family pics 2012

Recently

Here are some recent pictures from my phone. The boys begged to get scorpion lollipops on our way home from AZ last month. Jay got sick about halfway through without eating any of the actual scorpion. Rex gobbled it all up, scorpion and all. Gross! Eli is getting potty trained and doing really well. He just decided that he won't "go" anywhere but home. So that's been a little challenging. Jay won a reading award at school a few weeks ago. Our primary did a service challenge where the kids earned points for doing stuff around the house. It was nice to have them actually happy to help out for a week. And I think that's about it :)

Chad was able to baptize Jay this weekend. We're grateful for all the friends and family that could make it to be with us.

Jay's birthday party

We had Jay's party at the ball park this year. We had a sunflower seed spitting contest, a pitching contest, relays, a baseball piñata, pizza, cup cakes, and a baseball game. We are exhausted but we're glad Jay had a great 8th birthday!

Halloween

Here's some Halloween pictures in no particular order. Rex had a fun program at preschool. Jay wouldn't let me take his picture at the school parade. Eli loved trick or treating at daddy's office. We all got too much candy and have belly aches. But we had lots of fun

Jay's 8th birthday

Jay got a cool new Nintendo dsi for his birthday and he's been rotting his brains on it all day. And he got all his scout gear and is excited to start going to cub scouts this week. He's also looking forward to his party with his friends on Saturday.

Family picture day

We HATE getting family pictures done. We all turn into grouchy monsters. Here's some pics I snapped today while we were at the park. My nice friend took our real pictures for us. Hopefully they turn out ok.

New phone

I got a new fancy phone and I'm hoping it will be easier to share what's up with us this way. Here are some recent pics of the kids. Eli has a hard time with naps lately. The poor kid passed out on the floor the other day because he was so tired. Rex wants to practice dribbling everyday now. Jay has attitude and doesn't want his picture taken very often. Grandma and Grandpa came to visit us and our new house last weekend but we failed to get a picture. We did get a picture of the fun lollipops Grandma got for the kids though.

I copied this post from Jay's blog.  It was so fun to see him in this competition.  The top 5 kids from each grade participated in the finals and it came down to the wire with Jay and a 3rd grader. The art teacher let the whole audience know that Jay is only in 1st grade and everyone was in awe. He got a huge round of applause at the end and he told us kids were congratulating him all day.  We are so proud of him. He gets to go to LA tomorrow with all the finalists.  What a great experience for him!

 

There was this program at school called the art quest.We have been working on it for about 350 days.The artists this year are Ansel Adams,Marc Chagall,Salvador Dali,Keith Haring,Henri Matisse,Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buanorotti Simoni,Claude Monet,Georgia O'keefe,Jackson Pollock,Pierre Auguste-Renior,Norman Rockwell and Henri Marie Raymond De Tolouse Lautrec.Heres what happens.A contestent steps up they show them a picture they have to guess which artist it is.If they get it right they go to the back of the line.But on May 17 I won 2nd place for the 950 kids in the entire school.Since i won I get to go to the J. Paul Getty art musem in Los Angeles!From 6 in the morning to 11 at night.

Eli is 2!

Our cute Eli turned 2 on April 23rd.  We let him pick out his cake and he chose strawberry with pink frosting.  Jay and Rex thought this was very uncool and girly, but they ate it anyway.  We had a little family party and went to McDonald's.  Eli is quite the trouble maker at 2.  His nickname at our house is THE DESTROYER.  He loves to pour things out, break things, empty drawers, play in the fridge, you name it.  We clean up after him a lot. He is starting to throw tantrums that aren't so cute.  He is learning to talk more and more everyday.  He loves to be outside. He loves to do whatever his big brothers are doing.  He is a happy boy that makes our home lots of fun and keeps us all on our toes. We love this little guy.

My friend took some pictures of Eli for his birthday.  They turned out so cute.

Baseball opening day

Today was opening day for our Little League. The boys had their team pictures done and got to be in the parade. It was freezing today so they were pretty miserable (by freezing I mean in the 50's). Rex is playing in T-ball this year and Jay is in AA. They've both been doing great in practice so far. We are excited for games to start next week.


It's going to be a busy season with two boys in baseball this year!

Night Night Eli

Eli likes to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star every night before bed. You can see that he tries really hard to talk but unfortunately we don't understand most of what he says. He sure is cute though.