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Wahoo for New Baby Cousins!!

This is our newest nephew/cousin...Baby Zachary. He entered the world on Sunday, September 21st at 11:43 pm...and he is so cute!!
His proud siblings and dad. Since it was so late, they decided that his other brother Benjamin (age 2) could meet him later.

My sister is amazing, this pregnancy was not the funnest for her. At the beginning she had to have shots every day...as if just being pregnant isn't hard enough! She also had 4 extra people living in her home (us!) to deal with on top of everything. Of course, after all she had to deal with she has a beautiful baby boy! My mother, who lives pretty close to my sister, happened to be over the mountains at our house for a work conference. Well, as soon as she was done Sunday evening we drove over to be with Valerie (and so Grandma could meet her 11th grandchild!) We finally got some sleep around 1 am and had to get up at 5 am to head back over to Yakima in time for her to attend the remainder of the conference. It was a super quick trip...but we wouldn't have missed it for anything! We are both so glad that we could be there to meet him, though bed time will be early tonight.

We have had a cousin explosion in our family lately. Annika in February, Madison in June, Beckham in August and now Zachary in September. The next baby will be ours...but that still seems a long time away!

Andrew's First Day of Preschool!

Andrew has been wanting to go to school like his big sister for a long time. Today his dream came true. He started his first day of preschool!!

Can you tell that he is a little excited?? I think he is so adorable!
Today was a play day at school. They got to meet the teachers and just play with whatever they wanted to help them get comfortable in the classroom. Andrew had so much fun, he didn't want to go home. Hooray for preschool!

**We also found out that we are having a baby GIRL today...we are super excited!

Busy Busy in Boise!

We made a quick trip over to Boise this weekend for the baby blessing of Madison, our newest little niece. We were so excited to meet her and spend time with family.

On Saturday we all went to Zoo Boise. It was lots of fun and just the right size for all the little ones we had with us. Dave growled at a snow leopard and I am pretty sure the thing really wanted to eat us for dinner! Thank goodness for the strong metal fence that was seperating us. :)
A quick family photo at the zoo.
We took the kids to the Boise Temple. Kelsi took this picture of us.
This is heaven in a pie tin. :) A chicken green chile salad from Bajios...it does not get much better than this. We really miss Bajios, there is nothing like it where we live now.
This is the reason for our visit, Madison! She is a cutie and we all had fun making her smile. We can't wait to see her again.