Potato Fest 2012

On Sunday we celebrated our 2nd annual Potato Fest with David's Uncle Terry and his family.
The Potato Fest celebrates the trip to Idaho and purchase of ginormous bags of potatoes.
We ate delicious twice baked potatoes made by Aunt Debbie, a baked potato dish I made, donuts made with potatoes, and several other delicacies.
We had a lot of fun.

The boys love Terry's backyard and his trampoline.


William said that Henry looked like a porcupine.

I know this is blurry but I love how his hair is standing up and the huge grin on his face!

Then the boys climbed "the mountain".

They had a great time exploring.

Charlie also tested out the trampoline. He loved being bounced!
We look forward to next year's Potato Fest!

Chocolate Thief

Saturday night David went to a birthday party for his best friend, Steve.
I decided to stay home and relax while the boys slept.
David was kind enough to bring home 2 brownies for me.


Unfortunately, a thief got to them first.

Possibly feeling guilty???

Not a chance!
At least he's a cute thief!
And he did leave one for me.

The BIG Hole

For a while now one of the sprinkler boxes has been filled with water.
I talked to my dad about it and he feared that the valve was broken.
He told us we would need to dig a big hole to fix the problem.


So this last Saturday (the 22nd) we did.

Well, David did it along with our hometeachers (a father and son) and some other men from our ward.
And our hometeachers' wife/mother came and helped dig too!

Within a few hours there was a lot of dirt and a HUGE hole.
It was about 4 feet across and 6 feet deep.

They had to cut through several roots.

Guess what?
We couldn't find anything wrong.
Valve is perfectly fine.
No cracks or leaks anywhere.
Most likely the valve was not fully in the on position so water was spraying out.

So David, William, Henry, and I worked together to fill the hole. 

It went pretty fast.

Especially with our good helpers working so hard.

Thankfully no one got smacked with the shovel.

I helped too!

 

 

After we'd been working for an hour and a half or so our neighbor across the street came over to help us fill the hole. We are SO grateful for his help and for those who helped dig the hole.
And of course I'm so grateful for our cute little helpers.
And even though some would think we'd wasted our time digging a big hole for nothing, we had a blast!
Not that we want to do it again any time soon...

Date Knight

Chick-fil-A recently had a mother-son Date Knight.
Since I rarely see mother-son activities anywhere, I made a reservation and took my boys to it.
Unfortunately we got there a little late and missed some of the festivities.
But we still had a great time!


Each of the boys got a balloon sword.
Charlie's popped right after I took this picture.
It was pretty funny.
He just looked around like "Where did it go?"

Henry's popped when he was climbing into the van.
William's lasted the longest.
David finally popped it after a few days.

We really liked their chicken sandwiches.
We'd never eat there before.

I also got a red rose which you can kinda see in the background.
It had their logo stamped on it.

We had a great time!
Thanks for the fun time Chick-fil-A!

Charlie is 9 months!

Guess what?
Charlie turned 9 months old this month!
I'm caught up!!!

Here is a look back at our cute little fish from August 19 until now.


Charlie LOVES bathtime.
He loves splashing!

He kicks his legs and flips his arms up and down.

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Because of his "floppiness" I sometimes refer to him as Fish.

I have mentioned many times before how sweet and mellow he is.
He does have his cranky moments though.
But even then they are pretty mellow cranky moments.

I walked in one day and found Charlie asleep like this.
I love all the different ways he falls asleep with his blanket.
He had woken up by the time I grabbed the camera.

Charlie LOVES otter pops.

 If anyone is eating one and he isn't, then he will let you know that he wants one NOW!

Charlie went swimming for the first time in a swimming pool.

He liked it MUCH better than swimming in Willard Bay.

It probably helped that the water was warm and that he wasn't being splashed by any waves.

 

Charlie loves tilting his head to the side.
He does it in the high chair, in the pool, while sitting on the floor, etc.
You can just look at him and tilt your head and he'll do the same.
It is pretty dang funny!
I love it!

Some other fun things about Charlie -
 He has NO teeth and shows no signs of getting teeth any time soon. (Thank you sweet baby!)
He rolls ALL over the place - even under the bunk beds!
He's trying to figure out how to pull himself up to standing.
He's almost stood up in his crib once.
He has mastered taking 2 naps a day. He now naps at 9:30 and 1:30.
He nurses 4 times a day.
He goes to bed between 8 and 8:30 and sleeps until his brothers wake him up at 7 or so.
He waves.
He's trying to figure out clapping. He has the arm movement down but needs to figure out that he should also be hitting his hands together.
If I spiked all of his hair up he'd probably look like the mother on Rugrats - triangle hair!
He gives the sweetest kisses! The wet, slobbery open mouthed baby kind! He'll even grab on to my face and give me a big ol' kiss. It melts my heart every time.

We love you Charlie!

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"noise with dirt on it"

Yup, that about sums him up sometimes.

Ah, I love this messy, adorable face!

Piglets!

My sister, Shannon, has several animals at her house.
Recently her pigs had piglets.
We went over the day after they were born to see them.


The proud mama.

Some of her 12 piglets.

 

Cute little Wilbur!

Lizzy helped Henry gently pet the mother.

Henry was fascinated with the pigs! 

BYU Football

On September 8th we all went to the BYU football game.
We had a fun time together!


This was Charlie's first football game!
He did very well during the game.
But he never would take a nap.

William loves the cougars!

Henry is a big BYU fan!
We often sing the cougar fight song before bed.
It's awesome!

What can you say - we all bleed blue!
GO COUGARS!!

Brigham City Temple Open House

On August 29th we took our boys to the Brigham City Temple Open House.
The boys were so excited to go to the temple and to go inside it!
We parked at our designated spot and then took a bus over to the temple.


William was so excited to ride the bus.

Henry loved the bus too.

The temple is beautiful! We really enjoyed our tour. After we walked through the temple, we got to eat some cookies. Then we went out to walk around the grounds of the temple.

My handsome boys!

Charlie by the temple wall.

Side of the temple.

Front doors.
The temple is the house of the Lord!

Our beautiful family!

Playing in the fountains.

Front spire and the angel Moroni.

Handsome William!

Handsome Henry!

Handsome David!

On the way home Henry crashed.

And William?

Or not!

Charlie crashed too.
We had a lovely time.
The temple was beautiful.
The spirit was strong.

The temple was just dedicated this last Sunday - the 23 of September.
I'm so glad President Packer could be there to dedicate the temple in his home town.
It was a beautiful dedication.