Happy Halloween!

I don't have very good pictures of the kids. I need to take some more but I'll put up what I have for now. We had a lot of fun with a lot of parties and trick or treating this last week. Here is my wiggly spider that won't look at the camera because there is so much going on around him.

Blake the firefighter.

Jackson the knight.

Blake is three!

I am a little behind on blogging because we haven't had the internet for a little while. Here are some pictures from Blake's birthday. Better late then never, right?

We had a fun safari birthday with friends and family.

I can't believe that Blake is already three. He is getting so big!!!

catching up

Here is an update of a few things we have been doing this last month. The pictures are not very good because they are all from my cell phone. I can never remember to bring my camera.

We went to the Children's Museum with Jackson's pre-school class. We had a lot of fun.
We went to our block party and had so much fun. Here is a picture of Hayden being so good in the stroller.
It is funny because the thing that my boys had the most fun with was riding on the different lawn mowers and trucks that belong to our maintenance crew.

Here is Blake practicing his t-ball skills.
Hayden can sit by himself and has even crawled a few times. He is getting so big!!!
Jackson is on the Rockies team. It is kind of funny to watch. All the kids tackle the ball. You would think you were watching football.
We had lot of fun at the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving point.

The boys had to make sure to take a picture in front of the shark because their friend Phillip loves sharks.

We went to the Greek festival. It was not as fun as we were hoping it would be.
We have been to the zoo at least once a week and know the baby elephant quite well! :)

weight correction

So if you read in my earlier post Hayden weighed 16 pds. at his 4 month appt. Well I decided to weigh him again because he has already grown a ton. He is now 18 pds. What a chunker!!! :)

Hayden baby

Hayden had his 4 month appointment a few weeks ago. He is definitely growing. He is now 16 pounds and 9 ounces. The poor kid takes after Blake and is now on soy formula. It surprised me how well he took the formula and the bottle. The hardest time he had with the whole thing was at church when he just wanted to nurse to go to sleep. He is such a sweet boy and we are so thankful for him everyday.

Summer fun

I have been such a slacker at updating my blog. I blame that on three kids and the lack of sleep they bring to my life. We actually have been pretty busy this summer and have done quite a few things. Here are a few of them that I actually remembered to bring my camera:

We went to Silver Lake and Donut Falls. We had a lot of fun. The boys had a blast climbing rocks, trees and playing in the water.

Hayden was a trooper and slept for most of the day. He is such a good boy.


Chris had to carry Blake on his shoulders most of the way. Blake could have walked himself but why when Dad is there to do it for you?


Happy 4th of July. Grandma Karren bought these cute flag patriotic shirts for the boys.
We had a lot of fun at This is the Place for the Days of '47 free day. The pictures are a little out of order. The boys had fun at the baby animal petting area.

Blake and his friend Phillip are so funny together.
Blake loved the baby goats. He kept talking about them that day and told Chris that he wanted one for a pet. I had to drag him away from them when it was time to go.

Blake has his own mind and is not willing to change it for anyone but himself. If he couldn't see the baby goats, he didn't want to see any baby animals. He decided to just play in the stream until Jackson was done petting the babies.

The boys were so excited to ride horses. They did a good job of waiting in the long line in the hot sun.

Little escape artist

The other day we were outside and Blake climbed a fence next to our playground like it was nothing. He then had to show Jackson how to climb it. I took a picture and told the boys no more climbing. Blake is such a little monkey!

My chunky Cabbage Patch

Hayden is two months! It has gone by so fast. He went in for his doctor's appointment yesterday. He now weighs 12 Ibs. 14 oz. He is in the 97% for his height. He is getting so big. He has started smiling a lot more now. If you can get him to smile really big he looks just like a cabbage patch doll. It just cracks me up. We love Hayden so much. He is such a sweet boy.

Hayden's blessing

I am such a slacker mom. I didn't even think about taking pictures until everyone had already left. This poor kid. He will definantly have a complex when he sees all the pictures that his brothers have when they were babies and he will see the very few from when he was a baby.

Spring pictures

So I thought that I would take the boys to take some fabulous pictures that I could give to the fam at Hayden's blessing. I went by myself (that was a mistake). This was our first outing that we have taken since Hayden has come. The boys weren't horrible but they wouldn't stay by me when I was taking individual pictures. I gave up on that. On the group pictures, Blake kept looking around or Jackson kept smooshing Hayden. I really wished they would have worked out because it took a lot of work to get them all dressed up and downtown. Oh well. Here are some pictures of our uneventful photo shoot.

Easter

We had a lot of fun at the Nielsen Easter party on Saturday. The boys looked for easter eggs. Jackson had fun in the races.

Easter morning

The boys looked good in their Easter outfits. We only had time to take a quick picture on the couch because our church starts at 9:00. By the time we got home, their clothes were dirty. We will have to get them dressed up again and take them to Temple Square and take some more pictures.

Easter egg fun

The boys had so much fun coloring eggs today. They can't wait until it is Easter.