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18 Dec

I got these pictures while Harris and Tyler were taking a nap yesterday. I need to get some of Harris today!

(If you are new around here, I documented my entire pregnancy and 3rd round of IVF with letters to my children. You can find a tab at the top of my blog under “infertility” with all of those posts)

To my beautiful children,

It has been too long since I have written you my precious babies. We are busy people in this house! You keep me busy from sun up until sun down. We have all been sick this past week and this week has been a lesson to me that I needed to relearn, and that mama wanted to pass along to you, too. We have been stuck inside with coughs and sore throats, and the air quality outside has been smoggy and dirty with the inversion in the valley of these Utah mountains. It has been a real fight to stay positive and upbeat this week. It has been a fight that I have failed many times. It’s hard to feel happy when your body feels so awful!

You’ll have ups and downs in life. When you’re in the down parts of life, you may be tempted to think that it shouldn’t be like that. No one likes to feel sad, upset, depressed, anxious or mad. What you need to know is that those feelings are completely normal. We will have opposition in all things, including our feelings. Feel them. The sad parts of life are just as normal as the happy parts. The past week has made me appreciate even more the sunny warm days, the days where our throats don’t hurt and the days that we don’t have to blow our noses. If we didn’t feel the sad, how could we really appreciate the happy? How could we really appreciate our health if we always felt good? Although this last week has been really, really rough, I’m looking ahead into the upcoming week with SO much gratitude. I’m grateful I can go to the gym and that my now healthy body can exercise. I’m grateful that you two can play and have fun with each other without feeling sick. It might be grey outside but we will go into this week feeling sunshine.

Harris – you are growing into such a big boy! Your blonde curls and bright blue eyes are the best compliments to your sweet, sweet spirit. You are so good to your sister! You make sure she has her blankie and you can tell when she is mad or sad  (well…she makes it known pretty clearly) and you look at her and try to help her. You are full of life and love and a joy that is so contagious that I just love picking you up and squeezing you. Those cheeks!! Your cute little teeth kill me, too. You love playing with Goldie and chasing her around the room. I asked your dad to hold my hand while we were walking in Cancun and you thought I was talking to you. Your dad was carrying you in the carrier so I held your wonderful little hand while we walked and you didn’t let go. Melt my heart, little guy!

Goldie – you have started talking a lot the last two weeks! My favorite things that you say are “crackers” because you say “ca-cuh,” and when you say “Coscto” because you say it so clearly and it’s hilarious! I asked you to say “cat” the other day, and you responded with, “meow!” What?! Who even taught you that?! You also say, “all done” when you are finished eating and want to get out of your high chair. You were walking like a cute little monkey for a couple of weeks but now you are really comfortable with walking around. You are so tiny and I can’t believe that a person that is so tiny can walk. You are a trickster and you love stealing Harris’ binkie and then laughing with your high pitched and excited laugh. Your brown eyes and curly brown hair kill me!

I love you, babies. You are growing faster than I can even imagine and your dad and I still can’t believe you are ours. Thank you for being so excited and joyful about everything!

Love you always,

Mama



Since this week was so rough, I asked some of you on Instagram what you do to get through the winter, and I LOVED your suggestions! Some of my favorites:

  • Cook warm meals and soups and plan menus to look forward to. What are you favorite recipes? Let’s cook together!
  • Warm bubble baths at night
  • Go to bed earlier

Below are my closet staples that are getting me through the winter. I wear this long sleeve tee that is only $19 all of the time (I have 3 colors!), these leggings are MUST haves to wear with long cardigans or sweaters and boots, and I love this beanie. It doesn’t itch my head like a lot others do!

CLOSET WINTER STAPLES

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Favorite things I heard this week: Goldie genuinel Favorite things I heard this week:
Goldie genuinely asking Harris: “Who has your heart been waiting for?” asking him about who he thinks is cute at school.
Harris: “I haven’t decided yet.”

Goldie walking into my closet before bed last night: “How is my pretty pretty one?” referring to me 😂 Yes, I will read you another book, Goldie.

What were some things that lit up your week?
Make us smile!

#parcellsundayselfie 6/26/22 #sundaybest
This week I was asked this question: “You believ This week I was asked this question: “You believe IN Jesus Christ…but do you believe Him? Do you believe Him when He says He will heal you?”

This made me pause! Do I? Not often enough. I believe that He lived and He atoned for our sins. But I often worry and fear and forget that He’s already paved the way. I often have anxiety about an unknown future and forget that nothing surprises Him and His way is the way home. We know how this all ends. We have the path! But do we believe Him when He says He will heal us? Actually believe that He says what He promises?

I want my kids to know that I believe in Him AND I believe Him. Grateful grateful grateful for the right questions! #parcellsundayselfie 6/5/22
Motherhood has given me a small glimpse at what Go Motherhood has given me a small glimpse at what God thinks of His children, too. Us. I’ll be looking at my kids in awe of every little detail of perfection. Just staring. Thinking how perfect their eyes are, and their cheeks, and the way they say things. Even though they really aren’t perfect, you know? Except they are.

I think that’s what God sees in us, too. We aren’t perfect and yet He sees us that way.

How our flaws aren’t that big of a deal.

That it’s okay because He encourages us to try again.

We spill, and don’t say things right, and mess up.

But He looks at us the way we look at our kids. I think it’s really cool that someone loves us that much, too ❤️
Happy Sunday, friends! ✨ I love this family of m Happy Sunday, friends! ✨ I love this family of mine. I think the family structure is such a gift. “In family relationships, 'love' is really spelled 't-i-m-e,' time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home.” - Dieter F. Uchtdorf (one of my FAV speakers!)

My kids will be 6 in July and my mom said to me recently, “they’re 1/3 of the way to 18!” 🤯 That just boggles my mind. Time truly does go quickly and that’s a good thing because that reminder allows you soak up the good times AND that reminder allows you to know that hard times will pass. ❤️

I hope you get some good times this weekend, friends! #parcellsundayselfie 5/29/22
Snaps from the weekend with our little family! Gol Snaps from the weekend with our little family! Goldie had her spring recital and one of my favorite parts is that Harris is always so excited to cheer her on. I think that’s one of the best parts about being a family. We’re each other’s people! Through the highs and the lows.

Goldie got back in the car after her dance pictures on Friday and said, “I need snack after all that excitement!”

We hope you had a great weekend! xo #parcellsundayselfie 5/22/22
Slowly making my way through every vending machine Slowly making my way through every vending machine in Utah, selling out the crap you don’t want your kids to eat. “No” isn’t a sound that comes frequently out of my mouth these days when asked by my kids if those gummies are coming home with us. Anyone have change for a $5?

16 weeks tomorrow! Feeling great!! #16weekspregnant #ivfsuccess
Happy Sunday! Tell me the most important things yo Happy Sunday! Tell me the most important things you focus on teaching your kids? 👇🏻

For me, it’s teaching them who they are which is children of God and where to find peace and direction.

The thing I need to work on teaching them more is how to clean up after themselves 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 Give me your best tips! Tyler and I have started to say we will give away the items that they don’t clean up. If they aren’t responsible enough to take care of them, they aren’t responsible enough to own them.

Fun times in the Parcell house right now! 😂 #parcellsundayselfie 5/15/22
Some of the best marriage advice we got is to make Some of the best marriage advice we got is to make one on one time for each other to talk about things that aren’t kids related. Of course we talk about them but our weekly date night and occasional trip with just us two is SO important for us! 💕

Now we are back from Cancun! 🌊☀️🏖 Putting together a blog post with all of your questions. What questions do you have about the trip?

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