One Year Older and Wiser too...

What a week we've had! On Tuesday Grandma Wilkins came into town for Leda's wedding! We haven't seen her in 2 years and so it was so fabulous to see her again! She looks great and it's so fun to have here for a few weeks. Here's the kiddos waiting for her arrival. Here she is coming to greet us all!
On Thursday we celebrated my birthdays at Jenna's house. Her son James and I share the same birthday and it's a lot of fun to have a birthday buddy. My good friend Tiffany also had a baby on that day so now I have another birthday buddy! Here's a picture of the cute Kinley London Quintero herself. Thank you to all who gave me such fun presents and happy birthday wishes (the facebook ones were especially fun to read!). My awesome and cute sister Melissa did this cute post on her blog. I will admit that I was not too pleased about some of the pictures she posted. Especially the wisdom teeth pic - thanks again for that sista! Jenna gave me my own personalized Pyrex pan. I love it!
We also celebrated Leda's birthday that was at the end of May. Jenna gave her a pan as well with her new name on it and she was ecstatic about it! She was bummed when she saw mine and thought she'd never get one because she wasn't married yet. Good thing Jenna had this surprise up her sleeve.Here's a few of Willers with her favorite cute cousin McKenna. They're a month apart and they have so much fun when they're together!Here's the Willers with Grandma Wilkins.
The day after my birthday we went to the zoo because we've been promising Sophia that we'd go for weeks. We woke up and I went for a quick run (something that I hadn't done in 2 months but I needed it after eating too much of delicious Peanut Butter Playground cake from Cold Stone) and noticed that we'd left a sprinkler on all night. It wasn't on very high so I didn't think much of it. Doug went downstairs to get some clothes and noticed that our basement had flooded because of the sprinkler. We didn't have standing water or anything but the carpet was totally soaked! Only half of the front room in our basement and our laundry room had water damage. We quickly pulled up the carpet and got fans going to get the mat dry. It's pretty much dry now but we're going to have to have a professional come to re-lay our carpet. What fun times we're having in our house! Anyway, we ended up making it to the zoo eventually but didn't stay for too long because it was so hot and crowded! We went to eat the Cheesecake Factory after and then we were going to go see the new Narnia movie but the last show was at 2:55 pm so we just came home. Here's a picture of Sophia at the bird show at the zoo. Yesterday we had a bridal shower for Leda. Here she is with her good friend Angie who is also getting married this summer.
Bonus picture time! Sophia took these pictures (as well as about 100 others) of herself. She's sure getting good at the self portraits!
The other day she came up to me looking like this and said, "Look! I'm like Super Why!". Then she proceeded to run around while pretending to fly. We sure love that show.

It's that time again!

Time to empty the camera again and give you all the latest from our way exciting lives in P-town.Here's Lilly showing you all how much of a good eater she is.

This last weekend we decided to take a trip to Wales. It was so fun and Sophia entertained herself on the way down by reading some really exciting books.

No your eyes do not deceive you. We are at an honest to goodness drive in! It's the Basin Drive In in Mt. Pleasant and I'm pretty sure it's the only ones left in Utah. We saw the new Indiana Jones movie and it was a pretty good time. Growing up with a Drive In in my backyard I saw many a movie at the good 'ole Pioneer Twin. It seriously took me back although I must say I'm pretty sure I've had my fill for the next little while.

Here we are all piled in to the front seat (Lilly was in the back sleeping) waiting for the show to start. This picture also shows my new haircut I got on Friday (I don't know if you can tell very well). I got it highlighted again and had a few inches cut off. I like it although I'm trying to get used to the whole bangs look.

Happy Father's Day! We had a fabulous day today and we are so lucky to have such a great daddy in our home! Here is daddy with his girls after a great day at church today. We are also so lucky to have such great father's in our lives - near and far we love you both!

The other night when the girls were going to bed I went to check on Lilly and found that Sophia had filled her bassinet with blankets to the brim. This picture doesn't do it justice but she shoved her comforter and number of other blankets on top of Lilly. I guess she was pretty cold.

This picture is for Liza. Lilly wanted to show you how she's such a big girl and can hold her bottle all by herself!

I don't know why this picture is sideways, but here's how Sophia fell asleep the other night. For some reason she didn't want to sleep in her bed so she moved herself to the floor and conked out.

