Hello!

So Anna has been smiling a lot the last week or two and I've been trying to capture it on camera, but our camera is quite slow and it's been difficult.  But I finally got a couple that are good enough.  I also got an adorable video but it won't load!  So frustrating.  Sigh.

This was after church when she was getting changed.  She always smiles when she gets a diaper change - weird!

Not the best angle, but she was facing the wall, so I did my best.

Hehe, I loved the scrunchy eyes and the fat neck!!

Anyway, so our little chunk (and I mean that as a good thing) is already 6 weeks old!  She is smiling a lot and even throws in the occasional coo and we love it!  It makes up for the hours of screaming we've heard this week.  Yeah, not sure what's going on there.  We had 2 nights this last week where she cried for 3-4 hours straight in the evening.  I have been completely off dairy since last Monday, so I know that's not the culprit, so this week I'm going to cut out a couple other things to see if that helps and also keep track of everything I eat to see if we can find a pattern.  Who knows, maybe it's just growing pains.  She is certainly growing!

She was a complete angel today though.  I think she's on an every-other-day thing, because last night was a bad one and today she slept ALL the way through Sacrament Meeting (she never stays asleep in her carseat, it was amazing), ate and was awake a bit through Sunday School, and then slept all way through Relief Society plus another hour when we got home.  It was AWESOME!  It was so nice to really enjoy church.  It had been awhile and I needed it.

In her pretty church dress today:

 In other news, this week we finally find out our fate of where we're moving!  We turned in our top 3 choices (two of which are on the west coast! crazy!), so now it is out of our hands and all we can do is pray. :)  I'll be sure to keep everyone posted when we find out!  Jeremy starts his job in just over 2 months, so we will be very busy trying to find a place to live and get ready to move once we find out where we're going.  I'm mostly very excited, but I will be sad to leave our good friends.  We had two families over on Friday and as 6 of our combined 8 kids (ages 3 and under) were playing and giggling together I got sad thinking how much I would miss them!  We've had such a great time here and I'm so grateful to the good friends who have been our support through this whole thing and made our lives so wonderful!

(this pic was from a couple weeks ago at Jeremy's school.  Not all are pictured, but there's Eli - 3, Joey - 3, Tessa - 3, Moses - 2, Connor - 2, Dayton - 1, and babies Naomi & Anna.  It's always a party when we get together!)

And here are some other random pictures from the past couple weeks.

Such kissable cheeks!

Fort.

Silly Connor. :)