Natural History Museum

I went to the temple last Saturday with some of my girlfriends, and while I was there Brock went with his parents, Brett and Kallie, Natalie, and the kids to the new Natural History Museum at the U.  They were there for hours, and then went to lunch.  Brock did a good job at getting a bunch of pictures, and told me that Jace took a bunch too.  He said that there we tons of awesome dinosaurs to look at, but they didn't get any pictures of that. 

Grandma was helping Leila with her 3-D glasses.

The boys listening to some Indian languages.

Jace had to get a few pictures.  Here is one of daddy listening intently.

And Kallie taking pictures.

Griffin

Brock looking hot as usual.

Daddy and Nixon catching some rays outside at the weather station.

The kids with Aunt Natalie looking at a sand storm.

Cute boys.

Grandpa had to come check it out too.

Lindsey is 30!!

 Well, all of my cute high school friends are taking their turns turning 30.  I just can't believe it!  And I'm next!  AAAAAAHHHHHH!  Lindsey just moved back to Utah, after being in Denver, and Seattle, and San Francisco for the past several years.  We are all so glad she's back, and that we get to see her all the time now!  She turned 30 on the 26th of January, and invited us all to The Cheesecake Factory to celebrate.  I love these girls so so much, and am so glad that we still see each other!

Shandra, Lindsey, Jenn

Alisha, Talitha (always having more fun than everyone else!), me, and Heather

Out of this group of ladies, Shandra and I are the only ones NOT pregnant! 

Spaghetti Dinner

I love Spaghetti night at our house.  Maybe because that means that Brock is in charge of dinner.  Whenever we have spaghetti, I make Brock do it.  I have never been a fan of spaghetti.  I never liked it growing up, and we almost never had it.  But, ever since I tried it at The Spaghetti Factory, with browned butter and mizithra cheese, I love it!  Luckily, our kids love it too.  I just had to get some pictures of the mess it is though.  I should have taken pictures of the table and floor after dinner, but I didn't think about it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

He was trying to be funny for the camera here.  He doesn't always take such big bites!

Leila is Getting So BIG!

 Well, we FINALLY decided it was time to get rid of the backward facing infant carrier Leila has been in since she was BORN!  Our pediatrician told us that they are now recommending waiting until your child is two years old before turning them around, and Leila never really minded being backwards, so we didn't turn her around.  Well, the last month or so she has just cried and screamed and thrown a fit every time we try to get her in there.  Not to mention she's too big for it, and could hardly fit anymore.  Daddy surprised her last week with the forward facing big kid seat.  We've put her in Nixon's seat every once in a while, and she loves it, but of course, she wasn't having it when we got her her own.  She cried and threw a fit anyway!

 

 Then she finally decided to be happy.  Here is the arrangement we have now.  We usually have Jace in the 3rd row, but a while back we had to use the back to take something somewhere, and he's been up with the others ever since. He likes being in on the action.  Brock and I threaten to move him back just about every car ride because he and Nixon love to bug each other.

 

I thought I should try pig tails in Leila's hair, just to see what it looked like.  I have to admit, I thought she looked so dang cute!  She pretty much takes bows off as soon as you put them on, and rips ponytail holders out after a while too, so I took this picture before day care the other day.  They were still in when I picked her up, but by the time we got home, she had ripped them out.  

 

 One of our favorite things that Leila does right now is points at things.  I know that sounds silly, but she does it so cute-ly!  Her hand is kind of in a fist, and she brings it right up by her face and points to something.  Usually it's when she's mad and wants something.  It's one of Brock's favorite things, and he always tells me he wants a picture.  I tried the other day, but by the time I had grabbed my camera, she wasn't doing it anymore.  I tried to make her do it, and this is what I got.

Love her!

I Have Silly Kids

 Lately my kids have been into having "sleepovers".  They do this wherever they find a nice little nook in our house, like Leila's crib, or Jace's bed, or the bathroom, or the pantry.  They all get their pillows and blankies and turn off the lights and lay down and talk.  I just love it.  I've never gotten pictures, but when they went into the pantry, I grabbed my camera and got a few.  These little ones sure make me happy.

Jace and Nixon were pretending to be asleep.  Leila didn't quite get it.

 Jace loves to just lay in the bath after the others have gotten out.  He laid there like this for like a half an hour one time.  If the water just stayed warm, and we didn't make him get out, he could stay in there like this for hours.  I loved watching his hair.  He would go down and up in the water so his hair looked so cool!

 

 

 After baths is time to get dressed of course.  Well, Leila thought Jace's underwear made a cute hat.  Then Jace had to try it too.

These kids love playing hide and seek and Leila has even gotten really good at it.  She stays super still and quiet and gets so excited when you find her.  Whenever I'm getting ready for the day, she has to be by my side, and whenever she notices my closet (a favorite place to hide) she starts saying "Hi! Hi!"  I say, "Do you want to hide?"  She says, "Uh huh!" and then I start to count.  She does it over and over, and never gets bored.  Another favorite place to hide is under the kitchen sink.  She fits right in there, and the day I grabbed my camera, Nixon squeezed in there too!

I sure love my crazy, silly, fun kids!

Nixon's Forehead Wound

The other day the boys were running around our living room and I told them to stop before someone hits their head on our TV stand.  Well, what do you know?  Literally, within 30 seconds of me saying that, Nixon tripped and slammed his head right into the corner of it!  He grabbed his face so fast and was crying and I just knew he had cracked it and was bleeding, but when he took his hands away there was no blood.  Just a nice big purple dent.  I grabbed him up and as I was holding him I saw it start to fill with fluid.  It became a huge goose egg in a matter of seconds, and looked awful!  I took a picture on my phone and this is what it looked like a few minutes after the hit.

I have taken a few more pictures since then to document since it's now been almost 2 weeks, and he is still bruised.  

This was a couple of days later.  It looks great! Practically gone.

Then a couple of days later we noticed his right eye started getting black.

Then it went into the left eye as well, and kind of started getting green. 

Poor kid.  Luckily he wasn't in pain for too long.