Sunday, January 25, 2009

Oh Boy '09

Charlie better prepare himself to share, because Adam's on the move!below: When I checked on Charlie before I went to bed the other night, he had his hands clasped like this. I thought it was so cute, that I had to take a picture!

above: Adam has discovered a new world! He likes to go!
below: Charlie made this crown at church. I think he likes being royalty!
below: This is how Charlie watched "sponge squares" this afternoon.

Two babies! Adam is right on schedule, almost exactly, with Charlie's crawling! It's fun to see them grow, but it's going too fast!

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Adam Crawled!

Adam crawled today! I will post video and pictures soon! How did we get here so fast? Wasn't he just born?!

Sunday, January 18, 2009

The Joy of January

Above: Adam is at a hard stage for bathing. He doesn't hold still! But, he loves the water! 
Below: Charlie is an awesome big brother; Adam adores him!

Above: Adam is traveling! He's all but crawling, and we're expecting the crawling to begin any day! 
Below: Estelle came over to play for a few hours the other night. By the end of the night she told Charlie they had to get married, because she was going to have a baby (Charlie's night light)! Charlie wanted something in his tummy, too. So, he's got his pillow stuffed in there. I told them that they're supposed to get married BEFORE the baby's in her belly!
Adam is finally sleeping in his own room! Charlie's always anxious to see him when he wakes up in the morning!

Friday, January 16, 2009

Let's party like it's 2009!

We greeted the new year with good friends, family, and food!Our new years eve celebration began with a very early dinner at Chuck-A-Rama! Oh yeah! Sammy, Estelle, Lucy, Violet, and Charlie were all on their normal behavior (mostly crazy)! 
Not all of us are in the pictures, but we had dinner with our friends Jacob & Michelle Nuttal (Lucy & Violet), Justin & Brittany Smith (Estelle), and Mitch & Courtney McBeth (Sammy & Max).
As you can see, for the first time EVER, we had a kids table!!!!! 
These two were kind of mad that they had to sit with the adults. Hey, no solids, no eating on your own!
Left: Adam, Right: Max
Michelle and Jacob
Brittany, Justin, and Adam
The party continued later at Dennis and Sheri's. It was so much fun that we turned it into a slumber party. Who invited sleeping beauty? (Rylee)
Emma looks well rested!
Quinci and Charlie, did you ever even get tired?
Who knew that a baby could be so agreeable?
Next time, I don't think Kalli will offer to share a couch with Ellen. 
Wake up, Ellie girl! It's 2009!
Marni knows how to party!
Me too!
Darin, Sue, and the kids joined us for breakfast. I don't think they had as much fun as we did. They looked rested! This is Kylie with her ear phones in. (Some things will always stay the same. 1989, 1999, 2009, ear phones and teenagers do well together!)
Papa Pie and Jocelyn starting the year off right!

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

A Party with Friends...


ROCK BAND HAS BECOME THE WAY TO PARTY!
Above: Amanda on drums, Gretchen on vocals.
Below: Corper on guitar!
Michele on baby duty.
Gretchen.....more vocals!
The after party.......

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and the days after...

We spent Christmas with the Ray family at a cabin at Bear Lake, in Northern Utah. Because there were so many snow storms, our group was not as large as we had originally expected. One of the best things about this weekend was the time we got to spend with our new family members. Below is a picture of our new nephews, Tommy and Tyson. Their Mom, Raquel, is marrying Brian, my oldest brother. It was a great time to bond!Ben and Lori, and Dan and Ashley brought Their Wii. We had some good DDR goin' on (check the video bar)!
Tyson and Adam getting excited for Santa!
Charlie eating Santa's cookies!
Grandma and Papa-pie enjoying Charlie and Adam.
Tyson, Charlie, and Tommy waiting on Christmas morning to see if Santa came!
Tyson and Tommy....ready to go!
Santa brought Charie his "go-racer"! We decided it was a good thing that Santa came on Christmas Eve, not Christmas night! (For Charlie's sake!) 
Adam loved his monkey ball! Isn't Santa fun!


The wrapping paper was the most fun for Adam!
We did some sledding the day after Christmas. It was so cold that we were probably only outside for a half an hour! Seriously, it was SO cold!
This picture was taken the morning we left the cabin. You can almost see Bear Lake in the right corner. My regret is that we didn't take a picture the day before when the sky was clear! On the day we left everything was white, including the sky! This is the most beautiful blue lake! I'm sorry you can't see it!
Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Ray! We had a wonderful Christmas! It was fun being "snowed in"!