Ok, ok, I know it has been almost two whole weeks since our last contact with this blog. My only excuse is that School has been pretty crazy lately (and I'm not talking about frat parties). I have been absolutely swamped with homework and papers and job searching and intramural basketball (losing I might add - yeah, we're 0-4 [we thought that we could handle the C-league, you know with A-league being the best teams. Maybe next year we'll have to drop down to the bottom, the D-league and then maybe we could win a game...I guess there is a reason I wrestled during basketball season]). That and we simply don't get on the internet much at home and the school network will not allow me to upload pictures onto the blog because of some filter crap or something. I don't know. At any rate, here we are...and here are a few more pictures of the cutest little "Squash" in the world. Thaaaaat's right. We call her Squash.


This is an old picture from Christmas time with Sasha and her Great Granddad Edwards (Brit's mom's dad). She didn't know what to think of the old guy at first but she quickly warmed up to him, as you can see.


This next picture is a little more recent (January). This is when we found out that Sasha doesn't handle yogurt very well. The poor thing broke out in hives all over her body. Fortunately, they didn't seem to bother her much as she was still a fairly happy baby that night, as she usually is.


This is Sasha's "Little People" farm that she got for Christmas. This is what came out of the box before we put her in the box to take pictures. It makes all sorts of animal sounds and she loves it!




If you think this next picture looks like she is walking, well, you are right! She hasn't taken steps yet on her own but as long as she can hold onto something, she can walk for days. She pushes her high chair (currently a low chair) all around the front room and just sort of giggles the entire time. It is so cute! She is so much fun! She is becoming more and more rambunctious (maybe it's becuase daddy likes to rough-house with her ... I dunno). She now has 6 teeth; another one came in on top.

What can I say...we love having her around!
TTFN

~Brit, Hilary, & Sasha

Latest News!

It's amazing! We actually have had above freezing temperatures that last few days! And everyday this week it is supposed to be above 40 degrees! Look out! It is definately global warming just like those scientists are saying. What are we going to do? I guess it's time to pull out the shorts and short sleeves because we won't need those parkas anymore! Yeah!

Anyway, back to reality...things are good up here in the great city of Spokane, WA.

In sports: Brit's intramural basketball team is hoping to get their first "W" tomorrow. Currently, they are 0-2. It's not looking so good for the old men lawschool students (who spend their days sitting down in the library 10 hrs a day) going up against all those in-shape undergraduates (who also play soccer and run around way too much!). Hopefully, we can make a shot this week.

Infant news: Sasha got another tooth on the top. That's number 5 in total, 3rd one on top. Lately she has been letting go of whatever she might be holding onto to while standing and then she'll just stand there for awhile. Her balance is improving so much. We think she'll be taking steps within the month.

Quick update: Hilary has been feeling better from her bug, whatever it was. Brit is still plugging away at school. Sasha is loving to crawl everywhere, and loving to pull all the books off the shelf. She is becoming more and more active and energetic each day as well. She just can't sit still (especially at church!). She loves it when you lay on the ground so she can climb over you and then back again. That is so much fun for her.

In other news: we have a ward activity coming up that is going to be the bomb! Only because we are helping to put it together! It is going to be a ward fair, with games and prizes and more! You all are invited, although, I don't expect to see any of you guys there (it'd be a very long drive for a 2hr activity where you knew three people - and one of those three can't even talk yet!)

Well, our time is up... This is Brit, Hilary, and Sasha reporting to you LIVE from Spokane, WA. Back to you, Bob.

More Christmas photos

Here are some more pictures from Christmas time that I'm sure you all are anxious to see. Sasha opened her very first Christmas present and she didn't quite know what to think. She got PJs to match mommy and daddy's new PJs that were also in the box.

Sasha really loved the holidays. She loved ripping off the wrapping paper and eating it too!

We are getting back in to the swing of things now. Brit has been back in school for a couple of weeks. It was a slow start but things are on the upside now. Both Sasha and Hilary got colds, so our house has not been the most guest-welcome home in the last week or so. But, things seem to be getting a little better now.

Sasha also had a third tooth come through...one on the top! We think she was pretty happy about that. We think that the reason she doesn't smile as much lately is because she is playing with her teeth with her tongue.

Here is a family photo! It was one of the best ones taken in which Sasha wasn't pulling some funny face.

