Lots of Random Pictures

These are all the left over pictures I have on my camera from the last few weeks. I figured I'd just post them in one random group. I'll try to caption them for the sake of genealogy.

So, first is Lila looking so cute. She is 2o months in this pictures. For a while she was doing this weird smile all the time. It is pretty funny looking. Luckily she is not doing it anymore.

For some reason she thought she looked really cute that day and kept asking me to take her picture. She is really at a fun age right now. She is such an easy child (Maybe she is making up for being such a hard baby!) and we love having her around. She is always trying to make us laugh. She is always talking and has just recently started using full sentences. I wish everyone could hear how she talks around the house, but alas, she ONLY talks at home. She clams right up as soon as anyone else is around. Some of her sentences this months are:

What are you doing? (Repeat over and over and over)
Mimi and Bear buy me this! (Said about her new jammies)
Sunny broke the dishwasher. (Lila actually tore part of the button off the dishwasher)
I love my bunny. (A long story that hopefully I'll write someday)
When Daddy come home from work? Daddy still at work? (She loves her Daddy)

That's enough for now, as the list could be endless. She is so smart, and I am loving every minute home with her.

Holding Griffin. He was smiling, but I couldn't catch it at the right time. She was watching Dora.

Griff's first Mohawk! Bad picture of him, but you can kinda see the cool hair. It's actually pretty long and I'm thinking about cutting it pretty soon.

And, Griffin turned 4 months old a couple weeks ago. He doesn't go to the Doctor until Friday, so I'll post all his stats then, but here is the latest and greatest about him:

Sleeps from 6 p.m. (sometimes 5) until about 7 a.m.
Still grouchy overall, but has a lot more fun moments during the day
Awesome hair (as referenced by the picture)
Rolls from tummy to back ( been doing that for about 2 weeks)
Rolled from back to tummy, but only once, so it might have been an accident
Can sit up for a few minutes at a time
Loves to talk and loves, loves, loves, his siblings
Oh wait, and he loves ME the most!!!

I know I have a ton of pictures of the kids holding little G, but it just looks so cute every time! Sunny is still such a great helper. She helps change, feed, dress, rock, and cuddle him. I know I've said it before, but I don't know what I'd do without her. I've taken to calling her "Little Mama" and it is so true.

Basically, Jax's world has been revolving around football season. He is officially obsessed. This was him catching a pass. He knows all about the game and is really fun to watch them with. He is such a mini-Ryan. (If you notice in every picture and every time you see him that he is wearing those camo pants and that BYU hoodie, you would be right. That is his favorite outfit and he wears it day after day. Don't worry, I wash it at night...well at least every two nights!)

Ryan up on the roof doing Christmas lights. Scared me to death, I totally thought he was going to fall.

He did a great job and I love how the lights turned out. However, it was a major pain in the butt b/c the clips didn't fit on right and so it took forever to get the lights straight.

The girls were playing something. Not sure what though. If you look closely you'll notice they both have an apron on backward, a hat, and bags strung all over them. And, Lila has Jackson's Transformer shoes on. Whatever it was, they were having a great time.

See Lila with the weird smile again! I love that my girls (and all the kids) have so much fun and love to play and spend time together. Little moments like this happen everyday and I'm glad that I captured at least some of them in pictures.

Christmas Decorating 2009

Before we left for our vacation the kids and I decorated the house for Christmas. Sunny was definitely the director of the whole event, with Lila as her second in command. Jackson didn't seem to care as much about it this year as he did last year. (I'm pretty sure that is because the only thing he cares about is FOOTBALL --thanks to Ryan for that).

I'll have to find a picture like this from last year to compare, but they have all grown so much. Especially Lila, who was 9 months then.

It is such a blessing to have children who not only love each other more than I could've imagined, but to have children who truly are each others best friend. These two are pretty much joined at the hip, and I love it!

Sunny's took this picture of the tree.

At our house Christmas decorations are only allowed in one room, otherwise I feel like Christmas "threw-up" all over our house. My kids think that is hilarious, and love to point out houses with "Christmas throw-up". I've tried to tell them it's not appropriate to say that to people, but that haven't quite gotten it. Please don't be offended if they say it to you, it's all in good fun.

Ryan and I got the lights put up and the outside decorated on Saturday, but I haven't uploaded the pictures yet. I'm sure we were a sight to see with Ryan up on the roof and me yelling at him the whole time to be careful and get the stupid lights on straight. We are officially ready for December.

Bear and Lila

Lila is totally Bear's girl. She is pretty much obsessed with him. Last week after his surgery he came over for a quick visit. He sat down on the floor and Lila quickly went and sat beside him up against the couch. She was smiling so big and I grabbed the camera for a picture, but I couldn't get her to smile at me. She was too busy smiling right at Bear. I thought it was so sweet.

St. George -- Part 5

The one family picture we have.

Little boy on a big rock.

The beginning of our second hike.


Sunny cannot stop herself from posing. I think it is adorable.

Ryan actually climbed pretty high up this wall. I love how I got the picture at the exact moment that he was reaching down to pull up a kid, and they were all trying to climb up to him. I think Jackson was the lucky kid who got to go up higher with his Dad.

This was a really pretty view, but the colors don't look right in the picture for some reason, so you'll just have to trust me.

Do they look high up to you in this picture??? They were. Ryan had to get them down.

The one time Ryan put Lila down to go help the other kids climb she took off after him.

This was a really neat black rock wall. I took a picture of Ryan and the kids, and then he took me and Griffin in the same spot, just to prove we were all there, even if we can't be in the same picture together.

Me and Griffin in front of the black rock.

St. George -- Part 4

Thanksgiving morning we went to Snow Canyon to do a little hiking/exploring. This is the sand dunes. They reminded me so much of my childhood, and playing at the beach with my brothers in the sand dunes (that no longer exist b/c they were erased by a hurricane long ago).

The weather was fabulous. We couldn't have asked for more. This is Griffin working on his tan.

I love how blue the sky was.

We spent about an hour playing in the sand and running around. The big kids had fun digging holes for Lila to climb in. It was funny to watch Lila try and walk around in the sand. She has a hard time, and toward the end she just started crawling. They were covered from head to toe by the time we left.

St. George -- Part 3

This post is dedicated to the swimming pool and hot tub. This was so much fun. We went swimming both days, and I think the kids would have stayed there forever. This was Lila's first time in a pool and she really enjoyed herself (though she like the hot tub better :)

There are no pictures of me and Griffin b/c I swam the night before while Griffin was asleep in his car seat in the corner. This was the second day and I was the baby holder and picture taker.