Coming Soon to a Baugh Family Near You...

"BABY BAUGHH THE SEQUEL"

Coming July 2008

In a Select Room at Jordan Valley Hospital Only

Don't miss the sneak peak the first week of February

Since we told our families yesterday I guess it's safe to post a little more publicly. We are expecting! That's right, Abby will soon be a sibling. My due date is July 4th (which both sides of our family just loved!). We like Max and Ruby as names and both agree on them so we'll be excited for anything when we find out in February if our new addition will be a boy or girl. YAY!

Also, I posted the same note on my Blog. If you would like to look at it it's curtisandlexy.blogspot.com. It does require a password so if you can't get in just email me and I'll add you to the permissions list. Thanks!

Christmas Card?

I was a little crazy with wortk up until Friday and I didn't get around to doing Christmas cards this year. So, here is a digital attempt to make it up to you all.

Peek-a-Boo...Merry Christmas to You!

Sweetness

I just wanted to share a few pictures of my sweet Abby. Emily took these while we were in St. George (pretty good, I'd say). She's so huge now!-Lex

Better late than never!

I didn't get a chance to copy these over to this blog earlier, but I wanted to share Aiden's Halloween pictures. Love the photos from Emily of the kids' costumes! Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving this week!

A boy blessed

Sorry Emily! I have been without the internet for the past week. Here is our little man in his blessing outfit. I was nervous it wouldn't fit because it is for 3-6 mos, but my boy grew right into it. I took the picture before church, but from what I understand this is the same way he looked during the blessing- awake and alert. Theron was very nervous to give a blessing into a microphone but did a great job.

This picture is of Theron's family outside our chapel. It is the only pic I have of me holding Logan.

And here is the proud Papa! We missed having all of you here with us, but if you must know there would not have been room in my ward's small chapel. Two other babies were blessed the same day and there was standing room only. There almost wasn't enough room for the 11 men to stand in Logan's circle! We are lucky to have so much family so close.

Happy Halloween

It's been a long time since a post (I keep waiting to see Blessing Day photos - hint, hint). So, here a few shots of my kids at Halloween. We just had a fabulous time, and the kids were so excited. Since we've taken Austin off food dye, it makes for a difficult holiday. But, he and Macy went trick-or-treating, kept a few pieces of candy, and left the rest of it out for the Halloween Goblin. He took the candy in the middle of the night and left Spiderman magnetix/lego set for Austin and Polly Pocket for Macy. It actually worked out quite well. We hope you had a fun holiday as well! Love you all, Emily

Austin as Count Dracula:

Macy as Princess/Witch (Don't ask!):

Paige as a cute little duckling:

Abby as a Princess:

Macy, Abby, Austin, and Paige:

Logan's blessing

As far as we can work out, Logan's blessing will be October 28th at 2:50 p.m. I'll make sure we call everyone as it gets closer, but now you know. We meet in the north chapel in the stake center by the temple. Hope to see you all there!

Ta-da!

Here he is- my beautiful baby boy! Sarah has been requesting pictures with his eyes open so here are a few. I took this one today. (He was brighter-eyed before I found the camera.)

This is how Logan likes to go to bed a night. He won't sleep very long flat on his back so we put him in this cradle swing my cousin loaned us. (don't worry-we uncover his face before the lights go out)



<-Another preferred position is belly to belly.

Sometimes he is happy and awake at the same time ->


All in all I can't believe how much I love him already.

Baby Shattuck gets a name

Late breaking news: the baby's name will be Logan Spencer Shattuck.

two big events

Alison and Troy are gone, and Baby Shattuck is here! The pictures say it all. The wedding and reception went so well and Mom and baby are doing great. He was born Thursday at 8:24 pm, weighing 8lb 2 oz and 20 1/2 " long. They induced labor because the doctor thought he was getting awfully big. He takes after his daddy. No name yet. We are enjoying all of your contributions as well.

Alison's Wedding

I was such a nice day last Friday, and Alison made a beautiful bride (or Princess as Macy keeps calling her). I actually don't have any pictures of Alison (she was busy with a professional photographer), but here are some pictures of other people who were there.

Alison and Troy - Thank you for sharing your day with us. You guys make such a cute couple, and both of you had eyes that were just glowing with excitement and optimism. Congrats!

