Friday, March 26, 2010

March in Pictures....

During the month of March...

I took pictures of this beautiful bride.
My cousin Mandy got married a few weeks ago in the SLC temple. It was a very cold and rainy day but we managed to get a few good shots in. She made a beautiful bride.


I made a Pinewood derby with this guy.

Our ward had an adult pinewood derby. Chris and I decided to try and win, we read up on all the tips online, we bought the best stuff to use, Chris ground down the axles.... ha... we didn't even come close to winning. We did have fun making it though, I did the paint job by hand with nothing to look at. It now is sitting in Kadens room on a shelf. He thought it was the best one there :)







I took pictures of this cute mom-to-be.





I got to take lots of pictures of cute little babies like this one.



We watched a few good movies.

Princess and the frog- cute
Where the wild things are- strange
Blindside- Best movie ever

We watched this little princess grow up too fast.

She has a definite opinion about everything and she is a very sensitive soul. She is starting to talk and picks up new words everyday. She has a definite affection for "bampa" (grandpa) and wanders around the house saying his name. She LOVES to watch our wedding video because she gets to see all of the people she likes on the TV, she gets very excited and says their names while pointing to the TV. She loves her blankie and will stand by her crib pointing at it til I get it out for her. She says "Dat Du" (Thank You) "Ba Ba" which means cup "ni ni" (night night) "bu bye" the names of grandma, grandpa, mom, dad, Kaden, Taycee and Hunter, "no, no" while shaking her finer, "where go?" and others. She knows she is the princess in our house and has the funnest personality. She is going to be my dancer. She walks around on tip toes a lot and when in the car seat she is always grabbing her feet and pointing her toes. She also gets her groove on to anything with a beat including cell phone rings.



We Laughed at this boy every day.

Kaden is such a crack up these days. He is starting to talk much better and I think he is quickly catching up from his 2 years of bad hearing. He picks up the funniest sayings and I have no idea where he gets them from. The other day out of the blue he said "mom your the greatest". He copies much of what Chris says, we were in the car the other day and Chris was frustrated with a driver in front of us at one point he said "woah lady!" Not long after that Kaden was yelling from the backseat "woah baby!" Often he asks "whats dat?" when I answer he says "your right it's a ".. and then copies whatever I say. Yesterday he was watching something on TV and asked "whats dat?" I didn't want to look up so I said "I don't know" he said "yep your right mom, it's a I don't know" He says dad with a new york accent now so it sounds more like "dee-ad" not sure where that came from and it drives Chris crazy. When he says no to you about something and you question him by saying something like "no?" he says "YES! NO!" He has become quite the protector of Taycee and gets very mad when I don't respond lightening quick when she is crying. He also thinks he is the boss of her and I often find him saying "no no Taycee go play with your toys". My goal is to have him potty trained by the end of next month. :D
I lightened my eye brows.

I went from the above...
To this....


We made lots of yummy banana bread.

We spent an appropriately unplanned and perfectly lazy 4 days in St George.

Taycee got really excited over some water at the library.


We played in the above mentioned water.


The kids drove around in this jeep.

Okay Taycee didn't really drive.. and Kaden can't seem to figure out the steering wheel thing. He is all gas.


We stopped to smell the flowers.



We walked around in beautiful scenery like this.

I snapped a few pictures of the beautiful scenery.


We spent hours jumping on the tramp, and played dead man about 50 times.

We went to an Easter egg hunt.
This was the line to get in.... we found a short cut.
Kaden got all of 2 eggs. The crowd was ridiculous. He loved it anyway.

We put on our own egg hunt at home.
He liked his lootShe liked it too.And that is the month of march documented by pictures...minus all of the school and work and craziness that happened somewhere in between.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

What we've been up to...

Life is always busy but it seems that lately we have been especially busy. Our days have been filled with school, weddings, work, school, babies, family, kids, did I mention school? But as always there was a light at the end of the tunnel and we are currently enjoying our spring break in sunny St George. I promise a real post later when we get back... but for now, here are a few photos from the past week.


This is my cousins baby Bridger
This is our good friends the Broughs baby girl Chanel.






A very very cold rainy wedding day... but she was beautiful!








Bridger again










Monday, March 8, 2010

Photography

I am taking a fun photography class right now and these are a few pics I have taken for recent assignments.
























Wednesday, March 3, 2010

15 mo.


This Beautiful Girl is 15 mo. old now. It is hard to believe that time goes by so fast. She is a bright spot in my life and I am so happy she came to be with our family.



Her check-up was today she is currently

24.14 lbs. - 67 percentile

32 inches long- 90 percentile

Head circumference 18.46- 48 percentile

So she just keeps growing. However her little active body is dropping some of that baby fat.

Here are some fun facts about her at 15 mo.

She LOVES to climb on things. She is getting quite inventive and I find her on top of tables, chairs, and beds all the time.

She loves to sit in things. She has a small toy bucket that she climbs in all the time. She will sit there for quite awhile content as can be.

She knows that she is the boss especially when it comes to Chris. She will do something naughty and look at Chris with this "you can't punish me I'm too cute" smile.

She was watching Land Before Time with Kaden and decided she should eat like a dinosaur too so all day that day she would only eat off her try with her mouth ( she wouldn't use her hands to pick up the food) every time she did it she would laugh at herself.

Her hair is getting so long. I can do real pigtails now, it is also very curly when it gets wet.

She points to thing and says "wah dat"

She LOVES to talk on the phone

She is going to be my little dancer. Whenever she hears music she shakes her hips and moves her shoulders.

Kaden calls her "Taycee Princess"

She LOVES cutie oranges. She will bring me the whole bag so I will peel her one.

She wants to be just like her brother. She copies everything he does. She refuses to turn around and go down stairs backwards because Kaden walks down them and she thinks she can to.

She is starting to point to people in pictures and say their names.

It is so fun to watch you grow and learn new things Taycee bug, WE LOVE YOU!