Fullmer California Trip

Jake's sister Carly and her family have been living in California this past year while her husband Jimmy finishes up his last year of fellowship. We decided to take advantage and had a little Fullmer family reunion! Jake is number 4 out of 6 kids so it was definitely a house full but it had been so long since everyone was together at one time. Picture overload!

Day 1:
We went to the LA science museum.. pretty cool place for it being free! We had a little picnic in front of the museum then spent half the day at the museum! The kids loved it.

Then we drove over to the beach (This was the sunniest day) and played games on the pier and all the kids played in the ocean! (In their clothes).

Day 2:
We all loaded up in the car and went to a huge park with fun playground stuff, tennis courts and fields. We had to get creative so that the adults could be entertained and all the kids too. Jake's whole family plays tennis so the adults did that while the kids played! 

 This was also supposed to be our beach day, but it was pretty overcast and chilly! We went anyway and kids could care less so they all loved playing in the freezing ocean (so did my husband who went in his clothes.. crazy boy!!)

 

Day 3:
This was Sunday so we all went to church then went to Newport Beach to check out the tide pools. The little town was so cute and it was a gorgeous beach!

Then we hurried home and got ready for family pictures! It was pretty cold so we took as many as we could before all the kids were pictured out and ready to warm up.

Easter

We had the chance to go to the Easter Pageant this year and it was such a great way to start off the holiday with watching the story of Christ and his Resurrection. My friend Olivia was one of the angels this year so it was fun to see her all dressed up!  We spent Easter with  my family this year and my mom is a great event planner. On Saturday we went over and had a little Easter celebration with an egg hunt, dying eggs,sack races, yummy lunch and swimming. (Yes it was warm enough to go swimming in MARCH).

 On Easter Sunday Jake gave a talk in Sacrament meeting and it was so great. I am so lucky to be married to him and he has such a great testimony of our Savior so it was great to be able to hear him express that. We went over to my moms for Easter dinner with my family (my bro in law had some of his relatives there as well) and overall it was a great Easter!

March

Months seem to be FLYING by these days and I don't like it one bit. Lexie is growing up so fast and it feels like every time she wakes up in the morning, shes bigger than she was the night before! March was a fun month for us. We  made a 12+ hour road trip with a 6 month old (never again) and survived, perfect weather in AZ and lots of walks to the park, laying out by the pool, Lexie turned 6 months old, and Easter (post coming on that later).

Preschool

We have been loving our new house, new job and everything seems to be working out for us! Jake just recently got a raise for his job and he has been working SO hard for our family. I also joke and say I have 3 jobs.. which is techinically true but I just wanted something to do where I could keep Lexie with me and still be busy! I teach piano lessons at my moms house, I nanny for a family, and I also started teaching preschool in my house! I basically transformed our living room into a preschool and it has been so fun to actually put my schooling to good use.

Growing

Miss Lexie will be 6 months on Sunday?! How did that even happen. I am loving every day with this girl though and it is SO fun to see the new things she develops and learns how to do. Some new things we have been experiencing over here:

Food.
I am still breastfeeding but I was anxious to see how she would respond to baby food. After her 4 month check up (when you are allowed to introduce them to rice cereal) I did it that night and she did not understand what was going on and was not a fan of it. I tried about a month later and it took a couple days but she loves it! So far she has had pears, bananas, sweet potatoes and squash. I don't do it everyday.. and I usually only do it around dinner time but she loves it whenever I let her eat it!

Rolling Over.
This girl is getting soooo frustrated that she can't move yet. She loves to roll over and try to reach as far as she can to try to reach things but no crawling yet! Some of the pictures capture her getting mad she can't crawl yet.

Swimming.
Today the high is 90 degrees... and it's not even Easter yet! Our new house has a neighborhood pool so today we walked over there and spent some time in the sunshine. (I did... she stayed in the shade). The water is still pretty cold but we loved getting in our swimming suits!

Hair Cuts:
This one I am really sad about. So she has pretty crazy hair.. and it was getting to the point where it was all uneven and the hair was growing over her ears and looked weird so my mom gave her a little trim. We can't help but laugh because without a headband she could be our little boy! Of course I am one of those moms that saved her hair and put it in her baby book. My sister Jessica also put her hair in a little pony tail one day and it was so dang cute.

After hair cute... haha