My Loves!

It must be hard work standing up on everything! She used to get really mad because she could stand up but couldn't figure out how to get back down to the floor. She has since figured that part out too.

Coop either refuses to look at the camera or makes faces. What a stinker!

My favorite pictures always turn out blurry.

Found the redheads playing together in the bedroom.

I had my camera out to take pictures of a giant spider and it's massive web. Lindsey came up and asked me to take a picture of her on her bike. She then posed at all different angles and made sure I got a picture of each pose.

Lindsey reading a story to Cooper. Lately everywhere we go people ask if these two are twins.

Little smartie put these two foam blocks together to make a camera. She would push the yellow circle in and out like a lens.

This picture reminds me of a home video of Sarah trying to color and Colter taking her things. Gotta love younger siblings!!!

This is a paper that Gracie brought home from school and I noticed she had written me a sweet note in the bottom left hand corner. "I missed you Mommy!" I love hearing all about her school day and seeing what she is learning.

One day Gracie came home with a fireman hat and they had learned about fire safety. They have a cool thing out here where they have a room with smoke in it and the kids have to actually practice getting low to the ground and crawling out of a smoke filled room. They also have a couple of doors set at different temperatures so that they learn not to open a door if it's hot. I was quite impressed! Grace told me that we needed a fire alarm in our house, so I showed her that we do have one. It is interesting that we only have one in our whole house though.

Me and Tim made these for the kids at last conference and they remembered them and asked for them this past conference. As each person speaks, they move them up to the pulpit. They always get so excited, and then frustrated when the talks go "too long" because they want to switch them more often. This time the girls said, "Can they go to the bathroom?" because they wanted to take the pieces out of their seats and move them. It was so funny to watch them grab one of the apostles and say, "He needs to go to the bathroom." I love my kids!

Love finding this little sweetie standing up in her crib. We moved her into the big girls room. Cooper missed her and had a rough time being alone in his bedroom for about a week. Now he's gotten used to it. Sweet boy!

This little girl is absolutely in love with her Daddy! Just look at that grin and giant hugs! She always gives love pats too. These are the moments . . .