Spring Break 2011

Over Spring break Sean, Liam, Dom, Cailin and myself took a road trip to Seattle and Port Angeles. Liam was 4 weeks old. Crazy you mas say!?!??!?! Yeah maybe a little!Cailin looks like a natural toting Liam around Seattle.
This picture is a great representation of our little hike down to the beach... Second Beach.
Our happy little family on the Ferries ride on our way home. Sean said that it was his first cruise... I hope some day we get to go on a real cruise!!!
Sean was pretty excited to see this =)
Seattle Center


Mick and Jim spoiled us and were our tour guides the whole day in Seattle. The Seattle Aquarium was one of our stops.
More beach pictures, that is Dom and I. My pictures are a little out of order.

Pike's Place Market
Sean and I have a picture in this exact location two summers earlier. I wanted to get another one, this time with Little Liam.
We made our way up to Port Angeles to visit Grandma and Grandpa Pierce.
Grandpa really loved holding Liam, he just kept saying how cute and how little he was. Grandma was pretty tickled that she got to see him before Jake and Tess... made her feel pretty special.
It was a fun, whirlwind spring break trip. We were glad Cailin and Dom came with us. Liam did great, good little sleeper in the car. I ended up getting a nasty cold the last day, but other than that we had a great time. Sean always says how much he likes it over toward Olympia, and would like to live there someday. I don't think i'd mind it =)

I took all these pictures yesterday. This post is mainly to show how cute Liam is. This fist picture is kinda funny... his big eyes.
I actually got him smiling on camera!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He melts my heart when he smiles.
New development in our household.... Liam now LOVES diaper changes. I actually took these pictures after changing his diaper. He can be fussing and when I lay him down and take his diaper off, he will stop crying and be happy... until I put his clothes back on. It makes diaper changing time a lot more enjoyable for all of us =)

He was wearing pants all day, but I had to get some pictures with his socks off, I thought they were so darned cute. Can you tell how he is getting chunkier?!!! just compare these pictures to his new born pictures.
He has been sleeping so well during the day today! usually he will take 10-15 min cat naps during the day, but today he has taken two 2 hour naps! I hope this doesn't mean for a long night!

Med School Here WE come!

For those of you who don't know we (really meaning Sean) has been applying for Medical schools last year and this year with only rejections. But there is a light at the end of the dark tunnel... and we have been accepted to two schools!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One is in Denver, the other in Yakima. He also interviewed with a school in Pennsylvania, and we are still waiting to hear back from them. So we haven't made any decisions yet about where we are going, but we are going somewhere!!!!! We will be progressing toward something.

I am so proud of my man, and so excited for what is to come!

Liams Blessing

Sunday March 27th Liam was blessed in church. In the LDS church a baby's father is given the opportunity to bless each child after they are born. Sean gave Laim a beautiful blessing. I am very grateful that he is a worth priesthood holder and can do that for him. We were blessed to have so much family share this special day with us.

My Dad, Mom, Sister Tess, and Clara drove all the way up from Boise for the special day. And all of Sean's family came also. This last picture is the whole gang (minus Dom, he had to go to work). It is a memory I will always cherish, and Liam will be able to look back and the pictures and know how much his family loves him.

Baby Shower in Vale!!

My mom, sister, and aunts threw a baby shower in Vale for me. Vale, OR that is not Colorado =) (just thought I should clarify). This is a picture of Liam and my cousin Lacey's little boy Karter. They are about 3 weeks apart I think. Look how peaceful Liam looks.

My family was way too generous and I got some awesome gifts. Here I am showing off some jammies.






I'm not sure who's idea it was, but it was an awesome idea. Instead of doing the traditional baby shower games we did a craft/activity. My mom purchased wooden letters that spell Liam Walter and everyone participated by painting and docopadging (I don't know how to spell that) a letter. The kids painted little animals. They turned out really cute and now I have a decoration for Liam's room!!! Again, I thought this was a VERY good idea, really!

Everyone helped out with the food. There was lots of it and it was good! I (and probably everyone except my mom because she has amazing self control, ate way more than we needed to!)

I loved the baby shower. Thanks gals!

Making Dougnuts!

While I was in Boise we got to have some fun with the Bodilys (my aunt and cousins). They live otu by Gibbons Hot springs and have access to their pool. So what did we do??? We had a pool party !! It felt SOOO nice to relax in hot water. It is an indore pool, with natural hot water. Again, after not being able to get in hotsprings for 9 months, this felt sooo nice!!!

Julie, Ali, and Jack came over to my parents house and we made home made doughnuts!! I have been dreaming of them for a long time now. I remember growing up we would go over to Grandma Hiatt's house and Grandma and my mom and aunts would make doughnuts. I just remember the smell, and how delicious they were. You know how sometimes your memories of things tend to exaggerate things... like a park you went to when you were a kind that was so amazing, then you go back there as an adult and its just doesn't have the same magic? Well this did not happen with these doughnuts!!! My memories served me well, there were just as delicious as I remember them! Below is Ali cutting out the dough.

