Life is Perfect

Emily & Sammy, Shawna & Sabine

Great-Grandma Gubler
Great-Grandkids 120ish

Aunt Raygan

Aunt Jan

Grandma Stevens and
Great-Grandpa & Grandma McEntire

First Great-Grandkid

Jake informed me blogs aren't for posting complaints, annoyances, or general aggravation with life. Blogs are only for writing about how perfect and wonderful life is and nothing is ever wrong. So from now on I vow to only write about how my husband works 10 hour days and still has time to make us three hot meals a day, go to the laundromat, vacuum, wash the windows, clean the bathrooms and kitchen, and take care of Kaleb. Not to mention Kaleb sleeps 12 hours a night, takes good naps during the day and never cries, just sits and smiles and coos when he's awake while I have plenty of time for reading, scrapbooking, quilting, and smelling the bouquet of flowers Jake brings home at least every other day. So, in other words, I won't be writing very much anymore.
Actually, I do have a good post to write today. I have the best family ever! Not only did I get blessed with Jacob in my life but he came with the awesomest (yes, that is a new word) family too. This past week while Jake was at Scout camp I decided Kaleb and I needed to go visit UT and cool off (okay, temperature wise, that didn't happen, mental wise, it did) I left early Tuesday morning for a week of visiting. Kaleb did so well on the flight, slept through half of it actually. I will put in a plug that baby carriers are the best invention ever! I was able to strap Kaleb to the front of me and walk through security and the airport with no problems carrying my three carry-on bags. It was so fun for Kaleb to meet lots of new people, Aunties' Shawna, Raygan, Janice, Emily and Michelle, Uncles' Daniel and Matt, some of his great-grandparents and his newest cousins Sabine and Sammy. It was such a relaxing weekend, and the only thing missing was having Hailey and Cameron with us, I miss you guys but you were there in spirit and in our prayers! (although that is never good enough) Shawna, Emily and I were able to go visit Grandma Gubler to show off our babies, we were also able to talk to Mom and Dad Scofield in France on Skype. I love Skype, it is such a great way to connect and talk and see each other. We were also able to talk to Hailey and Cameron in Tennessee. Not only is it a free phone call you get to see who you are talking to, what a great invention!
On Sunday Aunt Janice and grandma and grandpa Mc came for a BBQ - I swear hamburgers taste better when coming off a hot grill. Kaleb got a little overwhelmed and cranky some days so we tried not to do much but relax and enjoy each others company. Kaleb started smiling this week, it's a little more each day and only here and there, but, he's really getting into the smiling thing, before we know it, it will be all the time. I hope Kaleb is a happy baby, so far he is doing really well, I can't complain too much, he really is a pretty mellow baby, despite his major spewing issues right now. Dan has a new name for him Sir Grunts-a lot, better than Matt's K-Dog. I still like Shawna's analogy about the Jello commercial, it's exactly how Kaleb is, he can't hold still and is constantly 'wiggle wiggle wiggle' The only time he is calm is when you swaddle his arms and legs tight (the only way he can sleep or else he wakes himself up, usually with a fist to the head) I got to hear lots of stories about what a hard baby Jake was, having reflux and it not being known about back then so they just dealt with his screaming all the time - thank you Kaleb for being nice, we sure were blessed! (I still marvel how momma Stevens had 4 more kids after Jake gave them a run for their money right off the bat) There isn't much else to write about the week, but it was a lot of fun, thank you so much to mom and dad Stevens and the family for their love. We truly are blessed with the family we got, on both ends. I am kind of afraid of what kind of world we brought Kaleb into, but I am so grateful he will have the best family ever to teach him and love him and be good examples for him. It's so amazing to look at Kaleb and realize two little cells created him but it's not just Scofield and Stevens, there's generations of influence there, McEntire, Penrod, Hinton, Gubler, York, Lehnhof, and on and on, what a legacy! I will just post lots of pictures so you can see the fun we had.