Starting school

Maelie and Britain playing

This past week has been really busy for all of us.  Britain now has a playmate all day, her name is Maelie and she is two.  Britain and Maelie like to watch each other, Maelie tries to play with the baby, feed the baby, sometimes she attempts to feed her more  than just a boring bottle!  It's been really fun watching them play together.  Maelie really likes Dora the Explorer and Go Diego Go! So I frequently have both songs stuck in my head.

Britain hanging out with my homework

As for Brandon and myself, we have a lot of school stuff going on, Brandon is taking somewhere around 16 credits to finish his associates.  The school has cancelled two of his required classes already, so he spent the week kind of scrambling to fill his requirements.  I am taking twelve credits all online.  So far I really like it, but it is a lot of work and takes more focus than going to the class.  I do all of my homework and study time during the girls nap time and after bedtime.  Brandon has been really helpful about watching Britain when he is home and I need to get caught up.  It's working out for me so far.

Vera, Emily, and Britain

Vera randomly decided to drive to Wyoming to visit us this past week.  She was only here for a couple of days but we still had a lot of fun.  Lucky for me she even killed a spider in Britain's room one morning.  (That was a traumatic moment, I still haven't moved the bucket from where she put it down.)
Now for the fun stuff:

Grandpa Jones and baby after playing hard

  Yesterday Britain turned 4 months old! I can't believe she is so big!  Britain went to church with her grandparents yesterday just for fun.  Yesterday was also really fun for me because she rolled from her tummy to her back about 5 times all on her own (she can't get back to her tummy though, so she had some help there from Grandma Jones, some uncles and her mommy).  It was really fun to watch her start to get good at it.  Another really cute thing she did yesterday was respond to her name for the first time!  Grandpa Jones said her name and she whipped her little head around and tried to focus on him.  And he was at least ten feet away from her.  So it was fun to watch her as everyone else started calling her name out, the poor kid was practically a bobble head!

watching football

Since the day they got married
He'd been praying for a little baby boy
Someone he could take fishing
Throw the football and be his pride and joy
He could already see him holding that trophy
Taking his team to state
But when the nurse came in with a little pink blanket
All those big dreams changed

And, now, he's wrapped around her finger
She's the center of his whole world
And his heart belongs to that sweet, little, beautiful,
wonderful, perfect
All American girl

For anyone who doesn't know what that is, its a song by Carrie Underwood called All-American Girl.  Basically, Brandon really wanted a boy, he was really happy with Britain being a girl, but I think he just had it in his head that it would be a girl.  So anyway, I was laughing a couple days ago because Brandon loves to have Britain sit on his lap and watch fishing clips, or football stuff, so he was loving it when she watched the football stuff for a solid ten minutes or more.  It was really cute.

My awesome fire skills

Well today we are going up to the Big Horn Mountains.  I'm going to try to fish with Brandon, since I have a fishing license and I haven't even used it this year.  Last year I was a disastrous fisher.  Anyway, I am a tiny bit nervous about our trip today, since the last time we tried to go up this mountain our car broke down and we had to coast down to a construction site where we waited for Brandon's kind father to come tow us home... We still had our picnic like we planned, and I made an awesome fire pit in the middle of the construction area.  So it was still a lot of fun, but it cost a lot of money :( so if today goes better, I'll be really really happy!