A Family of Characters

These are the characters that I have to put up with :), these two are pretty funny. If your wondering what that picture of Colin in a stroller on a bed is, well we found him like that. And, yes, it is a doll stroller. He set it up on the bed and had a seat. Life is good when you hang out with kids like this! Colin can now spell his own name and he can spell Dad. We are now working on spelling Mom and Jennsen. Jennsen wants to spell too, and she is getting pretty good. She tries to spell her own name, which according to her is spelled Jencnn. So she is suprisingly close.

Go NFL!!

So as many of you know, me and Ben are big time NFL fans. We have been watching the playoffs and being completely ridiculous with our cheering.

So Colin got out the football to show us that he was a big fan too.

The last couple of games we were dancing and singing with cheers (49ers beat the Steelers!!! and the Giants beat Green Bay!!!!!!) Colin and Jennsen were even more excited than we were because there is nothing greater than your parents completely losing it.

Jennsen wants you to remember that she's a fan too :)

Ben's Birthday Party/Halloween Celebration

So because Ben's Birthday comes the day after Halloween we often celebrate his birthday with costumes :) This year we had a Birthday party, in costume and went outside to pick the Apple Trees clean. It was a riot.
Daddy opening presents.

Jennsen helping us pick apples by using one of the buckets as a hat, and eating a doughnut. She is so helpful :)

When we headed outside to pick apples, Jennsen stopped by the garage to have a ride on the lawn-mower. She is the prettiest Fairy-Bug that ever did yard work.

Colin went to the party as a Newsie.

Do you think they look alike?

Ben's brother Scott was dressed as a Logan Farmer. We found all kinds of overgrown vegetables when we went to pick apples so Scott gladly modeled them for us. This is a raddish.

A pumpkin/tomato (yep a pumpkin and tomato baby, not on purpose). Ben really did take a few bites out of it. It wasn't very good.

Another Raddish.

This is what inspired taking pictures of vegatables. Scott and Julie gave Ben this for his birthday. What is it you ask? It's an "Heirloom Blue Hubbard Squash". What?! Yep. Scott and Julie stopped by a roadside vegatable stand and saw this (by far the ugliest thing they saw) and immediately bought it for Ben. After they got in the car they realized they had no idea what it was so they went back and asked. An "Heirloom Blue Hubbard Squash". It's supposed to have a great shelf life.

Yeah!

Bright Eyed and Wonderful

Did anybody know that Jennsen loves stuffed animals? She always has to sleep with her snow white doll, who she calls "nose".

Colin and Jennsen are both getting better at sharing and taking turns. I love playing with them outside (can't really do much of that anymore) because they get so happy, and they become the best behaved little kids you have ever met.

Life has been a little crazy and I don't think that anything can describe how the last couple of months have gone, except for this little face.

Good Morning!

This is a common facial expression for Jennsen Rae. She is full of them. She always makes us laugh. I always was mad that I could never catch it on camera, but now I've gotten pretty good.

I was trying to get the kids up and ready for the day but Colin was out cold still and cuddled up to a large monkey, so before I woke him up and let him realize what he was doing, I took a picture so he can never forget it :)

Obviously he was pretty embaressed when he found out.

If you think that my kids are just adorable, I've added this picture. Good Morning Jennsen!

Don't Walk Away

So I never walk away from a bathtub with my little ones in it. But Colin is now 3 and sometimes I will go grab something or throw a diaper away if it is only him in the tub. I had just finished washing Jennsen and got her in her jammies. She likes to talk to Colin while he's in the tub so I walked away for a moment and came back into the bathroom to find this.....



The best part was that the top part of Jennsen was not wet, meaning that she somehow got into the tub without getting wet from the chest up

Memories

I was recently going through the pictures on my computer and I couldn't help loving these old pictures. Colin eating popcorn with Daddy and Grandpa.

This is Colin when he was about 6-7 months old, when we were living in Vernal.

The day we brought Jennsen home from the hospital. She was so tiny, and Colin was so sweet to her.

Colin at 18 months. It helps to go back and remember these fleeting moments. It makes me appreciate all the new ones I'm having now.