6 months

length- 28 inches- 98.79%

weight-17.15 lbs- 73.40%

Head- 17 inches- 71.43%

She is a big little bugger!!!

Dutch is the sweetest little thing that I have ever been around. I have a hard time believing that she is real and that I get her! I feel so blessed. She truly is a little angel!!!!!

I do have to say that when she gets ticked she sure lets you know, but that isn't very often and she usually isn't ticked at me. So its cool.

She has started sitting up all by herself!

She is rolling all over the place and she really wants to crawl so I think that we are going to have to baby proof the house soon.

She smiles so easily and she loves to laugh!

She is super patient when all of the little boys around including her brother want to hold her forever.

She LOVES Jackson sooooooo much!

She is a great sleeper and a great eater.

She really loves the water.

Dutch is the very best foot clapper that I have ever seen!!!

She loves me but she is a daddy's girl and he is in love with her!

And if I do say so myself she is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

catch up

I love to look at other peoples blogs and I feel great after I post a new one. BUT........... the thought of sitting down and posting is too over whelming. Especially when it has been so long and I have so many things that I meant to post about and that I don't want to skip. So here is a very short catch up.

I was going to dedicate a couple of posts to my wonderful husband on fathers day and his birthday because HE IS AMAZING! Life was too crazy and now our anniversary is coming up so check back later to here about my super man.

We also took a trip to Oregon where both of our families were in town. It was great!!! Crazy crazy crazy but really GREAT! There definitely was not enough time to do everything. It was a little stressful because to fit in both families I had to be missing something else going on at one place or another. I also was choreographing for The Thurston Cheerleaders again. It went really well. I love doing it. All in all seeing everyone and getting my kids with all of there cousins at once was just a super good time. We got Andrus family pictures that I will post as soon as I can get my hands on them. I took some random pictures of my own but not many sooooo I will post one.

Dutch and Ava

I will try to be better at updating because its something that I want to do but no promises. :)

Oh yeah Happy 22 to my sister Kallie and a late Happy 28 to Ben!!!! I love you both!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACKSON!!!!!!

Our little Jackson turned 3 yesterday!!!!! Ben had to work so we celebrated on Friday. We went to Chuck E Cheeses for lunch. Jackson LOVES it there. He calls it Chuck E Cheeses house and asks to go there all of the time. We had a great time and played lots and lots of games. Then later in the evening we tried to have a BBQ but it didn't work out so we cooked hamburgers and hotdogs inside. Chris and Mona and Jacksons cousins came over. So did his friend Sammy along with his parents Stacy and Steve. The kids all ran around like crazy. Jackson loved it! He loves his cousins and Sammy!!!! Ben decorated the cake and everything was Spiderman themed. We got Jackson a shiny, new, red bike and he thinks its great! All in all it was a pretty darn good day! I can't believe my baby boy is 3. CRAZY! He is the sweetest little boy and we love him sooooo sooo much!

PROUD MOMMY AND WIFE!

BEN GOT EXCEPTED INTO BYU!!!!!! We are super happy and he can't wait to be in school again. I am so proud of him! Life is good! He made me the BEST card for mothers day and got me some chick flicks. He is such an amazing husband and dad.

Dutch finally rolled over for the first time yesterday! Woohooo. She could have actually rolled over a couple of weeks ago but it happened while I was out of the room and Jackson claims that it was him. So we will count yesterday as her first. She is a DREAM! We put her to bed between 8 and 9 when Jackson goes down. We put her in her own crib in Jacksons room awake and she falls asleep and doesn't get up until around 5:30. She gets up eats and then goes back down until Jackson gets up around 8am. I am super proud of her! Jackson plays in his bed and yells for us and gets up to go to the bathroom every night and she just sleeps through it. All I have to say is we are soooooo blessed! She is so happy all of the time. It is super easy to make her smile and coo. She loves to talk really loud and she loves to give kisses!

Jackson is the best big brother ever! He loves Dutch so much. He would hold her all day if we would let him. If only he was big enough to do it all by himself that would help me a lot. :) He is such a smart, polite boy! Anything with a rhythm he picks up so fast! He is amazing at singing songs and counting(he can count forward and backwards and in Spanish). He can sing Hey Jude and it is sooo cute. He puts his own dishes in the sink when he is finished eating.......which gets a little dangerous because he throws them in. He is definitely almost 3 and can be a little terd but he knows how to turn it on and be soooooo sweet especially when he wants something! He calls Ben his best friend daddy. I love it! He does big boy puzzles with me almost everyday and he is soooo good at them. I do the edges while he does the recognizable faces and bodies and then we fill in the rest together. He plays computer games like a pro. He knows his way around playhousedisney.com like nobodies business. He can go to the bathroom all by himself though we usually have to help him put his pants back on. Sometimes we just find him in the bathroom on the potty. He is such a big boy and tells us so all of the time.

Name that tune

No Tag-Backs!!

Hey, it's Ben. Katie the Cheater tagged me, so prepare for a treat:


Four jobs I've had...
1. Taco Bell (and I still love the food)
2. Roaring Rapids Pizza Company, boyee!
3. Wedding DJ
4. Apartment Manager



Four movies I could watch over and over...

