ITS A BOY!

We actually got to take a sneak peak early to see if we were indeed having a boy or if we would be surprised and be having a girl (the perks of having Wil work for our OB's office) but we found out our feeling on it was right and boy number 3 is on his way! We are very excited! We were only 15 weeks along (it was before Thanksgiving) and weren't sure if we would be able to know for sure or not because he was so small but we were! I have my big ultra-sound scheduled soon so we will have more photos and video soon which we look forward to!

Our Trip To Twin Falls

We traveled to Twin Falls earlier this month to attend and enjoy my brother Andrew's sealing in the Twin Falls Temple. It was wonderful and a little crazy because of the fast pace of everything (that is just the way it is when you are trying to get everybody ready in time :) ) We enjoyed getting to be with family, and it was of course fun to get to stay in a hotel! :)

Halloween

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Better late than never...right??? Not feeling well because of "morning sickness" has added to my blogging delay and than my camera issue and well being a mother of three also plays a part! :) So I am sorry and here we go! :) P.S. Hyrum was Walle, Eliza was Little Miss Muffet and William was a pumpkin. It was very warm Halloween night, which is unusual for here, but it made it very nice for our short trick or treating! It was a fun night!

William's Latest News

Well there you have it Graham baby number 4 is on his way, and Due May 20th. Yes I say "his" because we think it will be a boy but we have been wrong before so time will tell! We are very excited. This picture was taken by my mom (Thank you Mom!). She and my Dad were able to visit us briefly and it was perfect timing. I used this opportunity to tell them in person rather than over the phone and this is the way we told them. I had Hyrum make a sign to put on William's back that said big brother. (Notice Hyrum's mispelling,"Big Borther" i love it! It just adds more character to all of this!) We can't believe our fourth child is on his way! We feel very blessed! I have not been as sick with this pregnancy. My nausea comes and goes rather than being constant. I do have trouble thinking of what to eat, and I have been extremely tired this time around but that seems to be improving a bit. So all is well and we hope it is the same with the rest of you out there!

William's first hair cut!

This along with all of my postings is, of course, late. I cut William's hair shortly after his first birthday! He has already had a second hair cut. I personally love how he looks with his hair cut! I will post some more recent pictures of him hopefully in the near future! (After my sick children are better! Hyrum was sick and home from school last week from Monday through Thursday and now Eliza is taking a turn. Hopefully it will stop with her!)

Hyrum's first day of School!

 

Hyrum was excited yet nervious on his first day of school. He was nervious because of the fact that he didn't know any one because we just moved to a different city. He has done so well though. We live too close to the school to be bussed which is just fine. We have enjoyed walking there. Some of the pictures in this collage were taken after school and on the way home. We are so happy that he loves to learn. He is a very smart boy and we are so pleased with him! Congratulations Hyrum! We love you!

William's First Birthday!

William turned one year on August 9th. We had just moved the week before and so things were very crazy and sadly enough he didn't get the fun traditional decorations. Also the frosting I made for the cake turned out too runny and I couldn't fix it because I ran out of powdered sugar and so I had to work with what I had. So the cake was quite shabby looking but the kids thought it was great so I guess that is all that matters. We actually ended up having our one serving and then we through away the whole rest of the cake! You can see in the pictures that William just went at the cake with his little fingers. He didn't like the feel of it on his fingers. We weren't prepared for him to do this and so unfortunately it wasn't captured on video or camera but the aftermath pictures are fun to have.

William is such a joy to have and he is such a happy, easy going baby, full of personality and faces! We love him!!! He always wants to be doing what brother and sister are doing. He also enjoys playing with toys on the floor and he entertains himself quite well. We feel very blessed!

Fourth of July in Durango, Colorado with the Grahams

This was a wonderful vacation full of family, fun and fireworks!! Thanks Mimi and Grampy!

Hyrum turns 6 years old!!

 

On July 12th, Hyrum turned 6 years old and requested a Walle party and so we partied!! We can't believe he is six years old! We love him so much. We feel blessed to have him in our family. He has so much personality, we love it! We love you, Hyrum!

