Sleeping Babies

In my opinion, there is not much sweeter than a little sleeping baby. Here is Elise just a few minutes ago sleeping soundly on the table. She is wearing your outfit Aunt Melanie, and she is on your blanket too! Elise is doing better at night now. She has gone 4-6 hours for the past 2 nights. It is amazing what 4 hours of solid sleep does for a parent of a newborn!

Happy Easter!!!

Happy Easter Everyone!

We are all having a great, chilly, snowy Easter.
Here is a picture from out our back door.



So, even though everyone looks nice and Springy in their new Easter clothes, it is very wintery outside - WE MISS FLORIDA on days like this! We also miss being near family on holidays. We love and miss you all.

Grandma Susan

January 25 of this year we lost our dear Mother/Grandma Susan. She passed away suddenly at home from complications with her diabetes. We miss her so much. We drove out to Utah. Even though it was a long hard trip, it was good to be together as a family to deal with this loss. There was a sweet spirit present the entire week. It was amazing. The viewing was the happiest viewing that I have ever attended. It was so neat to meet so many of the people that Susan influenced over the years. The funeral was hard, but very nice. I felt that it was a very intimate, family oriented funeral. All of the grandkids sang, "I Am a Child of God", Leslie and Neil spoke, Alan read the obituary, and Aunt Carma read a poem. It was a beautiful service.

I am so grateful for the knowledge that we have of the gospel. I am grateful to know where Grandma Susan is. It makes it easier to deal with the loss to know that we will be together again. What a woman - to help raise seven such strong, wonderful children. I hope that I can do as good a job as she did. I miss her greatly!

Update

I have neglected my blog long enough!! I guess I am not great at keeping touch on here either! Hopefully, I'll make it more of a habit and get better at updating.

Today is Elise's due date and she is 3 weeks old. I think that she is already getting bigger, and I want to slow her growth down a little! These past 3 weeks have been 3 of the hardest we've had in a long time. The week Elise was born was Neil's busiest week of the semester. While we were in the hospital, two of the kids at home got a tummy bug. That meant that I didn't have much time with Neil at the hospital. This was a big change for us. In the past, when we had a baby my mom was at home with the kids, and Neil was at the hospital with me the whole time. I really missed him while I was up there, and I REALLY miss being near family. Luckily, we are blessed with wonderful friends in this area. Ladies from our ward and friends from the other ward brought us dinners for a whole week! They also took Anna for the week I was home before my mom came. This was a huge help for me and for Anna.

I can't believe that we are the parents of six children!!! Every time I think about it, I am in awe. Life is good for us and I feel so blessed to have the family that I have. I am thankful for the Lord's hand in our lives and how he has blessed us through the service of others.

My mom left today - very hard for me - I wanted her to be here longer. I hate living so far away. Thank goodness she was able to be here. We enjoyed having her and Granddaddy here. They were a huge help. Neil was able to do a lot of catching up at work with out as much guilt for being away from home. Thanks Grandma and Granddaddy!

Little Elise

Jacob and I were trying to show everyone how little Elise is, so we were taking pictures of her with different items to compare her size. Here are a couple of those pictures.

The Newest Headman - Our Announcement from March 2, 2008

We are excited to announce the birth of the newest member of our family...

Elise Laura Headman

Elise was born Saturday, March 1 by an emergency c-section. We feel very blessed that she is here with us and that baby and mom are both fine. We both are home from the hospital and our family is adjusting to having a new baby in the house again. What a joy it is for us to have this sweet, gift from Heavenly Father in our home - we just love her.

Elise weighed 6 pounds even and was 20 inches long. She is a tiny precious little bundle!

Thanks for all of your prayers in our behalf. We have felt them and have been strengthened by them.

We'd love to hear from you!

Love,
Neil, Trisha, Sarah, Jacob, Bekah, Isaac, Anna and Elise

Quilt Give Away

I have entered a contest to win a BEAUTIFUL quilt! You can see it over on my sidebar. I love, love, love it. It is at the Old Red Barn Co. blog. My goal is to make my first quilt this year...we'll see how I do. In the meantime head over to the site and enter to win it yourself. Here is the link: http://oldredbarnco.blogspot.com/2008/03/giving-away-quilt.html?commentPage=5

GOOD LUCK!

December Update

I can't believe that December is over!!!! The month has flown by for our family. We had a wonderful Christmas and are enjoying our Christmas vacation. Unfortunately, I came down here to upload our pictures and videos from Christmas and our memory card has malfunctioned! We have NO pictures from Christmas day up to today. I am sick!!!

I do have a few pictures of Anna in the snow and of our Christmas eve ice skating trip. We'll have to take some more soon and post them. I am hoping to be better at keeping our blog up to date.


This was Anna the first snow of the year. She and Neil built this snowman one morning after they took the kids to school. A day or so after this snow, we had a big ice storm. The snow turned to solid ice and everything was covered for a few days...very pretty, but very slippery! We had another snow storm after that with 8 1/2 inches of snow. Unfortunately, there are no pictures of that!!!

On Christmas eve we went ice skating. It was really fun for everyone ( I watched!). Anna was really good at walking around on her skates, but she DID NOT like being out on the ice. She hung out with me and had nachos and hot chocolate. Everyone else loved it! We are hoping to go again before the kids go back to school.

Here is Isaac out on the ice...

Here is Anna standing on her skates and hanging out with mom....

A sweet one of Bekah and Neil....

Sarah with her friends Hanah and Addie...

Jacob wouldn't come near me to get his picture taken. He was too busy zooming around the rink and doing fancy spins...I tried to get those on film too, but he wasn't cooperating! So, all I have of Jake is a quick video of him skating by (you can see Sarah and Hanah too)...

News from Anna....

Announcing the newest Headman!!

Here is a picture from the ultrasound...it looks like a Headman! (To see the picture closer, just click on it.)

Happy Halloween!

We went trick or treating with some friends. Sarah went to a haunted house with a couple of her friends. I think everyone had a great time. We sure have enough candy to last a while.