Tooth Fairy Comes to Town!

Jackson has started losing his baby teeth and it has been fun because this is a first time for us.  I personally think he looks cuter with a few less teeth.

6 Months.

6 Months! Has it really been six month since this little (big) man came into our family. All of the boys have been good babies but Hudson really takes the cake. This kid is the happiest baby ever. I can't help but fall in love with him over and over every time I hold him. It doesn't hurt that he sleeps 12 hours a night.

I love my boys.

Remember back in the day when I used to actually blog? Well I am going to try to get back on the wagon. October has been a busy but really great month. Hudson is getting so big. He has to be 20lbs now. He wears a size 12 month and he is all smiles all the time. He will be six months old in a few days and I can't believe it. I finally had some more pictures taken of the boys. We are amazingly lucky to have a good friend who likes to take pictures as a hobby. She is so talented and always does an amazing job.

Back from the dead.

So we have had some major computer issues lately :(

I have not been able to upload ANY pictures from my camera and I have had to try to get thousands of pictures off Ike's work computer and onto internet photo storage sites. It has been a horrible process. Long story short, I haven't posted in a while and there is a lot of stuff that I am not going to get to talk about. Oh well. I am starting fresh. I'm not going to back track and talk about my summer. So pretty much we are going to pick up in the here and now. My parents were in town last weekend and we went to the BYU/NEBRASKA game! It was really awesome. Joanna and Katherine stayed with us for a few days after and that was really awesome too. Today is the first Saturday we have had since early July where we were not on vacation, didn't have visitors and don't have to go anywhere. I am pumped!!! So here are some pics of my parents trip to the good ol' state of Nebraska!

It was an awesome game!

Crafty C-A-R-R

I've been a craftin' lately. Kind of cross stitched out right now so I decided to try my hand at some other things. We had pizza the other night and I decided to make some big letters for our living room. I have been thinking about doing something like this for a while but I figured I would just buy the letters. Anyway, here is a (not so great) tutorial on how to make giant letters:


I started by cutting out my letters from the pizza boxes. You need two identical cardboard letters for each big letter you want to make.

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Then I glued 1" tall (varying widths) pieces of cardboard all the way around one of the pieces from each letter.

Then I glued the top part to each one. Making a thick letter.

I then cut several strips of 1" wide fabric and wrapped each letter. I didn't have to use very much hot glue in this step. I pretty much only hot glued when I had to start a new fabric strip.

I really am sorry these pictures are a little fuzzy. My camera really struggles with indoor pictures.

And there you have it! All done!

Ike's Adventure

Ike went to Youth Conference this week in Kansas City, MO. He had an AMAZING time!!! He got to see tons of cool church history sights and he said the best part was that he was able to work in the temple for 8 HOURS!!! He didn't take my camera with him but luckily, the youth in our Branch were nice and took some great pictures and video of him.

In case some of you didn't know, Ike is a very good dancer. But his blessing of being a sweet dancer is sometimes a curse, because sometimes, when certain songs come on, he cannot control his dancing urge and he just has to bust a move...

 

Independence Day!

We had a really nice July 4th this year. Central City had a lot of cool family things to do.
We went to the Teddy Bear Parade in the morning. This is a kid's parade where kids line up with their teddy bears and march around the block. It was really cute and at the end all the kids got ice cream and balloons. When we got there all the kids got cowboy hats too. Jackson wore his all day. Brady won a giant bear in the raffle. 

Ike and Jackson walking in the Teddy Bear parade!

 Me holding Brady because he refused to walk.

 Jackson and THE TEDDY BEAR!

 Enjoying some ice creams compliments of Dairy Queen!

 Brady won a bear that was bigger than him.

Next we moved on to the petting zoo at the park. By this point Brady was not really into the whole "having to walk around town" and eventually he pooped his pants and Ike took him  home.
Jackson enjoyed some quality time with some goats.

 He was really fascinated by the turtles even though they were neither teenage nor mutant jinjas.

 He was very brave and decided he wanted to ride the horse! He went all the way down this little path and back with them. I was really actually surprised he wasn't scared.

After the petting zoo we went home and had lunch then the boys took a nap and we killed time until the parade.

After the parade we threw about a thousand off our front steps. Brady (who was in a better mood by this point) was really into them. Then we let our kids stay up until 10pm so they could watch all the fireworks and I have to say, for a small town there were some awesome ones. Overall it was a great 4th of July.