Forever West

Forever West is the slogan (i guess thats what you call it) for Wyoming, which seems weird for me because we moved east to live here . . . anyway. Yes we have moved to Rock Springs Wyoming and no we have not frozen to death, yet. Rock Springs is not too bad, they have walmart, ihop, mcdonalds and even a mall- which I intend to investigate soon! We are all doing well, we are loving getting to see Chad every day instead of just on his week off. A quick update, Miles has just turned 3 and is still a thomas the tank engine expert.He is still a little small for his age, but when you look at the genes he never had much of a chance to be tall anyway! Jocelyn is 5 months and "compact" as the doctor recently called her. 23 inches long and 15 lbs means her pants are either way too long if the waist fits or way too tight if the legs are the right length. She is a happy little girl and really wishes she were big enough to play toys with Miles. I am no longer working my one day a week and I have to say I do miss the conversation but overall am happy being at home. I will get around to posting some pictures soon . . . when I find out which box my camera cable is in . . .

Daddy's little helper

Miles woke one saturday morning to see Dad out raking leaves. He hurried and put his crocs on and wanted to go outside. I told him he had to have a jacket over his jammies and as he was going out the door he said he needed a rake too. Well, we only have one rake so the trusty swiffer had to do. Miles carried his "rake" out and began working on those leaves!

Blessing Day

We decided to bless Jocelyn at home to try to avoid catching any flu bugs. It was a lovely day!

Bobby Pins and Conversation

Not sure what else to title this post-- we had the joy of going to Primary Children's Hospital yesterday to have 2 bobby pins pulled out of Miles' stomach. I'm not sure why he decided to eat them or maybe he was playing with them in his mouth and they chose to slide down on their own. They had to put him under anesthesia so they could put a long cable with pinchers down his throat into his stomach to grab them out. Miles was very good the whole time and I don't think the whole experience really bothered him that much. As for Jocelyn she is a happy little thing- or I guess not so little anymore! She is growing so fast and lately has become quite the talker. She will carry on a conversation for at least 5 minutes and I am just sure she thinks she is making perfect sense! She and Miles had quite the dialogue yesterday in the car, with her babbling and Miles replying "oh really!" back and forth all the way home.

Jocelyn

Well, long time no post but we have been busy! Jocelyn Neva Heitz was born Aug. 30th at 4:07 pm. She was 19 inches and 6 lb 13 oz. We are all doing well! Miles loves snuggling and holding his new sister.

Summertime!

We haven't done a whole lot of exciting things but we have been having a fun summer! Miles has been busy breaking us in for the scary parts of parenting- burning his finger on a sparkler, falling in Willard Bay etc. We have been to Bear Lake several times and now we are just taking it easy awaiting the arrival of our baby girl in a few weeks!

Nicki's graduation

Miles has perfected his picture smile. Anytime a camera or cellphone camera comes out he is ready with his happy smile. I have to say that I think our next round of family pictures are going to go a lot smoother than last time! This is at my sister nicki's graduation- masters in social work- hooray nicki!