You asked...

Well, maybe you didn't ask, but several have asked for more of pictures of Seth. I've been terrible about updating the blog pics and it isn't for a lack of pictures taken, just a lack of time! Seth has been an absolute joy these last two months! He is such a wonderful baby and we still can't get enough of the little guy! Here's some pics of the little guy over his first two and a half months...

First bath - he didn't love it, but the boys loved giving it to him!

Seth had jaundice pretty bad and it was SO hard to wake him up. It usually consisted of undressing him and changing his diaper, but even then he would usually fall back asleep within minutes of starting to eat.

These boys just adore their little brother!

Already a cougar fan!

About one month old and oh so sweet!

With work never stopping, Seth was often got to share our arms and laps with the computer.

With Aunt Caryn - a.k.a. the baby whisperer

Seth got to go to Papa's (my Dad) retirement from BYU -

he was the only grandchild to see what a superstar his Papa was at BYU!

Loving time with Nana!

Got to hang with the adults at our fun weekend in Utah celebrating my Dad's awesomeness!

Papa and Seth

Love Love Love those smiles!

We've had several people tell us that they think he looks like Matthew - we agree!

Today - what a sweet little guy! We just adore him and are so happy to have him in our family!

Matthew's 7th birthday!

Matthew had a wonderful birthday! Since he turned 7 it is his non-party year, but he still had a blast with several family and friend outings! It was a short school day, so we went with some friends to Chuck-E-Cheese to play and have cupcakes!

Matthew loves Mario! He wanted to have a Mario cake and cupcakes, but he didn't let me know until the night before (before that he just wanted an ice cream cake), so I had to make do with printed pictures, but he didn't mind - he's such a happy-go-lucky kid!

For dinner we went to the Rainforest Cafe! Matthew had his third cake of the day with a brownie volcano! We had a super fun dinner!

Matthew is such a sweetheart! He is such a kind kid and has such a great heart! He is also super obedient and always willing to help. When I ask him to do things more often than not he will jump up and do it. He also loves his brothers! He and Adam play great together, he's great helping Nathan learn things, and he adores his newest little brother, Seth. He is such a great kid!

Our first Christmas at home

Up until this year we have always celebrated Christmas at the homes of our families, but never on our own. We have loved always being with family, but with Seth being only 2 weeks old at Christmas we knew it would be our first one just staying at home. Brian loved the idea of not traveling anywhere and just being able to hang out at home. I was trying not to be sad about having my entire family together and missing out on all the fun. The boys had mixed feelings - they were loving the idea of having Brian home (gotta love paternity leave), but missing their cousins and sad to not be with them. Lucky for us our good friends, the Hartmans, also celebrated Christmas here so we got to do Christmas Eve together! They were so wonderful to do a nice ham dinner for us. After a nice dinner we played a while and then I read them the little golden book "The Animals on Christmas Eve," which my mom had always read to me growing up, and then had a great nativity with the children (and me - I was the only one for the Mary job). Nathan was the shepherd so he could use the extra large candy cane wrapped up to look like a staff. It was so fun to have a baby instead of a doll to play Jesus - and he did such a great job! Adam was a wise man and Matthew was Joseph.

After that we went home to do our Christmas Crackers, open ornaments and PJ's, hang stockings, and put out the milk and cookies! The boys were beyond excited - I thought they'd never go to sleep!

In their cute new PJ's!

At the top of the stairs waiting to go down in order of age! Seth wasn't quite ready to be awake.

One of Nathan's favorite prizes!

Loving their new light sabers!

Seth liked his new toy too!

All in all it was a wonderful Christmas. It was a joy to have a baby at Christmas time. We had a great day just playing games, playing with the new Wii, doing puzzles, putting together the marble tower and Lego creations, and just hanging out together taking turns holding the baby! It was a memorable Christmas and we were so glad to have Seth with us for it!

Our Sweet Little Seth

On December 8th at 5:05 p.m. Seth Charles Wengreen joined our family! He has brought us more joy than we thought possible over the last 9 days! We are so excited to have him with us at this special time of year. It has been so sweet to think about the Saviors birth and reflect more on the true meaning of Christmas - the birth of a baby.

