New crib

I can't believe
how much my girl is
growing up. At the
beginning of this year
we had to switch her out
of the bassinett. As you
can see she is nearly head
to toe in it in this photo.


Here she is her crib. This
is actually the boys' old crib.
I had to clean some major
milk off the thing and let me
tell you that is a pain in the
rear! The crib is sportin' new
bumper pad, sheets and



blanket (thanks to Jen). She
really likes it and seems at home.
Today I had to pull down the
Christmas gifts (green photo frame
and white paper drawing) because
she had tore one of them down.
She really is into everything these
days! We decided since she is still
not sleeping through the night to set up the crib in our room for
now. If she has not figured out the sleeping through the night
thing by summer she will be learning the hard way. The lack of
sleep is really affecting my immunity and brain working abilities!
I want to wait to do it until the boys won't wake up when she is
screaming because I'm ignoring her. I'm not looking forward to it
because I still won't be able to sleep but will have to ignore her
and that will not be easy for me. If anyone has any advice I would
appreciate it!

Lilly with Andrew pulling her

Here is Andrew playing with Lilly. I have to admit

I'm a little embarrassed that you will see how messy

our desk is not to mention Lilly's stuff everywhere,

but I've learned I will just drive myself crazy worrying

about it and while she is so demanding of time I'm going

to have to deal with it. You will notice a chair in the hallway.

That is to keep her away from the cord and plug for

our wireless router. I have no idea what I'm going to do

when she gets bigger and get around it. She is into

everything these days. And sounds and noises she makes

on the video are normal everyday sounds for her. The only

one not made is where she screams, I still need to get a good

example of this. She is now nearing 8mo. She has 3 teeth and

I believe her other top one is coming in. She still wakes up

several times a night. Sometimes twice, sometimes (like

last night) she is up every hr to hr and a half. I don't like

those nights because they make me grumpy all the way

around. I believe these nights are making me prone to colds

as well as I only seem to go through a week or so without one

before another one hits. I have to apologize for not doing more

posts. Our lives have seemed very hectic of late and I've not

gotten many photo's of the kids. I will work harder on this.

Love you all!

Finally! Christmas 2009

Please note this is first of about five posts!!!!

This Christmas we decided
to do an old fashioned type
Christmas. On our tree we
had two exceptions. One
we had a fake tree (cheaper
then buying a real one) and
two I wanted lights on there
for Lilly's sake. All the
decorations this year were
hand made from Great
Grandma Jones to each of the
boys and some from their

past years. This picture
shows to of Jonah's. He
made pieces of snow
flakes as well as a tree
out of construction paper.





This is one that Jeremy
made.








And Andrew came up
with this one. He never
ceases to amaze me...




Here we are at mom and
dad Kitchel's house. Mundy
mostly got pictures of the
back of the heads of
everybody so here are a
few side views of faces.





For those of you who
will be wondering the
guy next to Amanda is
Jamey (I can't remember
how he said it was spelled)
He and Amanda have been
dating for a little while now.












We also made each other's gifts this year. I will
have to do pictures of that later as I've not taken
them yet. We were trying to focus more on the
real reason instead of all the presents. I'm not
sure we succeeded, but there is always next year!
And now I am caught up on my posts for the year! Yeah
for me!

More Lilly!

Okay so I had to
do what nearly
every other parent
does and had to get
a bath tub picture.
She did the perfect
pose to!


Here is the first time
she tried broccoli. I
love that face especially
now that there are so
many new foods. Although
she didn't pull it with
potatoes or sweet
potatoes.


Here she is with Aunt
Kristi. Eventually I will
have a picture of her
with everybody!






Here she is hanging
out with dad. She's been
such a momma's girl
that daddy wasn't starting
to feel bad so I've been
trying to get her to stay
with him more.

We are so happy to have her in our family. It's
amazing to me how much the boys have changed
their tune. Andrew is her biggest fan always holding
her, playing with her, kissing her, etc. Jeremy
always says how much he loves having her as a
part of the family. He too will play with her and
kiss her and wants to hold her although I'm more
comfortable with it if I'm right there. Jonah is the
same way too. I do have to be with him because
he is so full of energy he doesn't sit very still and
doesn't understand how soft you have to be with
a baby. I have to say she has brought much love
and joy into our family and it's been wonderful!
I can't believe that she is now almost 6mo!
Where, oh where, does all the time go?

