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Wyatt has been loving pre-school. Here is a frog he drew for the letter "F"

Ryan is helping me around the house while Wyatt is gone at school.

Yesterday was pirate day at preschool. All the kids dressed up and it was so cute!

Whats been going on with everyone else?

Ryan Turns One!

Ryan: my little Monster!
weight-20.4LBS 16%
height-29 inches 25%

Ryan can say- mama, dada,all done (and sign), no no, Da (dog)(and sign), ba ba (trying to say Pop Pop), Da Chi (scratchy, and sign) and uh-oh. He will try to repeat any word you say to him but doesn't say it the same way every time. I have heard him repeat mickey mouse, water, and tons of other words that we ask him to, but he is temperamental. If he isn't in the mood to repeat words or sign, he will not do it!

On his actual birthday we blew up a whole bunch of balloons and let him play in them. They were having so much fun! We stuffed some balloons in Wyatt's shirt, and then Ryan's, but Ryan's looked funnier!




Along with legitimate sign language, Brandon teaches our kids signs for football. Ryan will put his hands in the air every time someone says touchdown!


Giving Birthday hugs.


Wyatt's birthday tradition is to go to 7-11 and get a slurpee, so we decided Ryan's would be to go get milkshakes from anywhere. Because he is one we figure McFlurries and a play place was the best birthday celebration.

He thought the spoon was a straw and got pretty frustrated that nothing was coming out!

Happy Birthday Big Boy! We love you so much! Thanks to our family, Big Pop Pop and Grandma, Nana and Robbin, Scratchy and Grandma, great grandaddy and grandma muffin, Pop Pop and Grandma for the gifts and loves!

Miss Kayley

We decided to send Wyatt to preschool this year. I am so excited about the teacher and probably wouldn't have sent him otherwise. So many of his best friends are in the class. Here is our big boy with his pack-pack.

He had no problem leaving us. He has never been shy about leaving us behind for bigger and better things!

He is so excited to have Hannah in his class. They are like two little peas in a pod!

He got a cookie for being so good.

We love Wyatt!

Faux First Birthday!

As is our tradition, our children have several birthday parties. Ryan had one on labor day and it was so much fun!

We are really lucky to have family in town to celebrate!

The big first birthday cake!

He was very excited about the toys he got!

I love When they eat the birthday cake!

He was really liking the cake and ate a lot!

He got some cool sunglasses from scratchy and Grandma so he could ride in style in the little car with wyatt!

Granddaddy and Grandma Muffin are so awesome and came to join in the fun!

It was a fun celebration and I can't wait until the 13th for another party!

The small and simple things

Lately I have been recognizing the small and simple mercies in my life. I am so incredibly blessed that I can hardly believe it! I have been savoring the last little bits of Summer with my little guys, enjoying new things with them, and watching them grow up. Some times I look at them and think " I am going to miss three year old Wyatt!" or "I love Ryan as a baby!" They are amazing!

Wyatt is the best older Brother. I know in the future that may change, but they are such good friends right now. Wyatt shares a lot and is really patient with Ryan. here he is sharing a cowboy hat I had bought him, with Ryan.



He was even making sure it was good and snug on Ryan before he crawled off.




Speaking of crawling...we aren't seeing much of that here anymore. Ryan has really gotten motivated to walk more and more. He has been able to walk for a while, but preferred to crawl. We are excited for our little guy to turn one soon!




We've had Jenn here for a couple of weeks and it has been awesome. She is really nice to the boys, has fun teasing with Brandon and has been my walking/shopping/playing/errand wing man! I have been having a blast!


I got to go to the water park with the boys today, and I laid down with Wyatt and Ryan in the shallow end of the beach. The clouds were big puffy white, and the mountains were green. The boys were having so much fun and their eyes matched the sky! I was so happy! I wished I could have stayed there forever. I love those boys and have had so much fun taking them places and watching them grow! Amazing!

Ch, Ch, Ch, Ch..Changes

When you try to look at Ryan's 3 (yes 3!) new teeth on the top......


He gets a little upset! The top one finally broke through on August 4th after much hard work on his part! I think when a baby gets their top teeth, they look so different and much older.


Ryan also decided that he would try walking (although he really still likes to crawl and only walks when he wants something that's pretty close.) He started walking on July 16th at my Grandma's house, my Mom and Kenn were there to see it! Kenn has been helping him and working with him to walk a lot!


And here's one of my big happy boy. He just played his last soccer game and then it's on to preschool next month!

Up House

Brandon had heard that the Parade of homes this year had built a house just like the one in the movie Up! Wy was crazy about that movie for a while. Brandon is such a fun Dad and looks for cool stuff to do like this all the time!

I love that they have the balloons from the chimney!

The details were amazing! Mr Fredricksen sitting outside was so cute!

Of course they made everything working because the house is up for sale. Just $400,000!

The house also had Andy's room in it! So much fun!

It was a blast! Thanks for taking us Daddy!