easter

well today was a crazy day... we woke up early to get ready for new baby Ellie's blessing. while i was getting ready i got the call that my granny had passed away at 8:30 that morning. i knew it was coming...but not that soon. i love my granny. it just shook me a little. i called around until i finally got ahold of my mom to tell her the news. they were at church. they had no idea. so we went to the blessing and had a wonderful meeting. after we went to visit with my parents and then over to the mann's for dinner and fun.

we had a great dinner that everyone participated in. then jenn and sky had set up a great easter egg hunt for the kids. it was amazing and the girls got spoiled. then we had a wonderful easter FHE given by brandon... really what a great spiritually uplifting day.

saturday we spent the day at my moms coloring eggs, visiting with aaron and jani before they left. going up to the rehab center to celebrate granny's 98th birthday! we had a wonderful couple days!

Granny Dora

ok...so i absolutely adore this woman. she turned 98 on April 7, 2012. she died a day later on April 8, 2012, easter sunday. this woman was amazing. i was so happy that i was able to go to see her at the rehab center the day before she died. i held her hand and told her she looked beautiful. she did. she would just giggle and roll her eyes. i read her her birthday cards from us, and the card from mylie of grandma and her holding hands. she told me how grateful she was that she was able to meet miss preslie. she told me how sweet and wonderful mylie was. she also told me that she adores shay and thinks she is an actress. we talked about how i gave her her nickname granny iota and how it was similar to the one we gave shaylie... shaylie magoosel. i love that woman. she is my hero and i wouldn't mind if i was even an smidge of what she was! LOVE YOU GRANNY!!!

Dora Price Fitch

April 7, 1914 ~ April 8, 2012
Dora Price Fitch, age 98, Orem, UT, passed away peacefully on Easter Sunday, April 8, 2012. Born on April 7, 1914, in Nephi UT to Ruby Patten Price and Hershell Joseph Price, she was the first of four children. Dora lived close to Liberty Park as a child and attended the 2nd Ward of the Liberty Stake. She was baptized in the Salt Lake Tabernacle when she was eight. In 1929, when she was 15, Dora's family moved to San Diego, CA, at the beginning of the Great Depression. She graduated from San Diego High School where she met Warren Fitch. While both attended San Diego State, they continued courting. Warren and Dora married on June 14, 1936. Their children are: Marian Florence Fitch (Robert Marriott of Vista, CA), James Warren Fitch (Sheron Milne Fitch of Sandy, UT), Robert Hershell Fitch (Kathie Harper Fitch of Orem, UT), David Ross Fitch (Terrie Brown Fitch of Vancouver, WA), Linda Ruby Fitch (Denny Howard of Orem, UT), Donna Carolyn Fitch (Paul Wilde of Tualatin, OR) and Steven Daniel Fitch. "Every child planned and wanted!" Warren and Dora were sealed in the Mesa Arizona Temple November 23, 1940. A devoted wife and superb homemaker, Dora was the center of a happy home, a light and inspiration for good and a wise teacher. Home was a foretaste of Heaven. Dora's hands were skillful and her mind was alert and appreciative and orderly. She was faithful in serving in her Church callings and very involved in her later years making items for the Church's humanitarian projects. She leaves a legacy of faith, love, and steadfastness. Dora and Warren served in many callings, always supporting one another. They served in the Los Angeles and Provo Temples together as ordinance workers. Dora experienced the sting of death when her little sister Erma died in 1921 at age 4. Her husband Warren died in 1984, and her son Steven died in 1987. Grandson Spencer W. Howard preceded her in death in 1979. Her 38 grandchildren were the light of her life. Her 98 great-grandchildren are treasured. In 2005 both great-grandson, Styles Scott Fitch preceded her in death at age 14 and great-granddaughter, Faith Joan Fitch. Dora is survived by her brother's David and Joe Price of San Diego, CA.
Friday, April 13 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. there will be a viewing at Walker Sanderson Funeral Home, 646 East 800 North in Orem, UT, 84097. Saturday, April 14 from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. there will be a viewing at the Edgemont Ninth Ward, 4295 North Canyon Road, Provo, UT, 84604. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Dora will be buried in the Pleasant Grove City Cemetery. In lieu of flowers we suggest donations to the Church Humanitarian, PEF, or Mission Fund. We express our deep gratitude to the residents of the Seville in Orem, Utah and the staff at St. Joseph's Villa in Salt Lake City, Utah.

