Saturday, September 24, 2011

September 2011

We started the month by going to Becca & Aaron's for the blessing of their son Liam. We picked up Mike at BYU about 10:30pm, and drove all night!! We got there about 4 or 5am! We were glad not to waste half the day driving Saturday, but Mike and John were tired! They just relaxed and watched football that day! All the siblings were together for the first time in probably over 3 years! We had a lot of fun!

Liam & JT - about 7 weeks apart
Lizzy, JT, Colby and Hali
The girls dancing
Love this picture of Becca and her boys!!
Chris (uncle Scott) with JT
Lizzy and JT sleeping
Kids playing in the back with uncle Scott
Auntie Eva & Liam

Amy's birthday - we had cake and ice cream, lots of fun!
Mike with Liam and John with JT - I think they were watching the football game
Cousins in the bath
Auntie Eva with JT
I got this for JT in May thought it was so cute - she said the hat could stretch - but JT has a big head and I couldn't get it to fit :( oh well... the tie on the onesie is cute!
Hannah & JT - love the sleeping pictures!
Family picture! Siblings with their kids, missing two husbands.
All the kids had fun playing with uncle Mike - I just can't post all the pictures.
I think this post is long enough!
JT in Liam's Swing

On the way home we stopped by Cabela 's with Emma's family. JT started playing with his toys

Lizzy started preschool with her friend the first week of September. I'm glad that she has this time to be with others and learn. She's becoming very independent! I can remember when she didn't want me to leave her side, and now she does just fine!

Took Lizzy to Cookie Cutters to get her hair trimmed and they did this - so cute!

John's parents came up for a quick trip. We stayed in Park City for free for three days/two nights. We played in the pool all three days, went out to eat and watched movies and TV. The hot tub was the best. Nice, warm and relaxing! It's just what I needed, just not long enough!

John & Lizzy in the pool!

JT has been sucking on his fingers and fist a lot this past month. On the 22nd I found him sucking on his thumb!!
Watching a movie
I came out and saw Lizzy "reading" her scriptures, with these key rings on her toe. I thought it was funny, and cute, so I took a picture to share!

John went to another conference, in Newport Beach this time. Lizzy and I have been trying to keep busy to past the time… and I say it’s worked. Thursday after we droped him off at the airport we went to the Church History Museum in SLC. They have a new children’s exhibit, which was wonderful! We came home watch a movie, then went visiting teaching, over to the office to check the mail and pickup some tickets for the Expo. We then went to this Pizza buffet place that has games. The name of the place has changed several times, and we had these game cards still I wanted to use before they stopped taking them! They charges money to put on their card, but at least we still had out tickets and some money still left on the card. We had a fun time. Friday after preschool we went to the What a Women Wants Show – the parking lot was packed! We parked way in the back parking lot, on the opposite side. They had a little princess dress-up area, Lizzy loved it, plus I could leave her there to walk around. I got this nail stamp kit, it’s actually pretty cool. I did Lizzy’s nails last night, stamped butterflies on all her finger nails and toe nails! Today – maybe a dollar movie? Not sure, we did so much walking around yesterday, which as good for us. They had health stations there, and so I got my cholesterol and body fat checked… lets just say I have some work to do… which I knew I did, but at least I have a before number.



Story time with Snow White - Classic Lizzy face...

Three months old - Doesn't seem like he's going to fit the the swing for much longer!! He is sitting a little high in this picture though.

JT has also started to do this thing with his tongue and upper lip - so funny...

August 2011

Cousin Kylie's 6th birthday Party! They had this - the kids loved it!


Love the big smiles
JT loves to watch the Fish go around and around

We went to visit John's grandparents and go to the fair with them and his parents. It was hot, but fun. Lizzy loves the animals. We spend a couple hours under a shady spot just talking. We shared some food and then enjoyed the Rodeo.

Lizzy & JT with great Grandma
JT relaxing at the fair!
Love the smiles on these two boys! JT with his great grandpa John, who is 90!
4 generations!
Lizzy loves spending time with grandma too!
We stopped by Brigham City Temple, which is under construction. We had lunch across the street. Then John & his dad went fishing and the rest of us went to the hotel. We had a free night we had to use by the end of August. We went to the pool and relaxed. I picked up some Chinese food for dinner, and some food for breakfast and the meal we were going to cook the next day.
2 months old - loos so much bigger than his one month!!

July 2011

JT's Blessing! July 3rd, 2011
I'm sure someone has a better picture, but this is the only one I have!
After the blessing we had a meal at John's office. This was the line for the food!
It was fun to have a lot of family here.
Alexis and Lizzy enjoying the food
Hannah and Lizzy kissing JT

Lizzy loves having her uncle Mike close. We try to have him over about once a month. This was at a friends house in Provo, watching 4th of July Fireworks. Eva and Mom were there too!
Lizzy loves her brother
Love this one - how he's looking up at her!
I was a little worried about Lizzy feeling left out, so i tried to do things that were fun for her. She loves going to Wheeler Farms to feed the ducks & Geese!



One month old - loves the swing we borrowed from a friend
24th of July fireworks with friends!

Bath time - he loves the water
John went to South Carolina for a conference, so I decided to take a trip to see Becca, the 5 hour drive ended up taking about 7 because of stops and feeding JT, but it was worth it! The kids had a lot of fun, and I got about 40 pieces of clothes for $2!

Hali & Lizzy - lunch in the park with cute outfits from Becca
Colby and Lizzy
Cousins loved the slide!
Too cute - had to take a picture of them sleeping. JT loves to sleep like this with his hands up