sketti

Don't you always have to take a picture of your baby's first spaghetti experience.  It seems like everyone has one.  Well, here it is.  There was "sketti" everywhere!!

halloween update

ok so the last post i think I said how no, we wouldn't let Addison have any candy ... well, that didn't last long!

Cute. Sticky. Mess. 

Halloween 2010

This Halloween was so weird.  A year ago at this time, we knew about Addison but were still waiting to find out if we had been picked.  We keep walking around saying "a year ago today ..." I cannot believe it has been a year. 
So, Happy Halloween to my wonderful little family.  I love them more that I ever thought possible.

Kent is Ghost Rider by the way 

Pumpkin Carving time.  Boys and their knives - sheesh 

Cute little stinker did not want her picture taken. But she is such a cute little skeleton.

This witch hat was so flippin cute, but ... she did not like it and would not leave it on.  I can barely keep barretts in her hair.  I knew the hat would never last 

I just have to say, the amount of candy these guys came home with was quite repulsive, but they had a blast.  This Halloween it was cold and raining.  This meant the girls were on door duty while the boys went out.  We decided Braiden was finally old enough for he and his friends go out without adult supervision.  They did think they were pretty hot stuff.  Ty and his friends got followed around by daddy.

Tyson was so funny.  The goof ball poured his candy on the floor and really thought Addison would leave it alone.  She was all over that stuff.  No we did not let her eat any candy this year but she thought it was fun to pretend. 

Jazz Game

We decided to take the kids to the Jazz game.  Addison loved it.  We wondered how she would do since we would be out past her bed time and girlfriend likes her sleep.  With all of the commotion, she was completely entertained.  It was a ton of fun!

Go Jazz!  Cute little cheerleader 

This one makes me say "things that make you go hmmmmm" 

What a cute familiy I have!

Lotoja - The ride that tried to kill him

Two years ago, Kent rode in the Lotoja, a bicyle ride that goes from Logan to Jackson.  206 miles in one day.  That was the day we found out he has a little heart condition.  He thought he was having a heart attack and had to pull out of the race.  Being that man that does not quit at anything, he had to go see if he could kill himself again this year (not really, he trained better and smarter)

Well this past weekend he did it again, this time HE FINISHED!!!  I am so proud of him and no I never want to do that ride.  I keep telling everyone, metric centuries and 1/2 marathons are the way to go, not riding your bike for 12 1/2 hours straight.  But now he can cross it off his bucket list.  I am sure he could probably get peer pressured into doing it again.  It's a status thing to those macho men.  Well baby, you are definitely my macho man!

This is Kent with his friend Jamie.  They are both crazy.  Rock and Lanette also did this, but they had a different SAG (support and gear) car that fed them.  This was at the second stop.  Just after this stop was the hill that tried to kill Kent two years ago.  I think he is a little nervous to leave this stop.  The first 100 miles or so of this ride his climbing over three mountain passes.  They are tired and hungry

This is Jamie summiting the "King of the Mountain" (the last of the climbing!!!)

Rock and Kent right on his tail.  YEA they made it.

This is at stop three.  He is very glad to be done with all those flippin hills. 

Oh Kent you are so cute.  I love you!

Rock and Lanette on their tandem.  This is in Alpine.  The last stop before Jackson Hole

And Kent and Jamie, right behind them

The scenery is so beautiful!  The order of this one is Rock, Jamie and Kent

FINISHED!!!!!!  I can not believe they are still smiling.  I would have thrown my bike in the garbage by this point.  I am so proud of everyone for doing this truly epic ride.  It is amazing.  I will never join you.  I guess never say never, but I truly have no desire right now in my life to ever do that.

I love you Kent.  You are my inspiration.  Congratulations on finishing the longest, toughest single day ride in the United States.  Now how many people can say that!

Trying to Crawl

Sweet Addison.  She is now 10 months old, officially today.  Little update on the things she does.  SHE SAYS MAMA!!!!  that is all that matters.  I have tried for so long to get her to do it.  She has said dada for a couple of months now and every time I try to get her to say mama, she laughs and shakes her head no.  It is seriously cute, but I was getting nervous that she would never say it because it is this little game she plays.  But ahhh, she said it.  Music to my ears.  The first time, I stopped what I was doing and asked, "did you just say mama?'' She just looked at me and smiled.  She knew she did.

