Matthew's Blessing

Matthew was blessed on Sunday, January 6, 2008. There was a horrible snow storm that weekend, so we are very thankful for those family members and friends who braved the elements and came to share this amazing day with us. This is one neat little man and we are so blessed and grateful to have him in our family and in our home.

Happy New Year!

To celebrate the New Year we went to Rexburg to visit with Jay's family and go to the Rexburg Temple Open House. It was beautiful and so neat to see what the inside looked like after watching it be built out our kitchen window all those months while we lived there.

Merry Christmas 2007

We had a wonderful Christmas! We were able to visit our families in Woodland, UT and Rexburg, ID over the break.

We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas day at home though. We had a candle light dinner, opened our pj's, and after reading the Christmas story, we got to bed so Santa could come.


Santa did find us at our new house and we all enjoyed lounging around in our pj's all day, being together, and playing with our toys.

Ultimately, our favorite gift, attraction, and toy, was our new little Matthew. He couldn't figure out what all the fuss was...

and eventually just fell asleep.

Matthew is 2 Weeks Old!

Matthew after his bath...all clean and happy! He has been so fun! He's a little confused that he's supposed to be awake when the sun is out and shining, he prefers to stay up all night and sleep really soundly during the day. Last night he did a little better though. He actually slept for a whole 4 hour block...

Jay and I were so grateful!

Spencer helped me give Matthew his first bath in the sink this morning...We think he liked it, at least more than the sponge baths he's been getting.

Matthew one week old...the last picture it seemed like he was actually saying,

"Enough pictures, Mom, won't you just feed me now?"

Announcing the Arrival of Matthew J. Warnick

Matthew arrived on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 @ 4:02 pm. He weighed in at 7 lbs. 14 oz. and is 20" long. He is so cute and we all absolutely adore him. It is so nice to have him here!

Happy Halloween!

"Wingardium Leviosa!" said our little Harry Potter this year! Spencer was so cute and everyone knew who he was supposed to be.

Spencer's favorite part of Halloween was "going trick or treating and getting the Sweetart skeleton bones & pumpkin suckers."

Logan was a mad scientist this year for Halloween. He had a hard time deciding, but finally came up with something on Monday. He was excited because a few people didn't even recognize him. He said a bunch of kids kept stealing his wig and scientific potion.

Logan said his favorite part of Halloween was "eating the candy!" Logan was also able to go to the USU basketball season opener with Jay though, so that may have been a close second to his candy!

Katelyn dressed up as a Renaissance Princess. She loved her costume especially the sparkly gold shoes that she found in her Grandma Patsy's dress ups. She was a busy girl on Halloween going straight from school, to ballet, to the trunk or treat, out trick or treating, and then passed out candy at home.

When asked what her favorite part of Halloween was, she responded, "Carving pumpkins, seeing all the kids in their costumes who came trick or treating to our house, and eating candy."

So, obviously, our kids are candy addicts. We are hoping that once the candy is all gone their sugar levels will go back to normal and that our next visit to the dentist isn't a disaster. All in all though, it was a great day and everyone enjoyed themselves --even Jay who generally isn't a big fan of Halloween.

UEA Fun @ Zollinger Park

We recently had a week off school for Parent Teacher Conferences and UEA. We spent one afternoon at a local park where we ate lunch, played on the playground, tennis, and baseball. It was so much fun! We are trying to soak up as much sunshine as we can before the long winter sets in.