yearly blog update!

So, I guess since my last post, I had a kid and he just turned 7 months old...been a while! He was born in November and he's the happiest kid in the world...and he's a redhead. He's also gonna get lost if I don't keep my eye on him. He has been crawling for over a month and is a roamer. He will crawl anywhere, except the grass(too painful, since yesterday was the first day we had rain in forever). Omeira loves him and he absolutely loves her! He laughs so hard when he sees her, then she says "Gage is laughin at you!" He also hits his head a lot more than Omeira ever has...she has had 2 scratched up knees before and that's it. Never had a bruise, or any other scratches. She has never really fallen that much, has really good balance and, if she does fall, she doesn't bruise. Gage hasn't bruised yet but he's hit his head several times. He is gonna be our expensive child...we need to have good insurance with this kid!
Dave's business is going REALLY well now. It's exciting to see his business growing the way it is...... Crap! This blog thing is really hard...I am struggling to find things to write! That's ok, Rory, you're the only person I know about that reads this anyways. Hope you enjoyed cause you probably won't be reading anything else on here for another year!

Just a few pictures of today...

Omeira Shea at 10 months old

Wow...

She dances to EVERYTHING! Omeira has picked up the dancin bug! She dances to everything! Seriously. I think she might hear music in her head cause when I don't hear anything, she is dancin! I poured some rice crispies for her and was dunkin them in the milk andshe started dancin to the 'snap crackle pop'! I think sometimes she dances to the noise of the a/c and the washer...really anything she hears...or doesn't hear. It's pretty funny!

yep, didn't get any better...

So, looks like I am just as terrible at "blogging" now as I was before! So much for getting better. Here is a little update of our family. David finally graduated from Texas A&M and we have moved to the Dallas area...to my sister's house! We had a place and the day before we moved (uhaul packed and all) it fell through. So, we are in the process of getting a different place and should be in, I'm guessing, by the middle of August. David has started his own business and it is going very well. I am almost 20 weeks pregnant with a little boy and we are so excited! We wanted our first 2 kids to be close in age and we got our wish. Omeira Shea is now 10 months old and has been walking for over a month. She started taking steps at 8 months and became a full walker at 9 months old. She is very much enjoying her aunt Heather and uncle Jake. We got rid of the pacifier on Monday and she is doing so well with out it. I had prepared myself for a rough week or 2 because she relied so heavily on that stupid thing to get to sleep. She has never cried herself to sleep as many kids do and I was terrified that she would never sleep again! I have let her cry for at least an hour before WITH her pacifier and she wouldn't fall asleep! She has surprised me though! The first time I put her to sleep without it was for her afternoon nap and it was tough. She cryed...alot, and I cried a little! It took her an hour to get to sleep with me going in there several times to comfort her. Since that one time, it has been so much easier. Only a few days later, I do not need to go in and comfort her anymore and she only cries for a few minutes before getting quiet and falling asleep! I am SO proud of her! Anyways, this was a little longer than I thought. Pictures will follow soon, hopefully.

Oh yeah...GO MAVS!!!!!!!!!!!

So, we have a wonderful person in our ward named Emily Brenner who takes beautiful pictures. She took some pictures of our family and thought I'd post some of them. It was way past Omeira Shea's bed time and she was cutting her first tooth, so she wasn't in the best of moods but the pictures still turned out cute.

The one below makes me laugh cause she looks like she could be Junie Browning's offspring!

P.S.--Thank you Rory for showin' me how to blog the right way!