Another Place in Time...

Paul and I if we grew up in different times.

Rice Cereal!

Dane has been doing rice cereal for a while now, but I'm just finally getting around to posting about it. He did really well his first time. I think he was SO ready for it. Camryn was very interested in what was going on too. She wanted to help so bad! She is such a good helper and is always trying to help.



In a couple of weeks we will be ready for veggies! Hooray!

Camryn is 2!!!

Camryn is 2 years old! Holy cow!

Camryn was lucky and got to celebrate her birthday twice this year! We did it the first time when we were visiting out in Utah. Let me just preface these pictures with an explanation. We celebrated the 4th a couple days earlier and Camryn had a terrible experience. She was having a great time until she picked up a sparkler that had already been used and she burnt her fingers. After that she didn't want to have anything to do with fire, fireworks, anything like that. So when we went to get her cake/cupcakes ready she was very pleased and happy until...
Until she saw the fire....

She SCREAMED and literally tried to climb up me to get as far away from it as possible!

I had to blow out her candles since she had a death grip on me and wouldn't go near them.

After we blew the candles out and I pulled her hands off of me, she ran away to the other room and wouldn't even look at the cupcakes until we took everything off of them. Once she had her cupcake and saw all traces of fire were gone, then she was happy again.

So when we went to celebrate her birthday back home, we decided that we wouldn't do candles.

She had a much better time this time!

We were even lucky enough to get Grandma Goodwin on the webcam with us! It was really cool to be able to include her in our celebration with her being so far away.

We love you so much Camryn!!! Happy Birthday!

UTAH TRIP!

I have so many pictures and we did so much stuff I don't even know where to begin!

Camryn, Dane and I decided to make a trip out to Utah this summer while Paul was going to be super busy with work. So we were lucky enough to be in Utah for about 2 1/2 weeks! It was AWESOME! (I just want to give a shout out to Matt for getting us buddy passes and to my mom for being awesome and helping me with the kids on the plane ride!) I don't have pictures of all the stuff we did, and but out of the million pictures I did take I'll have to just pick the best I guess.

One of the first things we did was go to a petting zoo at Thanksgiving Point. Camryn LOVED it! She is so brave. One of her most favorite things though was the pony ride. She freaked out when she couldn't do it anymore.
Dad and Dane relaxing together.

Another place we went was a "lake" in Salem. It was such a cool place! Cammie and Tim took me and the kids, and mom and dad. They had nice sandy place you could swim at, feed duck, picnic area, etc. It was just beautiful! Once again, Camryn LOVED feeding the animals. I think she fed them 2/3 of the loaf of bread herself!

There were a couple of puddles around and Camryn and Jane had a blast jumping in them! They got soaked!

Dane was just chill hanging out as usual! I think he liked being outside at the park too!

One of the days we were there, we got together with Cammie, Brittney Nelson, and Kalli Barker. It was the old group together again! Here are the three little girls: Mackay, Jane, and Camryn. It was so cool to hang out and chat again!

This day Jane was having a rough time, so Cammie put her on the couch with her blanket to calm down. Then Camryn saw her and she must have thought it looked like a good idea, so she had to copy Jane.

Camryn LOVED doing her hair in the morning with Grandma! She even imitates Grandma doing her hairspray!

Camryn my "vegetarian" (for the most part doesn't eat meat) surprised us all when she decided that she wanted to try the pink part of Brittney's steak. We were even more surprised when she loved it and couldn't get enough!

Once again Dad relaxing with the kids. (well... trying to anyway.)

Camryn has a new found love of popsicles!

My mom had a great idea of having the kids all have coordinating outfits and taking pictures. The kids were SO CUTE but the picture taking part was a little tricky... It was fun though, and I have to say the kids look pretty great!

Camryn loves, loves, LOVES her dress! If she sees it, she has to put it on and then immediately begins swishing and twirling in it.

The girls! I love this picture of Jane!

I was so happy that I finally got a good single picture of Camryn smiling!

Two handsome boys! Dane and Kaleb are just two weeks apart. I think they are so funny next to eachother!

Another group shot of kids! So cute! We were trying to stop Camryn from crying and cute little Charlie just kept smiling and waving the whole time!

Anyway, we had just a great time hanging out with family and friends! I am so glad that we were able to spend so much time out there and not feel to rushed. Thanks to everyone for having us and we love you! (And a special thanks to mom and dad for housing us and putting up with us for so long!)

5 Months Old!

Dane just turned 5 months a couple days ago! He is getting to be such a big boy! He has become very alert, aware, strong, and squirmy. The dog and Camryn keep him entertained most of the day as he loves to watch them run around. I think he is going to be rolling over very soon too. One of Dane's favorite things to do is stand. He has such strong legs that I think he will be an early walker like Camryn.

We love you Dane!

Dr. Horrible

So I have recently scene something that I thought was great enough to share with everyone! I highly recommend you all watch "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog"! It is awesome!

You can watch it really easily on Hulu. http://www.hulu.com/search?query=Dr.+Horrible%27s+Sing-Along+Blog I hope you take about 45 minutes and enjoy something that is sure to make you smile!

(by the way, I will do a real post with pictures of the kids and my trip to Utah shortly)