Until next post...

P.S. sorry we didn't have any good stories to tell this time around. We'll think of a good one for next time.

Love you all,

Brit, Hilary, & Sasha

Happy New Year, everyone!!! This blog is back up and running. We've had some technical difficulties over the holidays but I think they are sorted out now. Sasha got two teeth over the christmas break so she got a new toothbrush! We got a ton of new pictures so stay tuned and we'll be sure to post as many as we can. It's a little fuzzy but Sasha discovered a new fun ride...on top of Daddy's shoulders!! She uses his ears as handholds for when things get a little bumpy.

We had a great time down in SLC for the three weeks that we were there. It was so great to see everyone! Sasha seemed to enjoy it as well. Check out those ROSY CHEEKS!! Even though she may have been a little cranky for some of you at times. Like I said before, these are just a few of the pictures that were taken during that time. We will be posting more momentarily so stay tuned!!

I think my personal favorite (Brit) is this next one. Sasha seemed to like the box a little more than the actual toy. One thing to note: the toy name, even though you can't see it in the picture is "Little People."

For those of you who may not have had the chance to see her, she is crawling around and getting into EVERYTHING now! And she is talking a lot more 'baby talk' as well.

Until next post, good luck on all your new year's resolutions. Don't give up after two weeks like the rest of the nation!

Not Quite a Crawl

It has been another fabulous week up here in Spokane. The rain has started to come and some snow up in the mountains. School is getting close to finals so the days in the library are getting longer. Sasha is starting to figure out how to wave. She's not quite there yet though. She is also in the beginning stages of crawling, however, she hasn't quite got the knack of going forward. She can scoot backwards and can now sit up on her own, but crawling forward requires the cooperation of her legs and they just don't want to do what she wants them to do yet. So, she gets a little frustrated when she can't reach something. The good part is that her attention span is so short that she soon forgets exactly what she wants and directs herself to a new target.

We got together with some friends to have pie the other night. (I think I had a small taste of almost every different kind) Hilary gave Sasha the coolest hair-do. Apparantly, Sasha loved getting her hair done. It was kind of in a mohawk form as you can see in the picture. She is so CUTE!

P.S. to this post: we were a little delayed in getting this post out because we lost internet access for a few days. But now we're back, so enjoy!

Your Average Week

Well, this week has been a normal week. Nothing too exciting has happened, other than half of Washington almost washed away making us the coastal city. The flooding storm went right around Spokane, fortunately for us.
Sasha has been working on her scowl lately, (We think she gets it from Grandpa, I mean honestly...it couldn't be from either of her parents, right?) whenever she is super excited. We're not quite sure what that means except that she is still happy and that's all we care about, really.

Sasha had peas this week (first time) - HATED IT, but she loves her oatmeal. The only sad thing that went on this week was Sasha got a bug and threw up a lot tuesday night. Saddest thing I've ever seen is a six-month old dry-heaving.
SOOOOO SAAAAAAAD!!!!!!
Fortunately, she is her happy little self again.


This is one of the days she had oatmeal - I don't know if any actually went down because of how much ended up everywhere else!

The Day of Doom!

October 27th was a "Day of Doom" for little Sasha. This picture, notice she is smiling, was right before she fell to the side and hit her head on the TV stand. Fortunately, no damage was done and she was smiling once again in no time. However, I did say this was a DAY of doom.
Incident #2: Sasha was once again standing, this time holding on to Mom's toes while facing the mirror. (She likes to entertain herself in the mirror, or she likes to talk to the baby that's looking back at her - we're not sure which) Somehow (Brit doesn't know because he was at school, and apparently Hilary has blocked this traumatic experience from her memory) Sasha lost her grip or balance, fell away from Mom, and smashed her nose into the carpet (much better than the mirror, but still not fun). Fortunately, again, no permanent damage (we think) was caused - ...well...she has been kind of wobbly lately (j/k she's always been wobbly on her feet, but she is getting more stable every day!).
Incident #3: To cap it all off... Mom and baby were getting ready to leave. Mom bent down to set Sasha on the floor and Sasha thought she was suddenly an escape artist and did this funky roll right out of Mom's arms. Unfortunately, Sasha wasn't prepared for the landing and she landed smack on her face - AGAIN!
To this day, Mom is still more traumatized and mortified than the baby is and is trying to block it all out of her memory but Dad keeps reminding her.


