June 2009

Here's what happened in the month of June...

Mary turned 2 months old on June 6

Bentley had his 4th Grade Recorder Recital
(gotta love those recorders)

My sister Heather had her baby girl on June 5

...so here are the four new babies:

Riley, Mary, Harry and Brooklyn.

We went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open

House. Don't you love Teron walking away?

Father's Day with Sam's Dad...he had surgery

on his cheek two days later to get rid of

cancer. All went well and he is doing fine.

Sam's 36th Birthday...Gosh we're getting old!

Cub Scouts Raingutter Regatta...Jarom (on th left)

getting ready to race his boat.

Bentley (in blue) racing his boat.

Mary chillin' in her swing at the Skousen Family Cabin.

Teron playing with some puzzles...we were there

for three days and it was great!

Jarom & Jonah playing together.

Bentley & Kelly playing Dora Chutes & Ladders...not

much variety of games at the cabin.

Teron ready for church?

Sam doing his famous trick with Mary

(my mom hates it when he does this)

May 2009

The month of May went by so fast!

On May 3rd we had Mary's Blessing.

Here she is in her dress and bonnet...

And here she is just looking so precious...
Three days later and now Mary's one month old
Teron just loves giving kisses to "Baby Murry" as he calls her

Mother's Day - Visiting my Grandma Skousen

The Skousen April Babies -

Riley, Harry, & Mary

Jonah had his Pre-School Graduation.

Jonah and Miss Heather.

Sadly, Jonah still has one more year of Pre-School

before he goes to Kindergarten.

Also a side note...Jonah threw-up about five minutes

after this picture was taken (the excitement was too much?)

Mary smiling at her daddy

(You'd laugh too if your daddy looked like this!)

Memorial Weekend and then some was spent getting our

garden organized and planted. The small white box in the

middle is a hive of bees, compliments of Sam's brother, Eric.

Hopefully they will help our garden grow & make some honey too.

More of April 2009

Here is a recap of what went on in this busy month of April...

Mary's first Easter

Teron wondering why we hide eggs

Jonah was so "egg"cited to do the egg hunt

Jarom

Bentley

Kelly

Mary is two weeks old

Teron's 2nd Birthday

Jonah asks all the time to hold Mary. So on this day,

I had just finished folding laundry and Jonah gets up

on my bed so he can hold Mary. He put the boppi

around him to help him hold her. I went downstairs to

change the laundry and when I came back upstairs I

found them like this...both asleep all over the clean

clothes. It was too cute!

All of my siblings were in town for my baby sister's

missionary homecoming, so we celebrated some of our

birthdays together...Jennifer, Matt, Laurel, Ben.

Teron likes to ask, "Hold it? Hold it?" I gently correct

him and say "Hold HER." He's starting to get it.

Sam and Mary all pooped out from a hard day.

Mary at three weeks old.

Mary and her cousin, Riley, born the day before Mary

(my sister Heidi's baby)

Mary and her other new cousin, Harry, born two weeks

after Mary, but weighing TWO POUNDS more than Mary

(my sister Karen's baby)

Our Newest Addition!!

On Monday, April 6 at 6:58pm, we welcomed

our newest addition - Mary Lynne Alldredge

Sam giving Mary her first bath...

All tired out from her bath, but cute as a button.

Teron truly loves his new little sister.

Teron gets so excited every morning to go see

his Baby Mary. She just brightens his day.

Mary chillin' in her boppi.

Mary pondering..."What was I thinking?

Four older brothers and only one sister?

They better spoil me rotten!"

April 2009

April has already been so crazy that I'm

posting early this month...

My baby sister Amy returned from her mission

in Texas, Fort Worth on April 2.

Here's the grandkids eagerly awaiting

her to come down the stairs at the airport...

Amy is the one in the middle in a black jacket.

And then my sister Heidi had her 1st baby on April 5.
She had a girl, Riley Noel, and we are so thrilled
to add another girl to the Skousen grandkid pool.

March 2009

Bentley had his 10th Birthday on March 9.

Here he is sporting his new suit jacket.

As you can tell, I'm really creative when

it comes to birthday cakes...

Sam and I also celebrated our 14th Wedding
Anniversary on March 31. (Sorry no pictures)
We went to dinner at the Olive Garden and then
went grocery shopping to Costco and Wal-Mart.
We are so romantic!