2 Weeks & Many 1st's

2 Weeks from today we will be going to Sunny California. Jasmine and I are very excited but we are not ready at all for this trip. We really dont even know where to start to be honest! It will be a lot of fun though, this will be the 1st time that I get to meet the rest of the "Aussie's" and it will be the 1st time that Eli goes on a plane. This will be the 1st time that we travel as a FAMILY and it will be the 1st time that Jasmine gets to go to Disneyland. I went once when I was younger but I dont remember much. Jasmine and I are both excited to see her family, it has been 3ish years since Jasmine has seen them. We cant wait. We are going to take lots of pictures and hopefully soon after we get back we will post them. If anyone has any pointers on traveling with a little one, let us know. We will listen to all the advice that we are given!!

Doug.Jasmine.Eli.Skittles

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Long Time no Blog!!!

Hey everyone. It has been a long time since we have wrote anything on here. Sorry.. Things have been busy and I (Doug) forgot the password to the blog... Oops!! But all is good now. Things here are going good. Eli had his 1st ear infection..... It was pretty rough on him until we got some medicine to help that situation. Its hard to know when a baby is sick espically if they are not running a feaver or anything. But all is good now, he just finished his medicine and he is doing a lot better. He is growing like no other!!! Ha Ha. Last night was his 1st ACTUAL BATH... He loved it!!!

Its funny that it took us so long to give him an actual bath. As most of you know you have to wait a few weeks after they are born because of the "cord" then he got "cut" so you have to wait 2 more weeks. Well then, we got lazy and procrastinated and there I was yesterday finally giving him a well deserved bath... (Luckily no smell!!! ;-) ) I was very nervous, i didnt think that he was going to go for it. So after I got the water ready I had my mom test it (with her finger!) and then I put him in.. All of a sudded, no tears but the water hit him and he started PEEING all over the place..(Which he does quite often if you are not quick enough!!) But then he just relaxed and enjoyed. As you can tell from the pictures! So I think that bath time will definatly happen more frequent ;-)

This morning we took him to church. The first time that he has been the whole 3 hours. He did pretty good. He stayed asleep through most of sacrament (Lucky guy!!!) then he woke up and was hungry so Jasmine went out and fed him. After sacrament Jasmine and I had to teach our primary class, normally I take him into my class first and then she takes him when she teaches her class but today the Primary President wanted to hold him so we let her! (Never turn down a person that wants to watch the little guy for a while right!) So then my class was over and I went to go get Eli and I saw that someone different was holding Eli. Sister Barnes was so nice to hold him for about 1 1/2 hours. We are very grateful to have friends in the ward like that. She didnt mind holding him at all and she got him to go to sleep (Way to go. that can be a big stuggle sometimes!) We have a great Ward Family. I dont think that we are going to trade them anytime soon! Well, this blog is long enough. You are probably wishing that we would blog more often so you didnt have to read NOVELS when we do write.. Ha Ha. ANyways, Love to you all. We are greatful for each and every single one of you. You have touched our lives and helped us in one way or another. We are not very good at Thank You cards so,, THANK YOU for everything. We definaly do appreciate it.

Doug.Jasmine.Eli.Skittles!