. One of the bishopric members came up to us after and said that was probably the biggest baby he's ever seen blessed.

Here is a picture of all 4 kids. It's very hard to get them all to look at the camara at the same time--much less look cute. It's the best I could do.

Jeff must really, really like his new Mini Cooper because I have never, ever seen him hand wash the cars before (13 years of marriage folks!). The kids had a great time helping. Lucy stuck it out to the end even after the boys had fizzled out. We had a garage sale last Saturday and I spent 7 hours making 6 batches of 2 different kinds of cookies for the kids to sell. The boys only lasted about 2 hours but Lucy stayed for 4 hours and seriously worked the crowd. She sold more cookies than anyone. So cute! I wish I had a picture.

Jeff took the 3 older kids to a Stinger's game for the 24th of July. I wish I could've gone but Sam is still limiting the activities we can do together. They had a great time with the Holland Family and watching the fireworks.

Here is my huge, fat boy! At 4 months he weighed 18 1/2 pounds. He's even got Jack beat! That's all me, everyone, not one drop of formula. I'm sort of proud. I know, stupid, and too much information.

More blessing pictures. Check out the tie! I ran into the store to get his blessing outfit and Sam was crying so I didn't have time to try it on. I grabbed the 12 month size and hurried home. Later on I tried it on and it looked ridiculous. First of all, I never dreamed that 12 months would be too small. Second, the pleats ballooned out and he looked just like an Oompa Loompa. Josh walked in and said "he looks like a pioneer clown". All Christening clothes sales are final or I would've taken it back. I was having a terrible day already and this was the final straw. I called Jeff and fell apart crying. My poor fat boy looks like an Oompa Loopa girl pioneer clown on his blessing day. Oh well...