Snow in St. George

A couple of weeks before Christmas we woke up

to snow. I let the boys (Jonah was at a Grandpa

Kitchel's for a sleep over) take the sleds that were

left by Uncle Joe out to the field behind the house

and they went down the slopes. After doing this

video I went down with them a couple of times.

The boys had a blast but froze. They were not

happy with how cold their hands are. I remember

when I was little and had to walk home from school

(and yes it was a mile, we've measured!) My hands

would be so cold and frozen I would sob as I tried

to warm them up. The boys are so lucky to either

walk across the field or get a ride to school from

their mom.

Lilly in the bouncer

You will have to ignore my voice in this as I realized

I talked too much in it, but I wanted to show you

this cute video.

Awards

Jeremy decided that this
year he wanted to do the
story telling contest. This
is something they didn't
invite the parents too so
I didn't find out until
a couple of days after-
wards. Jeremy got first

place in his grade. He was very excited! I'm not very
surprised because this year he has become very vocal
and has quite the imagination.


Jonah was student
of the month for December.
He got an award for being
kind. It was a surprise
for him so I tried to get a
picture of his face when
they announced his name
but he didn't pull a face,
just calmly got up and went

to get it. I had to threaten him to
get one more decent pic with a
close up of his diploma. Something
about the Dutton boys and being
in first grade. They like to do their
own thing! I wonder if Lilly will
pick this up or be mellow like I
was....

I'm so very proud of these guys
and love to see them be rewarded
for their efforts!

Thanksgiving 2009

We spent this Thanks-
giving at Mundy's Aunt
Cindy's house. This is
Kimbra and Braegan.
Kimbra is Mike's girl-
friend and Braegan is her
daughter.


Kimbra is doing double
duty here holding both
Lilly and Paige.







This is Mike. He is Mundy's
cousin. He's dozin' while
he is watching a football
game.







Here are the boys. Bryan is
Kimbra's son, Justin, and Kody
who is Mike's son.






This is Aunt Cindy. She is the
one that invited us to come have
Thanksgiving. It was so yummy.
We love Aunt Cindy. She is one
awesome lady!



This is Rosy she is Cindy's
soon to be daughter-in-law.
She loves babies and often
has Lilly when we go over there.
She was even kind enough to
watch her so we could go see
New Moon yesterday! We are
so happy she will be part of the
family


Here is Mundy and Vance.
Vance is Cindy's son. The pic
is not great thanks to the
lighting, but the boys are
not to excited about picture
taking. I wasn't even able
to get Will, Rosy's soon to
be hubby.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Lot of yummy food and
wonderful family to be around. I ate way to much and have
decided after the holidays I will go on a diet and begin some
kind of excercise routine. This gut is getting larger because
I still seem to want to eat like I did when I was pregnant. I
need to find my discipline!
We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving too! Love you
all!

Jonah's assembly

I hope this works
this time. I had some
major issues and ended
up deleting the whole
thing to start over! GRR!
Here is Jonah before the
assembly dressed as
he should be.













The pic is pretty dark,
but here he is holding
the letter A. He had a
part which I was going to
record, but totally forgot
to. My memory is awful
these days!
Here is Jonah holding his
arm instead of singing. My
kids usually only pay atten-
tion half the time so they only
know half the song. As you can
see Jonah went rebel and put
his feathers on upside down.



This is Jonah's cousin Justin.
He is about a month and a half
younger then Jonah, and his
sister Paige was born about
a month and a half after Lilly.
Justin's dad, Vance, is cousins
with Mundy.

Alma did it again!

We finally got some new family pics done! Amanda's, my little sis, friend Alma did them for us. She is just starting out and I think she is going to be great some day. If she can take my wild and crazy boys and get some cute pics of us she can do anything. Here is the link to her blog to check out some new pics of the boys, Lilly and family! Thanks Alma!
http://almashots.blogspot.com