Skylie's Three Month Pictures

Happy Anniversary

Not only is today Thanksgiving, it's also our wedding anniversary. Thanks for four awesome years, Matt!

Thanksgiving Eve

A few things I'm grateful for this Thanksgiving eve:

1. Matt, for choosing me
2. Skylie
3. Skylie's smile
4. The fact that I get to be a mom
5. Parents who taught me to work, gave me what I needed, and said "no" to my whimsical wants (at least some of them)
6. In-laws that couldn't be better
7. Life-long friends
8. The education I received
9. Knowing I'm a daughter of God and he loves me
10. The tough times that make the good times so much sweeter
11. Stoplights when they're green, and police when they don't catch me speeding
12. Laughing so hard that I cry
13. Amazing women that watch Skylie when I can't
14. Living in the U-S-of-A
15. My health
16. Beauties of nature
17. A good book
18. Lazy Sundays
19. All things sweet
20. Spring, summer, and fall in Des Moines
21. My brothers and sister
22 A generous boss
23. Mizuno running shoes
24. Holidays
25. Fantastic memories

I am truly blessed.

Month Three

Skylie,

This month has been so fun with you. Your grin is adorable—and you're smiling tons! I love it! The facial expressions you make and the noises that come out of you (in more places than one) are hilarious! You've got a spunky personality, and I think you and I are going to be best friends, girl.

This past month you:

• Hit a growth spurt.
• Took the art of smiling up about a hundred notches.
• Learned how to swim, or so it seems.
• Got so close to rolling over. Keep trying, Champ.
• Gave your dad and me a break by sleeping well—for the most part—at night. (8.5 hours is your record.)
• Got obsessed with scooting over to your crib bars and banging your body against them. (It's so funny!)

We love you!

Love,
Mom

A Christmas Tree

Matt finished his psychiatry rotation last Friday and got rave reviews from the doctor he worked with. He was in a pediatric psych hospital, and kids would talk to him that wouldn't speak to the doctor.

To kick off the weekend Matt, Skylie, and I headed to the mall last Friday for the Christmas tree lighting.

• Later we played games with co-workers.
• Saturday Taylor Laurent wowed me during New Moon. Carmike Cinemas, I hope you like the puddle of drool I left on your floor.
• Our church's stake conference was awesome.
• A Christmas tree now graces our apartment.

Have I mentioned I love this time of year? Bring on the holidays!

Skylie's got a crush.

I've mentioned before that Matt and I switch off babysitting with our friends, the Beeston's, so we can have some husband/wife alone time. It's probably bad, but Matt and I look forward to watching Taylor and Logan as much—or more—than going on the dates! It's so fun to watch these three rugrats together!

I watch in awe at how well Nathalie handles twins. Her great attitude and willingness to sacrifice amazes me. Seriously. Those boys are lucky to have such a great mama.

{Nathalie, I'm burning you a CD this minute. I took way too many pics!}

Big Creek State Park

A week ago the weather was gorgeous, so Matt and I took advantage of it and headed up to Big Creek State Park on Saturday afternoon. I love Skylie's facial expressions!

In other happenings:

We:

• Stood in line for three hours to get the HINI vaccination.

Matt:

• Is heading into his final week of his psychiatry rotation. To show Erin what he does all day, he asked her the questions they ask the patients during their admittance exam. It made her think she should be admitted, too. :)
• Is home most days by 3:00 and has graciously taken on most of the cooking around here. Needless to say, we've been eating better.

Erin:

• Totally spaced that she had Veteran's Day off of work and didn't get a clue until she drove into the normally packed parking lot and only a handful of cars were in sight. Sweet surprise!
• Is working on the stake newsletter.
• Is figuring out Blurb so she can transfer our blog into a book.
• Read "The Wednesday Letters".

Skylie:

• Flirts with Logan and Taylor while the moms and dads go on date nights.
• Smiles a lot.