My New Hobby

Hey everyone,

There is absolutely nothing going on at my house as exciting (or as beautiful) as Hawaii, but I wanted to share some pictures with you. Greg has been encouraging me to get a hobby for eight years now, and I finally found one. He bought me a really nice camera for our anniversary, and I've been playing around. I've taken about 300 pictures, experimenting with angles, light, and camera settings, and I've got a handful of pictures that I really like. I just thought I would share some with you. I have more on my blog if you want to see (gremily2.blogspot.com). Here are a few of my favorites:

My Sweet Paige (4 months):

Macy (she was watching some dogs and became very concerned when they ran away):

Austin painting a shark from a kit that we got at the aquarium. He did such a great job concentrating and working so hard on making his shark perfect. (That's an octopus on his cheek; they were painting faces at the aquarium that day.)

I hope all is well with everyone. I got Alison's wedding announcement today. It's adorable!

Abby

Abby has fallen in love with boating! She is definitely her father's daughter, or her great grandfather's grand-daughter ;o). She loves the water and being on the lake. We've taken her a bunch this summer and can see that we will need to buy her her own life jacket. Here she is on the boat. She is also starting to walk but she is afraid. She holds on to one of my fingers with her right hand. We did trick her into taking a few steps on her own, but if you try letting go she will stick out her butt, freeze for a second (long enough to give you a scowl and pout) and sit down crying. What a girl!

Weird Food Day

Jeff posted this on his blog, so I thought I would post it here too:

So I think the Russells have a new tradition: Various odd fruit night. The night of the 6th we went shopping and as I was browsing the fruit section I saw a fruit that caught my eye. It looked a little something like this:



Being in an adventurous mood I decided to try it. My sisters picked up on the idea of buying strange fruit. Christin picked up a coconut and Mini decided to get asparagus. Nothing too crazy, I guess, but other than my fruit there wasn’t anything we’ve never tried before. Anyway, turns out my fruit was a dragonfruit, and we had to look up online how to cut and eat it.



Turns out everything was delicious! The coconut was fun to break open and drain. The dragonfruit was really sweet and dyed everything it touched red. The asparagus, well, we cooked it wrong and had to throw it away.

It's a Small, Small World

So, a guy in our ward stopped us on Sunday to say that he met my grandma. He's a fireman/paramedic and said that he was called to her house when she fell. He said that she was sitting in a chair in the foyer and looked up at Grandma's wall of pictures. He pointed to our picture and said, "That's Greg and Emily." Grandma explained that I was her granddaughter. He asked if she broke anything, and was amazed that she broke her hip and had to have surgery. He said that she was walking around and she insisted that nothing was wrong. He said he was pushing on her hip with quite a bit of pressure, and she said that it didn't hurt. Greg explained that she gets her drugs from Mexico, and they both agreed that she was well-medicated. Seriously...she may have the highest tolerance for pain of anyone that I've ever met!

Hana Camping Trip

On Thursday the 19th, we left to go camping to Hana. We packed up the Suzuki and took off in the morning. Steve hadn’t been there in over twenty years and Chris and I (Megan) had never been. We made a stop at Hana Bay to stretch our legs. There is a cute little town and a really nice beach with a popular hole-in-the-wall plate lunch place called Tutu’s.


Here is a picture of our camp in Haleakala National Park. It was beautiful! You could take a walk right out to the ocean.                                                         
 




Apparantly, it was not recommended you swim here:


After setting up camp we took a drive to find the Red Sand Beach. The directions we had were not too clear, so it took a bit of wandering. There was a trail that led right down into this cove. It was awesome and the water felt so good after the hike there. Little did we know it was a popular nudie beach! Just kidding… But we did get an offer for some weed, but figured we already had enough, so we turned it down. hehe


The next day (Friday the 20th) Jeff, Christin, and I got up to do some hiking. It was only like a 4 mile hike- round trip. The trail starts out pretty rocky, then it leads you through a bamboo forest. There are a couple bridges overlooking green valleys on the way.




At the end there is a waterfall that’s about 400 feet high or something. It’s HUGE; the pictures just don’t do it justice!




The famous 7 Sacred Pools were just a walk away from camp. We all got in our suits and took a swim. They really were amazing.




On our way out of camp we stopped to see where Carl A. Lindberg is buried. It was such a quaint and peaceful place. On the grounds is this old chapel that was built in the 1800’s; so old and still being used and still as cute as ever.

Last stop was the Black Sand Beach. There is this lava tube you can crawl into and the water comes crashing right into it. It’s a really fun beach.