Guess who is finally crawling????

I love this face that he makes. He is so cute. He scrunches up his nose, it cracks me up!

Our Vancey is 101/2 months old....seriousLy??? He is such a light weight too. He is only in the 3rd percentile for his weight. I am not too worried because he is an eater. He never took formula or a bottle, but he love our food. he pretty much eats with the family, whatever we are eating, I mean , the kid already has 8 teeth. He pretty much likes aLL of his fruits and vegetable, cheese and yogurt. He feeds himself pretty much his entire meal. He is so big. He can also hold his sippy cup and take drinks of water.

His BIG accomplishment is that he learned to crawl! At 10 months he finally grasped the concept and he is off and going! He is started to pull up on things too.

He is understanding lots of sign language and smiles at me when I sign to him. He can clap his hands and wave hi and bye.

He babbles a lot! He says "mama" all the time. He also says "dada" too. He likes to read books and play the piano.

He has been sleeping through the night for a couple of months.

First DaY of school.... man I am gettin old!

I was a proud Mama to send off 2 BIG kids for school this year. They were both really excited to go. It makes me sad to think and know that they aren't my babies anymore. They both really like their teachers and are having fun. Madison has a couple of her friends in her class so she is loving that. Davin has made a fast buddy too. He also chases the girls around the playground and now they chase him around the playground! He is so silly. I used to walk him up to the gate after I walked Madison to her line up spot, until one day he got to sad to have me stay there until his class went into their rooms. I think I wanted to stay there more for ME than him. I Love my kiddos and I am so proud of their eagerness to learn and do what is right. They make me happy!

FuN tiMes

We took the kids to check out the fire station. Our friend offered to give the kiddies a tour. They LoVed it!

The BoYz (excluding lil babe) went to the Monster Trucks with Ryan and his boys. Thx to Ryan for the invite with free tickets! They had tons of fun, so much that Blane couldn't even stay awake for it.

Yet another summer pet

Welcome..................................

Our newest addition.............. Marley, ain't she swEEt!

i can'T believe he talked me into it....

The story behind this goes as follows: My wonderful husband decides that he wants a snake, so he tells me that he went into the reptile store and that the snakes were so cool. Then he says that he is going to buy one. Of course i say NO WAY, but did he listen???? After his wonderful purchase, he calls me to tell me how "rad" it is and that the kids are going to love it. I am picturing the snake to be like a cute(not really) little green garden snake, but oh no not quite. It was a dang Python.... are you kidding me???

Madison held it once, but didn't really like it. Davin couldn't get ENOUGH of it. He wanted to hold it all the time. He was never allowed to get it out of it's cage when his dad wasn't home, uh, uh, no way. Blane kinda liked it, but didn't want to hold it. Dason LoVed to scare me and Janelle with it. He would walk up to us with the snake in his hand , unbeknownst to us and say " oh, check this out". What a braT! I am sure he just got a huge kick out of chasing us around the house with it. That is why we will NEVER EVER have a snake as a pet again. The first time we fed the snake a live mouse was tramatizing for most of us. We fed him in the bath tub and we were all standing around watching and the snake grab him lighting fast and started to squeeze it. I ran out of the room and Blane started to cry. The older two were kind of in silent shock. Dason was in heaven, he LoVed every minute of it.

Here is another HUGE reason why we will never have a snake again. What's the worst thing that could happen??? Yeah, it did. The snake got out of it's cage and was loose in the house. We searched the entire house for the whole day and could not find it. This felt like a dream. We ended up finding it two weeks later. Davin was looking under the couch with his new flash light and he said, "Mom, I found the snake!!!" I thought he was kidding at first, but he was serious. Luckily, Dason had just left the house, so I was able to call him to come home and get it. It was still alive too!!

We are not sure what happened, but it kicked the bucket. Needless to say, I did not shed to many tears.

R.I.P our dear snake.

bYe, Bye bad tonsils and adenoids

Davin got his Tonsils out on July 10, 2009. He had Strep throat 6 times in an 8 month period, poor BaBe! He liked wearing the hospital gown that they gave him.

The coolest part was when the Anaesthesiologist came out to go over things with us. He told Davin that he would be blowing up a balloon and he showed him how with a skinny balloon. He turned the balloon into a dog and asked Davin "What do you use to take your dog for a walk?" He quickly blew up another balloon and made a leash. He told davin to put the leash on the dog and to take him for a walk. This was the way he got Davin back to the operating room. Good thing I had given him a big hug and kiss before he left.

Poor guy, woke up in pain and nauseated. He was so Moody for 2 weeks as thing started to heal. Now he feels great and is getting ready to start kindergarten!

CamPing & 4th of July

Jake was so nice... he helped set up evryone's tents in the COOL weather.

The kids rode around in this cUte wagon a ton! They had fun pulling eachother in it.

Dason took Davin, Blane & Madison for a ride on the bike.

The kids wanted to play in the water on the last day when it got hot enough.

Davin LoVes bugs...YuCk!! He picks them up and makes them a home. Madison helped with their home, but was not about to touch them. Blane wasn't too fond of touching these beattle looking bugs either.

We went to the activities in the park.

We visited the Snowflake Temple.

We lined up on the Main street in Heber to watch the fireworks.

PerFect Chilly weather to sit and watch the lights in the sky. All of the kids loVed the show including Vance. He got so excited watching the fireworks.