To Much of a good thing?

It's hard for me to believe but our sweet baby girl is six weeks old today. She is such a good baby. As some of you may or may not know, when the boys were baby's they were not so good. In fact I would venture to say the were horrible! That's not to say we didn't love them just the same, they just tried our patience much more. If they weren't crying they were sleeping. It was one or the other, nothing in between. Ally is quite the opposite of them. Not only does she LOVE to sleep, when she is awake she is usually all smiles. She slept for 8 hours straight last night. Not only does she sleep all night, she sleeps most of the day away also! I do ask myself every once in awhile is it really normal for a baby to sleep this much? Of course then I come to my senses and decide I should just be thankful for it!! Below are some pics of her doing what she loves most...sleeping!!!

Ally doing what she loves most!

When she isn't sleeping she's all smiles!!

Of course all of that smiling is tiring,off to sleep again!

Sibling Rivalry

It was a cold and rainy day today, but the boys had a soccer game this afternoon. So it was a girls day in to stay warm. The boys are playing soccer together for the first time this year and the inevitable finally happened. Jaxon told Dylan how much better he was than him at soccer. As a parent I realize what a dilemma that creates so I focused on telling them what things they are individually good at. Dylan has great footwork and is a very good passer when he wants to be. Jaxon is very fast and plays outstanding defense. I told them that we would see who scored more goals and we would see who had a better day. Wouldn't you know they both scored a goal today and played very evenly. If only I could get this competition to transfer over to something constructive like cleaning their room.

Dylan beating his man downfield.

Jaxon on a breakaway.

Girl's Day In.

Now Where Did I put my Sea Legs?

I had the wonderful opportunity to go to Cabo last weekend to celebrate the 40th birthday of one of my best friends. After realizing that babies require passports and that Ally and Sommar would be unable to attend I bit the bullet and officially became a 5th wheel. I was there with a couple that I have known 10 years and a couple that I had never met. The cool thing was they did a great job of making me feel comfortable not having my wife there, it would have been even more fun with Sommar there but I survived a vacation in Mexico. We had a boys day out at sea, deep sea fishing on a 32' boat. I quickly realized that my childhood dreams of being a pirate would never come true as I laid in the small cabin of the ship for four hours after dry heaving for an hour on deck. Welcome to sea sickness. Let it be known that I still had a blast and I caught a Dorado, all in all we took home 2 Dorado and 1 Marlin.

First time for everything

Well I finally moved into the 21st century. This whole blog thing is new to me so this blog will probably look kind of crazy for awhile. Ally is 3 weeks old today so I will start off my first post with pictures of her!!!