The boys with Santa 2009

Gotta love those baby pictures with Santa...even Garrett isn't too happy.

Spencer's 1st Birthday!

Spencer turned one year old January 1st, but we were traveling home from our Christmas vacation that day, and life is hectic...but we finally got the cake made and ready to devour!

First just a finger-ful.

Then we wised up and gave him a fork and a bib.

Then he decided he wanted my spoon and that the handle part worked better than the spoon part.

And the final product: doesn't he look proud of himself?! First birthday cakes are the best!

Can't be complete without the birthday bath:

Boys like to build

Richard is really good at building things now. He makes Imperial Walkers from Star Wars, guns, R2D2 and other interesting characters out of these little 'peggy blocks' as we call them. Here he is with his latest, a model train. He was given 3 different Lego sets for Christmas and his 6th birthday, and he is already pretty adept at building them all by himself. Good job Richard!

Eating fun with Spencer

This was a couple months ago, but it makes me happy. Enjoy!

Annual Gingerbread houses

We decorated gingerbread houses on Monday night with some good friends. Alainna and Stephen helped Garrett decorate one house and Ben and I helped Richard with the other. Garrett really got into it and really enjoyed having some one on one attention with a new friend. Thanks Alainna, and congrats on your baby!

It's Autumn Time!

It's Autumn time, it's autumn time, the leaves have fallen down! And Spencer is loving the leaf piles the neighborhood boys make for him.

First Halloween

Richard helped Ben gut the pumpkins, and then Garrett looked on while Spencer dove right in.


What's in there?



And finally...into the mouth! It's ok, I mean, it's squash right? Ha!

Besides sleeping babies...

crawling babies are the cutest thing in the world! There's no going back now!

This was 2 days ago...

This was today!!!

Flaming Nachos!

So, this is what happens when you get to talking with your spouse after a long busy day and you've already put your bedtime snack nachos in on BROIL, and you forget about them! Enjoy!




You'll be happy to know we did make some edible nachos after all the excitement died down, including showing the neighbors Ben's flaming tray of chips and cheese.

Cornbelly's 2009

I can't believe it's been a whole year since we were at Cornbelly's.
Here is us last year:









Here is us this year, just one extra boy. It also got dark a lot sooner. We did manage to go through the corn maze without cheating this year...the boys were more patient this year, and Richard didn't have to go to the bathroom suddenly...
We went on Monday night with our friends the Hopes. One of our favorite things to do was driving the train and playing in the Princess Playland. They even had boy costumes, so the boys loved dressing up as Jedi, in musketeer costumes, and I got to be girly as Snow White. It was
really fun.

Getting ready for lunch

Garrett insists on getting up to the table with no help anymore...

Neighborhood Wildlife

Every once in a while we get wild animals wandering around the neighborhood, and I don't mean the children. See the duck?...it's running for its life. :)

This is Garrett, Richard, Scott, and Kyle.

The duck outsmarted them by crossing the street...just you wait Duck, we'll get you next time you come over!

Amateur Photo Shoot

Richard had picture day at kindergarten on Wednesday, so I decided to have my own photo shoot at home with the two little boys. Then we took some more once Richard got home.





This was the last pose, and by then Spencer was done. :) We got a few good ones. Enjoy!

I love...

SLEEPING BABIES!!!

As I tried to gently wipe the crusty graham cracker off of his fingers and face he woke up enough to say "I want to do it, Mom." That only lasted a couple of seconds. He is my 'self cleaning' baby.

Visit with the Ricks College Washingtonians!

Steen and Katie Jensen, Ben and mine roommates (respectively!) drove through Provo on their way to Florida for a new job. It's been over 5 years since we saw them, so we got to meet their 3 cuties and they met Garrett and Spencer. Of course, Richard was only 6 months old the one time they met him, so I guess he's changed a bit...


And just a fun little clip of Spencer...He is a grunter!