April at the Hemingway household

Here is a picture of all the boys with Grandpa Hemingway and Great Grandpa Hemingway. You never know when it might be the last time they are all together.

So I don't have a whole lot of time to blog right now, but I figured I would get some pictures up and let you know what we have been up to lately. The boys have been enjoying painting with their new paints they got for Quentin's birthday. As well as coloring with chalk on the black board and outside. The spend any time they can outside right now while the weather cooperates and it has been great.
Here they are at Justin's parents home ready to find their Easter eggs in their cool bunny ear hats that Aunt Jena helped them make. She always has some kind of craft to make with them when they come over. They also made hand print flowers for me.
I just thought this was a great picture of Zayne looking up at them and them looking down on him. Very cute in my opinion.
And my cute little Zayne of course. Can't get enough of him and his many faces.
Life is good and busy and we are enjoying the great warm weather while we get it. We have been working in the yard and loving the progress that is coming together on it. The boys helped pick out the seeds they want to plant in the garden and can't wait to help plant and watch them grow. We also spend a lot of time with Quentin at his soccer games right now and loving that. He is doing so well this year and is finally getting the hang of how to play. We just registered him for another year and hope he continues to have fun with it.

We hope you are all doing well and love you for all of your love and support. Thank you so much!

Quentin turns 6!!

We celebrated Quentin's 6th Birthday today with some friends in the area and a couple of his good friends from Eagle Mountain. They had a blast. But to start out the day I took pictures of my 4 cute boys. Zayne is most happy and awake first thing in the morning. So this is the best time for me to snap photos. I just have to show off my 4 boys. They are all so special to me and I love them all so much. They all have their own personalities that just touch my heart in their own way.
Quentin wanted a Ben 10 party so that is the theme that we went with. His awesome aunt Jena was so kind to make his cake and relieve some stress off of me. She did a great job and we appreciate her hard work at getting this done. For his party we had them wear their alien masks and find alien eggs all over the house with surprises inside. So basically we just had an early Easter egg hunt. Then we opened gifts and had cake and ice cream. For the rest of the time we just let them run around and play. They seemed to have fun together and didn't get to restless. Quentin's actual birthday is on Monday and we will celebrate that with his grandparents. I still can't believe I have a 6 year old. Were has the time gone?

Happy Birthday Quentin!!!

We Made It!

Well, the first week was quite the rough one. I don't think I have ever had a baby that thought he needed to be held and screamed so much. We were beginning to wonder what was going on. I spent a lot of nights on the couch holding him just so I could get some shut eye.

Justin headed back to work Monday and I wasn't sure how I was going to do it. We had decided that Zayne was just going to have to cry a lot or find a way to comfort himself when I couldn't be there right away or needed to help the other boys. But come Monday, he was a completely different boy. We started out the morning the same, but I just let him know that he was going to have to cry for a minute. Not that he would understand, but I laid him down and he settled right down. I called Justin and asked him "What happened to our crier?" Needless to say we have had a much nicer week and Zayne is on a 3 hour schedule that is allowing us all to get some more shut eye.

The boys have been great big brothers and love to help in any way they can. However, we have been trying to get pictures of them in their new outfits Grandma gave them and for some reason Quentin doesn't know how to do a true smile anymore. What is it with kids and fake smiling. They are supposed to be easier to take pictures of as they get older aren't they? Oh well, below is the best I could do for now in their new outfits.


We are glad to report that we have made it through the first two weeks and look forward to the up coming weeks of life hopefully only getting better. Now if we can only get some nice warm weather so we can head outdoors to play.

Baby Zayne

This morning Angela gave birth to our third son, Zayne Alexander Hemingway. He was born at 7:52 am, weighed 8 lbs 5 oz, and was 20 inches long. He and Angela are doing great. More pictures of this cute addition to our family can be found at our family web site.