what we've been up to

Here is the spread for Natalie's late-over pajama, pizza party. She was so excited when she saw the table decorated like this.





Here is Reagan doing her downward dog yoga routine. This is about a month ago when she was just starting to crawl. Now she's pulling herself up on furniture and me. She's very advanced...I think I'm going to start her on Japanese next.

Lincoln joined her for some yoga


I haven't been so great at posting. I haven't been great at downloading pictures. I just downloaded these and it reminded me that I was sick twice in the last month. Maybe that is part of the reason I'm a bit behind. I also attribute it to the pace my life has recently taken. Somehow we've turned a corner on how fast time goes. Weeks fly by. I don't think it's crazier, as in more stressful, just fuller. Ok, sometimes very much crazier as in more stressful.

And for those of you who are wondering...no we don't know yet what Kurt is planning, we are planning, after he graduates June 5th. As soon as we have something concrete, I'll update that news on here. I WISH I knew.

Yesterday for FHE lesson Natalie took the kids upstairs, got her new scriptures out, and found three stories for her, Lincoln, and Maya to act out. My favorite was Moroni burying the plates. Lincoln was Moroni. He prayed over the scriptures, then buried them under our living room rug, and got up and walked away. At that point Maya jumped out from the corner with a foam sword and started whacking him over and over. He would fall down, then get up and walk to another spot in the room and she'd jump at him again until he was down again. They did this three times until Natalie said, "Ok guys, that's good, he's dead." Then turning to me, "Can you guess what it is mom?" I was laughing too hard to say anything for a full minute... Man, they are funny!

101 ways to use a . . .

I caught this smile today. But there is a significance to this picture beyond the cute face. Can you guess what it is?


Here is a more obvious clue.


one last BIG hint


And finally...

Yes, Reagan has graduated from the bumbo and is now sitting all on her own. Congratulations Reagan! And thank you Lincoln for showing us 101 other uses for the amazing bumbo.

update on Leavitt Life

Life has been a little more busy around here lately. I planned a trip to Utah (just Reagan and I) the second week in December so it was just her and I for about 10 days...wonderful! Kurt drove the rest of the family down for Christmas at my mom and dad's. It was, as always, so fun to see all my family and Kurt's sister plus the bonus of getting to see my best friend growing up Laura, and our good friends Steve and Ginger. We haven't seen the Snyders in a few years and they were our surrogate family when we lived in Port Orchard. I love family and friends that are like family--it always feels like you just left off talking with them even if you haven't seen each other in a long time. After I got home it was back to catching the bus, nap times, PTA, YMCA, playdates, laundry, Primary chorister, and all the other things we mom's do...

Kurt's dental school schedule wasn't busy enough so he thought he'd tack on a bit more when he was called as bishop of our ward. That happened back at the end of October. He also decided to really get serious about exercise the beginning of the year, so he's been really busy. The nice thing for me is most of the time he works out in the morning--sometimes 5am--so it doesn't effect my life as much as the bishop hours do. Some days I can tell it's a lot on his shoulders but most days we both feel like life is really good. I know the Lord is lifting our burdens to feel light. And I'm glad we've made a habit of Friday being date night so I always know we'll have that time just for us.

So now we are facing Kurt's graduation. Which means we are looking everywhere for a job. Ideally we could find an associateship around here and he could work for a few years and then find a practice to buy, but we'll see. There aren't very many associate jobs in this economy so we're looking and praying and I'm sure we'll find something soon.

Oh yeah and right now I'm training for a half marathon and it's nuts! Running is hard! My half marathon is first of May so we'll see if I can do it.

So that is an update on Kurt and I...I'll have to update on my kids another time since this is already way too long for a blog update.

some pics...

Steve with Cohen and the cape I made for him.





Cousin Nathan

Avery and Natalie made a tunnel through the snow

Grandma...Reagan misses you...

Natalie and Aubrey



Waiting to see what Santa brought

I think Lincoln is a sweet brother. He picked out this crown for Maya and wanted it to be from him for her birthday. He wanted her to open it as soon as she was up and she wore it all day. I have a different picture with them just smiling but I loved this blurry one better because it shows how much they enjoy each other.

Maya has talked for weeks about sharing a cake with daddy

This was the trunk the kids and I decorated for the chuch trunk or treat. I was husbandless during this since Kurt was fishing in 75 degree Texas weather over the weekend.

We ended up carving pumpkins on Halloween and lit them up right before trick-or-treating. Kurt's brother Aaron was here and he made the spider and the ghost in the window with Lincoln and Natalie.

I love how it takes the muscles in her face and other hand to get all three fingers to stay up on ther right hand. She wore this outfit all day. Such a fun age! Thank you Aunt Carol for a birthday outfit, and her Halloween costume!

This is the annual dental school party. It's actually just a group of us friends from dental school. I guess this is the last year for it.

Uncle Aaron was a hit. Lincoln said he wished Uncle Aaron could come to our house every day.

blessing day

Natalie helped me get Reagan to smile and look up for the camera. Lately Natalie gets the biggest smiles.

Grandma Leavitt's blanket. It's a tradition to use it for the baby girl blessings.



Happy Blessing Day Reagan!

two weeks ago

Maya and Alyssa wanted to be part of the pictures. It was pretty funny trying to keep Reagan asleep with four other noisy kids. Reagan didn't want to sleep so we got a bunch of her awake.

This one is my favorite

And this is my other favorite...I have a lot of favorites...THANKS KATI!