Leading up to his birth the boys could literally not wait for him to come, especially Adam and Matthew. Each day when they would wake up in the morning or come home from school they were disappointed that I was there - they had hoped I'd be at the hospital having the baby. When he was born they were at the hospital within a couple of hours and were ecstatic to see their new little brother, thanks to Nana, since she wanted to see him just as much! They ended up having to do 'rock, paper, scissors' to decide who got to hold him first, but the one who got to hold him first had the shorter turn. It's pretty much been like that ever since - when they get home from school it's the first thing they want to do. Adam wants to play the piano for Seth, Matthew wants to read him his books, and Nathan likes to dance for him.

The only problem is that I want to hold him just as much as they do! We're all just in awe at this sweet little one. I find myself just sitting and staring at him and wondering how I got to be so lucky to have this sweet boy join our family. I know that luck has very little to do with it, though. Most of our family and friends know that we had to go through in vitro to get this little guy. It felt like a very long time trying to figure out what was wrong and what we would need to do to have another baby. One of the reasons I love the name Seth is because it means "appointed." In Genesis 4:25 Eve calls her son Seth because she said God appointed her another seed because she had lost Abel. We have lost so many hopeful children early on in pregnancies and even with all we had to go through to get Seth, I always felt like we still had a child that was supposed to come or that was appointed to be a part of our family. To have him here and with us truly feels like a miracle. He is the sweetest and most precious baby and we simply can't get enough of him. He is our favorite Christmas gift!

Fabulous Fall!

Turns out the fall has been just as busy as the summer, so we're doing another summary! It all started with the first day of school for Adam and Matthew. Adam started 4th grade and Matthew is in 1st!

About a week later Nathan had his first day of preschool! He was so excited to go to school and be big like his brothers! He gets to go with lots of friends, which has been really fun too!

Another first for Nathan this fall was being on his first soccer team! We had all three boys in soccer, which was pretty crazy, especially on Saturdays trying to get everyone to their games!

We had a very fun visitor - Nana! My mom came and saved me while Brian was gone for 2 weeks to Asia. It was so great to have her - we went shopping in Leavenworth, got almost all my baby shopping done, played lots of games, and had a blast with the boys!

She even got to come with Nathan on his field trip to the pumpkin patch - this is the tractor ride!

This year for Adam's 'Night of the Notables' Adam was Harry Houdini! He got to learn all about him, make a timeline, autobiography, portrait, and for his extra activities he built a lego model of Houdini on stage and a power point quiz presentation - and he loved every minute!

We found a very fun Pumpkin Patch this year - the boys loved the giant slide, corn maze, bouncy house, big tricycles, the cow train, and especially the corn room (hours of fun)!

Boys and pumpkin guts - oh the joy!

They do end up with cute/scary pumpkins in the end!

We headed down to Boise for Halloween this year to spend it with the Ashtons! The boys were beyond excited to get to see their cousins and had a blast trunk-or-treating, too!

On the way home we got to stop at the Cooks and visit for a bit with Brian's grandparents. The boys favorite part is getting measured on their growth board and tracking how tall they are now!

In November Brian and Matthew got to take a very special trip to visit Brian's parents who are serving a mission in Chile! Matthew was so excited that it was his turn to take a trip with Dad, but a little nervous too about going to a country where they didn't speak English! He got comfortable with it all pretty quick and jumped right in to enjoy every minute!

Matthew loved getting to ride a horse for the first time! He got to ride twice while in Chile and it was a true highlight for him.

Future Elder Wengreen with current Elder Wengreen

Matthew had a very hard time saying goodbye to his Grammy and Grandpa! He loved his time with them - they went to the zoo, a Chilean birthday party, all around their area, met lots of great people, and made lots of wonderful memories!

We keep hearing about this hard winter we are going to have, and it's started with a bang! We got several inches of snow and school was cancelled for two days. The boys had a blast and loved that Brian couldn't get to work and played with them on his lunch hours!

For Thanksgiving we got to have the Mitchells and Anna come share the day with us! We started it with the kids making 'apple turkeys' - a tradition from when I was a kid that I've never outgrown! The kids love it!

Just two weeks till the baby, I was surprised at how fun it was to be up and cooking! I love making the rolls and the pies the best - I still haven't had to touch a turkey thanks to Amy!

Brian got to carve the bird while I sang my Thanksgiving day song!

The kids loved having their cousins here! Nothing like spending the holidays with family!

It really was a fabulous fall and we are looking forward to a wonderful winter with our new little guy! We are all so beyond excited - we just can't wait to have him here!