Our Close Baby #6!

 Announcing baby #6! I finally had my 13 weeks appointment with my doctor and everything looked good so we could start telling everyone. We had told Emma and Reese at 6-7 weeks along because I was SO sick and didn't feel like I could fake it 24/7 around them. From the day I found our I was pregnant at 4 weeks I was SO sick until about 8 weeks and then things got tons better. Then I was just normal nauseous until 13 weeks. This baby is due July 15th- right after Daddy's birthday. We are not going to find out the gender until the baby is born. It was way too much fun last time to not find out. 

I am now in my 2nd trimester and 16 1/2 weeks along. I have my second doctor appointment this Thursday and keeping praying for our little baby to grow and develop properly. We are excited to have this little one join us in July!

Nora Boo Turns 7

 

Our Sweet Nora is 7 years old and becoming such a fun little lady! For birthdays we revolve all the food around the birthday girl. So for breakfast we had pancakes, lunch was a taco picnic at the park (tacos from Taco Amigo), and dinner was meatball soup and rolls. She loved having ice cream Sundaes for dessert and then inviting Lucy Swan over for movie night. 

We love our sweet girl. She loves coloring and making notes for other people. Nora does this all the time for our family, her teachers and friends- one way she shows other people she loves them. 

She started violin lessons last September and still loves it. She is getting better and better all the time. Nora also LOVES skiing and has gotten really into it now that she had 2 lessons. She can even ski backwards and told Daddy and her sisters that she can teach them how :). Nora loves to learn Spanish and has a goal of counting to 100 in Spanish and she loves to do hair. She even got a mannequin for her birthday so she can practice. 

We love our Nora Lee!!!

Starting off 2021 Right

We kept with our tradition for the last few years of having our friends the Kingsford's over for New Years Eve. Before New Years Eve I woke up one mooning and had the vision of making paper mâché pinatas that look like viruses so we could beat the tar out of the virus and start 2021 out right :). We had fun making them and we had fun breaking them open. There were bandaids, lafty tafty, kisses with poop emojis, vaccine pens and more! 

Other fun Christmas Break stuff included sledding at Tibble Fork and William joined us, playing at parks, making slime, Midway Ice Castles and of course lots of skiing. We had a great time even though we didn't go very far!

Christmas 2020

First Family lip sync night. It was random and last minute but it was such a fun time! When I let loose and let my inner musical theater junkie out, the girls seemed to let go and have fun! Nora was the cutest with "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas." 

Faith, Boose and I and the three oldest girls went to dinner and The Nutcracker together and it was super fun! We loved it so much!

Our Bleak Family Christmas party was super fun. Nathan and Steph hosted and they always do a great job. With Covid still rampant we all wore masks and kept everything really simple. The kids had a great time and the adult games are always my favorite!

Christmas Eve was a simply but wonderful evening. We invited John David (Cade's boss) over for the evening. We had ham and potatoes and rolls and sides. Then after the girls and I sang some songs with Cade on the guitar, we read the Christmas story in Luke 2 and ended with peppermint gelato. It was good. 

Christmas morning started at 7:00 am. Emma I think had been awake for a full hour just staring at the Christmas tree until she could wake the whole family up at 7:00. That afternoon we went to Grandma and Grandpa Bleak's house for dinner and hanging out. We had a great time!