They either play great, or about kill each other!Olivia, 18 months
Hyrum, 4th birthday.

8 1/2 months: She's crawling! My life just got a lot busier.... chasing, and also pulling stuff out of her mouth

Rainbow Bits Red Birthday

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PARENTS NIGHT AT PRESCHOOL. HY SHOWED US ALL OF HIS "WORKS". THIS WHOLE MONTESSORI THING IS FASINATING!AND I STILL HAD ONE MORE LOAD IN THE DRYER.... MY HOUSE FELL APART WHEN MY MOM LEFT AFTER 2-WONDERFUL WEEKS OF HER SERVICE WITH OLIVIA

3-WEEKS

Olivia 2 weeks
2 weeks old
my friens threw a shower for her!
love this one

a few days old

not so proud brother

first bath
this is the first and last time that he asked to hold her for about a month after this
car-ride home. we probably just should have walked, it was only 1 block away!

Oliva June:brand new
This is possibly the ugliest picture ever taken of me. Still with my make-up from the night before, and this is what your hair looks like when your epidural doesn't work and you are sweating bullets and you ask the nurse for a hair band and she gives you a newspaper elastic. It's amazing how it all makes it worth it when you hold the new little bundle though
(take the picture please I'm saying..... she was born about 5 hours after this pic)

gotta go... water broke... and leaking, and here comes a contraction

THESE ARE SOME HAPPENINGS OF US THE PAST YEAR. JUST THE HIGHLIGHTS, BUT I'M REALIZING THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE A FABULOUS WAY FOR MY CHILDREN TO VIEW THE STORY OF THEIR LIVES.... I'M TRYING TO BE BETTER AT POSTING FOR THIS REASON ALONE.

took this pic of our good friends here out at clear lake, loved it!!
Hy's friendsHy got potty-trained and so he got to start Montessori School in September. This is the first day of school. New outfit, shoes and all! He looks stressed in this pic a bit because he refused to wear a backpack and there were "scary moths" outside. He likes school.

Hy was a superstar with potty-training. 3-weeks and he was done!! He really surprised me. I just let him have WHATEVER he wanted to drink.... he loved it....
9.5 months....... my belly really sticks out there the last month

Grandpa Bud's funeral. We miss him. This is the third grandparent I have lost in a year. First Grandma June whom Olivia was named after, then Grandpa Howard, then Grandpa Bud in June of this year. These are cousins. Most everyone is here. It was fun to see everyone. It had been a really long time
babysitter Katie, we love her.
lots of classes this summer. "Art Bugs", "Marvelous Messes", and "Music Class". Hyrum and I had so much fun together this summer. We started to come to terms with each other! He has been a hard child for me.Beach trip to North Carolina Outer BAnks. What a cool place. A little too hot for me though going in July 8 months pregnant.

8 months preg-0...


6 1/2 months... my bad attempt of trying to take a pic on auto with a two year old running to grab the camara
Bradden's tri #2 of the season. hy liked to take his bike to these events and ride around like the athletes.forth of July

Hogle Zoo. We took a pretty sweet road trip to Utah this summer. Pics below. We went to Yellowstone too. I think it was so cold (and we were in shorts and t-shirts) and snowing I didn't take any pics.Mt. Rushmore


World's only Corn Palace.