My aunt Julie on baby duty =) It was so fun to "show off" my cute little man to all my family.

Liam's First Trip to Boise

Liam and I made a trip down to Boise when he was 5 weeks old. The drive down went well, it is approx. 5hrs 45min from my house to my parents house, and we did it with only one stop in New Meddows to feed him =) I'd say he did amazingly well.

My friend Darcie and her son Isaac came over to see little Liam.

Cousin Clara loved "baby iam" she always wanted to hold him, and always wanted to be very "helpful". Clara is going to have a little brother or sister in late September.... I can tell she is going to love her little brother/sister soooo much! She is way cute.

My brother Jake was nice enough to make the trip from SLC to see me and Liam, he didn't get to stay very long, but I am grateful he made the sacrifice anyway. It is always great seeing him. Whenever I talk to Jake on the phone he says, "give Liam a high five from me".

Again my mom with her two grand kids. She doesn't look old enough to be a grandma does she!!!!

Uncle Andrew with Clara and Liam.

Clara has such a fun cute personality. She LOVES boots. Tess got her these new boots (which were too big and will fit her next yer) and Clara just had to wear them around the house, she has great fashion sense and topped off the outfit with my dad's sunglasses =)

Tess took me on a cart ride... she also got a new surrey that was pretty neat, maybe next time I'm down in Boise it will be ready for a test run!

I was able to stay in Boise for a little over a week. Thats on of the glory's of not working full time anymore! I had a great time, I love my family. They always take such good care of me and make me feel special and loved. We even got to celebrate my birthday (a few weeks late) while I was down there. I was given the royal treatment as is tradition in our family... Queen for a day!

Another Year Older

Yep, I'm one year older and wiser too.... and Red Robin treated me to a FREE hamburger fries and Ice cream Sunday.

Whetten Photography

At my baby shower my friend Kassy gave me a voucher for a infant photo session. Here are two of my favorites from that day. He is about 2 weeks old here. I love how they turned out! Thanks to Kassy for your amazing photo skills and being willing to get peed on for the sake of a good photo =)

2 Week Old Stats

At 2 weeks old we took Liam in to get weighed and measured. He left the hospital at 4lbs 13oz. At 2 weeks he weighed 5lbs even. The Dr. was happy with that and told us to keep doing what we were doing. Because he was so small, they wanted me to be waking him up every 2 hours to eat. Which I did. At this appointment the Dr. said to keep waking him up every 2 hours during the day, but if he wanted to sleep more at night to go ahead and let him. That was nice... he would sleep about 3 hours at night. Take what you can get right!!!

Whats in a NAME??

Ahhh the name game. Sean had two names picked out at the begining of the pregnancy. Drum roll please................ Maximas Thor or anything with the middle name "Danger". He even told me that if I let him have the middle name of Danger I could pick whatever first name I wanted. I said NO WAY! It was a continues discussion throughout my pregnancy.... neither side relenting. Sean said he always thought it would be so cool to be Sean Danger Penberthy (imagine him saying that in his deep voice with emphasis on the Danger part). And how all of our sons friends would think he was sooo cool because his middle name would be Danger. He tried to convince me that our son would love us for ever because he could tell people, "my middle name is Danger", or "they call me Danger". I guess i'm too much of a girl and just couldn't understand it all =)
In the end, we went to the hospital with three names we liked. Eli, Liam, and Walter. Eli and Liam were just names we liked. We didn't hear them any particular place or know any particular person with the names. Walter is a family name. Sean's paternal Grandfather was Walter, Sean loves and adores his Grandfather. My maternal Grandfather is Neil Walter. Growing up he was called Walt. I love and respect my Grandpa so much. It just seemed fitting to name our son Walter. We ended up naming him the day we left the hospital. It came down to Walter and Liam. The two names we liked best. And yes Sean was still pushing for Danger at this point. If we gave him his first name as Walter we would call him Walt, although I was afraid some people would call him Wally which I hate. It was a (for me) stressful decision process, should he be Walter Liam or Liam Walter. In the end we chose Liam Walter. I can't tell you a strong particular reason, but this is what we chose.

Our first few days home with Liam I still (secretly) wasn't sure about the name Liam. I sometimes regretted naming him that. But quickly the name began to fit him and now I couldn't see calling him Walter. He is our little Liam, and we love him so much!

Elephants!

Auntie Jo (MJ) bought this cute elephant outfit for Liam. I tried to catch him awake for a picture, but he was just so tired and full that he couldn't manage to stay awake for the picture, but that's ok. =)

Diaper Change

Liam does not like to have his diaper changed. I'm not sure what it is exactly about getting a diaper changed, but he screams and screams until you put one back on him. He is about one week old in this picture.... he wore Preemie sized diapers until he was almost 2 months old!

Liam watching his dad play a racing game on the "big screen".