aquarium and swimming

so we ventured out a week ago while aaron and jani were in town and headed up to the aquarium and then over to swimming. we had a good time. chris took the day off of work. we spent a couple hours at the aquarium and the girls favorite part was the penguins. they were awesome. i even enjoyed them. we also watched the sharks for a while and watched them get fed.

after the aquarium we hit JCW's for lunch. we then went over to the lehi rec center to swim. my mom took shay and preslie home and we took mylie. she wasn't a super big fan...so we may not be visiting again anytime soon.

it was a super fun day though being with aaron and jani and the kiddos. we really miss having the st. lou crew around.

the girls LOVED being with Lukey

chris and aaron pretending they were in cancun

max did this the entire couple hours we were there. he said it was too loud

Two Weeks!!

preslie is already 2 weeks old... and we are loving every minute of having her in our home! the girls and i can't get enough of her and he daddy loves to cuddle with her every night. it is so different for me, since i had a csection i have to stay down a lot more... this is a huge adjustment because i am such a go go go person. but it has been so nice to get to sit in my chair and cuddle with her and read a book. i love it. i wouldn't change those sleepless nights for anything because i just hold her and she just stares at me and is so calm.

she is doing better with sleeping though. this week she has had a couple 5 hour stretches and they have been wonderful! she LOVES her binki. she loves her sisters. she has had one fairly big adventure being carried across the room by shaylie. she rarely cries. she wailed at her 2 week appointment getting her PKU. she hasn't lost any hair yet... hoping somehow she can keep it! she is perfect... really she is!

Daddy Daughter Date at Beauty and the Best at Capital Theatre. Mylie LOVED it!!!

Movie Night for the girls that stayed home!

2 Weeks Old!!!

Meeting Great Grandma and Grandpa Mann

LOVES the sink baths!!

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weight: 8 lbs 2 oz

Height: 21 inches

30th!!!

Chris turned 30!!! since i am still down and out we kept it very simple this year. chris went to work and for the first time in our married life i didn't go to his work to give him lunch... it was sooooooo sad!!! but when he came home we had a surprise waiting for him here. we had 30 friends and family write a note to him or memories and i attached them to 30 balloons. he loved them. then we got him some shoes and cologne. like i said, super simple but i think memorable. we went to get preslie her newborn pictures that night and then went to my parents because my mom made chris his favorite dish...and i made an eclair cake for him.

week one...

well since the majority of her first week of life was spent in the hospital it was kinda boring...so this is the week that we have been home. i have been adjusting, and it has been a very different experience for me. anyone who knows me knows that i am not a person that asks for help alot and sometimes want to be superwoman and do everything by myself. well that had to be changed, because i couldn't do it on my own.

even though the doctors let me come home wednesday they made me promise that i would have help and get some naps in as well. well in came my mom and she took over. (dad too) they have been soooooooo good to me and my girls and helping anyway they can. it took me a couple days to even be able to get myself upstairs without wearing myself out. the hardest thing was at first when i would get up 12 times a night with preslie and it took me 3 minutes at least to get myself out of bed.

another hard thing is not being able to clean my house. chris took over the first couple days we were home and help soooooo much with the cleaning, laundry, the kids. there was a day i was laying on my bed with shay watching tv, i dosed off for what felt like only a minute only to find shay still sitting next to me already bathed and her hair blown dry and beautiful. my husband is awesome.

so as of now, i am feeling a whole lot better but definitely not where i want to be. patience is not an easy thing for me. preslie is a gem. she is such a great baby. she hardly cries. she loves to eat. she doesn't mind being malled by the girls. she is still so tiny. her hips look better to me, but we still don't know anything. she sleeps a lot and is adjusting to sleeping at night.

she is a huge blessing in our lives and we all adore her.

Great Grandma Dora...Her 97th great grandchild while she was 97 years old!!!