Life

I have been going to the gym three or fours days a week. I also bought the most awesome jogging stroller at Costco recently so now i can go not jogging, but roller blading. Its much more fun to me. Lacy is only taking a bottle now which turns out to be a lot of work. For some reason i thought it was going to be easier but now i have to MAKE her a bottle. She is crawling around a little bit but still taking her dandy old time. Ryan has been having lots of fun at the gym. He loves going to 'work out'. I just cut his hair, now he looks three. My babies are growing up."i am nine months old now"
Look at those beautiful baby blues

Brent and i as we were going out on a date. Brent argued about taking a picture and i said that we never get any picture of just us. So i won and here it is...( too bad the red eye thing wouldn't work)

This was our breakfast a couple mornings ago. I just had to take a picture cause this kind of thing usually doesn't happen in our house. I asked the family what they wanted for breakfast, Ryan took out olives and Brent said burritos. So i told Ryan we would have olives for lunch and i gave in and had FROZEN BURRITOS and ketchup for breakfast. They were actually pretty good.

Aren't little boys so much fun. Good job Ryan!

What we've been up to

So Friday and Saturday my family and i had a huge yard sale at my moms house in QC. It went very well so sat night my mom took us all to PF Chang's. It was a great time. I always forget its going to be much louder and messier when the kids come but it was still a blast, and the food was yummy. So the following are some fun pix of the night( by the way you don't see Brent cause he was off having his own fun in Vegas for "work."Teetee and Lacy lou
My model Ryan

Lacy once again not looking at the camera but at least she is smiling



In this picture you get the whole horse, Ryan, and Lacy's head

My Brother Zach and Ryan

Me and Lacy( i love her face in this picture, she is smiling and shoving food in her face)

Grandma and Ryan( Thanks Grandma for dinner)

"when you give a kid a cookie"

YES... LACY IS TAKING A BOTTLE

FINALLY

I am so happy that after almost 9 months she is taking a bottle. The sad thing is i think she prefers the bottle over ME. I think i am almost done nursing. Its a bitter sweet thing.

Lacy's cuteness

SO since nothing is going on in my life i thought i would share these cute pictures of Lacy. This is what she wore to church on Sunday. Thanks Tiff for the dress. This is her yoga pose. I love how flexible they are.
No this is not her smiling. She is clenching her fists and well kind of grunting, its her new thing she does. But how cute.

And this is just 'the look'

A Little Hiking

Brent and Ryan convinced me to go hiking with them, i finally gave in and i am so glad i did, it was so fun. I cant believe how hot it got. We just went all the way down ocotillo till it ended and there was this long dirt road that went for miles in the middle of the desert. We only made it one mile round trip cause Lacy wasn't liking it so much. I think she might possibly be a girly girl..uh-oh:)

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A Great Spiritual Experiance

So Brent and i were on our way out the door this morning to go on a much needed temple trip. Lacy was in the car and Ryan came back in to get his monkey. We searched for over ten minutes for it and just couldn't find it. I mean i was looking in drawers and cupboards. I was desperate, and then the thought came to me to have Ryan say a prayer to help find it. So i went and got him and told him we were going to pray to heavenly father to help us find monkey. We knelt down by the couch and i helped him to say a prayer. When we were finished we talked a little bit about where he had last seen his monkey and he said his room. So before getting up to go i turned around on my knees and there it was, behind the rocking chair underneath some clothes. I know that i would have eventually found it, but if i hadn't been on my knees with Ryan we wouldn't have seen it before we left for the day. Ryan and i talked about how heavenly father can help, even with small things, they key is that you have to ask.

The other great thing that happened was when we were dropping the kids off at my sisters, Ryan picked a flower and brought it to me and asked me to give it to Jesus at the Temple. How cute huh..

