Let It Rain

This would be the view from my backyard. The rocks are the retaining wall at the end of my yard. We affectionately call the gully behind our house, "the pit". As in, "I will throw you in the pit!" or "If you don't clean up your toys, they will go in the pit!" You get the picture. Usually the pit is dry and kids play in it.

Today, there is a river running through it. It's okay, it's supposed to happen (or so I've been told.) The real name for the pit is the Tickville Wash (don't know how it is really spelled, but who cares) and it is for excess water drainage/run off. I've been told it fills up every few years or so. This is the first time we've seen it.

I'm a little freaked out, b/c it is pretty close to my house, but the water would have to rise a lot to get up here.

It's running pretty fast right now. It looks really dirty and gross, but the sound is gorgeous. Like my own private river...sort of :)

All Things Lila Cate

This is mostly a birthday post, but I've thrown in some other recent pictures of Lila since I haven't posted any lately. She loves her Bear!

I think Sunny took this picture of Lila at Jackson's birthday. Lila looks like a ragamuffin a lot of the time. Mostly because I'm sick, so Sunny is in charge of dressing her and doing her hair. Sometimes she looks cute, other times, not so much. Oh well, Sunny does a pretty good job for a 6 year old.

"That's me! I'm "yicking" my candle at my "birtday" party."

Lila turned 3 on March 14th. She was all about having a party, so party we did. On her actual birthday we went to Nana Blair's to celebrate. Nana gave her a snap and style Dora with color changing hair. She loved it.

The next week we had a party with my family at Uncle Josh and Aunt Jess's house. She got lots more presents and had a ball.

These were taken a couple months ago. I thought the girls looks so cute. I am enjoying the fact that they love to match still. I hope Sunny doesn't grow out of it anytime soon.

Lila also had her 3 year old check-up. She did great and didn't even cry when she had to get a shot. I can't remember all the exact numbers, but her stats look something like this:

33 lbs - 75th%
38 inches - 75th%

I could hardly believe how big she has gotten. Where did my itty-bitty 3rd percentile baby go? I remember the days when she was so freakishly small, and now here she is, a big healthy girl!

Some of her favorite things at 3 are:

Playing dollhouse
racing cars
Lala Loopsies
Playing school, doctor, or mommy/baby with Sunny and her friends

She loves to eat anything and is not very picky at all.

I feel especially blessed to have my sweet Catey girl. She is such an easy child. I really feel like she is 4 or 5. She is very self-sufficient and she talks extremely well for her age. We have a good time during the days while the kids are at school. Mostly she helps me chase Griffin around, although she is also usually his target. She's taken lots of hair pulling, tackling, and now biting from him, but she loves her brother a lot.

We love you Lila!

My Reason For Not Blogging

I've been a really bad blogger. I've got lots to catch up on. I still haven't posted about Disneyland, Christmas, Lila's b-day, Jack's b-day, or Jack's baptism (which was today, and it was awesome!) I'm working on it all...kind of. I figured I'd better introduce you all to my reason for not blogging...

Here he is...baby#5 at 16 weeks.

Cutest little skeleton baby I've seen in awhile.

Waving hello. (This one is super blurry, sorry. I just took pictures of the pictures.)

We are so excited to be expecting our 5th baby. This little guy is officially going to be known as...

Cameron John

Cameron is just a name we have always liked, and it seemed like this was the baby to use it on. John is my grandfather's (my Mom's Dad's) name. He is an amazing, brilliant man, and I hope Cameron can grow up to be just as wonderful as him.

Cam is due on 9/22, so hopefully we can make it into Sept before he's born. I'm guessing the 8th or 10th. Whatever day he picks, I am totally looking forward to meeting this little guy, and his big brothers and sisters feel the same. He is one lucky little boy!

I love you

Okay I don't really love all of you, but we had a great time at disneyland in October. Really its been awhile since the wife has posted anything and I was tired of seeing the same picture when I get on our blog to check out other blogs. So I decided to blog because I'm such a great blogger. Here are some highlights from the trip. Okay maybe not highlights, but pictures during the vacation. The whole trip was a highlight and we had a great time. We are ready to go back! In other news, I love my wife.

Smile

Mom wanted me to take a picture of Griffin at her house today. This is how he felt about the situation. I think he was annoyed because before we came over here to Mom's I made him pose for pictures under our tree. Obviously he has had enough posing for one day.

Eventually we got him to crack a smile.

Late Night

Last night Ryan and I went to an Ugly Sweater Party at our friends house. It started at 8:00 and the little kids were already in bed, so we had our nephew Nathan come over and babysit. The kids were looking forward to it all week. They love their cousin Nathan so much. He is 19 and is leaving for his mission in January, and he is totally awesome.

When Ryan and I got home (sometime around 11) and this is how we found Jackson. He had fallen asleep sitting up, next to Nate. Sunny was barely awake laying on the other couch. They had such a great time with Nate. Thanks Nate.

p.s. Just so he doesn't feel left out, the kids also love their big cousin Jared. He is 16 and really fun also. He couldn't come last night, but the kids want him to come visit really soon.

Random

Just two pictures from this week. Griffin got these jammies from Mimi and Bear and he loves them. He also loves this red bucket. He is cute.

The girls before church last week.