18 Months!

18 months!

23 lbs

Six teeth and another four coming in!

Favorite Foods: Pasta, Raspberries, Cherub Tomatoes

Favorite Pastime: Sliding down the slide at the park  

Loves Elmo and Sesame Street

He's climbing!

Happy little guy

Always easy to make him laugh

Loves balls, especially basketball

Likes to color with Markers, I had to hide the sharpies.

Obsessed with lids!  

Wants to carry chapstick just like his daddy

Gives mom the best kisses

Calls us "mom" and "dad"  Not daddy or mommy.  I guess that is how it goes.

Loves to say "Eees!"  for Elise

Figured out how to make the car honk again and again with my keys

Favorite phrase:  "stop it!" 

Simone's New Do

On Friday Simone asked me if she could try short hair.  Of course!  It is always fun to try something new.  We scheduled her cut for the next day.  Simone was so excited she could hardly sleep.  She was able to donate her braid to Locks of Love.  We love her new A-line cut!  I think she looks adorable.

Summer Summary in Pictures

Aunt Marge working with Simone 

Yummy B-day cake by Aunt Sharon

All dressed up like a boy! 

Elise and Skye with their matching missing teeth and braces

New Kitten Puma

Firelight

Fireworks!

Simone's new Beach Cruiser

Fun Friends at the Movies

Alpine Days 3 on 3 champs!

Monet and Addie longboarding

Alpine Days 5K

Rodeo

I love when the clouds hang low around the mountains

Uh Oh he's climbing!

Monarch Chrysalis

Bros

Beautiful Sunrise

He Reads!

This is what we came home to after date night--our cuties asleep in our bed

Early morning Kneaders run!

A little bit of Heaven

I have been holding off on posting pictures of the backyard because I wanted to do a before and after post.  It was really overgrown and needed a lot of work when we moved in.  But my pictures are on various hard drives and it would take too much work.  Anyway, here is our little bit of heaven.  Jared tells me at least daily how much he loves this house.  He always wanted chickens.  I was ready to buy the last house we lived in, but he was holding out for a bigger yard, and while I was concerned with how much work it would be, I've been enjoying it.  I love the privacy and views.  I love having trees, and enjoying the seasons right in our own backyard.  The chickens are pretty cute too!  We even got a cat, and I really love her.  She is so sweet, and stays outside all the time.  Perfect.  We raised six of these chickens from chickhood.  They hatched out of their eggs and were promptly shipped to us last Christmas.  Jared had the coop in the garage in our last house for awhile.  So glad they aren't in the garage anymore! Soren loves the chickens.  "Chicken" was one of his first words.  Sugar likes them too and will sit in front of the fence by them often.   We buy goat milk from a lady here in our town and she gave us the kitten.  It was born in the woodpile and loves being outside. I love that the birds don't come eat the dogfood on the deck anymore and make a mess!