As you can see in the pictures, Sasha does not have a boxer's nose, nor a crooked witch's nose so we think we're ok. Sasha is still a very happy baby which we are ever grateful for - that is until the teeth start to come in, we hear that's not very fun.

Honestly, Sasha couldn't have a better mom in the world - (*Note: Brit wrote this. Hilary would never brag about herself like that nor would she EVER tell anyone about anything that happened on the dreaded "Day of Doom!")

Friends

We have been getting questions about who is keeping us sane and entertained while we are here. We have been very lucky to have made as wonderful friends, and so quickly. Within min of being here we had a half dozen or so men from the ward here to help us move in. Mason and Kimberly (sorry no picture, we'll work on that) brought us dinner our first night so that we didn't have to try to find all that would be required to make dinner that night. We have shared family home evening with many of the families in our ward as well. We have loved getting to know so many wonderful people. Our next door neighbors are great, though we are really sad that they will be leaving us soon, they close on their new house this week.

To the left:

From the left, "The Law widows": Ava H(Marshall and Amy's daughter), Leslie J., Vanessa T., Ashley H., Sasha, Hilary, Amy H.

Below:

From the left, "The 1L's": Marshall H., Justin H., Ryan J., Dan T., Brit

These are the great friends that we became really close to almost instantly. These pictures were taken at "Pig-Out-In-The-Park" on Sept 1, it has been wonderful to have such good friend that are in the same situation as we are. The "wives" are together at least several days a week, it is so nice to know that there is always someone that we can turn to anytime. It has been surprising how much we rely on each other. Marshall, Ryan and Dan are in the same section, so they have most of their classes together, Justin and Brit are all alone in the other two sections. It has been nice for them to have each other to study with, and help each other when allowed.

Halloween Greetings

Well this has been quite the exciting week... Sasha's 1st Halloween... and she had her 6 month un-birthday :) ... She had a checkup at the Dr's and she is at an astounding 27 inches, 17 lbs. 13 oz. ...unfortunately that came with another round of immunizations, and like before she didn't do so well with these shots. To say the least we didn't get much sleep. We had a good night and then the poor thing got a cold. Luckily this time we had the humidifier on hand, things went smoother after we got it going last night.

Sasha loved her chicken costume, she spent all day in it. We went visiting some friends, and went to "Cherubs" a children's singing/activity group that we have going in our ward every Tuesday, there was a party after, but Sasha was already checked out so we took her home to sleep.

Brit went to school dressed up as a high school jock, though there were a few that thought that he was just wearing his letterman jacket for fun. Apparently most of the law students didn't dress up. He is already planning for next years costume... you'll have to wait to find out what it will be.

The Hendrickson's had a Halloween Party at their apartment, which was a great thing with how cold it was, and the "Trunk-or-Treating" didn't work out like it was supposed to. Oh well there is always next year, and Sasha might know what is going on then. If the temperature trends follow this year, I think that we might all be well served to go as Eskimos (it was 13 degrees that evening). Hope that everyone is doing well, and had a fabulous Halloween. We'll be posting again soon.

Love~ The Glad Family

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Now, to continue our story of "Sasha and the green avocado"...
Sasha decided that if she pressed her lips together or chewed on her bottom lip, that we would be unable to get any more of that strange stuff passed her lips.
When that didn't work and after we decided Sasha had had enough avocado, she decided to brush the plate clean of all remaining green slimy stuff so that we would be unable to force any more of it into her mouth.
No, she is not pulling the spoon to her mouth, she is actually pushing it away!

We are going to try again soon, as we are now introducing, slowly, real food into her diet. Only one type of food per week. This week avocado...next week mexican! - just kidding - oatmeal cereal is the next thing on the list.


We love all of you guys and we'll keep the pictures flowing like milk and honey! we might even put more pictures of Hilary and Brit even though we both know that Sasha is the person you REALLY want to see. She really is the star of the show. Honestly, I don't have a picture of me on my desktop; it's all Sasha everyday! She's a hit! What more can I say!

Anywho, Halloween is just around the corner and we'll post all the new pictures soon!
Love you,
~Brit, Hilary, and Sasha

P.S. -- (insert sarcasm here) I know...you read this blog because of the articles! riiiiiiiiight.