Lexie's Animal Sounds

Lexie loves to make animal sounds and me and Broc are always saying how we need to video her so today I did. Please excuse her crazy hair she decided to use her chapstick as pomade.

Sorry about the weird angle at the end, I'm new to the video function on my digital camera. Oh, and Lexie really can say "Monkey" but I'm pretty sure her favorite word is, "No". I never did get her to blow me a kiss. After Gizmo came over to her all she wanted to do was play with him. O'well I think she did pretty good for her first video.

OnE oF tHe BoYs

I watch Mandy's boys a couple days a week and love it. Of course there are times when I want to pull out my hair but most of the time it is so nice to have kids for Lexie to play with. They all have so much fun together. Connor and Lexie are always attached at the hip, it's so cute to watch them! Here are some pictures of the kids playing.

Lexie loves it when Seth gives her piggy back rides.

I love this picture of Connor and Lexie they climbed up (on what will someday be our fence) to see our neighbor's puppy.

This is what happens when you tell Lexie and connor to say cheese!

I think they look so cute walking together holding hands.

Say Cheese!

Lately Lexie loves to have her picture taken. Every time I tell her I am going to take her picture she runs over to the table and climbs up on it to pose. I'm not sure why she thinks she has to pose on top of the table but it never fails. She always lays on her tummy and says, "eese". Here are some of the pictures I've taken.

This one was right in the middle of breakfast. She was eating her yogurt and saw the camera on the counter and next thing I know she's on the table saying, "eese".

I told her I wanted to take a picture to e-mail to Brayden (Broc's brother on a mission in Brazil) so here it is. Hopefully she finds a new pose soon because this one is going to get old soon!

Slumber party at Grandpa and Grandma's

My parents decided that they wanted to keep all the grandkids overnight for a slumber party at their house. Crazy...I know. So Mandy and I dropped of the kids Saturday, wished our parents good luck and RAN! Broc was out of town so we got to have a girls night out. We had so much fun, we went shopping then to a movie and dinner. It sounds like the kids had tons of fun! My parents took some cute pictures of the kids playing.

Seth spent most of his time riding his motorcycle around my parents yard, he's becoming a very good little rider!

This was one of Seth's crazy ideas and of course Lexie and Connor went right along with it. They had fun and I worked pretty good until they had to turned around, then as you can see in the picture they fell off. Luckily they weren't hurt and if we would have let them they would have jumped back on and tried it again.

Lexie loves to get rides on the four-wheeler and when nobody is around to give her a ride she likes to play on it.

Mmmm...Chocolate!

So...This is what happens when Broc watches the kids! Lexie and Connor were being really quiet so I knew they were up to something. When I got to the kitchen this is what I saw. They were both eating the chocolate powder by the handfuls and they were loving it! Then Lexie started throwing it at Connor. Broc couldn't believe that they got the chocolate mix off the counter. Sometimes I think that they surprise him with how smart they are.

I've been really sick the last few days so Broc has had to take care of Lexie and me (with some help from Mandy). He has also been cooking and cleaning. I am so lucky to have such a wonderful husband to take such good care of me! Today he said to me, "I don't know how you do this all the time, I've been doing it for three days and I'm exhausted!" It's so nice that he realizes that staying at home with Lexie can be just as hard as going to work and that I don't just sit at home watching T.V. and eating Bon Bons all day. I would also like to say, "Thanks" to my sister and our parents for helping us out over the weekend and while I was in the hospital. We love you guys so much!

More pictures of camping Labor Day weekend...

Here are some more pictures from our camping trip. These were taken on a four-wheeler ride that we went on to Gold Stone with my parents, Mandy and the boys.

This was an old house that we came across it was still in really good condition and it had indoor plumbing!

So...I'm not sure what this thing that the kids are playing on but they loved it.

My mom took this picture for us and she had stand in the ice cold water to do it. Thanks mom!

I love this picture of the kids, except for Lexie's crazy hair. She decided that she didn't really need to have her piggy's in anymore so she pulled them out.

Connor looks so happy!

Happy Birthday to me! (and Mandy)

Friday was me and Mandy's birthday. Since it fell on Labor Day weekend we decided to go camping. Broc took off work Friday so we went to Tendoy on Thursday night. We had so much fun! On Friday we went on a four wheeler ride up past Gilmore and into Meadow Lake campground. It was so cool to see all the old houses and buildings. We found some old mines, it is crazy to think that people actually went down in them. They were basically holes with little logs going across to help brace the walls. When we got to the campground we couldn't believe how pretty it was. We stopped at the campground to eat lunch and let Lexie play by the water. She loved to throw rocks into the lake. She wanted to get in the lake and play 0but we didn't have a change of clothes for her so she didn't get to. Here are some pictures of our ride.



I think this building used to be the general store.



This was an old house, I couldn't even imagine living in a house this small! I guess I shouldn't complain about the size of my house.





This is a picture of one of the mines.





These were taken at the Meadow Lake campground.



Lexie is such a daddy's girl!