On her 9 month check-up she measured in at 28 1/2" (75%) amd 18 lbs 9 oz (50%)

She has pulled herself up a couple of times.  Always if you hold her hands but not often if you are not.  She can take a couple of steps while holding on to you, but she has to think about it.  Not instinct that is for sure.  She gets from point A to point B by rolling.  She can cover a room pretty quickly and gets ticked off when she gets stuck in a corner somewhere.

As you can see, she loves her feet, as all babies do.  But she is cuter than the others when she plays with her feet :)  At least I think so!!

Notice the hair in this one.  Oh how I love her little fro. 

The determination is killing me.  When she tries to go forward though, she does a face plant.  She can scoot backwards pretty easily, but has not quite figured out forward motion yet.  Thats ok baby, take your time!

If the last picture did not kill you, this one should.  Oh I love this girl!!!!

First Day of School!

So I don't know about the kids but I am so flippin exited that school is back in session I can hardly stand it :)  I think secretly they are too.  It was a fun summer and I am so sad to see it go, but time to move on.

What adorable kids I have, if I don't say so myself!!

This next one is Braiden kickin it wit his hommies

And yes he is still sweet enough to love his parents, even in front of the whole school. 

I hope he always stays like that.  I just love it

Little Ty with his hommies.  First day is always so funny.  The girls squeal and hug, the boys act all cool "waz up"  No emotion whatsoever.  It makes me giggle.  It was hard to get a picture of Ty in front of the whole school.  No lovin on the parents for this one in public.  That's ok, I know he secretly adores his mother and no woman will ever measure up to me!

On the first day, the entire school meets in front for flag ceremony before going to class.  It was chaos but fun and exciting.

Happy 8 Month's Baby

So our sweet baby girl is officially 8 months old, wow, that went so dang fast.  Too fast.  Our little peanut is getting so big. 

She is still not sitting up yet, the lazy little turkey.  It is more like she always wants her legs straight.  She would much rather stand than sit.  It makes keeping her curls cute more of a chore but, whatever, I mostly don't mind.  It makes me pretend she is still little. 
She does roll over and pushes her self up so that's a relief, otherwise I might be worried :) 

She offically got her first two teeth (bottom) just after Independence Day.  Her way of celebrating her independence I suppose.  They are very cute.

And this is her next big milestone, eating like a big girl.  She will now sit in the high chairs at restaurants (and in shopping carts at the grocery store - woohoo, I don't have to lug that car seat in with me anymore!), although she still likes to shlump since she is not really sitting up - she can, she just "can't want to" as Ty used to say when he was little.

The third picture is of her on attack because she ran out of cracker.  What a cutie pie she is.  Oh so speaking of deserts, I called her a funny little cookie the other day, Braiden specified "chocolate chip cookie" because she is a little chocolate chip.  I love the things kids say!

Happy Birthday sweety pie.  Before you know it she will be 1 (eek)

Happy Independence Day!

I love the 4th of July.  What a fun Holiday.  You get to celebrate your patriotic side and dress your kids in red white and blue - seriously what could be cuter?  Isn't she just the ultimate poster child for America :)  This year it seems to mean even more to me with both my brothers in the military.  I am so happy that Brandon was able to make it home to celebrate this holiday with his family. 

This year we celebrated at our annual block party.  We all roll out the BBQ grills and eat yummy food, enjoy each other's company and of course let the kiddos light fireworks - with supervision of course!  This year one of our neighbors set up their intlatable bounce/waterslide thing.  The kids loooved that one.  Good addition.  It was unseasonably cold that day though so by nighfall we were all in jackets - weird.

I was there in all my 4th of July princess flair.  Everyone was jealous - just admit it

Cute Daddy - I had to point him out since all everyone ever sees is the very gorgeous Addie (hehe)

The kiddos lighting fireworks.  They were in hog heaven

I don't know what was happening here but it makes me say "ooh ooh, pick me pick me!"

What a cute little cheeser

Happy Independence Day America!!!