1. Signs
2. Daredevil
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. The second part of any trilogy (Star Wars, Back to the Future, Pirates of the Caribbean, Indiana Jones, Terminator, Spider-Man, X-Men, Lord of the Rings, the Matrix, etc.)


Four places I've lived...

1. Springfield, OR
2. Orem, UT
3. Guayaquil, Ecuador
4. Pasaje, Ecuador

Four T.V. shows I love...

1. Seinfeld
2. The Office
3. Law & Order (and all spin-offs)
4. Lost



Four of my favorite foods...

1. Amy's Jumbalaya
2. Pancakes
3. Taco Bell (just put nacho cheese on it, and BOOYAH!)
4. KFC Mashed Potatoes and Gravy


Watch out, I'm gaining weight. The bad kind.


Four sites I visit daily... (almost)
1. Nintendo8.com
2. homestarrunner.com
3. wikipedia.org
4. marvel.com



Four places I have vacationed...

1. Vegas
2. Hawaii
3. Washington
4. California (Disneyland)



Four places I'd rather be right now...

1. Ecuador
2. California
3. Texas (what can I say, I love Republicans)
4. Hawaii


And I'm adding on my own touch here, not for me, but for you! A random TV quote from off the top of my head, the first thing I could think of:

"Check out this cool tattoo Err gave me. It's tough, isn't it. It's a clown, and it represents gang warfare. I'm part of the Clowns now, you dig?" -Meatwad




I'll let Amy do the tagging. I don't have the strength.

Baby Blessing

Okay, this post has an insane amount of pictures and it's going to be super long! So good luck to all. First Kallie drove down with Julie before everyone else. Julie dropped her off and then was off to Colorado to see her mom. Kallie's moving here so she needed a little time to settle in before the craziness began. A few days later Hayley, Karlee, and Whitney flew in. The first day everyone just relaxed and got to know Dutch. And played a whole lot of Blokus! Jackson followed Whitney around all day long! All of the kids love her!

(Karlee, Hayley, Me, Whitney, and Kallie)
Ben had the day off on Thursday and we all drove up to Salt Lake and went to the Gateway Mall. It was freezing cold but we had a good time. Hayley treated us all to lunch at the Thaifoon restaurant. It was amazing! That night my sister Jenny and her husband Mike along with their kids Phoebe and Adam came to join the fun. Everyone else was suppose to show up on Friday at around noon but were about 3 to 4 hours late. So at around 3:30 My Mom, Dad, brother Reese, niece Hanna, sister Erin, nephew Zack, sister Katie, and niece Ava rolled in. It was so amazing to finally have my family at my house! I've lived here for a year and this was the first time that my side of the family have been able to come and visit. And they were all finally meeting my little baby girl. We only had a few hours to settle in and then we met Ben's side of the family at the Mayan. Ben's Dad, Mom, brothers Aaron and Chris, sister-in-law Mona, and their kids (Hunter, Jada, Cole, and Brooke). The Mayan was soooooo much fun! For those of you who don't know the Mayan is a restaurant with a jungle-like atmosphere and a giant waterfall in the middle. About every 20 minutes they have a show where people dressed like Mayans dive off of the waterfall. The kids loved it! And I am pretty sure the adults all had a great time too! Having both of the families together was really fun!!! Ben and I are very blessed to have such wonderful families!

( Whitney, Jada, and Jack with one of the divers)

(Zack, Jack, and Phoebe)

On Saturday, my family had a big lunch at my great-aunt Jenny and uncle Bills house. All that day Ben's parents were sending warnings to me that the weather was supposed to be bad. I was planning a BBQ at the park that night and didn't really have room to host it anywhere else. A couple people offered to let me host it at there house but I didn't want to impose if I didn't have to. All day Saturday it was pretty nice so I decided that we were on for the park. Right as everyone was showing up the wind kicked in and the temperature dropped! IT WAS FREEZING! Even though the weather was miserable everyone was a good sport. We pushed through and had a memorable time! The next morning we woke up to at least 4 inches of snow. CRAZY! We had even more family and friends show up to the blessing. Ben's grandma and grandpa Fullmer came from Colorado, and Uncle Steve and Aunt CC (Julie's brother and sister). Stacy and her little guy Sammy came from Pleasant Grove, too. The blessing was beautiful. Afterward the families were invited to our house for soup and sandwiches. (Kallie and Ava)

(Katie, Ava, Me, Dutch, Jenny, and Adam)

(Jack and Phoebe joined in)

(DUTCH AND DUTCH )

This moment was very emotional for me!

(Grandma Jo and baby Dutch)

(Grandpa Craig and Dutch)

(Dutch and daddy)

(My parents)

(Chris, Cole, Hunter, Mona, Brooke, and Jada)

(Ben's Parents with Brooke)

( Ben's brother Aaron and my sister Erin)

(Whitney, Karlee, and Hayley)

(Reese and Hanna)

(Dutch and Ava)

Sunday night there was a delicious turkey dinner hosted by Aunt Jenny and Uncle Bill.

Most everyone left Sunday night or Monday morning. Thanks to everyone who was able to come. We had a wonderful, fun, spiritual weekend!