Misc Fergy Findings

The weather here can't make up it's mind if it is winter or summer still so we have had to enjoy the couple of days of sun when we get them. We have gotten to enjoy outdoor picnics and LOTS, LOTS of time in our tiny sand box.

When the weather is colder we have had to make our own fun indoors with treats, movies, and just pain silliness.  Cami and Josh love playing with Phoebe's headbands toys and markers, which leads to a few strifes between them, but family doesn't have those. 

We have also gotten to enjoy lots of warm yummy cookies when we eat all of our dinner. This is due to a new SLC discover, The Cookie Tree.  This is a cookie factory that sells their seconds of frozen cookie dough really cheaply & they are so delicious I may never have to make my own substandard cookies ever again!

Lastly, if you have visited our house lately you might have noticed that all of the kitchen table chairs are always laying down.  This is not done just because they were knocked down and never picked up, it is because our 1 yr old twiners are avid climber and often use the chairs to climb up and stand on the kitchen table. It was only a matter of time until our climbers then figured out how to climb all the way up on the top bunk bed.

 Unfortunately, Josh figured out how to climb up the ladder, but could not figure out the climbing down concept.  Last week we heard a couple of loud thunks and then lots of crying, it didn't take long to figure out what was happening.  Phoebe, in an effort to prevent Josh from climbing up her ladder was pulling Josh off her ladder by pulling him down by his legs.  After a talking to her about lettering us take care of Josh and us having to come in and take Josh down 6x in 30 minutes we decided it was time to have 2 twins bed and not a bunk bed.  This unfortunately has made their room really crowded, but it is better than stitches or a broken leg by falling off the bunk.

Cory's Date Night

May's date night was one of Cory's four date months and he came up with the theme of European Romance. We tried to keep this month simple because we didn't know how it would work with a new babe. Cory made a GREAT date night, even if we did end up having a date crasher in tow. We put most of the kids to bed then got Cory's Easter Bunny movie The Tourist and watched it  while enjoying yummy European treats: Sparkling cider, grapes, Baby Belle cheese, french bread with oil & vinegar, & Swiss chocolates. This date night was a lot of fun, even if both of us fell asleep on the couch long before the movie ended.

Adjusting to the Fergy Six

We are slowly all getting use to life as the Fergy six.  The twins are mostly just filled with curiosity and love for their new baby sister.  They are often found peering into her crib for peeks at her and giving 9 thousand little kisses  to her a day.

Even though it is mostly Mommy and Daddy getting up for the middle of the night feedings, the kids have taken on some sympathy tiredness for us. They are all energy one minute and sound asleep on the floor, bed or wherever the next. We even got word that Josh fell asleep in nursery for 20 minutes last Sunday. Poor kids are having a rough adjustment from two to one nap a day.

Phoebe has become quiet the little helper and mini mom for baby Sophie. She constantly asks to hold and feed baby Sophie & tells me when she is crying (as if I didn't already know). She also is really adamant about everyone calling her BABY Sophie and not just Sophie for some reason.

Besides a bit of sleepiness we are all doing well here in the Fergy house with our newest Baby Sophie.

Pseudo Mother's Day

This year for mother's day I made my mom this picture with photos that Cory's twin Dave's girlfriend Michelle took. Cory so kindly then Photoshopped all the pics together in a 16x20 size which we cut down to fit an 8x20 picture frame we found.  It turned out really nicely and I wish I had a picture of the final product but, I forgot to take one.

As I blogged before and mentioned I was still the hospital on actual Mother's Day, but in hopes to have a more enjoyble mother's day celebration, we chose to postpone Mother's Day for a week. This was great because the I got to have all the great celebration traditions like sleep-in (if only for 20 extra mins) and pick my own yummy breakfast, etc. For my gift the family got me a cookbook that I had been loudly hinting that I would like.

This is a cookbook accumulation of all the recipes found on one of my most favorite cooking blogs, Our Best Bites. Now I don't have to use all my ink & paper printing out all her recipes and tutorials!  Tonight I am making my first meal out of this cookbook, yummy French Dip Sandwiches 

For the rest of Mother's Day I just got to relax, nap, & enjoy myself.  I didn't even have to think about dinner because our wonderful church brought us dinner.  Overall, it was a pretty great day, with hopefully many more delicious meals in our future, thanks family!

Goodbye Dwight & Hello Princess

It took us only one week after Sophie's birth to realize that our current van was not going to be large enough.  We had been planning to buy a larger minivan for several months but thought that we could wait until July to do so. Well, try fitting four kids and all the gear in the silver Mazda...I'll tell ya it ain't pretty.  I had been browsing the KSL ads for vans on and off for several months so I knew when a good deal would pop up and a week after Sophie arrived so did our good deal.

This is our new "Princess" van as Phoebe calls it, because it is white. She requested a white or a pink van and through no effort or appease her request we found a white one. It is a 2007 Honda Odyssey with a little less than 60,000 miles on it. We did make sure to have a DVD player installed for those long trips home & to finally silence our 3 yr who tends to be a non-stop broken record talker at times.   

This is further in the wrong direction from the type of vehicle Cory wants, however it fits our young family better and it is nice to finally have something with a little power again. Our only problem at the moment is that  it is a little long for our garage with our deep freezer so we are now down sizing our deep freezer size and having to build more shelving in the garage to get everything up and out of the way.  Hopefully our pretty new princess van will finally fit in its garage/ home this coming  weekend.

Sophie's First Photo Shoot

While in the hospital they had began to offer new baby photos which is something I have ALWAYS wanted and was sad I never got with my other wee ones, so we were more than thrilled to have a mini photo shoot with Sophie.  These pictures turned out so well it is hard to believe it was all done right in our hospital room on the laying on the floor in a basket or siting on my bed.

Here is our newest cutie SOPHIE MARIE FERGUSON:

The Visitors...

Sophie wasn't  allowed many visitors in the hospital, although she did have a few.  Uncle Dennis Aunt Julie & Afton got to visit through the nursery window and on the last day Uncle Blake and Aunt Megan got to visit on one of her on one of her 2 short field trips out of the nursery, so when Sophie finally arrived home she was welcomed by MANY open arms.

Uncle Davey:

Michell, Uncle Jason & Aunt Charisse:

And many cousins!