A Beloved Sister

On July 8th, my beloved sister, Christina Farnsworth Mourant, was unexpectedly called, and obediently returned, home to our Heavenly Father. She was physically separated from her choice husband and two children, Rod, Maggie(5), and Andy(turned three 4 days after her passing). I say physically separated because her spirit is very much with them and will be until they are all reunited. She died in her home. They are assuming it had to be something to do with her heart since everything else looked just fine and her heart looked different. A witness of God's love and hand in the whole thing for me is that her husband was at home with her, even though he had gotten ready to go into work he just hadn't for no reason. And also that her children happened to go over to play at their neighbor's house and thus didn't witness her passing and the attempts to revive her. We miss her terribly but we have been miraculously blessed with comfort, peace and reassurance. I know that the Lord needed her and all her talents she individually holds as a whole, for service on the other side. She is a choice daughter of God and I feel so blessed to have her as my sister for eternity! I am grateful for the precious memories I have of her and the two of us growing up and getting married and becoming mothers to select spirit children of God together! Her desire and dream was to be a wife and mother, sealed in the temple of God and she fulfilled her dream and excelled in it! My heart aches for her and my arms look forward to embracing her again. I love you immensely, Chree!


Release the grudge and embrace the one it was against, for you don't know when your time will come, when you will have to wait a season to be able to embrace again!

Excited For School to Begin

From the heading of this post you are probably thinking I am talking about Hyrum, well guess again! Yup, I am talking about Wil! We have decided to have Wil go back to college and on last Wednesday we found out that he has been accepted and admitted to BYU-I!!!! Yes, we are so excited! We definitely won't be the traditional student with three kids and all, but we are looking forward to the adventure! Wil will most likely study Information Systems but he has yet to talk to a counselor to know if that is really what he is wanting but from the sounds of it that is his thing! He loves coming up with ways to organize companies through modern technologies and he is talented in programming and all of that so we will see what happens there! We will be moving mid-end of summer. (Even though Wil probably won't start college classes until January, we wanted to move in time for Hyrum to start the first grade at his new school!) So there you have our latest exciting news! I will keep you posted on the details! :)

Some days...

...this is how I feel! Our children are very animated and the faces they pull crack us up!

 

(Sorry this is frustratingly blurry, but I still had to put it on!)

Hyrum Loves To Read

 

 

William just adores Hyrum and gets so excited when he gets home from school! It is adorable!

 

 

Hyrum has just done so great in kindergarten this year and has really enjoyed math and reading! It has been so fun to watch him learn how to read and get excited about it. It started off with him reading store signs as we drove in the car to reading full sentences and reading them fast! The sentence part just seemed to happen over night. (Although time is flying so that could have helped the reason why I feel that way!) He is a smart boy whom we love so much!

How can we resist...

 

These CHEEKS! This is what i do all day long, when Liza isn't having a turn.

Eliza Turns 3 Years Old!

Eliza turned three on April 5th (sorry it has taken me so long to post!) and we had a fun family party after the general priesthood session of conference. I think she was looking forward to her cake, most of all, but really got into and enjoyed ripping open her many presents! She chose what she wanted on her cake, which is a tradition in our little family (unless it is too extravagant then I help them think of something else ;) ) I can't believe she is already three! Some things she is into right now are: Heffalump, Enchanted (she and Hyrum act out this movie all the time), smelling everything (in one of her pictures she is smelling her cake), and helping me "clean and shop" as she puts it! A funny story: the other day she was rubbing some heavy duty moisturizer on my hands for me and after rubbing it on my thumbs she says, "Now don't suck your thumbs, K??" Can you guess who sucks their thumbs? I wish I could remember more of the things she has said lately because they crack me up! Last night during family home evening she was having her turn leading the music and in the middle of it she goes from dramatically leading it to dancing it, with a grand finalle of closing the song with two arms just as a conducter would. She cracks us up! The song was "We Thank Thee Oh God for a Prophet".