Birthday Party!

1 Year Old!

Happy Birthday to Craig!

He's 1 yr old today Aug 31 2008. The picture at the top is one of his yr old photo shoot. We love our little boy! He is such a wonderful addition to our family. I'll post pictures of his party when I have more time.

Happy Birthday Craig!

Girls Party

I just got back from our girls party! My sister, aunt and I left our children and husbands at home { the first time for me ever! It was harder than I thought it would be. } and went on a girls only trip. My younger sister also came and it was nice to have her along. She helped me stay awake on the long drive too! Thanks Wand! It would have been a disaster without you.

This is outside of Loren and Jess's place at the begining of the grand adventure. { by the way thanks Loren and Jess for letting us crash your house for the week and eat all your food. It was fun to be there. }

Trying on Hats !

The Hale Centre Theatre, where we went a saw "Big" as a live musical. It was so well done and so fun! I love live plays.

The sun was so bright that none of us could even open our eyes so I'm glad that this is not a close up picture.

Then we stocked up on scrapbook supplies and tried to catch up on all of our out of date scrapbooks. This was a daunting task for me especially because I had to catch up on, well lets see, FOREVER! Because I've never done a scrapbook.

I was impressed though for my first time scrapbooking I actually came up with some pages that I liked. There were more pictures but they're not on my camera.

{ Coming Home }

I had a great time but the whole time I was missing my boys. I came home to the sweetest thing EVER!

{ a trail of hand cut rose petals }

I always thought that was the sweetest thing and WISHED that it would happen to me someday! Thank you K.C. He stayed up the night before and MADE me a dozen roses. And cut out petals for me! It was the perfect coming home present.

I still can't believe that he made such beautiful flowers for me! I never could have done it as good!

Drinking Fountain

I was getting Craig a drink of water

{ he LOVES drinking fountains }.

This fountain was NOT just a drizzly one and the water went shooting up and hit him in the forehead. I thought that he started crying but then I realized that he was LAUGHING.

I have never heard him laugh so hard. We caught some of it and I'm so glad. It's such a happy sound.

Remember when...?

This is gonna be good! So I was looking back through my planner trying to find some information and I came across something simply too good to keep to myself.

Last year, Shortly after Craig was born K.C. and I were getting ready for bed and he was very very tired but we stilled had to read scriptures and pray so he was trying to hang in there.

Have you ever been so tired that you read the same line over and over again but don't notice till about the 5th time? or you get done with a page and realize you don't really remember reading any of it? Well both of these things were happening in abundance. And then... He's reading along and he says:

"They do walk circumspectly that they do keep the lights on."

He didn't understand why I started laughing because he didn't even hear himself. And then right after that:


"He has given it unto you that ye may laugh at the dinner table."

What a priceless memory! The only sad thing about it all is that the time of no sleep and way to much homework/school/work... the list goes on is returning next Tues. Poor poor K.C. Sometimes I wonder if he's going to be tired for the rest of his life.

The Counting Train

This is Craig at 11 months putting together his train puzzle. He loves to clap for himself when he does it well. And bob his whole body around when he nods his head.{ He's learned to shake his head now too but it ends up being his whole body half the time. }

And halfway through he starts smacking his lips together like a kiss. { He's started actually trying to give a real kiss instead of just slobbering your face off. } I guess he likes to practice at random moments while building puzzles.

His love for puzzles was actually inspired by a puzzle shape book I have where there are shapes { triangles, circles, squares... } that you pull out for him and he puts them back, much the same way as this one. So fun. I love these books!

Enjoy!

Camping Trip

We took Craig on his first camping trip! It was very fun. Of course as soon as I set him down he tried to eat a piece of deer poop. YUCK! Here he's helping dad put up the tent.

When K.C. started gathering firewood Craig got the program right away and started directing traffic. If K.C. didn't have any wood Craig would point at stuff on the ground. And as soon as K.C. would pick it up Craig would then point at the wood pile like "Go over there! Put it down."

We took my sisters with us and they said that it was their first time to go on an overnight camping trip. They were so cute and got so excited about everything. It was fun.

As the sun was starting to go down huge thunder clouds started to gather on the horizon and then lightning started to strike. We were all sad because no one wanted to go home. But happened to be right next to the only tall trees in like 100 yards. And the lightning was practically non stop off to the side of us so I was really worried.

We said a little prayer that we would know if it wasn't going to be safe and we should go home by having a scared feeling and being worried about the storm. But we also prayed that if it was OK for us to stay { because we all really wanted to } that we would feel calm and that we would forget about the storm and the storm would go away.

As soon as we were done the twins started talking about how good they felt and how it looked the clouds were going away. { They were still gathering and rolling over our heads } I was a little skeptical of their enthusiasm to stay regardless of what was safe or not. But I tried to have faith and believe that they were right.

We all decided to play a game and wait a little while before we decided what to do. It was the coolest thing ever. We all got lost in the game and about an hour later K.C. suddenly said "Hey you guys look there's no more thunder and lightning."

If fact there were no more clouds in the sky { except for a few small ones on the horizon }.
Wow! I was amazed. I guess I was trying to be practical and wise so I was sure we were headed home. But it was a great lesson to me on the power of prayer and the faith of a child. { or in this case 2 }

It's nice to know that Heavenly Father cares about little things that we'd like even when they aren't really that big a deal in the whole scheme of things. - wow that was really long!

Hanging out watching the fire.

We stayed the night had a great time. Craig even slept all night. { We hardly got a wink. } He was in our sleeping bag and all 5 of us were in the little tent. I never knew that Craig moved so much in his sleep and thank goodness he has his own bed at home. He flipped and flopped ALL night. I was squished up against the side of the tent and K.C. was squished in the bottom of the bag to avoid getting kicked in the face. It was defiantly an adventure.