SnOw FuN

This past weekend we went on a company snow trip. It was a blast. It was even better cause it was free. The cabin we stayed in was so nice. I want to go again. The weather was great. during the day you hardly needed a jacket. Ryan had been to the snow before but i am pretty sure he forgot what it was.Lacy was so funny when we went sledding, Brent would take her down this really big hill and she would just have this expression on her face like nothing even happened. The only thing i think she liked about the snow was eating it:)
Ryan on the other hand was a natural, he loved everything about it. He climbed right up the biggest part of the mountain and was not even the least bit scared to go down it. I was more afraid than he was.


Luckily there was another family that came that had a little boy Ryan's age and they just played and played together. We all were happy about that.

Here is our cute little cabin. I miss it.

Valentine's Day

So Valentine's Day was a good day:)Lacy Lou loved it too!

( I just cant get a great pix of her, its either blurry or she is making a retarded face at the flash, so sorry for the blurriness)
Ryan got a shark and a whale and of course some candy, he couldn't have been happier

I think i got the best present of all...a message:)

Here is such a cute family pix to capture the moment,minus me of course. geez don't Brent and Ryan look identical. They are both so handsome.

And last but not least, i made these fabulous heart shaped pancakes. I felt like such a great mom. Sometimes you just need to do something corny to make yourself feel good:)

Zoo fun

We went for play group and it ended up just being me and the kids which actually turned out great. It was nice to have time with just them. I got to focus on Ryan and what he wanted to do. I love Lacy in this pix. This is the true face of a curious baby. She is sitting with grass in her hand just trying to figure it all out. I just love her:)

I love this one too. Of course i couldn't get both of them to look with there eyes OPEN.

Oh he is just too cute

...and so is she

The Park

This is at 'Kati's park' as Ryan says. He always asks to come here so i called up Shaun (who recently had a baby) and we went down to the park with all four kids. Its funny the more kids you and your friends have the bigger the group becomes. I know this is totally an obvious thing but not that long ago we could go out and there would only be two kids now we go out and there are four. Boom just like that. Are we going to even be able to hang out in five years? Just a silly thought...I actually caught Lacy smiling( usually my camera is not fast enough to catch the precious moment, even if it is blurry.)

Just TOO cute

Ryan always wants to ride in these car carts at Fry's and yesterday i thought Lacy was "maybe' big enough to ride in it with him. She was so excited to be in there with him. She loved holding onto the steering wheel. They both looked so cute i could help but take a picture. I felt like a true blogger at that moment, whipping my camera out in the middle of the produce isle:)

PlaydateS

So this is at play group on Friday. We went to the park for bubble and ball day. Of course i forgot to take pictures of all the kids chasing after the bubbles, but they had a lot of fun. So the pictures below are of Ryder and Lacy's first time on a swing. They get to have a lot of their 'firsts' at the same time since they were born only a week apart. They both loved the swing. Aren't they cute!

On Wednesday we had a little reunion with my hair school buddies. Of course the only friends that i still talk to are both named Kristin and we all had babies within a week of each other. It was really fun to get all the kids together and see how they compare in size and ability. Lacy is taking her grand old time catching up to the boys who can already crawl. Lacy sees no need for such things, all she has to do is cry and look at me with those big blue eyes and i pick her up.

Avery, Amy, Ryan, Parker

The only matching outfit they have, and they wear it on the same day( not on purpose.)

How CUTE

The triplets- Ryder,Lacy,Jackson

Making Baby Food and Cousins Visit

OK so this might not be amazing to anyone else, but i am so excited that i made baby food all by myself. I even saved old baby food containers so i had something to put it in. So this one sweet potato made sooo much food. I wont have to ever make it again and it was so easy. It took hardly any time. So snaps for ME.

Looks yummy huh!

I think they are shooting birds

Isn't this a lovey habit:) what a boy!



What cute cousins


Diane and Luis stopped by for a visit. I hadn't seen them in almost two years so it was nice surprise. Our kids are about the same age. Ryan and Luis Pablo played so good together the whole time. I got some cute pictures of them. Lacy and their little boy are about a month apart. I thought Lacy was big until i saw him, she looked so little next to him. Hopefully they come again soon.