My Sweetness

I can't take it!  I'm just going to blast this post with pictures of frankie!  He is just so cute! 

 I can not get enough!!!

I love him sooooooooo much!

He loves staring at his little zebra friend.

Fascinating!

Frankie at 3 months old.  Time is flying but he still seems so little.  

He has been such an easy baby!  That is new for me.  Calm and mellow. 

Oh, he MELTS MY HEART!

Family night

It's been a long time since we've been up the canyon for a barbecue.  We love to go as much as possible in the summer to beat the heat but this year with the new baby we didn't make it until just a few weeks ago.

HuiJu, a family friend visiting from Taiwan.

LOVE this picture of Cole!

I can't believe I am posting these pictures but it explains MaryJane's bear hugs the best.  

Anytime I am sitting down feeding frankie, she will just hug my neck SO tight and attack me.  

She is so lovable and is so good at showing it.

Can you say, SQUISHY FACE?

Back to School 2010!

Sadly, these are my only photos of Cole's first day of school.  Probably because it was a very ruff morning.  Tears and all.  The whole sock and shoe thing throws him in FITS.  Every year.  A daily battle.   We've tried EVERYTHING!  Our current remedy, I squeeze my feet into his socks for a few minutes to stretch them out.  If I can distract his thoughts by talking to him, making him think about something else while I get his socks and shoes on, we're golden. 

Talk about jumping through hoops!

 I love my second grader!  He is so happy to have some of his good friends in his class.

He's already at it again. Chasing girls.  A new crush.  His favorite recess past time. (besides soccer)

Sadie began kindergarten a week later than Cole.  

I love Kindergarten!

I can't believe I captured this!  I just snapped a quick one to do a lighting check just as Sadie peering into school.
It turned out perfectly!

She could.not.wait!

As soon as her teacher rang the bell.  Boom.  She was up there second in line. 

Ms. Okabe gave 3 simple instructions of things the kids were to do upon entering the classroom.  

1. Hang up your backpack

2. Find your cubby.

3. Cut out a leaf and color what you did this summer on it.

She then began to quiz them asking what the 3 things were. 

Sadie was so eager, she shouted them all out before others could answers.  

Sadie followed all the instructions...

cut and colored her leaf and was done before others even began. 

Ha. A little over achiever.

She jumped right in and learned the welcome song really quick.  

Me and my little Kindergartner.  

Tea Party!

I have the greatest sister!  She did such fun things for me when I was little.  

I've told Sadie many times of the the fun things we use to do and she just loves to hear all about it!  

Her favorite one is the Tea Party.  Sometimes when I was little, my sister would tuck me into bed at night and tell me that she would wake me up for our secret tea party and to not tell Mom or Dad.  

For our secret tea party, she'd wake me up after everyone was asleep and in her closet would be her laundry basket tipped over as the table, a flashlight, food and juice. 

 It was such an exciting thing to look forward to.  

When Aunt Jill came to town, she slept over a night and told Sadie that she'd have a tea party with her.  After doing Jill's hair, it was late, like 2 am. 

  

Jill set up in her cute little play closet. 

Apples, PB&J on crackers (Sadie's favorites) and juice.

Once Jill woke her up, she bounced right out of bed into the closet and immediately began eating.

Cheers!

{cute Ts from aunt Jill}

Thanks for being such a great aunt and sister!

We love you!

Family Reunion!

3 days after our California trip we headed on another trip.  A family reunion on my side of the family.  Because it was such a quick and exhausting turn around it put me so behind on blogging.  I need to stop taking so many pictures!  I get overwhelmed thinking about uploading, posting and documenting.  I know I'll love to look back on these times so I'm forcing my self to move on!  

We had such a fun time with so many cousins and kids to play with!

There was so much work that went into this!

We went to the Heber Valley Girls Camp area and stayed in Yurts.

Jill and MaryJane

Each family was assigned a day to do a craft and games.  My kids had a blast with so many cousins!  

Sadie's outfit killed me that day.  She dressed herself.  I had to pack the car and take all the kids up to be there by 10 a.m. (kev had to come up later from work) and dressing her was the last thing on my mind.  

Sadie is one silly girl.  When she is hot, she likes to cool down by taking off her clothes.  Usually it is her shirt (like daddy does).  But this time it was her leggings.
I can't seem to brake her of this habit. 

But no worries, she got right back to her bean bag tossing game.

The kids made a cute Temple picture block and yummy chocolate covered marshmallows.

Thanks Aunt Cathy and Allison!   

We had our first ever Spaghetti dogs!  It was quite entertaining for everyone!  Just poke as many spaghetti noodles through a hot dog and boil til done.

Insun and Olivia

The kids loved them!

This is the lake near our cabin.  It was so pretty.  

Frankie and I decided to stay ashore in the nice cool shade. 

Kate, Sadie and Olivia

The ropes coarse was an interesting experience.  I stayed at the cabin with Frankie. Thankfully my sister Jill was there to capture the moments for me.  

Look who's hot again!

Sadie was a little too short to do this challenge but somehow her dad snuck her on.  She surprised everyone and climbed to the top barely reaching each peg/step(?), walking across the balance beam and then ride the zip line to the bottom.  

Who knew this little girl was so gutsy? 

We were in charge of the family talent show.

This was the flier I sent out.

I really need to learn how to take better night photos with my camera.  I didn't do so well.  I just hate the look of flash.  

It was starting to get cold so we were able to use the pavilion.  My uncle helped us string up some lights for the stage(he has and brought everything one could need for camping) which we hung glittered stars from.  My cousin Daniel is a D.J and brought all his sound equipment for us to use. We didn't hold back.

With my Cricut I made 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places winner badges.

And badges for our 3 judges.  Cathy, Jill and Tim who each had their own score card.

My Bro. the Emcee 

Cole wowed everyone with his famous "mini man" and jammed to his favorite heavy metal song Black Dog by Led Zepllin.

{...put your hands up!}

Sadie and MaryJane showed off their new favorite shirt twist while shaking their hips to Alvin and the Chipmunks the Squeal, All the Single Ladies.

They just stood there with big grins on their face while shaking their hips.  

Listening to what the judges have to say.

They were going to wear their leotards and tap shoes but it was too cold and they wanted their shirts like that so bad.  Thanks to Aunt Stacey to teach it to them.  I used to do that all the time as a child.

Here's the clip of the girls if you have a minute.

Winner
Lizzy, Lexie, Kate - Addison - Sadie and MaryJane
Love how Sadie  is in awe of Addi.

The winners received itunes gift cards.  Which we assumed they could share with their whole family since they were little.  And every participant got 100 Grand candy bars.

Cole was so thrilled on this trip because he lost his 1st tooth!  Finally!  

He's been waiting a long time!  He's in second grade.

I couldn't help but to jump in the photo, I was so excited for him.  

The whole gang!

A special thanks to my Aunt Nancy for all the planning and to everyone else to put so much into the reunion!