Hooray for summer and hiking in the mountains! Here we are getting ready to hike the Grotto again!

Here's a picture of a bite I got while hiking the Grotto. I don't know if you can see how big it really was. It was the size of Sophia's head! Okay, so it wasn't really that big but it was totally big and puffy and was seriously about 4 inches in diameter. It was the worst bite I've had in awhile.

Finally, here's a video of the funnest water attraction in P-town. No swimsuits necessary. We're pretty sure it's Cryptosporidium free too. Sophia had such a fun time doing this! We just barely ordered another fun water attraction online so I'm sure she'll have fun playing in that!

Well Check to Bronchitis

I took Lilly in for her 6 month visit today and we left with a little more than expected. She'd had a cough for a little while but I assumed that she was fine and so I wasn't too worried about it. We've all been sick lately so I figured she just had what we all had. She also just cut her two bottom teeth and so I figured it was all related. Anyway, as the pediatrician was listening to her he took an extra long time listening to her lungs. He kept squeezing her chest and listening and then told me she has bronchitis. He said it wasn't quite as bad as pneumonia but he was pretty sure it was at least bronchitis. He said it's hard to tell with infants but that he still wanted her on an antibiotic. He also said that he wanted to go with something stronger than amoxicillin so Lilly has now joined become the last member of being in a family in which every member is on an antibiotic. Fun times in our house.

Sophia finished hers today and is feeling a lot better and Doug is feeling better as well. I'm slowly starting to get there. I'm just still so dang tired. I went into my doctor again last week (I've been in about every week for the past 5 weeks) and he put me on a stronger antibiotic (that was a whopping $80 for 20 pills! - I love our catastrophe insurance plan and sorry Doug!). He also checked my thyroid but I haven't heard the results on that yet. Anyway, I'm sleeping in the basement tonight all alone and my wonderful husband is on kid duty. I have got to start feeling better soon and I know that a good night's rest might help make the difference. If I don't start to see some improvement within the next few weeks we are seriously considered having our house checked for mold or something else. We've already had it tested for carbon monoxide and we've even had our water tested (we're a little paranoid). We would have had the air quality checked (for mold) by now too except for they estimate it would cost about $300-$400 and we're not sure we're ready to dish out that kind of money yet. Stay tuned though and maybe you'll see the results from that test in a few weeks. Let's hope not though!

Hope you're all doing better than we are at the moment and in case you're curious, Lilly was 14 lbs(14 %ile for wt) and 70 %ile for height. She's a tall skinny thing just like her sister.

Sitting, Singing and Sharpness

Lilly has had three great accomplishments this week that we wanted to pass along. She's starting to sit by herself although she's still a little tipsy. She's also started to really explore her vocals lately and it's fun to hear her talk. She has a high little voice just like Sophia. She loves to sit in her exersaucer and yell at all the toys. It's pretty cute to watch. Her final accomplishment is that she has sharpness. Her bottom right toothy has poked through! She has also discovered food and is very much a fan (especially of sweet potato puffs!). For those of you who haven't been privileged to see this in person I thought I'd include this picture. This is Lilly's favorite pose. We're pretty sure she has abs of steel by now and it must be how she keeps her girlish figure. She can seriously hold this pose for about 5 seconds. She usually does about 5 reps at a time. It's pretty funny to watch.

This weekend was so fabulous because we had cousins in town! My brother Bud and his wife and girls were in town for a graduation and we were lucky enough to spend time with them! They came down on Saturday and the girls got to play together and then we went up to J's on Sunday for dinner. It was fabulous and so fun to see all of them again!Here's Elyse doing some good coloring.

Here's Elyse catching Lilly coming down the slide. (Look at that good lookin' grass!)Here's Bubs going down the slide.Here's Bubs doing one of her favorite things - putting tape on her face.Here's the kids playing with Lucy the hamster. They had such a fabulous time with her. Elyse absolutely fell in love with her. Apparently she has been telling her parents they're going to get her a fish but now she's convinced she needs a dwarf hamster. As we were leaving she told her dad, "if I do good listening, you're going to get me a hamster!"

Here's a few more pics to suit your fancy. Here's my cute girl before church on Sunday. She came out and announced, "I look like a princess!"Finally this is what greeted up on our way home from first Monday ice cream night last night. If you look closely you can see this was a double rainbow (there's a very faint one on the right of the bright bow).