He Won!

For his last semester at BYU-I , Logan completed a statistical project that found a new and better way to rank players in the NBA. He worked for several months on this, and today he had the opportunity to give a 12 minute presentation at BYU-I's Undergraduate Research Conference. Logan was grouped with seven others also giving oral presentations, and he came out on top! I'm so proud of him! He worked so hard! Here's Logan's prize: a BYU-I wall clock. It's not a check or a plasma screen TV, but it's his first place prize!
He also got a certificate, but I'm not calling this the official one. You can't see it, but the date is wrong. It's last year's conference date on it, because the people in charge of the certificates forgot to change it. He should be getting the corrected one soon.

Congratulations, Logan!

Changing the subject now, I think we found an apartment! We've been searching for a while now, and even spent all day last Wednesday in Idaho Falls hunting for and viewing apartments, but didn't have any luck. There were plenty of available apartments in IF, but just not what we needed. We wound up putting in an application at a place here in Rexburg. I'm all right with staying here in Rexburg, I guess, and this place has everything I ever dreamed of in an apartment: washer/dryer hook-ups and a DISHWASHER! It's a pretty fancy shmancy place, according to their website. We should be going to view an apartment on Monday. We've only seen pictures of it on the Internet, so I'm hoping it's as good as it sounds, or at least close. Here's hoping!

Fun at home

Here's Phoebe a couple Sundays ago, dressed all pretty to go to church for the first time since her baby blessing. Gwen had a lot of fun playing with Phoebe, and Phoebe looked to be enjoying it to! I usually don't let Gwen get too close to Phoebe, since Gwen's so hyper and, well, dangerous. But she laid down nicely next to her little sister and laughed and played. I'm so glad she loves her Phoebe.

Gwen thought it was funny that Phoebe kept hitting her in the face. She's a riot.

Since we're planning on moving next month, we have quite a few boxes lying around, which is Gwen's dream come true. I'm not sure how she managed to fit inside this box.

Phoebe was smiling up a storm, and I couldn't get a picture of it! I'll keep trying every day.

I love my little girls!

One Long, Happy Day!

On Saturday, our family attended Nathan and Rebecca's wedding, luncheon, and reception. It was certainly a long day for us, especially for Gwen and Phoebe. Gwen did pretty well with all the activity, I think. It was certainly exhausting for all of us chasing her around, making sure she didn't crash into anyone's wedding party on the temple grounds. She almost got away from me once, when I grabbed her arm and she pulled it out of her sleeve. She ran around half undressed and ran into a bride with her photographer. I was embarrassed, but Gwen didn't think twice about it. She was just trying to escape me no matter what. Phoebe was a real trooper, and didn't seem to mind being passed from one person to the next. She even smiled her first real smile at the reception! I caught it on video, but not with a picture, sadly. I can't wait until she starts smiling all the time so I can get those precious pictures! Here are some pictures of the day. I didn't take a whole lot, but here you are anyway.

Chocolate Brownies

Two posts in one day! Go me!

Hilarious!

Fashion Show

Phoebe turns a month old in a couple days, can you believe it? She's almost 11 pounds, she can lift her head briefly, and she nurses like a pro! I'm especially excited that she nurses so well, because it took Gwen three entire months before she would cooperate. That was so stressful. But the only problem we've encountered so far with Phoebe is her bellybutton. It bled for a couple weeks after the stump fell off. It's fine now. She also loves to be cuddled by mommy, so it's hard to put her down, but you can't complain about cuddles! She's a great night time sleeper, too. She came home from the hospital, and that night she slept five hours straight before I woke her up to eat. She even sleeps in her own crib! She's so different than how Gwen used to be. Phoebe's an easy going baby. It's a good thing, too, because my mom just left this morning. This is the first day alone with our children. I'm a bit nervous. My mom did so much while she was here, I hope I'll be able to keep up with everything. Anyway, here are some pictures we took of Phoebe in various outfits. We had a baby fashion show one day and got some really cute bright eyed pics.