Elsie Celine Houghton

So it's just been a few hours since we found out we will be having a girl, but I have this experience spinning around in my head and I just had to write it down!

So over three years ago when Casey and I were deciding to have kids, we had a really hard time knowing if it was the right time or not. No matter how much we both prayed and tried to get an answer... we really weren't getting anything either way. When we would sit in sacrament (oh, how little did we know how lucky we were to just SIT back then!) we would doodle and often doodle baby names. We knew Easton... Casey had told me on our second date that he'd known since he was 12 that he wanted to name his first born Easton. We also had a few other boy names we liked, but on this particular Sunday I was doodling the name Elsie. Not really sure where I got it from... but I was really liking it and Casey liked it too.

Back then I had every Wednesday off of work so I would go have lunch with Casey at work and then go to the temple with Corrine. After I had lunch with Casey that day, and as I was saying bye, I said "Okay, well I'm going to the temple now to pray about Elsie". Well Corrine and I were doing a session that day... even though most often we did initiatories. The temple worker started handing Corrine the name and then moved her arm and gave it to me instead. When I saw the name on the paper, my heart sank. "Elsie...". If that's not an answer to a prayer, I don't know what is.

Then today in the ultrasound after the tech told me it was a girl, my heart kind of sank again. The baby in the ultrasound IS Elsie. I couldn't help but tear up and feel very close to this little girl! I feel so lucky to be having another little angel!

Valentines, Why I love you

Hayley and I are getting ready to sell these "14 Reasons why I love you" at the Wonderland Boutique in Alpine this weekend. It was quite the project getting it all ready! I tried finding as much candy as I could on sale, then there was printing the valentines... and putting it together!

At first our husbands were the babysitters... but after our boys went to bed, it was time to enlist Casey and Jake in some Valentines making. They were very put out. It only took about two minutes into it, and they had already started talking about forming a Union and giving us a list of demands... starting with soda and ice cream. When Hayley and I told them to stop complaining and get to work, it seems they decided to make things a little interesting so they proceeded to come up with dirty sayings for the candy instead of our clean ones. I do admit, they were quite hilarious and maybe one day Hayley and I will use some of them! *** UPDATE: Risque Valentines are now available here!!***

And now for married couples.... RISQUE VALENTINES:

Happy Birthday Elise!

For Elise's birthday we went to Sushiya in Orem. It's looks like a dinky little house on the outside, but when you go inside, it is huge!! Of coarse I didn't eat any nasty sushi, but Casey was in heaven! Easton was loving the Chinese noodles. Happy Birthday to such a great sister-in-law!!

Whenever I go visit Easton at daycare... all he wants to do is walk. He LOVES going up and down the halls with this walker. Now if only he would ditch the toy and walk on his own! 15 months and still not walking :(

Love

Easton's new favorite thing is this pair of sunglasses he got for Christmas. He love to put them on me or Casey, then put them on himself. We go back and forth, back and forth and he gets such a kick out of them! 

I took the first picture below at the UVU Bookstore when we went to buy a textbook that Casey needed for school. This will be his last semester (he has one class left in the summer and then he'll graduate). I wanted to remember this time in our lives where we were still in school and had a kid. Seems like my parents remember very fondly these times in their lives... and I think we will do the same :).

After UVU, we went to Casey's soccer game and Easton LOVED it. It didn't look up the hole second half... then even at that it was hard for me to get  a picture with him looking at least in the direction of my camera. I think he was in heaven... watching soccer and eating oranges. During halftime Casey came up to say hi and then went back to play goalie on the other side. He was wearing a yellow jersey so for the second half Easton knew where Casey was and he kept pointing at him saying "dada" like he was proud. It was really cute.

 

Its hard to get a picture of this little guy smiling now... because whenever I try, he sees my phone and wants the phone. He is better at working those baby games than I am! He's not even 1 1/2 yet and I'm already having to consciously limit his phone time. Wow. 

Just hanging out

My favorite thing to do with these two is nothing. It's in the moments where we don't have something planned that we end up giggling, tickling, and playing and these to me, are true happy moments. 

 

So I was getting ready to put Easton's carset in our car when I decided to fix the straps inside before we take it out so it was ready to go. I sat him in here and he was ecstatic! I don't really know why... but he was so stinking happy... he was clapping and laughing away. Since he was so happy, I decided to see how long he would last strapped in, and he lasted a WHILE. I gave him a toy and he lasted even longer. So cute.

 

Each year we do a Godfrey Family cousins party... this year we had to have it at a church. This is the four Godfrey girls  :)