Home Again, Home Again

I wish I would have gotten it together to blog last week...or the week before. I hate feeling like I have so much to catch up on and always end up covering entire weeks and events with big blanket statements and can never decided on which pics to use. But oh well. I loved being in Salt Lake with my family. I saw so many good friends and had such a good time just being around my family. Rosemary and Evelyn had a fabulous first Halloween going to Cornbelly's, to the ward party, trick-or-treating and then hanging out with a bunch of friends at my parents house. That was actually Oct 30th...Utah Halloween. We jumped in the car early on Sunday (the 31st) to get home in time for a Halloween party one of our friends in Colorado was having but never made it. Our car broke down in Larime, Wyoming where we had to stay the night in the Super8 motel because their wasn't a mechanic open on Sunday. Scariest Halloween yet. Ben had to jog a couple miles to a supermarket to get baby formula, we had to sneak poor Clover into the motel, and the car didn't even get fixed the next day because they didn't have the right part. We ended up needing to get a rental car to drive the remaining 2 hours home and come back for the car a couple days later. AND the motel charged us for two nights instead of just one because we were 30 minutes late checking out because Ben was trying to get a ride back from the car dealership. Oh man.

I was thinking the whole car extravaganza was a major sign that we shouldn't be going back to Colorado. We had a big discussion (again) about what is best for our family and it really is a tough call. I do love Salt Lake and I really do miss being around my family and old friends. But I've been surprised by how much I have liked being in Colorado this last week. I was anticipating that old homesick pit in my stomach to be waiting for me when we arrived, but it wasn't. Maybe I just needed a nice long trip to Salt Lake? I guess time will tell. I am very lucky to have a husband that will even entertain the idea of packing up and moving back just to appease me...but I'm not so sure I could let him do that.

Baby Lily continues to struggle in the hospital. Lots of hard days and even harder decisions. She is the sweetest thing. It stinks being far away again but I realize I wasn't very much help when I was there. I was anticipating being much more useful by helping babysit Ella and Ava while Erin was up at the hospital...but things usually just erupted into chaos.
4 month old Evie + 4 month old Rosie+ 6 month old Ava + 2 year old Ella (all desperate for attention)= WAY TOO MUCH CRYING. So as much as I'd like to be there...its probably better that I'm not. Thanksgiving is only a couple weeks away!

Rosie and Evie had their 4 month appointment with darling Dr. Bucknam. They weigh 13 lbs 9 oz and 13 lbs 8 oz, the 50th and 45th percentile for weight. Rosie is 25 inches long and Evie is an inch shorter. They are both big headed beauties in the 70th and 80th percentile. Everyone always thinks Evie is the bigger baby even though she is shorter and weighs slightly less...but that big noggin throws people off. Both girls are talking more and more, laughing (SO CUTE) and are rolling over sporadically. They are eating 5 oz bottles and breastfeeding (switching off)for 6 feedings a day and sleeping from about 9pm to 5am. What good girls!

We had a really nice weekend in the beautiful warm weather. Winter, please never come! Friday we ate at yummy Jason's deli with the free soft-serve (best thing)and Saturday we went jogging with the girls (so good to exercise!) and went to Saturday Night at the Museum. It is part of the Denver Arts Festival where they open up all the museums late at night for FREE and provide buses to take you to all of them. So fun. I loved being in the city. We are surrounded by so much farmland and I'm still not quite used to the different landscape. I think frequent trips into Denver will definitely need to be part of my "making Colorado feel like home" attempt. Sunday we went to church and had a lovely dinner at a friends house. Great weekend...Boo for Mondays...