David came home!

 

 

It is such a happy day when your brother comes home from a 2 year mission!

David served his mission in Honduras.

After watching some of his home videos from his mission I wondered how he survived.

 I say that because the boy takes longer showers and dresses better than I do!

Honduras is definitely not America and I am grateful for brothers and other missionaries who sacrifice 2 years of their lives to serve the Lord.

 

We were quite a group with people on camera duty and iphone/pad duty so Stephanie and Christopher could face time with his big arrival.

 

You could tell that he had grown spiritually over those past 2 years.

He gave a wonderful homecoming report, too.

Two brothers down, 2 to go.

Before I know it, it will be my boys turn to go!

 



Lindi Lou's blessing day

 

 

Lindi was blessed on May 5th 2013.

It was a special day with lots of our family in attendance.

I knew it was going to be a good day when I slipped into church 2 minutes before it started.

I can never make it on time to church.

 Even when it starts at 11:30.

 I was super proud of myself.

 

I was also looking forward to dressing up a little girl in a frilly white outfit.

My whole pregnancy that was what I was most excited about.

Is that weird?

My grandma Ann took me dress shopping before she was born .

She is amazing and buys all of her great grandchildren their blessing outfits.

I already knew I wanted a short dress.

This one caught my eye the second I walked in.

After browsing through the racks I knew this was her dress.

I even got that tingling feeling when I held it up.

Kind of like wedding dress shopping, you just know when it's THE dress.

So I said YES TO THE DRESS!

And of course I had to accessorize from head to toe. 

 

The Goodman side.

 This is going to be a common gathering for us.

There are going to be 6 babies born in the year 2013!!

 



The Lindblom side.
David even made it home from his mission from Honduras earlier that week.

Stephanie and Travis live out of state BUT she is having a girl this week!

Bring on the cousins!

 



Grandma Ann and Grandpa Jess

 



The men that were in the circle.

 



 

She was so loved that day and

 was the cutest little white/ivory fluff ball that I ever did see!

 

Smitten

 

Can you tell that this girl is a hot commodity over here!

Who could blame us, she is so scrumptious.

 

I don't know why but this is my favorite when babies sleep with their feet tucked under

 and bum in the air.

 



Meeting Grandmother for the first time.

 



Soaking in snuggle time and inhaling her yummy newborn smell.

 



Are you seeing a trend?

Sleeping baby and somebody always cuddling her.

 



Marcie made her a "fascinator" headband.

 



 

which she wore on her first date with Henry!

 



 

Rusty begs to feed her. He does a pretty good job.

 



 

Love that she is getting old enough to see faces.

 



and gives you the best SMILES that make you melt.

 



Easter

 

 

Easter was as simple as could be this year.

We went to Grammy and Papa's for our annul Easter egg hunt.

 

 

The Easter bunny had an extra delivery at our house this year!

Love that we get to have a pink basket now.

 



Lindi stayed home with mom while the boys went to church.

However, she did get dressed up in her first Easter dress for pictures with brothers.

 



 

Cutest little Easter chick

 

Back tracking to Spring Break

This was the week I was supposed to have my baby. Insert frowny face. Stephanie planned to be in AZ that whole week because it was their spring break too. Collin's birthday was on Tuesday so being the nice sister that she is and thinking I would have been home with a new born she offered to have the boys that whole day. With no baby she still insisted on taking the boys off my hands. And boy did they have a fun filled packed day! They did more things then we do in a month!

Donuts are a staple birthday breakfast in our family so on her way to pick up the boys she grabbed some pieces of fried heaven from Mid Western Meats down the street from us. When she walked in with 2 dozen I about died! We usually get half a dozen for our Saturday breakfasts. But no worries, they were GONE by the end of the day:)

 

So excited to see their cousins and give them their presents. Which they spoiled by telling them what it was before they could open them.

 



 

After stuffing our faces they were off to Jump Street!

 



 

My mom and Craig met them there. Why are quarter machines more popular than anything else? 

 

 

Play days are not complete without Chick-fil-a!

 



No rest for the weary, off to the children's museum

 



You would think they would be conked out in the car but no, more playing time at our house in the front yard! This is where we finished off the last dozen donuts:)



I can't remember what I did that day, probably passed out on the couch wearing one of Casey's t-shirts. I was most grateful for the peace and quiet.

The next day, still no baby. So we had a little swim party at our house. It was the first week of really hot weather which the New Mexicans were most grateful for. I guess it was 50 degrees when they left to come here.

Then Backyard Taco for dinner!

I had nothing planned to keep the boys entertained all week because I was playing each day not knowing if I would be high tailing it to the hospital. But I am so glad they could spend time with these guys. I felt so bad Lindi didn't make it while they were here but I think she knew it would be nice for me to spend some time with Stephanie since we don't see each other very often.

But the best news of all is the Stephanie is due with a baby GIRL in August!!! I am so happy Lindi will have a best girl cousin so close in age!!

Oh, but I can't forget that the week ended with a big bang when our tree fell on top of Casey's truck in a  wind storm. Nice.

The first couple of weeks.

Two days after coming home we had to admit Lindi to Cardon Children's hospital for jaundice. Major bummer. At her 2 day check up her pediatrician thought she looked yellow. Since it was the weekend he told us to go to the ER to get her blood drawn to check her bilirubin level since the labs wouldn't be open. I think we were in denial that she would have to stay because we didn't bring any over night stuff with us. Sure enough, the ER physician walked in and without even drawing her blood declared her a pumpkin and sent us up stairs for photo light therapy. I think the hardest part was having to watch her get her IV line in. Pure torture. Makes you appreciate your children's health.

Luckily she only had to stay one night but that was one night too long! We were happy to pack our non existing bags and head home! I looked, smelled and felt like I had been camping for a week! Who knew old, dried up breast milk could smell so rotten. Gag.
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Finally we could relax and start enjoying our family of 5! I think Lindi knew in heaven what she would be getting herself into with 2 crazy older brothers. She is the most content baby ever and can sleep through any amount of noise and chaos.

 

EXHIBIT A

 

 

EXHIBIT B

 

 

However they are so sweet with her and love her more than anything!

 



 

I have a million head shots of her on my phone

and think her life size bows are priceless. Casey may say otherwise...



I soak up our snuggle time in the wee early hours of the morning. She loves daddy's side of the bed after he leaves for work.

 



 

And if you have met Lindi then you know how much she loves to sleep!

Grandpa and Lindi took a solid 2 hour nap together:)

 



Life with our little girl is simply the best!