Baby Wyatt

Baby Wyatt was born August 17, 2013 at approximately 8:30AM.  He was 21.5 inches long and weighed in at 8 pounds 11 ounces…despite being two weeks early.  He is a cute little guy and so far seems to be extremely calm.  He is fun to cuddle and Treven, Ady, and Jonah all adore him.  Ashley is doing well juggling these four crazy kiddos, and is especially fond of the fact that she is no longer pregnant.  Wyatt has some health issues that we will have to watch and see, but for now we are mostly just excited.  We feel very blessed that our Heavenly Father has given us another one of his beautiful children to love and to care for.  Welcome to our family Baby Wyatt!

24th of July - 2013

The 24th of July was pretty low-key for us, but still fun.  Ashley is not enjoying the heat, at least in part because she is 8 months pregnant.  Despite this VERY hard pregnancy, she has been a trooper.  We went to our city parade and then were lucky enough to have her family join us and watch our city fireworks.  Jonah loves fireworks and refers to them as “pop pops.”  It is fun to celebrate our state and all that it has to offer.

Days of 47 Rodeo

Every year since I was 6, my Dad has taken the entire family to the rodeo.  I have always said that my Dad is an “in the closet cowboy.”  He has always been a business man and hardly knows what casual clothes even look like.  He is not even in to action movies…unless it is a John Wayne movie.  Despite all of this, he loves riding horses, westerns, rodeos, etc.  Going to this yearly rodeo is something that he loves to do as a family, and it has become a really neat family tradition that we all look forward to.  We had a great time again this year.

4th of July - 2013

 

We have had a great time this entire week being with family.  My brother has been in town with his family and we have been able to spend time with Ashley’s family as well.  We went to our ward breakfast for the 4th of July.  Because the city mayor lives in our ward, we often get to have the police escort a little parade around the block and even sometimes get the fire department to hose everyone down with the giant water cannon mounted on the top of their truck.  Later in the day, we spent time together before everyone went to the park to watch the fireworks.  The boy cousins played a pick up game of football, and the girl cousins just hung out while we were waiting for them to start.  We have been able to go bowling and do several other activities this week with family as well.  It has been a lot of fun.  How grateful we are for the freedom that we enjoy in this country.  While the country is far from perfect, it truly is the best system that man has devised to this point.  I am grateful for the liberties that we are able to enjoy and pray that none of us ever take them for granted.

Jonah’s Birthday and Boating

Today our Jonah Bear turned 2!  Ashley decorated the house with all sorts of Thomas the Train paraphernalia.  She even made him a special Thomas cake and had pictures of him all over the table.  We had an amazing breakfast before going boating with my brother and his family who are visiting from Wisconsin.  We came home in the evening to eat cake and ice cream with Grandma and Grandpa Haberle and open presents.  Jonah was spoiled with several wooden train sets. 

While at the lake, with the largest sandbox a kid could hope for, Jonah could not take his attention off of a tractor working in the distance to repair some of the facilities.  Finally, I decided to drive him closer to get a better look.  We were standing there watching them work when the tractor operator asked if he wanted to help drive the tractor.  As the pictures show, Jonah grabbed those controls and felt that he was a master tractor operator within seconds.  He was excited, but very concentrated as well.  It was priceless.  We had a great day at the lake and Ashley made it a very special birthday for our Jonah. 

New Tricks

This past month Jonah has learned how to crawl

  

how to pull himself up

how to help with laundry

and how to pull off his diaper!

(Unfortunately, the picture perfect moment of him peacefully asleep exposing his bare- sided bum turned into chaos when the flash went off!)

Yearly Photos

Just had some pictures done and decided to put them on the blog.  Overall, it went well.  As usual, we were able to get plenty of smiles out of our littlest guy, but we could not always control the distraction that the lights were creating for him.  Treven and Ady did great for the most part, as long as they were not too focused on their little brother.  It took only a couple of minutes and we got some great pictures of the kids to hang on the wall!  Ady looks beautiful, we are so grateful that Treven actually has hair, and you can see all six of Jonah’s little teeth in a couple of the pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baptism Day

Treven and Ady were baptized Saturday February 4, 2012.  It was a great day.  We had so many family members, friends, and ward members there to support them.  They were given special journals and towels by the Primary.  The towels have their name and baptismal date sewn into them.  Ady got out her journal that night and wrote all the guests that were there, and then wrote “guests there from Heaven: Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, Holy Ghost, Grandma” with big hearts next to each one.  She then drew and wrote on two pages dedicated to Grandpa (my Dad) about all that he said and how much she loves him.  They both reflected on everything that was said, and they both are excited to take another step in the path back to our Heavenly Father.  It is amazing to think that these are the same children that were once such tiny twins fighting for life.  The same 3 & 4 pound babies that were tangled with tubes and lines for weeks in the hospital’s ICU are now big, healthy eight-year olds.  I am proud of them and the decision they have made to follow our Savior and be baptized.  I am so grateful that my Father in Heaven would entrust these two special spirits into our care.  Treven and Ady are great, special kids and I love being their Dad.  We love you Treven and Ady and are so proud of your righteous decision and desires to follow our Savior. 

 

 

 

Jr. Jazz #20

Treven participated in his first year of Jr. Jazz this year.  His team was almost completely made-up of fellow ward members, and his coach was amazing.  He had a lot of fun, learned a lot of skills, and cannot wait to participate next year.  He is especially excited about his two free Utah Jazz tickets and his trophy.