Lots of exciting things!!!!

Alot can happen in a month. Here are the highlights.

1) Hill is being induced on Saturday!!!! Can't believe it. She developed an itching fit (treatable only with four leaf clovers, rabbits feet, and calamine baths while watching "Little House on the Prairie") over the past month. It is actually a condition called Cholestasis of Pregnancy. We have renamed Hillory "Itchy, Itchy, Ichabod (those familiar with Dr. Suess' ABC book will know who that is)." Due to some risk for the baby, they have been monitoring closely and are inducing at 37 weeks. That means we will meet our little girl within the week (original due date May 30). It has been a little bit of a rough go, but Hill has been a CHAMP! We love you mom.

2) We moved. Down one floor. Yesterday. We have the most amazing friends. It was kind of a sudden move. We were expecting to move to a 3 bdrm apartment in June. An apartment opened up just below us and we moved in. Since it was very quickly, dad couldn't switch work and therefore missed all of the fun. Granted he was having his own fun putting in epidurals in laboring women. Dad made alot of "best friends" over the past month and he relieved alot of pain. Thank you so much to everyone who showed up to the move and took such good care of my girls. We are going to cook up something real nice to say thank you.

3) Dad loves Chocolate Chip and walnut cookies. He has the best recipe ever if you are interested (Claire also loves Cookies - shocking).

4) Hill's Brother Jake got his mission call to Houston, Texas - Spanish speaking. Hola Amigo!!! Felicidads (I learned congratulations while up on the OB floor this past month).

5) Last but not least, Claire is absolutely the best little girl in the whole world. This last week she learned about thunder. Now, she will at random, look to the side, cover up her mouth, and softly say, "Oh thunber, I scary." She also does it when she wakes up. Absolutely the cutest thing you have ever seen. She continues to be our little joy. We can't wait for her to meet her little sister and are praying she does well.

Here are some pictures that we hope you enjoy. Unfortunately I have been unable to rearrange the order of the pictures. Enjoy them as is.

A couple weeks ago the pool opened up. We had a couple days in the 90s and decided the pool was in order. It was FREEZING! Claire still loved it and she was never happy to leave.


Claire decides to make one last lunge for the wall. She hasn't quite figured out the whole going under water is not good at this stage of the game.


She always wants to jump. Whether on land or in water. I just had to chase her around the pool because she kept trying to jump in on her own.

You may not be able to tell, but Claire's lips are blue. Absolutely freezing. We love you mom.

3......2.........1 BLASTOFF!!!!! Claire loves that game. Try not to be blinded by the whiteness of my back.

We had a great easter this year. We still need to get some pictures of Claire in her easter dress. With early church, treats in nursery, lunch immediately after church followed by a nap, we missed out on the easter dress pictures. For dinner we went to our friends the Evans. What a great afternoon. Claire had a blast. Throughout these next pictures, keep your eye out for the tick that is crawling onto Claire. We found him the next day. Mom said, "ewe gross." Claire repeated that for the next few days. Thanks to Em for helping us to pull it off.

Claire is very focused on the egg. She had a great hunt. Loved the candy.

"Gotta get this one to the basket, ASAP!"

(This picture is supposed to be above the last one) "Got it mom!" Just before someone snatched it out from under me."

"Boy are these Easter egg hunts fun!"

"Mom, check it out. I am not sure, but I think there may be candy in these. I'll let you know"

There's mom! We sure love you mom. Thanks for making us so happy!

Off to hunt.

Happy Easter! We love you.

For those of you who stuck with us to the end of the post, here is a little tidbit of information. We plan to name our little girl Amelia Jane. We cannot wait to meet her. We are praying that Heavenly Father will send her to us safely. We will definitely update the blog as soon as she is born. I will have our camera and computer with us at the hospital.