Cooper!

My sister Ashley had her baby today! He is such a cutie too!  Mr. Cooper was born at 4:53 a.m. and he was 8 pounds 2 ounces and 20 inches long!  Way to go Ashley and Riley.  I went to Salt Lake with Jenna, and my dad to see them at the hospital.  What an awesome day!

Land Lubbers!

One of Alex and Max's favorite things to play is pirates.  Alex loves to draw treasure maps, and then he takes Max and I on fun treasure hunts.  I love how creative he is.  Sometimes we travel over some treacherous terrain, like the sticky sand, rocky cliffs, and stinky swamp.  I also love it when these two can play together for a bit!

Alex's First Day of School 2011

Alex has gone off to his first day of preschool this year.  He is growing up so fast, and he is such a fun kid! He loves going to school, and I love it too!

Alex is excited to start another year of preschool with Miss Patty! 

Vegas Babies!

We went on a fun trip to Las Vegas over Labor Day weekend. Mark won a two night stay at the Bellagio! Mark had just arrived back home the week before, so we packed up the kids and had a family party!

I am not good at taking pictures, but Alex did take this one. It's the ceiling in the Bellagio lobby, he thought it was so cool!

The highlight of Alex's trip, going to M&M World. He thought it was the coolest thing ever :)

We also caught the King's Tournament at the Excalibur. Very cool! I have been wanting to go for years, and we were not disappointed.

Alex and Dad with Merlin!

After we checked out of the Bellagio, we drove to Pahrump where Mark's brother Jon and his family live. Saturday we got to go to our nephew Nathan's baptism, and on Sunday we got to see our new niece Annabelle's blessing. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures, but we had a lot of fun, and we were so glad we got to be there!

Children's Museum

We found a children's museum to go to, and it was fun for all!

Pizza Deliverymen

In the dentist's chair

Paging Dr. Toone!

Udderly fabulous!

Pool Time!

Next to keep ourselves busy, we found a fun pool!

They had a special pool for kids and Alex had a lot of fun on this slide! I liked that he could do it all by himself.

The boys riding Flipper.

So much fun!

Zoo Trip

Mark was living in a place called Normal, Illinois when we came to visit (he is moving around a lot this summer). They had a cute little zoo that we went to visit on one of our first days in town.

Cute boys and a sleeping wallaby

At the petting zoo, Alex was afraid to touch the pig, and Max was brave and thought the pig was funny.

At least Alex was brave enough to touch this snake, personally I would take the pig.

A Visit with Dad!

We took a trip to visit Mark out in Illinois at the beginning of June. I was nervous about flying alone with the boys, and it wasn't fun, but we all lived.

Luckily on the trip out there we had an empty seat by us, and that really helped!

On our first day in town we went to Legoland. Here are Alex and Mark in front of the replica of Chicago.

Hippos are one of the deadliest animals to humans you know.

Yay! Something for Max :)

Granite Trip 2011

We went on our annual trip to Granite Hot Springs last week. It was very fun of course, and Max got to come this time too! I wondered how Max would do, but he had a blast as you will see from the pictures.

Trip to the Fire Station

Alex's preschool class went on a field trip to the fire station on Friday. He had a great time! His favorite part was when they sprayed the water out of the big hose. Also he said that he liked that the firemen were happy.

Alex in his hat from the fire station

And Max needed a turn too!

Breaking the Ice

So it's like this. I haven't blogged for so long that every time I think about it I just get discouraged with all the stuff I need to catch up on so I don't do it. It's kind of like my laundry. So I am breaking the ice and blogging about nothing today so that next time I get on it wont seem that bad. One of the reason's I got so behind it that I got a sewing machine for Christmas. Now really I don't know how to sew, I have never used a sewing machine before. So I am learning to sew by making a quiet book, and I work on it any spare second I get. It's almost done, and I am really excited about it! So be prepared for some major catch up posts coming soon!

Here are some pages from my book!